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By *weet Treat 69 OP   Couple
over a year ago

North Wales area

20 years ago the New York sky line changed forever.

I was living in St Helen's at the time. I'd just got in from work as I saw the second plane hit I thought it was a movie.

To all that fell on that tragic day RIP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I still struggle to comprehend it. Generations gone, and some families have no future generations to come because I was all wiped in an instant

I was waiting at the School gates to collect my sons and heard someone talking about it, I went home turned the news on and was just devastated

Today will be a day of reflect I think

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"20 years ago the New York sky line changed forever.

I was living in St Helen's at the time. I'd just got in from work as I saw the second plane hit I thought it was a movie.

To all that fell on that tragic day RIP"

Ashton in Makerfield.

Sheer shock

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sat in the kitchen of a customer in Hull after we had just fitted a driveway gate.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ill in bed, talking to a guy I'd meet on holiday. He was telling me about it so put the news on and it all just seemed so unreal. That only happens in the movies, right?! Jenny x

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

In a geography lesson, teacher wheeled in the tv for us to watch something about rivers. The news came on the tv when she turned it on. We spent the rest of the lesson watching that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mr - working in a cash and carry in Dublin . Everyone was glued to the tv section .

Mrs was in a gym watching the news . Crazy day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was playing bust a move on the PlayStation at my best friends house after school.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At home watching Sky News already, when the film came on of the first plane hitting. The commentators were saying maybe an accident, then the second one hit. It was Kay Burley presenting x

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By *onyjoCouple
over a year ago

Peterborough

In court, my solicitor franticly trying to get hold of info about her nephew who worked in the towers.

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By *toC Thats MeWoman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Was on holiday in Halkidiki at the time. Still can’t believe that happened in the world all those 20 years ago. So sad x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’d just got back from Assen superbikes and was picking my son up from my mums, it was on the news on her tv when I got there

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By *aptain VMan
over a year ago

Birstall, Leicester

I was at college, I was 16 at the time

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

In the army at the time and in work. One of the guys came in and said that something was happening in New York. We went and put a TV on and watched the sky news feed. When the second plane hit our boss just said "this is going to end in war"

Did realise just how it going to dominate our lives for the next 20 years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In a video conference involving 3 colleagues in Manhattan that day. They looked out of their window and said ‘guys, there’s a huge fire at WTC.’ I still see and feel those 20 minutes vividly

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By *aucy tiggerWoman
over a year ago

Back where I belong

In the office when someone shouted and we all accessed the news on our computers. Shocking scenes, not surprisingly no work got done and many of us were in tears.

It's one of those events where everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing

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By *mizhereMan
over a year ago

thame area

Birmingham and I’m exactly the same spot a year later with a different companyb

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By *aseMan
over a year ago

Gourock

Can't remember where I was 2 weeks ago....

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

I didn’t know anything about it, I was driving home from work and my route took me past a Holiday Inn. There were several flagpoles outside and all of the flags were at half mast, I actually thought that the Queen Mother had died. It was only when I got home and switched the TV on that the true horror of what was happening in NYC unfolded before my unbelieving eyes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was nannying. I remember running up stairs to tell my boss who was working at home that day.

I had been to New York a few months previously and gone to the windows of the world. I ended up going alone... long story but I was very aware I was on my own and everyone was so lovely to me. It hit hard because some of those people wouldn't have made it.

The area I was nannying at the time had a lot of people working out there so it affected the community. One of my charges best friend lost a grandparent.

I do remember the older children asking me questions, questions I couldn't answer.

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

I was at home, I worked in a bar at the time so I was just watching TV and relaxing before my shift that night when it came on live.

My shift got cancelled as the bar was closing out of respect, so I went round to a friend’s house and we ended up just talking about it and how everything would change. How right we were

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth

At home, heard something about it on the radio and put on the TV to see what was happening.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At work

At the time we had American contractors working with us and they were keeping an eye on the story on a TV in one office

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sat in a Bar in Majorca and thought the t.v was playing a film to start with..

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By *amescoupleCouple
over a year ago

north walsham

M- walking through Miltkn Keynes shopping centre, saw the images on TV and thought it was a film.

Got home to see it all over the news and sat dumbstruck and heart broken.

That evening rocked up to my territorial army barracks and we all received standby orders orders briefings for fighting in Afghanistan. One of the saddest, angriest, scariest and darkest days and one I know I will never forget.

C- at home with a toddler and watching it unfold on the news with a overwhelming sense of 'why'.

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By *alty surpriseMan
over a year ago

Uttoxeter

I was driving around Warwickshire and mesmerised by the news reports on the radio

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Just outside of dc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was on a plane! When we landed I wondered why everyone was so quiet.. got to my hotel and met colleagues and they were stunned watching tv. Sad and pointless. RIP everyone

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I remember it well, I had the TV on in the background when the program was interrupted by a report of an ACCIDENT involving an airplane crashing into a building in the U.S.

Whilst the news was broadcasting a live report from the scene we all watched the second plane make contact with the second tower... Truly one of the worst events in world history.

Cal x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was on shift, firefighter, I’d never before or since seen a whole crew so shocked,, watching it knowing all those people and fellow firefighter were going to die

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By *aramel.desiresMan
over a year ago

SouthEast.

I remember it well too.

Was at my sisters house in the Caribbean so it was the same time zone. Watch it for the whole day totally gobsmacked. How the world has changed!

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