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Never Forget
Spencer Brown | Posted: Sep 09, 2021 12:01 AM
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It was a beautiful Tuesday morning on September 11, 2001, as I rode in the backseat of my mom’s car on the way to another day of second grade. Barely five minutes after leaving our house the first report came in. I still remember the intersection we were sitting at waiting for a stoplight to change when the radio explained that a small plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I didn’t even know what the Twin Towers were then.
Older grades were told what had happened, and some even watched live on TVs wheeled into classrooms as Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania smoldered. But for second graders, we were left in the dark until our parents picked us up at the end of the school day. By then it was clear from our teachers' faces that something had happened.
I don’t remember the specifics of what I was told had happened that night, and my mom made sure to spare me from the worst of the images from earlier in the day that I would soon come to know — people leaping from the burning towers, the second plane hitting the south tower, soot- and ash-covered people caught up in the collapses — but within days the front pages and nightly news reports meant I had seen enough to know that evil had struck America.
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