Where Were You on 9/11?

[BFritz21]

Came into class and saw everyone staring at the TV.

I quickly read the subtitles, realized what was going on, and my mind immediately shot to my cousin, who played football at Columbia and then got a job at Cantor Fitzgerald (whose offices were on the top floors of World Trade Center 1, but I didn't know where the offices were, just that he worked there). His brother was my Godfather and fell off an overpass coming home from a Reds game when I was in 2nd grade and was in a coma for three years before dying, so I'm thinking "we can't be this unlucky to have something happen again," but I had the worst feeling in my stomach.

Just before lunch, I was called into the gym and saw my dad sitting in the stands with a blank look on his face and I knew........