High school freshmen reflect on 9/11

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High school freshmen reflect on 9/11

One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline earlier this month in New York. - photo by MARK LENNIHAN

0911class1 — One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline earlier this month in New York. - photo by MARK LENNIHAN

Carly Sharec

Updated: Sep 11, 2013, 4:25 AM

Published: Sep 11, 2013, 4:26 AM

Gainesville High School freshman Meg Thornton was a toddler when the events of Sept. 11, 2001, unfolded before the eyes of a horrified nation. “I was 2,” she said. “I went upstairs and got a piece of paper and some crayons, and I drew two rectangles and a plane crashing into it.

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