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2002-09-11

I remember leaving the school office during my planning period being told that the World Trade Center had just been bombed. It wasn't until about an hour later that we figured out that planes had been flown into the two structures. A little while later we were told of other attacks and Flight 93. I spent the rest of the day with my high school students watching the television trying to understand what was going on. We had an assembly at the end of the day where we prayed for the victems and their families. Before leaving school to go home, I called my husband to ask him to stay off the express ways and take the back roads home from work. I circled Sept. 11 in my lesson plan book and wrote my thoughts on what had happened. I left school and drove straight home to wait for my husband. We watched the news reports the rest of the day.