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2004-08-06

I was in the seventh grade when the events of September 11th occured.I was in my homeroom class expecting it to be a normal day. We were about half way through our morning devotion when our principal came over then loud speaker asking us to come to the gym for an assembly. I had absolutely no idea what we were having an assembly for, but like many of my class mates I was all for it, I mean we could be missing class. As we got situated on the bleacher seats in the gym our principal began to speak in a very soft voice and then we began to pray. What? What did he say? Most of the kids had not heard a word he had said neither did I, until I passed a tenth grader at the time telling one of the teachers that two planes had crashed into the trade center towers. I had not found out about the other two until i got home and saw the horrific footage on CNN. By this time we were admitted to our first period class which was Algebra 1/2. I remember that class period being particularly quiet. After class I remember joking around that the world was coming to an end and after being told off by a teacher I realized the seriousness of the situation. In my second period English class I remember asking to go to the bathroom and I had the first real cry since the death of my grandfather.