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2002-10-02

When I first found out about the events I was at my house getting ready for school. It seemed like it was going to be an ordinary school day when I first woke up, but I was very wrong. I saw the images of the Trade Centers burning on the T.V. and I didn't know what to think. At first I thought some random pilot had just crashed, but when I heard about the Pentagon and saw images of it burning I knew that wasn't the situation. As much as I wanted to find out more I had to leaave for school. When I arrived there everyone shared the puzzlement I did. In all of my clases not much work got done because the T.V. was on showing the same horrifying over and over of the planes crashing into the towers, the people jumping, the pentagon burning, and finally the towers coming down.
It's kind of a shame that it took this terribly tradegy and the loss of many lives to unit the American people.