9/11 - Where were you?

[simeonronacrete]

A sad day, one for reflection.

I was in Prague at a trade exhibition. As the phones starting ringing and news of the unfolding outrage came in we drifted to the internet enabled hub stands and stood in wet-eyed silence as we learned what was taking place. Phone calls to loved ones back home and silent dinner followed.

Friendships made that day are still strong.

Coming home a few days later I relived all the emotions with my family and friends.

10 years on I remember those that were murdered in cold blood, I celebrate my freedom, and thank those that protect me.

[DNgroundworks]

I was at school! But remember it clear as day. Very sad and surreal watching it on telly.

[seanandruby]

I was working on a swimming pool in Dorking. My car had broke down and in the garage, so had to get 3 different trains for a while. People actually began to talk in the commute but you could feel the fear in them that something had gone wrong with the world, people would openly cry as they talked about it. There was this overpowering feeling that things would never be the same again. Terror lives with you all your life. It brought back memories of the IRA attack on 2 B'ham pubs. I missed being one of the B'ham bomb victims by about a minute and will always remember the scene as i reached it, people staggering out of the pubs covered in blood, coughing, screaming, burnt. 21 died that night.

[Pablo]

I was leaving to go and work in New Zealand on the 12th and was sitting in a local tyre shop getting the car ready to sell that evening. Didn't seem real and sat there for a long time after they were done. So much bull has been spoken about that event and very few did anything to warrant the label hero but what has happened in the years since in the name of justice is the most worrying. I've had 3 good friends killed in Afghanistan and I've lost count of the number of others that I'd worked with or met when I served that are now gone. May they rest in peace.

[Dave_L]

I was working in the garage back then, came back from dinner at 1.30pm to see it on the telly in the customer waiting area. Most of us stayed around that telly for most of the afternoon. Couldn't believe what we were seeing. The phones etc were very quiet that afternoon.

Everyone seems to be able to instantly recall where they were and what they were doing on that awful day.

[London Stone Paving]

I was at my dads house installing some of those victorian rope edging strips. I remember I had broken the ball of one of the corner pieces and was trying to stick it back on. Its one of those moments in life where everyone remembers where they were. The other two moments like that in my life were Princess Di and Michael Jackson!

[Dave_L]

Yeah that's it! Princess Di well that was a Sunday morning remember that well.....and MJ that was on the radio in lorry after a nightshift out surfacing, it didnt seem real for some reason, might hav been as I was tired? Can always remember the date...25th June 09, one of the wettest nights/mornings of the summer, not the best weather to be doing nightwork overlays....cost us a bastard fortune in lorry waiting time. Never forget it.

[ilovesettsonmondays]

i was laying a driveway at a friends house. remember him shouting come and look at this on the tv. hillsborough for me the thing i will allways remember. was working in blackpool .no bosses on site that day ,left the van driver on the job . rest of us in the pub for eleven . about ten pints of tennents extra later we went home . sobered up straight away when i walked in my mums house and looked at tv . michael jacksons death i was ironically working outside thriller on shaftesbury avenue .

[haggistini]

In lanzarote on the piss with the boys and was very nervous on the return flight home!

Not

[lutonlagerlout]

in budapest with the missus
thought it was a trailer for a new die hard movie
flew back the next day ,feringhey airport had tanks and bloke with machine guns on the roof
princess di i was in an illegal shebeen in dalston,the barmaid says to me "dodi is dead and princess di has a broken arm" this was like 2 AM and i was like "wtf?"

michael jackson, was on holiday in france,it resonated because my mate had paid £1500 for 4 tickets to a show in the o2

the thing about 9/11 that i still dont understand is why if most of the hijackers were saudi ,did we invade iraq and afghanistan where none of them come from?

the "war on terror " just like its predecessor " the war on drugs" has nearly bankrupted america
$3 trillion at the last count
LLL

[London Stone Paving]

I dont think that America are happy unless they've got a war going on with someone.

[Stuarty]

I was in school, just a plooky wee 13 year old at the time lol jumped on my bus and the bus driver informed us. Princess Di i was in Donegal visiting family, i can still remember being sat on his living room floor with everybody silent and watching the telly. I also remember the 7/7 london bombings, i was driving to dundee doing my pass plus

[Dave_L]

Bloody young 'uns!!! :rock:

[Stuarty]

Shoosht gramps :p lol

[joydivision]

I was in a snooker hall after spewing work as it was pissing down. I dont tgink anyone could comprehend what was happening at the time. It really was a movie script being made reality, I remember the towers coming down, couldnt believe my eyes!

Princess Di, woke up and my dad told me the news.

Michael Jackson, woke up to a text whilst on holiday in Germany. I had 4 tickets for me and the mrs, plus friends. Gutted about that to be fair, but it was never going to happen in the first place was it!

JD