9/11

Soulboy said:
I'm absolutely amazed at the responses on here.

Didn't ANYONE actually go to see City play that day?

I was on my way to Notts County that night for a League Cup tie, stopped off in a pub in Matlock and watched it unfold.

Absolutely shocking, but it didn't stop me heading to Meadow Lane that night!

Like I say, did no one go to Nottingham that night?
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I didnt even remember city played that day, did we win ? The thing that sticks in my head the most about that days was this thought. Oww fuck owww fuck owww fuck world war 3 is going to break out owwww fuck owwwwwww fuck. Seriously once the Pentagon got hit as well i was expeting to see a hell of a lot more shit kicking off than what actually happend.
 
I remember it well. I was still at school but nothing was announced to us. I got a txt from a mate on my way home saying a plane had hit the twin towers and thought he meant Wembely!
 
Soulboy said:
I'm absolutely amazed at the responses on here.

Didn't ANYONE actually go to see City play that day?

I was on my way to Notts County that night for a League Cup tie, stopped off in a pub in Matlock and watched it unfold.

Absolutely shocking, but it didn't stop me heading to Meadow Lane that night!

Like I say, did no one go to Nottingham that night?
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my dad went to that game. he said it was the worst atmosphere he had ever been at. we won 4-2 i think.
 
Soulboy said:
I'm absolutely amazed at the responses on here.

Didn't ANYONE actually go to see City play that day?

I was on my way to Notts County that night for a League Cup tie, stopped off in a pub in Matlock and watched it unfold.

Absolutely shocking, but it didn't stop me heading to Meadow Lane that night!

Like I say, did no one go to Nottingham that night?
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I did. Rang City before I set off, and they said just set off, as a decision hadn't been made on whether the game would go ahead. I think we were the only game that went ahead that night.

Go to the ground, and had to go into their main entrance. Everyone was silent, just watching the tv's. People were coming and going, but they'd stop, get an update, and carry on.

Surreal atmosphere. It was sombre, the goals were celebrated but half-heartedly, and to be honest, it was nice to take your mind off it. But it was surreal. Wish I'd kept my ticket from that game though.

I remember Keegan saying after the match "this game shouldn't have gone ahead, it wasn't about the football tonight" and went on to say thouands of people died that day, and some probably still were dying at that moment, and we shouldn't have played.
 
Was only about ten and remember I was having a kick about outside and when I went in my mum and dad were just sat there watching the tele. Didn't really understand it at the time, but think if it would've happened now I would've been seriously worried about what might happen.
 
ello_jo said:
Was only about ten and remember I was having a kick about outside and when I went in my mum and dad were just sat there watching the tele. Didn't really understand it at the time, but think if it would've happened now I would've been seriously worried about what might happen.
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Believe me mate, we were.

I honestly thought this sort of thing could escalate into the kind of conflict that skirts around nuclear weapons.

It was definately a day that changed the world.
 
Challenger1978 said:
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To this day that still amazes me that Bush just sat there and did nothing when all that was going on.
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To be fair id have been dumbstruck but then again im not a politician and im not paid to make decisions
 
Dumbstruck or not, I thought the Secret Service, US Military etc. has procedures in place to get the President to a place of safety and in a situation where he has full control of the armed forces. That's why a guy (or three to be exact, one from the Army, Navy and Air Force who work in 8 hour shifts) follows no more than a few feet away with the nuclear launch codes.

When the Chief of Staff comes up to you and says "we're under attack", then surely the Secret Service would have bundled him into his limo and got him aboard Air Force Once immedidately.

Crazy.
 
Was in Lagana, Zante at the time working for a Tour Operator. Was visiting customers in pink panther appts. when the owner said to me "Gary, look what's happening in the states"

Couldn't believe what I was seeing. The noise overhead of the plane going into the tower, then the 2 second delay of the explosion is something I'll never forget.
 
Was 10 at the time. Remember walking home from school without a care in the world and when i got in my mum told me. We had the telly on constantly but i was oblivious to what was going on. I couldn't comprehend how massive of a thing it was and I wish now that I could have.
 
This is a little bit off the topic but does anybody remember a few weeks after the war kicked off when an American fighter jet was supposed to have been shot down in Baghdad and they were showing live pictures on TV all day of the Iraq army searching for the pilots. I remember being glued to the TV watching this and hoping they got away. Can't remember what actually happened though.
 
Had just bought my first house about 2 months before. Was still in the process of sorting everything out and on that day I had a 'doctors appointment', (aka blowing the money saved for a new washer on an air rifle to fuck about with in the yard, she was well pissed off!!), and during the day I stuck SSN on. That scouser, Paul Boardman all of a sudden said, 'for more information on the unfolding events in NY, turn to SN'. Turned it over and couldn't believe my eyes. That was it for the day then, just me, SN and complete shock. Tragic day, horrible. Can't quite believe its 9 years ago. One of those rare days you will never ever forget where you were and what you were doing.

(she made me take the air rifle back, the cow).
 
I will never forget the day even though i was young. I was on holiday in Spain and a family we made friends with over there was due to fly home that day. They was petrified. I was just sat around the pool watching the news. I wasnt old enough to take in how bad it was and that people had done it on purpose. It makes me sick to think that someone would deliberately kill inocent people.
 
Skashion said:
mammutly said:
George Bush, who to my mind is on a par with Hitler for the extent of worldwide death and suffering he has caused.
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I thank your God that I don't have to live there.
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What a strange comment.

You are thanking a God that you don't believe in that you don't have to live in my mind?

I think you ought to see a psychiatrist
 
mammutly said:
Skashion said:
I thank your God that I don't have to live there.
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What a strange comment.

You are thanking a God that you don't believe in that you don't have to live in my mind?

I think you ought to see a psychiatrist
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If you seriously believe George Bush is on par with Hitler I feel it may be you that needs to see a psychiatrist!

I'm all for giving our buddies from across the pond a bit of stick with their foreign policy, but to equate that with Hitler really does diminish what Hitler did.
 
I was kipping after a night shift, my Mrs woke me up by saying something along the lines of " planes crashing in New York", i asked if we knew anyone out there and then went mental when she said we didn't and went back to sleep.
 
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