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story1775.xml

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2002-09-05

My friends and I were sitting in our Civics class when our guidance counselor came in with a disturbing message. She informed us that the World Trade Center had been hit by a low flying plane. Then we changed classes and ended up watching CNN for the rest of the day. As my friends and I looked on to the frightening site tears came to our eyes. And then we heard that the Trade Center had been attacked by terrorists and about 30 minutes later the World Trade Center had completely collapsed. When I got home from school my mother met me at the door crying she said that teroorist had hijacked four planes one crashed in PA, two hit the Trade Center in NY, and 1 hit the Pentagon. Immediately we rushed into the house to turn the TV on the story kept repeating itself with the collapse of the WTC, we watched it just about every day, for several months then they said that Bin Laden was behind it all, it showed videos of him and his plan to ruin the U.S. It's a day I'll never forget.