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2002-09-06

I was sitting in my Physical Science classroom during second period on that morning. There was about 5 minutes left of class, and my teacher got called out to the hall and came in about 2 minutes later and told us that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have been hit by passenger airliners. I didnt think too much of it at the time, thinking that it would not be that bad. I didn't think that airplanes could take down the towers of the World Trade Center. During the next period in school, my english class, we didnt do anything. We spent the class time watching the news on television. It was then that i learned how bad the situation actually was. After i saw the replays of the airplanes hitting the towers, I just thought how terrible this will be for our country, our economy, the families of the people that died, and many other things. Throught the rest of the day, we did not do very much in school, and if something was done, it was always done less enthusiastically than it would have been normally. I was really shocked at how this could have happened to our country, and I hope this will never happen again.