Four seniors from East Greenwich High School met with EG Patch on Friday and talked about both what they remembered of Sept. 11, 2001 - they were 7 years old then - and how they feel today about Islam and the U.S. The seniors were Alexandra Leveille, Amy Tornquist, Kyle Carosotto and Nate Bautista.

In September 2001, Ken and Claire Burd were young and in love and worked right across the Hudson River from each other, he at the World Trade Center and her in New Jersey. Dan and Camille Speca were living in Queens. They had two children. Today, both couples live in East Greenwich, but their memories of their experiences on Sept. 11, 2001, offer a picture of the fear and chaos of that day.On that day, Ken was at work at Oppenheimer Investments when the first plane hit the North Tower (1 WTC). “We heard it. We heard something and our building shook a little bit and the lights went on and off…

On September 11, 2001, Susan Brannigan, a reading specialist in the Warwick school system, was a permanent sub in the East Greenwich system working at Frenchtown School. Her husband, Matt, now working in Chicago, was in his office at Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Providence. Their 10-year-old daughter Amanda was in school at Eldredge and 7-year-old Ryan was at Frenchtown school. Susan’s father, 62-year-old Edward Mazzella, Jr., a senior vice president at Cantor Fitzgerald, was at work in his office on the 101st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Fifty miles away, in the …