I was a 7th grader that day and remember watching the news that night in horror...now a similar feeling to that experienced on 9/11/01. I felt like I knew those kids having been a Catholic School student for most of my life and went to St. Peter Canisius school just west of Our Lady of the Angels. Whenever I am at Queen of Heaven Cemetary to visit my family I always try to go past the area where the kids are...to say a prayer. Their names will always familiar to me. Families of those kids...know they will never be forgotten! Now, I'm a Grandmother of 6 precious children and still think of that fire and those kids when I see my grandchildren's schools. All on the first floor, able to get out quickly. Many of the surviving kids went to St. Anne's Hospital at Division near Cicero...I was a student nurse there a few years after the fire and was told stories of how the little kids had been taken there and suffered so. I ALWAYS REMEMBER THEM AS THIS TIME OF YEAR APPROACHES...they have remained my angel friends all these years.
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