Where were you on September 11th 2001?

Dave! · 11-09-2005 01:37AM #1

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 · 11-09-2005 01:39AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:43AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:46AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:48AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:48AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:48AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:49AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:50AM

I was in a cave in Afghanistan stroking my beard.

arbeitsscheuer · 11-09-2005 01:52AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:54AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:55AM

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

ibanez · 11-09-2005 01:55AM

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

Goodshape · 11-09-2005 01:57AM

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 · 11-09-2005 01:59AM

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.

11-09-2005 02:02AM

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

Rhyme · 11-09-2005 02:05AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:07AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:08AM

School. Didn't hear till I got home

Dave! · 11-09-2005 02:13AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:15AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:16AM

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! · 11-09-2005 02:18AM

Rhyme wrote:

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

lol, me either.

rainbow kirby · 11-09-2005 02:19AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:27AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:32AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:33AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:40AM

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 · 11-09-2005 02:45AM

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 · 11-09-2005 03:00AM

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 · 11-09-2005 03:55AM

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*

Where were you on September 11th 2001?

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