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Dahlia Gruen, 10, Massachusetts: It was my 10th birthday and I woke up early. It was a big deal because it was the first time I was entering double digits. We had cake for breakfast. I went to school, and the principal said something had happened in New York.

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Bailie Myers was 6. She knew from one look at her teacher’s face. (Family photo)

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Kelly Sullivan, 9, Wyoming: All I could really understand was canada goose black friday sale that it was something really important that we were going to remember, so I rushed and looked outside the classroom window, as if I would see any change in the streets of a tiny town thousands of miles from the attacks.

Dara Gell, Canada Goose sale 9, Manhattan: The plane hit, and there was a huge crashing noise. Our whole school building shook, and the lamp fell off the table. The teacher made us go to our desks and do art.

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Kalhan Rosenblatt, 11, Florida: The sound system kept going off. Every few minutes, parents were coming to pick up their kids, so the whole day we heard the sound system.

At schools across the country, classes grew stranger and Canada Goose Outlet smaller canada goose outlet as announcements crackled over the public address systems, and students canada goose were dismissed one by one. In Maryland, an emergency notification interrupted 11 year old Angelina Castellano O’Leary’s choir class, and her teacher abruptly locked the doors and told the students they’d be staying canada goose coats on sale put for a while, and it was probably just a drill. In Pennsylvania, Patrick Molloy, 8, thought it was strange that his classmates all seemed to have doctor appointments on the same day why else would their parents pick them up so early?

Fernando Gonzalez saw a stampede of people covered in dust. He was 9. (Family photo)

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Dara Gell, 9, Manhattan: My mother picked me up and told me, “Don’t look at the building, don’t look at the building.” So, of course, I looked at the building. I saw a wing of the plane sticking out of the building, and the wing Canada Goose Parka was on fire.

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Alyssa Alfonso, 6, New Jersey: We went to my grandma’s house. I had never seen her in a mood other than happy to see me. But this was like a party, where the kids have to stay in one room and the adults are in the other room, and we weren’t allowed over there but we didn’t know why.

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Madeleine Tick, 9, Wisconsin: We went to piano lessons, but when my brother and I got to the teacher’s house, her whole family was huddled in the kitchen, watching the television.

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