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It was my first day at college and it was a teambuilding day at the beach building sandcastles. I remember it being very quiet out as i walked home and my mum saying that NY has been bombed. I was like wth?
I cant recall what I was doing during the 7/7 attack but I was actually on the tube when the London Bridge attack happened, we had just finished watching Phantom Of The Opera and we heard the message on the tube about a police presence at London Bridge and got into the pub to google what had happened and were gobsmacked.
I cant recall what I was doing during the 7/7 attack but I was actually on the tube when the London Bridge attack happened, we had just finished watching Phantom Of The Opera and we heard the message on the tube about a police presence at London Bridge and got into the pub to google what had happened and were gobsmacked.
I was 9 so too young to understand. I just remember going to my friends after school with my mum and my brother and being annoyed that CBBC/CITV wasn’t on because the news was on every channel.
In all honesty it’s only in the last few years that I’ve been able to comprehend the severity of it. Now I just cry when I think about it too much - I think it’s the fact that so many people in the towers and on the plane knew they were about to die and knew they couldn’t do anything about it. It’s for sure my worst fear.
We went to New York about 2 years after but my parents didn’t feel it was right to visit Ground Zero. I would go if I went now though but I know I’d just bawl the whole time.
I want to watch the documentaries but I don’t think I can
In all honesty it’s only in the last few years that I’ve been able to comprehend the severity of it. Now I just cry when I think about it too much - I think it’s the fact that so many people in the towers and on the plane knew they were about to die and knew they couldn’t do anything about it. It’s for sure my worst fear.
We went to New York about 2 years after but my parents didn’t feel it was right to visit Ground Zero. I would go if I went now though but I know I’d just bawl the whole time.
I want to watch the documentaries but I don’t think I can
I was 8. I can't remember much of the day but I do remember my mum picking us up from school and every kid just going home early. Its the first time I saw my mum and dad as anything but invincible and the first time I realised they got "sad" too if that makes sense..
I've been to New York twice, once in 2010 and once in 2014. When I went in 2010, Ground 0 was still very much a building site, they had started building Freedom Tower and the reflection pools. You could just see how 9/11 was still etched into every New Yorker though. You could see the pain on their faces.
In 2015, it was a must to visit on my list. I just remember the museum and just the unspoken respect everyone had in there. No one spoke. No kids messed about and it was very sombre. The fact it is built in the foundations of the towers just broke me..
When I saw the reflection pools, that is when it hit me of the magnitude of what had been lost. On the TV, you never really figured out how big they were, how many people were in there and just how important they were to New York. Seeing them gone and just the imprint on the floor was heartbreaking.
Both myself and my partner left sobbing.
I've been to New York twice, once in 2010 and once in 2014. When I went in 2010, Ground 0 was still very much a building site, they had started building Freedom Tower and the reflection pools. You could just see how 9/11 was still etched into every New Yorker though. You could see the pain on their faces.
In 2015, it was a must to visit on my list. I just remember the museum and just the unspoken respect everyone had in there. No one spoke. No kids messed about and it was very sombre. The fact it is built in the foundations of the towers just broke me..
When I saw the reflection pools, that is when it hit me of the magnitude of what had been lost. On the TV, you never really figured out how big they were, how many people were in there and just how important they were to New York. Seeing them gone and just the imprint on the floor was heartbreaking.
Both myself and my partner left sobbing.
Started watching the national geographic 6 parter last night on suggestion from this thread. It is really good.
I was on holidays in the West of Ireland and I was in the local shop. I overheard the elderly man, in front of me at the counter, telling the shop assistant that a plane had crashed into a skyscraper in New York. I remember thinking that it must be a small plane, for some reason.
Got back to the holiday cottage and put the telly on, and was so shocked to see what had happened, we stayed in watching it the rest of the day.
A couple of years later, I was temping in an insurance company and they were telling me how they had had an office in one of the towers and had colleagues, who they had dealt with on a daily basis, who had died.
Got back to the holiday cottage and put the telly on, and was so shocked to see what had happened, we stayed in watching it the rest of the day.
A couple of years later, I was temping in an insurance company and they were telling me how they had had an office in one of the towers and had colleagues, who they had dealt with on a daily basis, who had died.
I was 9 aswell (I think!) I remember coming home from school and my Dad was watching it on the tv and like you said I didn’t understand how serious it was until many years later. I’m currently watching the 9/11 documentary now on itv, it’s a hard watch because you’re seeing real videos from people in the area at the time. It’s scary to watch it, everyone in New York at that time must of been terrified!I was 9 so too young to understand. I just remember going to my friends after school with my mum and my brother and being annoyed that CBBC/CITV wasn’t on because the news was on every channel.
In all honesty it’s only in the last few years that I’ve been able to comprehend the severity of it. Now I just cry when I think about it too much - I think it’s the fact that so many people in the towers and on the plane knew they were about to die and knew they couldn’t do anything about it. It’s for sure my worst fear.
We went to New York about 2 years after but my parents didn’t feel it was right to visit Ground Zero. I would go if I went now though but I know I’d just bawl the whole time.
I want to watch the documentaries but I don’t think I can
What's it called please?
One day in America
I remember it being the first time I was aware of terrorism originating from the middle east. Growing up in the 1980s and 90s I was familiar with terrorism linked to the IRA. I had never even heard of al-Qaeda and bin-Laden I was surprised watching the 102 minutes documentary to hear people in the streets that day suggesting they were responsible.
I was in year 9 at school I stayed behind to use the computers and a teacher came in asking someone to get the news up. At first I thought she said a plane has crashed into the worlds trains centre and remember thinking what’s that! When I got home I put sky news on and I will never forget what I saw so heart breaking. for me princess Diana’s death and 911 where the biggest things in my childhood that i remember
Yes! And the guy saying he thought America should just go to the country and bomb them all. I was 21 at the time and don’t think I had any clue about terrorism then.
We watched ‘102 Minutes That Changed America’ tonight, I’ve seen it before but my husband hadn’t. Listening to the 911 operators - they didn’t play the voices of the callers but they kept telling people to sit tight, don’t move, the fire fighters are there…obviously we’ve got the benefit of seeing the full picture all pieced together but it must have been so awful for the call handlers too. But those poor, poor people trapped in the towers
I have to say the documentary on ITV using the footage filmed by ordinary folk was interesting from a cultural perspective. In 2001 there were a number of people filming their day watching the towers, the news, phoning friends, walking through the dusty streets. They were pretty much filming themselves screaming and panicking with their camcorder.
Nowadays we know people would probably do similar with their smartphones but back in 2001 why would you film yourself freaking out watching the towers fall 6 blocks away...and keep the footage for20 years? Must be an American thing.
Nowadays we know people would probably do similar with their smartphones but back in 2001 why would you film yourself freaking out watching the towers fall 6 blocks away...and keep the footage for20 years? Must be an American thing.
I was 23 and was at work. It sort of filtered through that something had happened in New York but we couldn't get onto the Internet to check as it was just frozen. Wasn't until I got home later on and put the TV on that I realised the full horror of it all. I had been to New York 2 years before, I've got loads of stupid pictures of me and my friends on the roof of the WTC and it's in the background of so many of my other pictures. I haven't been back since then but I would find it incredibly upsetting to visit ground zero if people weren't respectful.
I've watched numerous documentaries on it over the years and I still can't get over the view of that second plane coming in. Then the collapse of the towers was just awful. When you hear recordings from the emergency services telling people to stay where they were as they would get rescued and then obviously that wasn't the case. It seems unfathomable that they collapsed like that.
I've watched numerous documentaries on it over the years and I still can't get over the view of that second plane coming in. Then the collapse of the towers was just awful. When you hear recordings from the emergency services telling people to stay where they were as they would get rescued and then obviously that wasn't the case. It seems unfathomable that they collapsed like that.
I work with someone in her early 20s. The other day she said she watched the footage of the plane hitting the tower for the first time ever! She has led a very sheltered life but this literally blew my mind. I’m in my early 30s and that day is engrained on my brain. I’ve seen the footage hundreds of times, the images of the plane hitting the building and of the falling man will forever be with me. The world completely changed that day.
I had just turned 5 but I can remember being at my grandparents house and my grandpa was watching some sports when suddenly the tv cut to live news and all the adults gasped and rushed to the tv.
Took me a good few years before I realized what happened … probably not fully until I went to study in the US for a year and I saw all the news stories, memorials, school assembly etc. on 9/11. It‘s a surreal experience to have a whole town / state / country be united in grieve.
Took me a good few years before I realized what happened … probably not fully until I went to study in the US for a year and I saw all the news stories, memorials, school assembly etc. on 9/11. It‘s a surreal experience to have a whole town / state / country be united in grieve.
I was at school and a boy ran through the corridor shouting ‘someone’s crashed into the twin towers!’. My friend had one of those tiny Nokia’s with WAP (8210 maybe?) and so we turned that on and waited for it to load for what felt like ages. The teachers were all very worried. I then walked to my dads office where every phone conversation he had seemed to be about the planes. I didn’t actually see the footage til I got home after that.
I was 13 and just got home from school and went to the supermarket with my mother. We also wanted to go to the drugstore. When we entered the store we saw someone that worked there watching a small television and she was shocked and almost crying. We watched with her and saw that had happened.
I worked in a small office just outside of London with other offices in Italy and Belgium and we only had dial up Internet at the time. My mum called to see if I'd heard the news and at the same time someone in a neighbouring office came rushing in saying we needed to go online and look what's happened. After that all I remember is it taking an age to get online and then the 3 of us crowding round watching it like a movie. We also had people ringing us from Italy and Belgium saying are we OK in London as they had heard planes were on their way to there. It was just all so sad, I also remember being in a daze for the rest of the day after work thinking how can these evil people do this 