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2002-09-11

I was just walking into my first period class and the teacher had the tv on. At first I didn't know what was happening, I thought it was only an airplane that had crashed, possibly carrying someone of political importance or perhaps someone famous. That was all cleared up when I read the headline that read,"Hijacked Plane Crashes Into the World Trade Center!"
I thought," Why didn't they just shoot it down or something," but that would result in a large sum of casualties also, then, by that time the tardy bell had rung, the teacher then muted the television and turned around and explained to us what had just taken place, then, out of nowhere, as if the first plane crash wasn't horrific enough, another plane crashed into the second tower this time. The class was stunned and speachless, when the class recovered from their shock, they only felt hatred for the terrorist that had done this terrible deed, but i wasn't really too mad I guess, still shocked, I was mad enough to think," Why don't we just drop an A-bomb on Afghanistan or something?" but I realized that was selfish, and shunned the idea.
Then an announcement came on the intercom instructing that all the teachers should turn the tvs off so as to not cause grief to any students who may know a relative who was on one of those flights or visiting New York. During 7th period, there was another announcement explaining that any students who wish to check and see if their parent or relatives are alright. Toward the end of the class a girl in my class named Whitney, went to the office, when she returned she was crying.
Now, a year later, all i seem to hear about in some classes is "whining" about how the press is dragging this out way too long, but in my opinion, I don't think that anyone at all could forget such a tragedy as this, I feel as if this will go in the history book as one of America's most depressing hours/days/months/even possibly years, this is just like Pearl Harbor(except for, that was the military, and on ships, and not as many deaths) and we learn about Pearl Harbor in History class, and I don't hear people whining about that.
Overall, this was the worst tragedy i have seen in my life up to this point, who knows what the future holds, can be for good, or may be for evil, hopefully for good.