I was at home, I was ill so I wasnt at school at the time, I was watching something on tv when the newsflash came on, it was the first time I had ever seen a newsflash so assumed it was a advert or something til I changed over to other channels who were all showing the same thing, when it dawned on me it was real it was shocking, first time I had ever really taken notice or something like that on the news, I know I was home alone and feeling quite scared to be alone for some reason! I think seeing the images and the planes chilled me a bit.
I was in the car with my mum, on the way to the local Sainsbury's, and it came up on the radio. I didn't quite understand what had happened until we got home and saw it on the TV.
I had been working nights and when I woke up that afternoon, my husband had been following the events on CNN and telling me how he couldn't beleive this was happening. I couldn't either, having just woken up, but that day had really upset me. When the second tower came down, it was very hard to comprehend that it was happening, and not just a TV movie.
Had just started Year 11 and the first I heard of it was when I met up with my friends at the end of the day to go home. A lot of them did Childcare and they had been watching a video on the wheel in TV. As I approached they were unusually quiet and I soon found out why. Having watched the video, the teacher left the room for a few minutes and hoping to catch a bit of Neighbours, one of the girls switched the TV back on, naturally with the teacher out the room, there was a bit of silliness, lots of laughing and then the TV came on, my friend said you could have heard a pin drop and they kept the TV on for the remainder of the lesson, lesson abandoned.
Having not seen anything yet myself I didnt really grasp the situation until I got home and saw it for myself, sometime around the time one of the towers fell, we had a powercut and EVERYBODY was out in the street. Looking back it was an incredibly innocuous thing but everybody's emotions were heightened, everybody was fearful and in those brief moments we were cut off from what was happening, stood around in the street, it genuinely felt like it was the beginning of the end of the world. It wasn't of course but the world did change that day. Funny how you can remember every last detail, same with any major event I've lived through, it's just something you don't forget.
I was watching Neighbours, and when it finished on came the News Flash.
It had a picture of the burning tower, I said "ooh"
After reading some of the comments it does seem as though some people were too young to remember really, on account of the fact thier posts are innacurate.
Also anyone who says that they or a friend thought it was a film are just irritating and poorly regurgitating the commentary at the time.
People said it was 'like' a movie or it looked 'like" a film, in order to quantify its surreal and massive scope. No one watching the TV thought they had Sky Movies on!
In the school play ground, all the parents were talking. My mum thought it was Canary Wharf as she only glimpsed at the TV before coming to pick me up.
As I got in I saw on TV the 2nd tower collapse, and then I rung my friend and told him to watch the TV.
I was 18 and i was sitting on a step at the end of my road waiting for a bus to get to my friends house, my then boyfriend called me from work and asked if i had seen the news and i said i hadnt, and he hurriedly said that i should and that he had to get off the phone ( he wasnt supposed to make personal calls) I ran back to the house and caught footage of the plane hitting the tower. I stared in shock at what i was seeing, but it didnt really sink in properly straight away. I went back out for the bus and when i got to my mates we sat watching the news together for hours. Awful day.
I was 6 and all I remember is my dad saying, "Come and watch these towers fall down." For years I thought it was just a controlled demolition sort of thing.
I was at work, working alone, and the only source of information was a local radio station played over the public address system. It was reported as a light aircraft crash, which I wrongly assumed meant a single engined propeller driven aircraft. It was only when I got home that i found out what had actually happened.
I was on my lunch break, walked past a local market and saw one of the stallholders running up and down shouting "Oh my god they're jumping from the windows!" Had no idea what was happening until I heard it on a builders radio, I thought it was the end of the world.
My husband was in Washington DC at the time, and couldn't contact him all day, was sick with nerves, turned out he was in the Pentagon when the plane hit and he was evacuated out with others on a coach. For all those who believe in the CT about 9/11 he definitely saw bodies/injured lied on the grass outside the building, was a terrible day
i had arrived in Florida the day before, my ex and I went to the shop and as I was wearing a tshirt that said New York on it someone asked me if I'd heard that a plane had gone into one of the Twin Towers.
I didn't like being in America at that time, we were at the bar later and loads of locals were talking about 'just going over and bombing the lot' then when the sun set someone tried to start a chant of 'USA' bit no one joined in.
I worked for BA at the time so we managed to get home early, although we just went to the airport and waited to get on a plane.
I was working as an IT Technician at my sons secondary school.
It was just after lunchtime and my son came in my office. He looked upset and told me that the drawstrings on his new bag had come off and he couldn't get them back on.
I fixed it and thought I'd phone my wife to tell her and the first thing she said to me was "You should see what I'm watching on the television!" After that his bag was trivial. I tried getting on the internet to see and couldn't get on it the rest of the day!
Oh, thank you, didn't expect a reply, but unfortunately even though he had amazing care, and even took part in exploratory treatment, he died in 2004. It will be our Ruby wedding this year.
I was at school, primary school, I must have been around 9years old.
Mum was picking me and my lil brother up from school and she told us about it on the way home.
I was too young to understand.
I had just bought my first house and was getting double glazing fitted - the workmen came in to watch - we all sat round on deckchairs (furniture hadn't been delivered) watching a TV that was perched on a stool and listening to Five Lives live radio updates.
Work colleagues were texting me constantly asking what was happening as the internet in the office had crashed due to too much traffic.
Very vivid memories of that day. I remember teletext/ceefax initially reported that a light aircraft had accidentally collided with the WTC - realised that obviously wasn't the case as soon as we saw the pictures coming through
Oh, thank you, didn't expect a reply, but unfortunately even though he had amazing care, and even took part in exploratory treatment, he died in 2004. It will be our Ruby wedding this year.
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Disasters do hold a certain fascination. Titanic, for instance.
We all love a good explosion, hence why action films are so popular.
90% of TV dramas are about people getting murdered.
I recall initial speculation that it might be some kind of accident or ATC malfunction...and then the second plane hit.
It still doesn't feel real
Having not seen anything yet myself I didnt really grasp the situation until I got home and saw it for myself, sometime around the time one of the towers fell, we had a powercut and EVERYBODY was out in the street. Looking back it was an incredibly innocuous thing but everybody's emotions were heightened, everybody was fearful and in those brief moments we were cut off from what was happening, stood around in the street, it genuinely felt like it was the beginning of the end of the world. It wasn't of course but the world did change that day. Funny how you can remember every last detail, same with any major event I've lived through, it's just something you don't forget.
It had a picture of the burning tower, I said "ooh"
After reading some of the comments it does seem as though some people were too young to remember really, on account of the fact thier posts are innacurate.
Also anyone who says that they or a friend thought it was a film are just irritating and poorly regurgitating the commentary at the time.
People said it was 'like' a movie or it looked 'like" a film, in order to quantify its surreal and massive scope. No one watching the TV thought they had Sky Movies on!
As I got in I saw on TV the 2nd tower collapse, and then I rung my friend and told him to watch the TV.
My husband was in Washington DC at the time, and couldn't contact him all day, was sick with nerves, turned out he was in the Pentagon when the plane hit and he was evacuated out with others on a coach. For all those who believe in the CT about 9/11 he definitely saw bodies/injured lied on the grass outside the building, was a terrible day
I didn't like being in America at that time, we were at the bar later and loads of locals were talking about 'just going over and bombing the lot' then when the sun set someone tried to start a chant of 'USA' bit no one joined in.
I worked for BA at the time so we managed to get home early, although we just went to the airport and waited to get on a plane.
London Clinic.
It was just after lunchtime and my son came in my office. He looked upset and told me that the drawstrings on his new bag had come off and he couldn't get them back on.
I fixed it and thought I'd phone my wife to tell her and the first thing she said to me was "You should see what I'm watching on the television!" After that his bag was trivial. I tried getting on the internet to see and couldn't get on it the rest of the day!
Mum was picking me and my lil brother up from school and she told us about it on the way home.
I was too young to understand.
Work colleagues were texting me constantly asking what was happening as the internet in the office had crashed due to too much traffic.
Very vivid memories of that day. I remember teletext/ceefax initially reported that a light aircraft had accidentally collided with the WTC - realised that obviously wasn't the case as soon as we saw the pictures coming through
I heard the news and thought something along the lines of ..