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But he knows exactly what his grandfather was doing when United Flight 93 flew over his Indian Lake, Pa., home before crashing down in a nearly field."He was in his living room, with my grandmother, eating breakfast, and he heard the impact of the plane," Fidler said. "About a second later – there were a bunch of trees over his house – all the acorns hit his roof. After that, he went down to the end of his dock. He lives basically right across the lake from where the plane went down, and he could see the smoke cloud going up."Despite their proximity to the Flight 93 National Memorial and crash site, many Shanksville-Stonycreek students are much like the rest of their generation. They have relied on their families and their teachers to tell them about the events of 9/11.A hijacked Flight 93 crashed less than two miles north of the Shanksville high school – the same day terrorists hijacked three other planes and flew two of them into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and a third into the Pentagon near Washington, D.C."These groups of kids weren't alive at the time, so they need to be taught most everything," social studies teacher J.P. O'Connor said.Senior Maddie Walker, 17, said her family describes the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, as "chaotic.""My mom had to come here to school and pick up my sister," she said.Walker, who was two years old on 9/11, has only the vaguest memories of the crash of Flight 93."I just remember the house shaking, I think," she said.'If a plane crashes ...'Students can recount in detail what their teachers were doing at the moment Flight 93 went down."(The teachers) finally heard the news, so when the second (New York) plane crashed, they put all the kids in Mr. O’s room and they went to another room to watch the news," seventh-grader Samantha Creamer, 12, said. "And then (a teacher) commented that, 'If a plane crashes in Shanksville, the world’s going to end.’ Literally five seconds later, the plane crashed.''The shock from the impact rattled the school building, the students hav... (TribDem.com)