6 years ago today (11th) - Where were you?

darkman2 · 2007-09-11 12:36:51

I suppose we're all going to be fed up hearing about it by the end of the day but inevitably the tv stations will have loads of programs about '9/11' tonight. But I was wondering do you all remember were you were and how you heard about it? I remember I was in school and the way the teacher said it - it would give you the…

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I suppose we're all going to be fed up hearing about it by the end of the day but inevitably the tv stations will have loads of programs about '9/11' tonight. But I was wondering do you all remember were you were and how you heard about it? I remember I was in school and the way the teacher said it - it would give you the impression the US was being invaded or something - total nonsense of course - oh and then the joy of having to listen to Joe Duffy on the way home :rolleyes: Are people going a bit OTT by even remembering were they were at the time of these big events? I mean its not like man had landed on the moon or anything.......or was it simply a fascination amongst people about the appocalytic nature of it? It was certainly very hard to get into perspective on that day what had happened as it was simply too big an event......all our problems certainly paled into such petty insignificance.

Anyway do you remember how you heard about it?

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#2 11-09-2007 01:38PM

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#3 11-09-2007 01:38PM

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darkman2 wrote:

I suppose we're all going to be fed up hearing about it by the end of the day but inevitably the tv stations will have loads of programs about '9/11' tonight. But I was wondering do you all remember were you were and how you heard about it? I remember I was in school and the way the teacher said it - it would give you the impression the US was being invaded or something - total nonsense of course - oh and then the joy of having to listen to Joe Duffy on the way home :rolleyes: Are people going a bit OTT by even remembering were they were at the time of these big events? I mean its not like man had landed on the moon or anything.......or was it simply a fascination amongst people about the appocalytic nature of it? It was certainly very hard to get into perspective on that day what had happened as it was simply too big an event......all our problems certainly paled into such petty insignificance.

Anyway do you remember how you heard about it?

I was waking up in a Hostel in Washington DC, World War 3 going on outside and all around me in the room.

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#4 11-09-2007 01:39PM

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I was trying to set up a new computer in my parents house and couldnt figure out why the internet had slowed to a crawl. I thought it had something to do with the new comp... was swearing alot that day. Was kinda shocked when I saw it, as I recall.

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darkman2 wrote:

It was certainly very hard to get into perspective on that day what had happened as it was simply too big an event......all our problems certainly paled into such

I tell you what, you're right there. To me, looking at it on TV was no different to watching a movie, it didn't feel anymore real than that. I have no concept of 5,000 people, 500 people etc. I was at home on a day off, actually watching Sky news when the second plane went in. I thought that they were replaying the first crash, and was wondering what the hell was going on.

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#7 11-09-2007 01:42PM

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I was in (secondary) school, and I have witnesss to corroborate this alibi!

Ahem, a friend who wasn't in texted me about it when it happened.

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#8 11-09-2007 01:42PM

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i think its one of those things most people will always remember where they were and what they were doing..
I just happened to be in a pub after school while waitin for the bus home....i remember the pub was wedged with people staring at the images.

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#9 11-09-2007 01:44PM

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I was at home in bed missing another days at college when my mam woke me and told me to turn on the TV crazy stuff

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Omg Turn On The News

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Was walking home from school and a neighbour I saw along the way told me about it.

I thought it was aliens. Man was I disappointed!

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2nd year in school but our school didnt tell us. Didnt find out till I was walkin home.

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i was in 2nd year french class when i heard about it. didnt believe it at first.

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I was in bed resting off from night-shift, in that half-way house of being neither fully awake nor fully asleep when I suddenly got this strong compulsion to turn on the radio. I never listen to daytime radio so I often wonder why did I turn it on THAT day... The very first thing I heard was a girl saying that 'a second plane has hit the World Trade Centre, so the first plane to hit was not an accident.'
Not being able to make sense of this I walked into the kitchen to find my wife transfixed in front of the television. She greeted my with the immortal line that 'they inturupted Neighbours with this Newsflash.....'
Little did I know at the time I was looking at the US administration's excuse to bring their terror to the Middle East for the next ten years.

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#15 11-09-2007 01:51PM

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DesF wrote:

Omg Turn On The News

yikes, pretty harrowing thread bringing back some memories...

personally I was in cancun on my leaving cert holiday when one my mates' brother texts him to say 'turn on the news, new york is on fire'

fun, as we were flying home, I think, about 22hrs later

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I was in work in a shop that sold loads of tellies.

One of the other workers got a phone call and was told to turn on Sky News.

We turned on Sky News.

Saw the two towers falling live on tv.

Did no work that day, just sat in front of the tellies watching.

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Zapp Brannigan wrote:

I thought it was aliens. Man was I disappointed!

this might cheer you up:p
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PcX0V-_b_V8

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#19 11-09-2007 01:53PM

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On the grassy knoll

Sheeting a floor in Clondalkin.
Got home in time to catch the second plane crash.

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#20 11-09-2007 01:55PM

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Was fast asleep in my bed at university upstate new york about 3 hours north of NYC. Got a call from my housemate's mother crying and telling me "they" bombed the WTC. I couldn't understand what she was talking about and my head was so muddled with sleep I was so confused. Then I turned on the news right after the second plane hit. Madness. I called my mom in NYC, cried a lot and then just watched the news for the next 18 hours while calling and trying to get in touch with people.

Reading that thread from six years ago is incredible. People first reactions are so interesting to read but it's just so upsetting, even six years later.

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#21 11-09-2007 01:56PM

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In school. I came home and asked my mam what movie she was watching.

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In secondary school bored out of my tree.

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I was in R.E class in 6th year in school, my extremely annoying teacher told us with this wierd smug smile on his face. I just think he was enjoying the drama of telling us all. Then I remember getting the school bus home and everyone being silent and listening to the news. My friend kept saying it's world war 3 over and over again. Then all i did was watch the news all night and then next day nobody had their homework done, and all the teachers said if you were anything like me you were glued to the tv last night so i don't expect homework to be done. I just remember thinking this is like a movie... what the hell is going on!

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It was the last day for paying college reg fees so I was on my way back from that. Walked into the house and my brother just said America is being bombed, turned on the news and saw the first tower on fire this was before anybody knew it was a plane and I just kinda turned it off. Went to the pub to play snooker by the time we got there a lot more was known then. We just sat there played some snooker drank a bit while keeping an eye on the tv. Looking back it seems like I half ignored one of the biggest events to happen in my lifetime.

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#25 11-09-2007 01:59PM

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first year of secondary school, only found out after getting home. ww3 predictions abound the next day.

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#26 11-09-2007 01:59PM

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DesF wrote:

Omg Turn On The News

wow! lol @ the amount of mis-information in that thread:

Hobbes: Car bomb has just exploded outside the Pentagon now.

Draco: There are now reports that a total of 8 planes were hijacked.
F UCK

The media were all over the place reporting that day. Some of the speculation was incredible and unhelpful. I remember gems like 'car bomb at Capitol Hill'.....

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#27 11-09-2007 01:59PM

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DesF wrote:

Omg Turn On The News

Lol, it's surreal reading over the old thread. Best bit has to be Victor's

"If one of the towers has collapsed, we are talking about 20,000 dead. Several hundred of those will have been Irish." and the ensuing reaction of the great unwashed.

Oh and I was at work, in a Jewish investment bank at the time.

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In bed. Mother woke me up and told me New York had been nuked. No kidding.

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#29 11-09-2007 02:03PM

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We had this discussion in the pub recently, one of my mates was rubbing one out when he found out... He finished off and turned on the T.V.

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#30 11-09-2007 02:05PM

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I was on a bus from St. Louis to Kansas City. It was my first time visiting American and me and may mates were there for a two week trip, going from Chicago - Los Angeles via Route 66. Talk about bad timing!

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I was at home that day, turned on the TV and happened across the Breaking News. I was hooked for the rest of the day.

By the way, how is it that the thread about September 11th posted above, a day when thousands of innocent people died, possibly a turning point in global politics and the relationship between the West and the Middle East, has 7 pages of posts, whilst the Madeline McCann thread is up to 64 pages and still going strong .

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