9/11 Where were you?

Watched events unfold on a TV in a Tokyo hotel room at about 3am Tokyo time. Could not sleep as body had not adjusted to time differences. Terrifying to watch. Especially as I was to fly home the following afternoon.

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A few miles out mackerel fishing until my wife phoned and told me what was happening. Swiftly returned to get back home.

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Listening to Steve Wright while at work, thinking at first it was just a light place and an accident. Then home to the horrific images on TV.

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In the office at home until a phonecall from one of the stepkids in the USA said turn on the TV. SWMBO's sister and her husband both work in the Pentagon, she saw the plane hit as she turned into the car park, he was off site that day, both lost friends and colleagues and it took hours to get through and find out they were OK.

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Working in the Cunard Buildings on the Liverpool waterfront. Our IT gopher got a text message about it and switched on the radio. Like everyone else it seemed like a dream or a re-run of the War of the Worlds radio play for several hours.

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Working in Limerick, finished and then went and sat in Shannon Airport hoping to get back to Stansted. I admit to mixed feelings, one of disbelief and one of I hope I can get home.
I lent my mobile to 2 American ladies that were beside themself with worry as one had a reletive that worked in the WTC. They later emailed me to say all was OK.

BTW
On that day due to a mix up with security at Shannon I boarded my aircraft carrying my tool case (17kgs) and put it in the overhead locker. The tools included such things as screwdrivers, hammers, spanners and a stanley knife.

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Having a blazing all day row with the lovely Supnesh Morris who is a lazy bugger and wont prepare for her classes
Nothing has changed

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I was working at IBM and on instant messenger to a colleague in Rochester NY. I watched it on CBN. Very scary

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Woke up in the after noon (working nights), put telly on ..... thought I was watching a very realistic disaster block buster for the first min...

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At work .. I remember trying repeatedly to raise my sister on the phone as she had been working in the twin towers.. luckily the week before.. and of course everyone immediately tried to phone her to check she wasn't there..

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A Couple of things stick in my mind about that day - the first is that I had been in NY the week before - I took my wife on a Birthday treat to the US open on the weekend before, and we spent a day climbing the empire state, and the Trade centre etc. - I had just got the photos back acouple of days before 9/11. The other thing that sticks in my mind more now is that when I heard the news I was sitting in the smoking room at work talking to a friend of mine, who sadly died a couple of weeks ago which makes it all the more poignant.

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Was in work, working days that week. Shift handover at 1520. Evening shift starting pouring in very excited and we had a shift hand over of 8 to 8 in the middle of the shop floor instead of 1 to 1 at the workstation.

Could not really make head nor tail of it until getting home and sitting in front of the box until bedtime.

Still get upset that they forget the two other aircraft.

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Watching it unfold on the 8th floor of one of the most prominent buildings in the City of London...

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I was working in our Brussels office when someone said to look on MSN. Stunned looking at the video content. I then went outside and listened to BBC World Service in the car for an hour. That night, I was lying in my bed in the hotel thinking that every plane was flying low and was going to crash into the NATO building.

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I worked in an office with 200 other people, plenty of newswires screens and a couple of televisions; we first saw a news agency alert "Plane crashes into WTC", so people quickly and wordlessly gathered around the tv screens

I remember looking at the tv reporter who was speaking with one tower on fire behind him, I apparently was the only one noting a second black shadow coming from the right and disappearing behind the first tower... a couple of minutes later a new red line on the screens "Second plane hits WTC"

Some colleagues had a direct phone line with a company located in the WTC, they heard a lot of screaming, then the line went beeep, beeep, beeep...

almost impossible to believe at the moment, surely impossible to forget now



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Just arrived back at Gatwick from Crete as news was breaking. I vividly recall that Gatwick was in a state of absolute pandemonium with all flights to the States having been turned back and off loaded...there were piles of baggage everywhere...several air crew were walking about looking to say the least shell shocked.

The victims of 9/11 should NEVER be forgotten, and the perpetrators hounded to their graves.

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We were just setting off on a late holiday with our eldest daughter then 3 months old. Sailed from Cargreen down the Tamar just after lunchtime. There was a US naval vessel (USS Gonzales I believe) moored at the bottom of the Hamoaze in the dockyard, surrounded by MOD plod launches, blue lights flashing and preventing anything from getting remotely close. We couldn't work out why they were paying her so much attention, and it wasn't until we were half way across Plymouth Sound that the phone calls started coming in on the mobile and the penny dropped.
Interestingly, we sailed back up the river early the following day (the weather wasn't looking too promising for our late summer cruise). There was no sign of the USS Gonzales. I heard later that she had slipped her mooring at the first opportunity and headed out to open sea, whilst the crew were rounded up and shipped out to her as and when they could be found.

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Working for the RSPB in East Devon on the sandwich year of my HND.
On that day I was carrying out maintiance on the staff house and making and installing a compost bin with the other volunteer into rock hard ground we only found out about 9/11 when we went in for our afternoon tea break and got a call from the office to turn on the tv.


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Visiting Bank of New York (Europe) 29th floor of Canada Square Canary Wharf.
Didn't know if we could fly home that night.

Donald

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