9/11 10 years ago

Im fascinated by every aspect of it as morbid as it sounds.

I came into the house at 2 oclock, switched on Sky Sports News as i usually did and the news of the first plane hitting was on the ticker. I switched to an actual news channel and i dont think i moved for 12 hours!

Not only was it tragic history in the making but it was being played out live before your very eyes.

I still find it incredible and spectacular on one hand as well as being genuinely clever while at the same time incredibly tragic on the other.

3000 lives needlessly taken and more to come with firefighters struck down with cancer since. Plus thousands more lives changed forever.

Incredible.

RIP to those that lost their lives.
 
Its one thing i can remember so clearly, just before it happened we was planning to go down the pub at dinner as it was a work mates 21st. Moments before we left one of the QA girls told us a plane had hit the WTC, we all joked about what a rubbish pilot and how can you miss those huge towers. We waited a bit to hear more info still pretty jovial about the situation till we heard it was a airline and how damaged the tower was. All of instantly went to our PCs and watched in horror as the second plane hit, it just all went quiet one of the blokes mentioned al-queda as they had previously bombed the tower. Most of the afternoon was spent watching the news online and listening to radios, my work friends mum and dad was heading to NYC that day and was very concerned about it all. It was the first time his mum had ever flown and was scared in the first place, luckily they was only a few hours out and had no problem going back to LHR. That evening i was just glued to the TV/net couldnt stop thinking about or watching what was going on, it was like some morbid TV show. The next day at work we had a company meeting about it, we did comms work for the Bin laden family, and was told not to talk about it to anyone if asked and to direct them to call Management as the press was hunting for stories. We was also told that 2 of our employees was in one of the planes that hit the WTC, we had a 2 minutes silence for them and all the others killed that day.
 
I was nearly at the end of a 1-year industrial placement as part of my degree course, working in a library. Librarian told me to go downstairs and watch the news on one of their big screen TVs. Saw a replay of the first tower collision and saw the second one live. I was a clubhead back in those days and I could tell that the atmosphere was different when I went clubbing later that week. Following week, my placement finished and I went back to uni. I remember one of my flatmates wanting to train as a commercial pilot (already had his single engine license) and was saying that this 9/11 event has ruined his chance for a flight career.
 
I remember coming in from school and it being on the news, but I didn't really understand what it meant, or have even half a clue of how significant the event was, and would become.
 
I was home that day, I believe it was my year out but wasn't working until later that day.

I remember reading it on these forums first, then headed downstairs to watch it on news 24 and sky. My dad came home from work and we just sat glued to the telly.
 
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