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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:58 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:05 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:10 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:18 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:26 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:34 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:46 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:47 pm
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I was in my eighth grade English class. We were practicing our writing skills when the kid who sat in front of me started talking about the World Trade Center and how it was attacked. He said his next door neighbor's wife was in New York on a business trip. My class and I thought he was kidding because we couldn't imagine something so terrible actually happening. It was like a tragedy you would see in a comic book or TV show, not something that could actually happen in real life.
In the next class period, my history teacher turned on the television in her classroom and we watched the live footage from New York City. When we started watching, the second plane had just hit the tower. In the second part of class, many of the students' parents began to arrive and take them home, fearing for their safety confused I didn't understand why they were leaving, the planes weren't going to attack our school.
During lunch, my friends and I started talking about the attacks. We were worried that Houston might be their next target, since the planes were probably targetting the United States' largest cities. And then we began to discuss who was behind the attacks. We thought it was the Palestinians. We were mostly theorizing, we didn't know a whole lot about what was going on. We were only thirteen - years - old at the time. However, talking about the whole thing made us feel better somehow.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:48 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:59 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:18 pm
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Oh, wow. Um.
I was in the fourth grade, and school just started a week ago. It was a pretty day, the sun was out, everyone was happy. And while my teacher was talking, an anouncement came through the loud speaker. It was about the first and second planes hitting the towers. No one in my class seemed shocked... we were... clueless? Except my teacher, who had her son or nephew work near there or something, and she grabbed her cell and started calling. [he turned out to be okay, by the way]
And after that, the whole school said a prayer.
I didn't understand it the whole school day, or even after school, until I saw it on the 9PM news. I felt so bad that I didn't know what was happening.
The days after I got so "into" the whole thing happening. I cut out comics that related to it and everything. I felt so sad.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:29 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:34 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:46 pm
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