Mrs. McCarran

This day will be embedded in my brain and in my heart as long as I live, as is the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. I was at Briscoe working with the 8th graders on the 8 Blue and 8 Gold teams. A student named Tom had gone to the dentist in the morning and came in late. He told Ms. Flynn and I that 2 planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. We didn't believe him until we were told that it was true. I was heading into Jessica McDonald's English class and Tom told her. Jessica told him that he shouldn't say things like that. I looked at her, nodded my head and we both started to shake. She and I hugged each other in the hall then went into the classroom. I had heard that our Superintendent didn't want to tell the students so we somehow found a way to get through that class. During lunch our principal, John Aucone, came to talk with us and took some of us down to the teachers room where there was a TV on. It was an awful feeling; I was sick to my stomach and just wanted to be with my family. My youngest son was an 8th grader at Briscoe at the time so I could see him but my oldest son was a sophomore at BHS and my husband was at work in Salem so I couldn't see or talk with them. I called my Mom at home and she had seen it on TV She was crying and scared. As soon as school got out we came home and all of us gathered around the TV and could not believe what we were seeing. It has to be one of the most horrible events that I have seen in my lifetime and I pray that I will never see something like that ever happen again. My prayers go out to all of the families that lost a loved one in that horrible attack on the United States...Peace be with all of us...