Even with 500+plus students, faculty, staff and others in the Daleville High School gymnasium Monday morning, Sept. 12, it was quiet enough to hear a pin drop once Principal Josh Robertson explained the purpose of 30 seconds of silence—to somewhat align with the nearly 3,000 who died on Sept. 11, 2001 during Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the two World Trade Center towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a downed hijacked plane in Pennsylvania that was presumed to be headed toward the nation’s capital.