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[quote=Anonymous]I was a senior in high school. I actually had a doctor's appt that morning and remember the news changing live on air in the waiting room. I recall the doctor and staff not initially thinking it was a big deal " Just a random idiot"

By the time I got to school a little over an hour later  the vibe was very differen.t We were getting reports of planes being crashed everywhere. At the time the reports were of 5 planes and one headed towards Boston where  I lived at the time.   I remember how scared I felt, and as a senior I pretty much felt invincible at the time, but not that day. Some classes had the TV on watching the news unfold.  We talked of nothing else. In the days in weeks that followed  I remember our conversations shifted from college plan to wondering if we would be drafted. Several of my classmates enlisted. My cart class made a memorial tribute to those that lost their lives.

Also, as a brown American with a non-Anglo-sounding name   I endured a lot of racist comments by people who assumed I was  Muslim.

I recall how trendy it became to be patriotic, kids who never stood for the pledge in the morning suddenly did.

I remember childishly being upset that my favorite TV shows  were postponed, I wanted to escape and  feel things were normal.

I also had a strange connection in that one of the flights that was hijacked I was on just the year before and that really struck me, how people were just doing a normal thing, like I had been.

It was a very strange and sad time.

In some ways it seems just like yesterday, hard to believe it's been 20 years.[/quote]

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