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 running a global conference in Florida. 80 people from all over the world, who were then unable to return home.

We were confined to the hotel by the local police because we were 'aliens' and we were in the same town where some of the terrorists had learned to fly.

I spent a week on the phone to BA, American, Virgin, Amtrak, the hotel group, the insurers and our head office in the UK. Trying to keep frightened people calm.

I remember this day so well. I dydnt believe it when one of the girls at work mentioned it. Was filled with shock. Then as I was walking home later I saw some bigoted idiots laughing about it And saying this was revenge on America . I was absolutely disgusted at what I heard. To laugh at people being murdered😭🤬

I was in Corfu.
Me and friend had gone shopping while our husbands went to a bar. We walked into the bar to meet them laughing and the whole place was oddly silent. Both we and our friends had loved ones in NY and they did manage to call The UK and find out that their family was unaffected but I didn’t know about my friends until I got back to England
Our apartment didn’t have a TV and it was pre days of streaming stuff onto your phone so we didn’t really see any of the footage or hear much about it after that unless we went into a bar with a a TV. We didn’t really understand what happened until we got home. Our flight was unaffected but there was some extra security before boarding.
I still haven’t seen the footage

I had a summer position at a company in London. Many of our staff were at the twin towers for a conference that day. A really annoying girl came over to our desks and told us there had been a plane crash in NYC and one of the guys just rolled his eyes at her and thought she was being so dramatic. After that we all got called for a meeting and they said they had confirmed that all the staff due at the conference had been in the tower apart from the boss who had left the hotel in his trainers that morning but had forgotten his smart shoes so had gone back and was running late. That saved his life.

I was at work. Someone said a plane had flown into the WTC and we all thought it was just a Cessna type aircraft. Then the second one hit. We didn't have Internet access in the office so just went back to work. The next day a colleague was upset as her son was in NY on holiday and had been up one of the towers the previous day.

We were living in New zealand. My ds's were 2.5 and eight months old and Ds1 was watching his favourite programmes when they were interrupted. he thought it was just a movie.

I was 8. Me and my younger brothers were in the car with my grandad going to collect our nan from work. We were chattering away as kids do. Grandad had the radio on. We were all told pretty sharpish to be quiet. We didn't grasp the enormity of what had happened at the time but that moment sticks in my mind.

I was at work in Canary Wharf. In a meeting. Everyone's pagers started to go off. We'd had the bombing just a few years before. Usually multiple pagers going off meant something big and bad and "all hands on deck" in our industry, but this was worse.

I was at a work seminar in a hotel with 2 close colleagues. When the news started coming through on the car radio on the way home, we went to the closest of our houses & numbly watching the horrors unfold. It felt like nothing else I've ever experienced (closest is probably the first covid lockdown), almost a filmic quality that you couldn't quite believe it had really happened. Such tragedy for so many people

I was teaching all day but remember being told in the school office at the end of the day and being glued to the news when I got home. The following day most of my lessons were spent talking about it with the kids who had so many questions about what had happened and just needed to talk about it.
We also had a number of parents saying their kids weren't going to be doing any homework for RE in the aftermath as year 8 were studying Islam that half term.

I was working alone all day, in a unit off site. I left work at about 4.30 and put radio 4 on in the car.

I wondered why Eddie Mair was on early, rather than the news starting at 5. I decided he was playing a cameo in an afternoon drama and thought it was rather far fetched.

Something about it was unsettling so I put the TV on when I got in.

I was at uni but living at home. I was watching diagnosis murder on BBC1 and it was interrupted to show live footage of what was happening. I ran downstairs to find my dad watching it too. It was horrific.

I had to go into work later that night (telephone interviewer) and its all anyone was talking about - staff and people i was ringing.

I can still remember that afternoon like it was yesterday.

Ive tried explaining to my DC how it changed the entire world permanently and they just dont understand as they werent here before to compare. Looking back the world was more safe, free and fun before 9/11.

I was in primary school, primary 3 or 4 and I remember getting in to my grandparents after school and them being glued to the news. I was too young really to understand, but I can vividly remember thinking it must be bad because they were total creatures of habit and never once in my life had I got in from school and my gran wasn't cooking dinner

I was at a friends house and her husband called us to the living room as the show he was watching was interrupted. We also saw the second plane hit as we were watching the news.

I was in my 20s and had a baby - it absolutely terrified me

I’d just started my first proper job as a teacher and was photocopying sheets to keep y8 busy and the tv in the large photocopying room ( complete with a photocopying member of staff ) had the image of a hole in the side of the tower and we watched as the tower came down.

I had been seeing a speech writer for the Labour Party and called him and he told me they were all being shuffled into a meeting about security and he would call me later.

I was late for my class.

I was working at the local convenience store and customers came in talking about it. Went home in the afternoon and immediately put the news on.

We were all standing at the top of the South Tower a year before the disaster. We have photos and videos of us standing at the top. Still makes the hairs on my neck stand up to think of it.

DS1 was only a few weeks old and I was asleep.
DH called me that the World Trade Centre was hit by 2 planes.
I didn't know what the WTC was, I couldn't care less about some planes crashing into a warehouse that I could do nothing about so I hung up and went back to sleep.

I don't watch tv or the news habitually but once I woke up I switched on the news and was glued to the tv for the rest of the day.
I felt immense grief & shock at the needless devastation of so many lives.
I remember wondering if this was gonna be the start of WW3.

Whenever I see footage I still feel like I can't breathe.

I distinctly remember this. I was living overseas and we had a TV on a bit of space on a mezzanine floor in our house. I was having my breakfast watching TV. I’m not sure if the time difference meant it had happened earlier. I put on the TV and thought it was some stupid movie, so changed channel, then changed again, confused.

Then it hit me. It was a terrible tragedy.

Dh and I were in australia and first heard in a taxi en route to Cairns airport due to fly to Sydney. It was the most awful flight as it was literally within an hour or two and before flights were grounded with long delays so nobody was really sure if this was just in the States or global. One of my colleagues was in New York and was meant to be there at the time it happened. She would have been had her and her friend not got really drunk the night before and the friend was really sick and hungover so they said they'd leave it til the afternoon...........they were in New York for 9/10 days before they could get home.

At work. My colleague had a phone call from her husband who was off work at home, and she switched a tiny tv on (not sure why we had that tv in the office, we had bigger ones in the training rooms). I thought it was an accident until the second one.

I genuinely thought that would be the start of world war 3. It was completely terrifying even in the U.K., I dread to think what it would be like in the US and NY in particular.

(Oh but then I got my knickers in a tizz over whether I could still text a guy from NY I’d met at a wedding the weekend before, so normal life was still trundling on alongside the utter dread).

I was a nurse on night shifts, i was single in tbose days so didnt get up untill about 6pm, i was lying in the bath getting ready for work listening to the radio when the dj, s started talking about the atrocities in America, once i got to work everyone was talking about it.

I was 7 years old so in primary school, and our teacher wheeled out the tv so we could watch it. A controversial choice, I’d say.

I was at work, I had a Nokia phone and you could get text message news alerts, so I found out through that.

Yes, I was only 9 and walked home from school to find my mum sitting on the sofa watching the tv open mouthed.
I was so naive it took me a while to realise it was deliberate, I genuinely remember watching it thinking “hang on, two planes into two towers, that seems like a bit of a coincidence, was this maybe on purpose.” When I thought it was one plane I absolutely believed it was an accident.

I'd got in from a morning toddler group with my 2yr old and newborn and put the news on after lunch. I was horrified and couldn't believe what I was seeing. A friend phoned up and asked if we wanted to go to the park and I was WTAF, had she not seen what was happening and she was yeah but shall we go to the park? Needless to say, the park didn't see us that day. Neither did my friend.