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I was in high school in Ohio. My english teacher burst into my history class, crying, and turned the television on. Most of the class was paralyzed with shock (I was among them), some students crying. At that time, only one tower had been hit - I saw the second plane hit and both towers fall in real-time. There was an eerie buzz in the air everywhere I went. None of the teachers continued their classes - most people stayed in the same classrooms for the rest of the day, some parents picked their children up, the administration pondered sending students home early on the buses.
A lot of people started talking about the possible targets for future attacks close to home: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, General Electric in Cincinnati/Evendale (my dad works there!), etc. There was a palpable sense of fear and disbelief for a long time.
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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