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2004-09-13

For me September 11th started off as and ordinary day. I got up, got dressed and went to school. I was in eighth grade at the time and was just coming out of civics class when I heard everyone going on and on about a plane crashing into some building. So I went to my drama class still very interested in this news I was hearing and yet again people were running up to me and telling me about it. My drama teacher explained to us what had happened and said ?there was a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center that?s located in New York.? Well no one really knew, or at least I didn?t know, what the World Trade Center even was. He turned on the TV and I was shocked! There were people running around everywhere and screaming, people crying, it was just a complete nightmare. I myself was starting to get a little worried because my uncle works at a bank that was located right down the way from the Twin Towers, but I kept my cool and then we all continued on with class. The school didn?t want us watching anymore of the news on the Terrorists attacks so that we didn?t all get worried. Though things leaked out and gossip was flowing all through the halls of Washington Irving Middle School. Then I heard the news, the worst news someone could hear, ?A plane crashed into the Pentagon!!!?, I was horrified and didn?t know what to do. My dad works in the Pentagon and I was so scared that something had happened to him. I was crying and one of the guidance councilors pulled me into this room that was filled with other students that had heard the news too. They all also had parents that worked there. After about an hour in there I got clamed done and went back to my regular classes of just going to lunch and all of my classes. During 5th period I got a not from the office, and it was from my mom, ?Dad is okay, love Mom?, I was so relieved. Overtime my reactions about the attacks have changed and I don?t think about it as much. It use to be that I would think about them everyday as if the scenario would just keep re-playing in my mind. My life has changed by these attacks in so many different ways because of all of the security measures that everyone has to take because of these attacks. Everywhere you go there is some sort of new security device, especially when you go to airports or a military bases. Along with the attacks of September 11th some other events that can be related in importance to it are events like the bombings of the U.S. embassies located in different areas of Africa. All of these things have hurt the nation and devastated many and I hoe in the future thing of this nature do not occur again.