AN: Hey everyone! Congratulations to FallingNarwhals for being the first and money73 for being the second to guess my plans for this chapter! By the way: I have a surprise for you guys! All I need you to do is comment your favorite DP character in the reviews… you'll see why! Enjoy the chapter…. I guess.

Tuesday, September 11th (2001):

I don't even know where to begin. Today was crazy. Insane. I guess I should start at the beginning.

I was in school, per usual. It was about 9:30 so I was in math class, in a seat next to Tucker and two seats away from Danny (whom I now refer to as my two best friends). The teacher got an email… his eyes widened and he made quick but purposeful to the computer in the back of the class. Gesturing for us to come to the computer too, he opened up the internet and went to some news website.

We all watched and listened as a news reporter stood in front of video feed- live- of the twin towers collapsing. The reporter talked about how two planes crashed into the twin towers. As the minutes rolled by, the entire class was silent watching. After about 10 minutes of watching footage from New York, the video changed, and we were looking at a burning pentagon building.

We watched the news reports for about 30 minutes before Mr. Maher turned off the screen. We were all still looking at the screen, even in its blankness, too stunned to do anything else. The minutes of eerie silence finally ended when we heard the sound- I can't exactly describe it- of an airplane. We all rushed to the two windows and we saw it, a lone airplane in an empty sky.

All us sixth graders were confused as to what was happening, because the reporter had said that now all airplanes in the country were grounded, but Mr. Maher told us that there was one plane that could still be in the air: Air Force 1, the president's transportation.

We didn't know where the plane was going, or what it was doing over Amity Park, Illinois, but that was probably the only time in my life that I'll see Air Force 1.

Which only served to add more surrealism to what had happened. We had talked about Pearl Harbor a little in history class, and it was hard to wrap my head around why Japan would do that. But I mean, at least Japan wasn't completely a coward. They started a war, and then they fought to the very end. These attacks, also unprovoked, were just worse.

And these attacks, right now, aren't just being read from my history book. They are on the news. This is right now, not 60 years ago. This is… unbelievable.

HOW COULD ANYONE DO THIS? If you're gonna commit suicide, kill yourself. Don't take others down with you! And if you want war, declare war for pete's sake!

But if it's one thing I learned from learning about Pearl harbor, it's that the U.S. doesn't take these types of attacks lightly.

How could anyone do this?
Why would anyone do this?
All this devastation,
All this destruction
Caused by just one person…
All the lives lost
Because of one decision
All the families broken
Because of one.
Why would anyone do this?
How could anyone do this?

Sam.

AN: I know this chapter is really short, and I'm sorry. I did try to make it accurate (yes, Air Force 1 did fly over Illinois), and I hope I did well. 9/11 was a true tragedy, and I don't even know what I can say more than that. It was wrong. Just wrong. Anyways, remember to comment your favorite DP character, and I'll try to get the surprise done by next Friday!