Where Fact meets Fiction
The Medal
Criminal Activity, a forbidden girlfriend, a joyride – they could spell disaster for 16-year-old Kilian Barker. Then a chance encounter between this streetwise foster kid and a World War II veteran sets in motion events that neither could have predicted.
Events
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September 11, 2001
As principal, I had just reassured anxious parents that their kindergarteners would have a wonderful first day of school. I was on my way back to the office when the head caretaker asked me if I had heard the news: a plane had just slammed into the North Tower of the...