Where were you when 9/11 happened?

Peppapig · 08-09-2009 01:22AM #1

I can remember so vividly where I was when I saw it on the telly. I came home from 4th class for lunch, ( I lived near school) and stayed home to watch it.

BrokenArrows · 08-09-2009 01:26AM

came back after lunch into class. was listening to the radio as you do in the middle of class when the news break came in. i was the first in the class to hear it. noone would believe me so i ended up passing the headphones around the class.

Kalashnikov_Kid · 08-09-2009 01:26AM

On the 97th floor, taking a crap

BrokenArrows · 08-09-2009 01:26AM

must have been some crap to take down the two towers.

brummytom · 08-09-2009 01:26AM

Posted this on a thread about early memories, so I'll just C+P;

We were out at the swimming baths with my class (would have been Year 4 I think), Mrs McDonough came in, she'd be listening to the radio out in the reception bit. She whispered in our teacher's ear, we were told to come to the shallow end and say a Hail Mary because there'd been a "plane accident" in America. Very weird thing to do in a swimming baths.

I can remember going home, switching on the TV and every station had just rolling news on, every station replaying the same clips of the second plane hitting, then the towers crashing. I remember the family just sitting there in silence, they were acting like it was the end of the world.

liah · 08-09-2009 01:27AM

In my room listening to the radio while reading a book.

It was sunny.

First thought was "well, that sucks." Then I just continued reading.

/shrug.

rainbow kirby · 08-09-2009 01:28AM

At a memorial service my school was having for a student who had been killed in a car crash during the summer of 2001. I was 17 and in 6th year at the time. I was getting a lift home with friends that day, and the first thing I remember is the absolute stunned silence of everyone in the car while listening to the news on the radio.

Novella · 08-09-2009 01:28AM

I was in school! Don't really remember being told about it or anything though, damn bad memory!

laugh · 08-09-2009 01:28AM

Standing in a beting shop on my day off chating to my friend who worked there.

All the big tv's were switched over to the coverage.

Oh wow that can't be another plane, *crash*

Whiskey Devil · 08-09-2009 01:29AM

At school. 6th Year.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 08-09-2009 01:29AM

Kalashnikov_Kid wrote: »

On the 97th floor, taking a crap

Down your leg?

LightningBolt · 08-09-2009 01:30AM

En route to Killarney with my parents to meet up with my grandparents. Heard a report on the radio in the car, we stopped off at a shopping centre in Limerick to grab something.

They'd a T.V screen outside Dunnes Stores and the first crash was being covered live when we witnessed the second plane crash. Made our way down to Killarney to stay in a hotel where it was fully booked with Americans. Not the nicest place to be that day. Everyone of them was roaring crying, was surreal.

starbelgrade · 08-09-2009 01:31AM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

must have been some crap to take down the two towers.

LOL!!!

I was in work - we ran across to the pub & saw the 2nd tower go down. At the time it all smelled a wee bit iffy... I'm not a conspiractytheorist, but there was a definite air about this at the very moments that this was happening that all was not quite right in the State of Denmark.

Xavi6 · 08-09-2009 01:31AM

In school during transition year. Went home for lunch and got there just in time to see the second plane hit.

Still weirds me out thinking about it cause I was in the towers two years before.

The Big Red Button · 08-09-2009 01:31AM

I was arsin about at home, we were two weeks late back to school that year because they were building on an extension or something. Sky News just happened to be on when the news broke, I remember just after it happened the newsreader saying that there were "three confirmed fatalities"!!!

minidazzler · 08-09-2009 01:31AM

Came home from school for lunch.

Chorus had just been installed and mammy had the news on. Saw the plane crash.

Adiboo · 08-09-2009 01:33AM

I was in 5th class. My mom picked me up from school and we heard Gerry Ryan talking about it, thought it was a joke at the time. We went into the ESB building to pay a bill, or buy something, I can't remember, but we stayed there watching the footage on the 10 or so tvs they had for about an hour. There was a big enough group of us wathing it.

Kalashnikov_Kid · 08-09-2009 01:33AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

LOL!!!

I was in work - we ran across to the pub & saw the 2nd tower go down. At the time it all smelled a wee bit iffy... I'm not a conspiractytheorist, but there was a definite air about this at the very moments that this was happening that all was not quite right in the State of Denmark.

That was me too

Peppapig · 08-09-2009 01:34AM

Jaysus we were all coming home from lunch!

AlmightyCushion · 08-09-2009 01:34AM

Lying on the couch (we had the day of school), half asleep listening to my mother screaming "It's a hoax! It has to be a hoax!!!"

Luckily enough my uncle who lives in new york and worked in or around the towers at the time was late for work that day, and then decided to stop in for a bit of breakfast because he figured he was already late what's another 20 minutes.

lostexpectation · 08-09-2009 01:35AM

brummytom wrote: »

we were told to come to the shallow end and say a Hail Mary because there'd been a "plane accident" in America. Very weird thing to do in a swimming baths.

i nearly choked with laughter reading that

grenache · 08-09-2009 01:35AM

Up a roof painting 2 rather large chimneys. Wasn't even aware it had happened until 7pm that evening. Probably the last person in the country to hear of it.

metaoblivia · 08-09-2009 01:35AM

I was in uni and was spending the semester abroad in London. It was around 2pm and I had just come out of class. A friend and I were going up the stairs to our flat when someone came running down and said a plane had crashed in the the WTC. We ran into someone else's flat and a lot of students in the program were there, watching the news. Very soon after we arrived the second plane flew in.
Some of the students had relatives living and working in NYC and they were on cell phones trying to find out where they were.

Abi · 08-09-2009 01:35AM

I was at work, and heard by word of mouth. The magnitude of the horror that was 9/11 didn't register with me until I got home, because I wasn't near a TV or radio throughout the day.

I'm obsessed with watching the 9/11 footage, but it doesn't get any less horrifying.

lostexpectation · 08-09-2009 01:37AM

arranging with the us government to get a flight out of the usa when everyone else was grounded,
i am a bin laden relative...

brummytom · 08-09-2009 01:37AM

Abigayle wrote: »

I'm obsessed with watching the 9/11 footage, and it doesn't get any less horrifying.

Snap.. It feels wrong to be watching it in a way. I've watched all the programmes Channel/More4 are running this week as part of their series.

The one today was extraordinary. I can't imagine what the people trapped inside must have been feeling

IvySlayer · 08-09-2009 01:37AM

In school. I remember coming home to see sky news reporting in and seeing that second crash....

I spent all night watching the coverage.

minidazzler · 08-09-2009 01:38AM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Lying on the couch (we had the day of school), half asleep listening to my mother screaming "It's a hoax! It has to be a hoax!!!"

Luckily enough my uncle who lives in new york and worked in or around the towers at the time was late for work that day, and then decided to stop in for a bit of breakfast because he figured he was already late what's another 20 minutes.

Your uncle is a jew, they all knew it was gonna happen so they stayed away!!!

Joking BTW. I love conspiracy nuts:D

4zn76tysfajdxp · 08-09-2009 01:40AM

I was in school. When my Dad picked me up, he told me what had happened but I had thought it was a mere accident. Then I arrived home and turned on the TV.

Peppapig · 08-09-2009 01:41AM

brummytom wrote: »

Snap.. It feels wrong to be watching it in a way. I've watched all the programmes Channel/More4 are running this week as part of their series.

The one today was extraordinary. I can't imagine what the people trapped inside must have been feeling

Yeah Thats what I was watching and made me start this thread. It's just surreal how it happened. The whole city brought to a standstill! 1,000's of civilians killed

Ruu_Old · 08-09-2009 01:42AM

Internet cafe in London.

Where were you when 9/11 happened?

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