Twin Towers/9.11

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Am watching "Phone Calls from the Twin Towers" on channel 4+1.

Awful, just awful. Unspeakable.

I know exactly what I was doing when it all happened; I was on leave from work and I'd just taken my old boy for a quiet hack and had just got back, walked in and my mum was watching TV. "Wow, good disaster movie" I said, only it wasn't, it really was happening. Those poor, poor people.

What was everyone else doing at the time? Sorry, perhaps this is a morbid thread. But just wondering. It was one of those days that everyone knew what they were doing at that awful time. My little cousin was so lucky not to have been there; he worked for one of the major banks who's offices were in the Towers, in their London Offices. He works in NY now and had he worked for them at the time he'd have been there too.
 
:( just awful... (my mum and dad fly back from america 2moro and the attacks just keep going through my head)

I was still at school, i remember being told at school that the twin towers had been hit, but we thought it was a joke, then when the tv was put on at home i realized the severity of the issue..... just awful.
 
I remember it like it was only yesterday. Neighbours had just finished & this news flash came on, didn't seem real. I had a friend round and remember her saying oh, no there will be hundreds dead & I replied more like thousands. I hoped sincerely that I was wrong as I said it. Dreadful.
 
I was on holiday in Spain. We had been on the beach for the morning when we came back I popped to see my parents friends who had the TV on watching it - we spent the rest of the day watching the footage with them.:o

A friend was working at the Pentagon and had just arrived in the car park when the plane hit there.:eek::o
 
I was working for a showjumper at the time and had just come back after lunch. His Mum shouted on me and I went in the house and watched in horror. So tragic and just plain wrong.
 
blazingsaddles said:
I remember it like it was only yesterday. Neighbours had just finished & this news flash came on, didn't seem real. I had a friend round and remember her saying oh, no there will be hundreds dead & I replied more like thousands. I hoped sincerely that I was wrong as I said it. Dreadful.
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Have to say, I don't think Neighbours even started! How sad am I to remember that. Just remember the BBC news saying that a plane had flown into the tower, and the assumption was that it was an accident - until it happened again. I was just saying to my husband earlier that we will all remembr clearly what we were doing/ where we were at the time of 9/11
 
I was at school (only 7) but i remember when i came home and my mum explained what happened. I also remember when we had the first London bus bombed because it was my first day at secondary school :(
 
I flew out of phoenix the night before and changed at JKF 10 pm I feel so lucky that I was not on a chosen plane. First I knew was waking up at 3pm our time to what I thought was a disaster movie, when I realised I rang my sister in Arizona to alert her to what had happened as she has a lot of friends in NY
 
I was at work with loads of others crowded round our TV set watching in total disbelief. When I got home I went straight to my photo album, I remembered a photo I took looking straight up the outside of the building when I visited NY some years before. That structure was clearly visible of the bits that were left, I had pics taken from the viewing deck too which really brought home how desperate the jumpers must have been, just awful!
 
I first found out when I was in the car on the way home from school (only 9 at the time). I can remember not really understanding what all the fuss was about and I had no idea what the twin towers were before that day. My mum had the car radio on listening out for more news but my brother and I wanted to listen to Harry Potter on the tape instead!
 
I was watching Neighbours, and remember annoyed when a news break was on and Diagnosis Murder didn't come on :eek:

Needless to say, I reassessed my priorities when I realised what was going on :(
 
I was nine years old and wondered why my mum was so late to pick me up from school, I then discovered exactly why and watched live on TV as both towers collapsed. Every year I make myself watch the various documentaries put on, I don't know why but I always do and I guess always will

9/11 never forgotten x
 
I spent the morning at Heathrow waiting for a much delayed flight to Bucharest which was being held up due to a technical fault. BY 1.45 pm it was already 5 hours late in leaving and then when they announded that it was to be delayed another 5 hours (problems with the doors they said) I decided to cancel my meeting and flight (it would have meant landing in Bucjarest at 2.00 am and finding my own way to my hotel which I did not fancy) and was told to go through a door marked no entry (!!!) and walk back through passport control to collect my luggage. When I got to baggage collect I had to go to a special reclaims office and describe my bag so that it could be taken off the trolley and given back to me. While I was doing this my mobile rang and a very dear friend (with whom I had been in NY and visited the WTC on on a judging trip we had made to the US from England about 12 months before) called me on my mobile and said that I must not get on the plane and must leave Heathrow as quickly as possible as all flights were being cancelled world-wide as the Twin Towers were thought to be under terrorist attack. Even while she was talking to me the second plane hit (she was watching it at home in Wiltshire and telling me what was going on as it was happening) and when I told the baggage office people none of them believed me. It took ages for my luggage to arrive (45 mins) by which time the rumour mill had started to work and the airport was in the process of closing down and by the time I reached the central bus station I could not buy a sandwich (not having eaten all day so far) becuase all the staff had been sent to terminal 3 to provide food etc for all the people stranded there and not able to fly to the US etc for many hours.

Was I relieved to get the next coach to Oxford about 10 mins later and get out of Heathrow, as there were many reports that all major airports were about to suffer the same fate.
 
/Ciss, you must have felt so relieved to finally get home...

I only moved to the UK from Boston about three months prior to 9/11. My family all still live in various parts of the US - and when I first found out I was trying to phone my mom on the east coast. The phone lines were constantly engaged so I tried my sister who told me the news (it was after the first plane had hit, but before the second). I didn't believe her, I couldn't believe it.

Went through to turn the TV on and saw the second plane hit...and that's when not only reality hit, but also the fact that it was AA planes, originating from NY and Boston, heading for SF----which to me meant a LOT because my brother flying those routes regularly, for AA, on the same type of aircraft. Panic! Panic!

I called him on his mobile and reached him....in Hawaii! Still sleeping and oblivious, I broke the news to him in the middle of his night. I kind of got grumped at for waking him til he realised what was going on. I was so glad to hear his voice. I was lucky - there are families for over three thousand other people that aren't so lucky. I still can't watch the footage of the plane hitting tower 2 without feeling sick.
 
I was waiting for a bus when a fellow student told me a plane had hit the twin towers, and took me into a pub to watch the TV. It didn't feel real, my first response was to think "Oh, right, I mean doesn't that sort of stuff happen everyday somewhere else?"

:eek: :o

Then as i rode the bus home it started sinking in, people were calling their families and relatives who were in America, or stuck at UK airports, flying out of the UK to somewhere else, and generally the place was buzzing with worry and conversation about just how odd the whole thing was.

It took ages of watching the footage for it to sink in that this was real life, not a disaster movie.
 
I had arranged the vet to come that day at 2pm to put our old boy to sleep. The deed was done and then, while I was washing off his headcollar the landlord appeared and told me what was happening, but he told me in a joking sort of way, so I replied ha ha, yeah right. Within 5 minutes I was glued to the telly, watched the second plane hit, tears in my eyes, not only from the old pony, but from the sheer shock of what I was watching.
A day never to forget.
RIP
 
When I had finished primary school I went round my American friend's house as I always did. Our fathers are in the armed forces, so we lived on a 'patch' (large number of forces' houses in one place).

I remember her Dad sending us outside to play, and shutting the curtains.

I only found out when my Mum came and picked us up, and took us home. We stood in shock watching the tv for what seemed like forever.
 
I was stood in my Grandma's old house after school, eating a lolly watching it on the tv. I didn't really understand much of what was happening until later on.
R.I.P, thoughts with all those who lost a loved one - it must have been the worst feeling to have to decide whether to burn or jump. A lot of lucky people, and emergency rescue teams did a fantastic job
K x
 
I was on a boat on the way back from New York! We were staying in the marriot (under the towers) and when we moved back to England we visited everywhere we haven't been and New York was the last stop I was hours away from being there :( RIP all the victims from this horrible attack
 
I was in a client meeting at HSBC in Sheffield and someone came into our meeting and said "one of the towers is down" - I assumed he meant a server but then we stopped our meeting and he turned on a screen and we watched while the second tower went down...

Were then stranded in Sheffield with rumours going into overdrive. Finally got back to London only to find Kings Cross full of armed policemen - not a normal sight then.

I worked for IBM at that time and - surprisingly, we only lost 1 person. We had an unpleasant 3 days trying to get news of our cousin who lives in New York and when we finally got hold of her, she was besides herself.

She lived near the twin towers, and was one of the people trying to help with food etc. She said her local coffee shop was also where "her" fire division would go and an awful lot didn't make it back.

I am a coward, I can't bear to watch the documentaries, can't bear to see the desperation of people jumping rather than burning and I only listened to some of the messages of people calling family to find out where they were, their last messages. It just felt too intrusive.

RIP to who all died condolences to those they loved and left behind and to the many emergency workers/relief/helpers who are now dying because of the absestos/waste they inhaled while trying to help others.
 
I remember being at work and getting a call to tell me what happened, cue major panic and tears as i could not get hold of my OH (at the time) and he was flying from uk to boston that morning.
Luckily he was over half way when it all happened and thy got diverted to ireland, relief for me but not for many on that day.
Sat and watched flight 93 last night and still cried my eyes out, what very brave people on that flight
 
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