Remember ? I’m from France :p
Otherwise i should have said : 911 ;)

Where I was on Sept. 11, 2001 ?

Sept. 09, i was on a flight to Saigon ; my first time since … 1992.
I trod Vietnamese soil on Sept. 10.
Day off on Sept. 11 because of jetlags. Then the day after, Sept. 12, i grabbed by curiosity a vietnamese papers and saw on it the World Trade Center in fire. In that time, i couldn’t even decipher what it was said. I could guess though that some airplanes hit both towers.

Few hours later, visiting my uncle, the only one who could speak english told me : “WTC collapsed”
“hmmmm …… what do you mean by collapsed ? I know that airplanes hit the Twin Towers but do you mean that the top of each towers are destroyed ?”
“No, they really collapsed ; they disappeared ; they are gone ; no more Twin Towers !”

My journey was supposed to be a week long and i didn’t meant to get online during that week. But i asked to get a ride to the closest “internet cafe”.
“No way !! They are really gone !! Unbelievable.”

Except the fact that it was a terrible day, on 119 (or 911 :p ), one of my dream collapsed too. Let you guess which one. (here is a tip : “i have never been to NYC yet” )
(Another which will be a dream forever : Paris - NYC within 3 hours :D )


(picture taken in “the Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum“, Baltimore, MD during spring break 2004)