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2002-06-10

This is a small journal that I kept during my school day.

Tuesday, September 11th 2001. 12:14 pm.
Right now America is under attack. In New York City the
World Trade Centers were attacked at 8:45 this morning. Two
of our own planes, commercial airplanes attacked them. Each
plane hit a tower, killing thousands of innocent civilians
that were just thinking that today was just another day and
it turned out like this. This is just so scary. Then at 9:40
am a plane hit the Pentagon also. On the news they said it
knocked out the 4th, 5th,and 6th wing of the building.
My friend April's aunt lives in that area to. I hope she's
all right. I'm not sure of the exact time but I think at
9:50 am the South tower of the World Trade Centers began to
fall. Thirty-nine minutes at 10:29 am, the North tower
collapsed. News broadcasters say they aren't sure exactly
why they collapsed, either structural problems or maybe even
a bomb. As I watched this on television. I saw so many
people jumping from their office windows. Jumping to their
death seconds before the building would come crashing down. It's just so horrible. Every airport in America is shut down, just in case there are any more hijackings. At 10:10 am the final doomed airplane crashed into Somerset, Pennsylvania. By lunchtime at 11:30 am many of my fellow peers spread rumors that the plane was meant to hit our Power Plant here in Somerset, New York, which scared me, even though I didn't believe it, the thought was just there. The White House and other major political buildings in Washington D.C. were evacuated. The United Nations in New York, Sears Tower in Chicago and Walt Disney World in Orlando are just some national landscapes that were also shut down. By noon United Airlines announced that two of its planes have crashed. They have shut down all the borders in America not letting anyone in or out. It's like a giant lockdown on our country. Our school is even under lockdown. I heard that a nearby school had evacuated earlier today. My boyfriend's sister Erica is living in Los Angeles, which is scary because three of the planes that were
hijacked were originally heading to Los Angeles. At this
moment I'm just so grateful that I know where my family is
and where my friends are, and I know that they are safe.
Yet I feel so guilty because there are thousands of people
in this country that do not know that about their family
members or their loved ones. Sometime, hopefully soon they
will know. Yet the news broadcaster on the television says
that they might not find people for days in the Trade Centers.
Maybe not even for weeks. It has to be devastating waiting
and waiting to find out if someone you know is dead or alive.
It's like time had stopped when the first plane crashed.
I never thought in my life I would see something as awful
as this, tearing people's lives apart in a second. I never
thought that someone with so much hate could go so far.
It's like the Holocaust. It's unbelievable that a man with
so much hate can cause so much pain and destruction in a
blink of an eye. Its just?wow. Well I have to go now.
My class period is almost over so I have to pack up my stuff
and get ready. I'm just going to pray that no nothing more
will happen, and hope for the best.
Wednesday May 29th 2002.
Well things here are a little better. No one has
seen nor heard from Osama Bin Laden. His Al-Queda members
are still about, those who haven't been killed. Every now
and then we still gets reports on the news that we are
under alert in case of another attack. Lately though, those
threats have been involving nuclear bombs. That thought
really scares me, along with many others. The World Trade
Center site, also known as Ground Zero, has been almost
completely cleared away. It was sad seeing them clear it
away at first, seeing all the damage and hearing that they
were still finding bodies in the rubbish of the trade centers.
In the newspaper there are articles on how they were
going to build new World Trade Centers. In my opinion that
is wrong. Only because I think that that site should be a
memorial site, where loved ones can go and mourn their lost
loved ones. I know if I had a lost loved one there I
wouldn't want to go there and see that there are two new
buildings on the site where that loved one died. Things
in Afghanistan have improved now that the Taliban is gone.
Women have more rights now. Palestine and Israel are having
problems along with Pakistan and India. Most of the Middle
East is having problems with each other, which could result
in worst things. Recently India and Pakistan were in a
nuclear arms race. I just really hope that things over there
are will be getting better soon.