"9/11 for teachers?"

"It's going to be a tough day," said Richard Cantlupe, an American history teacher at Westglades Middle School in Parkland, Fla. "This was like our 9/11 for schoolteachers."
This statement was in an article on Comcast.net
Now, the description of this teacher is that of one who teaches history. Where has he been since April 20, 1999?
His statement makes me wonder how many other teachers feel the same way and have had their heads buried in the sand all these years too.
(There were heroes on December 14, 2012, but there are always heroic stories that come out of a war zone. This day of war was preventable.)

Marian R. Carlino
December 17, 2012