Where were you when 9/11 happened

johnnyrotten

You often hear people say they remember where they were when JFK or John Lennon was shot.
Can you remember where you were when the Twin Towers fell on Sept 11th 2001?

Piste

Being given out to by my PE teacher for messing.

solicitous

At work, watching all the updates on the net.

Uthur

Piste wrote:

Being given out to by my PE teacher for messing.

I hope you said: "You're giving out to me for messing and the whole goddamn
world is coming to an end! Why don't you stick it up your bollix!"

Dave

In school, didn't believe it when I first heard it.

rugbug86

on the bus on the way home from school. my mom rang me and told me. then went to my friends house for dinner and watched it all on the news. got junior cert results the next day.

Uthur

johnnyrotten wrote:

You often hear people say they remember where they were when JFK or John Lennon was shot.
Can you remember where you were when the Twin Towers fell on Sept 11th 2001?

I was at home eating me cornflakes since I had a day off work. Nearly
ruined me brekkie it did! :eek:

Atrocity

It's real boring, I was at school and they never even bothered to tell anyone. So I heard about it when I went home. I'll be honest here, I didn't really care. What with the teenage angst and all, the outside world was of no interest to me.

Dinner

At home sick from school playing Settlers 3 when I got a phone call to tell me to turn on the news.

cousin_borat

Had just got back from Montenegro to Dubrovnik with a friend and two New Zealand Girls. All the Croat's were saying 80,000 had been killed. We believed them since we were watching the TV coverage in Croation and could'nt understand what they were saying. Sitting on the beach that night felt like the end of the world, very surreal.

evad_lhorg

in school when it happened sittin in english class. at home when they fell. only day i have ever sat and watche dthe news all day.

johnnyrotten

I was driving when I got a call to tell me that 1 plane had hit. Turned on SKY news to see the other plane hit live on TV. SHOCKING!

sideFX

In Glasgow. To be precise I was on the loo in my Ex's house. Her mum had speakers in the bathroom and the radio was on. I'll never forget it.

Flew home 2 days later and I was freaked stupid boarding the plane. I was so paranoid it was unreal!

Aisling(",)

I was in School and didn't know what was happening till I got home at 2.30.Sat and watched the news till cartoons came on

Goodshape

Home in my bed. No one botherd to wake me to tell me about it.. woke up about three o'clock in the afternoon and switched on the PC. Some news site or other came up and my first thought was - "haha! some crazy bastards hacked the site!"

Uthur

Aisling(",) wrote:

I was in School and didn't know what was happening till I got home at 2.30.Sat and watched the news till cartoons came on

LOL, sweet, sweet cartoons soothe the pain away

Dave!

I knew I had made a thread on this before!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=300624

RobertFoster

I was sitting near monkeyfudge, stroking his beard.

Eh actually, I was in school.

stevenmu

I was working as a security guard in the Boston WTC at the time, it certainly made for an interesting day.

Nala

I was in French class. One of the teachers came in and quietly told our teacher what had happened. Out teacher then proceeded to tell us what had happened in French, none of us had any idea what she was on about. She just kept smacking one hand into the other and saying "avion" (plane).

Oriel

Nala wrote:

I was in French class. One of the teachers came in and quietly told our teacher what had happened. Out teacher then proceeded to tell us what had happened in French, none of us had any idea what she was on about. She just kept smacking one hand into the other and saying "avion" (plane).

I was pissed off because they interrupted neighbours... but yeah, I sat and watched the news for the rest of the day. Then went for a beer.

byte

I was at work, which is an electrical shop, and nearly all TV channels had switched to it, so it was hard for me to avoid.

TerrorFirmer

I was at school, and bizarrely, didn't hear a single word uttered ANYWHERE about it until I arrived home at 5pm!!

Binka

I was planting tulip bulbs in my front garden listening to the radio. When the news came through of the first plane i pictured in my mind a small prop plane. Then i went indoors and saw the 2nd plane hit. It was like time was standing still as it was replayed over and over

scuba steve

Was in school, the class after lunch time in the science lab's and our science teacher Nutty Noonan came in and told us. No1 really thought it was as serious as it was at the time until we got home and saw the pics and videos on the news

**Timbuk2**

was going to town... heard it on my car radio...

monkeyfudge

RobertFoster wrote:

I was sitting near monkeyfudge, stroking his beard.

Eh actually, I was in school.

Tehehehe....

Now who can remember where they were when Marathon changed to Snickers?

Beecher

Celebrating my birthday!!!!

SillyWilly

I was weaving baskets, in the basket weaving competition at the local basket weaving festival. Baskets.

drdre

i was in economics class when it happened and didnot believe anyone till i got home and turned on sky news

Mossy Monk

i was at home

county

on the golf course

Sparky

in work connecting an undersink waterheater.

edanto

Bit of a coincidence to see someone with the handle Timbuk2 posting right above - I was only a few hundred miles from Timbuktu in Africa when the news of 9/11 came in.

I don't know how long there was between it happening and us hearing about it, we were pretty much in the middle of nowhere working in a remote part of Ghana. It was eerie, with all of us huddled around the radio trying to figure out what had happenned.

The announcers didn't really have many details - there was talk of a bomb going off and then another bomb when the firemen arrived. Later, they brought a TV into the radio studio and just held the mic up to CNN.

One guy that was with us was particularly shaken, since he has family in Manhatten. It took him a day or two to get to a phone and find out that his family were all okay.

On our way home a month later, the newpapers had a different spin on things to the coverage here. It was only about a year later that I saw the video footage of the planes.

boneless

DaveMcG wrote:

I knew I had made a thread on this before!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=300624

I had a touch of deja whatchamacallit too...

Dave!

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Karl Hungus

I was in town and saw people gathered around outside some electrical shop watching the TVs, and I kinda went to myself "WTF?" and went to the pub, wasn't untill later I found out what had happened.

xXxnaoisexXx

i was in school and our teacher got a message and she told us

Teg Veece

I was walking through town on my way home from school.
I called into a TV store, SKY news was playing on every monitor and I can remember people gathering around just staring at the screens in silence with their mouths gaping open. No one knew what to do or say.
Then some guy opened a bottle of coke that sprayed all over him.

Bartronilic

I heard my friend say something about the Pentagon at the lockers in school. On my way home ppl were string at me with shocked faces (didn't know why). Then I got hjhome, was in my back garden putting my bike in and my Mam ran outside and said

"Terrorists have crashed into the world trade center"

SHe was frantic//in disbelief.

I thought she meant the IRA crashed a bus into the Central Bank.

Logical when you look at it:

Beack then the only terrorists we knew really were the IRA (well me anyway).
CENTRAL=WORLD
Trade CENTER=BANK
Crashed into, well you'd need soething big fro central bank, a bus I though.

I wnet inside and was like "Oh the homer simpson twin towers" later that day my dad showed me photos of me on the WTC (i went back to Ground Zero two years later, it was a builidng site nothing more).

I actually didn't find it that shocking, it felt like a movie tbh!

My friend AND a teacher said that World War 3 was starting. I lived in fear.

Then I didn't understand why a religious president wanted revenge...

youcancallmeal

recovering from a hangover and wondering if I was still drunk?

Beekay

Strangly,The day it happened i was in Geography learning about how the Twin Towers were the main business sector of Manhatton.


Then i got home and my brother told me

Local Goddess

walking home from school.I was after running out of school before french class started(cause i ****ing hated french!).I met a friend of mine on the way home and she told me.I went home and put on sky news,they had a box in the corner of their screen and they kept on replaying the planes going into the buildings-almost a bit barbaric!-and for some reason i just kept on watching it,i think everyone did.It was just mad,didnt look real so just kept on watching it.It didnt really sink in.mad..

solicitous

Bartronilic wrote:

my Mam ran outside and said
"Terrorists have crashed into the world trade center"
SHe was frantic//in disbelief.
I thought she meant the IRA crashed a bus into the Central Bank.:Logical when you look at it:
Beack then the only terrorists we knew really were the IRA (well me anyway).
CENTRAL=WORLD
Trade CENTER=BANK
Crashed into, well you'd need soething big fro central bank, a bus I though.
I wnet inside and was like "Oh the homer simpson twin towers"


ohh you kill me

youcancallmeal

solicitous wrote:

Bartronilic wrote:

my Mam ran outside and said
"Terrorists have crashed into the world trade center"
SHe was frantic//in disbelief.
I thought she meant the IRA crashed a bus into the Central Bank.:Logical when you look at it:
Beack then the only terrorists we knew really were the IRA (well me anyway).
CENTRAL=WORLD
Trade CENTER=BANK
Crashed into, well you'd need soething big fro central bank, a bus I though.
I wnet inside and was like "Oh the homer simpson twin towers"


ohh you kill me

Spellcheck?

hottstuff

browsing in pc world when it came on all the screens

for a split second was going to ask the very intelligent staff , "what film is this?" :eek:

scojones

I was in bed, wasn't starting college for a few days. sister woke me up to tell me "American is under attack!@#". Was freaky considering one of my mates sisters worked in the twin towers. She wasn't in work that day though.

Jim

I was in St.Anne's Park waiting for friends of mine to get off school.

Kernel

I was in work, at an engineering meeting. As I remember, everyone seemed excited and maybe even happy with the news, but then when the media spin on the loss of life was delivered, they all started to act like they were really sad about it. Weird people.

Manic Moran

At whatever hour it was over on the Left Coast, somewhere akin to shortly after 07:00 I was preparing for my morning commute. It was going to be a half-day, my ex's brother was flying in from NYC to SFO for a holiday, and I'd meet him at the airport. I got a 'phone call. It's the ex.

"What time is John's plane leaving New York?" (In a panicked voice)
"Eh? Well, I'm picking him up at about 12:15"
"No, I mean what time is it taking off?"
"I have no idea... well.. if it's landing at 12:15, figure a five hour plus flight time, three hour time zone difference, should have taken off anywhere from half an hour to an hour ago. About 9am. Why?"
"My God.. have you not been watching the news?"
"No, I'm getting ready to go to work, why?"
"Planes have hit the World Trade Center"
"What?!" (Disbelief)
"Go turn on the TV"

I go over, turn on the TV, and it's a split-screen between the WTC and the Pentagon. At almost that exact moment, the first tower went down. Ex was horrified "Oh my god it's collapsed"

I just said something like "It would appear that someone has declared war on the US."

Turned out that the ex's plane was still on the tarmac, but saw the towers out the airplane window. They never took off.

Put a set of BDUs and my pistol in the back of the car and went to work. Quiet day there, but otherwise business as normal. Got a call about 11am from the Guard unit just doing a comm check telling us to stay near a 'phone that they have a number for.

NTM

lazydaisy

Was in Dublin watching it on tv forcing myself to believe what I was seeing. Futily trying to phone my friends and family in my home town of NYC to no avail and hoping no one I knew was dead or burning to death or losing someone they love.