I happened to have been sent to the nurse's office with a fever while my class and most of the school watched on t.v. I was laying there in the quiet darkness when I heard the office ladies start gasping and talking in upset voices. One of them said loudly, "this is a national emergency!"

I just lay there thinking we were about to experience nuclear war. It was the saddest feeling. I was sad I wouldn't get to say goodbye to my mom or see my dog again. Someone finally came in to get me and I learned what had really happened. I remember we all cried. It was not what my scared child mind had thought was happening, but it was very very sad.