I was working from home that day and heard the news flash on the radio. I switched the TV on and phoned a colleague who was also at home and told him to put his TV on. I felt I needed to know some other human being was seeing this too. We watched the rest of tragedy unfold 'together' I will never forget seeing that second plane hit. I've gone cold just sitting here reliving it in my head. RIP to all those who lost their lives.

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I've gone cold just sitting here reliving it in my head.

i know what you mean, i watched the couple of programs on 9/11 that were on earlier in the week and still find it unbelieveable

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I've gone cold just sitting here reliving it in my head.

i know what you mean, i watched the couple of programs on 9/11 that were on earlier in the week and still find it unbelieveable

I recorded the phone calls one, but I'm not sure I can watch it, Maz.

I was at home having coffee with my mate...we watched it unfold till I had to get the bus to school to pick up the kids...the towers were standing when I left home but by the time I got to school the news came though that the first one had gone down....the headteacher was in a bit of a panic cos his brother worked in one of the towers...thankfully by the time he chatted to the kids to reassure them, the next morning, he'd found out his brother was safe having been late that day.

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I was working from home that day and heard the news flash on the radio. I switched the TV on and phoned a colleague who was also at home and told him to put his TV on. I felt I needed to know some other human being was seeing this too. We watched the rest of tragedy unfold 'together' I will never forget seeing that second plane hit. I've gone cold just sitting here reliving it in my head. RIP to all those who lost their lives.

An almost 'snap' Kathy. Yeah, watching the second plane strategically circle and hit was, for me, one of the worst bits. The unfathomable horror for those on the plane.....knowing.

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I recorded the phone calls one, but I'm not sure I can watch it, Maz.

its really sad, it brought a tear to my eye hearing the families and the calls... those poor people, i just can't even imagine it.. watch it alone and with tissues - its worth a watch Kaffy

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Originally posted by ~~KaffyBaffy~~:
I was working from home that day and heard the news flash on the radio. I switched the TV on and phoned a colleague who was also at home and told him to put his TV on. I felt I needed to know some other human being was seeing this too. We watched the rest of tragedy unfold 'together' I will never forget seeing that second plane hit. I've gone cold just sitting here reliving it in my head. RIP to all those who lost their lives.

An almost 'snap' Kathy. Yeah, watching the second plane strategically circle and hit was, for me, one of the worst bits. The unfathomable horror for those on the plane.....knowing.

Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? Poor, poor souls - and anyone who had anyone who was on the planes or worked in the Towers, can you just imagine. It so surreal to see it - and hope to God we never witness anything like it again - although we already have, I suppose to a lesser extent. Off to work now - and won't complain today, I don't think. x

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The unfathomable horror for those on the plane.....knowing.

that's the bit that always makes my skin go cold, imagine being on those planes just knowing what was going to happen.. dear god its unthinkable..

It doesnt really help that i am going America on monday, i'll fly anywhere without issue but the few times i've been to America i always get a little scared..

I was with my Mum in the hospital - she was having a bone scan to see if the cancer had spread to her bones as she was in so much pain.
She was there all day so I popped out to the shops in the car, and heard it on the radio - by the time I returned to the hospital my Mum had heard too - the telly was on in the waiting room.
A truly awful, awful day, which I will NEVER forget.

What happened with your Mum Moomin?

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What happened with your Mum Moomin?

She died 2 months later.

i was in st pancreas train station in london...waiting for a train to get home. playing a game of snooker in the pub with my then BF (he lived in london). was the day i found out i was pregnant with my eldest....yet more memorable for the wrong reasons (9/11)
the tv was on and i wasn't paying attention at first (was football or something boring). then there was breaking news and it went deadly silent, there was a huge crowd looking at the telly, mouths wide open in disbelief. i started watching just as the second plane hit..live.

I was working in Air Traffic Control at a military base. We got very busy as we prepared to recieve all the aircraft that were forced to return to UK and clear the skies of non military aircraft. Tense times.

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What happened with your Mum Moomin?

She died 2 months later.

aww mate, dunno what to say

i was 18 and had just moved to London to start my first professional dancing job in a show. i was at the time when the bombs went off in a rehearsal not far from the tube station were it happened, if it had been an hour and a half earlier i could have been on that train! thank god for an early start

sorry that was 7/7 having a blonde day today

i didnt know until about 8/9pm on the night and i saw a programme being advertised called 'america at war' or something similar
i hadnt got a clue what they were on about..
so i have no idea where i was or what i was doing when it happened
but i remember being surprised that no one phoned me to ask if i'd seen the news

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i didnt know until about 8/9pm on the night and i saw a programme being advertised called 'america at war' or something similar
i hadnt got a clue what they were on about..
so i have no idea where i was or what i was doing when it happened
but i remember being surprised that no one phoned me to ask if i'd seen the news

where had you been all day

I was demonstrating outside an arms fair in Docklands.

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Originally posted by charmer:
i didnt know until about 8/9pm on the night and i saw a programme being advertised called 'america at war' or something similar
i hadnt got a clue what they were on about..
so i have no idea where i was or what i was doing when it happened
but i remember being surprised that no one phoned me to ask if i'd seen the news

where had you been all day

LOL!
i have no idea-honest!
and what made it more odd was at the time i was living in a muslim area, in fact, i think i was the only non-muslim on the street and the girl I was living with back then was pakistani-and SHE didnt know anything about it till we put the telly on
normally the neighbours would pop in and out-but NOTHING..
very odd indeed

Just got home from school and turned the TV on .

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i was 18 and had just moved to London to start my first professional dancing job in a show. i was at the time when the bombs went off in a rehearsal not far from the tube station were it happened, if it had been an hour and a half earlier i could have been on that train! thank god for an early start

Do you mean 7/7?
Or as the Americans would call it, 7/7.
A couple of my mates were caught up in that. Terrifying.

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I recorded the phone calls one, but I'm not sure I can watch it, Maz.

its really sad, it brought a tear to my eye hearing the families and the calls... those poor people, i just can't even imagine it.. watch it alone and with tissues - its worth a watch Kaffy

Go to youtube and type in 'Loose Change' its a 2 hour documentary (so only if you have time). I'm not saying its all true but it will certainly make you think, especially about the 'phone calls'.

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Go to youtube and type in 'Loose Change' its a 2 hour documentary (so only if you have time). I'm not saying its all true but it will certainly make you think, especially about the 'phone calls'.

i don't have 2 hours RR! Gimme an overview.. ah go an xx

we decided to stop working for the day so we could all watch it on the news, heard the initial report of the first plane on the radio, put the tv on to see what was happening before the second plane hit, local college students were sent home at lunchtime because they feared violence as the many of the islamic students were celebrating.

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Go to youtube and type in 'Loose Change' its a 2 hour documentary (so only if you have time). I'm not saying its all true but it will certainly make you think, especially about the 'phone calls'.

i don't have 2 hours RR! Gimme an overview.. ah go an xx

consider yourself lucky, its the biggest load of crap you'd ever watch second only to creationism.

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as the many of the islamic students were celebrating.

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Go to youtube and type in 'Loose Change' its a 2 hour documentary (so only if you have time). I'm not saying its all true but it will certainly make you think, especially about the 'phone calls'.

i don't have 2 hours RR! Gimme an overview.. ah go an xx

Its actually 90 mins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE

It just talks about the conspiracy of the whole day. The most notable moments are:

'No-one reporting of seeing any plane crash into the pentagon'

'No DNA found of anyone in the pennsylvania plane crash'

'Bombs being set off in the buildings'

'the phone calls were from actors'

As I say, I'm not saying its true but.....

I had just come in from the hairdressers,my husband was watching sky news, he told me to shush and watch the news,for some reason I remember feeling very guilty for being at the hairdressers while this was all going on.

Damn you RR... now i am watching it in between actual work!!

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Damn you RR... now i am watching it in between actual work!!

Let me know what you think, certainly makes interesting viewing.

I was cleaning the house and i had the tv on in the background, my step daughter was off that day ill, she screamed something about the twin towers so i went in to the sitting room and there it was one of the towers was on fire and we both saw the second plane hit we both started crying, my OH came home after that and we watched CNN for days after.

I was in Florida at the time. They shut down disney land for the day. We were supposed to travelhome on the 14th but ended up staying till the 19th, due to the restrictions on air travel.

I remember there were quite a few new yorkers staying in our hotel and I was quite shocked that they didnt seem to be phased by it

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as the many of the islamic students were celebrating.

total myth

I'd just got up from a nightshift, I just assumed at first when watching it was a tragic plane accident, until news of the other planes being hi-jacked, and then the second hit, and I just could not believe how it affected me.
I'm about to watch the memorial at 12.40.

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Originally posted by pigeonpie:
I'd just got up from a nightshift, I just assumed at first when watching it was a tragic plane accident, until news of the other planes being hi-jacked, and then the second hit, and I just could not believe how it affected me.
I'm about to watch the memorial at 12.40.

Which channel please pigeonpie?

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Originally posted by pigeonpie:
I'd just got up from a nightshift, I just assumed at first when watching it was a tragic plane accident, until news of the other planes being hi-jacked, and then the second hit, and I just could not believe how it affected me.
I'm about to watch the memorial at 12.40.

Which channel please pigeonpie?

There are a few to choose from, Sky news, Fox news are the two I know for sure.

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Originally posted by Scotty:

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Originally posted by pigeonpie:
I'd just got up from a nightshift, I just assumed at first when watching it was a tragic plane accident, until news of the other planes being hi-jacked, and then the second hit, and I just could not believe how it affected me.
I'm about to watch the memorial at 12.40.

Which channel please pigeonpie?

There are a few to choose from, Sky news, Fox news are the two I know for sure.

Thanks

May I refer you to my previous post from 9/9 ?

A shocking day.
My first day back at work after a holiday.
I was driving home from an early shift and a guy on the radio said that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. I assumed some sort of small plane/middle age heart attack combo.
By the time I got home it sounded more serious.
Switched the tellybox on and I think that I stood in front of it for a couple of hours unable to move.
A few days before I had a meal in an Afghani restaurant in Hamburg. Later we discovered that the terrorist cell had been based there.
I also remember some immediate bad taste stuff afterwards, emails suggesting that Israel was responsible, an inside job, American secret service, and all sorts of other dingo's kidneys.

I was doing some work on my computer, I had sky news on in the background...happened to glance over to the tv and seem the first plane hit....and watched the rest unfolded, it's something you'll never forget