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 work. Just came out of a meeting and saw people crowder around a desk - new offices and we all had one computer screen and one the streamed tv and market prices. I thought it was a birthday and wandered over, wondering why the whole place was so quite. As I watched I saw the plane hit the tower and my brain couldn’t quite work out what I was seeing - was it a tv show?

Then I just said - ‘what about Gary?’ We had an office over there (he was one of our team) and had one of the team visiting us. Her sister was in the pentagon that day for an interview. I’d just got back from a holiday in NY and was supposed to visit a friend in the towers but I got sidetracked and never did get there.

I then totted up how many people I knew in the two towers - I had worked in a few city companies and several had offices there.

I remember when planes started flying over London again. We were playing tennis and everyone on the courts just stopped and watched a plane make its way over the sky.

I was in town and my husband phoned and told me to get to somewhere with a television asap. My parents were in NYC. Thankfully they were fine but it took us a couple of days to get in contact with them. They said it was unbelievable hell.

I was 13 and would have been at school/on my way home. Got in and saw the TV. I thought it was in the Middle East or something and then realised it was New York. It just felt so surreal. And then afterwards not hearing any planes was weird (I used to live in a village that always has lots of little planes going overhead.)
Although I didn't know anyone who died, I think something changed. Kind of like the world didn't seem so safe anymore.

It was my best friend’s birthday the day before and we’d gone out with her parents in the evening so I remember going to school feeling pretty cheerful. My Mother always had the news on so I remember watching it and it all looked so surreal. I became quite anxious and asked my Mum if they were going to attack us, it triggered lots of anxiety.

We went on holiday about three days later and I remember how high the security was, they even frisked my baby brother (had to frisk everyone going on the flight).

i had heard nothing about it until my DP came home from work at around 5.30pm. I will never forget the look on his face - ashen with shock - he and his colleagues had seen it on their screens at work. We all and the world changed that day, for the worse - and we realised we were unwittingly at war with an unseen enemy.

Had to name change as a bit outing!

I was on the beach. DH watched the second plane hit live on TV in our hotel room. We got married later that day. Our wedding was slightly delayed as the rep / interpreter was stuck at the airport due to the flight chaos.

I was 17 and working at New Look (UK). I finished at 1pm and headed off for the bus. I overheard someone say 'looks like we will be going to war' but thought nothing of it. Walked in to my home just as the plane hit the second tower. I remember feeling terrified.

No schools in my area were sent home early.

I was was watching Neighbours when they switched to the news. I remember mostly the clear blue sky. I think they showed the first one, and then possibly the second one live. I don’t recall the horror of it hitting me straight away. I don’t think I comprehended fully what was happening.

I was at home but didn't hear the news until 4pm; DS put the TV on when he came home from school, and my first reaction was "what a realistic disaster movie" ... until I saw the rolling news logo

I was at home in the U.K. with my five week old baby. I was watching tv so saw all of the coverage. I remember bawling my eyes out when the towers came down.

I was 10 I remember getting home from school wanting to watch kids telly but my mum explaining all channels were showing the news. She explained what was happening whilst trying to hide her tears. I remember we all just sat in silence that evening.

Just came out of my ultrasound for first baby, excited to show dh the picture, wandering through town to meet him to see a huge crowd watching the 📺 in the window of Dixon's and thinking Oh No.

I was 16. I was home sick that day when a friend rang my mam and told her to turn on the TV. We watched in horror as the second plane hit and for the rest of the afternoon. We also worried as my aunt and uncle were in NY at the time. (They were done thankfully). Horrific and heartbreaking and something that will stick in my mind forever.

I was watching it from the sofa with my newborn thinking how it looked like an action movie, and how they’d obviously planned it so the whole world would turn on their TVs after the first one and see the second one live, thereby increasing the terror factor.

It was so surreal. I still feel sad when I think of those poor people holding hands and jumping out of the windows because the alternative was way worse. What a decision to have to make.

I was 16. Year 11 and was picked up by my dad who had it on the radio.

I had no idea about how bad it was. Came home and my mum had it on the news and we just watched the first tower burning

I was on holiday

First we heard about it was the taxi driver taking us home from the airport

The queues at the airport were immense, couldn’t figure out why until we got in the taxi

I was 11 and in primary 7. I don't remember much about that day, just getting home from school and my mum watching the news.

Some of these stories are so sad

I was in Mexico, it was lunch time in a restaurant. The TV was on and everyone was discussing the first plane going in, and what a terrible accident it was.

Then we saw the second plane go in, and it dawned on everyone that it was not an accident, but an attack. There was a sort of collective realisation as we watched it happen

chilling

I was 16. I vaguely remember going to school and then I had band practice straight after so just jumped on the bus into town.

I didn't actually realise what had happened until about 9pm when I went home. It was before the days of smart phones and mobile internet.

We were meant to be going to New York on a school trip days later.

I was 31

Yes. Showering after going to the beach in the morning (on holiday). Relatives told me through the door, although at the time it sounded like another plane accident. Then they told me about the second. And that's when I thought it wasn't really an accident.
Then we watched it all on the news the rest of the afternoon.

In A&E. In the early hours of 9/11 DH had had to call an ambulance for me. I had the mother of all head aches and due to my medical history both he and the ambulance crew suspected a brain haemorrhage. I went on my own and he stayed at home to look after our 2 little ones and 5 month old baby,

They kept me in overnight for observation and discharged me next day. I arrived home just in time to see the second plane hit.

I was at work in a call centre - no windows but huge TV screens to monitor call flows etc. The pictures came up on the news screens and I honestly thought someone had put them on a channel with a disaster movie -I wish that was all it had been :(

remember sitting in a trance after my scan, revealing twins, watching this feeling I wouldn't forget this day - ever.

I remember it very well, I was at home (my parents house) and was watching the news as it came in, felt like I was watching a awful movie , I was just staring at the tv in disbelief when the 2nd plane hit.