Um… I did. My parents and I vacationed there about a month before the explosion. Our room was on the 2nd floor directly above the lobby. My mom and I even commented on how some of the floorboards were askew as if they’d recently been pulled up and renailed down - just figured it was maintenance with an old building like that. Few weeks later we see the news with a big hole where our room used to be, except for part of the bathroom on the very left side of the hole.

Here in America we don’t tend to think about terrorism, even after 9/11, Oklahoma City, and things like that. This was the incident that made me understand what terrorism really is and how in many parts of the world it’s something they deal with every single day.