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2002-09-11

Oh what a sad day that will always be etched into my memory.
Eventhou, I live so far away from New York, I still felt it here in Lindale Texas. I work in a middle school with 5th and 6th graders and I had just gone to the office and the secretary and other office ladies were all standing around with the radio on and the expressions on their faces were
of devastation,looking with shocked looks as well. And I said "what are yall doing? You look like someone died or something"? One of the ladies said haven't you heard, and another lady said "How would she, she has been in the classroom." Then thats when they told me the news and they didn't want the students to hear about it yet so thats why they were also acting so strange. Usually our office ladies and teachers are always laughing and just having the best time like this isn't even a job were at! They told me about the first tower and it had just happened and I thought to myself "this is it". I came back to my classroom and turned on the radio to listen to as much as I could. When it was my lunch time at 11:00 I went home and turned on the T.V. and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was the most awful scene I had ever seen and the second tower had been hit already. Needless to say I didn't eat any lunch after that felt like I was numb. It broke my heart, it was so devastating. When I got back to school you could feel something in the air, it was quite and that's not normal at our school.Parent's were coming and picking up their kid's and so the students were starting to hear about it. They were scared and everyone was so very confused. What a world we live in that someone can just take so many lives and their own like it was nothing! I wrote a little poem that is hung in our school along with hundred's of our students work hanging up about Sept. 11th, 2001. Here is my poem:

Heroes... Do you have one?

The meaning of the word hero
has always remained the same.
Yet our youth of today would
say differently,
Are WE to blame?

There were many on that Sept.11th
That I would call HEROIC.
They risked their lives for others;
Others that will NEVER know it.

It will take along time,
for us to heal.
Some may never;
If any EVER will.

The world will never be the same,
Yet to our enemies,taking another's
life was like they were playing a
video game!

We WILL stand together,
Hand in hand;
They will NEVER take away our
Freedom,
And they cannot take away our land.


Well, that was what I wrote but really there are
no words to express what I feel about all those
innocent people who lost their lives and the ones
that risked their own to save another. I wear two
dog tags one is red with a firefighters name on it and
it is red and the other is a policeman with his name on
it and that dog tag is blue. I say prayers as I wear them
for all, both the people, the heroes, and all the families that are are suffering from their loses. I also say a prayer
for our enemies because we must somehow "Forgive them,
for they not know what they do!