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2002-09-11

It was my sophomore year in high school. I was in my zero hour period class, chemistry with Mrs. Rosier. Zero hour starts at eight o'clock usually, but today there was a faculty meeting. That meant that zero hour started at 8:20. I walked about that time after hearing some rumor about planes in the halls. I hadn't paid attention though. As i walked in, I saw that Mrs. Rosier and the half of the class that had arrived were crowded around something in the back of the room. As I walked closer, I saw it was a news broadcasting on T.V. There was some live-on-the-sceen footage of the World Trade Towers and a few replays of what had happened earlier. After of about fifteen to twenty minutes of watching the news, our principal came on the intercom and told all the teachers to turn off their T.V.s and get on with class. We were all extremely upset that we couldn't watch it anymore. It seemed that all day everyoe was in a trance that wouldn't break. It was a horrible experience.