Pat Bavis still remembers the day he learned about the attacks on Pearl Harbor in his high school history class in Boston in the ’70s.
“You’re sheltered when you’re a young boy … and you think the world’s all hunky-dory,” he said. “Then you see these videos of tragedy. And the servicemen, you know, what they did and what they put their lives on the line for.”
Those lessons were still ringing in his head when Bavis returned to a high school classroom as an adult. This time, he was there to share a story that would likely weigh heavy on the minds of the students.
His younger brother, Mark, was among the nearly 3,000 people who were killed on Sept. 11, 2001. It was the deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. And Bavis has dedicated his life since then to telling his brother’s story and sharing the impact of that day with students in Massachusetts classrooms and assemblies…