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story6145.xml

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2002-09-12

I was sitting in my theater drama class (first hour) and one of the students came in last. He said that one of the Twin towers had been hit. We all just laughed and were, like, yeah sure.
My teacher decided to find out if it was the truth and he went to CNN.com and found one of the first pictures of the crash. We all kind of went into shock.
The bell rang and i went to my second hour class. lots of people in the halls didn't know yet.
In English we had a teacher come in and tell us that another plane had hit. They took our class to another room and let us watch, because they thought it was history in the making and it was. So we watched the tower fall and my Friend Jackie next to me began to cry. She said that she had family in New york. (don't worry they were all fine) She was really upset about it.
We watched the first tower fall, and I felt a deep emptyness grow inside me. I knew that when the first one fell that the other one was going to fall also, because i knew that today was not America's day.
I heard about the other crashes by random glimpes' of the Tv's in the pod.
The teachers in the later hours wouldn't let us watch, they told us that we were supposed to go on with the day as normal as possible. I don't know if i agree with that, but thats what happened.
Although my last hour teacher, Mr. Barker, let us watch the latest news.
I walked home in sort of a daze and i couldn't really believe what had happened.
I saved the news paper or the day the title was 'EVIL' it was so crazy.