Emotions Running High

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.

Personal Learning Maps - September 11, 2001

We're collecting personal stories about who we were with, what we were doing, and where we were on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Create a path, tracing your memories from that day when in a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks 2,973 people were killed at the World Trade Center in New York City, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.