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A beautiful September morning in Germantown Wisconsin turned tragic in no time. In Mrs. Weiner’s third grade class at County Line Elementary Cody Szohr, 8 at the time, was getting back into the swing of things heading in to his second week of school. A sudden call over the loud speaker sent the teachers quickly […]

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, UW-Milwaukee freshman Ben Gaddour was learning about Native American culture in his second grade class at University School of Milwaukee. He remembers the frantic phone call his teacher received in the middle of the lesson. Gaddour and his classmates sat quietly as they watched their teacher turn on […]

Nineteen-year-old Ellen Malone, from Wales, WI, was only seven and in second grade at the time of the Sept.11 attacks. She remembers her mom driving her to school that cold, windy morning when the news broke on the radio that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. “I didn’t realize how […]

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 took the nation completely by surprise and irreversibly altered the social landscape of the United States. They ignited tensions in the Middle East, set a new standard for national security and had an immeasurable impact on America’s demography and the way its citizens view it. But the attacks […]

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recounted the day when the World Trade Center was struck on Sept. 11, 2001. And to some, the memory is like a movie. Denzel Hayes, a sophomore at UWM, says, “The only thing I remember is coming home from school and watching my parents look at the TV screen […]

It was like any other day. Joey DeRoche was a 10-year-old 5th grade student preparing for the day. Sitting on his grandma’s couch eating cereal, the news had appeared on the TV in front of him. He sat still, trying to put together the pieces. “I was really confused because I didn’t really understand and the […]

For Ryan Thompson, the memory is still clear. He sat with his seventh-grade classmates: All silent, all stock-still, and all staring intently at the classroom’s television. Over and over again, Ryan watched the planes pile at full-speed into two skyscrapers he’d never seen before. People staggered through clouds of dust and ash. Ryan’s classmates turned […]

For many students at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 9/11 has become a distant memory of a “terrible tragedy” that happened when they were young. William Matthews, a UWM senior, has trouble recollecting exactly how he felt when planes went into the twin towers in New York. He sat on the chair with a grim […]

“It was a shock because they told me it was a shock. My mind was thinking about other things. The adults put a feeling of fear in me when all I wanted was for the next recess to come around.” Derek Nebel, a senior studying mechanical engineering, recounts his memories of the attacks on Sept. […]

Nick Fitzpatrick was busy building a gumball machine in 7th grade shop class when an anxious teacher wheeled a television into the room and turned on the news to scenes of a single burning tower. “I knew something bad was happening by how shocked and anxious my teacher was,” he says. “But even after the […]

“I thought it was a movie,” recalls Nou Xiong, 19, on the day of Sept. 11, 2001. She can still picture being a 7-year old-student sitting in class when Twin Towers went down. Xiong, a sophomore at UW- Milwaukee majoring in Pre-Pharmacy, remembers sitting in class watching the television seeing the planes going into the […]

With the morning just beginning, there is a classroom filled with 20 elementary students laughing and playing before the start of the school day. The bell rings and the teacher calls the attention of the little 8 year olds to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United […]