story8386.xml
Title
story8386.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-10-07
911DA Story: Story
It was not until the second plane had already hit, that the news reached my classroom. I was by myself, my students had
not yet come to class. I sat there in awe, like I was watching a movie, could this really be happening? The bell rang and in came my second period world history class. Most knew nothing of the attacks, yet. They walked in noisely as most nineth graders do, oblivious to anything but there own world. I explained what was going on and then turned on the news in my classroom. It did not seem they knew how to react. We watched as the buildings collapsed, my reaction was much more severe than theirs. Some even laughed when they saw the building collapse, not out of disrespect, but of seeing something that awesome on TV. I told the students
that they probably just witnessed the death of 1,000 people. The room grew somber, then we heard news of another plane ramming into the pentagon, and yet another still missing finally coming down in Pennsylvania. I looked at my students and started to realize something. Kids by the time they are 18 have witnessed thousands of murders, sex is for anybody at any age, with anyone. As a society, God is being taken out of everything, thus taken everything that is moral, decent, kind, good, and what we think "humane" out of our kids. These students had seen so many catastrophes this one did not seem much different at first. However the reality of the situation finally had gripped these ninth graders, real people had died and they had seen it. Students hear about wars and terror all the time in class, but today 9-11 it finally hit home!!! As I watched those kids leave my class I realized they were notthe same as they were before they went in, and neither was I.
not yet come to class. I sat there in awe, like I was watching a movie, could this really be happening? The bell rang and in came my second period world history class. Most knew nothing of the attacks, yet. They walked in noisely as most nineth graders do, oblivious to anything but there own world. I explained what was going on and then turned on the news in my classroom. It did not seem they knew how to react. We watched as the buildings collapsed, my reaction was much more severe than theirs. Some even laughed when they saw the building collapse, not out of disrespect, but of seeing something that awesome on TV. I told the students
that they probably just witnessed the death of 1,000 people. The room grew somber, then we heard news of another plane ramming into the pentagon, and yet another still missing finally coming down in Pennsylvania. I looked at my students and started to realize something. Kids by the time they are 18 have witnessed thousands of murders, sex is for anybody at any age, with anyone. As a society, God is being taken out of everything, thus taken everything that is moral, decent, kind, good, and what we think "humane" out of our kids. These students had seen so many catastrophes this one did not seem much different at first. However the reality of the situation finally had gripped these ninth graders, real people had died and they had seen it. Students hear about wars and terror all the time in class, but today 9-11 it finally hit home!!! As I watched those kids leave my class I realized they were notthe same as they were before they went in, and neither was I.
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Citation
“story8386.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed April 10, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/18842.