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2002-03-04

To tell you the truth I can't remember what day it was on 9-11 but I know it was either a Tuesday or Thursday, I presume it was a Tuesday. I only know this because these were the only two days that I woke up before 11 AM. My roommate and I both had the same class at 9:30 and woke up together at 8:50. Neither of us turn on the TV in the morning so we didn't hear anything till we got into Math 116. No one had heard about what had happend yet at this point because the class was so early, except for my friend Mahmoud who came in late... he had only heard about the first plane, and told us that he was pretty sure that the World Trade Center still stood. This was only whispered to me during class, it was hard to believe and without anyone else in the class talking about it I thought it might not be as bad as I had imagined a plane crashing into the World Trade Center would be. After class was when my roommate and I really saw what had just happend... we went into the JC here at GMU and the news corner was filled with people trying to watch what was happening. WE grabed something to eat and decided we'd go back to the dorm to see what happended rather than try to figure out with all these people about. It was the only day that we'd watched CNN here for more than 5 minutes... it stayed on all day. I knew my uncle worked in the Pentagon so I called home to see what was up and word had gotten through that he was okay, but since traffic was impossible he was walking back to my Grandparents house who live in Alexandria. My Aunt who also works in DC had to walk home. No one I know personaly was injured... I'm very lucky. But through friends I knew about 5 people who died, one who was in the first plane to hit. Another thing I remember was everyone of my friends online was talking about it. Some couldn't get word back home to see if everything was alright... so I had to make a few calls to friend's parents for them. I was never scared... for my family or myself... just shocked that anyone was stupid enough to do that to America.