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2003-05-19

I was in first period,english 3,and i had done my assignments and my teacher who was also my journalism teacher let me to work on my pages for the school newspaper in the journalism room and i then decided to call my best friend. she picked up the phone immediatley and i asked her what she was up to and she said im watching the news ill call you back and i said no, talk to me and she said,dude the united states is under attack or something and i didnt know exactly what she meant by that she said turn on a tv and hung up the phone, i then went into the dark-room where there was a tv and turned it on where i saw the north and south tower of the world trade center on fire. at first ididnt know what was going on,like it didnt click i just thought that the buildings were on fire and the fire department would put it out. i knew that the damage was bad because they replayed the second plane spear throught the south tower and i just froze in shock. i thought to myself mMY GOD WHAT IS GOING ON and then out of nowhere i heard peter jennings voice say this just in another plane has just crashed into the pentagon. by then i left the room and headed back to the classroom where i told my teacher what was going on he listened to me very carfully as if he was trying to comprehend what was coming out of my mouth. a couple of minutes later an announcement came over the intercom by our assistant princapal guadalupe soza, he notified everyone about the attacks and by second period all of hte tvs in the classroom were set at abc. and everyone quitely sat in their chairs stairing up at the screens with disbelief. more then likley alot of people just like myself did not understand what was really happening they just starred up with this question in their mind,what is going on. everyperiod that day was basically the same a second period everyone watching the news,and sitting there shocked.after school i went home and bought a pack of four video tapes to record the news about september 11th and later on that night i went to the convinence store to buy a special edition of the monitor, a local newspaper in the rio grande valley. i stayed up the whole night watching and recording the news and just thinking to myself what kind of people could have so much hate in their hearts to do something like this and take the lives of so many innocent people who were doing their everyday thing whether it be working on an airplane or in an office at the pentagon or world trade center or the passengers of the four airplanes that were hijacked.ever since september 11th i fell like i have become a totally different person,for watching for the past year and a half all of the footage that i have recorded from the tv ,scenes of people jumping out of the buildings and the planes crashing into the towers.i just feel my chest collapse everytime i see the images of the second plane hitting the towers from different angles and thinking about all of the people that died that instant who were burned or pushed out of their office into the sky by the planes. then i think of all families of the people who worked in the buildings,what were they feeling knowing that someone they loved was probably dead in the building,and then of course all of the brave men and women who went into the buildings and didnt come out for the simple fact that they wanted to save lives and it makes me feel like shit because there was abosolutley nothing i could do i wish i could catch the people that were jumping out of the buildings rather than being burn alive. i listen to the songs with the voices of reporters and people on the street that saw the whole thing unfold and i hear president bushes voice sound in my head with the address of the nation telling people all over the world what had just happened. ive had so many dreams about september 11th and about being at ground zero and i watched the whole thing over and over and till this day i still watch the videos and just try to imagine myself there. sometimes when im high i like to watch the videos because i feel like i was there and i feel the pain of that day,i think i should stop[ writing now but god bless the victims and theire families and god bless the men and women who died on that day doing their job or trying to rescue the innocent people who where trapped insid e the towers....i will never forget the way i felt that day or the way i feel right now after just writing about it which i had never done before.....dont take your freedom for granted.....fabian