9/11 From The Eyes Of A Teenager - A Generation that Will Never Forget
Originally posted on The Odyssey Online There is a generation, I want to say everyone between ages 15 and 30, that grew up with 9/11. In the sense that some were living their teen years when the planes hit and others were newborns. I myself was just 1 and I don’t remember that, but by the time I was 5 I knew what had happened and was desperate to know why it had happened. I spent September 11th, 2007 reading the old newspaper clippings my parents had kept and watching the news. I wanted to know. In middle and high school, every year that 9/11 fell on a school day we would talk about it in class, how it affected us, and how we should remember that day. I’ve heard stories from so many friends and at least four teachers, but one struck me the hardest. In my school, there are quite a few young teachers below the age of thirty who were teenagers or maybe younger when the planes hit. This teacher told us that she’d been at school when the world literally stopped. Her teachers tur...