Do you remember where you were that day

[Lovingthesunshine88]

Do you remember where you were that day 18 years ago? 9/11

I was 13 and had just started high school i was doing swimming when PE teacher got called out, when she came back in she told us to get changed and make our way home if possible and said the world was under attack by terrorists.

Obviously this was scary to hear at 13 i hadn't heard of terrorism. I remember getting home and my mum watching it on TV in utter shock. I was such a sad day and still makes me feel sad 18 years on thinking of all those innocent people losing their lives

I live next to an airport and whenever there is an incident the complete silence is the very most unnerving thing. There has been one fatal crash and a few emergencies here but nothing on the scale of this subject obviously, but the silence i can only imagine

I was a few months pregnant and home from work due to sickness. A news flash came up and said there was a freak accident as a plane had hit one of the towers. As they were reporting the 2nd plane hit. I just remember the news reporters scrambling to say something but not knowing what to say. Dh was sat at Gatwick waiting to board a plane to NY.

I remember watching it on the news then being with my Mum seeing the oncologist at the hospital who told her that her cancer was terminal and she only had a few months to live. 2 horrible things in one day

I was in a class at school and our teacher was trying to switch the TV so that we could watch something on video. She kept getting back onto the crashing plane footage and she said, "What's this silly film?"

But you would have thought it was a film - who could imagine that happens in real life??

I remember being at home and being utterly transfixed with the TV. Couldn't believe what I was watching.

I felt sick for the rest of the day.
My house was (for the first time I think) silent.

My mum has been in one of the towers about a month before and had visited the restaurant right at the top.
When watching the coverage all I remember her saying was 'I could see the clouds below when looking out the window'

It was then that the gravity of the building that had just collapsed in front on my eyes smacked me in the face.

I was 15 at school. My band had stayed after school for practice and the music teacher cane in and said she thought someone had bombed the World Trade Center. I didn’t know what they were but when my mum picked me up the look on her face I’ll never forget- I couldn’t comprehend what I was watching when I got home. Feel so sad about it now still

Brilliant documentary, at times I couldn't tell whether the clips were actual footage or acting

I was 15 and at school, we had geography as our last lesson & my best friend and I came out of school joking about something until we got to her dad's car & he was listening to the news on the radio. I went home & watched on the TV, I just remember thinking this is the start of ww3 and the end of life as we know it

I was 18 and driving home with a friend. Heard the words ‘a plane has flown into the world trade centre’ and I said to my friend ‘that was stupid did they not see it or something?’ assuming it was an accident. As we walked through the door my mum had the news on and we saw the second plane go in. Realised then it was not an accident. I went to uni a week later and remember all the American students were a few weeks late in starting as they couldn’t get flights out.

I was looking after my friend's twins (bringing my youngest, a 3 year old toddler, along for the ride with her blessing - we were good friends) for the first time (she'd asked me if I would, a few hours a week, so she could go back to work - I did it until 2014). They were 4.5 months old.

One of the twins cried all day for 5 hours, the other one slept all day apart from her lunch!

I remember picking up my eldest (5.5 at the time) from school, and going home to catch up with the news I'd caught snatches on on the radio. Our 'big' TV had broken, and we only had the little portable from the bedroom at the time.

I remember it as if it was yesterday, and so does my eldest. The twins in question are now 18 and at uni (I feel old!) and we also know people who were in Washington/NY on the day due to business commitments (one of them is the father of my eldest's boyfriend).

I picked up

I was at work and my boyfriend at the time rang me to tell me. It was the only time we ever had the radio on (worked in retail)

The panic afterwards for us, was my uncle was meant to be in there for a business meeting, he was delayed for the meeting, but couldn't get hold of any family back here to let them know for ages.

I was 18 and had been at work. I went round to my best friends house and I remember she was hoovering her huge living room. I walked in, glanced at the TV and asked her what disaster movie it was. She said she had put the Simpsons on. We just stood in stunned silence for so long, watching this awful thing happen. It does only seem like yesterday.

At work in London. No tv screens and we couldn't get onto any of the news sites. A colleague's partner worked for Reuter's and he was phoning with updates. The next day was my birthday and I always take annual leave that day. Spent the day in front of the television, absolutely shell shocked.

I sat down with a cup of tea before getting ready to go and pick my little ones up from school and honestly thought a "Die Hard" movie was on tv. (I remember thinking "I thought I'd seen them all, I've not seen this one...")
Then I realised I was actually watching live stream news... absolutely horrendous.

I'm from the UK but we lived in Canada for 3 years when I was a child and we were there when it happened. I was 11 and I'd just got up for the morning. Myself and my Mum were sat in the living room when my Dad ran in to turn the TV on saying "the trade tower in New York has been hit by a plane". My mum said "oh no how has that happened" and he said "I dunno but I don't think it was an accident" and my mum was in utter shock. Then we sat there and watched the second tower get hit.

Then I went to school and they wheeled a big TV in and we had to sit there and watch it for the day. We had to make notes too for some reason. It was fucking horrible.

And then my teacher said to us all "you won't yet fully understand what I mean by this, but the world is never going to be the same again". I didn't understand what he meant, but I knew he meant it and his words were heavy on my heart.

I was washing the dishes today imagined my 15 month old one day asking me "what was it like" and all I could think was "It was just so horrible" and I've been crying all day ever since. I've not cried on this day for a while now but some reason I can't stop today!

I was at work and my dad phoned to tell me when the first plane hit. Everyone was getting calls and we were trying to get online for news. One of the staff was an American from New York and was desperate for news.

In a side room (Intensive Care Unit) treating a patient. A nurse came in and told me a plane had accidentally flown into the twin tower. Every television in the unit was showing news coverage.

@Dodie66 😔💔

On maternity leave with my 4 week old who's off to uni next week

I was 16, my mum told me in the hallway as I walked in the front door from school. We put the tv on and watched in horror as the second tower fell. The image on the tv of the two smoking blackened towers will forever stay in my mind. From that day my innocence was gone.

In the staffroom after work. Someone came in and put the TV on and we watched it shocked for a short while before I decided I wanted to be at home and left. I remember someone saying it was the start of ww3.

I definitely remember 7/7 as I was on a bus in central London by Charing Cross. My phone wasn't working and people off the bus were acting bizarrely. My phone then went off and it was a mate asking if I was safe and ok. I ended up getting off the bus and walking to oxford street to watch the TVs through the window of Dixon's and I remember being in a shop that had the radio on and it was filled with inaccuracies and panic. I walked back to south London with thousands and i particular remember over Waterloo bridge as and a guy taking photos at Waterloo station was pounced on by police. Literally floored. Grabbed some bits and jumped on a train to my boyfriend's in the south and watched rolling news coverage on a pub tv till he got me. He then announced we "deserved it" and I collapsed in a heap on the road, sobbing. I've never felt fear like it and I hope I never do again. I also got caught in the Bangkok bombings at New Years (at their World Trade Centre no less) and was just totally emotionless about the whole thing. It was like I expected it and just "got on with it".

I was in holiday in gran canaria, and it was surreal watching it on tv & then laying on the beach reading about it in the papers.

I worked for a bank who had offices in the WTC and i just remember afterwards hearing how so many colleagues hadnt made it.

I also remember being terrified when America started to bomb the middle east, i was thinking they would start a war & the UK would be drawn in to it.

I was walking back from visiting a friend, with my 6 month old, when husband called to tell me to put TV on.

@cheesenpickles just wow so glad you were safe in both incidents