When I heard about the Terrorist Attacks on the U.S., I was very shocked. I was in a VICA meeting at a vo-tech center I attend. One of our teachers interrupted the meeting by saying that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. He said it was believed the planes were hi-jacked and terrorists had flown them directly into the World Trade Center and the towers were on fire. I thought he was joking because we were kind of screwing around and not taking the meeting very seriously. Then he said he was serious and I think everyone was silent for a few minutes. It was a very scary thing to think about. I thought about all the people in New York and how many people lost their lives. After that shocking news we went back to class and looked up everything we could find on the internet. It was a terrible feeling to be looking at the ruins and all the hurt people. Later, we heard about the plane crashing into the Pentagon. Then later, the plane that had crashed in Pennsylvania. This one had apparently crashed because the people onboard fought and tried to take back theplane. When the towers collapsed everyone knew there were many people injured or dead. I've never seen devastation like that. I'm glad that the U.S. declared war on terrorists. We should find Osama Bin Laden and he should be tortured like many of the people and families involved in the terrorist incidents. I used to feel I was safe and our country would never be disrespected or messed with like we have been. I don't feel as safe as I used to but I still know that our country is great and we can stand up to anything. Overall it feels like a nightmare from which we still need to wake up from.

Interview-Roxanne Gabel
Relation-Mother
I asked my mom where she was and how she felt about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and this is what she wrote for me.

I was at work when I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the world trade center. First I thought it was an accident. A little later, it was announced that a second plane had hit, then the pentagon was hit, then the last crash in Pennsylvania. I was shocked and my head was racing with different thoughts if what could be happening was true. There was dead silence in the room. And when I glanced around most of them had tears of disbelief in their eyes as did I. All I really wanted to do was to get my kids together so we could go home and all be together. From that moment on, I needed to know everything about the attack that I could find out. The first thing I did when I got home from work was turn on the cable news channel to try to get a better understanding of what was happening. And it's the first thing I did when I got up in the morning. For the next two months all I did was watch MSNBC to understand more about this whole tragedy. I really never thought this could happen to the U.S. and I don't feel as safe as I use to. It seems like a nightmare.