Remember where you where that very day?

[Mercedes Benzene]

After that my wife and I went straight home and watched CNN for hours and hours. It was absolutely, insanely impossible that this was actually happening. I'll never forget that day.

 

Isn't it crazy how much it affected people outside of the US? What were the biggest implications for you Tormod?

[pinar]

It was the first week of my high school, so some of the lessons were empty and I came home a bit earlier.

 

I used to watch news as soon as I come home back then. When I opened NTV, there was a skyscaper on fire ( I didn't know much about two towers back then they were just ordinary skyscrapers for me). On the first look I couldn't grasp what was happening, in my country because of "PKK", we all somehow get used to see bombings ,sabotages vs . But in the case of US I had no idea who had done that . In first moments I also couldn't understand the severeness of civilian losts, as I continued to watch I cried, it's very hard to watch so much people suffering and being unable to help.

 

Up to that day "terror" was nearly equal to "PKK" on my mind, and then I heard all about al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and all others.

 

My father told me a lot of things would change from now on, to think back I see what he means. Lots changed in our lives since 9-11.