9/11 where were you?

Working at Leicester uni watching it unfold in the students common room, later moved to New York for a while and a good friend who worked in the city said everyone just got up and walked home, he lived in Queens . Remember when I was there they were still in the process of clearing the place up, I stood there taking it all in when he said you’ve been looking it for almost 20 minutes without saying a word . I just couldn’t imagine being there and what all those poor people went through
 
Got into the car to drive to Nottingham for the cup game, turned the radio on and heard the awful news on Talksport from Mike Parry. Listened to it all the developments and updates from Parry on the journey to the game. Some of the stuff he was describing from the TV images were horrendous. He wanted the authorities to cancel all the matches that evening and I believe it was touch and go but it went ahead.
 
I was working a shift in the kitchen at McDonald’s and heard that a light aircraft had hit the WTC. I had a private pilot license at the time and thought ‘wow that’s really thick how have they managed that’. Then I heard that some ‘Kosovan hijackers’ had taken control of planes and so went upstairs to see what was happening.

Several of us stood there open mouthed for the next few hours in total shock. It was simply unbelievable what was happening. The horror was beyond imagination when you saw people jumping.

I actually had an interview booked in for cadet pilot at BA which needless to say got cancelled a few weeks later.
 
Heard about the first plane before going into a meeting in Irlam and the second soon after the meeting. Then heard all the details as I drove to Nottingham with a couple of mates for our game that evening.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
All Saudi nationals took over those jets yet Saudi Arabia has never been sanctioned.
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One of the first Saudi flights out of the USA after the grounding was the Bin Laden family jet.

“One flight, the so-called Bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on September 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Usama Bin Ladin. Screening of this flight was directed by an FBI agent in the Baltimore Field Office who was also a pilot … The Bin Ladin flight and other flights we examined were screened in accordance with policies set by FBI headquarters and coordinated through working-level interagency processes. Although most of the passengers were not interviewed, 22 of the 26 people on the Bin Ladin flight were interviewed by the FBI. Many were asked detailed questions. None of the passengers stated that they had any recent contact with Usama Bin Ladin or knew anything about terrorist activity.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m shocked..shocked, I say…that they all said they knew about it!
 
I was fixing to drive to Thermopolis in Wyoming with my folks, they were visiting from England. My brother called me from Australia babbling about the US being attacked, I figured with the time change he was probably drunk, eventually woke the misses up and turned the tv on. It was a long five hour drive and very quiet in the car, remember watching it later in the safari bar, very strange…….
 
Working in a warehouse in Ardwick just before going back for my second year at uni, all round the little tele we had in the back.
 
In the office here in UK north of London watching on the net.
We had a site in the US across the river from the towers and were getting a commentary from colleagues as it happened. They were all sent home later.
 
i was in hospital, just came out of xray and was waiting to see a consultant, it was on the tv in the far corner of the room but with no sound so i didnt really know what was happening, i just thought it was a fire at the time
 
My motorbike broke down on the way to work. Went back to it at lunchtime. Wouldn't start so got the AA out. He got it started and followed me to local garage. Got to garage and AA man told me what happened as he'd heard it on the radio as he followed me. Got home and watched replays on sky news.
 
I was driving to the Trafford centre with my girlfriend at the time. It came on the radio that a light aircraft had hit one of the world trade centre buildings. We didn’t think much of it at the time. Then when we parked up and got inside seeing the pictures on the TVs in the electrical shops as the second plane hit was pretty scary stuff knowing it wasn’t accident and we would end up going to war
 
Was working for Miss Foot, crispbag effecting her living room as an apprentice painter.. I remember her young daughter was ill and staying home from school listening to Bat out of hell, she knew the lyrics to the songs too.. then I got home and my mum and dad and me and possibly my sister, watched the coverage.. seeing the footage was interesting but, sadly I didn't care at all
 
jimharri said:
Staggering just humans are willing to do to one another in the cause of some flag and/or religion. We're (the human species) supposed to be at the top of the evolutionary chain. Are we?
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There’s nothing particularly special about homosapiens. We’re just very inventive great apes with the ability for large vocabularies and have good fine motor skills and nothing more really.

We aren’t that strong or fast, we can’t fly, can’t change shape or colour, we aren’t the fastest learners in the animal kingdom, we don’t live the longest, we don’t have sonar, and we aren’t intelligent enough to see how badly we are living as a species and what we’re doing to ourselves, each other and the planet.

Humans will be killing each other on a minor and major scale for as long as we’re around. It’s in our genes. It takes hundreds of thousands of years to change genes like this, that’s why communism will never work because we are genetically predisposed to organise ourselves hierarchically and we will always have homosapiens who will want to (as individuals or groups) mass murder people… and I don’t think we’ll be around as a species long enough for the genetic changes to happen.
 
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My attention was drawn to the live reporting of the first plane's impact by someone in our office watching the BBC online.
We were in the City of London and it felt quite surreal as the second one was announced.

Thought something serious had gone wrong with air traffic control after the first, then when the news about the second, the Pentagon one and the other missing plane came in, it became clear it was some kind of coordinated attack.

A few worries about whether it would be wise to stay at work,or even use public transport on the way home, but the general concensus was we'd just carry on until we heard that there was any suggestion of a threat manifesting over here.
 
10 years old, trying to understand why my school was abruptly ushered into an auditorium in the middle of gym class, why my teachers were in a panic and crying, why all my friends were all getting picked up from school early.

Can't believe it's been 20 years.
 
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