Where were you on September 11th 2001?

Dave!

I was on my way home from school, cos I was sick. So I heard it on the radio, then went home and lay on the couch watching it for ages until I fell asleep, then I woke up and continued to watch it. I was so shocked by it, I couldn't take my eyes off the TV... It was surreal, tbh.

LegacyUser

Asleep in New York, my g/f at the time woke me up, and until I spoke to the folks at home that Friday (it happened on a Tuesday) I didnt really grasp what had happened

angeldelight

I was in a CSPE class, teacher was late and came in to tell us about the first plane so we all chatted about it presuming it was a really bad accident. That was the last class and by the time I got home Sky were showing the videos etc and I just watched it for hours

LegacyUser

Yeah I forgot it happened in the pm over here, it was aound 8.30am in the US, which wouldve been around 1.30pm here

dogg_r_69

Was working Well Meant to be anyway!! Spent a fair bit listening to the radio about it No tv in the house we were working in After work everyone went to the pub cause we'd finished our part of the house A major dicussion followed on what happened 2 of the fella's that were working with me were in NY the week before

CrimE

Sick at home watching tv. Saw something on sky news but flicked on. Then noticed the same thing on more channels and grasped what was happening. Slowly I watched every single channel switch to a news flash. Scary stuff.

solas

was just finishing work, one of the kids parents said she just heard a plane crashed into a building. Got home in time to see the second one hit.
couldnt believe it was happening really. Thought i was watching tapes of the first one. Sat and watched it all, saw them both come down.

JackKelly

i was in Maths class during 2nd year and our teacher came in saying a bomb or something had gone off in the world trade center. Went home, and did my Geography homework infront of the telly, while someone was in tuning our piano

Its strange what you remember

monkeyfudge

I was in a cave in Afghanistan stroking my beard.

arbeitsscheuer

I'd just started 5th year at a new school, Ashfield College.
Didn't hear bout it at all during the school day, first I heard of the events was when I got a text from my best mate from my previous school, just when we'd finished, around about 5:30pm. It said:
"3 jumbo jets have been flown into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon".

Tbh I thought it was a bad joke, but he insisted it was serious.
I just... Couldn't believe it.
The most amazing thing.

jrey1981

was in uni in UK checking email and stuff when I saw the news on Yahoo. Went home and watched the news.

I followed the peace/anti-war movement that followed in London, writing reports / features for my uni magazine, which was pretty interesting.

Nightwish

i was in waterford regional hospital getting a head x-ray

ibanez

In Galway pushing a car that had ran out of petrol.

Goodshape

I was at home being the lazy bum that I am. Woke up about half two and turned on the computer.. first website that loaded up had a picture of the towers billowing smoke under a giant AMERICA ATTACKED! banner.

My first thought was that the site had been hacked

tonyj

We watched the towers fall, my fellow workmates and I. We stood shoulder-to-shoulder and wept.

Through our tears we vowed we would stand tall with America and fight terrorists the world over. We would capture Saddam Huss...err... Osama Bin Laden, and fight back against Saudi Arab.... uhmmm.... Iraq - And see this crusade through until we've smoked them all out of their holes, the bad folks who did this.

I was in carrick on shannon listening to the saw doctors when it flashed up on screen in my friends house!

Rhyme

monkeyfudge wrote:

I was in a cave in Afghanistan stroking my beard.

Controversial.

Came home to a media frenzy on the tv... and then the second one hit. Incredibly surreal experience.

monkeyfudge

Rhyme wrote:

Controversial.

Came home to a media frenzy on the tv... and then the second one hit. Incredibly surreal experience.

Well it's a silly question... the only reason to ask this question would be to check that everyone has an alibi.

Waltons

School. Didn't hear till I got home

Dave!

Here's a few videos of the attacks. It's still horrible to watch, gives me the shivers sometimes...

The second one, 'CNN exclusive video from two different angles shows the second plane hitting the World Trade Center', is the most disturbing for me; must be the angle, or the closeness or something.

Rhyme

monkeyfudge wrote:

Well it's a silly question... the only reason to ask this question would be to check that everyone has an alibi.

Very true... i never picked up on the accusatory tone

I was uh... um... washing my hair

Stephen

I was getting onto the bus home after my 2nd day in college and the driver said it. I didn't believe him until he turned on the radio and everyone was talking about it.

Dave!

Rhyme wrote:

Very true... i never picked up on the accusatory tone

lol, me either.

rainbow kirby

That afternoon... I was in 6th year... my entire school had been at a mass for a 3rd year girl who'd been killed in a car crash over the summer. Came out of the church, got into my friend's car and heard it on the radio.

Gazza22

I was in school at the time, was told bout it a few minutes after it hit the news ...in history class

Then i went home, switched on the tv and there they were, the towers on fire

rabbitinlights

I was watching Sky news after the first plane hit and seen the 2nd plane hit live....... the poor presenter on sky was lost for words for about 60 seconds.

Jammer

was in school, my friend texted me a copy and paste job off sky.com/news. Thought he was messing or ...well i dunno but i just didnt think it could happen.

Got home and saw it with my own eyes. Very frightening experience i thought, that something that destructive could happen to such a big power....we're just flys waiting to be squashed...or not..

Eye

had been sick a day or two prior to the 11th and so had taken the day off work. i had gone down to the chemist to grab some more lemsips and when i drove back home i parked my bike outside the house and as i walked in the driveway my dad (who was patching up the roof of ou shed) said that a plane had hit one of the wtc towers and that it was one the news. i remember walking in through the house taking off my helmet and jacket then going to sit down to the telly. the first had plane hit just a few mins before and as they were watching the pictures and talking about what had happened the second plane hit. it was the wierdest thing i'd ever seen and did'nt know what way to react we were kinda in shock sitting there wondering what was going on.
but i think the moment it really struck me as to how bad it was was the moment the first tower fell, they were talking about how the fire might effect the structure of the building and as they were talking about it i just remember the picture of the top of the tower just slipping out of the screen and i knew at that moment what had happened, although it took them a few seconds to cop on to it on the news.

Kintarō Hattori

I had been sleeping on the couch the night before as we must have had visitors or something, it's not something I just do! Anywhoo- the brother came racing in and was telling me a plane had crashed into the Twin Towers, I wasn't sure he was talking sense, but then he switched on Sky News and I was slowly taking it in.
Everyone at that point had been speculating if it had been an accident. But then we were shocked and horrified when we saw the second one crash and there could be no doubt that it was not an accident. I think seeing the first tower collapse was one of the most shocking moments of my life.

Mossy Monk

i was at a job interview that morning which i got (not there now though) and then went home to read a newspaper and listen to a Staind cd. Sky News was on the tv in the background and i just had a glance over and saw all that was going on with the twin towers and flicked through all the news channels to see exactly what was going on and sure enough a war soon was one of the first things to cross my mind sadly i was right

ixoy

rabbitinlights wrote:

I was watching Sky news after the first plane hit and seen the 2nd plane hit live....... the poor presenter on sky was lost for words for about 60 seconds.

Me too. Originally they had a different feed on, from CNN I thinks, and they were speculating that the original hit was some small plane and that the driver had maybe had the sun in his eyes and crashed into it.

Then the second one hit and they were very subdued/dumbstruck. I kept watching for a while after that. Figured it might be something newsworthy *shrug*

R0ot

i was in school maths class i think, terrible thing, but it didnt justify going after a few smaller countries and blowing the **** outta them

Munurty

Ok i have a good one.

I was trying out for my school's junior hockey team and i tweaked a muscle in my arse . I went to the school nurse and while i was standing there with my shorts pulled down she was my massaging deep heat into my ass she says isn't it terrible whats goin on in America. So i said what the way the markets took a big down turn yesterday (i think they did) So then she goes on about the whole thing this was probably at about 4.30

Thats a true story believe it or not (even if i am a little drunk right now :eek: )

I didn't make the team either. What a bummer. lol

Healio

I was on a student exchange in germany, got home from my work experience at around 2 german time, flicking throught the channels i came across euronews, and saw tower 1 on fire/smoking, reports said private plane crashes into WTC. After a while, the host family's dad asked did i want to go shopping with him i said yeah sure why not. Got down the shopping centre, went into the sports department of Kardstadt(sp?) it was on all the telly's, (we and the rest of the shop/country/world) then saw the second plane crash in live. My hosts-dad said we should just go home and watch, glued to the tv we watched it til the towers came down, i remember falling asleep, and waking up to a video of the day with some enya song on it, with all the events and speechs, it was a bit of a tear jerker, but i kept them in.

Bamboozled

I was just after moving into a new place in a new county and was having an asthma attack. The TV was on in the sitting room and I could see it from the bedroom where I was having the attack. I was in so much shock that I didnt even turn on the TV in the bedroom but continued to watch the one in the sitting room from the bedroom.

EL_Loco

I was on a train going over the williamsburg bridge with a terrific/horrific view of the second plane sweeping in and crashing into the second tower. being a few minutes late for the work the first tower was already on fire at the time so the whole train was looking in that direction anyway. quite a day ensued. I doubt I'll be forgetting it unless I lose my marbles further down the line. I'll have to stick it in the memoirs.

jesus_thats_gre

Was in the poster shop on Liffet St opposite the side entrance to Marks and Spencers in Jervis Street with my then GF.. Saw it on TV as it happened and didn;t actually believe it. We thought it was a movie or some GGI or something..

honru

First time I was told, the immediate thing that came to my head was wondering what the World Trade Center was! Don't think I could've comprehend my teacher's shock though (didn't like the man anyway), I hardly thought that two simple plane crashes (didn't think they were actual airlines) could possibly shake the world. It was only when I arrived home and switched on the news that I saw that this was on a totally different scale.

Ravage1616

Was in school and the teacher came in late and told us what happened!
Went home for lunch and just remember watching sky news!!

Hobbes

I was in US, logged into work checking stuff when I saw the smoke on TV, then the presenter saying "As you can see we are live..." then the second plane flew in. Pretty unreal. Stayed home all day and relayed it to people in work who for quite a while thought I was taking the piss up until the pentagon was hit.

BuffyBot

I was at home, just having finished my lunch and getting ready to go to work for an evening shift. I heard the news that a plane had crashed into the WTC and thought "that's odd" but I assumed it was only a light aircraft. Then I heard a second one had crashed and I kind of thought "That's just unlucky" (again, thinking it was another light aircraft". I got to work at 3 and nearly the whole office was crowded into my sectionb watching our TV and it was only when I saw the pictures it really hit home that this was major.

Draupnir

It was the day after my debs, so I was still tuxedo'd up and dying with a hangover. Was watchign tv in my girlfriend's house when I flicked onto Sky news, about 2 minutes before plane two hit. They couldnt drag me away from the screen all day and BlackTie got their tux back late.

rainglow

In New York on Broad Street, about 8 blocks south of the towers. Saw the second plane hit, building evacuated, ran for my life from the tidal wave of ash and debris that came crashing down the steet between the skyscrapers. Walked with thousands of other people in a dense fog of ash with bits of charred paper falling from the sky, trying to get to the bridges and get off the island. Saw the second tower fall with my own eyes just as we neared the Brooklyn bridge. I still shiver every time I think about it and I can remember the rumbling, thunderous noise the tower made as it fell- I had gotten off my train in the WTC about 45 minutes before the first plane hit.

thejovialhost

Was in CSPE class until our teacher came in and told us what happened, we didn't believe it at first but then we went up to our 'cinema' to watch it on the big screen. Everybody was speechless. We didn't leave at that time (2pm), we had to wait until 4 to go home

Chong

I had just come from college to find my dad watching this , I couldnt believe it.

johnny_ultimate

In school. I remember specifically my Irish teacher coming in and telling us all. No one really knew what was going on though till we went home and turned on the news....

Dinner

I was off sick from school. I was happily playing Settlers 3 when my Mam rang me and told me to put on the News.

Shock would be an understatment.

jonny68

I was in London at the time watching it thinking "this can't really be happening" but as time went on we realised this wasn't some joke it actually really was happening,spent the whole day glued to sky news looking on is disbelief :eek:

jonny68

rainglow wrote:

In New York on Broad Street, about 8 blocks south of the towers. Saw the second plane hit, building evacuated, ran for my life from the tidal wave of ash and debris that came crashing down the steet between the skyscrapers. Walked with thousands of other people in a dense fog of ash with bits of charred paper falling from the sky, trying to get to the bridges and get off the island. Saw the second tower fall with my own eyes just as we neared the Brooklyn bridge. I still shiver every time I think about it and I can remember the rumbling, thunderous noise the tower made as it fell- I had gotten off my train in the WTC about 45 minutes before the first plane hit.

Fu*k me that must have been scary mate :eek:

ferdi

in school in the study room. our history teacher came in amd told us. i whiped out my pocket radio walkman thingy and started to listen to rte on the headphones. i didnt really understand the implications of what i was hearing but i knew it was bad.

Irishstabber

I walked into my aunites house frm my school break and seen it on sky...then the second plane. went to school, came back and they had fallen down.