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2002-10-02

My name is Jessica Berliner and I attend Fountain Valley High School in Fountain Valley, California. It was a Tuesday morning around 6:15 a.m. and I was trying to wake up to go to school just like any other usual day of the week. I overheard my mom and dad talking about the World Trade Center and how it had something had just crashed into it or something had bombed one of the towers. Then I remember my mom yelling something because another tower had been hit. It wasn't a bomb that had hit the tower, it was an airplane. I was in complete shock. I knew this was not any accident. Someone had deliberately planned this to occur, but why? I repeatedly asked myself that question all morning at school. Then I found out that there had been other attacks at the pentagon and another one trying to get to the White House. Watching the news, I realized that this event was actually a terrorist attack and people across the seas were celebrating in their streets because they had completed this terrible tragedy. Still, I am still overwhelmed of the fact that those people used our own airplanes as weapons to harm us. However, this terrible event united our nation as one. It not only shows how strong of a country we really are, but what the true meaning of Patriotism is.