A Remembrance of September 11 Guest Post by Melanie Kornondy, Gulf Breeze News

“Two separate airplanes crashed into both Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, another crashed into the Pentagon, and the United States is under a terrorist attack.” - Adm Jim

The following editorial about September 11 was published in the Gulf Breeze News and captures the essence of how we all feel about that day of indescribable pain and anguish and terror we all felt when first hearing the news of the attack on New York City, the Pentagon and the planned attack, foiled by the bravery of real Americans, on the Nation’s Capitol...

It was a normal Tuesday morning and I sat on the second row of my zoology class during my senior year at my Mississippi Gulf Coast high school. My teacher had already taken attendance and we were well into working on a group project.
The teacher, who sat on a pub-style stool behind a pedestal at the front of the class, opened an email from another teacher which said something along the lines of: “Two separate airplanes crashed into both Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, another crashed into the Pentagon, and the United States is under a terrorist attack.”...