Dan Hurley was teaching World History II at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, New Jersey when he looked outside the window at Manhattan and saw smoke. About 10 minutes later, the entire school was called into the auditorium and was informed of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. September 11, 2001.
Hurley described the day as “chaos.” The school closed and everyone was sent home. That made things tough for some of the international students — some of whom had only been in the US a few weeks — so Hurley brought them back to his house.