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story6297.xml

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2002-09-12

It was first period. I was in sixth grade , at Tobin School. I just got back from band , and I walked into my classroom and everyone was watching TV . The TV showed the Twin Towers . There was a plane , and it was in one of the Twin Towers . Then, I was watching and another plane came out of the middle of nowhere and crashed into the other Twin Tower. It was a shock , because I didn't know what was going on. People were trying to tell me , but I didn't understand. It was really weird. Then , they showed another plane that crashed into the Pentagon. All my friends were telling me that there was a Terrorist Attack on New York, and that terrorist hyjacked 4 planes. They killed the pilots and flew the planes . Two of the planes crashed into the World Trade Center or Twin Towers , another one crashed onto the Pentagon, and the last one was found in a field in Pennsylvani. Then principal came into the room , and told the teacher that they had to turn off the TV. The whole we talked about the tragedy. It was really sad , because the teacher told us to put ourselves in the other people's position, and I did. It was realy upsetting .Just to think about loosing someone like that , or loosing your own life. It's really scary. A few days later we still talked about it . The sky was clear. There was no sound of airplanes , or anything. Everyday we had ten minutes of silence everyday. The September 11 tragedy changed everything . A lot of people that lived around me started to panic. They were scared that there was going to be a terrorist in Chicago , they thought that airplanes would crash into the Sears Tower . A lot people still do panic, though it's a year later . 9-11-01 was a terrible day , that hurt a lot of people counting me , and is a day that noone will ever forget.