This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
This date will forever live in infamy in the minds of Americans, and the Tan & Cardinal staff would like to pay tribute to the anniversary with special articles seen throughout the issue, including a look back at what the T&C staff remember about the day.
Lindsey Hobbs
Editor-in-Chief
“I was in Mrs. Studebaker’s fifth grade science class. Her son stopped by the room to get some money for lunch like he did every day, but this time they started arguing about turning on the TV. It wasn’t until after lunch that day that my English teacher told us what had happened. My stepmom stayed awake all weekend to watch the news footage on the TV. I honestly don’t think she slept.”
Josh Adkins
News Editor
“I was in the sixth grade at school when the attacks were happening. At first I heard rumors that New York was bombed, but none of the teachers would tell us what happened because they were afraid of panic. When parents started picking their kids up, I knew it was bad, but didn’t know details until I got home and saw it on the news with my dad.”
Kaity Vorbroker
Assistant News Editor
“I was in the fifth grade when 9/11 happened. Our teachers were told not to tell us and to let our parents tell us. I remember going to my mom’s daycare after school and hearing the radio on and wondering why they had the radio on when they usually didn’t have the radio on. That’s when I knew something bad had happened.”
Leah Driscoll
Opinion Editor
“What sticks with me the most was the way someone asked, ‘What happened? Something good?’ after my sixth grade science teacher went to turn on the news, and she said gravely, ‘No, something bad.’”
Steven Collins
Arts & Entertainment
Editor
“I was in first period language arts. The teacher who was next door came and told our teacher to turn on the TV. He did and we all saw what happened. We watched all day. I didn’t know what was really going on until much later.”
Jordan LaBatte
Sports Editor
“I was in the sixth grade walking in the hall after choir class, and the eighth grade history teacher ran (well, waddled) down the hall in a panic saying the Twin Towers were hit. I didn’t know what he meant until I came home from school and my father explained it to me. I was young and didn’t comprehend the magnitude of the attacks, so I watched cartoons.”
Mike Cirelli
Copy Editor
“I was in my first period social studies class in fifth grade. I knew something was wrong when one of my peers yelled, ‘A bomb went off!’ in the hallway after the class ended. A couple hours later, my mom drove to the middle school and picked my brother and me up. We didn’t really understand the situation back then and started jumping on our trampoline when we arrived home, happy to have the rest of the day off from school.”
Kristen Sapp
Photo Editor
“I walked into gym class and they told us all to sit in the center of the gym, and they told us what had happened. Parents kept showing up to pick up their kids.”
Anna Schiffbauer
Business Manager
“I was in fourth grade, and the teachers didn’t tell us what had happened. I don’t know how they kept such a happy face on for the rest of the day.”
