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9/11 - Can you remember where you were when you heard?

Ian

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Everybody knows that tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Yes, we all know that it's a tragedy and that thousands died (and thousands more subsequently due to USA/UK foreign policy), but that's a different topic altogether.

People say they can remember where they were when they heard about Kennedy's assassination and, to some extent, Princess Di's death. 9/11 is one of those events.

I was temping for a tele-marketing company at the time of 9/11. I spent most of my time at that job emailing a bird in the Rotherham office who informed me that two bombs had exploded in two American skyscvrapers (I didn't even know what the WTC was!) had gone off and had collapsed. I thought nothing of it but was in awe when I watched the news at home that evening. What was initially a "meh" news report to me suddenly became one of the most fascinating events I've ever seen.

I'm interested to hear where you were when you heard the news and what your thoughts were.
 
10 years old. In school. People said someone's face fell off. we joked. Shat pants when we heard. Still didn't really understand...
 
I remember hearing about it in a science lesson which was last lesson of the day. Didn't think much of it. Only when I got home was the magnitude of it apparent, saw the north tower collapse live, the most shocking live bit of television I think I've ever watched.
Since then I've found the whole day fascinating, from the idiots calling it a conspiracy to it's aftermath.
 
I was in school at the time and I think someone mentioned it to me when I got home. Like others I didn't think much of it at the time but it wasn't till after when I saw the footage and stuff I realised how big it was.
 
I had just got home from work after a night shift.

I sat down put the news on and saw the 1st building on fire and then saw the 2nd plane crash.

I was in shock when I saw it all happen as I knew people in the building due to working for a bank.

I cannot believe its been 10 years it still feels like yesterday.
 
I was too little to remember, but I'm fascinated about the incident. I'm excited for the special on TV tomorrow.

It really is terrible. The couch I'm sitting on right now was bought that day. The exact time. My mom was at the store and the TV's that were hooked up to the wall turned on the news and my mom said everybody was confused, and then the second plane hit. My mom said everybody started crying after that. It was a truly devastating incident.
 
I was in the car going home from school. Just driving past the hospital in Bristol (well, being driven, I was only like 9). My mum told me that there had been a plane crash in America and there were some problems in New York etc. I think she was keeping it fairly simple for me and my brother.

Anyway, got home and watched the news and I honestly don't think it really set in what had happened until a good few hours later. It was really quite daunting and scary. I remember not understanding why someone would do it and many other confused questions.

God, was it really ten years ago...? seems like only yesterday sometimes... :(
 
Yeah, I remember it pretty damn well.

I was in 7th grade, I was extremely sick all summer with stomach ulcers and migraines, and my dad had called my mom and said turn on the news because something happened at the pentagon. He had just dropped my sister off at school, and I just saw my mom sprint down the stairs. My brother and I got up and as we walked downstairs we saw the second plane hit. It's truly something I will never forget as my mom, brother, and I watched the events unfold. We had been there a month and a half before. We didn't end up going to school, because the school said there was no need for the students to watch it. So we stayed home and watched everything.
 
It was the third week of my military service, first week out in the field and first time at the shooting range, when one of our officers came and said that something ''big'' had happened. So they aborted everything and drove us all back to the regiment to watch the news. We used the time there to hit the showers and ordered pizza while doing that. Really odd to sit there and watch it happen. It felt so unreal. Later that evening we went back out to our tents for the night and for the rest of that week we had fresh newspapers coming in several times a day to keep us updated. The rest of my service was highly influenced by this, with added sequrity checkpoints at the gates, final exersice that was heavily based on what was going on in Afganistan at that time, etc...

Posting on the go...
 
I was at work when it came in over the radio. We'd recently had relatively decent internet access brought in, and it was the first (and only) time it was ever used openly to keep up with things outside the company.

We had our stores man listening to the radio bringing in updates and me on BBC news.

I came home and neither madame or minor_furie were in and watched the catch up at home on the news channels. It was really shocking, such a massive event to witness.

I also remember where I was when I heard about Diana, in a queue for "Kingmaker" at Warwick castle while I was working there for a weekend...
 
I was working in some crappy office building in Bedford. First I noticed that the internet stopped working, then we started to watch the TV in the canteen.

Was working with a company in Australia at the time, was on the phone to one of their guys who was doing some late-night decorating at his house (you have some crazy time-shift compromises when you work with Aussies) - I asked whether he was watching the news, he wasn't - I suggested he should put it on rather than continue with his wallpapering.

Went back to the hotel later and just watched the news for the rest of the day.
 
I was 12 so I didn't really know what was going on. I just remember getting in from school and seeing it all over the telly, and being a bit awestruck.

Crazeh.
 
Didn't hear anything at school, biked home and looked at the microwave clock in the kitchen as I entered the back door of my parents, which was a standard thing for me. My mum called me into the sitting room and said it was a replay of the first tower getting hit, but it was the 2nd tower being hit.

It was very shocking, still remember it to this day very well.
 
I had been picked up from school, and on the way home we stopped off at a convenience store where the news was coming through on the radio behind the counter. At the time I had very little idea about the magnitude of the atrocities that were currently unfolding in New York.

Got home, put on the TV. I can't exactly recall my reaction TBH (was only ten years old), but I do remember my Dad and my brother being quite vocal over what they were seeing.

It was only earlier today I was watching some amateur footage of the impact of the second plane and the subsequent collapse of both towers, and despite it being ten years ago, it still sends chills down my spine. I'm absolutely fascinated by the countless documentaries and even the conspiracy theories, however untrue they may be.


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Yup. I was at college on a break during my English Lit class. I was outside having a cigarette but it seemed really quiet. A friend went passed and I asked where everyone was and he said something about the World Trade Centre being hit by planes and said people had all gone to find TVs etc. I'll be honest, I didn't make the link between the WTC and the twin towers right away. Anyways, I went back to class and the teacher came in and basically sent us all home because of what had happened etc.

I made my way home and got through the front door only minutes before the first tower collapsed. I remember being gobsmacked and shocked and like others, I was fascinated by the events unfolding. I think I watched the news until about 8/9 that night. Even now, from a historical point of view, I am very interested in how it all happened, the technicalities of it etc.
 
I was 11 years old, sitting in either my second or third hour english class when we got an announcement over the pa to turn the TVs on to channel ten (local news). Literally when we turned it on we saw the second plane hit the tower. Even as a young kid I remember it being quite scary. We all were sent home early, where I just pretty much sat on the floor in front of the TV and watched for hours.

Guess you can't forget something like that.
 
I had just sat down in my 2nd period class when a classmate said the World Trade Center had been attacked. That was around 9:15. I didn't see any news coverage until about 40 minutes later in my next class when I saw everything. I didn't see it long because the Principle went from class to class telling teachers to turn off the TV's.

I didn't see everything in full detail until around 2:30 when I got home.
 
I was in third grade at the time, eight years old. I was blissfully unaware of the entire event until later in the afternoon when I got home from school. I feel that I was a little too young to understand fully what was going on, but I knew it was a terrible thing that had happened.
 
Like you Ian, I didn't even know what the WTC was. I had just turned up for the my shift at the Cinema, and I walked into my bosses office and started yapping and he told me to shut it, two planes have been flown into the WTC, I replied, "****....so whats the WTC then?"

And I too just cannot get enough of the all the docementaries on TV, I am still in complete awe over the whole thing.
 
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