The Brief
- In 2001, Carey DiPompo was a teacher at Alonso High School when she had her then-students write letters about the 9/11 attacks to their future peers.
- On Friday, current Alonso High School students unsealed 92 untouched, red-white-and-blue letters detailing the shock, fear, and uncertainty of that tragic day.
TAMPA, Fla. – History came full circle at Alonso High School Friday when current students unsealed 92 letters about 9/11, written by teens who sat in those same classrooms 25 years ago.
The assignment
The backstory:
25 years ago, Carey DiPompo was teaching American government in her Alonso High School classroom when news of the attacks broke.
She vividly remembers watching the tragedy unfold on one of only two televisions on campus.…