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Where were you for 9/11

359 replies

Chickenkeev · 12/08/2023 09:33

I was in France, i hadn't a clue what was happening. Didn't fully have the language, it was like a film. Watching a doc now, bringing it all back.

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FrenchandSaunders · 12/08/2023 09:36

Sitting in the car in our local high street with my baby twins asleep in the back listening to the radio.

MrsALambert · 12/08/2023 09:37

Driving with my friend back from town and heard it on the radio. Got in the house just the see the second plane fly into the second tower

CeeceeBloomingdale · 12/08/2023 09:38

At work in the airline industry, I still get emotional talking about it, that time will never leave me.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 12/08/2023 09:38

At school. I remember walking out and two girls were talking about a helicopter accident.. My mum filled me in once we were in the car.

PuttingDownRoots · 12/08/2023 09:39

School.
The first I heard about it was a phone call from my dad just after school telling me to go straight home (we lived in London, I was supposed to be going to athletics practice). It made no sense, as why would a terrorist attack in New York affect London... when bomb threats etc were so common then?

LittleMrsPretty · 12/08/2023 09:39

I was 10 years old and was really confused why the same programme was on every single TV channel.

my Dad was upstairs sleeping as he worked nights and Mum mum rushed into the house after work and wanted to watch the TV straight away. She then explained what had happened. It made no sense to me at 10 years old.

mnahmnah · 12/08/2023 09:39

I was in my second week of teaching. I had forgotten to put my phone on silent and it kept beeping in the cupboard. My students suggested I looked as it was clearly important! I kept reading the messages over and over thinking it was a joke or something. Then we wheeled the TV in and tuned into the news. It’s defined my teaching career ever since, due to the subject I teach.

Soubriquet · 12/08/2023 09:40

On the way back from Morrisons with my mum. I had finished school and we had gone straight shopping. We didn’t know anything until we started driving back and the radio cut out to it.

Came home, shoved the cold things into the fridge freezer and went to watch the tv

Doggymummar · 12/08/2023 09:40

I was managing a travel agency in Brighton. We couldn't believe what we were seeing.

Sheepsheepie · 12/08/2023 09:40

School but I don’t have any memories of being at school. Only distinct memory I have is coming home and seeing it on the telly, while my mum and a few neighbours were talking about it outside.

Pugdogmom · 12/08/2023 09:40

My mum had just died 3 days before. I had just popped to a friends house as she wanted to see my mum before the funeral and thought she was watching a movie. My mum lived in the US for years and remember thinking she'd be horrified by that. She wanted a the Stars and Stripes flag in with her,and that night, I removed it because I couldn't out of respect.
I think she would have forgiven me!

Coffeaddict · 12/08/2023 09:41

In school. I think we were sent home early but not told why. Got home to see the news coverage. It was heartbreaking

BusinessClass · 12/08/2023 09:42

I was at work and my dh phoned me and said omg a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center! I just said something like oh wow how awful. Do you want sausages for dinner? I just could not comprehend it at all. To this day I feel ashamed of my first response - when I got home I watched it in the news and cried.

GigiAnnna · 12/08/2023 09:44

At school, I heard about it on the way home.

echt · 12/08/2023 09:44

I was just leaving the school buildings and colleague came over and said what had happened. I tuned in to Radio 4 all the way home.

FloweryName · 12/08/2023 09:44

At work, not paying much attention and getting irritated by other people constantly going over to the computers to see what was going on because we were so busy. The seriousness of it passed me by for a good few hours until I finished and my partner at the time hadn’t heard of it at all until he got home from work and I had the telly on.

WearyLady · 12/08/2023 09:44

It was a work day. I'd gone out for a walk at lunchtime and was listening to the radio. I worked in a company associated with the travel industry and lost my job on account of it.

17CherryTreeLane · 12/08/2023 09:45

I was working, and was in a conference call with US based colleagues. They all started saying something's happening in New York and then cut the call. We watched it on our computers, and it seemed so surreal.

CandyflossKid · 12/08/2023 09:46

Registering my premature twins birth. First time I'd left the hospital since they were born.
The nurse looking after them on NICU was American and she left work early to try and get in touch with her mum and sisters who all lived in New York.

FuzzyPenguin · 12/08/2023 09:47

I was student at the time and was working at my part time job in Millets on that day. I had to walk past a TV shop to take the banking and remember seeing the planes crashing into the towers as I walked passed, I just assumed it was a film and it wasn’t until I got back to my boyfriends house I realised it wasn’t a film but actually real.

Bailem · 12/08/2023 09:47

In a X-ray department waiting room in my teens, when hospitals still had TVs. Sat in a silent waiting room watching it unfold, no one could quite compute what was happening.

KingscoteStaff · 12/08/2023 09:49

Just gone on Maternity leave, lying on the sofa massively pregnant. DH is a journalist and he phoned me to say put the telly on.

I lay there thinking about the world we were bringing our baby into…

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Chickenkeev · 12/08/2023 09:49

CandyflossKid · 12/08/2023 09:46

Registering my premature twins birth. First time I'd left the hospital since they were born.
The nurse looking after them on NICU was American and she left work early to try and get in touch with her mum and sisters who all lived in New York.

God that must have been weird! Poor woman. And poor you, it's a vulnerable time.

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MissDollyMix · 12/08/2023 09:49

I’d just finished watching neighbours with my mum and a news flash came on the tv. I was just getting ready to go away to uni for the first time the next day. It was a very surreal time.

mamatoTails · 12/08/2023 09:49

At school. My group of friends left at the end of the day to walk into town as had our street dance class and it was all over the news on the tv screens in Dixons/Currys/PC World windows.
Everyone was just stood outside the shops watching. I just remember the silence, everyone was so sad.