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.

Watching the TV at work. We were watching the WTC as it was on the news after the first plane hit so the second plane hitting was on TV.

I had a new born baby and I'm not one for having daytime TV/radio tv. I was sat on settee feeding DD, when DH came home and told me. He was clearly shocked and stressed as it had a knock on impact for his work, and it clearly affected him in the following days.

At home with ds2 who was 4. My dh called me from his office to tell me the phones had gone silent because a plane had flown into the WTC. I thought “how would a plane doing that in NYC affect your phone lines”? But of course what he meant was that the people who would have normally been calling were watching their tellies instead x

I was an office junior. 19 years old and didn’t know what the World Trade Center was or the twin towers. Someone at work mentioned it and I said oh and she said it’s really bad you know. Then one of my colleagues was talking to her boyfriend on the phone about it. Went to the gym in the evening and everyone was crowded around a tv watching it.
In 2011 I visited New York and we went to the site and to the museum. It was very sad. A cafe owner told us it was one of the places sheltering people in the aftermath and he himself was blown out of his shoes where he was standing at the entrance by the force of the impact.

Yes I was working from home, running a business with a friend in another part of the country. My business line went completely silent, she rang me on my home line to tell me to put the news on.

I was living in London and working in an office on my own. I had my phone off so knew nothing about it until I switched it on at about 4pm and saw all the messages, rang my boyfriend (now dh) who filled me in. I was glued to the tv that night and was really shaken, I had been to NY many times and had been up the WTC before. We lived near Heathrow and could hear planes circling through the night not sure what was going on but I assumed security flights. I didn't sleep a wink I was so shaken by it all and just longed to be home in Ireland with my family where I would feel safe. We flew to the states a week later and I have never been so anxious on a flight before or again.

I picked ds2 up from after school club, we had no tv or radio at work. He was 8 and slightly confused he thought the president had been shot, drove home and asked dh what was going on and he said sit there love and watch the tv. I was horrified.

Me and my new bf ( now my long term DP) were in a hotel room getting ready to go out as it is his birthday. The t.v was on and we just stared open mouthed as the horror unfolded. We didn't celebrate his 30th that day and DP, even now won't do anything today for his birthday, we celebrate it the week after and have done for 25 years.

I was at work in NY
Terrible day. Some colleagues had family on the planes, in the towers, at the pentagon and we had fainting, vomiting, break downs,
We didn’t know if we should shelter there or evacuate or what.

Watching lunchtime Neighbours when there was a News Bulletin whilst talking to friends on an online forum.

I described what I saw in real time to people who were at work and didn't otherwise have access to what was happening.

I watched as the second plane hit. The moment you realised it was deliberate and not an accident. Up to that point the talk was it was possibly a light aircraft not a passenger plane.

Then seeing the towers fall in disbelief.

I remember the early estimates of up to 40000 dead.

It was the night before my first day of teacher training. I had decided to dye my hair, however it went a horrible shade of orange, so I had to go to the shop to buy another colour to overdye it.
The streets were quiet (this was Zone 2 London) and Sainsbury's was completely empty. The shop staff were just kind of staying around. I felt like such an idiot to be doing something as trivial as buying a box dye.

My boyfriend and I had been at home when a friend rang saying to put the TV on (I had just put the first dye on my hair). We switched it on just before the second plane hit.

I was at work and we had a tv, saw some bits on there and news websites and tuned straight into sky news when I got home.

In the kitchen in our old house and it came on the lunchtime news. They said a plane had gone into the side of a building. It was the first one and just showed the very top of the tower. It didn’t even look that dramatic at that point. I just thought it was an accident. By the time DD got home from school, it was major news.

Of course. I was abroad and due to fly back via New York on 12th. Obviously the flight was cancelled and I managed to get home four days later. I could see the smoke still coming up from the site as we flew past. I also remember that metal cutlery had been banned from the plane, but they gave us plastic spoons and forks but metal knives. I presume by accident but I found that weird.

I found it very upsetting. My then boyfriend, with whom I was travelling, used the fact that I cried over it as evidence of my emotional instability during counselling sessions five years later. Moron.

It still feels recent to me. I find it bizarre how many adults I know weren't even born then! I imagine my grandparents felt the same about the War when I was a child. Felt like ancient history to me.

My mum watching neighbours and having it interrupted by the news was how she knew. She then went to pick my sisters up from school and a lot of the other mothers didn’t know, if they hadn’t happened to have been watching tv/listening to the radio they hadn’t seen it.
I was only 9 but walked home on my own so got home from school to see mum sitting on the sofa, hands over her mouth in tears, shushing me as I tried to ask what was going on. The towers must have collapsed by then.
I didn’t really grasp it, I could tell from my mum’s reaction, and obviously I understood from the news “this is bad” but I wasn’t really able to understand the scale. Maybe because lots of things you might see on the news at 9 are things you’ve never seen before, it took a while for me to realise that it wasn’t something anyone else had seen before either.

What an arsehole. It makes me want to cry now and I wasn't directly affected.

I was working in a uni high rise and we all thought it was a dreadful accident after the first plane hit but after the second plane we were all just shocked realising the awful truth. My colleague was terrified as her brother was in New York on holiday and of course no one could get through on the phones. She eventually heard from him a couple of days later.

Working in one of the big 4 in the city, well big 5 as it was then. TV on the wall, watched the whole thing, as soon as the first one hit my team were trying to get through to our colleagues in the other tower to tell them to get out. It was horrifying.
Everyone from our team made it out alive.

I also remember where I was on 7/7 as I was on the phone with my bestie who was in shock but able to walk, talking to her to keep her moving towards help.

I was at a conference with several colleagues including an American woman. Her phone kept going off, and she kept rejecting the calls. When we broke for coffee, she looked at her text messages and told us all that her daughter said a plane had crashed into the WTC. She spent the whole car journey home trying to ring her daughter in the US for more information, but we didn’t realise the full extent of the tragedy till we got home and turned on the TV.

I worked from home then and heard the news on the radio.
My DC’s were 11 and 14. They both burst through the door after school saying that the other kids on the school mini bus were saying that we were all going to die.
My DH was in hospital, he had spent the whole of the school summer holidays in a mental hospital, he had only been home for a few days when he was readmitted as he was suicidal.
He wasn’t in a fit state to support either myself or his children so I had to try and reassure them myself.
It truly was a terrible time for the world, we must always remember all the lives lost and the terrible sadness their families and friends have had to carry ever since ❤️

was ironing with the TV on and saw it all, including live footage of the second plane flying in and the news presenters face change when they realised what this is. At the same time as making contact with my cousin who’s daughter worked at Cantor Fitzgerald in the north tower. She wasn’t in work that day but most of her colleagues died.

I got home from school and thought why are they showing the same film on every channel? Then mom came back in the room and turned the TV off. Said it is not suitable for children. The TV was on mute.

Was at a hospital appointment in central London & tv was on in waiting room so saw the second plane hit live. Had my 4yr old DD with me. Couldn’t get out of London fast enough as at the time no one knew what would happen next.

I was off school. Was watching TV as breaking news came on for the first plane. Then watched the second plane as it hit live.

Mum told me to turn the movie off before realising it was real. We just watched all day in horror as the third plane hit the pentagon and the fourth was downed by the passengers.

Mum went to the memorial/WTC site a few years later. I have never flown as an adult.

I was at work, 12 weeks pregnant with DS wondering what sort of world I was going to be bringing him in to. It was also a colleague’s birthday, we were sat in the office with tea and cake watching it all unfold on the news. It all felt very surreal.

My aunt was air crew for American Airlines and we had no idea if she was scheduled to work that day. She was okay but obviously absolutely devastated at the loss of so many of her colleagues. She still doesn’t talk about it now.