09/11/2026
I was a sophomore in high school. It was my mom’s birthday, and my dad was out of town. I was told to make sure her birthday was special - so I wrote on the bathroom mirror before catching the bus to school.
Sitting in my first period classroom, before school officially started, a student came running in saying a plane hit the World Trade Center, a place I only knew about thanks to a math word problem from a week earlier.
The TV was turned on and we saw it all.
