Students Honor 9/11 Victims

DALLAS - Even though many students are too young to remember what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, they spent the day reviewing the lessons learned that day.

Many schools across North Texas held ceremonies in observance of the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

The flag was raised to half staff on campuses and a moment of silence was observed for the nearly 3,000 people who died.

Students were an important part of the ceremony at Leonard Middle School in Fort Worth. Their experience was described as the most important lesson in American history they could learn.

In Plano there was a similar event at Shepton High School. Students met retired New York Firefighter Joe Torillo.

He was buried under the debris of the World Trade Center not once, but twice as the second tower came down.

Torrillo said 344 of his fellow firefighters were killed by debris from the falling towers.

’I have to live with the fact that so many people died and I came out from underneath it. And there are people I meet everyday who reassure me life will get better, and you know what boys and girls, life does get better,’ he said.