There has rarely been a starker
juxtaposition of evil and innocence than the moment President George W.
Bush received the news about 9/11 while reading The Pet Goat with second-graders in Sarasota, Fla.
Seven-year-olds can't understand what Islamic terrorism is all
about. But they know when an adult's face is telling them something is
wrong — and none of the students sitting in Sandra Kay Daniels' class
at Emma E. Booker Elementary School that morning can forget the
devastating change in Bush's expression when White House chief of staff
Andrew Card whispered the terrible news of the al-Qaeda attack. Lazaro
Dubrocq's heart started racing because he assumed they were all in
trouble — with no less than the Commander in Chief — but he wasn't sure
why. "In a heartbeat, he leaned back and he looked flabbergasted,
shocked, horrified," recalls Dubrocq, now 17. "I was baffled. I mean,
did we read something wrong? Was he mad or disappointed in us?"
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