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2002-05-24

It was just another day with the same routine ahead of me, at least, so I thought. After first period I went to my locker and got my books to go to Global Studies with Mrs. Capen. All that week and the week before we had been learning about the Taliban government that was ruling Afghanistan. It was about 8:50a.m and another teacher came into our classroom and told Mrs. Capen to turn the T.V monitor in our room on to the CNN news channel because there was something big happening. At first it didn?t seem real as we sat there watching worldwide news broadcast showing an attack on our country, it just couldn?t be happening to our country. I just tried to keep telling my self that it was only an accident but the more and more I watched the more I knew that it wasn?t. Sitting there, staring in complete silence, the only noise was coming from the T.V with the news broadcasters telling the country of the tragic event that we know all know as September 11th. A strange, horrible feeling of horror filled the classroom 208. Everyone sat there in shock as we saw the second plane hit the second tower. I got a dizzy feeling; my heart was pounding out of fear and rage for my country. There was a hard feeling in my chest making it hard to breathe. For the rest of the day, I was terrified. My older sister Kristen is in the Army and all I could think was that she was going to war. Not only that but she had been sent to New York City to work with people in the World Trade towers a week before and I was terrified that she was in there when they were attacked. Later I went to the office and used the phone to call my mom to see how my sister was and they had finally gotten a hold of her but it was hard because of all the satellite air traffic from the use of all the cellular phones. By 7th period I was so outraged that I couldn?t handle going to my earth science class with Mr. Goldpenny so I sat at my locker to calm down as I cried from fear and anger for my countries freedom and the lives of the people. I was scared, I was mad and I felt so sorry for everyone in those towers, the planes and the families that lost a loved one in the attack. As I was sitting at my locker Troy Langendorfer who is one of my best friends came down and sat with me. He put his arm around me and gave me a hug to try and calm me down, luckily it worked. This attack brought people closer together than before, people gathered together to cope with their losses, to help clean up, and just over all uniting as a people. People began respecting their country and their neighbors, and realizing just how good we have it in our country. Our ally and neighboring country Canada even began to hang the United States flag out to show support for our country. This is definitely something that will never be forgotten, much like the attack on Pearl Harbor.