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2002-06-07

On September 11th, 2001, I was at Barker Central School. Barker is out by Lake Ontario. I was in my sekent period study hall when my teacher got a phone call. He was in shock and didn't say anything at all. He just hung up the phone and turned on the television. The World Trade Center was smoldering with a lot of smoke. Then as we turned up the volume we had heard that a plane had been hijacked and had crashed into the north tower at 8:48 a.m. We had to go to our next class and my next class was Global Studies. When we got there we had heard that a second plane crashed into the south tower eighteen minutes later. Then a third plane was seen over the Pentagon and crashed down into the western part of the Pentagon. A fourth plane was forced down by the passengers in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In all 266 people perished in the four planes and several others died elsewhere. When I got home my mother had heard something on this radio station and thought that they were just kidding around. Then my aunt called my mother and asked her if she had heard anything about the crashes. There were people jumping from buildings. People were fleeing from the scene like the world was coming to an end.
Some Americans feel they are in a war with an enemy they do not even know. Today there is a lot more security in the airports which is a good thing. When Osama Bin Laden does another stunt like this one we will be ready for him. I am glad that we got more safety in airports today. In the country of Afghanistan there are U.S. troops over there trying to kill off all of the terrorism in that country. If Osama Bin Laden is not afraid to die like he said on his video tape that was on national television then he should come out of hiding and fight like a man. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat, but they have failed. I thought I would never see someone or some country use airplanes as a missile to fly into a building and kill themselves and a lot of people. The estimated number of American's death from the terrorism that struck the World Trade Center, Pentagon and the people on the airplanes was about 3,200. I have thanks to all of the FDNY firemen and the NYPD police who helped out in this tragedy. This is a day I will never forget and no one should.