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2002-10-02

September 11th, 2001, just another day in the life of a teenager I thought. I completed my morning routine as I do everyday, then walked downstairs to feast on my morning meal. I poured me a bowl of Cheerios and flipped the TV on, the scene that I saw made me drop my bowl and gaze in amazement at what I saw. Smoke billowing from the upper floor of World Trade Center 1, I stood there transfixed at the screen, my mind couldn?t comprehend what was happening. First normal logic kicked in and I thought that the plane must have malfunctioned and somehow smashed into the Trade Center, then it happened. A second jet smashing into World Trade Center 2, I now knew that this was no accident, someone intended to happen. I knew that this was a bleak day in the face of our nation, and I soon realized it when it was reported that something, possibly a helicopter had crashed into the Pentagon. On a recent vacation, I had flown to New York, and seen the towers from the window of my flight, the towers seems immense and seemed just to leap out of the ground and proclaim ?Here I am world.? It was now time for me to head to school, and I did so on a somber mood, knowing that hundreds of people in those towers would not live to see their loved ones again. In my first period, my teacher had the radio on, and I heard that my worst fears had come true, tower two was down. It seemed like a knife was plunged deep into my chest, I could almost feel the thousands of voices that were now silenced. The rest of the period seemed to just blur together, Mr. Gonzales?s Spanish lecture all seemed to go in one ear and out the other. I just sat in horror in 3rd period as I saw the aftermath of the damage, both towers were gone, and now we have just learned that a plane has crashed into the Pentagon. The day that I had woken up on, just thinking that it was going to be just a normal day in the life of a 15 year old, turned out to be one of the one of the hardest to comprehend in my entire life.