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story8278.xml

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2002-10-02

I remember that I woke up that morning and went downstairs to eat breakfast, my dad had told me that a plane had hit a building but I wasn't concerned. Then he ran downstairs and turned on the TV and showed me that the second plane had just hit. At this point I started to get scared that somehting might happen where I live. My Dad was trying to call my brother, Jack, who was in the army and in Washington D.C. during the attacks. He couldn't get a hold of my brother so then he called my mom at work. After this I witnessed as the other plane hit the Pentagon, at this point I began to become frantic wondering if my brother was in the Pentagon. After this I went to school all the while listening to the radio in the car, listening to the announcers describe the attacks and the plane that was still missing. When I got to school we didn't talk about it at all during my 1st period, I couldn't believe that we were acting as if nothing was happening. Then in my second period my teacher had the T.V. on and we witnessed the two towers fall, till this point I had felt numb, but as I watched the towers collapse I thought of all the lives ending at that exact moment. The emotion that I felt after this was fear, not only for myself but for our country, and the plane still not found. At the same time I also felt angry, angry at the that had done this. Lastly I felt sick, that so many innocent people would never see there kids or their families again. These children would be satined with the knowledge that their fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters were taken away from them by an act of terrorism against our country.