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13 years ago today, at around this time of the evening, I was sitting in front of my laptop, alone in my room in the Seaside Hotel in Sihanoukville, working, CNN on in the background. Probably sat there working for 20-30 minutes before I realized what was playing out on the TV. After an hour or so I felt like I needed a drink and some company, so I went down to the Moonshine, next to the Angkor Arms. Much of the Sihanoukville crowd was there, all watching the TV, one Aussie muttering how they deserved it. I got a beer and took my place in front of the TV. There was talk, but surprisingly little, given. People just watched. If I remember correctly, I ended the evening sitting with Lai, smoking and talking, debating once again the color of limes vs lemons, until I fell asleep in the chair, not waking till the next day. Something I had never done before.

I got an early morning call in Oz from a friend at Microsoft, telling me to turn on the television. I asked, "What channel?" She said, "Doesn't matter, any channel." She wasn't wrong.

Yep, on this day 13 years ago, Mossad and the CIA pulled off the scam of the century.

Amazing some people still believe it was a real terrorist attack.

I was driving home after a meeting in Amsterdam. In the car I heard that an airplane flew into one of the Towers.
When I got home I turned on the tv and I saw how a tower collapsed and after that a second one. Images I will never forget!

There have only been two times in the history of aviation that an aircraft has crashed on land without leaving any debris.

Coincidentally, they both happened on this day 13 years ago.

Username Taken wrote:There have only been two times in the history of aviation that an aircraft has crashed on land without leaving any debris. Coincidentally, they both happened on this day 13 years ago.

Hologram-shrouded missiles, right?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=9/11_con ... nes_theory)

I was in my office in the compound in Lagos and called our admin rep in England on a business matter and she asked whether we'd seen the news, which we hadn't. So a couple of us strolled across to the staff house and switched on the box to see it. I'm almost embarrassed to say I hadn't heard of the twin towers prior to that.

Subsequent implications excluded I found the tsunami had a bigger horror impact on me as a news event, I was sat outside our usual guesthouse on Monivong having a beer with mates after golf when we heard about that.

I was in Phnom Penh but I didn't have a TV at the time. I listened to the whole thing on the BBC World Service.

If I'm honest, at first I thought it was an Oscar Wilde War of the Worlds type radio show and it wasn't until my expat next door neighbour came home from the pub that I realised it was actually real.

I couldn't sleep that night so got up and switched on the television.. just as the 2nd plane hit. Thinking I had turned on a movie, I said to myself...'Bruce Willis, eat your heart out'..

I rang my father, also asleep, to tell him...knowing he would not want to have missed that, and as it unfolded we exchanged thoughts on who, why, and what now???

The 'mother of all terrorist attacks'.

[email protected] Pentagon and Pennsylvania sites are damning.

I was on break in my High-School hallway. I believe I was in Grade 10 that year. The teachers all half ran into the class rooms and told everyone that we need to come to the TV room and watch ( only the high school kids). We all watched the jet hit the 2nd tower.

It is whatever to me now. I feel far removed from America and I like it that way. I didn't even realize yesterday was Sept. 11th until General M reminded me via a Facebook post.