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 shopping with cousins I’m Ireland where I live. My aunt from the USA rang us from the Brooklyn bridge where she watched it all live! She was on her way to work! 😮

I was at home with the kids that day and took them out to the park or played games with them at home. I knew nothing about the attacks until the evening when my DP came home and told me. I didn't have the TV on all day until she came home and told me and then I was glued to it watching in shock everything that had happened.

I was at work. In the city of London big insurance company. One of our director's came in and told us to go home. There were lots of remours that London was next. I went home to find my children watching news with my idiot ex bloody terrified them. 7/7 was more scary for them though as l commuted to one of the tube stations that was hit lucilkly l was early that day. What l would my kids had to grow up in.

I mean is what s world

@Topseyt oh no 😔

I remember being at school, all the teachers were very preoccupied. We thought most of teachers were on drugs. They were distracted. Something clearly wasn't right, but we thought it was funny, we literally got away with everything!

The bus home, I remember my friend commenting on how everybody looked sad! I agreed and laughed saying they prob are on the same stuff our teachers were on. How did I not click something massive happened??

I got home - we lived in a pub at the time (well above, mum was the manager)
I walked in, saw the fit bar man and tried to flirt as usual. He again looked weird, he then said 'my god you don't know do you, you need to go and see your mum'
I went upstairs and saw my mum just staring at the tv. My mum never sat down during the day. I asked her what was wrong. She told me and I went and completed my homework. The enormity of what happened didn't hit me until I sat down and watched the news with my mum. I remember feeling so scared but so sad for all of those poor people in USA.

That day will never leave me. It should never leave any of us!

I am so sorry to all the PPs who lost someone that day! My heart goes out to you all.

I was at work. I always remember someone who was near one of the office TVs coming in and saying a train had gone into penn station, and the lot of us going and???. Then someone else came through and said plane into the first tower. Everyone stopped and we watched the second plane hit. One of our coworkers sons worked in the WTC and he was distraught. Obviously couldn't get hold of him for days. Thankfully he'd taken the day off work that day. It was a truly awful day.

I was harvesting grapes in France. The owner of the wineyard told us that "something had happened in Pittsburgh". I had to wait until I got home to watch the news.

I was 18 and getting ready for uni starting.

My dad was watching the afternoon news
/ live broadcast as I came into the house from visiting my Auntie.
He said, you should see this and as I walked in the second plane hit.
I'll never ever forget where I was that day.

Sat on sofa, on maternity leave feeding 6 month old daughter. Was watching every update with shock. Disbelief that it happened

I was in a friends back garden, it was a glorious day and it was such a shock....... we were glued to the news all evening.

The WTC site was the first place we visited when we went to NYC. The pools are breathtaking, just this roar of noise though I found it really upsetting to watch people standing for selfies. I had to walk away as it really got to me. We didn't taken barely any photos, it felt wrong somehow. Listening to the life stories about those people who died was really upsetting too - the human cost of that day is almost too much to take in. The whole site is a magnificent memorial though and was got so so right by whoever designed it.

I don't think the world will ever forget that day. And neither should it.

I had landed earlier that day on an overnight flight for a work trip. I was away for a couple of weeks so I didn't get stuck but it was somewhere that had also experienced terrorist attacks and it was really surreal.
Also we had very poor internet connection so I only heard about it on the radio for days. Seeing the pictures was just shocking.

I was at school teaching. I didn't know until after lessons had finished. We definitely didn't finish early.

Went to my parents house as sister was visiting and watched on TV. I was pregnant and it made me sad to wonder what kind of world I was bringing a baby into.

I was 29 years old, on holiday in Greece without any television. Didn’t know anything about it until the following day. At the precise moment the planes hit, we were waiting for a ferry on Skopelos. I’ll alwats remember it.

I was living in central London, with DH, before we married. He was at work and i was at home, we didn’t have a television then. My neighbour called out to me to come and see the news, the first ‘plane had just hit the tower. Neighbour and I sat watching the terrible events unfolding, live. I called DH and he had been looking at it in his office, everyone was leaving so he came straight home, and we just looked at each other and the scenes on the screen in blank horror. We had a friend who worked for a huge bank, they had offices in the WTC, and he was sometimes there. It took a while to get hole of him, thankfully he was in another country, he had been in the WTC a few days before.

There was this huge fear in London. I was terrified. I don’t think I have ever quite got over the shock of it all. I still have nightmares. Those poor people lost, and their families. 😢😢😢😢😢😢

I was a student nurse in my first placement & it was live on the television in the dayroom.

Everyone was very shocked & feelings were running high.
I hadn't heard of the wtc before or realised how big the buildings were.

I remember hearing that one of the Middle Eastern Muslim surgeons actually said something like it served America right; and the nurses were obviously horrified.

My sister was on holiday in Greece & had to fly back so apparently all the hand luggage went in the hold.

A few days later one of my flatmates told me a British male friend had been in New York & was found to have died.
I knew she was lying for attention as she had form.
It was the last straw for our friendship.

I had just started secondary school. Knew nothing about it all day. The teachers must have shielded us. Got home and DM told us. Watched newsround and saw all the footage.

What was odd was when I tried to talk to my school friends about it the next day. None of them seemed remotely interested or bothered which really bothered me.

I was waiting to pick up an AS level essay. I then walked to pick up little sis from nursery. She refused to walk home (about 2 miles) so I was trying to piggy back her. Remember it was boiling hot and all the drivers had their windows open so I could hear a million radios at once saying similar news but differently! I remember sis aged 4 being devastated every time another plane hit the princess's tower. Makes me shocked that she's now 22 and remembers nothing of 9/11 first hand

I was at Duxford air museum. A coach load of older American tourists from London were just behind us as we went around, then when we left we heard the news of the first plane on car radio. Got home to watch the news and saw the second strike. And keep thinking even today how heartbreaking for those folks to hear about the attack on their home so powerless and so far from home. Just hope none of them lost family.

I was 21 and meant to be at uni but I wasn't very well so lying on my bed upstairs.

My Mum was ironing in front of the tv and ran up to get me - we thought it was an accident. We stood watching it and then the second plane hit and it was clear the city was under attack.

I was at work, in a nursing home for women with dementia. I was in the office filling in the BM chart when one of our residents came in and told me the Statue of Liberty had collapsed. I thought nothing of it, I was used to hearing all kinds of weird and wonderful things from the women. I left around half an hour later and everything seemed strangely quiet and odd on the walk home so I rang my then-boyfriend and asked him 'Has something happened?'

I was at work in north London, pregnant with twins. I'd been on the phone and missed the conversation. A colleague turned his screen around and showed me the video and like a twit I said "Is that a new film?" because that's what it looked like. When I saw it was on bbc news I was shocked. We sat discussing it for a bit and went home early. I've always regretted saying that, but had no way of knowing it was really and actually taking place right then.

I was at work and heard the reports coming over the radio. Got home after work and turned on the tv and it was like watching a disaster movie. Watching the towers fall onscreen with so many still trapped inside was heartbreaking. It seemed totally unreal that something like that could actually happen in real life.
It's awful to think it was a deliberate premeditated attack too. What a tragic, senseless waste of so many lives.

I was in sixth form. Came out of my last lesson of the day to go and ask one of my other teachers something before going home.

She was in tears as had family in NYC.

Told us just to go straight home.

I kept pooping into shops on the walk home that had TVs.

My mum worked in Canary Wharf at the time so she got sent straight home from work too.

I was in Switzerland with my fiancé. We saw the plane hit the first tower on a tv in a shop window. People were stopping to watch. When we saw the second plane we knew it must be terrorism. We are out around tea time and he overheard 2 women discussing it in German but could only pick up a few words. It was a horrible feeling. It was before smart phones so no Internet. When we got back to the campsite they had on CNN in the communal tv room. That’s when we found out the full extent of what happened.

This year DS and I visited the Freedom Tower and the museum and memorial. It’s all incredibly well done.