I didn't make it past the first 20 minutes. However, to suggest that the west had no involvement in the planning/funding/execution of the 9/11 attacks is just retarded.`
I still remember where I was and what I did on 9/11. I was in a friend's basement playing on his bass guitar while he was eating dinner. When he returned he said that war had broke out in New York and that it was full of planes. Partly correct, but something of an overstatement.
It was like the second or third day of 7th grade for me. We were called into the gym for an assembly where the principal told us that some planes crashed into the Twin Towers. All the classrooms had TVs so we got the rest of the story soon thereafter. It was weird. And for most people my age, it was the first time I ever heard of Islam. The kids of Arab or pseudo-Arab heritage in my school had quite a hard time that year.
I had just woken up, hungover. I brewed some coffee and smoked a bowl, and then I turned on the TV. I seriously thought I was watching an action movie for about the first 10 minutes, especially when I saw plane #2 hit the WTC.
3rd grade, woke up and my mom was in the kitchen watching the little tv and I was like what's happening? and she said there was a big fire in new york. I remember seeing the burning buildings on the little black and white telly...then vaguely learning details during school and I was excited our homework was to watch tv and do a little report on it.