nmah4380.xml

nmah4380.xml

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2002-09-11

Written by /********\
ROMAN CHERNOBELSKIY / <0> <0> \
A student at Rincon High School ( ^ )
Tucson, Arizona \ \___/ /
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It was just a regular school day. I got up,brushed my teeth, and ate my breakfast. While I was eating breakfast I saw my mom watching TV, some news channel. When I looked at the TV I saw something crash ,a lot of smoke, and firemen. And since my mom doesn't understand english that well and I was "half asleep" I wasn't sure what was going on, but I thought it was some kind of moovie or something. So I finished my breakfast, got everything together, and rode my bike to school like usually. I was a freshman at Rincon High School. Before my fourth period (english as a second language,ESL) class everything went normal, except I heard people talking about some Twin Towers, (at that time I didn't know what that was). Alot of people didn't come to school for "no reason". On my fourth period our principal made an announcement through the intercom, she told us that the twin towers in New York have been collapsed by two big passenger airplanes with the terrorist pilots in them. Her voice sounded really sad. Then we did the pledge of alligence and then had a silent moment. After the announcement was done, our teacher talked to us about it. It was one of those two-hour periods. After she was done talking about the event she told us that we could go to the next door room, which had a TV in it, and watch news. At that time they were showing the video tape of the towers collapsing. Some people thought it was cool to watch a real airplane hit those buildings and how they crushed with a lot of dust flying in the air and filling up the town. What they didn't realize is that the real airplanes had real people in them and there were a lot of people in the building that didn't have a clue of an aircraft hitting them. And then we heared about the pentagon....
Now I was starting to understand why half of the students "ditched" school. Their parents probably thought it would be dangerous for them to go to school because in Arizona we have an aircraft base and the plane could hit us
or the base. But nothing happened to us. When the school ended I rode my bike home thinking about what happened today, and all the people that lost their lives.
It was really sad but I could do almost nothing about it.


I'm writing this a year later after the event and everyone still remembers it as "THE SEPTEMBER 11" but less and less people remember what has ACTUALLY happened.