Where were you when the attacks occured? Tell your story!
I was just arriving at my 3rd Period class, Marketing. When I went in the classroom, the teacher, Mr. Sarcone, had the classroom television tuned to CBS. He said he was not going to teach that day, that we were to watch the TV instead. I saw smoke pouring from tower A, and thought at first that it was just on fire. But then Mr. Sarcone told us that the tower had been hit by an aircraft. It still hadn't occured to me that it was a terrorist attack. We watched and listened until the bell rang, and we went to our next classes. I was heading just a couple of doors down to World History. Before I even got to the classroom I heard someone shout that another airplane had hit the other tower. At that the hallways burst into panic. People were asking if a plane was going to hit something in our area, and was school going to get out early? Teachers tried to teach their 4th period classes, but by now it was getting very difficult. No one's attention was on learning, but rather on what was going on around us. After 4th period was lunch. In the cafeteria someone announced that a THIRD plane had struck the Pentagon. More panic. At this point the intercom was coming on every 5 seconds to announce the name of someone who needed to come to the office to be picked up by their parents. By the time lunch ended and 5th period began almost a hundred students were already gone, and more were leaving each minute. Then, about 15 minutes into the period the fire alarm went off. Panic? no. Sheer chaos. People were running down the hallways to get out of the building, while at the same time the AP was on the intercom shouting for everyone to get back in their classroom. About 15 minutes later after the chaos subsided some, the AP came back on the intercom and announced that school was closing as soon as the buses arrived. In about 15 minutes we were on our way home to watch with our families these terrible acts.
