Remembering 9/11... 10 years later

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I was in 9th grade, sitting in my earth, space, physics class a girl ran in and said a plane had just crashed into the twin towers. I don't think anyone really believed her. I think a bunch of us just sat around staring at each other like... What? Yeah right. Not too long after an assembly was called and confirmed that a plane had indeed crashed into the towers and that school would be released early so people could be with their families and to check on other family members.

It feels almost surreal and like it was forever ago but I remember the panic and terror on the faces of faculty and kids from age 12-18. Some of us (who hadn't been picked up yet) sat around a TV and watched as people run in fear, jumped from buildings, crying and mourning in the streets...

We were all young but we all knew the painful seriousness of the situation at hand.