9/11 almost ten years on

Frightening where the time goes.


Well where were you when you heard about it and what was your reaction to it and your one memory of that day?




I was on afters at work (no access to any tvs).And kept hearing rumours,then getting text messages asking if i had the news on.Got home at half past ten and didn't get to bed until 3ish.Initial thoughts were that could this be the beginning of the end (ww3). Over riding memories were of the people who jumped.How bad must it have been for people to have made that choice?


Thoughts please.

 

I was working in a call centre then. I remember a woman shouting at me saying I was heartless calling her when the work was in shock.(as you can imagine we didn't have tv's in the sales room.

It still saddens to believe what happened.

 

I was Lecturing at Chesterfield College. The news media were saying it was an air crash until the second plane hit the WTC.

 

The most shocking phone call you will ever listen to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieniw94v_fA

 

I was a Payroll Manager in the steel industry. Early that afternoon, the Works Manager popped his head round my door and said "I think you ought to see this, Kevin". I followed him into the conference room, next to his own office, wondering what the problem was. There were already a couple of other managers inside, watching a television set at the end of the room. They were telling me an awful accident had just occurred. A plane had flown into the side of one the towers at the WTC. At that moment, a second plane flew into the other tower. Someone , I can't remember who, shouted "F**king hell!!!" We realised we were witnessing an act of terrorism, rather than a terrible accident. People whose only crime was to go to work that morning, were being killed before our very eyes and we could do nothing about it. It was unreal, like a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie. The huge difference was these were real people dying.
When I got home, I watched the tv and cuddled Laura feeling numb and horrified.
A horrible day.

 

Can remember it like it was yesterday.

I finished work around midday. Went to Rose and Crown at Darton for a swift pint and Gammon and Chips!! Went home and i always went to bed then for an hour or so in the afternoon. Had the BBC on looking at teletext and watching neighbours D). Soon as that finished a news flash came on. Now i have to be honest i didnt know what the World Trade Center was, Bit young!! Rung my dad up straight away who was at work. He told me they were huge buildings ect ect in middle of New York. As i was on the phone to him the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower. Unreal!!

As horrible as it was to be witnessing it - I stopped up all afternoon watching the footage. I couldn't turn it off. Some of the scenes that day on TV were unimaginable. I dread to even consider what it would have been like actually there.

Simply cannot believe that is 10 years ago.......

 

I was working in Kendray when a bloke came out of his house and told us what was happening. It wasn't until I got home and say the events on TV that I realized how serious it was.


Also didn't Barnsley play that evening possibly at Colchester? I remember that it looked like the matches that evening could have been called off.

 

I was on here at home when somebody posted about a plane crashing into the WTC and I didn't really know what the world trade centre was so I stuck the news on and watched as they showed coverage of the aftermath and then suddenly a second plane hitting. Sat watching TV for the next 5 hours or so whilst reading on the BBS about it

 

I was off work ill and my sister rang to tell me to put the news on. I sat and watched the news for hours in utter disbelief. No matter how many times it showed the planes hitting and the towers falling the shock did not seem to wear off, it was so unbelievable. I will never forget the horror of seeing people jumping

 

I was in school, and knew nothing of it until a friend's dad picked us up at about 3.30pm.

He told us there was a plane crash that had been on the news but hadn't heard anything since. Between him leaving to pick us up from school and us getting home, all hell had broken loose.

I did a paper round back then, and the images across all the papers the next morning are something I'll never forget.

 

I had been in a meeting at a hotel near Waltham Cross near the M25. My mate phoned me to tell me what was happening. I went to The Hand in Hand pub in Pinner with a few mates and watched it on TV. Couldn't believe it was really happening.

 

I was in the Army, Was made Corporal the very same day and wasnt interested in what my Platoon Commander was saying as wanted to get to the NAAFI to see the TV

 

Was working in an office in Leeds, in tech support ......... we were a close team and everyone took the mickey out of everyone else. The mickey was taken out of me cos of my addiction to the news and the fact I always had the BBC homepage open (in addition to the BBS). We probably didn't have an ultrafast internet pipe in those days and it had to serve about 300 people, so as events unfolded people were unable to connect so it seemed the whole office block watched events on my screen as I already had the page open.
Like one of the comments above, I had this feeling of impending doom and fully expected WWIII, and I rang my Mrs to make sure her and my two-year old were safe (my second was due a month later). That night was awful watching all the scenes and coverage of people jumping etc ...... there were all these rumours about missing planes to contend with for hours too.
Next day I posted my thoughts on here like a lot of other people and I'm sure someone said I had her in tears (I always seem to remember it was TinaTyke or Alityke)
Was a sad day indeed - the like of which we will be pushed to see again.

 

I was at work doing Payroll and I had to make a call to a colleague in Derby who was working from home that day. She was telling me happend with tears runing down her face and as we were talking the second plane hit the other tower. Her actualy works were "Oh My F*****g God, the other ones been hit by another plane, the other ones been hit by another plane, Oh my god, oh my god.

Could not believe it and when got home, just sat there in front of the tv. Awful day.

RIP all killed in 9/11

 

I was home for the summer from uni and was working down at Stelrad in Swinton making radiators. I'd been on earlys that day but had finished at 12 because I'd helped out the day before and done a double shift. I was laid on the sofa at my parents watching Sky Sports News when it flashed up across the screen to turn to Sky News. I immediately thought that was unusual as I can't remember that ever happening before or since.

As I turned on the reports were of a tragic accident, a plane had crashed in to the WTC when suddenly another plane, almost in slow motion, appeared from off screen and ripped through the second tower. I just remember the news reader going 'My God' and then silence for what seemed like an age.

I spent the rest of the day just watching TV as events unfolded, gradually joined by the rest of the family as they returned home from work.

Its difficult to say what my memories are of that day because the images have been replayed so many times I can't remember which reactions were immediate or retrospective. I can say with certainty that the events were heartbreaking and shocking, but I don't know whether I realised that it would be the moment that defined the last and future decades.

 

I was a warehouse supervisor at a logistics company in Dodworth.

I had just gone into the yard to shout a driver onto the bay when he called me over. He had a tv in his cab and the footage of the 1st plane hitting was just been shown as breaking news, I was dumb struck I climbed in the passenger side to watch the rest unfold and the 2nd plane hitting.

What must have been going through the heads of the poor souls who decided to jump I can never imagine, one thing I can not remember from the events is did they ever find out the destination of the plane that the passengers tried to take back before it crashed in Pennsylvania?

 

I was on a beach in Bali, a woman not far from me took a phone call, one of her family was in one of the towers, she was hysterical, alot of the tourists left and caught the next plane home, i stayed and on the flight home a week later i could sit where i wanted it was that empty. And the following year when the Bali bombings happened i was in Thailand and couldnt believe that the place i was in the year before was bombed.

 

I'd started at my current job about a week previously and was "hot desking", I can remember the desk I was in. I didn't have internet access but someone sat nearby did and said a plane had crashed into the WTC. We just assumed it was a light aircraft. Then someone said another had gone into the 2nd tower and also that a plane had hit the Pentagon. I can vividly recall looking at someone elses PC and seeing the picture on the BBC site. At that we realised it was a terrorist attack. I just felt numb. I remember driving home on the motorway and nobody was cutting up or driving really fast etc, every car people looked completely serious and in shock. I got home and put the TV on, and tried phoning a friend in the US whose sister was a flight attendant on United Airlines, eventually when I could get through it was the sister who answered the phone.
I just watched the news all evening, and probably didn't watch anything else on TV for 2 or 3 days.

 

It was originally bound for LA and had turned toward Washington DC, it's believed it was going to attack either the White House or the Capitol building.

 

Thanks ES