The day had started as usual, but staff and teachers started going in and out of classrooms whispering to each other. There was an anouncement by the principle over the PA saying that teachers were not to turn on the TVs under any circumstance. Our teacher looked up at the PA speaker, looked at us, and said, "If they want the TVs off this bad, it's history in the making, and this is something you need to see." He then turned on the news, and that was what we did for the rest of the class. I saw the second plane hit live, and watched the towers collapse live. Never forget.
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I was in physics class playing with a toy dart gun for a force project we were doing. I looked up as my teacher turned on the TV and I saw the first tower burning while I reporter was on scene about a mile away. They were talking about if they were unsure whether this was an accident or an attack, and literally as the words were coming out of his mouth you could see the second plane plow into the towers. He stopped mid sentence, presumably because his cameraman was gesturing wildly, and when he saw the fireball he simply said "Oh my god."
That was a surreal moment for me. My English teacher was crying the next day. My American History teacher told me that same day that whoever did this was going to get the crap bombed out of them. He was right.