Where were you for 9/11

[Chickenkeev]

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.

I wouldn’t call it wrong, not on the day of anyway, when no one knew what exactly was happening. It came out of nowhere for people. It was an ordinary, beautiful day in September (the weather was great in New York and across the Midwest that day) and suddenly the country was under attack - four planes had been hijacked and deliberately crashed and no one knew if more were coming.

I just saw your post after my last post. I hope it's not offensive.

On holiday in Greece. We’d been at the beach all day and we’re heading back to our apartment. Friend nipped into a shop, came out saying someone had told her that a plane had flown into The White House. We carried on walking back when we noticed lots of people huddled around the tele in one of the bars so went in to look and it was just images of the second plane hitting the tower. Just shock. We actually decided to leave the bar so didn’t see until later that they’d collapsed, but didn’t realise the full extent of it until the following morning after reading the British papers.

I was 9 years old when it happened.

I have no memory of it whatsoever. Not a clue.

My first week of 6 form. I was in a class at the time.

Just to add, loads of people called our house to see if I was home.

My mother woke me up, told me NYC was under attack and I ran downstairs to see it for myself on the news.

Unbelievable sight! Didn't seem real for a long time.

It was my mum's 60th birthday was having lunch with her .rest of her birthday we sat watching it on TV in utter disbelief.

I was at work. We were just sitting there listening to it unfold on the radio. A member of the management team came out of the office and told us to get back to work as "it doesn't affect anyone here". We even got told off because we had missed our production target that day.

Just finished work and the mil was looking after my son. I couldnt believe what I was seeing on the TV. I literally sat there open mouthed not comprehending what had happened.
We all have these moments where we all remember what / where we were when something defining happened

At home, ironing with the TV on so saw it from the start.
I went for a walk to clear my head, it was a horribly humid, sunny day, people were standing outside TV shops watching it.
Spent several hours trying to contact family in the US to check they were OK.

I was at home recovering from PTSD after a serious assault, and I had a nervous breakdown after watching people jump to their death; and ended up back under the psychiatric team.

I was a uni student so hadn't gone back yet after the summer. I was watching TV at my then-boyfriend's mum's house and I remember they interrupted the lunchtime Neighbours screening (so about 1:45pm or something?) to bring the breaking news.

I then rang my mum at work in London, as I wasn't sure if her office would have the news on at all. She just didn't believe me until I told her to find a TV or the radio. It was the days before phones were usually just Nokia 3310s so people were far less likely to get their news from their phones instantly.

In geography at school. My class has finished a bit early so I was the only one on the school bus waiting for everyone else and after a while, I realised that Chris Moyles wasn’t playing any music on the radio. The details were unclear at the time but as soon as I got home, we turned on the TV and watched all night. My grandma and mum were worried as my uncle lives in New Hampshire and was due to fly from Boston to Canada but he’d landed by the time it happened. It wasn’t as easy to contact people back then though.

I'd been at college and was listening to it as I was driving home. I got in just to see the 2nd plane hit. I remember just sitting there, jaw on the floor, hands to face in utter disbelief and horror.

Absolutely NOT!

In Northern Ireland, you were largely able go about your life and it wasn't like it was impossible to go to school, work, shopping, etc.

In fact, you were far more likely to die in a road traffic collision in Northern Ireland than you were to die at the barrel of a gun or semtex detonated somewhere.

What does happen when terrorist activities are carried out is the population in general becomes more defiant and resistant to it. None had majority support.

I'd be amazed if any British citizen in GB ever felt under siege since PIRA attacks were even more sporadic there. By the time of the big ones in London and Manchester, PIRAs ability to murder had massively decreased. Buildings were more likely to be damaged, but rebuilt again with no real bother.

No offense taken at all, no. No worries!

It's strange to think we didn't have the same access to information we do now. I had a phone back then, but it was just a phone. No real internet. And i had no tv, the tv room in the college rooms was full of scary men so it was just phone my parents (which was twice a week) or try and decipher the newspaper (Ouest France). It's actually a world away from life now.

My Nan worked in Harrods when it was bombed by the IRA, and we had to wait half a day to find out if she was alive or not. I had school friends who were in the branch of McDonalds just before the bomb went off.We weren't exactly under siege but it was tense.

At home in a chat room and someone said it happened an hour or two later went to make a cuppa and put the news on, and omg.

😦

I went to Manchester the week after Canary Wharf. I was a kid but i was shitting myself altogether. I really can't imagine living under the threat of bombs day to day.

I was just at home. I watched it on a loop all day. It was awful.

It becomes part of life and you also come to realise actual bombs didn't go off every day. I mean, in Northern Ireland you were aware of the threat of it.

But you didn't let it stop you living life. Most people took sensible security precautions, e.g. checking under cars for IEDs, changing your routine, etc.

Things would be tense after a shooting or a bombing, but you weren't under siege.

The Twin Towers attack took more lives than was lost during the Troubles, I think. One attack.

I was in my art lesson at school and one of the other pupils mentioned it, I didn't know what the twins towers were to be honest. Got home from school and my mum had it on the TV, it was scary.

Visiting DM in Australia. About 7am she came in to wake me and said 'Come and look at what's happened in New York.'