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2002-08-05

I remember September 11th very clearly. It started out like any normal school day(I am in high school). I went to my first class, and about 1/2 hour into my second period class, science, in the middle of a lab, the science teacher next door came in and told our class the news. I could feel my eyes filling up with tears right then. New York City had been attacked. A thousand things went through my minds, and it may seem weird but I guess you can say I was having flashbacks of New York City...Central Park, Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, flaggin down taxi's late in the middle of January after getting out of a Knicks game. Jeez, I didn't know what to think. Then it hit me. My family was so close to the city, that at any given time someone in my family could have been in the city. I'm from Greenwich, CT so New York's our backyard and especially growing up a big-time Yankees fan we were in the city A LOT. Now i was standing in science class, not wanting to believe anything, and i had the people in my class, plus my teachers it would all be alright, besides, it was't Boston.(i live in Cape Cod Mass now). I wanted to scream at them, BOSTON?!? I knew it and they knew it that i didnt grow up on Boston, how dare they tell me everything was going to be okay. Their family was all within 20 miles of our school working in Cape Cod. As the day went on, in between every class i pulled my cell phone out to call my mom, see what her reaction was.....and then i remembered OH MY GOD my mother was supposed to be flying out of Boston on the 11th, but she ended up cancelling a few days before. My heart practically stopped. That day they let us out of school early. I tried calling all of my family and friends in CT, but everyone's cell phones were not in order. I will never ever as long as i live forget the 11th of September in 2001. For once, i was thrilled not to be so close to NYC.