I will never forget this day. I was in school and all of a sudden the announcements came on. Now for some, this is not ordinary, but this was about 10:00 and the announcements had already been done that morning. It said that the school would be dismissing early because the World Trade Center had collapsed. Now as you know, most younger kids wouldn't really know what this meant or even care about this. But the announcements came on again about 2 minutes later and said that the Pentagon had been struck by an airplane. This is were time stood still for me. I knew that my dad had to go that morning to the Pentagon to work for his company. I had no way of knowing if he actually went. I tried calling my mom but all of the telephone lines were busy so I could do nothing but wait for the bus to drop us off at home.
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World Trade Center during construction
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