Remembering 9/11

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10th grade.. English Lit class.. Mrs Leatherwood, the old hag.. another teacher ran in and told us about it. Our teacher told us that it was not class-related and we would not be watching the coverage. Conversely, shortly thereafter we had to list the 5 things most important to us. Many people listed religious things and she said that she saw us in the hallways and there was no way that any of us really held that most closely. She said that there was NO excuse to not have your country as number 1. I was quick to remind her of the incident with the WTC.

Anyways, back to the actual day. I ended up walking out of the class and a few others followed me. We went and sat in on our next class.. right as we were walking in, the first tower fell. We sat there in disbelief watching the smoldering of the other tower. Somehow I knew that the 2nd was going down right when it did. I said, "It's about to collapse" and as the s sound came out, tower 2 fell. It is horrible what happened but we're somewhat fortunate that the death toll was "only" in the 3000s.