by James Martin

On September 11, 2001, the United States changed forever. We were under attack. It was not even 10:00 a.m. and four planes had been hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, the Twin Towers, and a field. A total of 3,047 people were killed and many others injured.

A mass majority of our students had not even been born yet to experience this tragedy, though our faculty members have profound memories of this attack.

“I was a teacher at Lakota West, I remember being in the main office, and one of the secretaries said ‘Sid come look at this!’” Sid Imhoff said. “That is when I saw the news footage and the unknown.”

Everyone was in shock and no one knew what was happening. Some people called their loved ones and let them know what was happening.

Mrs. Heinrich was walking in the halls at Badin when she first found out.

“My first reaction was disbelief and shock,” Heinrich said. “I may have called my eldest son who was at Miami University at the time.

In the end, every U.S. citizen was affected by this event whether they were there or not. We still today face the consequences and results from this tragic event.