Elfinsafety - Member
They obviously saw you lot as part of a global terrorist attack...
A bunch of White mainly middle class Trustafarians? I was one of the only Brown people there!Anyway's up. Thousands of innocents died that day. Tomorrow I will spend a moment in contemplation of those lost souls. Their slaughter was utterly disgusting, as is the slaughter of innocents across the globe.
The ...s were instead of a 😉
My remark was tongue in cheek, honestly.
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double post, sorry.
In work - guy came into work ( we call him the dinner-lady because he likes to gossip ) and said a plane had crashed into a skyscraper in USA ... ignored him as usual ...
Got home the wife said plane had crashed. Big news ...
Turned Tv on to see one of the twin towers collapse ... hmmmm
Went to pick boy up from school (rugby training) ... small talk conversation .... muslims were blamed asap .... kinda correct infact.
Friend phoned bit later ... been to warehouse. Couldn`t understand why bunch of ****stanis were kinda celebrating something to do with USA ...
Rest is history I guess...
S'ok Ho hum. I kind of got what you were saying!
Too often, the innocent suffer, while the guilty get away with murder.
Thousands of innocent people. When I watch the footage now, all I see is all those souls being extinguished. Without reason.
Jeeze.
And the ones you saw jumping from the burning building. 80 odd floors up. WTF man. You saw people jumping to their deaths. As though it was TV entertainment.
I'll never ever forget that image. ****.
I was working in RD & E (Exeter) at the time (not a doc or nurse - sorry) as a Porter. Took a patient into a ward, and spotted it on the TV. asked the patient if he would like to see what was happening and together we watched the second plane fly in. I then carried on to take the patient to his bed. Took a break and watched some it in A&E.
I studied the subject at Uni and the next essay we wrote about was designing buildings against terrorist attacks.
I was also in London during the summer of 2005 and was very involved in the response to that incident. I hope and pray that we never have to deal with something like these events again, but unfortunately I think that some people will try again and again...
at a pool bar in Milia, like most people just thought it was a movie trailer.
I was driving between Newport and Cowes on the Isle of Wight, listening to Radio 1 and Mark and Lard announced the first crash.
Got home and sat glued to the TV for the rest of the day.
Saw the second crash live on the BBC.
Madness.
working my notice in newcastle so I spending the days bumming about in IRC channels and it all kicked off. ended up going into the northern electric shop next to our office and watching it on the TV's when the internet died (didn't take long). Was very worried as I knew the brothing-law was in NYC and that he was planning on visiting the WTC that day, turns out he was on the corner of the next block having breakfast at the time....we didn't hear from him till late that night.
the world changed that day....very much for the worse.
Standing over bike at Bathgate bmx track and someone said "have you seen that on the tv.. planes flying into the towers?"
Didnt know much else about it for the next couple of hours then it was all there to be seen on tv when i arrived home.
I was a t work. To be honest I didn't think that much of it. I do have compassion so I thought it was terrible thing but I was much less shocked by it than I am when I see some of the shit that is going off in the Congo / Rwanda or when I've read about incidence that happened by pol pot, or the issues in eastern Europe e.t.c. It just never seem like that big a deal compared to most of the other atrocities that occurred over the previous decade.
I was lying in bed and woke at around 5pm (nightshft)with the radio alarm clock ging off, thinking to myself CIA. Then I woke up a bit and saw the tv, still can't get my head around it.
Spent the next few weeks waiting to get called up, having not long left forces
I was in Toulouse in a meeting at Airbus.
French guy came running into the room talking at a million miles an hour to his French colleagues before one of them translated for us. Went back to the hotel and watched the news (in French), jaw on the floor.
That night met some guys in the restaraunt from Pratt & Whitney who were stuck in Toulouse due to all the flights being grounded. They had family who worked in the WTC and couldn't get in contact.
Scary.
Rob
It just never seem like that big a deal compared to most of the other atrocities that occurred over the previous decade.
I can understand that, and of course it gets more coverage than the conflicts in Rwanda and congo etc. And n no way should it be considered any greater a tragedy; all Human Life is equal.
But it was the instantaneous nature of the destruction; you're watching thousands die when you see those towers collapse. Thousands. That's what will always stand out for me. Utterly sickening.
Was at Alenia Spazio in Turin, 1st week of new job. Think it was a Thursday, flew back to Holland for the weekend, the next day, which was spooky.
Someone on the team, who was surfing rather than working, mentioned a plane crashing in to first tower, and we just assumed it was a Cessna or something... until we saw BBC News24 and CNN that evening in major breaking news loop mode.
But yeah; there are horrific things happening all over the World, and we should all be acutely aware of these atrocities in the same way as we were of 9/11. Too much 'out of sight, out of mind'.
got up off night shift at about 2pm, never moved from the telly untill had to go back to work at 9.45pm
9/11 has no strong meaning to me, maybe a slide show, compared to the more immediate 7/7 bombs, especially considering that my bank (co-op)was in the Angel, Islington.
My personal banker was among those murdered on a bus going to work,
A really nice woman, with a habit of wearing scary blue contact lenses, they really stood out, considering she was a Muslim.
On holiday in Halkidiki, Greece.
it didn't seem real or even imaginable that people would do such a thing.
The plane home was Ok as most folk had got the message from the papers / holiday rep regarding all the no scissors in your hand luggage rules etc.
The whole affair seems even stranger if you read "The New Pearl Harbor" by David Ray Griffin.
It was an event waiting to happen on the soils of the arguably the largest terrorist country in the world.
You're a c0ck
Where has mastiles_fanylion gone?
Went to bed and judging by your post, it was past your bedtime too...
Sat in front of a balance, divvying up 1kg of 100% pure, weapons-grade cocaine into smaller portions.
I'd found out that my dad had a terminal brain tumour three days earlier, so wasn't in the best of spirits. When my wife rang me at work and told me a plane had flown into the side of the world trade centre and that it was a terrorist attack, my first thought was that flying a light aircraft into the side of such a huge building was a rather odd way to make a point.
I can remember the sinking feeling I had when I realised what had actually happened - partly for the poor people in the planes and buildings, and partly (and selfishly) for the fact that the huge grief that I and my family were feeling had been so comprehensively overshadowed (or put into perspective, as I later felt).
Having our 2nd wedding anniversary while stuck in a hotel in Norwich 200 miles from the missus!
Watching it unfold on TV at home. I had the day off to pack ready for our flight on September 12th to...America. Needless to say, that didn't happen!
Very weird day for me
Started by dropping someone off at work a prison which was a little odd, then as I was driving back an old guy on a bike hit a pothole and went over the bars in front of me - landed on his head and was bleeding pretty badly out of his ear. Didn't look good.
I stopped to help, call an ambulance etc - there was a woman who also stopped who went over the road to get a towel to try and stop the bleeding, and as she was crossing the road got run over by a car.
Came home and the news was on - at that point they thought it was probably an accident as only the first plane had hit, but then the second plane hit.
Really ****ed up day.
edit: I know this sounds awful - but it was probably one of the most amazing, if not the most amazing thing on TV I've ever seen - and I don't mean that as in celebrating it.
I was at work in San Francisco, got sent home from work as there were fears the golden gate bridge, BART or the financial district could also be targets!! Pretty scary stuff.
heard about it at 5.30 am on the radio as me and 3 mates were off for a couple of days snowboarding, the cheery morning "crew" were clearly shaken and apologised for not being able to make anyone laugh as they were so freaked out, initial reports estimated 35,000 deaths so i figured i'd better get a good day in on the slopes as the northern hemisphere was probbly gonna be toast by the end of the day. realy didn't feel like I should have been frivoulously enjoying myself as thousands met an awful death.
I was a student so watched the whole thing on rolling news. Remember thinking what a terrible accident but then when the second plane hit it all came into focus and it was obviously a terrorist attack. I'll never forget the sick feeling in my stomach as I considered who the chimp in charge of Americas big red nuclear button was! I genuinely feared I was witnessing the beginning of the end of the world. Maybe it was.
In Amsterdam with my then girlfriend.
The girl behind the counter in Global Chillage told us about it, but we were pretty far gone and didn't really take it in. I think she thought we were Americans because my girlfriend was wearing an LA Lakers tee shirt.
Watched the footage on Sky News at the hotel, then went and watched an American comedy troupe. Discussed the events with a nice Irish couple who were sat beside us.
Was at work when guy I work with walked in saying he'd heard on his car radio about a plane hitting the twin towers. Thought it was a light aircraft or something. Looked online just as they said another one hit. Knew right away it wasn't no accident. Stood in the boardroom with the rest of the office in complete silence watching it all on the news for hours. Plus I'd been standing underneath the towers about 3 weeks previous.
house sale had fallen through that morning so on a bit of a downer,went to the beach with my wife and daughter
to lift our spirits met a guy in the car park on our way home who mentioned he'd heard on the news about a plane crashing into the twin towers like a few people before i assumed it was a light aircraft accident,got home flicked on the TV couldn't believe what i was seeing sat up all night watching it on CNN
i'll spare a thought for those who lost there lives that day
Receiving text messages from Mrs North scared stiff for her father.
Her father was in working in New York that day. He had flow down from Boston the day before and had been working in the World Trade Centre on 10th september.
Lucky man, though he's completely sanguine about it.
(He and four other colleagues from the UK then tried to leave the USA. Somone suggested splitting up. He told them that was foolish, not least because one coleague was a Muslim with a big beard....)
Camping in St Davids, Pembrokeshire.
Listened to the coverage on Radio 5 and then stood in the Farmers Arms gawping at the TV for a couple of hours.
The most vivid memory were the pictures on the fronts of the papers on 12th though.
Nearly as vivid as when I heard about the Dunblane massacre.
I was at a hotel in Heathrow. Specialized were having a dealer roadshow at this hotel, in a load of big basement rooms. Bike shop staff from all over that area went to the hotel and had a look at the shiny 2002 bikes due into their shops, few informal presentations etc. Anyway, about lunchtime I headed off with a journalist mate I'd met there, got a lift back into London with him. We were listening to some cassette he had on then it finished and on the news was Tony Blair speaking to the Teachers Union and saying that "in light of these terrible happenings I obviously can't give my speech..." We were screaming "WHAT'S HAPPENED?!" at the radio and it was AGES before it was announced that a plane had hit the WTC. Even then I was thinking Cessna or similar and wondering why TB would cancel a speech for that. Facts were still really scarce, no-one knew anything so the channels were jammed with speculation.
He dropped me off at Waterloo and I got the bus home, turned the TV on in time to see the first tower fall. Just sat there in complete disbelief.
Edit: a uni friend of mine had flown out of NY on the same flight the previous day! 😯
I was driving to H&J wholesalers in Manchester, and heard it on the radio that the first plane hit. Bought some stuff, came back to Tod, picked son up from childminders, after the 2nd plane had hit.
Got home, son wanted to watch "Bear in the Big Blue House" on the video, and at the time we only had one telly!
Incredibly, the day after I got an email from a New York based Planet X customer who was "very dissapointed" that the head tube badge had fallen off his Planet X Zebdi Trials frame.
I was riding on Exmoor, only heard the news back at the campsite that evening then saw a few pictures on the tv with no sound in the pub later on that day.
i was at work and the only thought, took a while to happen but it was inevitable, the attitude of the US meant it would happen eventually.
NExt day went to london via heathrow on the coach, the number of fully kitted police, thought the **** has happened bit late to start worrying about it.
A friend of ours was in NY and was watching it unfold out of her office window 😮
I was on the 8th floor in 30 South Colonnade at Canary Wharf in meeting that'd lasted 2 hours. Came out and all the laptops were showing one of the towers on fire and people were just standing around looking at them. Asked what was going on and one of the guys told me what was going on. Just then they started to empty One Canada Square and there was talk of another plane coming into London. I had to pick something up at South Kensington so set off although there were increasing disruptions. When I went back to South Ken to head back to Chiswick the Tube network had shut down and there were huge queues for buses so I walked back to Hammersmith and managed to get a bus there.
Looking at houses with my GF, walked into one, the TV was on and we went home. Saw the second on TV as it happened, rest of the day in shock.
Much as everyone else, I remember watching it in silence and disbelief - to be frank, and I know it sounds stupid, at first I thought it was a film, couldnt get my head round the fact it was real. I found out a week or so later that an old school friend had died in the attack. Just a sad and tragic loss of life. For those of you who have inferred they had it coming, bear in mind that the victims of the attack were just people going about their daily routines, people like you and me in fact. Youre free to disagree with American foriegn policy, of course, but for God's sake, spare a thought for the people that died that day - they are not the ones that 'had it coming'.
Been out shopping with gift vouchers from our wedding, came home to phone ringing it was a friend telling us to turn the TV on. I asked what chanbel, he said it doesn't matter.
First plane had just hit and then I watched for the rest of the day. We should have been there for out honeymoon but couldn't afford to go after the dog got ran over.
barnsleymitch, my opinion is not about the people who died which is a tragedy. The point is that something like this was IMO inevitable. In the same way as many british and irish citizens have died in the troubles, the individuals may have been innocent but the actions of those in power led to their deaths.
Like any war those in positions of power play games with the lives of others.
I was at work and was told a light airplane had hit the twin towers...
slight surprise when I actually saw the footage!!!! totally gob smacked....
Makes you feel a shamed to be a human sometimes and what we do to one another 🙁
I was working in Telecomms and found out when we were getting customers calling us panicking that they couldn't get through to friends in NY
Does anyone remember what they were doing on the 9th of November? 😛
