9/11

[katierocket]

anyone see the pictures of the rememberance?
really sad.
I still remember so clearly where I was when I heard the first news reports. Seems like yesterday

I remember where I was too - finally making it onto the postnatal ward after having ds3 at 6.46am. Very mixed emotions at the time.

My poor friend was lying on her back in a theratre room having a cesearean with the news on because all the theatre staff wanted to watch So I suppose her dd and your ds have the same bday jude. I had just gone to the antenatal clinic to book my elective section with ds I was all happy and went to phone my mum and gran and there was a message off my gran saying oh its horrible isnt it have you got the news on? I turned it on and the 2nd plane went into it. I watched the news and it was so horrific wasnt it. Then after the event everytime I heard a plane I would shudder.

Thanks for reminding me katierocket of my emotions. I have been moaning today about it being on tv too much and now I realise how horrible it was and you've just made me remember.

was at work when the first plane hit. I didn't know anything about it until I got to my parent's house (visiting my sister) and it was on TV. We sat horrified at the second plane hit, and the pentagon was hit, only to watch the towers fall a bit later. Neither of us knew what to say or do.

I was about 3 months pregnant at the time, and my friend was in labour (baby born next day on 12th). I did wonder what type of world we were bringing our children into.

My heart goes out to all those affected by such a tragedy.

My friend and I 'watched' on TV together, but we were on the phone to each other, not believing what we were seeing. We both knew people who died.

My children were surprised that no mention was mad of it in their school assemblies today.

I had just come home with DS after a lovely charity day at his nursery. I put on the television to see if the Teletubbies were on and basically stood there transfixed as I read the 'Breaking News' subtitles and watched the second plane hit. My DH was working at home at the time and I called him to come and watch. We couldn't believe what we were seeing ... I held DS with tears pouring thinking "What is this world coming to?".
The worst bit was spending 5 hours trying to get hold of DH's sister who lives and works in Manhatten. We were so relieved when she finally rang ... poor thing was terrified and traumatised.

I remember watching it on TV like most of you and at the time thinking that it was just like a movie. It was too unbelievable to be really happening. I do also remember the days after when they were clearing the debris away and being totally shocked that there were no survivors underneath after convincing myself that there would be.

I try not to think too much about how those people must have felt, especially those who were unlucky enough to have been on the planes.

'Tis like the Kennedy shooting of our generation, isn't it? That's what all Americans say, everyone remembers where they were when they heard Kennedy was shot/dead. I wasn't alive yet, of course.

For 9/11 DH & I were in the conservatory, listening to the radio like we usually do that afternoon (was it around 2pm British time?). How bizarre it was when the first report came in about a plane hitting the tower, what a terrible accident. Seemed remote and perhaps unimportant to people in Britain, though. And then when the 2nd plane hit the 5-Live presenter & everyone else suddenly knew that first plane was no accident. We went to a friends house that night just to see the TV footage.

I was watching a video with ds1 and when it clicked off it was the live coverage of the plane going into the second tower. I couldn't get my head round what I was seeing and sat transfixed until I came to and turned off - not wanting ds1 to see it (he was almost five and had started the week before in reception class).

I was very pregnant with ds2 at the time and remember sitting by ds1's bed while he slept that night, weeping. I really thought we were on the verge of WW3.

Have felt sad all day today...

The thing that sticks in my head most? The amateur video footage and a woman, off camera, saying "oh dear God, they're jumping."

God bless all the people that died that day, but lets not forget all the tragedies that happen all over the world ,that never ever get media coverage because they dont live in western society

I was at work. For some unknown reason there was a telly in the staff room. Some one turned it on seconds before the first plane hit.

Happy 2nd Birthday jude the obscure's DS3!

I was at home - listened to The Archers at 2 and there was a newsflash after it, I thought they were going to say the Queen Mother had died (newsflashes v rare on Radio 4) - spent the rest of the afternoon transfixed, just not believing what I was seeing. I worked in an office on the north side of the 79th floor of WTC1 for a few months in 1981, just below where the first plane hit, and couldn't imagine getting down from there, and literally couldn't believe that people were jumping.

zebra, when Kennedy was shot I was 12 years old and I remember where I was and what I was doing...

I was at home and my mum phoned me to tell me to put sky news on. I watched second plane hit and the pentagon incident. It was such a sad tragedy but there are others too like forestfly says. I feel for all.
Zebra my mum and dad remember where they were when Kennedys were shot and they are brits, I dont think it is just the americans who felt for jfk. They always thought he would of sorted everything out and then he got assassinated.

I was in a pet shop in Brecon. We were on holiday, had gone to get a new lead and they had the radio on in there. The bloke behind the counter said had we heard that the palestinians had bombed the twin towers? He didn't seem too concerned so we got in the car and drove across the beacons to the cottage where we were staying. The strangest drive listening to the towers collapse.

When we got back the TV was broken so we didn't see any footage till we went to the pub that night. Watched for about 20 mins.

So I kind of missed it really.

I was listening to the archers too Jenie! Very pregnant and feeling a bit low - quickly put things back in perspective for me. Unfortunately (for me in my selfish own world) DP's work was put on standby to respond to the incident, so just a few mins after the second plane hit he called to say he was being asked to fly out to the states. He had the option to say no because of the advanced pregnancy, but who could say no to a request like that? I remember calling a friend and talking to him, probably for a few hours, through all of the newsflashes and repetitions, got myself in a real state about DP, then in a real state about being so selfish. A really difficult day for everybody!

It was the day of my 20 week scan. We had it in the morning and found out all was well and that we were having a boy. We were v happy and got home around lunch time. We were both on the computer when by dh got an email saying plane gone into world trade center..he ran into the bedroom and turned on Sky News. He then called to me and said another plane had gone in. We both sat on the bed watching tv for most of the afternoon. I remember when the towers fell..it was like "is that real?..is that happening now?? ." and then it hit us what that meant and all the people inside...then we started crying

So a mixed day for us as I will always remember it as the day of my scan (a date I probably wouldn't of remembered normally)

Sorry, Jenie should have been Janh..

I remember exactly the same feelings claireandrich about the world your children were being born into. Before 9/11 I'd thought I would be telling DD all about the foot and mouth crisis as the biggest event in our lives in the year of her birth..

I was in Australia and we had had a long day and gone to bed early, which if we hadn't we would have had the TV on (due to time diff).

Got up in the morning and put the TV on and the headline said 'America under attack' but the presenters were discussing the implications on the Stock Exchange so I naively thought that if they were on about money, no-one could have died.

Then saw the planes and me and dh were just in shock for about an hour, dumbstuck watching. Very strange being so far from home. Still remember hearing Pray by Massive Attack on the radio whilst driving and having to pull over, both of us in floods of tears.

Went to NY as part of our trip 6 months after and visited the area and that was incredably moving but in a strange way uplifting too to see the city so strongly together as a community.

I was at work. We had over 2,000 people in 2 WTC, many of whom people in London knew well. Everybody was watching the live streaming on the net as the tower collapsed and at that point we had no idea how many of our colleagues had managed to get out.
Eventually (a few days later) we discovered we had lost only 5 people.

I think I wrote before - re memorial poem - that, despite being such a small firm, only just over 100 staff, we lost 17 employees. The most dreadful day. Remember being at my desk and the news coming through - we were hosting a conference at the WTC, so lots of delegates/speakers also lost their lives. The not knowing was dreadful. I was seven months pregnant and remember manning the office phones trying to handle distraught, devastated wives, husbands, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, friends. And knowing that in all reality they probably wouldn't be coming back. Truly, truly awful.

i'll never forget that day for the rest of my life, me and dh had a big disagreement and he went to his mother to cold off, and went to do some gardening, ds came in said there was something wrong with cbeebies, so i went to see, it was breacking news, i wasn't listering just trying to work out from the pic's what has happened, just could see smoke ect going over YN over the brige you know the pic, anyway started rerunning want had happened then i saw the towers coming down i just tuched the telly and cried and cried for them poor people, i just wished i've never broght my son into this nasty world, then i found out i was PG 4 weeks later i cried, truns out i consived ds #2 on 9th sep. 9/11 is the most hreat brecking thing in my whole life i really do hope nothing ever tops that, but we do live in a horrible world

As the first plane crashed I was in a playgroup with DD writing my novel on American Muslim Terrorists whilst she played...I came home switched on the TV and haven't written another word of my book since.

Went and woke up DH and sat there for the rest of the day in total horror.

ds was 11 months old and was ill. Normally I had TV switched off all day, but since I was Nursing ds on my lap, I put on a video. The video finished and TV came back on, first tower on fire at that stage. I watched the rest of the events unfold, couldn't believe it, crying. I remember phoning dh who was working in Canary Wharf Tower, begging him to come home in case they would be next.

i remember it well too. i was out with my mum and dd and dp was working away. My dd just got her first two teeth through together(top two) and i was screaming in the cafe(sad or what!) Dp rang and said about it but i was too excited about dd's teeth to listen. Then i got home and put the news on, very sad...!

pie - you were writing a novel on American Muslim Terrorists? Wow, a fiction novel? have you written before or is this (or was this) your first?