And that someone was an assignment editor at Time magazine, who sent reporter Tim Padgett to Florida to interview a group of high schoolers about Osama bin Laden, his death, and what was going on around them on Sept. 11, 2001.
These high schoolers, you see, were in the second grade on that Tuesday morning, and they were very excited because the President of the United States was visiting them during their reading time. During the reading, one of the president's helpers informed him of the first plane hitting one of the Word Trade Center towers in New York City.
Kudos to Time for wondering what the kids thought then and finding out what they think now. And an extra kudos to the young people themselves, for seeing something that bipedal sack of mendacity Michael Moore couldn't quite figure out: That the seven minutes President Bush took to finish his time with those youngsters couldn't have changed a thing that happened in New York and Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, but it made a big difference for those little kids.
And kudos to Mr. Padgett for asking the questions and writing the answers in a way that lets the students communicate their understandings, rather than his own.
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