"Math questions?" Even before I got to the quote from the lady who lost her husband in the attacks, my son was shouting this. He was 7 when it happened. I have a wonderful postcard I have had for eight years that shows a U.S. flag in front of World Trade Center. He was 10 before he could look at that postcard. When it first happened he built up his Legos and kept crashing his toy plane into them. He didn't understand what had really happened.(in talking to other women they have said their
boys did the same thing. I guess it was a way to work things out) He was trying to figure out how that plane could have crashed that way.
My husband and I explained it to him as best as we could.
A year later he still couldn't really comprehend it.
It's something that he still gets emotional about.
His siblings were to young to remember what happened that day. But, even my 8 year old daughter was disgusted by the thought of this book.
So, my son's gagging noises before the article was finished pretty much sums it up.
And BTW, we're not talking about toddlers or Kindergardeners here. If the kids are old enough to be doing word searches and connect the dots they are old enough to be told and understand that Osama killed a lot of Americans that day. Commemorate that.