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  • Sarasota students recall being with president in school library

    08/24/2006 9:56:44 AM PDT · by dukeman · 48 replies · 1,146+ views
    Sarasota Herald Tribune ^ | 8/24/06 | LIZ BABIARZ
    REMEMBERING 9/11 FIVE YEARS LATER SARASOTA COUNTY -- Five years ago, Tyler Radkey was one of 16 second-graders at Emma E. Booker Elementary School reading the book, "My Pet Goat," to the president of the United States. Like his classmates, Tyler, then 7, didn't understand what was happening when Bush's face turned red, after an urgent whisper in his ear, and why he suddenly had to leave the room. His first inclination was that Bush had to use the bathroom "really bad." When they learned later that morning what had happened, the young students struggled to grasp the historical moment....