49ers Players Pause to Remember 9/11

My sister came rushing into my room to wake me up. I remember the details like it happened yesterday.

“Hey, I don’t want to scare you,” she said, playing the role of parent as both my mom and dad had already left for work. “But there’s been a terrorist attack in New York City. Two planes have crashed into the World Trade Center.”

I may have only been in sixth grade, but I feel like I was just old enough to wrap my head around the magnitude of what she was saying, at least partially.

My mom followed up with a phone call and told me to avoid the news.

So I carried on with my normal morning routine, a bowl of cereal while watching Sportscenter before walking across the street to my elementary…