ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — West Michigan teachers on Thursday paid tribute to the lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

They are working to teach the next generation — students who weren't born until well after the attacks — about what happened and the global impact.

In his history and American studies clssroom at Rockford High School, Bob Hieshetter has a special lesson prepared that he has taught every year on the anniversary of 9/11.

He was also in his classroom on the day of the attacks. He remembers another teacher coming in and announcing one of the twin towers at World Trade Center had been struck by a plane.

“I turned the TV on and that sort of started the evolution of the day. We watched the towers burning. The kids went stone silent. There was this chill in the r

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