9-11 9 years on next week
04-09-2010, 06:41 PM
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9-11 9 years on next week
Just watch 9/11 102 minutes that changed America and bringing back memories of finishing a 6-2 shift at Scania and going for a few pints with some then work collegaues to celebrate one of there birthdays and watching this all un fold on TV
Where were you at the time ???
Where were you at the time ???
04-09-2010, 07:03 PM
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At work, when some weegie delivery guy walked into the warehouse and said he thought the world was going mental cause someone was flying planes into the WTC. Always remember getting a load of calls and texts asking if I'd heard about what had happened and one of my friends recorded various news footage and a couple of us went round to watch it 'unfold' as we had missed it through working.
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04-09-2010, 07:15 PM
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I was working in a call centre and I've never heard the phones go that quiet. We had to find out what we could on the Internet as we had no tv.
Added: I told my 10 year old to put that programme on channel 4 on and had to explain to him what happened, etc as he was only 1 when this happened.
Added: I told my 10 year old to put that programme on channel 4 on and had to explain to him what happened, etc as he was only 1 when this happened.
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04-09-2010, 08:05 PM
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was a student at the time, was havng a bit of a fumble with the missus - switched the box on after it and found out about it - was late back to college and was the one that broke it to the teacher as the reason we were late to class - which he didnt believe until the next person came in who was also late!
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04-09-2010, 08:52 PM
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Was working on the drive on my RS turbo listening to Radio 1 when all of a sudden Chris Moyles (who was on the afternoon then) got all serious and the program was taken over by news bulletins about it.
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04-09-2010, 09:21 PM
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everyone should watch that programme every time its own, reminds you what happened
if the same could be done with WW2 and things like that maybe 1 day humans will learn to stop being such dicks
if the same could be done with WW2 and things like that maybe 1 day humans will learn to stop being such dicks
04-09-2010, 09:27 PM
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i remember it like it was yesterday,i was unemployed at the time and having an afternoon nap at the time when i woke up too what i thot was a film on tv until i tried too change the chanell and every chanel was the same and then it dawned on me that it was actually happening.
04-09-2010, 09:30 PM
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When first plane hit I was at the foot of the first tower ready to go and have breakfast in the revolving restaurant at the top.
Was a truely horrifying and scary time, but the warmth of the americans was immense.
Still have thoughts and dreams of it to this day, will never forget what I saw that day.
The emergency services were all heroes, all the restaurants let them eat for free as they all worked non stop for days, not even going home, just wanted to continue to help.
Will stay with me forever.
04-09-2010, 11:28 PM
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was at work on my apprenticeship. i member listening to radio 1 an like been said the news came on. the house we was working on had a tele in the kitchen took me an hour to make 4 cups of tea. by the time id made it we where all stood in the kitchen watching it unfold. ill never forget it i don't think as the atmosphere changed as my gaffers wife was in new york for 3 days as she was an air hostess an was on bout visiting the towers. but lucky they had not left an was still at the hotel but he couldn't get hold of here for hours. One of the only times id seen him almost in tears. Was a sad day 
05-09-2010, 01:34 AM
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I was on a landing craft on HMS FEARLESS about to go on an exercise with turkish marines in turkey. We heard what was going on, then got given the go ahead and carried on. Didnt see any of the TV footage for another few weeks until i had left the ship. Listened to bits on the radio on the LCVP though.
was wierd seeing the photos in papers in following weeks and eventually on tv. Didnt seem that real.
what were you upto in iraq then?? hang over from the bombings and action earlier in the year to take out the air defences???
was wierd seeing the photos in papers in following weeks and eventually on tv. Didnt seem that real.
what were you upto in iraq then?? hang over from the bombings and action earlier in the year to take out the air defences???
05-09-2010, 01:41 AM
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I was on a landing craft on HMS FEARLESS about to go on an exercise with turkish marines in turkey. We heard what was going on, then got given the go ahead and carried on. Didnt see any of the TV footage for another few weeks until i had left the ship. Listened to bits on the radio on the LCVP though.
was wierd seeing the photos in papers in following weeks and eventually on tv. Didnt seem that real.
what were you upto in iraq then?? hang over from the bombings and action earlier in the year to take out the air defences???
was wierd seeing the photos in papers in following weeks and eventually on tv. Didnt seem that real.
what were you upto in iraq then?? hang over from the bombings and action earlier in the year to take out the air defences???
05-09-2010, 09:21 AM
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i was in primary school and couldnt understand why it happend at 9am when it was like 4pm here. (thats how young i was lol) i did work with an american who was there at the time and when i asked what was it like.... he simply said; "it was quite a day"
06-09-2010, 09:43 AM
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They started to evacuate.... and were told to go BACK to their desks!!! 
Thankfully almost everyone ignored this and my company only lost one person that day.
we did however loose ALL of our systems. Everything we had was in tower 1... and all the back up systems were in Tower 2! That now seems kind of a silly thing to do now in hindsight. BUT no one EVER EVER thought anything like this would ever happen!
Thankfully almost everyone ignored this and my company only lost one person that day.
we did however loose ALL of our systems. Everything we had was in tower 1... and all the back up systems were in Tower 2! That now seems kind of a silly thing to do now in hindsight. BUT no one EVER EVER thought anything like this would ever happen!
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I was on a landing craft on HMS FEARLESS about to go on an exercise with turkish marines in turkey. We heard what was going on, then got given the go ahead and carried on. Didnt see any of the TV footage for another few weeks until i had left the ship. Listened to bits on the radio on the LCVP though.
was wierd seeing the photos in papers in following weeks and eventually on tv. Didnt seem that real.
what were you upto in iraq then?? hang over from the bombings and action earlier in the year to take out the air defences???
was wierd seeing the photos in papers in following weeks and eventually on tv. Didnt seem that real.
what were you upto in iraq then?? hang over from the bombings and action earlier in the year to take out the air defences???
06-09-2010, 10:16 AM
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I was 16 and sat and home waiting to hear when I could start college. Had just watched the 1 o'clock news and was waiting for Neighbours to start when it unfolded on TV. Saw the 2nd plane go through the tower live on BBC1. Unreal day. Also, as cheesey as it sounds the world has been the same since.
06-09-2010, 10:21 AM
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Quite simply, I was there...no bull, was there on holiday for a week, got stuck there for 3 weeks.
When first plane hit I was at the foot of the first tower ready to go and have breakfast in the revolving restaurant at the top.
Was a truely horrifying and scary time, but the warmth of the americans was immense.
Still have thoughts and dreams of it to this day, will never forget what I saw that day.
The emergency services were all heroes, all the restaurants let them eat for free as they all worked non stop for days, not even going home, just wanted to continue to help.
Will stay with me forever.
When first plane hit I was at the foot of the first tower ready to go and have breakfast in the revolving restaurant at the top.
Was a truely horrifying and scary time, but the warmth of the americans was immense.
Still have thoughts and dreams of it to this day, will never forget what I saw that day.
The emergency services were all heroes, all the restaurants let them eat for free as they all worked non stop for days, not even going home, just wanted to continue to help.
Will stay with me forever.
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We lost 90% of our workforce collegues!
We have a charity day every year on 9/11, all our comms for the day go to the familes of the workers that died
06-09-2010, 10:32 AM
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I had just finished playing footy, came home to watch neighbours (some fit birds in it back then 
) just missed the first plane going in, but clocked the second.
We will never know the truth behind it, which is very sad.
) just missed the first plane going in, but clocked the second. We will never know the truth behind it, which is very sad.
06-09-2010, 11:06 AM
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Just remember seeing it on the news & thinking holy fuck! very sad r.i.p. I have been to the twin towers site 3 times each time a year apart the work they are doing there is fantastic although when your standing there looking at it , its hard to take in what actually happened that day the size of the place isnt that big for the height of the towers it amazes me how they stood up without planes hitting them.
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I was working in a customer facing car insurance office so no internet, no mobile phones on, no radio etc, a customer (a famous sports person who's name completely escapes me now) walked in the office and said 'you won't believe this, two planes have just flown into the twin towers in new york'! Obviously we had absolutely no idea so as he was explaining it we all just sat there completely dumbfounded! Still blows my mind when you see the footage of it happening. All those people on the planes dying as fast as you can click your fingers. Madness.
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