Where were you on September 11th 2001?

whiskeyman · 11-09-2005 01:38PM

I bought, and still have, many of the newspapers and weeklys from that week.
Makes for interesting reading now seeing how everything was first reported.
Here's some of the main ones I have...

Sauron · 11-09-2005 01:40PM

I was in school when it happened.. I heard various murmurings about something happening in new york. On my way out to my parents car, my brother ran out to say that two planes had crashed into the world trade centers, We listened to distressed reporters on the radio telling us about people jumping from the towers.. we just couldn't grasp it and when we got home, we were glued to the TV.. when I hjeard about the pentagon, I was just lost for words..

Piste · 11-09-2005 01:46PM

I was in 5th class and my class was being given ut to in PE when it happened. My Dad told me when he collected me from school that day, at that stage only one plane had flown into one of the towers and we watched it live the rest of the day at home on TV,

danniemcq · 11-09-2005 01:48PM

sjones wrote:

Devils Head in the smoke? ffs bahah.

it's true

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/danniemcq/face1.jpg
and
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/danniemcq/face2.jpg

dbnavan · 11-09-2005 01:49PM

My Granny was sick in baumount hospital, i was visiting her and just left, and ran into a friend who worked in the IT Department and we went for a coffee in his office when someone screamed telling us to turn on the telly. we went into the kitchen next to the office and saw it happening just as the second plane hit. Will never forget it as long as i live.

Creamy Goodness · 11-09-2005 01:56PM

was in school i remember it well, our teacher came in and said something terrible has happened in america but as not to ruin her class she said she wouldn't tell us.

we hassled her gently until we got this answer "it involves planes".

i just thought a plane crashed (fairly common these days) only when i got home i realised the serverity of it all.

gandalf · 11-09-2005 01:58PM

Hmmm I was paying for Lunch upstairs in O'Dwyers of Kilmacud with a work colleague and the bar maid said "Did ya hear about the plane that crashed into the World Trade centre" we stood looking at her for what seemed like ages (in reality seconds) waiting for a punchline that never came.

We went downstairs and saw pictures of the second plane hitting and felt a shiver run through my spine.

Spent the day in work trying to follow the chaos on websites that were maxed with loads of rumours about other planes hijacked.

Was made particularly real for me as my sister who was visiting from the US was due to have taken the Boston Flight to LA a week later.

JBoyle4eva · 11-09-2005 01:59PM

I was picked uop from school by my mum when she told me what happened. We got home and turned on sky news and ny them the first tower had fallen. My gran from England rang us to say she'd been trying to get her sister in NY over the phone but there was no connection.

We spent most of the day wondering was our 2nd cousin still working in the twin towers and we got the word @ 9 that evening that she had left the twin towers a month before because she was on maternity leave.

Ooly · 11-09-2005 02:29PM

I had the day off school & was in Galway shopping. I remember being in Brown Thomas buying some clothes when the woman at the till told me about what had happened. I listened to the radio all the way home to Sligo & couldn't believe the news reports

Dave! · 11-09-2005 02:31PM

danniemcq wrote:

is that the one with the devils head in the smoke???

Don't think so, no.

whiskeyman wrote:

I bought, and still have, many of the newspapers and weeklys from that week.
Makes for interesting reading now seeing how everything was first reported.
Here's some of the main ones I have...

Jeez, that picture on the cover of Time is pretty amazing...

Flashling · 11-09-2005 02:39PM

I was in a toy shop, and I remember not believing it for about two days, thinking it wsa a practical joke. I think it was because there was an add for malteasers on at the same time, when the television in the background was saying "terrorists have taken over New York" or something....

dimerocks · 11-09-2005 02:40PM

i left school early and was on the bus i didnt know what was going on but i remember overhearing something onthe bus.when i got in the dorr and saw the tv i was shocked.

mang87 · 11-09-2005 02:44PM

Superquinn parking lot with my mother after she had picked me up sick from school. What was it? like 11:30 or something?

Cutie18Ireland · 11-09-2005 02:45PM

I was at home watching Sky Sports and a little notice came up on the bottom of the screen about a plane crashing into the WTC! As I turned it to sky news the second plane just hit it. I was completely in shock. I was only on top of them 2 months before hand!!

mang87 · 11-09-2005 02:47PM

JBoyle4eva wrote:

We spent most of the day wondering was our 2nd cousin still working in the twin towers and we got the word @ 9 that evening that she had left the twin towers a month before because she was on maternity leave.

Heh, I bet she is extra nice to the kid, after all, it probably saved her life.

Giblet · 11-09-2005 03:22PM

I was watching it happen, I saw the second plane hit and I was like "Oh wow they have a replay.....wait wasn't the building already on fire...SHI"

Metacortex · 11-09-2005 03:26PM

I was at home, it was the week before i went back to college so i was just around the house.
Just flicking around channels on the tv and happened to turn on sky news to see the north tower on fire. I was then talking to my b/f on the phone who was on lunch at work telling him about it.
Hung up the phone and 10 seconds later the second tower got hit. Rang him back stright away, the conversation started with the words 'you're not going to believe this...'
I just stayed watching it for hours and hours until i couldn't see it repeated anymore.

Prior Of Taize · 11-09-2005 03:28PM

danniemcq wrote:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a247/danniemcq/face2.jpg

this photo looks like Richard Nixon! bwaa haa haa

whiskeyman · 11-09-2005 03:35PM

DaveMcG wrote:

Jeez, that picture on the cover of Time is pretty amazing...

sure is.
All thats written (apart from the time logo) is "September 11, 2001" in white in small font.
It was a feature of that whole week... I'd go into the newsagents every morning before work and just scan the front pages of all the newspapers.
It was kinda like realising what was going on.
http://www.newseum.org/frontpages/
lots more there too.

danniemcq · 11-09-2005 03:53PM

Prior Of Taize wrote:

this photo looks like Richard Nixon! bwaa haa haa

"i am not a face in the smoke"

Son_of_Belial · 11-09-2005 04:00PM

I was on my way to work at my summer job (I had just finished my Leaving that year and was waiting to start college in October) and heard about the first plane on the radio. Then the whole place came to a stand-still as everyone gathered around the radios to listen to it all going on. I watched it all on Sky News when I got home that evening.

Roar · 11-09-2005 04:16PM

I remember the Examiner carried the headline "ARMAGEDDON" in the early edition, which they had to pull later that morning in place of a less sensational one.

That day i was at work in Hills Newsagents on Pana, and i remember the streets emptying.. it was surreal... the Sony centre was next dooe, so i spent the rest of the day in there watching it, too transfixed to move..

my girlfriend was in america at the time, remember being really worried about her even though she was in florida.. she ended up coming home four days late and had to go through belgium..

a mate of mine went to the cinema that night and they had the Spiderman teaser with the twin towers.. He said your could hear the collective gasp from the crowd a mile away.

RuggieBear · 11-09-2005 04:17PM

working. then realised that my brother was J1'ing in New York....he eventually called us after 3hrs ,to tell us he was grand. The entire north eastern phone system ground to ahalt with people checking up on friends and family. He and his mates had been up to the viewing deck in the WTC on the 9th Sept.

simu · 11-09-2005 04:20PM

I was in France for the summer and I switched on the TV and OMG!!!!! Teh trauma!!!!. Well, not really. It was mildly entertaining for a bit and then I got on with my day as usual.

p~b · 11-09-2005 04:20PM

in school and we had somebody visiting for san francisco on that day

Pet · 11-09-2005 04:35PM

Twas the day before my Junior Cert results came out, I came home from school and my parents told me, we watched the news for ages.

merlinsmerryman · 11-09-2005 04:37PM

I was just out of school in my mates house after getting my Junior Cert results, really pissed off cause our school wouldn't give us our results until 2 so I had to spend all of my birthday(yes September 11 not a joke i'm serious) in school.

Branoic · 11-09-2005 05:03PM

I was asleep in an apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Some brazilian dude who was also in the apartment came into my room and told me America had been attacked. I spent the rest of the day watching it on the TV.

KevIRL · 11-09-2005 05:04PM

In the middle of the Australian desert. Didnt even hear about the attacks till the 14th of Sept

Diarmsquid · 11-09-2005 05:11PM

I was in school, when i got home i was wayching the news but I had homework to do. The next day our teacher told us that he didn't mind if our homework wasn't done because he expected that we were all watchin the news.

I did about 2 hours of unnessicary homework.

Where were you on September 11th 2001?

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