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On Holiday in the south of France, bought a paper and was like WTF?
9/11 10 years ago
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Soldato
There's always one...
Like most others I was at school and only found out when I switched on the TV as I got home. The more I think about it, the more I realise that that it was probably the most important moment of our generation.
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Standing in game in Hull talking to a mate who worked there when someone came in and said "A plane just crashed into the world trade center"
We opened up one of the playstation displays and fashioned a makeshift aerial and nearly everyone in the store stood in stunned silence watching it.
After the second plane hit I rushed home to tell my girlfriend about it, we were watching on TV as the first tower fell.
It's one of those events you can never get out of your head. The most chilling images were the pictures of the people who knew they were not going to make it so jumped.
We opened up one of the playstation displays and fashioned a makeshift aerial and nearly everyone in the store stood in stunned silence watching it.
After the second plane hit I rushed home to tell my girlfriend about it, we were watching on TV as the first tower fell.
It's one of those events you can never get out of your head. The most chilling images were the pictures of the people who knew they were not going to make it so jumped.
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I'd popped home for my lunch, When I got back into School people didn't know any thing about it.
Soldato
I remember that. Watching it live and seeing people jump out. The news reporters were trying to tell us it was just debris or furniture falling down. They seemed totally freaked out.
I was at school. My sister was poorly that day so she stayed home. I remember coming home and my sister telling me what had happened. I was only 9 so didn't see what the big deal was (she would have been 15), and I got really annoyed that I couldn't watch pokemon. Wasn't until I was about 12 or 13 I actually understood what was going on.
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Is there supposed to be a minute silence today?
Please don't tell me I've missed it.
2 more days m8 9/11
Soldato
This day will always be etched in my memory.
Was at work when we heard it on the radio. We didn't have a tv, so we just listened in.
One of my best friends had died on the 4th, and i was due to go say my farewells to him at the funeral parlour at 4pm that day. The shock of the whole terrorist event AND seeing my friend in an open casket got to me enough that i broke down later in the evening in front of my 3 year old son. Thankfully he didn't understand!
T'was a dark day indeed, and one i'll never forget.
Was at work when we heard it on the radio. We didn't have a tv, so we just listened in.
One of my best friends had died on the 4th, and i was due to go say my farewells to him at the funeral parlour at 4pm that day. The shock of the whole terrorist event AND seeing my friend in an open casket got to me enough that i broke down later in the evening in front of my 3 year old son. Thankfully he didn't understand!
T'was a dark day indeed, and one i'll never forget.
I was in school. Came back and turned on the TV. Was shocked, having been on top of the South Tower on the 3rd September myself. My brother works across the street. He was on his way to work on the bus from NJ. He witnessed the second plane hit.
My cousin's sister-in-law wasn't so lucky. She worked there and left behind a very young son.
My cousin's sister-in-law wasn't so lucky. She worked there and left behind a very young son.
Soldato
You mean plane-proof???
No I mean built properly, had the WTC 1/2 been constructed properly they would have stayed up long enough for a full evacuation and most likely long enough for the fire crews to save the buildings. One of the biggest examples in history of health and safety being more trouble than its worth >.>
Got a source for this or are you just spouting utter rubbish?
Cause it reads like someone saying "I hope they build Hiroshima better next time so it can withstand a nuclear bomb better hurrr"
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I was watching or waiting for Diagnosis Murder on BBC1, then it cut to the news
Soldato
I was at work in the yard bringing some stock in. My mate called me to tell me that a plane had hit the WTC, I thought that he was talking rubbish. Until later in the evening the other shift came in to tell me all about it.
Soldato
I, like many, was at work that day and we followed what was going online and via radio/TV. One of our sister teams supported clients at the time, some of whom had offices in the twin towers so were affected more.
I remember though being on my way home and one of my colleagues, who had been off that day, called me to ask me a question about her kids homework. She had no idea that anything had been going on at all so I told her to turn on the news and call me back in 10mins (by which time I would be home and could help her).
I remember though being on my way home and one of my colleagues, who had been off that day, called me to ask me a question about her kids homework. She had no idea that anything had been going on at all so I told her to turn on the news and call me back in 10mins (by which time I would be home and could help her).
Learn to use Google.
Its pretty simple, the towers were actually designed to withstand a commercial airliner strike, which they did perfectly well, however the subsequent fire caused severe structural damage which resulted in a collapse.
The reason for that is because during the towers construction the American environmental agency banned the use of asbestos in construction, as a result only the lower halves of the towers got asbestos spray coating on their steelwork, the construction couldn't wait around for an acceptable replacement for asbestos so the rest of the buildings were completed without fire protection on the steelwork (building would never have gone ahead if the was no protection in the original plans).
Had the towers steelwork been properly protected against fire then it would have given the occupants more than enough time for a full evacuation and its believed it would also given the fire suppression system and the fire crews enough time to save the towers.
NB: it would actually have been perfectly safe to continue the spray coating on the rest of the building as the workers used filtered masks which would have protected them sufficiently form breathing in any asbestos dust which would have been difficult anyway as the spray was wet, but a blanket ban was in place.
Oh god you've been on conspiracy sites.
It was never ever designed to with stand a plane strike. Let alone at 500mph.
And how would they evacuate the top floors as the stairways where impassable.
You should learn to use google
