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Oregon High School Students Show Grief Over 9-11

Aired January 25, 2002 - 06:54   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: People across the country still feel a need to express their grief at the tremendous loss of life in the September 11 attacks.

Reporter Brooke Carlson of our Portland, Oregon affiliate KPDX reports on one high school's creative expressions.

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KRISTINA NUNEZ, CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: I don't really know. I'm just like what I could do to show how I felt and how it impacted me because I really didn't know what to do and then making this just kind of shows it.

BROOKE CARLSON, KPDX-TV REPORTER (voice-over): Symbols of patriotism, words of praise to our nation's firefighters, a sea of red, white and blue encompass this Portland high school library.

NUNEZ: You know when people see it, I wanted them to realize that something, you know, tragic happened and they would actually see everyone who died and really see the names that actually makes them think about it.

CARLSON: Butterflies carrying the names of each victim, 3,000 in all, hover over the school library. Jordan Keller (ph) wanted to show how precious life is.

NUNEZ: You hear the number, that 3,000 people died, but you don't actually see them. And just like looking at them and actually reading each person's name and there are blocks of names that have the same last name and you know, you just assume they're families and there are like five or six people there, it's just -- it's really sad to -- it just hits you like bricks that this happened.

CARLSON: Some students expressed how September 11 changed lives. This project shows a Muslim woman's life before the rule of the Taliban to now. Some compiled scrapbooks of a nation working together and the way American's outlook on life has changed.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And through the whole thing, I tried to stay positive and just think of good things and what good things can happen in the future and will happen so.

NUNEZ: Out of this tragedy something good may come of it. I mean that people may realize, like I said, that life is so precious and that you shouldn't just throw it away with something. And people should try to be kind to each other and help each other and not -- and just live for the moment almost because you never know.

CARLSON: At this moment, it's a history final that will be a reminder for the future.

Brooke Carlson, Fox 49 News.

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COSTELLO: Good for them.

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