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2002-09-11

i was sitting in my chemestry class and ms. teachy was trying to go over the scientific method when Mr. Scott (head of security at our high school) came on the announcements and said "shurley you all know what going on by now just stay in your classes and stay clear of the windows,". We where all confused because we did not know what was going on so we had a student go to the clas next door and ask. she came back 30 seconds later saying someone had bombed the pentagon. Ms. teachey looked confused and ran over and turned on the tv. what i saw scared me. it was the 1st twin tower with smoke coming out of it and they were saying a plane had crashed into it. then about 2 mins after we turned the tv on the second plane came in. so at this point we all knew it was no accident and all of us were expecting more. then they said that a bomb had gone off in front of the executive building in front of the white house (that is where my mom works) i then fel;t horrified but soon comforted as i learded the roports were false. In another half hour we were dissmised and i went to lunch. i was talking to my friends and i was look ing at the people around me, some were confused others worried some were paranoid others did not show any type of emotion. as it turns out i only knew one person that was injured in the pentagon(our school is 15 mins away from the pentagon alot of the parents worked their) and i had not seen her in months. although i was relativley non affected i was shaked that night i prayed for the victims and thier families of the attacks and the country. i really did not know what else to do. the next dy i wanted to donate blood but found out you had to be 18(i was 15).i think that now one year later i am satisfied with what the government has done against osama and the talaban. I hope that from this the country will better learn to defend its self so nothing this horrible will ever happen again.