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 nine years old and my grandparents picked me up from school, I really distinctly remember curling up on the sofa watching the news. We had stew and dumplings for dinner. It's weird what sticks in your memory.

Looking after my 3mth old baby, watching the TV and thinking what sort of world have we brought him into. Awful day.

I had just graduated, and was about the embark on a masters. Bloody BBC news website crashed for hours and no-one could get any details about what exactly was happening.

I someone telling me on the bus home that one of the towers had collapsed and I was convinced they had the wrong end of the stick.

So sorry to anyone who is upset by this thread.

I have been ill today and had day on the sofa and have seen there are quite a few things on sky about 9/11 it just made me think back to that day and how i remember it so vividly.

@lovingthesunshine88 yes really weird looking back now. it was such a bittersweet contrast of such a happy time and that we were just there and would never ever have imagined that the next week those towers wouldn't be there.

My UK school certainly wasn’t sent home early and neither were any of my friends

I was in a history lesson and one of my friends was skiving and saw it on the tv at home. She texted someone in our class and the teacher wheeled in the tv and let us watch the news.

I was drinking coffee with a friend who I used to fly with and our two year old daughters.

All her crew friends were ringing her, everyone checking everyone was ok.

So we watched it live drinking coffee after coffee and saying nothing.

I didn't sleep for almost two nights and was shaking with a racing heart for the rest of the day; didn't drink coffee for at least 10 years afterwards.

Never forget it.

@ Lovingthesunshine88 - thank you. Such a sad day though

DH and I were both working from home. We rang MIL to wish her a happy birthday and she told us to put the news on.

(We never have an excuse to miss MIL's birthday now though - could there be a more memorable date?)

My nephew was a student and had been working all night in Manhattan, was heading home to Long Island by train when he saw all the smoke. His father (my BiL) had just had a heart attack so wasn't in Saloman Brothers that day, all his workmates were killed. Several of my nephew's school-friends were killed as well.

Facebook is very trying today, the conspiracy theorists are out in force. This image was particularly annoying.

Watched it on tv at home with my then 6 month old DS2. I can't believe it's been 18 years

I don't remember, which is odd - I was only 6 but friends remember it etc. All I can think is that mam was very protective and so wouldn't have let me watch the news etc. School wouldnt have said anything.

I knew terrorism happened but having no real memory of it, the Manchester and Ariana Grande attacks shocked and scared me to the core. I'd felt safe, that it would never happen to me or anyone I knew

I was getting ready to go to work as a hotel receptionist in Scottish Marriott Hotel for a late shift. My mil arrived to watch my dd1 who was only 9mths old and we watched not really grasping the enormity of what was happening.

It wasn't until I got to work that I realised there was a Marriott Hotel at the base of the twin towers. We had two American tours due in that night and I had to break the news to the tour leader as they arrived.
I then spent the evening sorting extra TVs for the public areas and trying repeatedly and futilely to get through to the information lines on behalf of our guests. Many of the guests had adult children working in and around the wtc - I still wonder what news they got and when as they still hadn't heard by the day after when they checked out.
Such a life changing day for so many in so many ways.

I was off work that day. DD (about 15 months) had been napping, so I was feeding her a late lunch and put the news on not long after the first plane had hit. I watched the second plane hit with my jaw hitting the floor. I worked in the MOD at the time and I recall my mind racing with the possible ramifications from the attack. And when I went into work the next day, of course it was the only thing being discussed.

I was at work. I worked in a nursery in Islington and most of our parents worked in the City. We found it odd that parents were arriving hours early to collect their children. We were in a little bubble in there, no real outside communication..
Eventually we asked one of the parents why they were so early. They replied that someone had blown up the WTC. My first reaction was 'again?' (after the '93 bombing). It wasn't until I was going home on the tube that night and saw the photographs in the Evening Standard that the scale of it hit me. A lot of people in central London thought it was going to be an international event, and prepared for London to be hit next.

My husband (before we were married) was working in a shop that sold TVs at the time. He watched the second plane hit, told me when we both got home that night of the horrifying realisation sweeping through the shop.

I was in the office and it came through on Bloomberg that there was a plane crash so we turned on a TV and all stood round watching it. Some architects in our shared offices said the towers would never fall, everyone was really shocked when it happened. DH1 worked at HSBC in Lower Thames street and they were all sent home. We sat at his flat and watched the replays of people jumping out of the windows. Shocking, shocking day, I was only young and it really affected a lot of the decisions I made after. I think there is real truth in the saying that our world changed that day. I don’t think people who weren’t born yet or who were kids at the time really understand how awful it was.

My husband had been giving his Mum a lift. They heard it on the radio in the car. I was at home with no tv or radio on. He came rushing in to see the news. We turned on the tv and a few seconds later the second plane hit.

That morning I'd booked a last minute deal to Menorca for the following week. I was on the phone to my sister and she told me to put the tele on. I couldn't believe what I was seeing then my mobile rang and it was DH saying don't book the holiday because with him being RAF we didn't know what was going to happen next.

I went to pick the kids up from school, they were 6&4, and none of the teachers had a clue it had happened.

We did go on holiday but the way some of the passengers spoke to airport staff was terrible . I remember when we were coming home the queues were massive while people argued the toss about where their Menorcan pottery should go.

I was on holiday in Greece. I remember the news was on 24 hours a day and was particularly brutal (greek news doesn't hold back).

There was a mumsnetter at the time who lost her DH.

I went to the 9/11 memorial and museum this year for the first time - it's absolutely harrowing.

I was 18 and at university and I lived on the other side of the world so it was only big news because it was 'America'. I cant remember anyone I knew talking much about it though. I watched a bit of it happening on tv. Still very sad that lives were lost

I was working at Asda on the checkout having picked up an afternoon shifts staring at 1.00
Then Customers started coming in tell us about WTC.
I remember thinking what a terrible accident'. Then as the shop got quieter with fewer people coming in and telling us about a second plane I think I just went into disbelief.
I thought that can't be right they got it wrong.

It wasn't really till the next day that that the true horror became apparent

Had been for lunch with a friend, got back to work and called my dh and he said that a plane had hit the WTC. We thought it might be an accident but then the second plane hit while I was still on the phone to him.

He worked in London and they were sent home early that day.

But for me the most surreal part was going into work the next day and saying to one of my colleagues that there would be the miracles, that so often after building collapses they find survivors days and even weeks afterwards. But there were none. Not one.

Yes I do

I was 10, sat watching children's TV with my younger brother, dad came home from work and said we needed to watch the news, because something horrible has happened in America.

I was 21 and at work that day. We had no TV’s at all, no online news sites or anything and we couldn’t close either as a GP surgery so we just had to sit there while every single patient who turned up came in in shock and told us snippets of what was going on. I think someone got hold of a radio so we could listen and someone was crying because her son was in NYC and she didn’t know if he was ok (he was ok). It was a very surreal strange afternoon knowing something awful had happened but not really knowing what it was. I went home and put on the TV but I don’t remember anything much else, just a horrible feeling of sadness and disbelief

My DD was born a year after in 2002 and she brought up 9/11 yesterday. She said that it is talked about in school a lot. I thought about the impact it has had on so many generations