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2002-09-12

It may seem like it didn't affect me as bad, since i'm on the COMPLETE other side of the country, but it did. When I woke up to get ready for school(i wake up before everyone else) i was worried about wether i should where the blue shiny pants or the low cut jeans. Then, my aunt called and said "drop what your doing and turn on the news" i did what she said and i could have sworn i was watching some movie! i turned it on right as they said "John, roll the tape again for all those people who just tuned in." they played a tape of the first tower coming down, that's when i just about fainted. mid fall they cut the tape off and said " braking news! the second tower has fallen! another plane has crashed into it!" then i figured out, this was live, really happening! they showed the towers falling, and the pentagon, at first they said it was an accident, probably a training pilot, but then they realized it was a terrorist attack. as i watched the buildings collapse on the screen i felt as if my heart was with them, because for the rest of the day, i didn't do anything, i sat in each of my classes, depressed. of course, i wasn't punished for not doing any work, pretty much the whole school was depressed. if you came to my school that day, you would have seen all these people just drooping and slowly walking to whichevere class they came to. i bet a slug could have beet us in a reace with how fast we went. But the one time we were feeling up and ready, was the pledge of alliegence. We stood tall and proud, said it loud, there was construction going on that day, and with how loud we shouted, it sounded like a fly buzzing around! so yes it affected the whole country just as bad as the people in New York, minus the death