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Alana Mastrangelo
@ARmastrangelo
Journalist at @BreitbartNews. Alumna of John Carroll University. Daughter of immigrants. Descendant of gladiators. 🇺🇸🇮🇹
Sep 11, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
20 years ago today, I was sitting in my 8th grade social studies class when we were told to go to the library to watch the news.

At first, I thought it was part of an assignment, because we were working on a "current events" lesson moments before class was interrupted...

1/ So I grabbed my notebook before leaving the classroom.

In the library, we turned on one of those old cathode-ray tube TVs, which was sitting on a rolling TV stand, and that's when I saw smoke coming from one of the World Trade Center buildings.

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