I was 9 years old, a kid at Laura Donovan Elementary School on Sept. 11, 2001.
Somehow my teacher, Mrs. Cotton, (mostly) kept it together, telling us only there had been a terrible accident in New York City. Bless her heart for it.
Still, there was a strangeness about the day and kids were being picked up early. On the bus ride home students were giving half-stories and rumors…