In one of my more advanced classes, we were reading an article about face-recognition technology being put into airports and public places to stop crimes before they happen. The beginning of the article mentioned the terrorists who hijacked the planes on September 11, 2001, and if that technology would have done anything to stop them. Just off-hand I asked if they knew what happened on 9/11, not thinking for a minute I would get so many blank looks.
I spent the next 15 minutes explaining to them what happened on that day. I told them about how I was in my Freshman high school taking a biology test when I watched the second plane hit the towers.
I realized that when this happened, they were only 3 years old. I had one ask me why they would even know about it if it happened in America. They were completely unaware of the shockwaves it sent across the globe.
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