I was only in fifth grade and I will never ever forget that day. I remember so little from elementary school but so much of that day is clear. I remember kids leaving school, I remember talking to you on the way home from school about all the banks and businesses being completely closed, in fact I remember vividly talking about how they had closed Disney World. And then coming home that day, watching the news, seeing it for myself. I remember eating candy corn, just sitting on the couch with dad taking it all in. I remember driving around that evening and Sports Authority was completely boarded up, I had never seen that before and I haven't seen it since then. I remember trying to watch ESPN in dad's office on that small TV we used to have and it was all about the terrorist attacks. I flipped to every channel and it was all the same. The most amazing thing about it all was the next day in spelling class, I will never forget this. Our assignment for the day (from the book published two years earlier might I add) was to write a story about something recent in the news using the spelling words from the section. Some of the words from that section were New York, Washington DC, and explosion. Can you believe that? What are the odds of that. Everyone in our class wrote about the same thing and we didn't even share our stories like usual because it was so raw and fresh. All these memories coming from a fifth grader with a below average memory.
