English Essay

I spent the night before contemplating how I was going to get out of school on Thursday . There was a social studies test I didn 't study for and I just could not bare another day of dodge ball . On the morning of September 11 , 2001 I woke up sick . I pleaded with my mother , and took a fake trip to the bathroom because I was going to vomit Finally , I was allowed to stay home . At 6 :00 am , I was ed to go back to sleep and I did . I looked forward

to my day alone as I lingered between sleeping and waking pondering how I was going to fill my day with - snacks , computer games , and loud music . September 11 , 2001 began as a childhood scheme and it ended with me growing up

I dozed much of the morning and awoke to the sound of my brother 's radio alarm going off . It was Thursday and he shouldn 't be home . I pouted as I slowly got out of bed to see if I was truly alone . I walked down the hall and stopped briefly at the bathroom and then into my brother 's room . He was gone , and the alarm had been set wrong . The people on the radio droned on and on . I wandered around the room hoping to find a magazine that I let brat borrow weeks ago . As I was on my knees peaking under the bed the words on the radio became clear . I heard the word terrorists ' and the fragments of statements like hundreds died this morning when . Then , I could only hear my heart beat in my ears . I got to my feet and for the first time since being a child , I felt real panic . The sort of panic you feel when you are four and you have wandered away from your parents . Once I caught my breath I made my way to the family room , frantically searching for the remote . I turned on the television to MSNBC and the first image I saw was a man jumping from a broken window of one of the twin towers . I was baffled and this would be the image that would haunt my dreams , my waking memories , and what it meant to be an American

I heard the details over and over again . The errorists had hijacked three planes and deliberately crashed them into the Pentagon and the Twin Towers . The video clips played again and again on the news . The smoke filled horizons around the crumbling buildings . was flying everywhere and the sound of heart broken people wailing in the background filled the screen . I stared and there were moments where I thought it might be a movie and all I had to do was change the channel The phone must of rang a dozen times before I answered it It was my mother on the other end , asking me again and again if I was ok . She told...