story10391.xml

story10391.xml

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2004-01-28

I'm sitting in Chemistry class and the principal interrupts the class with an announcement. He tells us a tragic accident happened in New York and we should turn on the TV?s. Just as he was telling us to turn on the TV?s class was over. My next subject was German and we continued to watch the TV. Soon we realized that this was no accident but a terrorist attack. Fortunately I had no family in the Pentagon and the Twin Towers but a few students had family members working in the pentagon. The rest of the day was mainly a waiting game nobody knew what was going to happen next, people were still in shock. Parents started to pick up their kids from school and the ones who were eighteen years or older left by themselves. Around 3:30PM school was over and I went straight home. Everything was closed and I was just like everyone else glued to the TV watching the events unfold.