Mr. Winschel

Mr. Winschel: “So, the attacks on 9/11 were in the morning in 2001. At that time, I was teaching half time just in the afternoons at Marshall Middle school, so when the attacks occurred, I wasn’t even aware because I don’t watch tv, and that was the media through getting information like that. So, I found out about it when I was driving on my way late morning at Marshall Middle School, and on Interstate 79, I was listening to “Talk” radio and heard about these attacks. At that point, I didn’t think too many people were listening to talk radio. I thought maybe I was the only one who knew this was going on. Little did I know that everyone in the country was riveted by this whole affair. And so, I go up to Marshall Middle school, and the school was trying to figure out the policy on how they would handle this. As I recall, I was to not address it and they didn’t want to worry the kids because a lot of the kids had parents working in the airlines and were having to travel, and they didn’t want the kids to think one of their parents might have gotten hurt or had casualties from these attacks. And so, it was strange, with this massive, MASSIVE piece of information and not being able to even speak of it and so, we went through the day that way. Again, at that point, not everything was on the computer so it was more like a TV or radio you got your information from, so I didn’t get the full impact until I got home that evening. And it was my birthday, so we had celebrated it and, I turned 28 that day and had a little birthday party on the back deck.”