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  • #32
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Was working, listening to it all unfold on the radio and tbh, I thought they were exaggerating it as I couldn't believe it could be that bad.


  • #33
    nigel_wilson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 176 ✭✭nigel_wilson


    I'm too young to have experienced it but on an opposite note, an American guy in his 30s was telliing me a few weeks ago that he was working in Mexico during the late 90s early 00s. On Sept 11th he was awoken by cheers from the locals outside his apartment as if something amazing had happened. He was genuinely surprised and wanted to find out what they were on about.

    Turned on his TV to see planes hitting the WTC. Says he didn't stay too long there.


  • #34
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Which year?

    1973. The year Pinochet overthrew Allende in Argentina. A black day for democracy and an instance of the US interfering in the democratic processes of sovereign states. I believe this practice came back to bite them?


  • #35
    MickDoyle1979
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 82 ✭✭MickDoyle1979


    endacl wrote: »
    1973. The year Pinochet overthrew Allende in Argentina. A black day for democracy and an instance of the US interfering in the democratic processes of sovereign states. I believe this practice came back to bite them?

    Yes yes all the airline passengers firemen cops office workers etc many of whom were Irish all deserved to die horribly because what the US government did in Chile.

    Americans who wanted to defend their country from terrorists and who fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't die for Halliburton of the oil companies or the arms industry or an imperial project. They died because they didn't want terrorism coming to the West. We know the agenda of the power elites but it is in the interests of the ordinary man woman and child that Islamists are halted.

    Likewise World War 2 was really fought because America and the Soviets wanted to grab the world stage from the European powers who ate each other not for the Jews or democracy or humanity. The ordinary man knew this but it was in their interests to see fascism destroyed.

    Islamism has to be stopped. Whether its the Americans Putin or China fighting these animals I am behind them.


  • #36
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    I was about 18 and was working in a builder providers business.I was pulling lengths of qualpex out of a shelf for a customer.One of my co workers shouted at me,here anto a plane just crashed into one of the wtc buildings.
    My initial though was cessna+poor visibility how traigic,then a while after ..here anto another plane just crashed into the other building..
    The building trade back then was so so busy but that after noon everything went quiet pretty quick.
    I went home to find my dad staring at the tv footage we will never forget.

    The most suprising thing of all is the ability of inexprienced joe soaps flying two jet aricraft at or beyond their max airspeeds and sucsessfully hit two runway width buidling first time around.


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  • #37
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    At work, eating lunch when someone mentioned a plane had crashed into the Twin Towers. Naturally assumed it was a Cessna plane. You automatically don't think Passenger Jet. Went on Sky News website which pretty much assumed the same.

    Quickly became obvious to everyone that something incredibly serious was happening. Within an hour, the canteen was packed with 2 thousand people (it was an US multi national) watching on a giant screen that was erected as the second tower fell. Picture thousands of people shouting expletives simultaneously. I remember thinking thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of people had been killed and just feeling a kind of emptiness mixed with a kind of frightened awe. This was seriously WTF stuff. The company I was working with made million dollar servers some of which were in the towers at the time. These machines were so sophisticated that they sent warning messages from overheating and then went offline.


  • #38
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    At home playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, delighted that the unusually dense servers the previous week had finally cleared up.


  • #39
    Wildcard7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 302 ✭✭Wildcard7


    (note: I'm swiss) I was in the army, in basic training, and it was "survival" week. Which is a week towards the end of training where everyone camps out in the forrest with nothing but a few canopies, you live off beans and toast, and you are sent out for shooting exercises after barely sleeping 3 hours in the wet and cold. We were all 20 year old lads and none of us took the whole army thing very seriously (who'd attack Switzerland?). But when they rounded us up, brought us into a small room and showed us a video of the attacks I'd lie if I said I wasn't sh1tting myself a little. It was quite clear that America would not react to this sort of thing with diplomacy, so at least my mind went crazy wondering about scenarios like WW3.

    One of the most surreal moments of my life.


  • #40
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    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.


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=273541


  • #41
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,964 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    In work in a callcentre at the time that dealt mainly with the US market.

    Word spread quickly across the floor, the calls stopped coming in, and the network ground to a halt as people watched updates on Sky/BBC .. then those sites crashed as well as I remember.


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  • #42
    MickDoyle1979
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 82 ✭✭MickDoyle1979


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    I was about 18 and was working in a builder providers business.I was pulling lengths of qualpex out of a shelf for a customer.One of my co workers shouted at me,here anto a plane just crashed into one of the wtc buildings.
    My initial though was cessna+poor visibility how traigic,then a while after ..here anto another plane just crashed into the other building..
    The building trade back then was so so busy but that after noon everything went quiet pretty quick.
    I went home to find my dad staring at the tv footage we will never forget.

    The most suprising thing of all is the ability of inexprienced joe soaps flying two jet aricraft at or beyond their max airspeeds and sucsessfully hit two runway width buidling first time around.

    The pilots trained at flight schools and with sinulators. The flight paths of their aircraft show they followed river courses from the air and their targets were hard to miss. The WTC and Pentagon can be seen from tens of miles away. Not hard for a person with rudimentary skills. The pilots never trained to land which is the most difficult maneuver. They obviously didn't have to.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was doing a day shift in a 24 hour factory, working for a supplier. There was a TV showing Sky News in the canteen. Another contractor says to me there's been a horrible accident in the states, plane crash, hit one of the Twin Towers.
    I thought "Jesus that's bad news, hope someone survives" but I thought no more about it.

    An hour later the same guy comes back to me and says it just happened again. I said no way, the news is on loop, stop spending so much time in front of the TV, you're watching the same thing over and over.

    But your man was shaking, says no really, come down to the TV and see for yourself. I knew the world was never going to be the same.


  • #44
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Tigger wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=273541

    I hadn't joined boards at that stage


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It would have been incredibly interesting if Reddit, as it is now, was around at the time of the September 11th attacks. The likes of the live threads, the likelihood of people being in the Twin Towers being Reddit users, and the up-to-the second updates these generate, would have made for such a fascinating (and impossibly morbid) view.


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It would have been incredibly interesting if Reddit, as it is now, was around at the time of the September 11th attacks. The likes of the live threads, the likelihood of people being in the Twin Towers being Reddit users, and the up-to-the second updates these generate, would have made for such a fascinating (and impossibly morbid) view.

    Imagine if Facebook or Snapchat was around then.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Imagine if Facebook or Snapchat was around then.

    And the now availabilty of smart phones with cameras.

    We would very likely have images from inside the towers appearing across social media.


  • #48
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Imagine if YouTube was around as well


  • #49
    Benjamin Buttons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    Wildcard7 wrote: »
    (note: I'm swiss) I was in the army, in basic training.................. .

    One of the most surreal moments of my life.

    At last, at last.
    Are you issued with one of those pocket knives bearing your army's name along with your nation's colours and insignia, please don't disappoint?


  • #50
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    At the church for a service for a girl 3 years behind me who had been killed in a car crash over the summer. I was 17 and in 6th year at the time. Heard about it in a friend's car on the radio on the way home, put on Sky News as soon as I got home.


  • #51
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I was in work watching it unfold online - quite surreal I have to say.

    The following weekend myself and few mates had planned to go to Kilkenny for the weekend - government gave us a day off as a mark of respect.
    Lovely I thought, ever the opportunist - we can get away that bit earlier, more bang for our buck. Never dawned on me (or the others) that practically everywhere would be closed due to that very day off!


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  • #52
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,730 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Deleted User wrote: »
    And the now availabilty of smart phones with cameras.

    We would very likely have images from inside the towers appearing across social media.

    Thank god for small mercies then. I heard some of the phone calls coming out of the towers before they collapsed on a tv documentary. Bone chilling.


  • #53
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I was at home. A friend who worked as cabin crew sent me a message telling me to switch on the telly. We had a 14 inch portable tv. the picture was dire.

    I went to a bar in a local hotel that had a big screen TV. Golf was playing. The barman refused to change the channel and I had to get the manager to change it.


  • #54
    SusanC10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    I was at work. No tv/internet/radio.

    My boyfriend at the time phoned because he couldn't get the Sky Tv in the Apartment to work. He had had an Exam that morning. While we were on the phone the TV came back on and it was on the Channel. At that point the first plane had hit and they still thought that it could have been an Accident. While we were still on the phone the second plane hit.

    I couldn't focus on work after that. None of us could so our boss at the time told us all to go home. I remember taking a Taxi home because I just wanted to be there (normally it was a 30 min walk).
    We watched Sky/Fox News for the rest of the evening.


  • #55
    Wildcard7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 302 ✭✭Wildcard7


    Benjamin Buttons wrote: »
    At last, at last.
    Are you issued with one of those pocket knives bearing your army's name along with your nation's colours and insignia, please don't disappoint?

    You have to be strong now. We were only issued with a generic pocket knife. Like this one:

    silver-ribbed-pocket-knife.jpg

    It spent years in my backpack, and was taken off me by some over eager security guy in Dublin airport a few years back.

    I feel like I'm just after fullfilling some horrible stereotype that's actually true. Is that what Irish people feel like when they explain to someone that Tato land is a thing?


  • #56
    NeonCookies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭NeonCookies


    I was in 6th class. I was on the school bus coming home and the bus driver had the radio on and I remember hearing a lady talking about a plane crashing but I didn't understand. Got off the school bus with my brother and my mum was standing at the front door waiting for us which was unusual. She asked us if we had heard what happened and showed us the tv. I'll never forget seeing the clip of the second plane hitting the tower for the first time. I remember seeing the clip of the news readers who realised live on air what was happening as they saw the second plane hit, the looks on their faces as they announced America was under attack.

    My brother (9) kept missing the video of the plane hitting, when he finally saw it later that evening I'll never forget his look of absolute horror and upset and "but mum why would someone do that to those people?" Heartbreaking.

    As a few other posters mentioned, for me that was when my view of the world changed and I grew up a bit in a sense. I was old enough to understand all the pictures and discussion and know what it meant. Went into school the next day and the whole class were talking about World War 3. Scary times.


  • #57
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    MickDoyle1979 wrote: »
    The pilots trained at flight schools and with sinulators. The flight paths of their aircraft show they followed river courses from the air and their targets were hard to miss. The WTC and Pentagon can be seen from tens of miles away. Not hard for a person with rudimentary skills. The pilots never trained to land which is the most difficult maneuver. They obviously didn't have to.

    Yeah right, flying a plane into a building isn't like crashing a car into one. The nonsense some people believe.


  • #58
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    MickDoyle1979 wrote: »
    The pilots trained at flight schools and with sinulators. The flight paths of their aircraft show they followed river courses from the air and their targets were hard to miss. The WTC and Pentagon can be seen from tens of miles away. Not hard for a person with rudimentary skills. The pilots never trained to land which is the most difficult maneuver. They obviously didn't have to.

    I wont debate it much more,visibility being good or bad wasnt a point i would consider important.Handling-hand flying a 70ton and 180 ton jet at max airspeed at two objects roughtly the the width of a runway and hitting them with zero experience is questionable.Im not a tin foil hat person and im sorry for partially derailling the thread.


  • #59
    somefeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Yeah right, flying a plane into a building isn't like crashing a car into one. The nonsense some people believe.

    What makes you think it would be so difficult?


  • #60
    Benjamin Buttons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    Wildcard7 wrote: »
    You have to be strong now. We were only issued with a generic pocket knife. Like this one:

    silver-ribbed-pocket-knife.jpg

    It spent years in my backpack, and was taken off me by some over eager security guy in Dublin airport a few years back.

    I feel like I'm just after fullfilling some horrible stereotype that's actually true. Is that what Irish people feel like when they explain to someone that Tato land is a thing?

    What, no toothpick?
    I'm crestfallen.


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  • #61
    Eyes Down Field
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Eyes Down Field


    I was at a friends house after his mother collected us from school. We were 11 years old. Back then I believed the nonsense the mainstream media put out about what happened. Nowadays I don't believe the official story. I don't know what happened, I'm no expert but I don't believe that the impact of the planes and the subsequent fires are what brought down the buildings, including building 7 which wasn't hit by a plane but still collapsed as free fall speed.

    I believe there must have been some kind of controlled demolition and It's extremely unlikely that was carried out without assist from some facets of the US government.


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