KhanadaRhodes said:ha, september 11th. i was home that day too because i didn't have college on tuesdays and thursdays. my dad was still home as he hadn't gone into work yet. i woke up, went into the living room, and he had on cnn (yeah, we're big cnn people if you can't tell already, we were even before all this crap) and he said "the world trade center collapsed." at this point i'd been awake for maybe thirty seconds, so i couldn't register it, so i mumbled something and went to go brush my teeth.
I very clearly remember 12 September. The attacks occurred very late on 11 September our time, after I'd gone to bed. At about 6:30am, I get this call from my friend Sam telling me to turn on the TV.
After I'd found out what had happened, I remember very clearly Sam asking me who I thought did it. My response was that it could be Hamas, Hezbollah, or one of those Palestinian terrorist groups, but "I don't really think so. You know who I think did it? Al-Qaeda."
All that day at school, when people asked me who I thought did it (I was even in grade nine known as a nerd for politics and world events), I would mention al-Qaeda and bin Laden. I must've been the only person in the school who knew about them, and that's including the teachers. I have a distinct memory of having to explain al-Qaeda and bin Laden to my homeroom teacher.