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story20849.xml

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2006-09-12

It started out like any other day. I woke up, had breakfast and went to school. I was feeling bad that day because I did not have my math homework. About mid way though the morning, the teachers all started to look funny. Eventually, the teachers and pricipal got all of us 6th graders together and told us that the World trade center had been hit by and airplane and that "it was and accident and everyone was fine." We all joked because we didn't think it was serious. The principal should of told us what really happened. Even though I was young then, O still should have known that my dad could of possibly dead. Alot of kids to include myself went home early that day. My mom told me that the pentagon had been hit to but that my dad had called a little but ago and was ok.

It was really hard for my mom because she was watching it on tv and then went out towalk the dog. She was about a block down the street when she heard a dull boom ringing in the air. She ran home to the tv to find out the pentagon had been hit.

My dad's office was right above where the plane hit. About 20 minutes after he left his office, it collapsed. He didn't exit the builing, he went with others to go look for people and help the injured and possibly dead. He called my mom from ground zero at the pentagon (the garden in the middle) and told her he was ok. He said it was hell on earth.

I don't like how i wasnt told and ecspecially how i was lied to by my teachers. It was by far a dumb descision because i had the right as a HUMAN BEING to know.