9/11 10 years ago

CmJared · 9 Sep 2011 at 05:32

Some kids in my school thought it was funny I even overheard a girl saying Americans deserved it. Btw these people weren't Muslims before you jump to any conclusions. o.o

Mat · 9 Sep 2011 at 07:35

I was at work when it all started and in fact it was the thread on this forum that kept me up to date with what was unfurling before I got home and turned on the tv.

Was that thread ever archived at all?

'Wes · 9 Sep 2011 at 07:39

AHarvey said:
Slightly off topic, but does anyone here truly, deep down in side care about it? We had the conversation at work today. While I understand it was a shock at the time and lots of families lost their loved ones it didn't directly effect me so I really have a hard time attaching any emotion to it. This really seemed to shock 90% of the women at work. Is it just me that is weird?

It was a tragedy, but deep down i don't care about it.

G18241 · 9 Sep 2011 at 07:41

I was sat in a D & T food lesson at school prepping for my GCSEs but our teacher let us listen to the radio so heard it on that

True_Scotsman · 9 Sep 2011 at 07:53

I was just back from a holiday in Spain, was in changing the money back to pounds, they had CNN on in the background.

Steve_bullockuk · 9 Sep 2011 at 07:57

vicisthebest said:
I actually just ordered the DVD of the documentary "9/11" that was made by two French brothers called Gideon and Jules Naudet, it was shown on the 1st anniversary but I don't remember having seen it since.
The brothers were there by accident - they were making a documentary about a rookie firefighter at one of the firehouses, following him through his training, and Jules got one of only two videos IIRC of the first plane crashing, the firefighters were investigating a gas leak and heard a roar above them, Jules panned the camera up to see the first plane hit. The firefighters let him go with them to the towers and he just kept his camera rolling, as did Gideon both back at the firehouse and on the streets, trying to find his brother and just knowing that his camera was capturing epicly historic events.

I also remember watching this.

I was doing my trident at the time and it came on the radio so we switched on a TV and watched it all unfold. I still remember to this day one of the guys I worked with saying "wtf....it looks like someone just detonated explosives" as the first tower fell.

GTAMADDOG · 9 Sep 2011 at 08:10

It must have happened during my last lesson of the day at primary school. Either the teachers didn't know or weren't going to tell the students. School finished and I went to look for my nan's car as she used to pick me up front primary school, finally found her and the first thing she said to me was "Have you heard about what's happened in New York? It looks pretty bad and must be because your grandad is watching it on the TV".

Anyone who knows my grandad knows it's very difficult to get him to watch the news for more then a few seconds, especially when there's an old Western film on one of the Sky Movie channels. So then I knew it must be pretty bad.

explicit4u · 9 Sep 2011 at 08:27

I was in year two! Our lessons were interrupted and we were taken into the playground and we had to sit there untill our parents came to collect us. They didn't bother telling us what happened, they left that down to our parents. Came home and just watched the news for a few hours.

7/7 was much more frightening for me!

Orcish-Horde · 9 Sep 2011 at 08:27

Sitting watching the news before leaving to go to work, I think I had to leave before the second tower came down. I do remember thinking "Now they know how we feel", Irish America sending funds to the provos...... I kept the paper the next day as this was clearly a major historical event. It will make interesting reading if the children ever ask about it, it was clearly writen by people in a fluster.

Rids · 9 Sep 2011 at 08:30

Still the most surreal moment in my life I think, I was unemployed at the time, so I got out of bed literally just after the impact of the first plane and my dad says 'A plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center...' - He has the news on, we sit there and watch. Then you see that second plane come in, and you realise that this wasnt some horrific accident, it was a deliberate act, an attack... I don't know if I'm remember incorrectly, but I swear I remember thinking at that time that the whole world just changed forever... and then, when the towers came down... I still find the whole thing really shocking.

JimAroo · 9 Sep 2011 at 08:34

Was justing getting in from School. The first thing I saw was the replay of the plane flying straight into the tower. I actually thought it was a movie at first.. :/

Draeger · 9 Sep 2011 at 08:52

I was on duty, dayshift.

Station commander came in to find the entire watch all sat watching the coverage on TV. At first he raised his eyebrows and rolled his eyes finding us all sat in front of the telly when we should have been doing daily work around the station.

Until he sat down with us and looked at the coverage unfolding.

antijoke · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:00

I was sat at my PC at home when my ex phoned me to tell me to put the TV on, I asked why and she just kept telling me to put it on, when I put it on I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Shortly after the second plane flew into the other tower!

Was mind boggling, I was posting on quake3world at the time and there were several members living in New York posting saying they were watching it from their apartments.

Vonhelmet · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:12

I was working in a coffee shop. I didn't really understand what was going on, but all the "grown ups" seemed very concerned by it. I was 18 at the time and not really up on politics.

I remember hearing bin Laden's name, and that it was being blamed on Afghanistan.

I got home and it was the only thing on the TV on any channel.

Deep · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:14

I was 14 and found out when I got home.
Being a silly child I didn't really care and would have rather watched Hey Arnold

doodah · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:19

Just came back from school with my friend and met my mother at my local train station. She told us something had happened in NY - went home at watched the TV solidly for hours on end. I can't believe it has been 10 years!

Aod · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:22

Neil79 said:
Forum better not be closed, it's pointless! .. Show a mark of respect with flowers or a 2min silence, but an internet forum

FFS show some respect, almost three thousand people lost their lives in the event :mad:

Vonhelmet · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:23

Aod said:
FFS show some respect, almost three thousand people lost their lives in the event

Plenty more die every day for all kinds of reasons. Perspective is a funny thing. It's not like all the people not posting here will be meditating all day on the tragic loss of life, or writing to Barack Obama imploring him to end America's interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East.

But hey, it's not my call.

StriderX · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:24

Aod said:
FFS show some respect, almost three thousand people lost their lives in the event

Yet you forget the hundred thousand plus that lost their lives (only Iraq, not sure about the other campaigns).

godinman · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:25

'Wes said:
It was a tragedy, but deep down i don't care about it.

+1. a lot of hysteria surrounding it. Fair enough if you were directly affected, obviously, but myself? While I'd rather it hadn't happened (just like any other murder) I don't actually feel any emotion about it whatsoever, apart from boredom and possibly annoyance that 7/7 wont be given anywhere near the same amount of coverage in the UK.