In Memoriam - May We Never Forget

Many of my students asked me today if I was going to talk about 9/11 or show them a video on 9/11, and my answer was "no." We had specific curriculum to cover today, and I simply couldn't justify it. However, Keliese came to my door after school and asked me for the second time if I would put some 9/11 footage on the blog. After some refection, I decided that I would. There is no graphic footage other than the buildings being attacked by the jets on this clip; but, it does give some of the sense and horror and disbelief we all felt that morning as we watched the surreal events unfold. We should never forget that we lost close to 3,000 people that day - a greater number than were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the outset of WW II. Hopefully, my students today, some of whom were barely born at the time of the attacks, will remember the fallen in the years to come and the symbols of freedom they portrayed last week on their Liberty posters.