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September 11, 2001, started off like any other day. I drove to school in my usual morning stupor, and went to my first hour, Bible as Literature with Dr. Lynn Moyers. We were working on a project in the library that day. September 11, brought nothing out of the ordinary, until I reached my second hour, Comparative Religion with Mr. Fritz, there a student by the name of Linda told the class that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center’s Towers. At that time my class and I did not think much of the situation. Mr. Fritz, a social studies teacher, on the other hand did. Mr. Fritz explained the forty year history of the World Trade Center. I don’t remember all that he said, but I do remember how alarmed I was when he reminded me of the 1993 bombing. Quickly Mr. Fritz asked a student to get a television. At the time we turned the television on it revealed smoke ascending from the north tower. CNN displayed other camera angles, we began to see exactly how much damage occurred in this “accident.” I say “accident” because at the time that is all the
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September 11, 2001 affected our country greatly. Here we are a year later; still experiencing the repercussions of this event. Because of the intense fire that each plane had caused the building might not be able to hold its own wait. I stayed glued to the television, as did the rest of my class. I sat in my seat with a horrible sense of discomfort, I could not believe what my eyes saw.
During the day news stations had made assumptions of who and what might have been the cause of these attacks, but there were no real specifics until the evening I suppose our government had to regroup and review. I began to think if one tower fell what would keep the other from falling. The next topic CNN discussed was the chance that the towers might
collapse. I believe this crash occurred towards the end of my third hour. While all of this was occurring in New York City CNN began broadcasting news about other planes crashing across our nation. The class and I continued to watch intensely, when out of the corner of the screen a Delta Airliner came into view. These tragic events have eternally changed our way of living.
What I remember seeing is smoke from the crash of an American Airlines plane almost completely dissolved into the tower.
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