John Kerry, Captain America. The man who wouldn't have just sat reading to children after the Twin Towers were attacked. What did a man as smart and as brave - as heroic - as John "I'm reporting for duty" Kerry, do on 9/11?

KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.

By the way that's about 40 minutes of doing nothing.

- Larry King interview with John and Teresa Heinz-Kerry - July 8, 2004