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This year's graduating class entered high school at the tail end of the last century. To us, it probably seems like a century ago. A teenager's world always changes during high school, and that's always hard enough. But the whole world changed while we were in high school. Besides the usual teen trauma and turmoil, we also lived through the stress and uncertainty of major historic happenings, such as the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan and the more recent liberation of Iraq. We definitely had some distractions. But we made it, and this month we will get our diplomas. It was a lot o