by This article is not for the faint of heart. It’s the former kindergarteners of P.S. 150 talking about what they remember from 9/11.
It was interesting reading about the one continually drawing the towers. When I was volunteering at St. Paul’s Chapel we’d get drawing of the towers by the thousand, many pretty gruesome. I wanted to keep them all but I felt it would be wrong to take them, that they belonged to everyone, although I did keep a few.
I took this last week. This man was blowing bubbles and this little girl stopped for a closer look. I like the guy in the blue tshirt reaching out to catch one.
Sad, but enlightening! When I was at the newspaper, sometimes we’d ask grammar school teachers to pose a question to their class, and have the students write the answers. Then the teacher would send us the answers; as the Lifestyle Editor, I’d choose the ones to print. But it was always amazing how much kids really do KNOW; even if they can’t articulate it clearly, there’s the sense of how they instinctively understand major life events.
It seems unbelievable that it’s been ten years since that awful event. I still remember how stunned my late husband and I were; we had been getting ready to go on vacation, and cancelled our plans, just unable to comprehend what happened. I think that tragedy really brought ALL Americans together in a way we have not experienced since then, but it’s sad it took such a tragedy to do that.
Yeah.
About the kids, I guess I was hoping they didn’t really see what they saw.