Brooklyn teachers who witnessed 9/11 as children reveal what they want the next generation to remember

When Americans mark 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Friday, Kathleen Palladino will remember the day through the eyes of a New York City 6-year-old who did not yet understand what she was seeing. Palladino was a kindergartner in Brooklyn when classmates suddenly began being called over the school PA system to go home. Eventually, her mother arrived to collect Palladino and her older sister, and as they walked home, the little girl looked toward Manhattan. "It was like a dividing lin