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story9404.xml

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2003-08-05

It was about 9:45p.m here and i was just getting a late snack. I was walking back to my room when i saw what my dad was watching on the TV. On CNN i saw a tower with a s***load of smoke coming out of it. i thought maybe a room high-up may have had a fire or something, but then it replayed footage of a plane flying through and explained what had happened. I watched this for a while before i (like everyone else) saw a second plane hit the other tower. The next day it was all the talk of my school (as i'm sure it was the talk in every school and workplace all over the world) and i watched the news channels for days after.

As if the terrorist situation wasn't bad enough anyway, on October 12, 2002, Bali in Indonesia was struck by bombers and i actually had distant ties with one of the victims.