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2003-04-27

When the tragedy of September 11th struck America, it came to me as a complete and total shock as I'm sure it did to every other American. I was sitting in homeroom just waiting to go to my next class, like any other regular day in school, and then my teacher gets a phone call on her room phone and all of a sudden she let's out this loud shriek and yells "OH MY GOD". My fellow classmates and I didn't think it could have been that big of a deal until she turned it on to the news and I saw the 1st building of the World Trade engulfed in flames. I had no idea of what to think at first. The last thing that crossed my mind was that it was an act of terrorism.

I proceeded with my day, then I realized that this was really serious because in all of my classes teachers were just depressed and all we did was watch t.v. I knew it had to be serious because if it wasn't teachers wouldn't have put all their teaching aside just to inform us students about what was going on. All day long I had this blank stare on my face because I just could not believe what the televesion was showing. It wasn't really that i couldn't believe it, it was more that i DIDN'T want to believe it. School was pretty quiet for a while. It was almost as if students were to scared to make too much noise.

Honestly I can't even remember what life was like post September 11th. Things are getting back to normal now but America and it's citizens will NEVER be able to forget what happened. If al-quaeda's goal was to have Americans live in fear for the rest of their lives I guess the accomplished it. That's the only goal they will EVER get to accomplish because we are still a better nation then them and they know that U.S. will continue to fight back and that we won't let this bring us down. That's why we're known as the UNITED States of America because through everything that we experience together as a nation, whether it be could or bad we will ALWAYS be united.