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Osuniga, Al li son
                          Otto, Brock








                                                    The world  wa~ ~hocked on  9. 11 .0 1  .
                          Packer, Scott
                          Paige, David                    s students woke  up  on  Sept.  1 1,  they ex-
                                                A

                                                          pected  a normal day, with tests and  lec-

                                                          tures. But as first hour ended,  the news

                          Paik, Jai me          was already around the school. The  World Trade
                          Papp, Jessica
                                                Center and  Pentagon had  been

                                                bombed  and  attacked by terrorism.

                                                       "[didn't hear about it until
                                                second hour.  [ was really confused,
                          Parys,  Kyl e
                          Pascale, Nicholas     and  it took me a while  to f1gure  out

                                                what happened . [ will  remember it
                                                forever," JUnior  Rebekah Phillips said.

                                                        As the unusual  day continued,

                          Pauli son, Stephanie   updates  were  made  many  times
                          Pedersen, Caroli ne
                                                throughout the day. The  first an-

                                                nouncement was to inform teachers

                                                that students could  not watch lV.

                                                       "The  only time [ saw any fear
                          Peel, Angela
                          Penner, Michelle      in  the student body was when  their

                                                source of information was temporarily cut off," soc1al

                                                studies teacher Jeff Salberg said.
                                                                                                         (1 enior  Jennt£er
                                                        After 1V  was turned off, rumors started to
                                                                                                         D  Paskach.  £rom
                          Peratt, Daniel        circulate. Administrators wanted students to be           Amnesty  International.
                          Perret, Nicole
                                                                                                          watts £or  students to
                                                informed and  decided 1V  was okay.
                                                                                                          donate  to  the American
                                                        As the school day ended,  many practices and      Fund  £or  Afghan
                                                                                                          Children . President  Bush
                                                games were canceled,  along  With  airline flights and  all
                                                                                                          addressed  the nahon,
                                                Major League  Baseball games.  This  was fine because     asking that Americans
                          Petersen, Jeffrey
                          Peterson, Jacquel yn                                                            go  about  their daily
                                                many students wanted to go  home to watch news
                                                                                                          rouhne, that each child
                                                channels  and  talk with their families.                  donate  one  dollar to  help
                                                                                                          Afghan  children .  photo
                                                        While  th1s  tragedy took Innocent lives,  it  helped
                                                                                                          by  Rach el Fischer
                                                bond  our nat1on  together.                                         Iosf
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