Where were you on Sept 11th 2001

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Posting this a day early, as my thoughts start on the 10th Sept 2001


Many Say – Where were you when you heard the news on Sept 11th 2001

I had left our office in Los Angeles at 5am on the 10th September on a mad cross country drive to meet up with a customer for a job in Orlando Florida

(Yes I was driving, not flying the 2550 miles as I often do, as I find it clears the mind and being alond in the car gives me my best “Ideas” time)

I do the drive in about 48 hours Virtually Non Stop (10 Tanks of Fuel, 10 Large Coffees and 10 Pee Breaks!)

(With a couple of hours sleep in the back seat in Dallas TX) and it was during my nap in Dallas that I heard the news on the radio.

Vicky was back in the UK and I knew she would be worried as at the time we had not confirmed if I was flying or driving over to Florida, I could not get a Cellphone line out of the US (I think the calls were being blocked at that point), but did manage to get a text message through to her.

I then got back on the road and drove straight on to Orlando, as there were rumours on the radio that state lines may be closed down for security,

It was by far the most surreal journey I have ever had across the country with the radio reports playing out like some horrific radio play.

I made it to Fl, and spent three days working there before driving up to Washington DC for a flight to the UK, again I was lucky that I was booked on one fo the first flights to leave so missed out on the mess that all the poor people who had been on cancelled flights had, fighting for any spare seat on a flight.

After that travel changed for many reasons, but I still drive coast to coast rather than fly if I get the time, its time to think, away from the compressed crowd in the sky.

We will always remember where we were on Sept 11th 2001
 
I had to think about this for a minute, and I just don't know. I was in South Africa, probably in Johannesburg, but I can't remember exactly where I was or what I was doing.

I do remember President Kennedy's assassination in this context. I was 10, watching television at home with my father, when the news flash came on.
 
Glasgow in the morning - then driving back down the 74 and M6 thinking this has to be another Orson Wells wind-up, (a la War of the Worlds many years ago).:shake:
 
I was preparing to fly out from Heathrow on the evening flight to Hong Kong. I had the tv on and remember watching all afternoon in a surreal state of shock.

It was a quiet flight that evening...
 
I was at work. The boss came into the haze of smoke that was our office and said that 'some c*** has flown a plane into a skyscraper'. I thought Cessna or light(ish) aircraft but when the next one went in I couldn't believe my eyes. Work stopped and we all sat around the boss' little 14" telly in awe of what we were seeing.

I have never flown regularly but when I went to Dubai the following year it seemed strange that it was like there was never a time before 9/11 and before everyone started to question their safety on air travel....
 
In college in the coffee bar on a computer playing games on the internet.
They had the radio on and the news mentioned a plane hitting the twin towers. I didnt even know what the twin towers were.

They put the TV on, and everyone just sat there in silence stunned watching the live feed and loops of the impact. Then in front of our eyes, the second plane hit.

I left to go home and just as I opened the front door, My mum was sat on the sofa in tears, the first building had just collapsed.
Spent the rest of the afternoon sat on the sofa with my mum watching the horror unfold futher.
 
A couple of months after there was this crash, of which I caught brief snippets of news on the radio of my Walkman during a rail journey. I'd been at a hotel in Hereford, used when members of the local outfit are in demand for news interviews. They could be recognized by their footwear ;)
 
i was working in Emsworth near portsmouth i was putting some rubbish out and a bin man told us that a plane had gone into one of the towers. i was on my way home put tv on and saw the second plane hit.

It changed so much about the way allot of people live.
 
at work, at our other workshop. i remember the initial report on the radio, we then got more detail and flicked the radio to a radio 4 and listened to it all happening, we listened all day, and in the evening i watched it all evening on the news. I remember it all vividly to, the images of the planes hitting, the images of people jumping out of offices to their deaths, the images of the people in the streets.

and all in the name of religion.
 
I was on the m6 when I heard it on the radio, I reached my delivery which was ERF trucks in Middlewich, told security what had happened, they were listening to radio 1, I went in, was in there for 15 minutes came out and it still hadn't made the news on radio 1 according to the security guard
 
At work, repairing Mobile Phones. I went down the workshop to the guys repairing 'pace' Sky boxes they always had the news on. I was talking to a guy there when the news flash came up.

I went to see where they were in 2005.
 
matty said:
and all in the name of religion.
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I don't believe it was about religion.

But back on track....
 
I was alone asleep on the sofa with the tv on.
I had just lost my husband suddenly on the prior Aug Bank holiday hence the reason me not being at work.
It was though Mike had come back and was shaking me awake and saying look at the telly.
I was already devastated and even more so seeing what had happened there.
 
I was actually here on TP reading the photography related posts when someone (can't remember who) posted here that the actual attack was happening on live tv. I left computer and watched the tv the rest of the day.
 
frank said:
I was actually here on TP reading the photography related posts when someone (can't remember who) posted here that the actual attack was happening on live tv. I left computer and watched the tv the rest of the day.
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wasnt TP, we werent here then. another internet forum perhaps
 
At work, chap goes and sits in his car lunchtime for a smoke and listen to the radio, came back and told us about it then we watched it unfold on the internet

Told the bus driver on the way home and don't think he quite believed me, at three o'clock it was the first he had heard of it
 
I was in Larne (Northern ireland) just leaving a transmitter site (BBC) after some fault repair. I was driving down the hill with a colleague and we heard it on the radio. It was a great sunny day. I think I was watching the tv the rest of the day when i got home.
 
I was on a flight home from Seattle, didnt hear the news until we landed at Heathrow, where my parents who had come to pick me up told me what had happened, was surreal seeing all the flights cancelled on the departure and arrival boards, drive home in the car was very subdued ! One of our customers at work at the time lost an awful lot of staff in one of the towers too !
 
I was in High School, I remember my dad texting me to say "put the news on when you get in, chaos in America" to which I replied "Whats new?", anyhow ended up reading on my phone that 2 planes had hit the towers and the Pentagon and I just thought air traffic were having a bad day....
Got home to see the towers collapse and pretty much watched Sky/CNN/BBC News for about the next 4 days.....
It certainly doesn't seem like 10 years ago
 
It was my 12th birthday, I'd been at school all day, didn't know anything about it. I didn't think it was real when I switched the television on and the news was on.
 
I was in school and got home about 2 hours after the first plane hit. I remember picking up the phone to my best friend and first informing him of what the twin towers were but then thinking and talking about Armageddon and World War 3 kicking off. Much like everyone else, we spent the whole evening watching the news. I remember welling up with tears and didn't eat much that night. Not a day that I or anyone else will ever forget.
 
I was at work, testing some software. Not many people were in, and I remember it being a typical September day, me gazing out of the window wishing I was somewhere else, probably! Then someone said to check out the Sky News website, and we watched it all unfold... What was already a quiet day got even quieter from that point...
 
I was sat on the settee in and out of sleep,I had just finished a 12 hour shift and was sat with Dorothy for a while before going to bed.
I thought it was a disaster movie,till my wife assured me it was for real.

We both sat there stunned watching it.:(
 
I was in work. It got strangely quiet on the phones and generally the office buzz was muted. I never really thought much of it until I went for a tea and pretty much everyone was gathered in the boardroom with the tv on. Directors, managers and staff all stood in disbelief staring at the screen.
 
working in the taxi

just picked up an American - regular customer who lives here with English wife

i pulled over and we sat for 30mins listening to the radio

he never said word.. i discovered what the term ''shell-shocked'' meant

then i drove him home ..he just sat, slumped, never said a word

TRAGIC
 
I was in Altamonte Springs ,Florida and had just arrived at a golf course when we seen the 1st plane go into the tower on the tv.Needless to say we didn't play golf that day,we went back home and sat glued to the tv all day.
We were meant to fly back to the U.K. that evening
 
I was in the car on the way home from shopping when the radio presenter said that a plane had hit one of the towers, I got home & switched on one of the news channels, almost as soon as I had I saw the plane hit the second tower. My immediate reaction was that they were showing a rerun of the first plane hitting the tower, I then realised this wasn't the case, I felt sick, I still can't watch that clip.
The sights of seeing people at windows and throwing themsleves from the building will remain with me forever.

May they all RIP
 
I was on a training course, we ended up sitting in reception and watching the News for the rest of the day.
 
I was stuck in Glasgow airport on a panasonic training day, I know it was thousands of miles away but at moment nobody knew if we might be hit too, it was surreal driving, friends family leaving voicemails in a panic to make sure I was ok. That day and when princess Diana died time seem to slowmo, I don't think i will ever forget either events or what I was doing and where I was. thoughts are with these poor family's today, never forgotten and always remembered
 
I was at my desk in work - my (ex) husband rang me Seconds after the first plane hit because they play Reuters news in the background where he works - we were still on the phone when the second plane hit. He lost - not friends - because they had never met, but colleagues he spoke to daily. I went to the library to watch the news (worked in a college), and everyone else carried on working as if nothing had happened.

I will never forget the images of the planes hitting and people jumping out of the building and the Cantor Fitzgerald website will stay with me for the rest of my life.

Those poor, poor people - :(
 
Like most people in the UK I was at work.

The first I heard was when one of my colleagues' sisters phoned her with the news. Now this wouldn't have been the first time that her sister had got hold of the wrong end of the stick over something. Our initial reaction was that she'd just seen a film trailer on the TV and thought it was real - that was just the sort of thing that she would do, she was extremely dippy and stories about her getting things mixed up were almost famous through the office.

While we were all laughing about it, so another phone in the office started ringing, then another and another which was unusual at around lunch time. Before long almost everybody was on the phone as more friends and family rang through telling people to check the internet or turn the TV on. It was a totally surreal experience.

We all piled into the Finance Director's office and managed to get the TV tuned in and working just in time to hear that a second plane had hit.

Apart from the shock at what we were seeing on TV, my one enduring memory from that day is having to calm down and comfort another colleague who had become completely hysterical.

Her daughter was working at Canary Wharf and in the immediate aftermath rumours were coming out that London may also be targeted. I don't know whether they actually did evacuate Canary Wharf or if it was just speculation, but at the time that's what we were hearing and Maureen had been unable to get hold of her daughter on the phone.

A totally unforgettable day that will stay with me forever.
 
I was sat at work watching the markets with the television screens on - All was horribly quiet just waiting for a reaction to the markets. I made the decision that the desk was not to trade on that day; did not feel right to make money from this so we just watched the tv knowing that people we spoke to every day of our life were dead. Horrible.
 
I was at work, heard it on the news on the radio that one plane hit, we all thought what could have made aplane go off cousre from the nearby airport, the when the news came through that another had hit it was then realised this was not an accident.

I had to wait till I got home before I seen any news reports of that terrible day, i sat and watched some 3 hours after it all a=happend in disbelief.

Now i was not related to anyone in the towers nor did I ever speak to anyone there but the most heart felt program that i have ever seeen on this was the one on TV the other night with real firemen telling real stories of the terrible day, this was 10 years on and it still sent a shiver down my back.

spike
 
I was at work on the forecourt preparing a sold car for delivery, radio was always on and I went in to listen for a bit till the customer turned up, wasn't happy till he heard what Iwas listening to. The most stunning news I've heard reported and hopefully will never hear worse.
 
Walking down Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok, noticed it on a TV in a bar. A bit weird sitting there with a beer watching everything unfold.
 
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