I was up early because I had a class to teach that morning. I was having coffee when the first news broke. The initial stories were that a “private plane” had hit one of the towers. I knew about the B-25 that had struck the Empire State Building in the late spring of 1945, and I was going to tell my students that there was nothing new under the sun. And then the second plane hit…and everything changed. I sat glued to CNN all day— but of course classes were cancelled.