09/05/2026
🇺🇸 THIS ONE FEELS DIFFERENT.
On September 11, 2026, twenty-five years after 9/11, more than 100 Kingwood High School students will sit in a room and hear about that day from someone who actually lived it.
For so many of us, 9/11 is not history.
We remember where we were. We remember the fear. We remember watching the television and realizing, in real time, that the world had changed.
But our children were born into a world where 9/11 is something they read about in a textbook.
That is why this matters.
Kingwood resident and entrepreneur Stephen King, CPA, founder of the Fundraising Accountant Community, will share his firsthand account with students at Kingwood High School.
He’ll talk about what he saw, what he experienced, and what it meant to live through a day that would change his life and eventually bring his family from New York to Kingwood.
He’ll even bring with him an actual piece of the World Trade Center that he has kept for years.
And I can only imagine what it will feel like for a room full of teenagers to see that.
Not on a screen.
Not in a documentary.
Right there in front of them.
As a parent, that part gets me.
Because there are some things our children need to learn from books, and then there are some things they need to hear from the people who were there.
They need to hear about the fear.
They need to hear about the loss.
But they also need to hear about what came after.
About resilience.
About rebuilding.
About choosing to keep going.
Stephen’s message to the students is one I think all of our kids need to hear.
You can destroy a building, but you cannot destroy an idea.
And maybe that is the part of 9/11 we have to make sure the next generation understands most.
That even after the unimaginable, people got up.
Families rebuilt.
Communities came together.
People found purpose in what happened to them.
And now, 25 years later, one of those people is standing in front of students in OUR COMMUNITY and passing that story forward.
There is something incredibly powerful about that.
🇺🇸 September 11, 2026
🏫 Kingwood High School
🕥 10:30–11:15 AM
To the parents of those students I hope they come home and tell you what they heard.
And I hope we keep making room for these stories while the people who lived them are still here to tell them.
Because one day, our children will be the ones responsible for remembering.
