YHS students remember 911
— Earlene Ward
Sable Rowell is shown adding a row of dots to the
tally of victims in the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Sonny Dowling waits his turn.
Students at Evergreen High School spent the week of
September 9-13 remembering the victims of the terrorist attacks September 11,
2001. A visual reminder was the board listing the number or people killed at
each site with marks placed by the students to equal those numbers.
Each student filled in one row to total the number killed:
369 rescue workers; 2,463 at the Twin Towers; 184 at the Pentagon and 44 on
Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania.
The students also wrote their reflections on where they were
when they first heard the news and what they thought. They also wrote an essay
about what they are feeling now.
Students and staff from Evergreen and Ahwahnee high schools
gathered outside to say the Pledge of Allegiance before a large flag attached
to a building at 8:46 a.m. September 11.
Throughout the Yosemite Joint Union High School District, students and
staff said the pledge and observed a moment of silence at that time.