I had just come back from my break at work and could not understand why the radio was not playing music. After listening to what they were talking about we all stopped work and just stood around as it all unfolded. When I got home sky news had wall to wall coverage. I still can not believe that the towers came down.
9-11 where were you when you heard
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DrEvilmonki
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I was at the gym, the sound was down on the TV\'s they have and it looked like they were playing a disaster movie. Wasn\'t until I got home and it was still on. It was 6am when I got home and I was the only one up. I just sat on the floor and couldn\'t believe what I was seeing.
cfwheeler58
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True Story
I live in northern New Jersey and work there as well.
I was on my way to work and saw cars pulling over on the side of the road.
I noticed people were listening intently to their radios so I turned mine on.
When I got to work, I went right to the executive conference room.
I should mention that at the time I was an executive for one of the largest aviation insurers in the world.
We had a very large share of what happened that day.
I took a break to visit my department and make sure everythin was ok.
One lady who worked for me walked up to me with her eyes full of tears.
I feared the worst.
She came up to me and gave me a huge hug and told me that I had saved her husband\'s life.
I made her come in early that day for a conference call to the UK.
She could not take her son to school so her husband did.
He took a later train to Hoboken and never made onto the PATH train to the Trade Center
where he worked on the 80-somethingth floor of Tower 1.
He lost about half of his team that day...including at least 2 people who jumped.
I lost 5 people I knew personally and another 5 or 6 I had met only once.
Horrible stuff. Life altering.
I live in northern New Jersey and work there as well.
I was on my way to work and saw cars pulling over on the side of the road.
I noticed people were listening intently to their radios so I turned mine on.
When I got to work, I went right to the executive conference room.
I should mention that at the time I was an executive for one of the largest aviation insurers in the world.
We had a very large share of what happened that day.
I took a break to visit my department and make sure everythin was ok.
One lady who worked for me walked up to me with her eyes full of tears.
I feared the worst.
She came up to me and gave me a huge hug and told me that I had saved her husband\'s life.
I made her come in early that day for a conference call to the UK.
She could not take her son to school so her husband did.
He took a later train to Hoboken and never made onto the PATH train to the Trade Center
where he worked on the 80-somethingth floor of Tower 1.
He lost about half of his team that day...including at least 2 people who jumped.
I lost 5 people I knew personally and another 5 or 6 I had met only once.
Horrible stuff. Life altering.
I think I was either in 3rd or 4th grade when they happened. I kind of didn\'t notice before I left home.
But, I was told about it at school, yet didn\'t really understand what was happening. (I sort of spent it drawing..um.. planes.)
I only stayed at school for a few hours though before my parents came by to pick me up from school and told me that they thought it was best for me to stay at home. Where I just watched CNN about the attacks and what was happening.
And I ended up spending a few days watching the 9/11 coverage and not going to school.
But, I was told about it at school, yet didn\'t really understand what was happening. (I sort of spent it drawing..um.. planes.)
I only stayed at school for a few hours though before my parents came by to pick me up from school and told me that they thought it was best for me to stay at home. Where I just watched CNN about the attacks and what was happening.
And I ended up spending a few days watching the 9/11 coverage and not going to school.
mattsterbenz
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I was in 8th grade at the time. Was woken up by my mom early in the morning and we watched the news, but I still went to school. Most of class was spent watching news. Such a terrible day. Never forget...
-Matt
-Matt
Dragonsreach
Super Moderator
It was middle of the work day over here, The initial news was spotty at first then word of mouth meant we broke away from working to watch the BBC.
Left us with a feeling of numb unreality.
Left us with a feeling of numb unreality.
freakinacage
New member
i was going up the ladder in the loft at my folks to do some painting. mum and dad called me and we just couldnt believe it
think i was still on hols from uni
think i was still on hols from uni
Prophaniti
New member
I was browsing in the model shop on Deansgate in Manchester. (Yes really.) I heard some stuff on the radio that sounded a bit \'planes have flown into both towers of the World Trade Center\', which I thought I must have got out of context, until I saw the photos on the local paper and later on BBC in the offices I cleaned.
I was at work. We usually have public service radio on here, so we heard the first reports of a plane of unknown size having crashed into one of the towers. I remember thinking it was a freak accident and hoping it was a small plane. A short time later the next programme was cancelled due to \"the events in New York\" and I didn\'t really understand what was so important, for us here in Sweden, about an accident in New York... But, soon I realised that another plane had hit the other tower and I remember feeling very uneasy. Then came the reports about the Pentagon incident and the missing plane that presumably had crashed somewhere in the countryside. I remember thinking is this going to continue all day? More and more planes dropping out of the sky? What sort of an attack is this? I don\'t think we got much work done the rest of that day...
Amazon warrior
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I was home on holiday from Uni, and was in my room playing computer games (Deus Ex, I think). My Mum came across and said something like \"They\'ve crashed into the World Trade Centre!\" I wondered if it was some sort of weird joke at first, but Mum wouldn\'t make a joke like that. Then I came across and watched it on the news.
Infidel Castro
New member
I\'d just heard about something going on as i was finishing my shift in the coffee shop. i went home and the neighbour (an emeritus of Cardiff University, Astrophysics, I\'ll have you know 
) called me in as i went past. I sat with him watching it. Absolutely nuts it was.
) called me in as i went past. I sat with him watching it. Absolutely nuts it was.
Avelorn
Sven Jonsson
I heard it first at the bus-stop and then listened to the radio on the way home. I remember that we were very shocked at the reporting and when the buildings fell we started talking about a possible 3d world war. It was an unreal feeling.. a feeling that everything was just wrong. That it was not supposed to be happen and I remember also gasping at the magnitude of the event.
alextheartist
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The first plane crashed just as my school was finishing. By the time I got home it was all over the tv and then the second plane crashed.
I\'m not gonna lie, I was 9 at the time it made me cry, I couldnt understand why?
8 Years later one of the things I studied in past year has been al-qaeda, the reasons for the attacks and the actual events them self. We had people leaving class in tears because they couldnt watch.. Its one of those things which stays with you forever.
I\'m not gonna lie, I was 9 at the time it made me cry, I couldnt understand why?
8 Years later one of the things I studied in past year has been al-qaeda, the reasons for the attacks and the actual events them self. We had people leaving class in tears because they couldnt watch.. Its one of those things which stays with you forever.
War Griffon
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The ship I was on at the time was alongside in Italy so a load of us went to Naples to the US base their to visit the PX when we got there at around 3pm they wouldn\'t let us in and just said they had shut the base down for security.
On the way back we were watching all these helicopters going over and then when we got back to the ship, we were kept onboard because of hightened security and it was then that we heard what had happened.
Then later that month and into October we were taking part in a big exercise off Oman when we all got diverted to put troops into Afghanistan and do carrier escort.
I visited New York in 2005 as part of Fleet Week and went along to the site, reading the storey boards on the fencing and the very large photos of the event at the underground area was tearful for most people stood there reading, they were still escavating the site then as well if I remember correctly.
On the way back we were watching all these helicopters going over and then when we got back to the ship, we were kept onboard because of hightened security and it was then that we heard what had happened.
Then later that month and into October we were taking part in a big exercise off Oman when we all got diverted to put troops into Afghanistan and do carrier escort.
I visited New York in 2005 as part of Fleet Week and went along to the site, reading the storey boards on the fencing and the very large photos of the event at the underground area was tearful for most people stood there reading, they were still escavating the site then as well if I remember correctly.
I was at work... someone in the office got an email about it and we all loaded the sky news site that had removed all other content to try and cope with the demands.
We had a customer in one of the towers but luckily there was some sort of transport problem and they weren\'t there on time.
I didn\'t see it in advance but my standard phrase comes in to mind of \"screenshot or it didn\'t happen\"... what\'s going to happen tomorrow?
We had a customer in one of the towers but luckily there was some sort of transport problem and they weren\'t there on time.
I didn\'t see it in advance but my standard phrase comes in to mind of \"screenshot or it didn\'t happen\"... what\'s going to happen tomorrow?
I was at work.
We didn\'t have a radio or anything (place was too noisy for that), but the plant manager did. He come in a told us that a plane had crashed in the Twin Towers. Like Ritual, I thought it was a smaller plane that had been in a terrible accident.
Short time later, he came back and told us that another plane had crashed into the other tower. I just gave him a funny look because of how impossible it sounded.
Shortly after that, he came back in and told us a plane had crashed into the Pentagon. I told him to stop screwing around with us since we were trying to work. He told us to shut the machinery off and that everyone was gathering in the breakroom. That\'s when I knew he was dead serious - we never shut things down unless absolutely necessary.
After listening to the radio for over an hour, the plant manager then told us to shut everything down and go home.
I can remember watching it, feeling totally numb and just not willing to believe it was really happening. It was just too much to take in at once.
Definitely a very surreal day.
We didn\'t have a radio or anything (place was too noisy for that), but the plant manager did. He come in a told us that a plane had crashed in the Twin Towers. Like Ritual, I thought it was a smaller plane that had been in a terrible accident.
Short time later, he came back and told us that another plane had crashed into the other tower. I just gave him a funny look because of how impossible it sounded.
Shortly after that, he came back in and told us a plane had crashed into the Pentagon. I told him to stop screwing around with us since we were trying to work. He told us to shut the machinery off and that everyone was gathering in the breakroom. That\'s when I knew he was dead serious - we never shut things down unless absolutely necessary.
After listening to the radio for over an hour, the plant manager then told us to shut everything down and go home.
I can remember watching it, feeling totally numb and just not willing to believe it was really happening. It was just too much to take in at once.
Definitely a very surreal day.
