Where were you 10 years ago today (9/11)

[Thedelldays]

when the world changed forever...

 

seems unreal when you think about it..

[hamster]

I have an alibi dd, I was visiting my new grand.daughter in the PAH. Right now, ten years on I'm with our princess again celebrating her birthday beer in hand, safe in the knowledge.that life, quite literally, goes on.......and there will always good ale to make life good.Cheers.everyone, live for today.

[Crazy Diamond]

I was at school, year eight I think it was. Incredible.

[bowers-sfc]

I was in florida, aged 11.

[SuperMikey]

I was also at school, we got sent home early (we weren't told why) and came home to find my Mum and Dad both back from work sitting on the sofa dumbstruck, watching planes smash into buildings.

 

I was too young to understand what was going on at the time, but I knew it was a monumentous event. Hard to believe it's been 10 years already.

Edited 11 September, 2011 by SuperMikey

[Thedelldays]

I was at work, the base was lockdown and then not long after we left for the indian ocean.

[hamster]

Where were you dd? There must be a story.here, seriously mate, your day.must have been strange.

[1576]

I was at Luton airport waiting to get on a plane to Amsterdam for work, slightly surreal experience standing in the departure lounge watching planes fly into buildings on the tv.

[AussieDog]

I was at work in Southampton, when I heard about the 1st plane on the radio and then managed to find a tv and was dumbstruck for the rest of the day.

In 1988 I had been lucky enough to visit and to stand atop the WTC looking across the rest of New York. 3 months after 9/11, I arranged that our flight back from Australia went via New York so I could go pay my tribute. The queues were still several hundred metres long, and it was surreal to think there was just this massive hole in the ground where they had once stood..

[skintsaint]

I was sick at home and just watching the news. First reports was that a large fire had started..then moved onto a plane hitting the tower...then it all became clear what happened and then the 2nd plane came in.

[bridge too far]

I was at work and saw the BBC News ticker along the bottom of my PC screen. I remember calling across to a workmate saying 'dreadful accident - a plane's crashed into the WTC' just as the second plane hit. Then the realisation hit.

 

Dreadful day, dreadful events and I was seriously worried about my daughter's friends who worked in the financial district of NY. Thankfully, they were OK. But my daughter had a few very anxious hours.

[Huntingdon]

I'm a medical rep, and I had an appointment with a pharmacist in Blandford Forum, Dorset

 

I was sat in my car in the market square listening to Mike Parry and Richard Kaufman on Talksport, who were describing all the scenes

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

I was in Winchester, driving in the Square when my wife phoned me to tell me about it. I had been at a meeting in London and she was scared that something similar was going to happen there as well.

[View From The Top]

I was taking a games lessons (football with the Y10). When we got back to school my boss told me we were at war.

 

Walked into my classroom, turned the TV on just in time to watch the 2nd plane hit. I felt sick to the pit on my stomach and cried.

 

It sounds dramatic, but I felt as if I'd lost a loved one.

[Baj]

I was at work in London. I got a call from my brother in Munich to "find a tv screen".

 

I bailed out of London that night, might have seemed over-cautious, but the armed guards at paddington were enough to convince me I shouldnt be in the city right now.

[so22saint]

St Lucia, having breakfast. My mates dad appeared on CNN later in the day (his sister was on the Lockerbie plane so his dad is now an expert on airport security) just to top off how surreal it all was.

 

First time I felt hated as a westerner - most of the indigenous population of St Lucia seemed to think it was funny / brilliant.

[Special K]

That day was the last day of my paternity leave after the birth of our first child. We decided to stay at home that day and had the TV on over lunchtime. We sat transfixed, watching events unfold and it was one of those momentous events where, even at an early stage, I thought that the world would probably never be the same again. I remember being quite profoundly sad that there i was, with a new life in my arms, whilst watching pictures on TV of others losing theirs. I really feared for what sort of world this new life would grow up in.

[Raging Bull]

Was at work up to my arm pits in metal and noise after designing some new products for southern water, came out for a coffee, wondered why mark & lard weren't up to their usual tricks and just playing mellow tunes..... Then heard the news.

 

Still to this day NEVER fails to amaze me, so sad.

Edited 11 September, 2011 by Raging Bull

[ecuk268]

I was at work and saw it on the net.

 

Had a hotdog at the top of the WTC in '96 and was chatting to the young guy who served us about basketball.

 

Hoped that he'd got another job by 2001.

[Viking Warrior]

I was at fremington camp barnstable , I was an rsm for one of the units we went to a high security state with armed guards. The days that followed and the two parades that were held a rememberance parade on the Friday and drumhead service will rremain with me for ever. As parades went they were stressful for me being the RSM

[terrypward]

Working at Safeway Eastleigh, heard the news... carried on working. I'm a bit dim.

[bridge too far]

That day was the last day of my paternity leave after the birth of our first child. We decided to stay at home that day and had the TV on over lunchtime. We sat transfixed, watching events unfold and it was one of those momentous events where, even at an early stage, I thought that the world would probably never be the same again. I remember being quite profoundly sad that there i was, with a new life in my arms, whilst watching pictures on TV of others losing theirs. I really feared for what sort of world this new life would grow up in.

 

A very poignant post.

[View From The Top]

That day was the last day of my paternity leave after the birth of our first child. We decided to stay at home that day and had the TV on over lunchtime. We sat transfixed, watching events unfold and it was one of those momentous events where, even at an early stage, I thought that the world would probably never be the same again. I remember being quite profoundly sad that there i was, with a new life in my arms, whilst watching pictures on TV of others losing theirs. I really feared for what sort of world this new life would grow up in.

 

I know just what you mean. My wife was expecting our 1st at the time and both of us had been to NYC many, many times and felt a real affinity to the place.

 

When I got home I remember holding her close, rubbing her belly and wondering what sort of world we were bringing this new life into.

[NY Saint]

In my office near Times Square. Victor, the building's doorman, told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center and in my mind it was a Cessna or other light aircraft. A few weeks before a Frenchman had landed a microlight on the Statue of Liberty and I thought it was something similar. By the time I got upstairs the second tower had been hit by another plane and that's when I began to get a little concerned. NBC, ABC and CNN's websites were all crawling and really hard to get updates from so I logged onto BBC's site which had live streaming video and I was able to let others in the office know what was going on. Shortly after the first tower collapsed my wife at the time called and told me her building in Times Square was being evacuated as there were fears that the Empire State Building was a target and we would meet at home. We were evacuated 15 minutes later, and as I got into Times Square saw the second tower collapse on the giant TV screens and I began a walk that would take almost two hours to my apartment on the upper eastside of Manhattan. No cellphones were working, the streets normally filled with rushing traffic were filled with 15 people abreast walking north up the avenues. My route took me through Central Park as it felt safer than walking amongst the tall buildings. People with dust and blood on them walked everywhere, and at one point a group gathered around a cab listening to the radio. I crossed Park Avenue at 93rd street and all we could see were clouds of black smoke from the South.

 

The next few days were a blur. We volunteered at a hotel that housed the recovery effort for families of people that worked at Cantor Fitzgerald as we had friends missing from there. Eventually we were not required. We went to give blood but were told it wasn't necessary. I eventually was able to call my parents and family. As the weeks moved on we were and are grateful that no one in our immediate family was killed. Almost every car, house and jacket lapel had an American flag on it and NYC was a weird place to not be American.

 

The reflecting pool and the new WTC site looks incredible. I just wish America and NYC in particular wasn't so paranoid and didn't feed into the media hysteria.

[scotty]

Of all the days to pick, that was the first one in at least 20 years when my first action on waking was NOT to switch on R4.

 

I knew nothing about it until my mate arrived at 2 o'clock. We had a load of deliveries scheduled, and I was in the workshop preparing for them and getting the van ready. He asked what I thought of the attacks, I replied "what attacks?" He said something about a plane in new york, and we cracked on with the days work. It wasnt until I got home at around 7pm that I realised the enormity of it.

[Thedelldays]

NYC saint...fancy getting me a job in NYC...?

 

cheers

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

I had just started Year 11 - was picked up by my Grandad and before I even had a chance to put my seatbelt on my brother was telling me that planes had crashed into the twin towers. To be honest, I thought it was the start of some kind of sick joke and told him to "shut up"

[Thedelldays]

did not realise that a few lounge super stars are so young..

[Dr Who?]

I was at work for Durs Automotive in Woodley Reading!!

[Thedelldays]

such a nice sight..on the news a bunch of islamic nutjobs were marching through london today, celebrating 9/11 and burning US flags..

 

 

live and let live eh..

[Saintandy666]

I remember coming in from school and being utterly shocked and sad even if I was only 8. I remember the images vividly It is a day I won't forget.

 

RIP to all those who died that day, and all those who had their lives affected by the attacks. And also RIP to all those who died as a result of 9/11.

[View From The Top]

such a nice sight..on the news a bunch of islamic nutjobs were marching through london today, celebrating 9/11 and burning US flags..

 

 

live and let live eh..

 

No different to the Westboro Baptist loons.

 

All the do is succeed in looking like the c**s we know them to be.

[Thedelldays]

No different to the Westboro Baptist loons.

 

All the do is succeed in looking like the c**s we know them to be.

never saw them on the news this evening...will take your word for it

 

call me biased...put me in a room with the head honcho from each group....there is a good chance one of them wont have me dead

[aintforever]

Was at work. All the news websites were crashing so we only had radio coverage. At first it was a fire, then "light aircraft". Then when the second hit everyone realised it was an attack.

 

I thought the most shocking bit was when the Pantagon was hit and there were reports of other hijacked aircraft - you just didn't know what was going to happen next. Very surreal.

[maxi_sopez]

Came back from School, and watched in horror. To this day every time i see those pictures i still get a shiver. One thing i will never get over are the jumpers, those poor poor people. RIP.

[alpine_saint]

I was at work, the base was lockdown and then not long after we left for the indian ocean.

 

Hmm. Sure you should have told us that ?

 

I get the impression you were sent to the Indian Ocean because of 9/11, because of the way you phrased it.

[Thedelldays]

Hmm. Sure you should have told us that ?

 

I get the impression you were sent to the Indian Ocean because of 9/11, because of the way you phrased it.

 

Trust me, I don't accidently let anything slip

 

 

And yes we were sent there in response to 9/11

[for_heaven's_Saint]

Was my second day of secondary school, never really understood the enormity of it until I started watching the programs recently.

[ericofarabia]

Was packing my suitcase to fly back to Dubai the next day.

 

You can imagine the chaos at Manchester and Heathrow Airports the next day.

 

The bizarre thing was that it was probably the safest day ever to fly on the 12th due to the extra security checks and measures.

 

Still an eerie feeling from take off to landing was very evident on board.

[latter day saint]

i had managed to sneek out of work early & had gone round to my mums on the way home. for some reason she had the BBC news channel on instead of the usual day time crap so we sat there & watched it all unfold from the very 1st reports. can still remember jumping up off the sofa when the 2nd plane hit. it was all so surreal,like watching a big budget disaster film.

[um pahars]

Got back from canteen to my office at Meridian and switched on the TV in my office to watch the lunchtime news. The breaking news was a plane had crashed in to one of the towers and our initial thoughts were that there was a radar/instrument malfunction.

 

We assumed it was a tragic accident until we saw the second one plough in to it. Watching that live was something Iwill never forget. We then thought it was a planned attack, but can remember thinking that maybe someone had deliberately messed up with the navigation beacons or something (like the Die Hard movie). It never struck me that they were actually at the controls!!!!

 

Remember updating people on the Ugly Inside as the events unfolded, before eventually being called down to the boardroom to do an audit of adverts and programmes due to go out (i.e. pull all progs/adverts with airplanes in them).

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

did not realise that a few lounge super stars are so young..

 

25 isn't that young grandad

[Barney Trubble]

On the way to Brighton for a cup game.

[alpine_saint]

Trust me, I don't accidently let anything slip

 

 

And yes we were sent there in response to 9/11

 

So was it your sub that lobbed a couple of Tomahawks into Afghanistan on the first night of hostilities ?

[Thedelldays]

So was it your sub that lobbed a couple of Tomahawks into Afghanistan on the first night of hostilities ?

 

 

lol

 

I said I don't accidentally let things slip

 

I may not have even been on a sub let alone that one. Or I may have

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1584660.stm

[Jonnyboy]

I was in a remote Outback area in NW Australia. When I finally heard about it I consoled myself with the thought that if idiots like delldays started a nuclear war at least we would probably be safe in our location.

[Thedelldays]

I was in a remote Outback area in NW Australia. When I finally heard about it I consoled myself with the thought that if idiots like delldays started a nuclear war at least we would probably be safe in our location.

 

LoL

Best place for you

[dubai_phil]

Was driving home from work when one of my guys called me tpld me to get to a telly fast. Got in, kicked the kids off the playstation, switched on Sky News and within moments watched the second plane hit. I just remember sitting there in tears.

 

 

The next day we found out that one of the "bright up & coming" guys in the US Head Office had been on one of the flights on with his fiance to get married in Hawaii. His family & friends were all there waiting for them... Think that sad and more personal story hit harder than the TV images in the following couple of days.

 

Heartbreaking, and working for a US Company down here, very worrying times, although the HR Department, the Irish Embassy in Saudi (we reported to Ireland) and people in the US Embassy here were fantastic making sure my people and their families were safe, secure and trained and arranging emergency evacuation procedures "just in case" Bush came up with an even more stupid knee jerk reaction than invading Iraq.

[Crab Lungs]

such a nice sight..on the news a bunch of islamic nutjobs were marching through london today, celebrating 9/11 and burning US flags..

 

 

live and let live eh..

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/september-11-attacks/8756264/911-Radical-Islamists-burn-US-flag-in-London-protest.html

 

what a bunch of utter 'tards, lol.

[rich saints]

at work at the uni then went to brighton in the afternoon