Where were you on 9/11?

I had my mother staying with me in Kent.
We were driving to a shopping centre when I noticed that the very blue sky was empty and quiet. No planes no noise nothing. Unusual for the South East!
As I mentioned this weirdness to my mother the phone rang. It was my daughter at work in London to tell me the devastating events in New York. I’ll never forget! 🙏🏻💐

We had just got home from holiday in France and were staying the night with DD, as she was looking after our dog. DH was in the sitting room with year old granddaughter supposedly watching C.B.bees. I went in to see this horror unfolding, thought it was a film and ticked off DD for watching something totally unsuitable for a little girl! He soon told me that her programme had been interrupted and that this was for real!! Unbelievably shocking. I still moved granddaughter.

I was at home. My daughter's boyfriend was away in NYC celebrating his birthday along with his brother. They were supposed to go to the WTC for breakfast but had slept in, having had drinks with a friend the night before. He phoned our house and said to put the TV on so we did, in time to see, live, the second plane hit the building. He was fine and told us to tell our daughter that he was OK but might not be able to contact for a few days. She came in from collecting their baby son from nursery, terrified he might have been killed. Today is his 50th birthday (he and daughter married about 12 years ago). The 'baby son' is 26 and got married in August.

I was called out of a meeting for my company in Bath with an American supplier whose own company was based in NY - we crowded around a live stream of the news in total disbelief - the poor chap could not get through to his colleagues and friends who might have been affected - a truly awful day - people went to work, heroic emergency workers went to help, and so many never went home. Thinking of them, the brave passengers and crew on United 93 and those who lost their lives in Washington that day. RIP

I flew to Washington under 3 weeks later - my plane was almost empty - staff outnumbered passengers - increased security checks at Heathrow and Washington (armed National Guard everywhere) and my taxi drove past the Pentagon - I still have chills

I was in bed, sleeping between night shifts. I always slept with the TV on, to drown out outside noises. The news gradually permeated my sleepy brain and woke me up.

i was at work as a headteachers pa and my then lodger rang me to tell me. I got out my little 2" x 2" screen TV and we all crowded around watching in absolute horror.
the news spread around the school and students were permitted to watch as events unfolded. not much teaching happened that day.

I heard about the initial event on the car radio and assumed it was an accident - we’d been in NYC about six weeks prior and knew there were sight-seeing flights and thought it was one of those.

I spent the afternoon in a quiet office basement without mobile signal or radio then left about 5pm. On the car radio there was obviously a lot of talk and I was very confused about what was happening. We got stuck in a traffic jam and I glanced at the car next to me. The driver had the evening paper open across his steering wheel and I saw photos of the Twin Towers with smoke pouring out of them. Horrific.

We spent the evening trying to contact friends in New York. Their daughter in Manhattan was initially out of contact with them but she eventually managed to get a message to them to say she was safe later that night.

The world has changed irrevocably since then, hasn’t it?

I knew something awful was about to happen, I read Tarot and it had been coming up for days. I was'nt suprised.

imaround

I was at work in Houston at the time. We all ended up glued to a small 13 inch TV watching what was happening. We were scared to death because we had no idea if other cities were targets.

I still to this day remember the feeling I had when you realize there was not a single plane flying over the country at all. It is hard to explain. A stillness and quiet came over the entire country. A giant 330+ million people pause before we all came together as a unit.

I took my kids to the WTC site a few years back so they know what happened. If you are in New York, please consider putting it on your agenda. It is worth seeing.

I took my kids to the WTC site a few years back so they know what happened. If you are in New York, please consider putting it on your agenda. It is worth seeing.

I've visited and I'm glad I did, but it was heart wrenching and did reduce me to tears. We were fortunate enough to visit and were there (purely by chance) when the weekly bagpipe playing is done by three pipers from the Port Authority, Fire Department and Police Department pipe bands. They play by the Last Column inside the museum and then go outside to play by the pool. We had no idea this happened but it was the most moving end to the visit. We stayed by the pool for a long time reading as many names as we could.

I think it had a knock on effect for a lot of people all over the world, even though they weren’t directly involved.

I was at work at a college trying to process 100 international students applications on my own. A colleague came into the room and told me what had happened. I said ‘ Are you joking?’ and he replied ‘That’s not something to joke about’
Two days later I went off sick with stress and didn’t return to work for 4 months. I think it was the last straw for me after working under stress for nearly 3 years with no support..

I was attending a computer course learning to use a program I have long since forgotten the name of. It was basically a database that saved the sentence you were tranlating from one language and your finished translation into another.

We watched the news in our lunch break - one of the other women on the course had an uncle who worked in the Twin Towers, By a sheer fluke, traffic jam or car breaking down he had not got to work that morning!

The story of how the people of the small town of Gander in Newfoundland took in thousands of people whose flights were grounded is a heart-warming read. Over 30 planes were told to land there.

I was at home in our study doing something or other at my desk I had seen on the online news that a plane had flown into one of the twin towers, but just assumed a small private plane. It was odd enough to remember, but not enough to put the tv on. Then DH rang, he just said 'Go into the living room and turn the tv on'.

I could tell from his voice that Something Had Happened. I went straight into the living room, turned on the tv, just in time to see the second airliner come onto the screen from one side and fly into the other tower. I sat down and did not leave the room for several hours

What I also remember is what a beautiful day it was, a typical autumn day, the autumn sun shining through the trees that surrounded the house. It felt surreal, there I was sat in the quiet of the English autumn countryside, while the horror at the Twin tours was taking place and thousands dying.

We were in California travelling on Route 66 with Titan, and before going down to breakfast I switched on the TV and watched the whole event, and could not believe my eyes. We were on the last few days of our tour but due to no planes flying in we could not get back home. We had an extra 3 days before our tour manager could arrange for a departure and travelled backwards and forwards to the airport until we could get a reservation - it took 3 days. We had eaten at the Windows of the World at the top of the Trade Centre back in 1993, when terrorists had attempted to cause an explosion in the car park of the hotel. Our thoughts are with the families of those who died and remember these awful happenings 25 years ago.

The Daily Mail today has a wonderful article about what happened at Gander that day and how as a result many permanent friendships were established and one marriage was the result.

I was working in the transport lounge of Hammersmith Hsp tv was on for patients but no one left that lounge for at least an hour even though transport was ready, what we were witnessing was so unreal we were dumbfounded it was eerie as no one spoke apart from gasps as the scene unfolded. Will never forget that day.

Marzipan22

The story of how the people of the small town of Gander in Newfoundland took in thousands of people whose flights were grounded is a heart-warming read. Over 30 planes were told to land there.

A musical was made out of this story was made called ‘Come from Away’ I saw it with my DDs in London several years ago.
Was wonderful.

I was at work. There was a TV on in another office. One of my colleagues came rushing in to say that one of the twin towers had been hit by a plane. At that point we were thinking it was a terrible accident. Then she came rushing in again to say that the other tower had been hit, so we all crowded in to the office with the TV and stood there watching in shock.

My husband was working from home, and a few hours later when I arrived home from work I found him sitting in his chair in front of the TV. He looked at me and said "They've gone. They're not there any more." Bear in mind that just 3 years previously we visited New York and went up one of the towers, to a bar right at the top called Windows On The World. I couldn't stop thinking about the staff working up there and what it must have been like for them.

Apologies for typos am on my phone 🙄

Sitting in the relatives room at hospital because my Dad was having triple bypass surgery. I was cross they had interrupted Neighbours which was still on the BBC with a newsflash. Little did I appreciate at the time the significance of this news.

Certainly a courageous man to return in hope of saving more without thinking of his own life.
For me it was an extra sad day.
My late husband was driving me to Portsmouth Hospital where my dear father had been taken as we weren’t with him when he needed us.
The first time we heard about what happened was while we were booking into our accommodation when the owner remark;
‘It was terrible wasn’t it?’

Very sad day today 9/11. Such a terrible thing to happen. I was working in Rayleigh, Essex, at the time as a Secretary at a Locum agency for psychiatrists in the High Street. I can remember one of the directors coming in and telling us. I think they had a radio or TV so they knew about it as soon as it happened. The reinsurance company my sister worked for in London had dealings with companies in the twin towers, so she may even have corresponded with some of them. Also my anniversary today. I would have been married 55 years. I can't believe it's now longer since I got divorced than I was married. I was married for 25 years. The time has flown.

I was driving through town and heard it on the car radio. Everyone pulled into the side of the road and just stopped. Awful moment never to be forgotten.

I was at home, bringing a cup of tea into the living room. The tv was on (rather odd in itself, as I seldom even plug it in until the tea-time news). The story was at the stage when film of the hits was being shown over and over again. I remember saying, "Oh, MY!" and my legs actually giving way under me. My DH came home from work to find me still on my knees, staring at the screen.

I was 45 and working in a large office. The clerk collecting post from different sections went round telling everyone. We thought it was the start of WW111. I rang my husband who was in a meeting. Still leaves me in total shock and sadness 25 years later. I kept a Daily Mail from the day after 🥹