The annual 9/11 thread

Hertsseasider

Hertsseasider

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Probably the most dramatic occasion in my life.
Where were you ?
I was working at Stansted Airport
It got seriously scary.
 
I cried that day watching as it was happening.

Edit: Self-employed delivering for Wickes Preston and Blackpool stores.
 
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It was mid afternoon in the UK when it happened. I was working in Lytham at the time. Surreal as the news filtered through.
Remember driving home was weird listening to the news filter through about the other flights. We didn't know if there were going to be more planes hijacked or flown into things.

An event of our lives. Sad.
 
I was taking an exam through work at Peel Park. I was isolated within that environment for the day.

First I heard was getting in my car to pick my kids up from school and childcare. My youngest was a baby, still only 1.
I watched the footage and news when I got home and cried intermittently throughout the evening.
Horrific event, still is looking back retrospectively, always will be.

RIP all those who lost their lives and god bless those affected in anyway by this hideous anti humane tragedy.
 
I was 'on sabbatical' at a 'friends' in North Wales, we'd had a heavy night, we'd had a smoke, we were supposed to be going to walk the Nantlle ridge but time was going...Neighbours had just finished on BBC1 and the newsflash about the first plane came on, I don't think we stopped watching for 12 hours or more, after half an hour or so my Dad phoned me to say those towers were going to fall, it was thousands of miles way but like everyone else it felt personal, like you'd been punched in the face, just a state of shock that didn't go for weeks.
 
I was in busch Gardens just about to go on safari when they evacuated park.

When we were just getting there on the radio it said that there were reports of a light air plane hitting wtc. As we were due to go to NYC from florida I said to Mrs that they better be open when we got there... little did I know what had happened or what was a head :(

Getting back on international drive and entering a pub.. Still can remember watching them fall on TV... pub silent and we were in total shock..

Can't believe 20yrs...
 
I was just going to work in the early morning as the manager of a servo in Mount Maunganui New Zealand. Surreal it certainly was and people were really fearful of an impending WWIII...

If only they'd known it was a US Government set-up by the Bush administration to take back control of oil in the Middle East to keep their personal wealth then they needn't have worried.
 
Think we played Leicester in the league cup the night before.
I was dating a Preston girl at the time and after the game drove to her house.

I returned home around 1 pm the following day and shortly after switched on Bloomberg to check the financial markets.
They were showing an incident of a light aircraft colliding into the building.
I immediately switched over to CNN where they were debating if it was an accident.
Suddenly the second aircraft crashed into the other tower “ That is no accident”.
I was rooted to that TV for the rest of the day as events unfolded.

I never saw that Nobber girl again!
 
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I was in Cheltenham and I’m sure most of you know which government agency is based there. Never want to live a day like that again.The next five years work were unbelievable.
 
I was working for a charity and we had visitors in from the US. We had to look after them while they slowly gathered information from family that were likely to be in the area at the time. It felt like we were at war that day.
 
I was working for a consultancy but between client projects so pretty much sat in a flat in Fulham doing sod all. One of the lads I was sharing with, a mate from Uni, was changing jobs so he was at home too. We watched it all day, at points barely able to speak. It was unbelievable.

We spent a bit of that time trying to find out about another of our friends who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and was based in their NY office at the time - they had a few of the higher floors in WT 1. He was one of the lucky ones that day who was at a client meeting elsewhere. Every one of his colleagues who went in that day died, nobody from Cantor could get out and they lost 600 odd people. It changed him immeasurably.
 
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