I was in my apartment, in Japan, flipping through channels. It was 11 pm and nothing was on so I decided to check CNN before heading to bed. Saw the first tower on fire. Thought is was some idiot in a Cessna smacking the building while showing off to his friends.
Watched the second plane smack the second tower and the guest then announcing that, "We are under attack". Ripped the phone from my wife's grasp and called my friend to turn on CNN. They then announced that their were 2 other planes in the air. I stayed up until all 4 planes had been downed.
Woke up the next day and went to work. Before I could look on the internet a teacher had told me that both building came down. Spent the whole day on the internet worrying whether my family members were ok or not.
Fortunately the next day I found out that they were all ok. It was also that last day I had any affiliation with the Liberal party of Canada.
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