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2004-02-06

The first thing i remember from the morning of the 11th is sitting in my 5/6 class Which was freshman social studies. I don't remember what we were studing that and frankly I could care less. I remember sitting there and the phone on the wall ringing. Which almost always meant some one was getting called down to the office. An event that affects only one persons life. Little did I know that phone call would be engraved into my mind. Anyway that call was the school secretary calling my teacher that the World Trade Center buildings had been bombed. We turned the tv one right away. I can't remember if we turned it on before or after the second plane hit but i remember being in total dismay seeing the smoke coming from the top of the buildings. I also remember the conversation skirting around about what happened and how the buildings got bombed. My initial thought was some milatary had gotten pissed at us and dropped an actual bomb onto the buildings but before i had a chance to see video of the planes hitting the buildings the bell rang and it was off to period 7/8. When I got to the next period i wondered why the tv was not on? Had Mr. Leonard heard about the bombings or did he just not care? It turned out he didn't have a coaxial cable to hook the tv up to the wall. Everyone in the class was willing to hunt one down so we could watch the broadcast of the WTC stuff going on. This is where i have to confess that at the moment i volutered to go look for a spare cable i was more woried about gettin out of work then what was going on in New York at that time. Weel Mr. Leonard wouldn't let us look for a cable and we ended up doing work that day. In the next class period i had spanish. The teacher was Mr. Leonards wife she did have a working tv. When i walked in the room i looked at the tv and that is where for the first time i saw video of the planes hitting the towers. I then learned that during the period before the towers had also fallen. The full impact of this didn't really hit me till the next day. During marching band the next day our director took us out onto our practice field. Our band director called us together on the 50 yard line and told us that this was one of those moments we would remember for the rest of our lives. He told us to look up at the sky. It was a cloudless day and nothing was in the sky because of the grounding of the planes the day before. It was so quite that it was a little scary you could here even the slitests sound. So i leave you with this measage What ever you do DON'T FORGET.