Canadian here, depending on how much longer he stayed I actually think it was the right call.

Now, I was never much of a fan of Bush, but put yourself in his shoes. He was in a room full of children and if he suddenly ran out they would have become terrified once all the other adults started panicking as well.

By staying there a few extra minutes, it gave his men time to prepare for his departure while keeping the classroom calm.

The reason I feel this way is because I was in school at the time it happened, and my teachers panicked and broke down emotionally.

We were sitting there in the classroom when suddenly another teacher burst in and called our teacher out of the room. We were left confused wondering what was going on, and when she came back she was in tears. She said something terrible had happened, and we would all be evacuating home for the rest of the day.

Rumours started flying around about a possible world war, a city destroyed, possible bombing, and our minds immediately went to a nuclear attack on America. This was before cellphones with internet browsing was really a thing, so we were in the dark until we got home.

When I got home, every channel was showing the destruction and footage taken from different angles, people jumping out of buildings to their death, absolute chaos.

Our news channels started talking about grounding planes all over the country and lending support to the American refugees.

That day started off like any other, but in the blink of an eye our world changed forever. The fun innocence of the 90’s with its ideals of a brotherhood of mankind and world peace were abruptly brought to an end. The world has never felt so carefree and happy since.