9/11 where were you?

Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I was in work watching on the TV all day. My old boss was in New York, wandering around the Wall Street area when the plane hit. He didn’t see it but was very close as it’s not far from there. He got back to his hotel and had to stay in it for 3 days or so.
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How did he not see it?
 
Mariosfireworks said:
How did he not see it?
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He didn’t see the plane hit. Heard the noise by which time it was done. Surrounded by tall buildings too so not easy to see from such close proximity I would imagine. Obviously he saw the aftermath. By the time the next one hit they were heading back to their hotel. Was supposed to be travelling home the next day but couldn’t come home until planes were flying again.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
He didn’t see the plane hit. Heard the noise by which time it was done. Surrounded by tall buildings too so not easy to see from such close proximity I would imagine. Obviously he saw the aftermath. By the time the next one hit they were heading back to their hotel. Was supposed to be travelling home the next day but couldn’t come home until planes were flying again.
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Must have been horrific for him, does it still affect him now?
 
Off school ill. Vividly remember watching MTV and a black box appearing in the middle of the screen telling me to turn to my local news channel. Just as the second plane hit.

The world changed immeasurably that day.
 
Sitting at home creating a presentation. Break for coffee and turn the tv news on. End of work.
Horrific.
 
I was at my mate's dad's funeral. Got home from the wake, put the telly on and initially thought I was watching a disaster movie, the headline banner on the screen said "America Under Attack" the screen was split into three showing the Pentagon on fire in one segment and the two towers in the other two. I quickly realised it was really happening and just sat there all afternoon watching it unfold in a state of disbelief. An awful day, the world has never been the same since.
 
Mariosfireworks said:
Must have been horrific for him, does it still affect him now?
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It did affect him badly at the time but he is a strong character. I think when something shocking happens it does stick with you a bit. I was probably 300-400 yards away from the Manchester bomb explosion and that was a hideous experience.
 
Was in one of our other offices, when a pal got a call from his wife. I was the boss do we called it a day and went to our local bowling club and watched it. Truly surreal and knew it was all going to kick off. Went into Afghanistan and being a student of history, knew that if we stayed it would be an no win situation. Similarly in Iraq. 20 years of wars that required occupation and that never ends well. I always felt those leading then just never have read history because if they did they would never have thought occupation was ever going to work.
 
In my office at the UK arm of a US firm, was with a couple of colleagues working on a bid when another colleague came in and said something to the effect 'you need to come upstairs America is under attack'. We went up to the conference room to watch on a large TV as it dawned on us a significant number of our company's execs were currently in the air over the eastern seaboard on their way to a meeting. We also knew we had a number of colleagues working for customers in both towers. As events unfolded and with no clear info we just sat there barely able to comprehend what we were watching. Eventually accounted for all our execs but sadly we lost three colleagues in the North Tower.
 
i was working at St Thomas' Hospital opposite the houses of parliament
I was involved in research so not essential staff and we got sent home.
There were police in the carpark encouraging people to, and i quote "fuck off home as quickly as you can"
 
I was fully prepped just waiting for the sedation injection for a colonoscopy at Rossendale General Hospital (The old one). All the staff and doctors left me in the room and came back after about 20 minutes. Later my missus said they were all in the day room watching it all unfold on the TV, I never saw any of it until I got home the next day. YCMIU
 
I think I’ve previously posted my own experience: working from n the office of a client in Manchester, coding away, oblivious to anything… till it dawned on me that it had all gone very quiet… I turned around, and all the office was staring at 1 screen watching the internet (that was seriously stressed with everyone else watching)… I think bbc/cnn all went with severely reduced websites, just to allow the some info to be picked up, and reduce bandwidth overload.

A far worse experience I’ve not said before, but…
My cousin went to uni, met some twins and got on really well.I met them whilst visiting my cousin. Both were highly intelligent, and proceeded up the tree of investment banking.
Twin 1, worked in WTC south tower (iirc), twin 2 worked for Cantor Fitzgerald in north tower.
Now I’m unsure of my memory of this, but I’m sure my cousin (in a drunken sad haze many years later), said twin 1 was on phone to twin 2 when the 1st plane hit…
No Cantor employee who went to work that day survived.
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Smeg. Gets me everytime.
 
I was working with my boss at the time doing an extension, it came on the radio the a plane had hit the World Trade Center and I wasn’t actually sure what the World Trade Center was back then, I remember saying “ is that one of the 2 really high ones in the skyline ? “
We just thought a light aircraft had hit it.
Then more information was coming through about passenger plane and it announced a second plane had now flown into the other tower. That’s when we knew something really big was going on

We needed some materials so I went to the builders yard in the van and driving there they said on the radio a third plane had been hijacked and was heading for the White House
I think I was just in a bit of shock at what was happening but I do remember after hearing about the plane heading to the white house I thought world war 3 was happening
 
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