Everything was so overwhelming, I didn’t realize people were jumping until days later (maybe longer).

I was in high school, and was the roll out of bed and rush to school type, so I had no idea what happened until my second class. When I showed up to campus, no one in my group of friends had seen the news but we figured something horrible had happened. In first period, my art teacher was so upset he wouldn’t turn the TV on “or the terroir win”. No one talked and we all sat in silence working on our projects. I went to second period, U.S. government, and watched the towers collapse live. I’ll never forget that. After school I found my US history from the prior school year and asked him if I just witnessed my generations Pearl Harbor or JFK assassination. We agreed that this was a day that changed the world forever.