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Machinist’s Mates (MMNC) Chief Tim Barth was the second keynote speaker for Norfolk Naval Shipyard's annual Patriot Day Fall-In for Colors Sept. 11 and provided his own personal story of being a teacher in Southern Pennsylvania during Sept. 11, 2001. "I don’t remember a lot about that day since it was such a whirlwind; however, I do remember those students just trying to make sense of everything happening. What was going on, what happened to these people?" He said. "I had a hall duty that day and usually in the school there would be a lot of noise of classes going on, students chatting through the halls. That day, it was completely silent – save for the sound of the televisions playing the news from the same station in every classroom and every student staring at what was going on. And all we could tell them was, ‘watch and pay attention, you’re watching history happen right before your eyes.’ Every single person in my generation that I have talked to knows exactly where they were and what happened on that day. Everybody has a story – so I encourage everyone to tell those stories. The motto that came out of that day was, ‘never forget,’ and I know I won’t.”