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2002-09-11

I walked in to my Government/Economics class and began to laugh with my friends like we had always done. I went to my desk quietly and sat down. My teacher Mr.Nuss had turned on CNN. Then as I looked up at the T.V. they anounced that a hi-jacked plane had been run into one of the World Trade Center towers. I was in shock. Then I saw something that had completely shattered me. I saw the second plane hit and the third that hit the pentagon. I couldn't beleave my eyes. I tried to collect my thoughts but I was just to frantic. For the rest of school I could not concentrate at all. I went to my boyfriends house right after school and told him that I was scared. It made say to myself what did we do to the terrorists that made them do such a thing to all of those innocent people? I tossed and turned all night and could not sleep at all. From that day forward I had been forever changed. I wrote this poem today on the 1 year anniversery:

America's Day of terror
Do you remember,
that day in september?
The terrorists were jealous of what we had,
so they killed all those people and didn't even feel bad.
They will pay,
for what they did that day.
I'll be a proud american and do my part,
because each one of those victims have a peice of my heart.
Love Always,
Ashleigh Marie Powell
Age 17