9/11 - Can you remember where you were when you heard?
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LiveForTheLaunch
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I was in grade four and was coming home for lunch, and since my grandma was usually the one to pick me up at the entrance to the apartment building, she was the one who told me. I didn't understand the full extent of what happened until I turned on the Price is Right and instead saw videos and photos of planes crashing into the tower. I went back to school in the afternoon and that's basically all we talked about for the rest of the day. Insane to think that was ten years ago.
Treeis
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I would have been...6. I remember seeing a woman reporting on it on the news. All you could see behind her was dust and paper. I mean like, hundreds of feet of just sheer grey dust.
I was 6 though so it was all a bit boring.
Only years later I realise how terrible the event really was
I was 6 though so it was all a bit boring.
Only years later I realise how terrible the event really was
Colossus
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I remember the day well, I was in yr 11 at school and I was on the bus home when I overheard somebody mention it, I thought nothing of it until i got home and my mother was in front of the TV jaw-dropped. I witnessed the second plane and the subsequent collapse. I knew there and then I was watching history.
Today iam still vary much in owe off the whole event, I watch all the documentaries, I will quite often just watch raw footage on Youtube, every single small aspect of this whole tragedy fascinates me.
Today iam still vary much in owe off the whole event, I watch all the documentaries, I will quite often just watch raw footage on Youtube, every single small aspect of this whole tragedy fascinates me.
Uncle Arly
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I was at school, and remember getting home and wondering why CBBC, CITV, etc weren't on, so I rang my friend and asked why and he told me to just watch any channel. I didn't understand what was happening at first as I was only 10, but eventually realised how horrible it was.
Smithy
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Walking home from school, and having to walk back to get picked up as my mum had come to collect me. Then hearing about it all but not really knowing why it had happened. Then the next morning standing awestruck getting ready for school as all the mornings shows like GMTV were showing the footage of the planes crashing into the towers.
Mackem Lad
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There were quite a few on Discovery and National Geographic.
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WelcomeToOblivion
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I was about 10, and remember my nan and mum watching it as I walked in. I saw the planes crash and the tower collapse, I think they were replays though and remember feeling physically ill as I knew that obviously not everyone could have made it out. I originally thought it was a problem with the planes. Obviously being so young I didn't understand how big this event was, or what had caused it. I also wanted to watch cartoons, but none were on due to all the channels focussing on it, which now I can completely understand but at the time I just found it awful to watch and just wanted to watch something else.
The next day we were in a music class, and my teacher was playing us a musical CD and accidently put on "I want to live in America" from West Side Story. That was a very awkward moment...
The worst thing about it was hearing a phone call made to 911 by a man who was trapped in the North Tower when it collapsed...
The next day we were in a music class, and my teacher was playing us a musical CD and accidently put on "I want to live in America" from West Side Story. That was a very awkward moment...
The worst thing about it was hearing a phone call made to 911 by a man who was trapped in the North Tower when it collapsed...
I was at work at Flamingoland. We were just hanging out in the dressing rooms between shows and I got a text from a friend about a plane hitting a building in New York. We went out into the bar and they put the news on the TV.
It was all just a bit surreal really. We still had to go ahead and do the final show of the day because there were paying customers in the park, most of which had no idea what had happened, so were just having a normal day out in an amusement park.
So there's a few members of staff and a few customers watching all that stuff happen on the news while we and a few other customers were at the other end of the room for "Professor Bubbles' Dream Machine".
Strange, strange day.
It was all just a bit surreal really. We still had to go ahead and do the final show of the day because there were paying customers in the park, most of which had no idea what had happened, so were just having a normal day out in an amusement park.
So there's a few members of staff and a few customers watching all that stuff happen on the news while we and a few other customers were at the other end of the room for "Professor Bubbles' Dream Machine".
Strange, strange day.
I was 12, we had been shopping food and I was waiting on my dad a bit outside the shop, wondering why he talked so much with the cashier. Then he told me about what had happened and I didn't really understand it, at home though, saw it on the news, whoa... I knew about the towers before and it was a huge shock to see such an unreal horrible thing to happen, also considering how it was all over tv and the papers for the next week and past (I can't remember seeing/hearing about any other event/happening have the same media attention before).
I hate to get into political arguments, hope this won't spur one (can't really see the need though, but I just think some important things/facts are often overlooked, especially if/when you're not familiar with them. A friend of mine used this quote on fb: "R.I.P. the 2,976 American people who lost their lives on 9/11. And R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghans, the 1,690,903 Iraqis, and the 30,000 Pakistanis who paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit, and the millions of Palestinians who experience this everyday"
I hate to get into political arguments, hope this won't spur one (can't really see the need though, but I just think some important things/facts are often overlooked, especially if/when you're not familiar with them. A friend of mine used this quote on fb: "R.I.P. the 2,976 American people who lost their lives on 9/11. And R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghans, the 1,690,903 Iraqis, and the 30,000 Pakistanis who paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit, and the millions of Palestinians who experience this everyday"
I was ten at the time. I was at a friend's, meeting him for the first time since he moved away two years earlier (actually haven't seen him since, I think). My dad picked me up some time in the afternoon (well after everything had collapsed, but apparently he didn't have the car radio on, because I can't remember him saying anything about it). Anyway, I was driven straight to a scout meeting, where one of the guys said World Trade Centre had been terror bombed. I didn't believe him at first, but when my dad picked me up afterwards, he told me. I watched the news replay the events half the evening, before I was told to go to bed.
Other such events I can remember where I were at the time of its happening was the Columbia disaster (was visiting a different friend for the first time), the Boxing Day Tsunami (sleepover at a cousin's, woke up to the news) and the terror attack in Oslo (was at home, heard the explosion twenty kilometres away. Dismissed it at a thunderclap at first, then my father, who was in the next room, told me to watch the news. I sort of followed the Utøya massacre at Facebook (friends warning each other against calling friends who were on Utøya, because they were hiding and a phone calling would blow their cover). Now THAT was a weird sensation).
EDIT: I might also add the fire aboard the cruise ship M/S "Nordlys" in Ålesund. The fire, which started this morning, may be a major event, because it looks like the ship is going to capsize tonight. http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/arti ... d=10010275
Two dead and nineteen injured, none missing. The ship is devastated by fire, but is towed to shore and they fight to stabilize it.
Other such events I can remember where I were at the time of its happening was the Columbia disaster (was visiting a different friend for the first time), the Boxing Day Tsunami (sleepover at a cousin's, woke up to the news) and the terror attack in Oslo (was at home, heard the explosion twenty kilometres away. Dismissed it at a thunderclap at first, then my father, who was in the next room, told me to watch the news. I sort of followed the Utøya massacre at Facebook (friends warning each other against calling friends who were on Utøya, because they were hiding and a phone calling would blow their cover). Now THAT was a weird sensation).
EDIT: I might also add the fire aboard the cruise ship M/S "Nordlys" in Ålesund. The fire, which started this morning, may be a major event, because it looks like the ship is going to capsize tonight. http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/arti ... d=10010275
Two dead and nineteen injured, none missing. The ship is devastated by fire, but is towed to shore and they fight to stabilize it.
Well, I was only three years old at the time, but I vaguely remember sitting in the lounge with my mother watching news and seeing the towers burning. I remember more about the 7/7 attacks, though. I was in infant school at the time, and we were all called to an assembly on the morning of the attack, being told about what had happened in London - which was very frightening and upsetting, especially to children of our age.
It physically sickens me to think that this kind of thing is happening every day, claiming dozens of innocent victims at a time.
But the news story that actually frightened me the most was when we had the riots this year. I thought nothing of the riot in Tottenham on 6th August, and pretty much dismissed it as soon as I'd finished reading the article. I would never have guessed that this single riot, which itself started off as a peaceful protest over the shooting of Mark Duggan, would in just three days spread to Enfield, then London, then Birmingham, then almost every major town and city in the UK. My home town Maidstone actually made a very lucky escape. A large riot was planned here, and in preperation, many shops were boarded up, stocks cleared, and whole streets evacuated. We were both shocked and relieved when we found out that the only a few shops were looted and just one fire was reported - which incidently turned out to be at a KFC near the town centre. But I was still feeling awful about the many other towns and cities that were being absolutely devestated by rioting.
Humans can be absolutely disgusting when they want to be.
It physically sickens me to think that this kind of thing is happening every day, claiming dozens of innocent victims at a time.
But the news story that actually frightened me the most was when we had the riots this year. I thought nothing of the riot in Tottenham on 6th August, and pretty much dismissed it as soon as I'd finished reading the article. I would never have guessed that this single riot, which itself started off as a peaceful protest over the shooting of Mark Duggan, would in just three days spread to Enfield, then London, then Birmingham, then almost every major town and city in the UK. My home town Maidstone actually made a very lucky escape. A large riot was planned here, and in preperation, many shops were boarded up, stocks cleared, and whole streets evacuated. We were both shocked and relieved when we found out that the only a few shops were looted and just one fire was reported - which incidently turned out to be at a KFC near the town centre. But I was still feeling awful about the many other towns and cities that were being absolutely devestated by rioting.
Humans can be absolutely disgusting when they want to be.