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memorizes useless things like the alphabet backwards or the digits of pi or various squares of numbers.
needs milo every morning to be able to function properly.
trips up the stairs...multiple times...consecutively.
owns a bedroom that stays clean for a maximum of 4 days tops perhaps.
enjoys popping straws with her friends at restaurants.
lives on the internet.
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eight years have gone by.

september 11, 2001.
alpharetta, georgia.
i was in the 5th grade in ms. hale's class. we were going about with our usually 5th grade matters when a voice came through the classroom intercom. now at manning oaks elementary school, this only meant one thing: someone was going to get checked out early by their parents. usually this was because a student had a doctor's appointment or a dentist appointment. so every time that the intercom came on, every student in the class quietly hoped for their name to be called to get out of school early. this time, "vina jacob" was what the lady from all the way in the front desk spoke through that microphone. ms. hale excused me from the class and i walked out the door. i had no idea why i was getting checked out early, but hey! i was glad.

as i walked out of the 5th grade hallway, i met my close friend (and next door neighbor) robby walking out of the 4th grade hallway. odd, but okay. we walked down the main hallway and asked each other the same question, "why are we getting checked out?". as we got to where the 3rd and 2nd grade hallways met, we saw rafael (robby's brother) walk out of the 3rd grade hallway. once again, odd. all three of us leaving school early at the same time? and we don't even know why.

finally we get to the front desk, where we met my mom in her full banking attire. it's not like her to leave work early. we walk through the front doors of manning oaks as the mother of one of my classmate's walks in with tears in her eyes and baby in arms.

what is going on?!

we get to robby and rafael's house and all of our questions are answered. there, on the television, footage of an airplane crashing into some really tall building. i later learned that it was the world trade center. it was all over the news. talk of terrorist attacks, plane hijacking, new yorkers, the pentagon, the twin towers. it was all just so devastating. i didn't know what to think at the time. i don't even think that i could fully comprehend the situation then. everything that was happening was just so much bigger than what i could grasp. i knew that it wasn't something good though. that much i knew.

- september 11, 2001 in the eyes of a manning oaks 5th grader

when i look back at how our country was affected by that fateful attack, i remember this inescapable aura of sadness. however, breaking through it was the increasing strength, patriotism, and unity of the american citizens.






what a coincidence, ang unread messages ko kanina sa yahoomail ko kay 911.

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