Where were you?
I asked Denise Culver, “Where were you when you
first herd that one of the twin towers were hit by an airplane?” She explained
to me that she was working in the intensive care unit for Froedtert Hospital in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “I was working third shift, which means I worked throughout
the night and was off at 5am.” Culver said. She was heading home to go to sleep
and head back to work late on the evening of September 11th. As soon
as she got home that morning she turned on her television while she was washing
her face before she laid down and herd the news cast was thinking that a plane accidentally hit a tower in New York, but then the second one hit and Culver knew
it was not an accident. “All day I stayed up to watch what happened until I was
schedules back at work.”
“Fourth grade, I was in fourth grade when the morning of
September 11th happened” was the words from Marcus Grimes right
after I asked him where he was eleven years ago. He was very confused along
with many others in his classroom because teachers were coming in and out of
the rooms, whispering to one another. He informed me that his mother came and
took him out of school early that day and he was not sure why. “I knew I did
not have a doctors or any sort of appointment, so I was not sure why my mom
came and got me,” Grimes explained. Grimes mother started telling Marcus in the
car that there was a building that was attacked in New York City. “My mom said
I should pray for the people who are dealing with the attack, and that they
arrive back home safely.”
Kayla Bader is currently a
physician assistant student in Texas, and I asked her if she was in school
the morning of September 11th 2001. Kayla was sitting in her sixth
grade classroom studying Egypt and learning about mummification when all of a
sudden the principle brought a television into the class and put on the news
and explained what was going on. “We watched the news the rest of the day and
all the teachers tried to stay calm but we could all tell they have been
crying,” Bader said. She explained that she did not fully understand the severity
of what that sunny fall day in September brought to them. As Bader grew up she
understood more clear to why there was so much sadness that morning of sixth
grade.
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