I remember being in either third year university at the U of C. I woke up and my mum was talking about a plane hitting one of the towers. I thought it was weird and she was just plain crazy. We were both glued to CNN when the second plane hit it. I remember being in complete shock and awe.
A little bit of panic came over my mum and I, as my dad was flying back from Saudi that day. He ended up having to stay in London for a couple of days as his connecting flight was canceled.
I remember going to the U of C for my late class and seeing a friend at the couches by the statue of democracy in MacHall and the only thing I remember saying was "some one just really pissed off the Americans". Some ten years later I regret what I said. I think at that time I thought was a pretty up on international politics and now I kinda regret saying that.
As a 21 year old, I had no clue how much the world would change and how much this generation would be effected by it.
It's ten years later and I now live a couple blocks away from the Pentagon, in Arlington. We bike past the Memorial it once a week on our way in to DC and it's unreal. We often spend nights watching planes land at Reagan international over DC from the rooftop and you can't but help thinking of that morning and what it was like to be here on that day.
I know that it seams ridiculous, but last week when the ground started rumbling during the earthquake, my initial reaction wasn't that there was an earthquake. My first reaction was to check that there wasn't another attack. It's hard to explain, but it's probably a telltale sign of the overall impact of those events.
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