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Reminding Students of 9/11

South Warren Middle School seventh-graders watch a documentary titled "9/11" on Thursday in a history class at the school. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Alex Slitz
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Bowling Green Daily News
South Warren Middle School seventh-graders watch a documentary titled "9/11" on Thursday in a history class at the school. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Lauren Goff was in middle school on Sept. 11, 2001. Now, 10 years later, she has to teach today’s middle schoolers about that day, a day of which they have no memory. Goff, a history teacher at South Warren Middle School, said she struggled with how to explain the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to her seventh-graders, who were just 2 years old when they happened. “To them, it seems just as ancient as ancient Rome,” Goff said.

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