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2002-09-11

I was in school and my teacher told us that the World Trade Center was attacked. He told us that two planes crashed into them. I didn?t know where or what the World Trade Centers were so I didn't think much about it. Some people were saying it was too early so no one was in it. I wasn?t sure what to think. After about 10 minutes, all the alarms went off in the school. Many people we afraid, including me because we just heard about the World Trade Centers. We were all outside wondering what was going on. Then the teachers told us that is was just in case something else would happen. That made me feel better but not a whole lot. I still didn?t really know what happened. Finally, we got to go in.
Later after lunch, I was walking in my classroom and the t.v. was on. It was showing the World Trade Centers being attacked. I heard someone say AWESOME!!! I didn?t see what happened but I knew what they were talking about. When they said that it was awesome, it kind of made me mad because it is not awesome that something like that had to happen.
When I got home, my brother was watching the news. I decided to watch it so I would get a better idea on what was going on. When I saw the first plane go into the Trade Center, I was crushed. After that I thought it was over. Then I saw another one crash into the Trade Center. I saw people running they were covered in dust. Then they showed a person who was video taping it inside all the dust. It was horrible. All the cars broken, a lot of fire men. Then I heard the Pentagon was hit too. I also heard that there was another plane that had crashed before it could destroy anything else. I heard a woman saying that her husband from Bloomington, Minnesota was on that plane. He called his wife and told her that they were going to try to take the plane down because they knew if they didn?t, not just them but more people could have died.
I heard that the firemen went in the World Trade Center to help the people in the tower because they didn?t think it was high jackers and they didn?t know what was coming next.
No one knew who did this and everyone wanted to know. There were clips from a foreign country. They were celebrating on what had happened, so I thought it was them because I again didn?t really know who would do this. Although they weren?t the ones who did it, I was still sad and angry with everyone who was happy.
When I went to bed that night it was hard to fall asleep. I kept thinking about it. Praying that the people would be found under the piles of dirt and pieces of the towers, were still alive. Then I just started to cry like crazy! I didn?t want my family to hear me so I cried in my pillow. A million things were rushing through me. Later in the year, I came to New York City. I saw all the shirts, signs, pictures and flags. I almost started to cry but I held it in. Then we walked past where the World Trade Centers used to be standing. We walked past something that used to be in front of the towers. It used to look brand new. But after what happened, it had holes in it and it was dented. I couldn?t believe it at first. I thought how could something look so new, look like this?
To me, all the people who crashed the plane because they knew what would have happened and the firemen who died and who are still alive are the real heroes.
If the Afganistans thought we were going to fall apart, they were wrong! This made us come together. Yes, we did lose a lot of people and that?s terrible! But we would like to think that they are in a better place now. Helping us get through our families deaths. So we are always going to stay close as Americans no matter what happens! God Bless America!