I was 9, we went to see a friend of my mum who had just had a baby. It was on the news and I didnt think it was real but then the adults were talking about it so I realised that maybe it was. Definitely didn’t understand the gravity of it though, until many years later.
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I’d taken the kids to nursery and we walked back (we stood an watched ants moving their eggs on a wall)
we got in,took coats and shoes etc off and I made lunch
they where sat scoffing it while I turned the tv on to watch crossroads-only that had been cancelled and every channel was showing a blue sky line (at this point I’d never heard of the twin towers)
I knew something had happened-just didn’t know what
it started to trickle through over the next few hours/days-that picture of the unknown man gets me everytime
he went to work-having a family who loved him,a name,ni number,a job,a life,hobbies etc and by the end of the day he was known as ‘the unknown man’
I remember my dad came round later that day and he caught me watching the news
ill never forget him,shaking his head and saying ‘terrorists and freedom fighters are the same,it just depends on your point of view’
we got in,took coats and shoes etc off and I made lunch
they where sat scoffing it while I turned the tv on to watch crossroads-only that had been cancelled and every channel was showing a blue sky line (at this point I’d never heard of the twin towers)
I knew something had happened-just didn’t know what
it started to trickle through over the next few hours/days-that picture of the unknown man gets me everytime
he went to work-having a family who loved him,a name,ni number,a job,a life,hobbies etc and by the end of the day he was known as ‘the unknown man’
I remember my dad came round later that day and he caught me watching the news
ill never forget him,shaking his head and saying ‘terrorists and freedom fighters are the same,it just depends on your point of view’
We had just moved to a new city and had taken temporary jobs in a call centre whilst job hunting. People came back to the office from their lunch breaks and we’re saying what they had heard. The owner of the company said to us all, it doesn’t effect us it’s the other side of the world, so you need to get on with your work. What absolute holes they were.
I was off sick from school, I remember seeing it on TV and just being in complete shock. It still haunts me to this day, it's just so tragic.
I've been to Ground Zero and it's such a beautiful memorial, but also very eerie when you are there. Feels surreal.
I've been to Ground Zero and it's such a beautiful memorial, but also very eerie when you are there. Feels surreal.
I was in Spain on a family holiday. I was only about 7 at the time. Me and my sister both and white T-shirt’s with sequins on. My sequins were shaped like a heart of the American flag, hers the same but shaped like a star.
We had lots of Spanish people coming up to us trying to ask questions and say sorry.. took my parents hours to figure out what was actually happening and then explain that we’re not actually American.
We were on holiday again during the 7/7 bombings. From then on my parents were always paranoid to go on holiday as a family incase something bad happened
We had lots of Spanish people coming up to us trying to ask questions and say sorry.. took my parents hours to figure out what was actually happening and then explain that we’re not actually American.
We were on holiday again during the 7/7 bombings. From then on my parents were always paranoid to go on holiday as a family incase something bad happened
I’d just started year 7 and after school my neighbour and I were watching something, which must have been on video thinking back as all the channels would have been showing the news? My mum came running in from work and changed over to the news, this would have been around 4pm UK time so both towers had already fallen. I remember watching the footage of people falling and jumping that wasn’t shown later out of respect and because it was so horrific to see.
Every year I watch every documentary I can find on the topic, it’s so devastating thinking about all those lives lost and the impact it had on so many other people. New York is a wonderful city and every time I visit I go to pay my respects at the memorial, I think it’s hard to understand the scope and size of it until you stand there.
Every year I watch every documentary I can find on the topic, it’s so devastating thinking about all those lives lost and the impact it had on so many other people. New York is a wonderful city and every time I visit I go to pay my respects at the memorial, I think it’s hard to understand the scope and size of it until you stand there.
High school, art class. My teacher came to our desk and told us. I think through utter shock, she just had to say something. I really didn't understand the scale of it until I got home and saw my dad's face as he watched the news. He'd rushed home if I remember right.
Seeing people being forced out of the windows is something I'll never forget.
Seeing people being forced out of the windows is something I'll never forget.
I was yr 8 or 9 and didn’t really know much about it.
Went home, headed up to my football training and then off to my grandads before getting a lift home.....didn’t hear anything apart from my grandad waffling about a plane hitting a building in America. Just was like ‘oh ok’ and carried on up the stairs to sneak a fag out the bathroom window
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The next day at school everyone was taking about it and spent literally the whole day discussing it and watching the news etc. It’s only really a few years later that I really got the magnitude of what happened. Like I saw it in the news but it didn’t seem real in a sense....I knew it had happened but never grasped the fact that these two massive buildings had massive planes driven into them.
Went home, headed up to my football training and then off to my grandads before getting a lift home.....didn’t hear anything apart from my grandad waffling about a plane hitting a building in America. Just was like ‘oh ok’ and carried on up the stairs to sneak a fag out the bathroom window
.The next day at school everyone was taking about it and spent literally the whole day discussing it and watching the news etc. It’s only really a few years later that I really got the magnitude of what happened. Like I saw it in the news but it didn’t seem real in a sense....I knew it had happened but never grasped the fact that these two massive buildings had massive planes driven into them.
I have tried so hard to, but for the life of me can't remember anything the day the towers were hit. I was only 9 and didn't really grasp what had happened or why. My only memory is watching TV coverage the next morning in my mum's bedroom and my mum telling me "thousands of people have died."
As other people have said, being that young I really didn't understand the impact of it until I was a bit older. As a child growing up in England I always felt very detached from the US as it seemed like a fictional place I only saw on TV. I have since visited Ground Zero when it was being constructed in 2008, I think that gave it more gravitas for me as young teen. I've never really followed it closely as it's just too upsetting to watch.
Have a very vague memory from around the time Diana died as I was only 5, my sister was 2 months old and we were in a static in Scotland.
I still remember the day my mum woke me up to tell me that MJ had died.
I cried my eyes out the morning I found out about the Manchester bombing. My sister was living in Manchester at the time and had almost gone to that show. As a Northerner it felt very close to home.
I was sat in the break area at work with my friends when the Grenfell fire broke - we were just watching the TV horrified.
And one from this year that I feel will stay with me for years to come is the day our entire office got called into an emergency meeting to be told we were all being sent home and put on furlough with immediate effect due to Covid. That was the moment it really hit me and it was a harrowing meeting.
As other people have said, being that young I really didn't understand the impact of it until I was a bit older. As a child growing up in England I always felt very detached from the US as it seemed like a fictional place I only saw on TV. I have since visited Ground Zero when it was being constructed in 2008, I think that gave it more gravitas for me as young teen. I've never really followed it closely as it's just too upsetting to watch.
Have a very vague memory from around the time Diana died as I was only 5, my sister was 2 months old and we were in a static in Scotland.
I still remember the day my mum woke me up to tell me that MJ had died.
I cried my eyes out the morning I found out about the Manchester bombing. My sister was living in Manchester at the time and had almost gone to that show. As a Northerner it felt very close to home.
I was sat in the break area at work with my friends when the Grenfell fire broke - we were just watching the TV horrified.
And one from this year that I feel will stay with me for years to come is the day our entire office got called into an emergency meeting to be told we were all being sent home and put on furlough with immediate effect due to Covid. That was the moment it really hit me and it was a harrowing meeting.
I was in an interview to join the ambulance service. As I drove home (from the next county) all the radio stations were talking about it, but I didn't really comprehend how serious it was, as I didn't know what the twin towers were. It was only when I got home and saw it on the tv, that I realised.
For Dianne I was only 7. I remember coming down in the morning and my mum telling me she was dead and that’s why there was no cbbc/citv that morning(strange take away but as I said I was 7)
9/11
First week of year 7. I’d come home and got ready for my dad to drive me to my dance lesson. I hadn't put the tv on (as was my usual routine on days I didn’t dance) because it was a quick turnaround from getting home to leaving again. I vividly remember him and my mum talking about it in the kitchen saying how awful it was. I asked and then they said to put the news on. I can’t really remember my emotions at the time but for the next few days at school we discussed it and had a 2 min silence.
7/7 is the first terror attack i watched unfold live... It was the last week or two of term and we had a computer room lesson. Google was blocked so the default search was yahoo. It was the headline news item spent the rest of the lesson not doing a whole lot. I think the teacher put bbc news on the overhead projector and we just watched the whole thing . I spent the day feeling just numb.
9/11
First week of year 7. I’d come home and got ready for my dad to drive me to my dance lesson. I hadn't put the tv on (as was my usual routine on days I didn’t dance) because it was a quick turnaround from getting home to leaving again. I vividly remember him and my mum talking about it in the kitchen saying how awful it was. I asked and then they said to put the news on. I can’t really remember my emotions at the time but for the next few days at school we discussed it and had a 2 min silence.
7/7 is the first terror attack i watched unfold live... It was the last week or two of term and we had a computer room lesson. Google was blocked so the default search was yahoo. It was the headline news item spent the rest of the lesson not doing a whole lot. I think the teacher put bbc news on the overhead projector and we just watched the whole thing . I spent the day feeling just numb.
911 - I was in Year 12 Media Studies class so you bet the teacher grabbed a TV and wheeled it in. Absolutely shocking, it didn’t feel real at all.
And Diana death I was 12 and it was(is) my mums birthday.
And Diana death I was 12 and it was(is) my mums birthday.
I was 18 years old the next day (my bday is the 12th). I had actually been released from mental hospital after I was sectioned for 6 months for hearing voices and trying to kill myself the same week. I was in a crappy hostel room, it was very clinical and I was laying in bed listening to the radio. I didnt really know what the twin towers were TBH and didnt pay no heed, then when I put on the telly to try and see where they were on about because it seemed to be monopolising the talk radio stations, I was very shocked!!
9/11 - I was 8 and in primary school, I remember my mum was late picking me up and me being pissy because I was going to miss Pokemon on TV. She told me I wouldn’t be watching it, but the news instead. We got home just in time to see the first tower fall, I didn’t know what the WTC was then but I couldn’t stop watching the footage and I was allowed to stay up late to watch the 10pm news. We had a big assembly about it the next morning at school. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit the memorial twice, and have walking tours with people associated with that terrible day - the former head of security at the WTC, a first responder who lost both of his firefighter nephews and a retired NYPD Officer.
7/7 - happened the day before we were due to go on holiday via the Eurostar and I was scared of going into London. Usually we get the tube but my dad insisted we get a cab and we went past the street where the London bus was bombed and I still remember the picture of it in the papers.
Manchester bombing - I was in bed scrolling through Twitter when the news broke, I couldn’t sleep so followed it as it all began to unfold and discovered I knew some people who had been there. My partner worked nights in a hotel at the time and I messaged him saying to turn on the news.
7/7 - happened the day before we were due to go on holiday via the Eurostar and I was scared of going into London. Usually we get the tube but my dad insisted we get a cab and we went past the street where the London bus was bombed and I still remember the picture of it in the papers.
Manchester bombing - I was in bed scrolling through Twitter when the news broke, I couldn’t sleep so followed it as it all began to unfold and discovered I knew some people who had been there. My partner worked nights in a hotel at the time and I messaged him saying to turn on the news.