9/11 15 Year Anniversary

Craig1981

Craig1981

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Just realised what day it was today. Hard to believe its already been 15 years since that day. I still remember it. I was at college. Came home and found this unfolding on the TV. I think at the point I started watching the planes had already hit, but the towers hadn't collapsed yet. It was so surreal watching it happen, felt more like watching a movie than real life.

The world's never been quite the same since. I think we'll be living with the legacy of that attack well beyond the point any of us will be alive to see.
 
I find it weird that schools now teach it as a 'historical event'. Not the actual teaching of it. I think history should be taught with more emphasis on more recent events.

Just the fact that there are people are coming up to leaving secondary school who weren't even born when it happened. I remember everything that day. Coincidently I was at school and watched the 2nd plane go in live in the p.e department.
 
I was in Tunisia. Sat by the pool when one of the staff came and told us. We all ran in to one of the lounges and watched as the second plane hit.
 
I was having my wisdom teeth out in the morning. As soon as I got home, my friend called and said put the TV on. We then met up the pub to watch the rest unfold. Very surreal.
 
As far as supposed terrorist acts go what better way to capture the attention of the masses than to target two massive iconic buildings in an attack which has maximum shock value (falling of the towers) and is setup perfectly for media coverage (a delayed event after the initial impact).

Had a jumbo-jet been blown up on that day instead, I dare say the reaction and aftershock of such an event would not have been as great and long lasting.

In short, I'm still dubious about the real perpetrators of 9/11 and many of the questions raised surrounding the events remain unanswered or have unsatisfactory explanations.

 
Oh yes. Flew into Atlanta yesterday; took an hour to get through border control but to be fair it wasn't the absolute nightmare flying in to Dallas on September 15 2001.
 
I remember getting home from school, was 12 at the time, and I'd always watch some TV with a brew etc. A friend came round and we were flicking through the channels, and turned to a channel just as the second tower collapsed live on air. I remember being horrified, and my friend cracking jokes about it and laughing. His giggling will stay with me forever I think, what an aweful human being. (He's not been a friend since then, and remains as someone who I would never trust with anything).
 
darkgen said:
Oh yes. Flew into Atlanta yesterday; took an hour to get through border control but to be fair it wasn't the absolute nightmare flying in to Dallas on September 15 2001.
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How coincidental. I'm in Atlanta right now. Funnily enough I've never moved through an airport as quick as we did at ATL. Including baggage collection it can't have been more than 30 minutes.

andy_mk3 said:
I had no idea. Not seen much TV today but surprised I've not seen or heard anything about it on social media.
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Bear in mind, America is only just waking up now (well, just gone 10am here) so social media might be starting around now.

It's all over TV here, as well as flags everywhere. Such a sad day.
 
Terrorism or conspiracy,whichever side of the fence you sit on, 2500+ died .

So something i will never forget or have to witness again in my lifetime.
 
AndyCr15 said:
How coincidental. I'm in Atlanta right now. Funnily enough I've never moved through an airport as quick as we did at ATL. Including baggage collection it can't have been more than 30 minutes.
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Landed around 3pm yesterday and it was queues galore and we were in the US nationals line! Just made our connecting flight; our bags did not. Delta did manage to drop them off at home at 3am this morning though.

As for the event itself, watched it all unfurl live at work. Pretty surreal day; a lot of concern for work colleagues and family members; another reason I flew out at the earliest opportunity which was the 15th when the airspace reopened.
 
I've never understood why people say this was the day that changed the world forever.

It changed the world for Americans, and for the two countries they subsequently attacked in a misguided attempt at retaliation. It didn't really change the world for anyone else.

I was online when it started. One of my American mates was in New York, just a few blocks down from the WTC. I kept her updated with news from the BBC website. We remained in contact until her boss told everyone to go home.
 
Sept the 11th is also known as the day youtube star Jc Caylen was born.. also the greatest singer to walk this planet elephant man was born. Also must say a wonderful happy birthday to Bashar Al-Assad.
 
Craig1981 said:
Just realised what day it was today. Hard to believe its already been 15 years since that day. I still remember it. I was at college. Came home and found this unfolding on the TV. I think at the point I started watching the planes had already hit, but the towers hadn't collapsed yet. It was so surreal watching it happen, felt more like watching a movie than real life.

The world's never been quite the same since. I think we'll be living with the legacy of that attack well beyond the point any of us will be alive to see.
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What I disliked was NATO article 5 nato was invoked, yet when we were attacked by Argentina we didnt have NATO behind us.
 
It was a normal workday - me and one of the blokes from the office had been out for a couple of lunchtime pints and were just about to walk into the courtyard out the front of the office when we bumped into one of the bosses, who was in his car heading off for a meeting.

He wound his window down, said a plane had hit one of the Towers and that the telly was on in his office if we wanted to see it. We wandered up - I had a light aircraft like a Cessna in mind and assumed the pilot must have passed out at the controls or something. I got the fright of my life when, whilst watching coverage of the first tower burning, the second tower was hit - it was then, like everyone else, we realised we were watching an attack, not an accident.

Everything just seemed to spiral from there - people stuck in the Towers were jumping from the windows (still to this day the most horrific thing I've seen broadcast), the Towers collapsed within a few minutes of each other, reports came in of the Pentagon having been hit, of the plane where the passengers had tried to take it back from the hijackers that had crashed and of a plane possibly being en route to the White House. Part of me seriously expected Bush to lob a couple of nukes at Iraq and Afghanistan later that day - it was one of those times when 'normality' evaporates and you just didn't know what was going to happen next.
 
Brizzles said:
Terrorism or conspiracy,whichever side of the fence you sit on, 2500+ died .

So something i will never forget or have to witness again in my lifetime.
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Not meaning to discredit or bring tarnish to the memory but I hope for the sake of humanity that this will be the worst atrocity. Anything worse than this and we may logically assume its an act of nuclear attack.

God bless all the victims that day.
 
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