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I was 11 when 9/11 happened and I sat watching horrified at the TV, my dad walked in and asked what film I was watching. His face when I told him it wasn't a film will always stay with me.
 
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I find it crazy when people talk about ug as if it is an historical event like how insee world war two, for me 9/11 doesn't seem that long ago
 
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I was at work when it happened, a customer said about it. Didn’t believe them as you can imagine. Put the radio on and there ir was but it didn’t hit home till I got home n saw it on the tv! My boss as the time In America n a few days before we got a postcard ( remember them lol) sayin they didn’t want to come home! They ended up stayin another week but wasn’t the extra week they wanted!
 
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I was 11 when 9/11 happened and the first time I’d ever encountered any type of terrorism, I remember being petrified and hearing my Mum calling family to see if anyone had heard from
My uncle who lived in NY ( he was fine) absolutely hysterical. I remember school the next day was very sombre
 
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I was working on a holiday park at the time and we seemed to be in our own little bubble there as I didn't find out about it until 3 days later. We didn't use mobiles like we do today and we barely had chance to watch tv. I remember being on my day off eating cheesy beans on toast and wanting to watch a bit of countdown and I thought I was watching a film at first :(
 
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I was 12, sitting with my sis in the car while my mum had nipped into the supermarket to get something before driving us to practice. The radio was on and I didn't know what a World Trade Center was, but the voice of the reporter made it clear that it was really horrible.
My mum came back and I said listen to this and I remember her face, something like disbelief and shock and being afraid. We had practice after (my mum was the coach) and when we drove back home a few hours later we listened to the radio again and I was really scared. My mum said "I hope there won't be a war" and that scared me even more.
i remember school next day, we didn't really have lessons, as it was the topic everyone needed to talk about and the teachers let us and tried to answer questions. They of course had no answers for us really, but I think they realized it was something everyone needed to get out of their system before they could do a regular lesson.

I was supposed to fly to the US with my uncle a few months later and we cancelled as there was also this anthrax stuff going around and a lot of unclarity. We never made that trip in the end.
 
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As I've said before re: actual 9/11 memories:

I may have posted this elsewhere on tattle, but I was in a year 11 biology lesson. Supposedly learning about teeth. Our teacher told us about what was happening / had happened at the start of the lesson, and we were all a bit shook up by it, and not much learning got done. The only specific memories of that lesson are the guy who sat next to me freaking out a bit about WW3 and a guy repeatedly shouting "I bet it was the bleeping Arabs!" (spoilered because it's not that PC), and the only response - from an admittedly lenient teacher - being a half hearted "calm down [name]".
 
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Remember all the weird rumours that went around after 9/11 ? I remember hearing from various people versions of"my mum/neighbour/cousin... was in the shop and a Muslim guy in front of her didn't have enough change so they lent him some and he thanked them and told them not to be in xyz location on xyz date"
 
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Remember all the weird rumours that went around after 9/11 ? I remember hearing from various people versions of"my mum/neighbour/cousin... was in the shop and a Muslim guy in front of her didn't have enough change so they lent him some and he thanked them and told them not to be in xyz location on xyz date"
Yeah that wouldn't fly now 😂 you'd rightly be called racist
 
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I remember the panic that people were going to use crop spraying planes for chemical weapons attacks.
 
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Remember all the weird rumours that went around after 9/11 ? I remember hearing from various people versions of"my mum/neighbour/cousin... was in the shop and a Muslim guy in front of her didn't have enough change so they lent him some and he thanked them and told them not to be in xyz location on xyz date"
Yeah the rumour going around our school was they were planning an attack on Sellafield. I remember everyone being a bit scared of hearing planes for a while after.
 
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I had never been big on flying in anycase but i can honestly say that it affected me in the way that i have only been on 1 return flight since which was not enjoyable because of fear about what had happened and if i even think of going on a plane it starts to make my mind wander so it definitely had a lasting affect on me. Such an awful awful thing to have happened.
 
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I'm not madly keen on flying, but I don't think that's as much to do with 9/11 as it is to a general fear of heights and that it just feels odd.
 
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I was 21 in 2001 and was at home waiting for the university term to start when 9/11 happened. I was watching Neighbours and thought I'd sat on the TV remote when the news flash came on.
 
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I was 21 in 2001 and was at home waiting for the university term to start when 9/11 happened. I was watching Neighbours and thought I'd sat on the TV remote when the news flash came on.
i was 19 in Argos buying pots n pans etc to start uni and i saw it on all the tvs on display- like 15 of them. thought they had a film on 😲
 
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OK I swear I'm not obsessed with Janelle but this came up on my YT mix and I've never seen it before!!.

Points if you owned a skinny scarf, extra points if it was monochrome.



Edit. Dying at the top comment if you can see it.
 
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OK I swear I'm not obsessed with Janelle but this came up on my YT mix and I've never seen it before!!.

Points if you owned a skinny scarf, extra points if it was monochrome.



Edit. Dying at the top comment if you can see it.
I’m guessing you must be a Teen Mom fan? Do you remember when Jenelle told her lawyer she couldn’t do 16 days in jail because she had front row Kesha tickets?! 😂
 
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I’m guessing you must be a Teen Mom fan? Do you remember when Jenelle told her lawyer she couldn’t do 16 days in jail because she had front row Kesha tickets?! 😂
Yes I do !! I thought I had quoted it as a throw back on this thread but just have been another one. We'd all rather go to jail than miss Kesha no ? 😆.
 
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