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

At our new home in Germany. Kids at kindergarten and school. Husband phoned to say please put on tv and tell him what was happening. There was a rumor about an attack going through the office but the local news hadn’t picked it up yet. Back then, it was still possible to get the bbc on satellite and their coverage was more up to date

Was at work driving to see a client. A trainee was following in her own car as we were finishing at different times. Heard report on car radio. When at client's house I asked if trainee had heard about New York disaster
A resounding No. I just commented 'there will be war'. Her face dropped I think realising this was a serious event.

Yes. I was at home drying my hair with the TV on. I was getting ready to go to a local church - totally pro-lapsed Catholic - to light some candles for my mum who had died two years previously (so yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of her death). Breaking news, first plane as they were reporting we saw the second plane go into the other tower. News person said, "Do you think that this might be an attack and not an accident?" I said out loud to the TV "No shit, Sherlock" and then stayed glued to the set. At some point far later, probably early evening, they showed footage from earlier when both towers were still standing and it was clear that there were people falling/jumping from the tower. At that point, I could take no more and turned off. Best friend called and asked if I still wanted to go see Moulin Rouge (my fifth time) as we'd arranged to do this because anniversary of mother's death and I said, "Oh yes!" because I just wanted to get away from the whole nightmare.

I didn't get to a church that day

I was in the pub with my then boyfriend. He got a text from
a friend to say what had happened. I walked through town later and people were stood in crowds outside electronics shops watching the replay being shown on the TV’s over and over and over again. Watching people jump from the towers was horrific.

I was in Bali on my honeymoon. We got a phonecall very early in the morning from my father-in-law who told us to turn the TV on. It was unreal and shocking, but we felt a sort of relief to be on the other side of the world.

A little more than a year later, over 200 people died in the Bali bombings.

I was at home. I was 17 and had just got back from driving my mom to Heathrow airport. She was on a plane to Perth, Australia when I watched it and I was petrified that New York and Washington would not be the only attacks.

I was feeding videos into the player trying to find which one had my wedding on. The news was coming on in between and I saw a plane fly into a high rise building. I thought at first it was a tragic accident and continued to watch in disbelief as the second plane flew into the other tower. I don’t remember ever feeling so shocked. I never did find the wedding video.

It was after lunch (but morning in the US) and I was in the teaching working room with others and a very shocked looking senior teacher walked past and said, 'a plane's just flown into a building in New York.'

We didn't know what to think and all of us moved to the nearby photocopying room where there was a TV. We saw the first building on fire and then a plane flying into the other building. We stood stunned and horrified as the second building came down into dust. We struggled to understand what was happening on such a dazzlingly beautiful September day.

The scenes were replayed and replayed and the horror sunk in.

That evening I had a book group meeting in a nearby town where some of the husbands worked in America. I sat outside in the car and saw nobody go in to the host's house. Convinced something terrible had affected one of the group personally I eventually left without going in and later found that no one had turned up until very late.

I remember feeling shocked, heavy and sick all day.

I was at uni on my first teacher training placement. Watched the class teacher explain it to reception children who then proceded to build towers out of bricks and knock them down ....

Pressed to soon as obviously they didn't understand and it was hard to explain without scaring them..

I was 17 years old. My parents were getting a divorce. My mother and I had just escaped back to the UK from the Netherlands after a turbulent year. I had been meeting my father for lunch in Manchester City centre and he had just told me he was moving to The States. My mum and I had just moved into a flat and my grandad had been over to connect up our TV. I got home just after the first plane had hit. I will never forget the look on their faces as I came into the flat. They were horrified. My grandfather left to get home to my Grandma, and as my mum and I sat there watching, the second plane hit and we knew for sure the whole world had changed. I will never forget it. Those poor people.

I was in the house with a new baby, my friend had come over from NYC to stay with me, but had popped out to get something. She ran into the house screaming put the tv on. So I did, we both sat there in shock. She would have been working in that building on that day. She could not get through to anyone that day to find out anything.

She spent the next six months going to memorials as the remains were identified.

I was 14 and seen it on the news after school. I remember we were all hanging about outside and getting updates whenever we went in for a drink etc.

Out all day. Got home to a phone message from my Mum ranting about the end of the world. She'd just got divorced and I was convinced she'd finally lost the plot.

Then we turned the TV and all her message made sense.....

I saw it on TV but then had to go to primary school to collect my eldest. I drove there instead of walking and hurried home to put the news on. I remember being at the school gate and everyone was talking about, collecting their children and hurrying home 😢

At work in a call centre. I was in a meeting. When I came out there was a hush in the call centre as everyone was trying to log onto BBC news. My colleague turned form his computer, saw me and said 'the Palistinians have gone mad' (Very wrong!). There was a huge wall-mounted TV int he building foyer and loads us stood on the satirs to watch the footage live. It was horrifying.

I had just started Year 7 and I remember the news starting to trickle into school from about lunchtime. When I got home from school, I remember just standing in front of the TV all evening watching the footage and the news completely in shock. As an 11 year old, it was the first major world news event I saw.

I went to the 9/11 museum last summer and found it so emotional, I could barely speak while I was in there. It still feels so recent.

I had just changed jobs and was leaving my job in the city and returning to my rural home town. I was up early checking last minute packing, going through cupboards, draws etc when my mum rang to see how I was going (though this was around 6am in the morning our time) and told me that a plane had flown into on of the WTC towers in America. About 4 hours after that, my parents, myself and the family friends who had helped me move all sat around in front of the tv at my home watching the repeated and endless coverage, not even bothering to unload my furniture until much later that day.

9/11.
I was at work Uk, we had a 24x7 team who had huge TVs in the office, prob supposed to be used as screens, but they had news channels on, when the news broke, watched it all live as it happened.
Not sure if they were US or UK channels.
Watched all of it, before anything was edited out for later news broadcasts, as far as I can tell.
Horrific

Teaching an A-Level history lesson on American foreign policy. The irony wasn't lost on me/the students. It was awful.

I had a free period and went home to watch TV the program I was waiting to watch didn’t come on instead as BBC news special came on with 1 plane in one tower I saw the 2nd plane go into the second tower as the BBC correspondent was still filming!! Then I saw both towers collapse it’s awful especially all the first responders and firefighters that died trying to save others!!

@justasking111 your poor friend 😔💔 good she wasn't there that day but the amount of loss she must of had to deal with must of been horrendous

On holiday in Zagreb in Croatia. I remember some mad bloke trying to explain it to me in broken English, and I shooed him away.

I was 19 and at the Hilton Hotel in Edgeware with a colleague on a training course. We were travel agents and in the middle of a presentation when one of the course leaders came in and said there has been a hijacking and we were released to go home in case of attacks on London. It was such a shock and genuinely for a while I though she had meant car jacking for some weird reason. I didn't realise the full reality until I got back to my now MIL's house and saw the news footage of the towers falling. It was truly horrific and I don't think I'll ever forget the overwhelming shock and sadness for all those poor people.

I was in accident and emergency in a Turkish hospital.

Didn’t speak the language but didn’t need to.