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story8732.xml

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2002-12-12

That morning I woke up 15 minutes late. My dad was pounding on my door to get up because I had forgotten to set my alarm the night before. So I woke up quickly got dressed and went to school. In previous days my school was in the headlines because qwe had the earliest lunch (9:30 am) in the country. We had had camaramen in our lunch all the time. I was one of the people with this lunch period. anyways it was during lunch that I had first heard about it. My friend Alex walked up to our table and told us that the Wtc had been hit by an airplane. My friends and I thought he was joking and proceeded to make jokes about it. At that point the bell rang and I went to my english class. We had a sub that day and I quickly turned on the tv just to make sure he was really joking. The first image I saw was a rerun of the second plane smashing into the tower. Needless to asy I joked no more. For the rest of the day we proceeded through the classes but no work was happening. My math test was canceled. In band we didn't do anything but watch the tv.
I'm a trombone player in the high school marching band. That friday night we had a football game. All the way there and back we saw hundreds of people outside for the candlelight vigil. It was amazing! during halftime we played some patriotic music. During it I had the melody to God Bless America. For once the crowd didn't just talk over the band and go eat. They actually listened. I even saw some people crying! It's amazing how this united people in a way That I didn't think was possible. This event has truly changed my life. It revealed to me the good in people. All of the people rushing in to the towers knowing that they probly wouldn't leave. That is the true definition of a hero. Thank you for the oppurtunity to share this.