9/11 20 years on where were you can you remember it happening

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Just read an article about 9/11 cannot believe it will be 20 years since it happened next month. Still remember it like yesterday.
It really was my generation's JFK moment I think.
I was working at Fenwicks part time student. My friend came over to relive me so I could go on break and told me about a plane flying into one of the twin towers. I assumed she meant a light air craft so as I wandered into the staff room I was shocked to see the type of plane crashing into building and gasped as did everyone else already watching in the room. Only then did someone say that was a second plane.
After work me and all my family watched sky news on a loop it was horrendous those poor souls what they went through. The world seemed so terrifying suddenly.

We'd literally just got in from school when the phone rang and it was mums friend telling her to put the tv on. I can remember just sitting on the floor in front of the tv in disbelief. I was only young but it's a day that's etched in my mind.

I had just gone into year 6. I remember my Mum was driving us home from school and said that CBBC wouldn't be on because something really bad had happened in New York. She explained that planes had flown into the Twin Towers, but I had no frame of reference for what those were but I learned much more in the following weeks.

DH is from the US and was 15 at the time. He remembers everybody watching on TV and some people were terrified because they had relatives there or family travelling to New York. Eventually they sent them all home early. Apparently, even a lot of elementary schools put it on TV as it was just so shocking.

We were talking about Afghanistan this past week and reflcting on how 9/11 had shaped our lives- it really did have a profound impact.

I was working in Canary Wharf Tower. It was frightening, we'd watched in horror as the planes crash into the Twin Towers on the big rolling news screens on our floor. We had colleagues working in our offices in the World Trace Centre that day.

No-one knew what was going on, there was much concern that London would be targeted too. At the time Canary Wharf was London's tallest tower and a very obvious potential target.

Then the alarms sounded, the tower was being evacuated, but slowly, floor by floor and we had to sit tight and wait our turn. I know it was insignificant compared to what others suffered that day, but it was an awful feeling, knowing we needed to get out but had to stay put until we were allowed to leave.

Horrible day.

It was the first time I'd been shopping on my own since my husband had died in the July. My friend has asked me to pick something up so I stopped on my way home to deliver it. I walked into the sitting room and asked why the hell her three year old was watching such a dreadful film and she explained... 😔 😔 😔 😔

It was my first day at college. I’d just got in and my mum was on the sofa watching something on tv. She asked how my day had been and as I was answering the tv switched to the emergency news broadcast and we watched the whole thing live. I remember not fully comprehending what was going on as we watched the towers collapse.

I was admitted to a&e in the early hours of 9/11. I'd woken up in the night with the migraine from hell and because of my medical history my DH had called 999. I recall visions of planes falling from the sky and being terrified one was going to land on my house. I don't know if that was because I heard the nurses discussing it or if I'd had some kind of premonition or some kind of painkiller drug induced hallucination but it was very vivid and felt very, very real

After overnight observation I was discharged the next day.
I arrived home just as the 1st tower fell.

I had been at home from hospital for 4 days with ds, my first born, when it happened. I already felt my life had been turned upside down, 09/11 just increased that feeling. Ds will be 20 next week.

I had been collected in the car from school by my mum (I normally took a public bus but a few times a month my mum was able to collect me when her work hours allowed) I had just started year 11. I remember hearing it on the radio the whole journey home and then we put BBC news on when we got home.

It still seems unreal to me. That this could happen in real life. Even in 2001, I thought the US was hot on security.
It was almost 20 years ago, but really doesn’t seem it. It still feels quite raw.

Can never forget how many years as I was sitting with my tiny 11 day old baby watching tv whilst feeding him when it happened, total disbelief I was bringing a child into this world where things like that happened, my mum was also in the air flying to Australia at the time. Son is 20 next week.

I was at home and ds2 was having a nap before we went to school to pick up DS1. I called one of the other playgroup mums who I didn't know very well to ask something about a playgroup event and she was really strange on the phone, told me to watch the television then hung up on me. I couldn't work it out but turned the TV on and saw what was happening. I coul hardly tear myself away to go to the school pick up. Half the mums in the playground were aware, half weren't. I remember rushing home with the dc and putting the tv on again in the ridiculous hope that it would be declared 2 tragic accidents rather than deliberate.

I was in Germany in the army. Remember feeling very scared.

I was at work with the radio on, I'd never heard of the World Trade Centre and when the first plane hit I thought it was a little plane accidentally hitting a building, when the second one hit I realised it was deliberate.
I went home soon after and couldn't believe the scenes on the TV, they're still as shocking to watch 20 years later.

Driving to work and Chris moulds was on the radio. I'd been in a branch and was heading to another. Hadn't heard what had happened and he made a comment about not being appropriate to tell jokes. Wasn't till
I reached the afternoon visit that I found out

Those were the days when not many people had mobiles

Chris Moyles

Bloody phone

I was 21 and working in a call centre selling sim cards.

I'd gone home for lunch and turned the news on. I'd heard of the Pentagon but not the Twin Towers. It didn't quite seem real.

I went back to work and we were sent home shortly afterwards. The people we were calling were distracted and watching the news or worried and it didn't seem appropriate to carry on. I remember thinking did they know someone in the Towers.

I was walking down our high street and an old fashioned shop was blaring out the news from a PA outside and I couldn't figure out what was going on. Drove home which took 10/15 mins and as I got home I think the second plane hit, walked in and my Dad was watching it, so I don't know how quickly it all happened for the shop to have been blaring it out. Not sure if it was the building in Washington hit first?

At home watching a film, dm came in voice shaking, I had no understanding of what's going on...

Then I saw the second plane hit... And we watched in horror and disbelief

Poor people just going to work in offices in the WTC and those poor people on the planes, the ones flown into the towers probably didn’t know what was going to happen.
Flight 93 was the only flight that knew what was going to happen after being told by phone calls to families.

I was really sick in an eating disorders unit. We switched the TV on after afternoon snack, and at first, I thought it was a film. I remember thinking that it wasn't normally a film at that of time. It took some time to register that it was actually the news.

I was at home with the DC and DH rang to tell me. I turned on the TV in time to second plane hit. I'm not sure if that was real time or a replay for the news.

I just remember holding the DC close and trying to get my head round it. Because of DH's job, we had a lot of friends in the US.

I was working in an office. My boss called me to tell me what had happened - at that point we just thought there had been a terrible accident. When we heard the second tower had been hit, we ran out to buy a TV from Argos across the road. Sat in shock and disbelief watching it. When my boss realised the enormity of it, he sent us all home. Where we basically just sat glued to Sky News all night long.

I was going into town with a friend to buy a present for his brother. I had heard it reported on the radio in the car that the first plane had hit, but the significance didn't really register. I'd never heard of the twin towers before.

Then when we got into town we noticed groups of people gathered on the pavements looking into shop windows. We went to see what they were looking at and then spent about 20 minutes stood at the side of the road watching events unfold live through the window of an electrics shop who had all of the televisions on in the window display.

I was due to fly to Los Angeles four days later for my year abroad. I did fly that day, not knowing if/when I would return as everyone was saying at the time that it could be the start of WW3. It was scary.

I was WFH ( yes it was possible!) my 6month DD was ill so the nursery has called le to pick her up. I had the TV on at lunchtime and watched the second plane hit live. Not something you forget easily.