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2002-09-11

We were just sitting in our american literature class and it was around 9:53 am, we were just about to end class and be finished with second hour. All of a sudden, another student from a classroom next to us burst into our room and yelled that the World Trade Center was being attacked. At first none of us believed it, because noone would dare pull stunt like that, the bell rang ending second hour, but during our break, we still didnt believe that we had been attacked. Yet more and more people came out of the classroom saying that we were being attacked. Finally all the people in the all the hallways gathered into some room or another with a tv and we watched as the planes ran into the tower. We were in shock, none of this comprehended to us, it was all just an act, a trick. Yet in our minds we knew it wasnt. The rest of the day, none of the teachers really taught class, we just watched the news and further updates on the attack. We thought we would have to go to war...