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2002-08-23

Our school principal came to tell each teacher personally about what had happened. She asked us not to tell the students, and since I teach young ones, I didn't. Several, however, could tell that we were upset about something. At lunch, several of us gathered and had prayer. I volunteered to keep the students in my class to watch a movie because I really couldn't handle watching details of it at school--I didn't want to break down in tears in front of the students. When I did finally arrive home after picking up my 5 month old son, I burst into tears and cried off and on all evening while watching news coverage. It was overall one of the hardest days to endure of my life. I wanted to run home and be with my family and never leave the house, as many of us did. We teachers really didn't attempt to teach anything else that day because WE couldn't handle it.