9/11 where were you?

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20 years today, I remember it like yesterday.

Working in the aircraft industry, driving along the M60 a colleague called me “have you heard the news? He asked.
“Don’t tell me! Kevin Keegan has walked!?” I said…
“ No… a 767 has just hit the World trade centre tower!”
 
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Woke up for school as a 10 year old and it was all over the news. Even at that age, I knew how catastrophic it was. In year 5 at a suburban Australian school and it felt like the attacks had happened down the street based on the sombre mood at the school that day…very bizarre.

I still watch 9/11 documentaries regularly. Still very hard to comprehend all the shit that went down that day. The Falling Man documentary is worth a watch…not exactly happy, light hearted viewing though.
 
Remember coming home from work and listening to Simon Mayo on the radio saying that a light aircraft had crashed into WTC and wasn't till I got home and saw the enormity of it that it dawned how unreal it was
 
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Remember coming home from work and listening to Simon Mayo on the radio saying that a light aircraft had crashed into WTC and wasn't till I got home and saw the enormity of it that it dawned how unreal it was
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Was listening to exactly the same programme at work. Made me stop what I was doing and listen more intently. Those 2 moments changed the world forever
 
Day off work, watched the whole thing, (news coverage started after the first plane). Was speaking to a friend in corporate banking when the second hit. Genuinely thought it could be the start of world war three.

Can still remember telling him he needs to get home to be with his family lol.
 
Was at uni at the time dodging lessons, turned over to see both towers had been hit. The collapse of the World Trade centre was shocking and the same time multiple planes unaccounted for.

I went to ground zero 5 years ago, it’s an eerie quiet place. The 9/11 memorial museum is a recommended visit, the proceeds from it are helping identify victims remains who have not been found yet.

There was an interview on ITV news the other night with two of the first responders that day who are suffering with the affects of inhaling the cloud of dust and fumes when the buildings fell. More people have died from serious illness from this than were actually lost on the day of 9/11. Sobering stuff.
 
I was in a full day regional Civil Service fraud meeting in Castleton Rochdale where we were being sold the idea of how the suits wanted our job to change and how they were going to do it....proper cluster fuck, the job never recovered but that's another story.

Left, got in the car and put I assume talksport on as Parry was talking and describing the unfolding chaos.

Made our issues at work seem like an irrelevance. TV on 15 mins later when home and watched the news all night.
 
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Was at uni at the time dodging lessons, turned over to see both towers had been hit. The collapse of the World Trade centre was shocking and the same time multiple planes unaccounted for.

I went to ground zero 5 years ago, it’s an eerie quiet place. The 9/11 memorial museum is a recommended visit, the proceeds from it are helping identify victims remains who have not been found yet.

There was an interview on ITV news the other night with two of the first responders that day who are suffering with the affects of inhaling the cloud of dust and fumes when the buildings fell. More people have died from serious illness from this than were actually lost on the day of 9/11. Sobering stuff.
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Yep this poor lady (only in her 20s on 9/11 I believe) died from cancer a few years ago. Would have breathed in some horrible, toxic shit.

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Horrible day, we switched our SIS Racing channel TV (work) over to the News and watched all day. One of the mobile engineers rang me and told me his was going home to be with his family as he thought it was the end of the world, that sent a shiver down my spine.
 
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Yep this poor lady (only in her 20s on 9/11 I believe) died from cancer a few years ago. Would have breathed in some horrible, toxic shit.

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On Jeremy Vine yesterday they had the head of the NYFD on, he said they lost 353 fire fighters that day but 240 plus had died since with related illnesses and they're expecting more, some would have passed anyway but those workers were heroes that day. I vividly remember that photograph.
 
Was sat in my office in Broadheath whilst my colleague and his wife were on their way to Las Vegas for a weeks holiday.

His plane was at the point of no-return over the Atlantic when all planes in US air space were ordered to land. They put down at St. John's in Newfoundland where they were accomodated in a local leisure facility for two days without access to the luggage. When flights resumed they had the option of going home or continuing to Vegas which they opted for not a single outdoor facility was operating as any noise put the shits up the yanks. That is one holiday he will never forget.

P.S. It was my 25th wedding anniversary that day, so I can never forget the date.
 
In a restaurant in Crete. There was a TV on and it came on the news, didn’t feel real, like some terrible movie.
 
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On Jeremy Vine yesterday they had the head of the NYFD on, he said they lost 353 fire fighters that day but 240 plus had died since with related illnesses and they're expecting more, some would have passed anyway but those workers were heroes that day. I vividly remember that photograph.
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Yes they were, traipsing up endless flights of stairs wearing heavy clothing and carrying even heavier gear to fight a fire they did not have a cat in hell's chance of putting out. It takes a special person do that, may they all rest in peace.
 
Living in Wimbledon at the time, working largely from home. Came down, put the news on tv. No work got done that day.
Emergency workers absolute heroes.
Changed the world. Britain now has 35,000 ppl on the watch list.
 
Must have been about 4:30ish when I was walking back from the town with some shopping. When I over heard two people saying it was shocking what was happening American.
So when I got back I put the tv on.

I can remember thinking shit things are going to get bad now. And thinking this is what happens when you keep trying to get the world to live the way you want them to. America imposing it views on other countries.
 
I remember, not on the day but the day after, I was on the bus going to work and over heard a woman proudly boasting she told her staff to stop watching the t.v and get back to work. Not only a heartless bitch but so proud of the fact, she told half the bus.
 
Got home from school and walked in the living room to see my dad sat on the living room floor, fixated on the TV. I knew straight away that something big had happened because he never watched the news. The only other time I remember was when Diana was killed and that was more a case of channel hopping to try and watch something else.
 
Fast asleep in bed. Was living in Australia at the time so it all happened overnight there. Remember getting up in the morning, putting the TV on and genuinely spending a couple of minutes trying to work out why there was an action movie on there at that time. The slow dawning realisation that it wasn't a film was a very odd moment.
 
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