I was at work on 9/11 in B'ham Alabama. It took us a little while to actually get how big the event has been, since we just heard a plane flew into a building.

The most dramatic event in my life that I actually was there to see was the attack on the Campus of University of Tehran in July of 1999. I'd just finished my final exams and it was on weekend that we heard they've attacked the boy's dorms that were about 300 yards away from girl's because they had been marching for a few nights in a row. We went to see what's happened there. There was cracked window glasses, doors, blood, papers, etc everywhere, someone had posted a bloody shirt on billboards...