9/11 where were you?

[yeseye]

On the 9th of November?

No.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Just flew a 9/10 flight from Chicago to New Delhi. Arrived in India at around 9pm on 9/11. Never feels good to be flying on 9/11, but if you have to, flying a loooong way to the east makes it about as short as it can get!

 

[FantasyIreland]

On the 9th of November?

Not a topic to be a dick.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I was at Paramedic training school.Iirc we had just had lunch,and was returning for our afternoon studies,when the TV was switched on and then of course our attention was focused on the unbelievable and surreal events happening before us....many of us thinking how easily it could be one of us contending with such events.

It matters not how many times the footage of the incident is watched,it never quite sinks in that it was possible,and that fellow humans were capable of such monstrosity.

 

[Gray]

My 25th wedding anniversary.

 

[Cheesy]

In the crew room, realising that my job was going to be very different for years to come.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It’s the little things,

 

[Protein Junkie]

I was working in a Government Building at the time. We had a TV in the rest room and suddenly it was rammed with staff.

I visited the 9/11 memorial around three years ago and it was an unforgettable experience. To read all those names,seeing how relatively small the footprint of the two buildings and how built up the area is was mind blowing.

 

[metalblue]

It’s the little things,

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It’ll be such a comfort to them and their families that they didn’t give their lives in vain.

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

Anyone who was lucky enough to go up the towers before the atrocity will appreciate just how high they were. I was one and can’t imagine the overwhelming distress and fear of being marooned knowing rescue was impossible. Hats off to all those brave souls and to those in the world who stop to remember the dead and their families and friends.

 

[bornblueegg]

At home couldn't believe what I was seeing. Remember GW Bush's face at the the school...

 

[hampshireblue]

I was just finishing my conversion training for the new ATC cemtre that was opening a couple of months later. Having successfully completed our exercise, my colleague and i spent an hour on the radar simulator turning aircraft towards each other and effectively crashing them into each other-the very opposite of what our job was all about. It's actually quite difficult to get radar blips doing 500mph to get to merge into each other. 2 hours later AA11 was flown into the north tower.

 

[Mariosfireworks]

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.

I can only imagine, that was a horrible night, I remember was going to Brighton the day after for work, got in my car and switched the radio on, didn't have a clue about the bomb at the time, when i heard it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I can only imagine, that was a horrible night, I remember was going to Brighton the day after for work, got in my car and switched the radio on, didn't have a clue about the bomb at the time, when i heard it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

The worst bit was being told to evacuate down Market Street and told to walk in the middle of the road. Glass was falling from the higher floors of buildings and you could hear it smashing all around you. It was really scary at the time as there were rumours of more car bonbs and so walking past cars en route out of the city was quite unnerving as everyone was shocked and stunned and didn’t really know what to do. I walked from
The Santander branch in Piccadilly Gardebs where I worked to Regent Road and then further to end up near the Inn of Good hope pub opposite the hospital. My missus at the time picked me up and that afternoon we went to a party to watch Gazza tear the jocks a strip in Euro 96. I was shaken all night though to be honest.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

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

sounds like a pain in the arse.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Not seen this thread before. Came up on a 9/11 search I put in. Similar stories to people being off work.

Had a dentist appointment in the afternoon but took the day off to get some things done.

Sat down and put the then SSN on and it had the yellow bar on the bottom to say what had happened and to switch to SN. I did just that and that was me glued to the telly until bed time. No dentist. I couldn’t believe what I saw throughout that day.

Hard to believe it’s 24 years. It feels like it happened yesterday, the images are that ingrained. This date must be extremely difficult for the victims’ families and people caught up in it.

 

[NLW Blue]

The wife and I were on holiday on Kos, Greece, and were on a boat trip when all the reps phones starting going off and receiving text messages that the UK airports were all closing, but no one knew why. We didn't have smart phones then.
It was only when we got back to our hotel that another holidaymaker had told us what had happened, and that some people who were watching it live on the TV in the hotel reception area fainted with shock.

 

[HelloCity]

I was in 6th form - one of my teachers came up and told me as we were queuing up to go into an IT class.

I remember being scared it was the beginning of WW3 (maybe it was), especially when they put a TV on in the class room to watch events unfold.

It was the big bang of a new darker world, where initially Muslims were seen as the enemy, and over time this evolved into more and more minority groups. The media went over these groups aggressively & systematically resulting in the mindsets we have today where non locals are seen as the enemy and people to be suspicious of.

Without 9/11 the rise of Trump, Brexit, Reform and other far right political activists would never have happened imo.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I was in 6th form - one of my teachers came up and told me as we were queuing up to go into an IT class.

I remember being scared it was the beginning of WW3 (maybe it was), especially when they put a TV on in the class room to watch events unfold.

It was the big bang of a new darker world, where initially Muslims were seen as the enemy, and over time this evolved into more and more minority groups. The media went over these groups aggressively & systematically resulting in the mindsets we have today where non locals are seen as the enemy and people to be suspicious of.

Without 9/11 the rise of Trump, Brexit, Reform and other far right political activists would never have happened imo.

Economy and Blair govt were riding high, good Friday agreement and withdrawal of military from NI should have provided enough fiscal wiggle to look after pensions, services and the NHS for the foreseeable.
Instead we pissed it all up the wall on misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq with no clear objectives.
Overriding international law and the UN under the banner of 'the war against terror' opened the door for Israel and Russia to similarly frame their own invasions of sovereign states in the 2000's and more recently.
What a load of shit.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Working at The Mirror, all that night's pre prints (the middle section of the paper) had almost been printed, (a couple of million, all scrapped) and news came through of the first tower.

We were all watching it in the canteen as the second one hit.