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story11195.xml

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2004-12-12

I remember sitting in my Chemistry class and having the teacher ask if we had heard what had happened. I did not actually see the planes hit the buildings but we watched the towers fall over and over again as they showed the planes hitting the towers. There was never any announcement over the speaker to let everyone know what was going on. My principal did not want to have this interrupt our school day, which many of us were very upset about. Then finally an announcement came on, all the teachers had to turn off their TVS and no one was allowed to have them on. The power was cut to the TVs in the building about fifteen minutes later. Then the principal and vice principals walked around the rest of the day to make sure that none of the teachers were discussing the events of the day. All the students and most of the teachers were very upset about the way that the principal was handling the situation. We all thought we had a right to know what was going on. The principal said that we would know what was going on as soon as we got out of school, but for the time being we were to worry about class. Every other high school around us was watching the news and talking about why this was happening and who was doing it. We on the other had were told to figure it out ourselves when school was out. When I got home from school that day I immediately turned on the TV. The Twin Towers crashing to the ground was the only thing to be seen on every channel. I sat there for hours just watching it and figuring out all the pieces of the story. I could not believe what was happening and that people could be so evil that they would want to destroy so many people's lives. I remember that day like it was yesterday and wish that my school would have handled things differently. I think it would have meant a lot more to everyone in school that day to have watched it on the television and talked about why it was happening.