Service commemorates Sept. 11

I was in eighth grade, and I didn’t really know until I got home around 5, but I knew something was wrong.  Parents were checking their kids out…  I thought it might be something in the community. 
Kayla Pohl, freshman, nursing major

…I didn’t understand it at first. But when I got home and I comprehended that people had died on those planes.  I was scared… This meant anything could go wrong.
Cory Oweson, freshman, English major

I was a freshman… The first plane hit while I was in an 8 a.m. class.  I walked back to my dorm, and when I got there some folks said a plane had hit the World Trade Center.  I thought “(the pilot) must be an idiot”, I was thinking a little plane, like a Cessna…  I got to my room, and turned on my TV when the second tower fell…  Everyone was calling, “have you heard?”  Everyone was freaking out…  I didn’t think anything like that would happen to America.  Towers had never collapsed like that, covering blocks and blocks with layers of ash. 
Jay Johnson, grad student, athletic trainer

I was in the library of my middle school… when the gifted teacher ran in and turned on the TV… we watched TV in the library.  I didn’t understand at first, and then I got really scared… I just wanted to be with my family.
Kaytie Bird, freshman,
health sciences major

They had it on TV, and I thought we were watching a movie at first.  Then I realized, this is real…
Holly Steele, senior, physical ed major

I was a senior in high school, I was in mass media class… Somebody said to turn on the TV, and we saw one of the buildings burning…  At first we thought it was a mistake, and some pilot accidentally flew into the building…  I saw the second plane hit and I was shocked.  I froze…  It wasn’t a mistake, it was an attack.  I felt fear, sorrow, Just helplessness….
Josh Chapman, senior, history major

I was standing behind the TV, cause I didn’t want to see….  I was crying… Everyone was sad.  No one knew what was going on.
Linda Pirkl, sophmore, early childhood education major

My teacher came in late, and said the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been hit.  (My teacher) explained it to us, and we still didn’t get it.  …It didn’t sink in until I got home, and watched people die (on TV).  I was really scared, but then I got really, really mad.  I felt violated.

Lauren Cruz,
junior, nursing major

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