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2002-09-11

My story on 9/11...it doesnt seem like it should be much compared to the story of the thousands that died, or the millions who were directly affected. It doesnt seem like my story should matter compared to anything, but as I sit here in English class, one year 4 hours and 15 minutes after the even took place, listening to the click of 30 people telling their stories, I might as well give it a shot. I remember we were all in chemestry class, by far my most hated and feared class of the year. Listening to DeMartino ramble on about so many things that we frankly didnt care about. About five minutes into class DeMartinos cell rang, after a short talk she told us simply "the WTC was hit by a plain." To be honest that really didnt spark my interests at all. And the next few periods went on as usual, we heard little to nothing in History where we were somewhat ironically learning about the fall of the Roman empire. Football was totally unnaffected, our coaches didnt even bother to adress the issue which was now starting to cause some dissettlement amongste the students. In Choir our directer, Couch, simply said that the Towers had been hit, but we werent going to let it disturb our normal lives. After a very long and very unproductive period we finally got to lunch. We managed to find a pen radio to listen to, though only two people could hear at once and not very well. Then we went to Fiztsimmons classroom and watched the 9/11 coverage with him. Finally I got to my favorite class, English...taught my Mrs. Smith who was the most liberal and easy going teacher I have ever had. She told us that it was forbidden for her to allow us to watch 9/11 coverage and we were supposte to go on with class, but she said that as she turned on the TV. It was in that class we saw the horrific imagages of the towers collapsing, and of people flinging themselves from the buildings in a last vane attempt to saved their lives, or end it quickly. Soon our school ban on 9/11 coverage was ended by the teachers, our last period teacher, Mr. Abbe tried to teach but we just ended up watching TV in another class. The rest of the day I just sat watching TV, not very interesting, but what else was I to do? The weeks that followed are history, but our lives will go on and we need only strengthen that which remains. In the end it will all be forgotten, the faces, the names, they will all be swept away in the infinite sands of time. So let us all remember them now, while we can. And please friends, lets also not forget so many other events that were terrible to an even greater magnitude. The bombing of Dresden, which claimed 80 times more lives, or the Nuclear explosions of Hiroshimo and Nagasaki. Even so far back as the massacre of the Indians by the conquistidors. Let us not be greedy in our tragedy, where this may have been one of the worste events in American history, it doesnt compare to events that have taken place, and even more events that will take place.
For those we love
For those we remember
For those we lost
-Mark Hamilton, just another random face in a random world, holding on by a thread of existence