Where were you...

I remember I was at home and watching some TV show, I first flicked to CNN and saw a helicopter view of the first tower on fire. I then remember going over to Sky news and Jeremy Thompson announced that a second plane had hit the Towers and how it was looking more and more unlike an accident as was the earlier speculation due to only one tower being hit. I remember that RTE were showing news feeds from CNN and a few others.

I then remember my grandmother ringing looking for my Aunts & Uncles phone numbers, I told how I had already tried and all the switchboards were jammed. I had a fair Idea that they were okay as they live in Queens and having visited the city the year before (2000) was fairly familiar with their habits. My uncle however was working in a construction job only a few blocks from the Towers and saw the plane fly in over them before hitting the towers. It will be to our generation the memory "of where were you?" like JFK's assassination was to our parents.

I was at home watching it all on tv and learning to hate Kay Burleys evil face and news-people in general.

Somehow behind her facade of mock-shock you could tell she was secretly lovin every second of it all, like this was her WorldCupFinal or something. :mad:

BingoBongo wrote:

Is there anyway of looking at the after hours threads for the 11th of September 2001???

Maybe by search

Not that I know of, but I have found this it is like a picture of the front page taken on 26th September 2001, I got it from the Internet wayback machine. I have tried a few ways but can't search by exact specific date. Maybe the mods or Admins have the facility but I haven't anyway.

[EDIT] September 11th 2001 fell on a Tuesday btw [EDIT]