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story8102.xml

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2002-09-24

I was working as a teacher that afternoon. I just had a break when one of the pupils came to class and told me that an aeroplane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I asked him if he was kidding because I couldn`t believe it. He said: "No, really, I`ve seen it on TV!" Then I asked him which channel he had been watching because I thought that he might perhaps have watched a programme which makes really bad jokes or doesn`t take things too seriously. He told me that he saw it on N-24 which is a 24 hours news programme so that I had to believe him. At that moment, I wasn`t really too confused. I went on with my lessons and wondered which mad people might have done such a cruel thing.
However, when I was at home I saw the pictures of the attack on TV and I was speechless. I couldn`t believe my eyes. I felt anger and disbelief in the human race. How could anybody in the world be so brutal? I saw all those people running around in fear and horror. I heard the number of all those innocent people who died because of this evil and cowardly attack. The following morning, I had to write an exam but I realized that the exam wasn`t important anymore. This event showed me that there were worse situations than an exam.