9/11

[flammableBen]

You are all right of course about it being at 1ish not 3 our time. Don't know why I though that. Especially as it doesn't make sense on where I was.

I was in a computing class at new college, another teacher ran in doing the whole OMG someone's just flown a plane in to AMERICA thing. Our teacher tried to get us to get on with our work, but with the internet and news and stuff she soon gave up and told us we might as well just go home if we weren't going to do any work.

So we did.

[china red]

I was in Thailand when 911 happened, a bit surreal at the time to be honest.

Looking back I kind of agree with some of the conspiracy theorists. Perfect timing for the invasion of afghanistan and iraq
 

[Coca Fola]

I was 8 years old. In Kilburn on a bus when I found out.

[thedarkprince]

Just before second year at uni, down at my girlfriend's parents place in Cornwall, heard it on the radio and then turned on the tv and watched it all play out for the rest of the day.  Remember the sick feeling when the second plane came into view and you just knew what was coming next. Both towers collapsing, and all that dust, still is incomprehensible.

The documentaries that have followed have been intriguing and interesting especially the ones that concentrate on the firemen - was one of these the french guys' doc? Not sure how I feel about the conspiracy documentaries, some pose interesting questions but others are just laughable. Guess there's still so many unanswered questions that people are bound to pose alternative theories about what happened and why.

RIP to the innocent.

[herthab]

Can't help thinking that if 9/11 had happened in any country other than the US, the media wouldn't be all over it 10 years later.

Sympathy for the victims and their families. Just like the thousands of others that are affected by terrorism all over the world, that don't get such great coverage.

[tans]

The documentaries that have followed have been intriguing and interesting especially the ones that concentrate on the firemen - was one of these the french guys' doc?

Yeah, fucking superb that is

[ndc-red]

The last 3 years of my life have been spent living just 10 miles from ground zero, and having the pleasure of seeing the sky line of Manhattan nearly every day for those 3 years makes me proud to call New York and New Jersey home...strangely enough, i feel it was 9/11 that actually drew me to move to the NY/NJ area...

Where do you live Hanneyred? I live in NY also...thought I was the only town fan around!

[Abrahammer]

Not sure how I feel about the conspiracy documentaries, some pose interesting questions but others are just laughable. Guess there's still so many unanswered questions that people are bound to pose alternative theories about what happened and why.

I dont have a problem with the documentaries but i think the people believing this shit need to have a serious word with themselves.

[Abrahammer]

Can't help thinking that if 9/11 had happened in any country other than the US, the media wouldn't be all over it 10 years later.

I think if it had of happened to any other major country/big cities in the western world i think the coverage would be to the same sort of level.

[yeo]

I was at work,it seemed to break the internet

[Batch]

Was at work, it was so obviously massive the boss brought a radio into our area to listen. News webstire servers couldn't cope and had to follow on a forum with people updating what they were seeing on the news.

I remember it was first reported that a small commuter plane crashed, then the second plane hit and it was obvious  it was no accident...Then the pentagon and Flight 96. Inbetween there were confused reports of car bombs and such like, etc. Even one hoax of a hijacked plane heading towards the UK.

When the Towers fell it seemed unbelievable. The scenes on TV that night looked straight out of Hollywood. Seeing the "jumpers" on the news was horrific too. And it still is 10 years later.

[jonny72]

I was at work on my own, in my shop in the Brunel Centre. The one thing I remember most was the the centre quickly turning in to a ghost town and being very, very quiet - felt somewhat surreal.

[Benzel]

Yeah, fucking superb that is

It was really good but the noise of bodies hitting the ground outside the towers is something I'll never forget.

[Barry Scott]

Can't help thinking that if 9/11 had happened in any country other than the US, the media wouldn't be all over it 10 years later.

This is what I was thinking, but at the risk of adding my own cynical outpourings, decided against putting it into words.

[Bewster]

It was really good but the noise of bodies hitting the ground outside the towers is something I'll never forget.

I think thats one of the things that will stay with me - the chap in the doc said "how bad must it be if the better option was to jump ?"

I was working at Nationwide on Pipers Way at the time and we all bundled into the e- service dept as they had tellys. A girl that worked with me was due to fly there on the 14th. She went to Scotland instead.