9/11

Okay, everyone is supposed to remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, ( I can`t ). But where were you when the twin towers went down? I was in the village of Crantock. The wife and I had just returned from a visit to Newquay. Got in the apartment about 2pm. Turned on the telly and the second plane was flying into the first tower. We sat horrified as the attack unfolded. We were talking to the landlady of the Old Albian pub the next day, and she was due to fly to the states the following monday. Don`t know if they nade it.

 

Working at St Martin's Lane Hotel in London as a Housekeeper. I was checking a room for a VIP arrival and was checking the TV channels to see they were working all right.

We had a guest staying whose father was working for one of the big banks at the WTC. He didn't make it. Two of the hotel engineers were working in her room repairing a light fitting when she got the news and she fell apart - they went out and bought her a card. I always remember that.

We also had the owner of the hotel (and chain) Ian Schrager (Studio 54 anyone?) staying. He went nuts trying to get home but couldn't because all the flights to the US were grounded. He eventually paid through the nose for aprivate plane to get to Canada and home from there. Stupid prat.

 

I was working in the club David, it was already a very sad day, Someone had just Burried there son, I was watching the TV in the bar when I also saw the second Plane flying into the Tower, I thought it was a film even tho I could see the "Breaking News "along the bottom of the Screen, I just couldn't take in what was happening it was so Horrific and Very Very Sad...

 

Was at work. My then husband (now ex) rang me at work and told me a plane had gone into the world trade centre and what a tragic accident it was. I was due to finish work at 2 anyway that day so left as soon as he rang and got home before the second plane hit.

The horrible part is, I sat there staring in horror watching Sky News and kept saying I couldnt believe the building hadnt colapsed. He kept saying it wouldnt as they were so well built (referring back to bombing they had there) .... it wasnt long before they did :(

 

I can't remember where I was when Kennedy was shot, but I was still living with my parents and my first knowledge of the assasination was my Mother telling me. As for 9/11, I was at work, during a break, one of the men was surfing the news on the internet and suddenly said that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. Within less then a minute, there was so much internet traffic that the screen just froze so it was much later that day I finally found out what had happened.

 

I was in Nova Scotia, Canada. I ran a small print business out of the basement of our house - and customers used to come and use the fax machine, drop off proofs for printing etc., order wedding invitations etc. I had just dropped the kids at school, and come home to open up shop for the day. A customer came with a fax......and said 'have you heard about the plane crashing into the WTC?'.....I said no.....and was waiting for the punch line (sick now I know....but honestly thought there was a punch line as you wouldn't dream it could be true!). I closed up shop, and we went upstairs to watch the news. We saw plane 2 hit.
Being in Nova Scotia however, was a great place to be that week. The Halifax airport was about 20 mins. away from us - we were rural. They put a plea out for people to open their homes to people - as many planes were redirected to Halifax and Newfoundland. The airport was like a parking lot of planes. Being a small city, there's not much in the way of hotel accommodation anyway - and now they had way more than normal needing places to stay. To see the people of Nova Scotia open their homes and their hearts to the weary travellers - was wonderful. We had a young family with two children with us - but it was amazing - there was more homes available than people who needed them.
About four days later, the reality of it hit us - our air was terribly dry and smelled strongly of lime. A remnant of the collapsed buildings making it's way north in the wind.

 

I had finished work at 1.30 that day-I remember it was a gorgeous sunny day. I had heard something had happened just as I was leaving work, my then boyfriend now husband rang me and told me the WTC had been attacked swhen I got home I turned the news on and watched as the 2nd plane hit.


Bad as it was, what really tore me up was the newspapers a few days later showing pictures of all those on the planes and I saw a photo of a little girl who was travelling with her Mum-she was the same age as my eldest daughter was at the time, and I thought how frightened this little girl must have been.

 

I was at work when the planes hit the WTC, but someone came in and said that it had been on the radio, so we scrambled to see what we could on the internet, but it crashed.
When I got home, watched it on the news, and couldn't believe what I was seeing. That evening, me and the ex went to his cousins house, as it was her daughters birthday. No party, just the tv on watching the days events.
My parents spent the day in London, and knew nothing about it. They were celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary.

It was the day the world changed for ever.

 

I was in my kitchen with radio on when it came through...put television on ,I could not believe my eyes.......I was 6 days away from my wedding day....and then on the following day we were flying to Vancouver..arrived at Heathrow where there was absolute chaos ..people had been there since 9/11..I will never forget that day...

 

I was at home doing the ironing and had the TV on for something to stave off the boredom.
I could not believe what was unfolding right before my eyes. I felt frightened and very upset and when the images starting appearing on the news it was just so upsetting.

 

I was at work in my pr agency. Someone got a call from a friend and we jumped onto the bbc website - we were watching the live streaming and saw the 2nd plane crash. I remember the reports being so confused, the news reporters really didn't seem to have any idea what was going on and the messages kept changing. We were all crowded around 5 computers as others couldn't get on the bbc website cos it was so busy. All my friends were emailing checking on those we knew worked there or had done. I kept checking my email to see if anyone was there :-(

Same with the London bombings in 2005. I was at work - teaching by now and the news came in and it was chaos - I worked in a school in central london then and the kids were terrified, the school tried to evaccuate us, then told us we couldn't leave, kids were trying to phone parents but no mbls worked, all my friends & family worked in London - again, emails flying checking everyone was ok but of course most were not answering them (including me) I was still getting calls from people at midnight checking in/checking on me - it was horriffic...... the wierdest thing was walking home that day along the river with 1000s of others with no traffic and very little noise - it was very very surreal.