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2002-09-11

We were sitting in class, learning something totally insignificant it seems now, when one of the other instructors came into our class and told us what happened. We found a T.V. (with not so great reception), and watched in horror and amazement as the World Trade Center building collapsed to the ground. I was deeply saddened watching all those people jumping from those high stories in the building to their deaths to escape their even worse death of burning. I couldn't believe that someone could hate so much to do something so horrifyingly terrible. I cried along with a few of my other classmates, all of us wishing we were there to help. But there was nothing we could do or could have done to stop this madness. I realized at that time, more than at any other, how truly evil this world has become. Some of us went home to be with our families (myself included), thinking the world was going to end. A year later, I still find myself thinking about it. I try not to cry too much as I think about all those people that lost their lives, all those people that lost their loved ones, all those children without their mommy or daddy. It's hard to even imagine how great of a loss that those people feel. Even though I am not even near New York City, Washington D.C., or Pennsylvania, It still hit me hard because it happened to my fellow Americans. I pray to God that it won't happen again.