Terror-Engraved Memory
Michigan State University journalism student, Andrew James, recounts the vivid memory of
September 11. A photographic memory reveals a retrospective look on the event that the then-seventh
grader at Walled Lake Middle School may have been too young to comprehend.
It has been almost a decade now since the unpredictable terrorist attack of 9/11, a day every American will be able to tell you exactly what they were doing while the two hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Centers. For many of us it was a day the Earth stood still, one that we as a country stared at our television screens in utter disbelief, for others, they may have been too young to fathom such a monstrous attack on our nation’s soil.
Andrew James, a Journalism student at Michigan State University, told me his personal account of the haunting morning in September. He described the day starting just as any other would at James R. Geisler (formerly Walled Lake Middle School), until his seventh grade teacher walked out of the room and returned to quickly turn on the television. From then on James said that he, his teacher, and his technical education classmates watched with their eyes glued to the TV for the remainder of the class period. James said that although this was a very frightening situation, he was not directly affected because he had no friends or family living in New York City. That day school was let out early and Andrew James returned home.
James, his family, as well as his aunt Karen watched the TV and barely spoke. James’ father tried to explain to his son that what was happening was bigger than them, that he should not be intimidated or scared. James now describes the event as being “traumatic” and “pretty intense.” James states, “It will probably go down as one of the worst days in U.S. History as far as tragedy and casualties.”
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