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.

I was at work at a mental health day unit, there was a TV in the lounge, I was in the office and someone came in and said something about a plane crash, having had a relative die in a plane crash a few years before I tended to avoid anything to do with plane crashes. It wasn't until later that I realised the extent of what was happening.

I was in my Nana's living room with what I remember to be my entire family (probably wasn't), I was about 8/9. I remember feeling really sick and sad seeing people jump out of the buildings and looked to my aunt for comfort and she was just sobbing (her husband was a New Yorker),

Then the mad panic to put another quid in the back of the tele so we didn't miss anything

It was the second plane that had the youngest 9/11 victims on it. I only found this out recently, and it really saddened me all this time later.
I think the second plane had three under 5s on it. One of the young children were due to go to Disney land

Sorry, bit late to this. I was at work, where there was a TV in a nearby office. One of my colleagues came rushing in to tell us that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre. We were all suitably shocked, but assumed at that point that it was an accident. She then came in again and told us that another plane had crashed into the other tower. We all went rushing into the office where the TV was and watched the unfolding event in horror.

I went home later to find my husband, who was WFH at the time, sitting in the living room saying "Have you seen this? They've gone. They're not there any more." (The towers had collapsed at this point). I've never seen him look so genuinely shocked. Three years before the event we had made our one and only visit to New York, and we went to the top of one of the towers to visit a bar called Windows On The World (I think). It was a very foggy day, and I remember saying that if we ever went back to New York we should go up there again on a clearer day....

I also remember very clearly that the weekend after the event, we had a short break in Lynmouth on the North Devon coast. Because of the geography of the place it felt a million miles away from the world at large and all its troubles, and I had a very profound feeling of not wanting to leave there. Sad times.

Still sends shivers down my spine. I was 13 and it hit me hard, I was anxious teen who over thought it and ruminated for a long, long time. 😢

I didn't have the news on all day. I was SAHM. DH arrived home in the evening and told me about it when I was bringing the washing in. It was a beautiful clear day.

I was describing it to DS (17) earlier this evening.
I remember it really well. I had a week of annual leave and was pootling around at home with the TV on so I saw it unfolding. I remember watching the second plane in open-mouthed horror.
Coincidentally, I had a week of annual leave and was pootling around at home on 7/7 as well.

Programme on ITV3 last night re this, absolutely heartrending I remember it happening when at work, but didnt know that a third building collapsed.

Theres a documentary on sky called Four Flights, regarding the 911 planes involved.
It’s the story of some of the victims on the flights, crew and passengers.
Heartbreaking, especially that some people changed their original schedules so they could be on those particular flights.

At work in an open plan office. The internet crashed as everyone was trying to the watch the news. I had a hair appointment after work and when I went in the salon saying how shocked I was the staff didn’t know what had even happened as they’d had mtv on all afternoon

I watched that Four Flights documentary too and agree it was quite sad.
Seth Macfarlane who wrote Family Guy, was scheduled on one of the flights. But his travel agent made a mistake with the booking time. He actually arrived 15 minutes later than he should and missed his flight. That error saved his life.