Today is the 25th anniversary of 9/11 do you remember what you were doing when you saw the news?

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I remember every single bit of that day like it was yesterday. I had only visited the WTC 3 months earlier too. Thinking about the families and survivors and emergency workers today.

I was at home with my baby with the radio on. They reported initial news that a plane had gone into the WTC so I switched on sky news to see the pictures. They were still puzzling about how this could have happened when we saw the second plane go into to the other tower. I remember thinking “how on earth could this happen twice” when one of the newsreaders said “this is obviously terrorism and my blood ran cold. I had to pick my older child up from nursery and was saying to people at the school gate “have you seen what’s happened” feeling slightly panicky. On the drive home they reported the collapse of the first tower. Just shockingly unbelievable.

I had been out shopping with my mum, we came home all happy and chatting to be greeted by my dad looking like a ghost - his face was grey and shocked 😔 he said haven't you heard what's happened? We sat and watched the rolling news on TV and saw the towers fall, it didn't seem real, like something out of a disaster movie. Just so shocking and hard to believe it was happening 😞

My word! Was it on lots of TVs at once? That’s an image no one wants to see more than once.

What an awful old lady!

I remember watching that airport TV show a few years ago and they had an episode on 9/11 and the amount of selfish people complaining it was affecting their holiday plans was staggering. Even though it was in the USA you still had no idea whether there was plans to attack other countries.

I was at work and had had an early start. Someone who started later said they'd heard about it in the car radio on their way in. The internet was totally swamped so we had to slink away from our desks to see the BBC news on the wall screen in reception.

It was like something from a Die Hard movie but real. Horrible.

I was at work ( High Street bank ) and a customer came in to say there’d been a terrible accident in NewYork - a plane hitting a skyscraper.

A couple of us went upstairs to the training room where there was a tv, and then we all took turns to watch as the events unfolded.
I kept thinking of our daughter travelling abroad ( thankfully not US ) and praying it wasn’t the start of World War 3.

Can’t remember if there was anything on any TV channel that evening except the news - DH and myself certainly didn’t move from the sofa. Unbelievably horrific and harrowing , but felt compelled to watch.
Will never, ever forget the heroism of all the firemen, police, emergency workers - and everyone caught up in the hell unleashed that day . 😢

I was at work. My employer heard the news from her partner and told me about it, clearly in shock. It didn’t sink in until I watched the news later in the day.

At work in the City in a bank. We watched for a while on a TV on wheels as no one could get the internet to work.

We all got sent home at about 3pm. Walking back to my flat in Spitalfields past the Natwest Tower which was one of the tallest buildings at the time was surreal. The streets were very quiet. Lots of rumours about planes hitting Canary Wharf.

I was at work. Someone's partner phoned in to tell them about it.

There wasn't a television, we couldn't get the internet to load. I think we heard updates on the radio, but the whole picture took a while to emerge.

It all sounded awful, but it wasn't until I got home after work and put the television on that the full enormity hit me.

It was a relatives birthday and they still went out for their birthday meal in London. They said it was eery, there was hardly anyone else out. They felt dreadful still trying to carry on and very guilty.

I had flown in from Chicago at about 8am, so one of the last planes to land. We were tired so had gone home to sleep. We were woken up by all our phones ringing repeatedly. I finally answered to my sister, who firstly wanted to check we had made it back, but then to turn on the TV. We watched in horror what was unfolding. I will never forget that day - it seemed so unreal. The world has never been the same since…..

I was working as a supply teacher. As it was the beginning of the year, work was slow and I had the day off. I was sat at the desk in our study with the TV on. Sky News. When I saw the first images, I genuinely thought it was a film.

Then the 2nd plane crashed and it was all so very real. It took a fair while for my brain to process what I was actually seeing. It may have been 25 years ago but I remember every detail of those first few hours.

I was at a conference for work (my first solo work trip overseas) but that was the one session in 3 days that I had decided I could skip. So I was in the university dorm room that was our accommodation, lying on the bed reading with BBC radio on. So I heard it from realisation of the first crash to them watching the second crash happen live on a tv screen in their radio studio….and going back down for the coffee break shortly after the towers fell. At it was the early days of internet and cellphones, news hadn’t trickled down to the group yet.

There were long queues for the payphones that night as many people tried to figure out their travel plans and alternatives (quite a few had travelled internationally and many from London whose airspace was also shut). Most people didn’t yet have cellphones.

We had to go ahead with the gala dinner, to get fed, but the dancing afterwards was cancelled.

I didn’t see it until I was waiting for a taxi to the airport the following day (I was very lucky that my flight still ran ok) at the end of the conference. Everything had to go in the hold except my wallet, passport and medication, which went in a clear plastic bag to carry - they were very strict about that. And lots of police with guns walking around the airport (we didn’t see guns in my city back then).

I was so happy to get home…but also terrified sitting on the plane realising what had happened and the thousands of people killed and injured.

I was at work for a magazine publisher in London. We had an office in New York near the World Trade Center. I heard my colleague talking on the phone to someone in NY office and the tone of her voice made me realise something awful had happened. I tried to access BBC news web site and it was down, as were many others, eventually I think I got Sky News to work and saw the towers come down. Our colleagues were all fine, they had to evacuate though.

I was popping home to take my daughter to a party. I heard it on the radio and turned the tv on when I got home and saw the second one live. It was so shocking and still so shocking to see it today.

Was at school. My mum picked me up and i wanted to go to woolworths, but she said something big had happened

I remember getting home and it being all over the news

My love to all those who survived, lost loved ones or who passed.

Today, of all days, lets be grateful for our way of life. ❤️

Yeah I came home from primary school and my mum was watching it absolutely devastated as she knew it meant my dad was going to be posted for war. I remember the jumpers, second plane hitting and both them collapsing. 😔

I remember it like it was yesterday, I was 28 and out of work. My grandad had died a few months previous and I was spending my days keeping busy and helping to tidy up his house ready to put up for sale.

On September 11th I had spent the morning at his house and came home at lunch time, made myself something to eat and settled down to watch the lunchtime news and every channel had the images of the planes going into the Twin Towers, I remember just sitting there frozen, not understanding at all what I was seeing.

It was the first time in my young, safe life that I had ever seen anything so terrifying and upsetting.

I was working in London, close to the Stock Exchange.

We had a few clients in the WTC and someone in our office heard the news, but I can't remember how. Only one computer was getting internet access, so we all gathered around it to watch. It was absolutely horrific.

Then a rumour started to go around that London was next, and because of where we worked, we were all told to go home as quickly as possible. When I walked and finally got to Liverpool Street, it was packed with people, as were the trains ... so I think a lot of us in the City centre were told the same thing.

I was so scared, and I didn't relax until the train was out of London. I got home and spent the rest of the day glued in front of the TV. I can still remember the feelings so well, and I have a morbid fascination when anything about that day is on the TV. There is a brilliant documentary on the Disney channel at the moment that I recommend.

I remember it vividly. I thought this display was really moving: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx2z7x57gjeo

Yes. I was at home, I used to work weekends in those days and have days off in the week.

I didn't normally have the TV or radio on during the day. Mid-afternoon, I decided to go onto the internet - we had a PC with a modem connection. I went onto MSN chat. There was a topic, can't remember the exact name but it was something like 'Banter' and they'd pinned a post 'No Banter about the World Trade Center'

I wondered what on earth that was about, and then I saw dozens of threads about the World Trade Center, so I switched off the computer and turned on the television; it was at the point after the planes had struck the buildings but before the buildings had collapsed.

Yeah I remember it well. I worked for an American finance company but based in Ireland at the time and had lots of American colleagues with families in New York so it was devastating. We watched everything play out on the TV in the boardroom.

I had to fly the next day to a wedding, there were no changes yet to any of the security measures but the vibe at the airport was so eerie and I was terrified. I remember sitting at the airport bar reading a newspaper (as one did back then!) and every single page was 9/11 news.

i had been in new york ten days before.
I remember the cleaner coming into my classroom and telling me. I think when I got home the towers were falling although it’s hard to remember if i saw this live as I have watched so many documentaries about it.
I remember my dad saying ‘theyll level Iraq’ and thar they had the news on in the gym.
Life did change so much after jt- i feel so nostalgic for the time before. Im sure we would not have trump, brexit etc if it hadn’t happened.
thank god there were no camera phones, cant imagine how awful it would have been if there had been facetime calls etc from people trapped…the phone calls are so sad.

I was running a pub, and we had the big screen on with the morning TV running in the back ground as we got the pub ready for the day. Remember stopping and watching as they started to show it, then seeing the second plane hitting. The screen stayed on the News Channel all day. I dont remember the pub being so quiet, people came in ordered their drinks and just sat watching. As we were a 'squaddie' bar it could get quite loud usually. It didnt that day.

In the office in Central London. We always had the TVs on silent with various news channels showing as I worked for a big PR company. We had a sister office in New York and were very quickly aware that something dreadful had happened. Initially, we all crowded around the TVs and then lots of us just couldn't watch anymore. It was horrible and after a while the company closed the office early and we all went home.

RIP all the people that died that day and as a result of the war afterwards.

I worked/lived abroad at the time and was on a night shift working in A&E, not in USA or the UK. I saw the 2nd plane go in on the waiting room TV's. Our hospital was put on stand by/alert in case it was a global event that might have impacted us also. I recall being tense all night expecting the red bat phone to go off if our city had also been hit. Obviously we weren't hit, but it was an awful shift thinking of our medical colleagues in the US.😟

I was 26 had had brain surgery and it was the first time my parents agreed to me being alone to travel and get a taxi to where my mum worked. Got in taxi and the radio was on. By that time knew it was terrorism. I wonder if staff deliberately didn’t tell patients because some would be vulnerable mentally.