I was in second grade. I recall walking to school like any other day of the week, and before school actually started all the teachers were scattered around trying to get all the students into …

Alan Jackson’s song, “Where were you when the world stopped turning?” pays homage to a terrible day in our nation’s history. Most people, save those who were only infants or toddlers, will not forget where …

It was approximately 8:45 a.m., the start of fourth period my eighth-grade year. I was 13 maybe going on 14. I don’t remember exactly. Everything was going fine, until we got the news.

I was a senior in high school. I was in the library–dreary and brown, its earth tones even more subdued when our teacher switched on the news.