Do you remember what you were doing on 9/11/2001?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Unremarkable School day. Then I remember popping into the shop after school just past 4PM and hearing men on the radio talk to some US Military advisor. They were talking about attacking some nation, air strikes and things of that nature. I figured pretty soon something was up - though what I had no idea.

Bizarrely, and I'm not making this up, pretty much that very moment I thought "Osama Bin Laden" (I remembered a month or so a news broadcast on... oh, the shame of it, SKY of video footage showing al-qaeda training camps after an announcement for OBL that new attacks were planned. No-one cared, it was the last news item on that broadcast, probably behind a story of fish that could play the trumpet and some piece on modelling in which models just stand around for a minute while the journalist responsible desperately tries to find something to report on).

Then I went home and watched the TV for hours (pretty much the whole of that week) like everyone else.