Where were you when 9/11 happened

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I know this topic has been done many times before but this 9/11 seems to have really made me think about it more.

I was in an interview for an internal job change and the interviews were being held at a Marriott hotel. It would have been an amazing job to get. I got through the first round in the morning and rang my now husband to tell him I was through to the afternoon interviews on a payphone. He sounded really unnerved and told me that something awful had happened in NY and to see if I could watch the news somewhere. I asked them in reception if they had a telly. A crowd gathered and watched in stunned silence. Everyone thought it was an accident but as the second plane hit, everyone was horrified when we realised it was deliberate.

I was called into the interview about 5 minutes after the second tower was hit and I sat there white as a sheet, trying to keep it together. The interviewer asked if I was ok and I explained what had happened. She said that her brother worked in lower Manhattan and said she needed to leave. I really hope her brother was ok. After that all the interviews were cancelled for the day and we sat in the hotel bar watching it unfold.
There was a Marriott in the WTC complex so the staff were worried about their colleagues.

I had visited the WTC myself in the April of 2001 and I went to the Top of the World Observatories In the South tower.

On maternity leave so I watched it all unfold on TV through the day.

I was 13 In school- left school to walk home and my dad was walking up the road and told me that ww3 was about to kick off. I went home and watched the news to see what the hell he was on about.

I was on my lunch break in the staff room watching it unfold live on TV. I worked for a tour operator.

I was cabin crew and on an airport standby, watched it all on a little TV in the crew room room whilst waiting to be called for a flight. I'll never forget the atmosphere at our check in base that day as colleagues landed back safely

Napping post bf a newborn. Thought it was an action film at first.. Took what Seend like an age to digest the horrible truth.

At school. I didn’t even know what or where the twin towers were but knew it was serious from the teachers reactions.

We were away for a short break in a UK town. Came out of WHSmith to a huddle on the pavement of people saying something awful had happened. I didn’t have a proper smartphone but could get BBC alerts, and got the gist. We thought it had been a horrible accident until we got back to our hotel room just in time to see the second tower struck. It was an horrific day as it unfolded.

At school, year 5. I was 9. The teachers pulled our three adjoining classes into one room, told us all to sit on the floor and rolled a tv in, where we all sat in stunned silence watching it.

Bizzare the teachers let us watch that.

Sitting on the sofa watching in disbelief on maternity leave a month before DS was born.

I was driving home from a work meeting along the M1 northbound. I heard it on the radio and pulled over to a service station and watched on TV as the first tower tumbled.

The world felt very strange that day.

We went to the theatre that night to watch the Lady in the Van, there as a minutes silence before the play started. Everything felt so strange and eerie I think, even though we were thousands of miles away many people had chosen to stay at home that night as the city seemed empty.

Very similar for me, although I was a couple of years older.

I got off the bus from school and my mum was waiting at the bus stop for me which was weird as I always walked home myself. She was quite shaken up and said she just wanted me home safe because something terrible had happened and she also thought WW3 was going to kick off.

We went home and watched the TV together in stunned silence. I still remember watching people jumping from the towers and it was the most upsetting thing I'd ever seen.

I was 8 years old and remember it being on the news. Never realised the impact it had until I was much older

I worked nights at the time and woke up to hear the news on local radio "We have just been informed that a plane has flown into one of the Twin Towers in New York. More news when we hear it - meanwhile over in Bramley Mrs Soandso has got a very interesting cat"

At work, the big TV in reception had the BBC news on which was just on a loop. The network went down as everyone was trying to access the news channels.

It was truly shocking, quite unbelievable despite seeing it.

In Yellowstone National park hiking. We couldn't understand why there was a massive queue to leave the park that day- they were taking everyone's details. Then trying to find a computer or public phone. My mum was panicking despite us being so far away.

I'd just got home from school, just walked through the front door, and my mummy mentioned something about a plane crash. There was something about her demeanour that confused me. She was glued to the television but I thought it was "just" a plane crash and surely wasn't such a big news item.

At work, hearing it all on the radio. I still lived my parents at the time and I remember going home to find my mum cooking dinner, totally oblivious. I told her what had happened and she said "That sounds nasty, hope no one was hurt." She simply hadn't realised the gravity of the situation.

Also I remember going to the pub with friends that evening. Everyone was just sitting in stunned silence.

I was at university in the US, quite near NYC. I was driving to classes.

I will never forget the radio broadcast and the horror in the presenters' voices.

Same here.

Didn't click till I got home and saw the news what had actually gone on

I was on a Eurocamp holiday in Spain. We only found out about it 2 days later when my husband happened to see the headline on an English newspaper in the Eurocamp shop! Not sure it would be possible to be that out of touch nowadays 🤔

I was teaching when the planes hit the buildings. I remember someone coming into class and (no kids so must have been breaktime) and asking if I had heard what happened in New York.

I left work earlier than normal at the end of the day and we spent the evening watching the rest of the events unfurl on tv.

I cannot believe that teachers thought that appropriate to show Year 5s. WTF!

Etam in Epsom buying clothes as hadn’t started my MA at uni

7/7 I was in London that was an awful day as well

At school. Our teachers told us before we went home. We weren’t allowed to watch telly after school but just put the news on for hours as soon as we got back

On my way to a funeral, stopped at a cafe and we thought a disaster movie was on TV, then realised it was real.

The morning of 9/11 I was in A&E after being blue lighted in the early hours. Luckily nothing more than a migraine.