[ComfortEagle]

Just so it doesn't become a political discussion, I'm moving this to the Gen. Disc. forum.

I know we do this every year, but let's talk about where we were that day. It is certainly a day I will not forget.

I was in my 10th grade history class. We were doing some kind of assignment, so it was quiet in the classroom. Our teacher received a phone call and when he hung up the phone, told us a plane had crashed into the WTC. I think everyone, including the teacher, just assumed something small like a Cessna had crashed. A few minutes later the art teacher from across the hall came into our room and told us what had happened again. We still did not have the TV or knew what was going on.

One of the other teachers from down the hall finally came into the room and told us to turn the TV on. He was going room to room telling everyone this. We turned the TV on and saw the first hole in the building. We knew it wasn't a Cessna - a Cessna wouldn't make a hole that big. A few minutes later we saw the 2nd plane crash into the WTC. I don't think anyone spoke a word for the remaining 30 or so minutes in class.

At that point in the day, classes stopped. The bells still rang and we moved to our different class periods, but we did nothing that day except watch the coverage on TV. A few friends and I even cut our lunches short to go up to the library and continue watching the coverage.

There was a distinct fear throughout the school that day. Some would sit in silence, others would wonder aloud whether there would be more attacks, and others were assuring everyone that Pikeville surely wouldn't be a place terrorists would attack. It was a scary time because none of us had ever even considered that something like this could happen in the U.S.