9/11

branie2 · 10-09-2017 01:49PM #1

Where were you that day?

I was on my way home from a holiday in France with my parents. We had travelled through the Channel Tunnel, and all the way through England into wales, and into the boat at Holyhead. When we got onto one of the lounges board, we noticed that the people were watching the events unfold on TV, but we had assumed that it was a very good film.

Tokyo · 10-09-2017 01:53PM

At my desk in college, working on my masters. Was on another online forum at the time, when posts started flooding in about a plane crash in NY. The rest as they say, is history.

Harry Palmr · 10-09-2017 01:55PM

11/9 to me guv.

MilesMorales1 · 10-09-2017 01:56PM

I was 8 years old and we were in school and someone came in and whispered something to our teacher, and she started crying. Then when we went home I wasn't happy cos we had nothing on the telly but the news all night.

gifted · 10-09-2017 01:57PM

Working on the building site in vistakon in limerick...the mother phoned me and told me the world was ending ffs.......

PirateShampoo · 10-09-2017 01:59PM

In work building the new printing factory in Jobstown when news started coming over the radio, 2 into the towers, one into the Pentagon and rumors of a 4th being hijacked.

10-09-2017 03:52PM

Which year?

fmpisces · 10-09-2017 03:54PM

I was at work. I was living in the UK at the time and worked for a railway company in the ticket office in Bishops Stortford.

On another note, years later my youngest was due on 11/9/05, but he arrived a day early.

Doctor Nick · 10-09-2017 04:01PM

Work. The dealing room shut down and we all watched it unfold on Bloomberg. One fella who arrived in late after his lunch thought it was a film we were watching.

DontThankMe · 10-09-2017 04:05PM

I was reading these threads about this exact same topic.

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2055675490/1/#post62003514

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2054861354/1/#post50521176

Schwanz · 10-09-2017 04:10PM

Working, no footage available & when I went home I seen it on Sky News.

Hard to believe people don't think planes actually hit the buildings

Dublinflyer · 10-09-2017 04:30PM

I was flying home from San Francisco and supposed to be going via JFK but ended up getting diverted to Millard Airport in Nebraska. We were told there was a minor technical fault and we needed to land to have it checked. It was only when we landed and phones were turned on information started reaching us as to what was going on. I ended up stranded there for a few days and eventually travelled up to Toronto where I have family and stayed with them for 10 days before making it back home.

Winterlong · 10-09-2017 05:25PM

I was in the US at the time. About 300 miles south of New York. When the news broke we were sent home from work. There were guys with shotguns standing outside offices and at the entrances to residential complexes.
It was surreal to be over there. The following day our pool was covered in dust that had blown down from New York.
There was a Sikh lad we worked with. He had to stop wearing a turban in the days and weeks that followed as he was getting abused in the street.

branie2 · 10-09-2017 05:26PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

11/9 to me guv.

Everyone uses the term 9/11

FizzleSticks · 10-09-2017 05:28PM

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clairewithani · 10-09-2017 05:30PM

In work and someone came in and told us what happened. When she went out a woman working with me said "never mind her, she is always making up ****". It was two hours before we found out it was true.

Tellyium · 10-09-2017 05:35PM

Finding out about it was surreal for me.
Was in Australia at the time and I had an early night on 9/11 hence I didn't find out until I was on the bus to work the next day.
Another passenger was reading the Sydney Morning Herald and there was a picture of the twin towers ablaze taking up the whole front page. I hadn't heard a thing before that. Probably the biggest WTF moment I've ever had

humberklog · 10-09-2017 05:58PM

Engineer on a building site in Ballymun thinking "aviation fuel can't melt steel" and scratching my chin whilst lining my hard hat with tin foil.

Kermit.de.frog · 11-09-2017 04:59AM

I don't remember where I was. It wasn't that big an event.

Manic Moran · 11-09-2017 07:00AM

Woken up by friend whose brother was flying in from NYC that morning. I was to pick him up at SFO. After some confusion when she realized I had no idea what she was on about, she told me to turn on the news. This was just in time for the first report of the Pentagon on fire. I said that someone apparently had declared war on the US, put my uniform in the car, and went to work, wondering if I would be home that night or deploying somewhere.

Manic Moran · 11-09-2017 07:00AM

Double post.

BillyBobBS · 11-09-2017 07:17AM

On the rooftop in my Brooklyn apartment watching the second plane crash. Pretty stunning at the time but i do wish people would stop yabbering on about it as it was 16 years ago ffs.

AllGunsBlazing · 11-09-2017 07:38AM

Woah, you're so detached and edgy....

fizzypish · 11-09-2017 07:44AM

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Woah, you're so detached and edgy....

After witnessing an event like that first hand, I'm sure we'd all like to be able to detach.

(Thats kinda sounds like I seen it myself, I didn't. Just a general observation about witnessing horrific events)

Turtyturd · 11-09-2017 07:45AM

I was watching a film. Some people came in and thought I was watching the news.

MarcusP12 · 11-09-2017 07:48AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I was 8 years old and we were in school and someone came in and whispered something to our teacher, and she started crying. Then when we went home I wasn't happy cos we had nothing on the telly but the news all night.

Are you sure you're not confusing your teacher for George W Bush?!:pac:

MarcusP12 · 11-09-2017 08:05AM

At work with my buddy who was off work that day giving me updates as it was happening....was an extremely surreal day and one which will stick me for a long time.....off the top of my head its one of the main events I remember down the years along with say the Enniskinnen and Omagh bombings and the Zeabrugga sea ferry sinking....

MickDoyle1979 · 11-09-2017 08:24AM

It was lunch hour and I was sitting in the hut at the service station and I was flicking through channels on the radio when Gareth O'Callaghan said he was looking at amazing footage of a plane hitting the world trade center.
I had been reading about the killing of Masoud the Northern Alliance leader by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan the Palestinian Israeli conflict had erupted again a year or so before and the Oklahoma bomber had been executed not too long ago.
I was thinking was it the Taliban Al Qaeds Palestinians or Mcveigh's crowd.
I had been reading the Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor on which a Japanese civilian airline pilot takes revenge on America after the death off his brother and son in a war in the Pacific by crashing his jet in the Capital in Washington.
Movies like Armageddon and Independence Day and Deep Impact and Executive Decision had been in the cinema a few years before.
It all seemed unreal.
Joe Duffy came on next and he was talking to Conor O'Clery who was watching the WTC burn and describing it over his phone live on air. He described seeing a man fall and explode when he hit the pavement.
Ruairi Quinn the former Labour leader came on and he immediately said it must be Bin Laden behind it. He was an architect before he was a politician and he said those buildings were coming down.
Then news came in about the attack on the Pentagon and finally the crash in Pennsylvania.
The heroics of the passengers who took on the terrorists has always moved me ever since.
Real life Die Hard. The sheer selfish will to survive or agonizing terror or heroic selfless sacrifice to save thousands at the cost of their own lives? Who can say?

Some Joe Higgins type came on blaming America because this was payback for Vietnam or some bull. Already the apologists started...

In remember the American ambassador was on Questions and Answers a few days after and it was obvious America was going to war in years ahead with the Taliban Saddam Qaddaffi and all the rest of the dictators and terrorists in the Mid East.

The audience seemed determined to blame America plead Irish neutrality of course and make excuses for the terrorists. Anyone with a brain knew this was the new reality. The Cold War as over and this new war as the new normal for the 21st century.

I can remember the bliss between 1989 and 2001. The West as at peace. It looked like a free open world was the future and inevitable triumph of liberal values the world over.

Apart from the Israeli Palestinian conflict the sanctions and no fly zone in Iraq the Mid East was not news. People laughed at the Taliban blowing up Buddhist statues and the pin prick Al Qaeds attacks barely got a mention. Clinton would order a cruise missiles strike now and then on some camp or facility.

Blair and Clinton we're considered heroes for stopping the genocide in Kosovo. For thugs like Milosevic it looked like their days were numbered. Putin was condemned for the supposed excesses against the Chechen Islamists.

The world got a rude awakening that day.

Tom Mann Centuria · 11-09-2017 08:26AM

On a ferry to Ireland, going over from the UK for a wedding.

weldoninhio · 11-09-2017 08:34AM

branie2 wrote: »

Where were you that day?

I was on my way home from a holiday in France with my parents. We had travelled through the Channel Tunnel, and all the way through England into wales, and into the boat at Holyhead. When we got onto one of the lounges board, we noticed that the people were watching the events unfold on TV, but we had assumed that it was a very good film.

Ninth of November?? What year??

beefburrito · 11-09-2017 08:34AM

At my girlfriend's house looking out from the veranda admiring the nice view,she ran out all dramatic and said that a plane crashed into the world trade center,sure I didn't even know there was a such building.
Being the selfish bastard I was that day,my first thought was buy every ****ing newspaper the following day.
Then I remembered fckin hell I'm a bad bastard for being so thoughtless.
Anyhow I bought around 12 newspapers the day after, broke up with herself a few months later....
Never set eye's on those papers because she decided to hold onto them,and said I had no proof they were mine lol
Anyhow I still resent her for holding onto the paper's.

I'm older and more empathetic now,I think it's a travesty that thousands of Shi'as Christian's and Yazidis were slaughtered in Iraq and there's no outcry in the West....

9/11

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