9/11 where were you?

[Wretched Vengeance]

In the Mediterranean on board HMS Fearless. Was supposed to be a routine exercise in the Med, but ended up east of the Suez for nearly 8 months.

 

[i kne albert davy]

In the Mediterranean on board HMS Fearless. Was supposed to be a routine exercise in the Med, but ended up east of the Suez for nearly 8 months.

Now there's a ship with a long and varied career.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I was in my office in Edinburgh and one of my team said that a small plane had hit the WTC. About 10 minutes later I was out in the main office and a TV screen was showing the scenes live. A group had formed watching the thing unfold. I was finding it difficult to process just what we were watching other than how seismic this was likely to be for the world. I remember watching my colleagues faces and the place was silent. Its stuck in my memory like very few other life events. So many deaths, so many people impacted directly, so much heroism.

We visited the site on a trip to New York some years later and the small memorial facility that had been set up, although the place had been cleaned up years ago the size of the hole that remained still beggared belief. It was a very sombre experience.

Best wishes to any poster on here that found yesterday particularly difficult. Thoughts and love to all those across the world that were directly impacted by that fucking awful day.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Now there's a ship with a long and varied career.

Cockroaches included :)

An old steam ship in the Middle East meant it got quite warm on board.

 

[bluemc1]

Just me and the boss working on a building job and heard first plane hit on radio, I wasn’t even sure which building the World Trade Center was, I thought it would just be a 2 seater private plane or something, then we heard about the next tower and I was pretty sure which building they were then as I could picture the skyline
I had to go builders yard and in the van driving there the radio reported another plane has been hijacked and is heading for the White House
I honestly thought world world 3 was starting

 

[Octavian]

Just me and the boss working on a building job and heard first plane hit on radio, I wasn’t even sure which building the World Trade Center was, I thought it would just be a 2 seater private plane or something, then we heard about the next tower and I was pretty sure which building they were then as I could picture the skyline
I had to go builders yard and in the van driving there the radio reported another plane has been hijacked and is heading for the White House
I honestly thought world world 3 was starting

Somewhat naive, I thought it was an attack by another country, like Pearl Harbour, it just seemed too big of an attack to hit the heart of America, for it to come from terrorists.

Obviously I was wrong but all sorts of thoughts were racing through my head.

I still can’t really get my head around it happening.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

I see it, which is why I still think you're a ****.

I'm hoping he's been banned on that very ground.

 

[Kakhaber The Great]

Either you won’t or can’t see what my point is.

If you feel the need to shoehorn Ronaldo into a thread concerning the deaths of almost 3000 people in a terrorist attack (and thousands more in the 20 years since due to toxic dust inhalation) then you have already surrendered the point, whatever it was, you were trying to make.

 

[urban genie]

I see it, which is why I still think you're a ****.

Playing devils advocate to his posts, which to be clear I disagree with

A week after I was in Singapore and as the UK and US press were dominated by it, it wasn't even news, 2 days after I was in Thaialnd, the only news on Islamic terrorism was the insurgents on the malaysian border.

To put it plainly what happens in America and europe is irrelevant in most of the world unless it directly affects them.

Europe, north American and the Middle sEast take up less than 30% of the worlds population, and tbh the other 70%are not interested in what goes on in America , europe or the middle east unless it affects them.

Though to us it seems insulting to hear apathy about terrorism towards the west in all honesty over two thirds of the world don't care as it isn't their issue.


Sounds insensitive and harsh I know and not my personal opinion on it , but taking emotion out to understand why some comment as they do

 

[mat]

Reading this thread made me want to rewatch the coverage again.

It's brought back some personal memories for a time. And fascinating to see how news reporting has changed in 20 years. Hurley Burley being factual rather than her current shock jock persona.