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

Following on from the previous thread about that dreadful day.My mother used to tell me where she was when Jfk got shot and i know exactly what she meant.I can remember that morning as if it was yesterday,even the weather was the same,a sunny Autumn morning.Any other folks relate to this?

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I was shopping with my mum in Bristol as I had just moved into a flat there. We thought it was a new movie that had just come out...it was an awful day..

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

I was at home getting ready for work,by the time I got to work the second tower had just collapsed,we all just sat in the bait cabin watching it unfold.Didnt work at all that day

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

At work.

Watching it live on a TV that was permanently set to BBC news.

Nobody got any work done that day and customers/clients stopped coming in - even those who'd booked appointments weeks before. My company had an office in one of the towers and although I didn't know any of them personally it was a very surreal day. Everyone was just numb and full of disbelief.

The same happened for the 7/7 London bombings.

Not something anyone ever wants to witness again.

A

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

I was at home watching on television.

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

About to fly out to Jeddah, KLM canceled the flight, so I had to fly down to London and fly B.A.

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

On the phone to colleagues in Boston (of all places)!! TV went straight on in the office

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By *ingle Beds LassWoman
over a year ago

Bedfordshire

I was living in Munich, my son was having an MRI scan and my partner kept calling me. Eventually answered when outside waiting for results, went back in and turned their telly on watching it all unfold. First time in the 6 months I had lived there I watched the box. Glued to it all day and night.

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

I was at work - not long in a new job and we were watching it on the internet

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

Watched it unfolding in St Athan. We knew we'd be going to war that day.

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

sitting a little chef having breakfast watching sky

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I'd called into my friends work and popped to the newsagents and I heard the news saying a plane had crashed, went back and told her and we put the television on just before the second plane hit, then everything just happened

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

I remember being offshore on a rig when the Oklahoma bombing happened in 1995 ....

The vast majority of the crew were American and their reaction was fear, devastation and utter incredulity that such a thing could ever happen on mainland USA....

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

Honestly, I can't remember...

People always say "Everyone remembers what they were doing at the exact moment the twin towers were hit, etc".

I don't remember a thing

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

I was working to open a brand new business the following day-it was hectic to say the least so none of us had the radio or tv on. Then I switched it on about 6pm and the second tower collapsed I think very soon after. We were all dumbfounded. Keep getting goosebumps today when I think about it x

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

Reuters coffee bar on fleet street London. I remember clearly watching the tv in there with my jaw on the floor as the second plane hit

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

I was at work, but we were watching on the telly after the first Tower had been hit and still kind of assumed it was just a tragic accident when the second Tower exploded live on TV.

That was the horrendous moment I knew that this was more than just a horrendous civil aviation accident and I think we all knew then war was imminent

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

I was living in Cyprus and just got into bed after a 24 hr flight delay.

Just fallen asleep when my bf called telling me to turn the TV on then manager called telling me to get up and get to the resort office asap.

Worst week ever

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

I woke up after the first plane hit.

I was living at my mums at the time.

She knocked on my door and said "turn the tv on"

I did and minutes later the second plane hit.

I thought it was the start of a huge war.

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

I was off school ill I remember laying on the sofa at my parents house watching the horror unfold on television. At first we all thought it must have been a terrible accident.

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

Sitting in my works vehicle having a break listening on the radio at time we were sitting facing two blocks of high flats and think how strange that was a plane craahed into the twin towers

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

I was at work when a mate told me about it.. never believed him saying it will be a publicity stunt or something.

Was shocked when I saw it on TV.. remember watching different footage of it all day.

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

I was at school, everyone was pulled out of their classes for an assembly the most sureal and saddeing experience...

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

I tried to avoid it as people kept informing me of the horror. The reason being that I had relatives that could be involved and I had been in the towers 12 months previously so could visualise what people were going thru.

When I got home that evening I got a call to say everyone was ok but then saw film of a relative covered in dust walking away from it.

Very scary

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

At home feeding my 1 year old daughter. My dad rang in complete panic and I turned on the TV and only to watch, in horror the 2nd plane hit. Incomprehensible and still, do this day live in disbelief

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By *ighting17thMan
over a year ago

Bodmin

I was at home. I'd only been back a couple of days or so, recovering from the jet lag. I'd only just flown back from Chicago where I'd been working on stage for a month. ( was performing in Arsenic and Old Lace ). It was really surreal watching it, and truly gut wrenching. Was living in Southend at the time . Horrible. Truly horrible.

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

I just got sky installed that morning and my mum called and told me to put the news on, not quite understanding what I was seeing, my ex came home early as everything just stopped, watched all day x

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

Work evening shift at work so I was watching telly

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

I was decorating the dining room of my old house in Nottingham...heard the news about the first plane on radio 1 on the old mark and lard show...didn't really register as I remembered a small plane doing the same a few years before...then they announced the second strike and I didn't get an iota of work done for almost the rest of that week...I became utterly obsessed with the idea that they may pull people out so watched sky news almost day and night...

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

I can remember exactly where I was, I was driving turning off the M25 about to head east down the A13 towards Tilbury, had BBC London on the radio listening to Jon Gaunt.

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

I was on the way home from my first day of college for motorbike mechanics x

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

I was in New York City when it happened.

-Courtney

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

I was about to fly out to Dublin in the afternoon...i said to my boss at the time...looks like i wont be going...he said why

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

In Majorca, sat in the hotel bar watching it on TV waiting to be pick-up and taken to the Airport. We got picked-up not knowing if we could fly home. We checked in but when it was time to board the plane, we had to find our luggage in front of the plane and hand it to them to load on. If any thing was left, it was left behind. The flight home I was nervous and any sudden movement the plane made, shit me up

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

Putting a fence up in Newark

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

I was at primary school. I remember us all saying it was the start of something big

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

On a plane flying home from a girlie holiday in Cancun. We were grounded in Florida, put in a holding room and left there for 3 days. It took 7 hours before we were allowed to call home, to say families were terrified is an understatement.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I think everyone can remember where they were that day.

I was introducing my 4 week old baby to my aunt and uncle.

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

I was building an extension in the peak district .. and the owner said come and see this ...we all went in and watched it all unfold ...mr

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By *otlerCouple
over a year ago

Newbury

In m&s buying a cd player

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

Landing in heathrow after flying in from the states! I flew over New York the night before!!

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

I was in school in ICT

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

At work.it came on radio a small aircraft had hit the twin towers.....little did they know RIP

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By *lle adie 2Woman
over a year ago

newcastle upon tyne

I was at work, picked my boy up 2.45 from school. So had just happened an hour earlier..I couldn't believe it and like many I thought it was a film

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By *estmidscoupleCouple
over a year ago

West Midlands

Working at a print plant in Slough, came over the radio and at one point in the afternoon, having tried to carry on with sport/weather bulletins as usual etc, the DJ said"this is crazy, lets stick solely to whats happening". Vivid memories of that day

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

Just got out of hospital after an absess had been cut out of a very painful place ouch

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I was in an office and this guy ran in and shouted 'New York has been attacked' and this woman screamed as her hubby was there. I remember her scream.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Although I keep thinking it happened on the 9th November

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

I was in the office. We heard it announced and went upstairs to turn the TV on. Couldn't believe what we were seeing

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

In the air, landing at a military airport. Everyone seemed a bit twitched when we landed but I didnt think anything of it but when I went online when I got to the office I saw the news.

Spent the entire evening watching the news with colleagues in the only bar that we could find that had a generator so that we could watch the TV.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

i had flown back from JFK 2 days earlier....

it was actually my first day working for american express.... we had heard it was a little prop type plane had crashed into WTC.... they called everyone in the room after the 2nd plane hit, and asked anyone with friends and relatives in NYC if they wanted to take the rest of the day off

lucky to not lose any family... a lot of them walked home... but did lose 6 damn good friends....

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


"Following on from the previous thread about that dreadful day.My mother used to tell me where she was when Jfk got shot and i know exactly what she meant.I can remember that morning as if it was yesterday,even the weather was the same,a sunny Autumn morning.Any other folks relate to this?"
oh that day is emblazoned but for all the wrong reasons the worst tragedy of our time

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By *lle adie 2Woman
over a year ago

newcastle upon tyne

Is it just me or because date was 911..

Do you think this date was on purpose because American emergency number is 911.

Or am I just over thinking?

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

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

I was in the kitchen cooking some food and I saw it all on bbc news.

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

I was at parent and toddler group. Nobody was really that shocked or bothered about it. I think society has accepted that war is normal and people die because of them?

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

Working at my first job as an office junior at the Walt Disney offices in west London when I was 17. Our building was evacuated as a safety precaution as we were an American company and no one knew what would happen next. I refused to leave and had to be escorted from the building and wait for my mum to come across London on the tube to pick me up and bring me home as I was so frightened.

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

Yes I was at home and saw some footage on tv of the planes hitting the towers not sure if that was live or recorded Then, but also listening to those terrible events that day made me realise Things were not going to be the same as before these terrible events, I remember People on the ground as witnesses recalling "jumpers" as they called them Seeing them fall and hitting the ground Thou I must admit anyone who could witness That could witness most things, those People falling had little choice in how they would leave their loved ones But they had to make the choice, to pass out with the shock would have been merciful for them but that day the world shuck and still is doing With on going terrorism stirred up at The time of 9/11, it started with saddam, but Insurgency was always ready to lift its ugly head if ever the time was right and lift its ugly head it did like a gorgon from the depths of the sea with many heads all Seeking to destroy with isis being one Of them any excuse to kill westerners is good enough for them war or no war.

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

Get this. I was at work, mate tells me New York has been destroyed. When I get home, the mrs is watching the omnibus of coronation St!! WTF!!. Turn over I said, what for she said, it's been on all day!

Gobsmacked isn't the word!

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

Watched the Second Plane Hit Live on the Big Screen Whilst siting in the Pub..

Knew then that ww3 had started..

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

I had been in a meeting all morning and heard about it when I went back to the office. Internet crashed and we couldn't get any more news.

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By *arehamMan
over a year ago

handforth

Just got home from work put the tele on and the rest is history ,very sad day to see all those people die.

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

Luddington, Michegan USA.

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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago

Northampton

Was in Dover, working in the Albert, and was outside having a fag while clearing the outside tables. Saw a crowd of people huddled round Radio Rentals window, and wondered WTF was going on so had a look myself.

Pub mood wasn't great that day

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I have no idea. Things can happen and I remain in the dark sometimes.

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By *eLuv2PlayCouple
over a year ago

Alpena

Was homeschooling my kids, friend called to tell me. I drove to her home straight away as we don't have cable. We watched them collapse together. Horrified then and now.

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By *rsIdiotWoman
over a year ago

Bedworth

Sat at home having a cuppa and awaiting the arrival of our taxi that was taking us to the airport for our holiday. The news said flights were being cancelled and I'm ashamed to say that my first thought was not for the victims but that I might not be able to go on holiday

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

I (her) was at a conference and wondered why people were in reception crowding round the TV. As I edged closer I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Both Towers had been hit and I phoned my parents. I remember speaking with mum as I watched the first Tower collapse.

Exactly a year later I was at a client site with another colleague. In her newspaper were pictures of all the British people who died. She pointed one out and said she had known him. It suddenly become much more personal.

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By *ike4362ukMan
over a year ago

Cheshunt

I was in the air flying to JFK airport in New York! We circled a bit south of Greenland before finally diverting to Halifax, Nova Scotia. When we parked up on the runway with another airliner parked beside us Irealised something big was happening.

It took a few hours before we were allowed off the plane because they were having to process lots of people. The Canadians were great, really went into top gear to provide food, slerping arrangements snd entertainment for everyone. They had to deal with 44 airliners suddenly turning up unexpectedly. I ended up kipping on a camp bed in a exhibition hall for a week before they finally flew us home.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Was at work in my signal box listening to Simon Mayo on five live when he said a plane had hit one of the towers , thought oh that sounds bad then the lad at the next box belled me to come on the phone told me to put the telly on as the second plane had just hit was stunned to be honest .hour later the fax and printer etc went mad with security advise tips and instructions on what to do about suspicious activity on or around the trains plus a shed load of new emergency phone numbers

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

I was watching it in LA at work, had all the TVS brought into the offices and turned on. We had friends who worked on the airlines and so it was real and really happening to us and them .... America understandably went crazy then, it was a very, very scary place to be. For months afterwards I was shaky at meetings in skyscrapers in LA ....

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Doncaster

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

Was at RAFU Goose Bay just got back from Toronto

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

I was on the bus home from college when I first heard about it. Once indoors at home I alerted my mum to it and we watched the coverage on the news at home, crying.

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By *rown ThunderMan
over a year ago

newport

Where was everyone when in July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed as many as 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from the town of Srebrenica. It was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

We had been into town... Came home put on the TV watched for a moment and thought I had it on a film.. Listened and watched and realised that it was actually real. Was horrified as we watched it played for the rest of the day.

Nothing can compare to the shock and sadness of that day.

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