Where were you on this September day?

Like many people today, I'm thinking about September 11th.  I ask, what's your story about that day?  Here's mine.  And though this day will forever be heartbreaking, my story can hopefully make people smile a little.

I was in the 10th grade.  Coming to school in the morning, my friend, a freshman, comes up to me, completely worried.  "Angie, is it beat up the freshman day?" 

"What?" I asked.  "What are you talking about?"

"My brother told me it was beat up the freshman day.  Is it?"  She's fairly freaked out by now.

"No! There's no such thing.  You're brother is just giving you a hard time."  She was VERY relieved.  

After gym class (around 9AM when The Towers where stuck) I went to homeroom.  While walking through the cafeteria, another freshman yells, "We're all going to die!"

Seriously? I thought.  This rumor is getting a little nuts.  And I didn't think about it again until the next period, geometry.  

"I have no idea what's going on," my friend Liza said, "but we all might get to go home."

WHAT!? By now I was totally confused on why no teachers were stopping this rumor.  We're really going home because of some stupid rumor that some upperclassmen started?

It was 5th period bio where I finally realized what happened.  It unfortunately it was not "Beat up the Freshman Day."  That would have been a little easier to swallow.

That's my story.  And here are some others that we may not think about right away