Emotions Running High

Category: Story

Many students were crying and others were comforting each other. One student told me that it was clearly terrorism, another girl told him to shut up, to focus on the people who were clearly dead in those towers.

I remember looking back at that thick smoke coming from the towers. It hadn't radiated far yet, but I recall thinking to myself that it might contain contaminants or poison gas--we were all thinking the most nefarious of thoughts--but clearly, this had not been an accident.