Where were you on........Sept 11th 2001

[Turkey]

I found out on the 5B bus heading home from my first day at College.

I didn't even know what the two towers were.

Once I got home, like everyone, couldn't stop watching the T.V.

Sad day.

 

[albiongirl]

I was at work where I work on our ward we have a lounge area and a TV. Someone came in the office and said about the plane and I know I couln,t believe what she was saying. Then we saw for ourselves. Watching the coverage and the 2nd plane going in to the towers will be a memory I will never forget. Once I got home I too couldn,t stop watching the coverage. Luckily no one in my family or friends I know were involved. Then logging onto NSC it suddenly became real. We had lost someone from our Football family Robert Eaton.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I've been watching CNN over here in Wellington. They've been showing live shots, interviews with people who lost relatives the day after & then the Afghanistan war. I'm not ashamed to say that it still brings tears to me eyes. They say time is a great healer, but when you see those pictures again it's truly shocking.

 

[Rougvie]

I was in America completing my Pilots Licence in South Carolina.
The feeling of shock in the States was horrific, it was just the most terrible day in the history of the world.

 

[Kugull]

Honeymoon in the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (a Muslem country). Still feels too surreal.
We'll never forget eh?

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

I don't know where all these people were: Harry Connick jnr, Moby, Barry Sheene, but I know what they were doing on September the 11th 2001, they were CELEBRATING.

Heartless bastards.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

It was their birthdays you see.

 

[Kenhead]

i was in spain, i remeber seeing the pictures on sky news cannel, didn't relise what was happening at first. we were due to fligh back to england 3am the early hours of the 12th. turned out our flight wouldn't be effected. was an unreal 12 odd hours until our flight!

 

[Bono]

Queuing in Watford to pay a parking ticket. Guy behind the desk mentioned a nutter flying a plane into a tower block. Thought nothing of it at the time. It was strange looking back.

 

[Beach Hut]

Working in London - found out by the internet and the whole office just stopped working.

We were told to leave work around 15:00 hrs and I bought the Evening Standard - still thinking it's just and accident.

When I got home I realised the total enormity of the events and the horror of the whole thing. It's difficult to highlight what was worse but the pictures the next day in the papers of people jumping to the deaths really bought it all home to me.

I felt so sad really and absolutely shocked at the total destruction that had aeemed so relatively easy to achieve. I also became aware from then of how some people can be so committed, in such a frightening way, to what they believe in - like suicide bombers. I find this totally alien and cannot comprehend why anyone really acts in this way.

It was the saddest thing I'd seem since the realisation in 1985 that people really did starve to death and no-one cared.

 

[Froggy]

i was at school and didn't know what had happened. when i got on a bus later in the day i saw a paper someone was holding and was like 'WTF?' so i asked him if i could have a look and i was just stunned. i couldnt beleive that anyone could even think of doing something do evil.

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

I was watching the news eating my lunch & was stunned to see the 'live' footage - I thought it was an accident until the second plane hit.

 

[perth seagull]

#2 in the series.

I was at work. The first I heard of what was going on was by reading a thread on here titled 'What the f**k is going on in America?!' A little while later I got a text from my then girlfriend, telling me there had been a "tourist attack".

Very strange day indeed.

Same here. I was browsing NSC, and then someone started that thread. When I read it I immediately went away to turn on my telly and heard the bad news.

 

[pasty]

For some reason I can't remember, I'd got totally bladdered the night before and was throwing a sicky from work. Lying on the couch feeling sorry for myself watching Richard and Judy or some other daytime tv shite, it was interupted and so I ended up watching the whole chain of events unfold as soon as it broke on tv.

When the towers went down, I simply couldn't believe what I was seeing, and the footage of the planes going in was just horrific.

 

[Citrus]

#2 in the series.

I was at work. The first I heard of what was going on was by reading a thread on here titled 'What the f**k is going on in America?!' A little while later I got a text from my then girlfriend, telling me there had been a "tourist attack".

Very strange day indeed.

At school, then the Southampton Worthington Cup game.