Where were you on 9/11?

Just booked in to our hotel in the Derbyshire dales…. Sat in front of the tv for the next 12 hours absolutely gob smacked at first we thought it was a film. 🥲

yanda yes and an ever growing number of people like them live among us.

Driving home to Wales after working in London, when I turned the radio on… at first , like the first radio performance of H G Well’s ‘War of the Worlds’ I thought it was a radio play I was listening to! But gradually it began to sink in it was REAL!
I couldn’t see any pictures until I got home hours later.
I was travelling to see my eldest son in Japan a few days later with the rest of my family. So was worried also this might affect plane travel, even tho it was going inthe opposite direction. As it happened they put very strict on boarding rules into p,ay and anything metal had to be discarded including my eyebrow tweezers, Then on board they served us our food with all metal cutlery!!!

I was about 10 miles into my 45-mile drive to work (afternoon and evening "shift" as a lecturer at the University of Derby) when I switched the radio on to listen to the News and the Archers. I had to pull over as I was shaking so much. When I got to Uni none of my colleagues knew anything about it cos they had all been in class. What a terrible day it was.

I was working in Reading Library, and they put a TV in staff room so we could watch what was happening.

I was at my motber's with my sister and baby nephew wbo was 2 days off 9months old we watched it unfold live on tv in disbelief

I was out shopping and overheard people talking about the twin towers. About this time they were demolishing the twin towers at Wembley football stadium. I was curious why people were discussing these. When I got home my daughter phoned and she was in disbelief that I hadn't heard what was going on in New York

We were on holiday in Greece and sitting round the pool. It was a small group of apartments, no TV but a fellow guest had a new fangled smart phone and kept us all up to date with the unfolding story. Later at the taverna we saw the TV pictures played over
and over. The atmosphere was one of shock and disbelief.
The flight home was very different compared with the one out with very tight security.

The parade for our local hero, who was only doing his job, just like the firefighters, was on the BBC news last night.

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The parade for our local hero, who was only doing his job, just like the firefighters, was on the BBC news last night.

Was that Rick? You’re right, hero, no other word for him.

I was at my parents house working (they ran a business from home at the time) but had my 8 year old son with me as he was off school with something or other. He was lying on the sofa watching the TV and came into the office and said 'Something has happened in New York'. We all stopped work and sat there in silence in the lounge. It was horrible and I didn't want him to see it all unfolding but couldn't really turn it off. It was a strange and very sad day and is still hard to believe 25 years later that they could do what they did.

I was working. 30 miles away my mother was watching the news. She phone me, crying. I was so shocked by what she told me as it was the first anyone in my workplace had heard of this awful atrocity. I remember crying and phoning my DH as the details came in. He had no idea, being out on the road with his own work. What a terribly sad day.

Yes Basgetti, it was Rick.

I was running a training course in the meeting room at work. It wasn’t until we came out at the end of the day that someone told us what had happened. The IT guys had it showing on their computers. We all stood there horrified.

Was teaching a class,high school, Seen it on tv.. We were all in shock! Lesson was abandoned we just kept tv on! Can still see that person jumping out window!!!😭. I was up one of the Towers. You could only go up one of them. Still horrifies me to this day...

My husband was Cornish, Mazipan. I can remember the pride in his home town, Fowey, when Rick’s story was told.
The very best of men.

I was working as a cashier in a bank and we had a tv in the banking hall which was used to show our advertising & promotions. I remember our manager turning over to the news and, both staff & customers, watching in disbelief as it all unfolded.

I worked in a hospital and remember a student physio in our department coming into my office and saying he had heard it on the radio, I didn't know the full extent till I got home and watched the news.

working in an office in Brentwood, I had a radio for when I did overtime, we put it on and were all stunned

I was flying to Chicago that morning and knew nothing of the events until landing in Montreal. I was puzzled as to why our destination on the screen suddenly changed from Chicago to Montreal but the news was kept from the passengers until we'd landed and were told to contact our families.

That Tuesday is seared in my mind. It was our 10th wedding anniversary, and I feel as though each milestone since is personal. Went to the menorial for our silver. Now our 35th. The shock for NYC and the world resonates. RIP you dear beloved victims x

I shouldve been in New York itself on 9/11-we'd booked to see my favourite actor, Gary Sinise, in a production of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", but found out they were shortening it's run on Broadway, and had to go in July of that year instead-caused a lot of problems changing time off from work at short notice, etc, but how lucky were we?!! We'd been up the towers before, so probably wouldn't have been there, but could well have been in the immediate area- doesn't bare thinking about.

I was at work and was just getting ready to go home when one of the boys came in and said someone had flown into the World Trade Centre. We thought it must be an accident involving a private plane. On the journey home I was listening to Classic FM as usual and I realised that their usual 5 minute News bulletin was stretching out to half an hour and someone was talking about people jumping out of windows. I couldn't visualise what was happening at all. Obviously the television went on as soon as I got home.

I was at work to. I remember it so clearly. My daughter used to go over to America for meetings at the Twin Towers.
She did not go this time but her colleagues did, no one survived. She still thinks alot about it today. So very sad.

I was at home working on my MSc dissertation before the children came home from school. My husband rang me telling me to switch the TV on.

I remember thinking there was no point in finishing my dissertation as World War III would be inevitable. (I did finish it, as life went on).

Wonder what would happen today if an attack on that scale happened again. How would Trump react?