nmah727.xml

nmah727.xml

born-digital

story

yes

no

2002-09-02

I was awaiting my 8th grade geography class to come in for the morning. I called my husband to make sure he got up for work and he told me a plan crashed into the WTC, looked like an accident, and said it was on the news. I plugged my TV into the cable and watched. I ran down the hall to another S.S. teacher and asked if she heard and to turn on the TV. I stopped at the English teachers room and mentioned something. As the kids piled into class, I had the TV on, and the lights off, I told them I really didn't know what was going on, then the second plane went in, right before our eyes on live TV. It was dead quiet. The bell rang and the next class came in, I quickly told them to sit quietly and watch, as I tried to gather my emotions, the first Tower fell, my eyes welled up, and I cried. I proceeded to map out for my students where all of this was taking place, being it was geography class afterall. Chaos in D.C., questions from my students, I responded as best as I could at that point. All I could say is "history in the making" and we were in the middle of the nation (Fargo, ND), to calm their fears. All I could think of was how fortunate my husband's aunt and uncle, who live in NYC, were visiting Fargo the night before. Then I thought of an ex-boyfriend whom I dated off an on, who lived in NYC, and knew he worked in the financial sector...it took days to get a hold of him, phone lines were jammed.

Definitely, hard to describe...

Heroes that were made by choice and by chance. How we came together as a nation

YES!