Fourteen years isn't that long ago. Seems like just yesterday.
I was a vice principal in North Jersey. We were getting ready to have class assemblies to go over the usual school rules and regs. Pretty standard stuff. Then my secretary pushed her way through the crowd and said to me, "The towers are gone."
The look I gave her must have said, 'You're crazy", but I asked anyway. "What do you mean 'gone'?"
And they were.
Three years later, my youngest daughter was sitting in a class at the University of Tennessee. The topic of 9-11 came up, and students were saying what they were doing when they heard, the reaction in their school.