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Well, a bit of a daft topic, but I heard this on the radio and though it might be interesting.

Question is obvious I guess, where were you on September 11th 2001 when it all happened?

During 9/11, I was sitting on the couch, next to my brother, who was jumping up and down like an overexcited toddler and saying stuff like: “I can’t believe this has happened, this is the greatest live spectacle of all time! I’m glad I didn’t have to go to work today.�

well, i get back from london to france, i spend 8 very good years there, easy to remember i move the 9th sept. and the 11th i was at Lyon (france) in a hotel and when i woke up in the morning, i watch tv....

Forgot to say where I was

Went to school that day, didn't hear anything about it there and when I travelled back home by tram there was some guy talking to woman about 'those planes in those apartments' which made me think it had been old Tupulev or so in Russia (believe there had been some crashes in the preceding months back there). Came home and my father had obviously lost the clue, couldn't say a thing

I was on my lunch break, wakied into the TX suite at work and saw it on the screen, and just though WTF, being that I work in a news place, I had to record news 24, Sky and CNN on 3 different machines for later use.

Ive been to ground zero twice since.......

Matthew

At work. Radio on. Heard the news, watched CNN on the internet from that moment on, went home and watched tv till late at night.

Milton Keynes

I was just getting over the shock of England taking Gemany to the cleaners (1-5) when my brother called me to turn on the telly.
I was at work, so I couldn't switch it on, but he gave me a running commentary.

well , I was jumping out of the plane with my parachute just before it crashed into the first one . Just kidding, at work same seat I'm sitting on now

I'd spent the morning working at the Uni's library and heard the news in the car on my way home.

We were enjoying our holidays in the sun, in Crete. Didn't know anything happened at all until we phoned home two days later and got the 'news'.
Can't say I was surprised very much...

I was here.

Thinking "Oh shît GWB's going to start flinging nukes around now..."

I was working in the Boarders at the time, West Linton, I came in home for lunch and Mags was watching things unfold on SKY News, "what's going on?" I asked, "some one's blown up the Twin Towers" she said, I, not knowing there was buildings known as the Twin Towers in America said, "they've blown up Wembley who the hell would want to blow up Wembley?"

i was 14, so i was studying in school then
we had American sponsors and they were a cult, though much pupils thought that it's wrong even if they grant money to us
we practiced writing "yankees go home" in the toilet each time they visited our school
that day they were in Moscow and we went sightseeing; some marvellous pupils were included in the group and me also
after that we were driven to the school
about 5 pm (Moscow time) the concert in their honour started, but it was dull for me, so i went home
and then i saw that picture on TV - ruins in the smoke
i couldn't understand if it was reality - kinda PC game graphics
then i knew what happened
that was the real "surprise" for our sponsors
and there were no Simpsons for me that evening, because EVERYTHING on TV was about that
later we've got mixed feelings
on the one side, much people died, yeah, it's a pity (sometimes we do it)
on the other side, that United States of Whatever government with its imperial hinger, that ficking Boosh got a strong punch
but now they still put everything under their control
anyway, everything sucks
yeah
nihilism

I watched it live on TV that morning thinking
what a bunch of cowardly fcuks.

Killing innocent people, men, women and children of all nations.

Watched it out of my office window. Company had been scheduled to move into the 7th floor of 1WTC that Friday. Spent the next 2 weeks on enforced home leave because downtown was a "frozen zone".
At this point am tired of the endless media coverage of a non-event. It's not the first terrorist attack to have taken place, it may be the largest so far but size isn't everything. I just wish that that braindead chimp who descends on the city every September would f*ck off back to Washington instead of using the event to justify his ill-advised foreign policy initiatives. The tw*t.

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I listen to BBC Radio 4 all day at work and heard about the first strike, I presumed it was a light aircraft with some loonies at the helm.
Then the reports got heavier.
Second strike!
We have TVs all over the place at work so I tried to get people to switch them to the BBC.
I met with a lot of resistance as there was a speech by Tony Blair on they were all watching/taping.
Eventually I found a friend in Emergencies Planning who put his telly on and...

Fuck Me!

you know the rest

slightly off topic, but...

Why is it that no-one talks about the other atrocity commited on 11th September?

In 1973 a CIA funded coup took place in Chile.

The result: Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president was shot, General Pinochet took over power and instigated the Operation Condor terror campaign, causing the death of some tens of thousands of Chilenos (and others) over a period of some 17 years and the b****d has still not been brought to book.

It is a day of infamy indeed......

I was in school and heard mumblings about it on the public bus on the way home. Sat in front of the TV for a few hours caring.

Then when no-one stopped talking about it for the next few years, I stopped. It's very sad and all, but ridiculous numbers have died since then. Way to let the terrorists win by permeating your consciousness and making you live in fear

This is the thing, isn't it? "The world changed on 9-11."

Well, apart from the obvious-- it changed for those killed and bereaved-- why?

Here in Britain we've lived with the constant threat of IRA violence all through the 70s, 80s, and into the 90s (and I won't make any petty point-scoring jibes about the IRA's main source of funding ) and we didn't let it change our world.

I had no work that day, came home from a long walk in nice weather. When I watched the news the first pictures of the burning first tower came on TV, and while the live pictures were on and the news speaker was telling something, there -whoosh- live and in colour, the second plane hit. Like Mark I thought that Dubya was going to find some guilties and let the sun shine on them..
I think it´s funny how in the time after Ossama recieved a rate of attention like a statesman, him being just another cheap crook like any mafioso who just had the wit to make the most out of the sloppy work US officials do.

markfiend wrote:This is the thing, isn't it? "The world changed on 9-11."

It certainly had an impact on the estimated 72,000 civilians killed since then in the "War On Terror"

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/pol ... 466758.ece

To answer the question, I'd pulled a sickie. BAD day to pull a sickie.

i was in an appraisal, details were very sketchy when i came out.some one said that it had been hit, and the pentagon. for some reason i said 'well, it's a legitimate target..'
got home to watch it over and over. all the news websites had crashed.
i got an email saying 'i bet you wish you were going somewhere else on holiday next month'
went to ground zero, but naturally there was no chance of getting anywhere near it.

deadagain wrote:Why is it that no-one talks about the other atrocity commited on 11th September?

Not no one. It's not such a cruel world.
But very few people indeed.

Of course on 11/09/01 I was utterly shocked. But when millions keep dying in Africa or other dark corners of the Earth and the world doesn't care, just because they're not white and/or rich enough, I can't help feeling sick.

I think the main difference with what happened to the WTC is that a large majority of people in the world saw it happen live on TV and by seeing it actually happen made it a hell of a lot more chilling