9/11 steel beam arrives at Florida school where Bush learned America was under attack
A steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center arrived Tuesday at the Florida elementary school where then-President George W. Bush learned the United States was under attack on Sept....
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A steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center arrived Tuesday at the Florida elementary school where then-President George W. Bush learned the United States was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001. The beam was brought to Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota as part of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s "Steel Across America" tour commemorating the upcoming 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, who informed Bush that a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, attended the ceremony. Bush was visiting a second-grade classroom at the school on the morning of Sept. 11, when Card approached the president and told him what had happened. "I walked up to the president," Card recalled during Tuesday’s ceremony. "I whispered into his ear, ‘A second plane hit the second tower, America is under attack.’" TUNNEL TO TOWERS ANNOUNCES STEEL ACROSS AMERICA TOUR TO MARK 25 YEARS SINCE 9/11 ATTACKS The moment, captured on live television, became one of the defining images of the Sept. 11 attacks and the early hours of the national crisis. Card returned to the campus Tuesday alongside former second-grade teacher Sandra Kay Daniels, whose classroom Bush was visiting when the attacks unfolded. "Just being on this campus and remembering what happened when I came and whispered in the president’s ear that America was under attack … it takes you right back to that day, the feelings, the emotion, the duty, the honor," Card said. NEW 9/11 MUSEUM EXHIBIT AIMS TO CONNECT YOUNGER AMERICANS TO THE ATTACKS THROUGH POWERFUL ARTIFACTS Daniels said the memories of that morning have stayed with her ever since. "That day changed not only Emma E. Booker Elementary School students and staff, but it changed the world, the community," Daniels said. "It’s an everyday thing for me," Daniels added. "I will never get away from that. I was with the president, and he was with me. That happened here at my school." GOP CONGRESSMAN REVEALS HOW HE LEARN…