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2002-09-11

I was at school early taking a test in my Economics classroom. A teacher from another classroom came rushing in telling all of us that one of the World Trade Center towers had been hit by a plane. I was in complete shock and disbelief. I never thought that anything like that could ever have happened to us. I can remember that my first period teacher was late getting to school because her brother worked in one of the towers, and she was despirately trying to get ahold of him. The day just seemed to go by in a haze. The halls and lunch room were amazingly quiet as we passed from class to class. In every classroom we had the tv on watching CNN or some other news chanel. At first, I didn't want to believe that what i was seeing was actually happening. It frightened me so much, what was happening. I thought that maybe something might have happened in Dallas, and when it didn't I was extremely thankful to God. This attack just did the opposite of what these terrorists wanted it to do. It brought us closer together as a nation.