Where were you on 9/11/01?

Sort of like the day of the JFK assassination, almost everyone alive on 9/11/01 can remember where they were when they first heard about the planes hitting the World Trade Center.

I was working in Almaty, Kazakhstan and with the 12 hour time difference between New York and Almaty, I was already back in my apartment after work on that Tuesday evening.

I had turned on Fox News (satellite dish) to see what stock futures were doing prior to the stock market opening that morning in NY.

They broke into their regular programming to report "a small plane had hit the north tower of the WTC."

My first thought was "how in the hell could a pilot not see the WTC in front of him and just flew into it?!?"

Then they switched to a live camera showing the hole in the tower with smoke billowing out of it. I saw that and thought, "That AIN'T a small plane. That had to be an airliner hitting the tower."

A few minutes later while the camera was still on the tower you could see the second airliner hitting the south tower with flames shooting out from the south tower.

The FOX talking heads (Dumb and Dumber) reaction was, "The heat from the burning in the north tower just ignited a fire in the south tower!"

I screamed at the TV, "You idiots. Another plane just flew into the south tower!!"

Within minutes they corrected themselves and said another plane hit the other tower. That's when I knew it was a deliberate attack on the WTC and on the United States.

About an hour later the U.S. embassy representative called me and said don't go to work the next day. All U.S. citizens were advised to stay in our residences until it could be determined if U.S. interests around the globe were subject to further attacks.