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2005-03-09

I was a sophomore at Tavares High School. I walked into my second class for the day which just happened to be World History class at 9:05am. My teacher was Dr.Price, I had him my freshmen year so I know his daily routine to this day. We would start class with "On this Day in the year...." After that we would turn on the news at exactly 9:30, and write down three or more things that were happening in the news. Usually it would be a new drug out or some type of merger in business. We were watching CNN, and the first thing we heard was "replay that again." We watched the replay of the second plane hitting the building. As my class began to listen, our jaws dropped as we heard that there were two planes that hit each WTC tower. Everyone knew THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT! I remember writing in my notebook as I was hearing it...News article #1:A plane hit the world trade center early around 9am. #2 ANOTHER plane hit the second tower(believed to be a terrorist attack). #3 The Pentagon is on fire. #4 a car bomb exploded in Washington D.C. #5 The Capitol building is being evacuvated. I recall writing so many things down that I had to stop writing in order to watch history before my eyes. Most of things I had written turned out to be worse or rumors. At this time, I felt unsafe. Fires, bombing, terrorists.....who would? I remember looking around my classroom as the towers came crashing down, my classmates made faces of hatred, fear, and sorrow. I'll never forget my teacher's face, he sat on a stool staring at the floor probably to keep himself from crying. All anyone could think of was 'War' against whoever did this. The rest of the school day was spent watching the news.