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 was at secondary school in London and they didn’t tell us on the day. A girl in my class found out from her mum at home time and told everyone but she was known for making things up and exaggerating so we thought she was just telling stories for attention. Needless to say we found out the truth when we got home.

The scariest bit for me was the weeks afterwards. Everyone was convinced London would be hit next and we all got the tube to school so I was constantly assessing everyone I saw questioning whether they might be a terrorist. Given how multicultural London is there were plenty of people who looked “Muslim” (not that I really knew what that meant at that age) so I figured I had to get on with it or avoid all public transport altogether! The big fear was chemical attacks/anthrax and there was talk of our school buying in gas masks for everyone.

I was at home on maternity leave with my three month old son asleep on my lap. Phone started ringing and ringing and I didn't get up to answer it as didn't want to wake him up. It was my husband phoning to tell me the news and to put the telly on. I was watching a film on Channel 4 called That Hamilton Woman and eventually Channel 4 broke for the news too. Watched in horror for hours then days.
That little baby is just about to go off to university.

I ran a pub. Was in the main bar, the big screen was on with the news on it, while I did my orders.

I remember the news flash coming up, and calling my barmaid through to watch. As she came into the room the 2nd plane hit.
We both stood there, not believing it was real.

We opened up at 11.00 and people came in, everybody silent just watching the screen

I had just got home and put the TV on,I never watch daytime TV.5mins later breaking news then the first mature film clips.I just sat and watched in shock.Ex came home and we arched as the second plane hit.
I will never forget watching the people jump.

DH still works for one of the companies worst hit by this. A large American insurance broker with offices in the Twin Towers (DH is in the UK offices).

We remember it very well because it was the day that his counterparts in the US (with whom he was in daily contact) died. They didn't make it out in time. ☹️

I was working in my classroom, none of us had lessons that period. A colleague came running in to tell me to come and see what was happening on the tv in the office. We saw the second plane hit, very surreal.

Yes, I was running a conference in the US. I ended up trying to keep 80 people happy for a week while the airspace was shut, and then get them all home to various European countries, from airports across Florida.
Plus deal with the American colleagues who had never experienced terrorism and were in total shock. One little girl rang her mum who was with us and asked her what heaven was like, because she’d see her mummy onto a plane the previous day and then she’d see the planes hit the building on tv, and she thought she was dead. It was very difficult.

Sat in the smoking room at work (there's a thing from the past) watching the news with the ticker tape rolling.

My boss at the time was in New York, staying in the hotel at the WTC and it was a scramble to call to see if he was ok, took a while to get hold of him but his meeting at our offices a few blocks away had been bought forward so he wasn't there when it happened.

It took him a while to get home as his passport and luggage was in the hotel when it happened but when he did, it was an emotional moment for sure.

I remember disgust (then and now) that my fil was giddy with excitement and happiness that americans had died. Me? Utter horror and that feeling of floating through the next few months as it felt surreal. I was working in central london and i knew life wouldnt be the same.

I was 12, just started Year 8. We'd been given an assembly when we started about looking after the new Year 7s, representing the school with our behaviour etc. When we were called for another assembly we thought it was going to be about that again. We were in outer London and weren't sent home. I didn't understand that it was a terrorist attack until I got home to my grandparents, I remember watching the news in silence with my grandad and understanding that it wasn't an accident.

My little brother was 4 and remembers that the scheduled episode of "Thunderbirds" was cancelled as it had some similar imagery. I'm glad he remembers that and not the fear or news footage.

I remember 7/7 much more vividly as I had just turned 16 and was staying at a university in South London for a taster week. Not being able to get through to my family was pretty scary, coupled with the worry of further attacks. My mum wouldn't let me get the tube home, she called my dad and he drove me home. I knew how worried they had been then, as they avoided speaking to each other the rest of the time.

@Nicknacky she never came back to work in the UK office, so I assume he didn't make it But she worked in the department diagonally across from me (open plan office but nothing in common work-wise) so I never found out for sure. It felt a bit ghoulish to ask at the time, now I wish I had.

I had my first ever period (aged 9!) on that day! They also hauled us into the assembly hall to be told the terror attack news!

to everyone who lost loved ones and/or today is bringing up painful memories

I was in labor with #2 son, in the hospital. He's 18 years old today.

The baby we had with us at the time, goes to university next week

My baby was new too and goes to university tomorrow. I was breast feeding him with the TV on so saw the second plane live.

I was also on the sofa breastfeeding my 4 week old and watching whatever trashy programme was on when the news broke. He also goes off to Uni this weekend.

It was compulsive but horrific viewing.

Working in australia. Some site lads picked me up for work and told me. We worked for a US based company and could go home if we wanted but we most lot sat all day glued to the news coming in

My mother was in Vietnam and put something like ‘goooood morning america’ on her status. Such a heartless bitch.

Several years later I made a friend who had lost her father in a tower. There are just no words and not enough compensation for how messed up their family became after and how much they struggle emotionally and physically from it.

I was in English class. Someone came into the classroom saying that the twin towers had been hit and the Pentagon. My teacher’s husband happened to be on business in Washington D.C at the time right near the Pentagon. She was understandably worried about him. She sent us all home (near the end of the school day anyway). I got home in time to watch people jumping from the upper floors before the towers collapsed.

My teacher’s husband was ok by the way. His meeting was swiftly cancelled and he watched what was happening on a TV in a bar half mile from the Pentagon while listening to the chaos outside.

I was on holiday in Norfolk with my folks. I was miserable because I was missing my now DH & has realised I was in love with him (but thought he didn't feel the same).

We'd gone out for a drive and as we got back one of the other holidaymakers ran out to tell us. We put the tv on and watched it unfold from there. I will never forget the images and the horror of the events.

That night we could hear planes landing at the RAF airbase nearby and watched them flying out the next day. Fighters and transport planes.

I was 10 at school and the teacher coming in during afternoon lessons to say what had happened

I was at home, I had the radio on low as was working and remember hearing the DJ ( think it was Steve Wright) say if you are near a TV you need to put it on now. I walked through to the lounge put the TV on and didn't move for about 2 hours. I watched the second plane hit and both the towers collapse. I was 30 and it felt like the world changed that day.

It was my first week of secondary school. There were mutterings about it at school but I remember when we took my little sister’s friend home from school and her mum flew out the house because one of the towers had just collapsed. I remember watching it and not grasping the significance and my mum and her friend were crying (no personal connection, just genuine horror) and being a bit overwhelmed. It was only when I was a few years older that I really grasped what had happened and how horrific it all was.

Me and my DH were home with our 5 day old baby with bbc news channel on in the background. Saw the 2nd plane hit and then my midwife and student midwife arrived. We all sat on my sofa watching it for some time in shock.

I was on maternity leave with DS1 who was 7 weeks old.

I met up with my SIL in town and we went to a cafe for tea and cake, the weather was so lovely I decided to walk to my mum’s to meet her when she finished work at 3. Up to then it was a perfect day.

I walked in to my mum’s at about 3:30 and she was standing in front of the telly with a look of horror on her face, she just told me to watch but I couldn’t understand what we were watching.

That night up feeding DS I watched the 24hr rolling news and cried at the world I’d bought this gorgeous baby in to.

I was about 12, didn't find out until the evening as I was at school and nothing was said. Went to town after with friends and still knew nothing. Wasn't until I got home in the evening and had dinner that I saw it on the news.