Where were you when the 9/11 events happened?

[lily.]

Where were you and what were you doing when you found out about the 9/11 terror attacks?

[Harry!]

At home watching the news.

[bronaaaa]

School, I came home and mum and dad called me in to the living room and it was aloo over the news.
I remember we had to say I prayer in class but I can't remember if that was the day it happened or the next

[Tom]

At school, teacher said there have been a few plane crashes but didn't really have any idea ... that was about 10 minutes before we went home then got home and the news was on

I had fishfingers and chips for tea that night :cheer2:

[lily.]

It's weird how you remember silly details like that isn't it?

[Brad*]

I was only 5 years old LOL, I remember it well. I was watching a James and the Giant Peach video and my mum came running in (at about 5pm) and said that the Twin Towers had collapsed and that thousands of people would have died. At the time I really didn't know what that meant, so I wasn't particularly concerned.

[bronaaaa]

Originally posted by Tom


I had fishfingers and chips for tea that night :cheer2:

LOL :laugh:

[~Kizwiz~]

I was at working at a stockbrokers, in the front office.... the markets when mad

It was so strange watching the markets fall and then people started to buy on the back of such a tragic time.

We had loads of people contact us the next day to try and cancel their deals because they felt bad making money from the situation

[lily.]

It was surreal watching it on tv I think. There was a sense of 'this isn't happening'.

[Marsh.]

I was 10 at the time or 9, not sure now. I was having tea when it came on the news.

[Princess]

It was my brother's birthday and I remember coming home from school being all excited about going out for dinner. My parent's tried to explain what had happened and how it would be disrespectful to go out,I didn't really understand it.

[Nicky.]

School, I don't remember it to be honest, I didn't realise how big it was..

[Tom]

Originally posted by lili
It was surreal watching it on tv I think. There was a sense of 'this isn't happening'.

Yep, it is weird how you can remember daft details

And there was a real sense of 'this isn't happening' when BBC News announced that one of the towers had collapsed when it was still standing on the screen behind them :joker:

... but nout to laugh about when it did eventually collapse ... anyone would think it was a conspiracy :shocked::whistle:

[Hugo]

School. My mum was talking about it to my sister in the car on the way home and I thought they were talking about a TV show or something :/
Then we got home and saw the news. :o

[lily.]

I must admit, I love the 9/11 conspiracies, and some of them are very plausible.

[Ninastar]

I was at school in america. I remember so much about it.
I remember that about 30 people were told to pack their packs for early dismissal ( They used to have an intercom in ever single room and hallway in my school ) so yeh. I didnt actually feel good that day so I asked the teacher if I could go to the nurse. She let me go and when I was in the office I saw loads of parents like waiting to get thier child home. Then when my dad came to pick me up he told me something really bad had happened but I had to wait untill i was in the car to be told it cause there were kids around.

So yeh thats it really x


Oh yeh. The school got closed so everyone went home early x

[MarkWaldorf]

I don't remember the day it happened, but I remember I was at my nans the next morning (she used to take me, my sister and cousin to school) and I watched the coverage on GMTV.

[Firewire]

I was at school I think.

[Brad*]

There is a new building in construction on the site of where the Twin Towers collapsed in 2001. It is called the Freedom Tower and it is supposedly going to be completed in 2013. It is going to have 108 floors, with a top floor height of 415m (1,362ft), a roof height of 417m (1,368ft) and a full height (including spire) of 541.3m (1,776ft). This is quite a similar height to the Twin Towers (I am pretty sure it is bigger than the Twin Towers actually). I think this will just be another target for terrorists (if they did 9/11 at all). The exact same thing could happen again, aeroplanes could easily hit that and kill thousands of people.

The Twin Towers:

http://i40.tinypic.com/33284f7.jpg

The Freedom Tower:

http://i44.tinypic.com/nxoowk.jpg

[Locke.]

Playing football in the street. I remember coming in for a drink or something, and it being on the Breaking News on the TV.

[Brad*]

Originally posted by lili
I must admit, I love the 9/11 conspiracies, and some of them are very plausible.

Yeah, I love them too. I still watch all of the documentaries on YouTube to this day (even though some of them are a couple of hours long).:blush2:

I believe it was the American government that did it, I don't have the time to go into why because it would take me hours.

[Sam!]

Also theres two huge memorial waterfalls in the place of the towers:

http://www.national911memorial.org/img/memorial/aerial1.jpg
THE MEMORIAL will remember and honor the nearly three thousand people who died in the horrific attacks of February 26, 1993, and September 11, 2001. The Memorial will consist of two massive pools set within the footprints of the Twin Towers with the largest manmade waterfalls in the country cascading down their sides. They will be a powerful reminder of the Twin Towers and of the unprecedented loss of life from an attack on our soil.

The names of the nearly 3,000 individuals who were killed in the September 11 attacks in New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon, and the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing will be inscribed around the edges of the Memorial pools.

The Memorial pools will each be nearly one acre in size. The names of the victims will be inscribed on parapets surrounding the pools, within groupings that will allow for family members, friends, and co-workers who shared life’s journey and perished together to have their names listed side by side.

An eight-acre landscaped Memorial Plaza filled with nearly 400 trees will create a contemplative space separate from the sights and sounds of the surrounding city.

[bronaaaa]

Originally posted by raindropz.x
Originally posted by lili
I must admit, I love the 9/11 conspiracies, and some of them are very plausible.

Yeah, I love them too. I still watch all of the documentaries on YouTube to this day (even though some of them are a couple of hours long).:blush2:

I believe it was the American government that did it, I don't have the time to go into why because it would take me hours.

I love watching the documentaires but they scare the sh*t out of me..there's a blog thig on bebo about the plane number if you type it in to word and change the font to windings its like two towers and all *shudders*, and the dates add up of 9/11 etc.

[lily.]

Yeah, that's fake, cuz it's not the real plane number. :thumbs:

There's a lot of fake info out there but a lot of accurate stuff too.

[30stone]

Was 10 and at school came home and watched on tv.

Weird seeing everything happen at like a young age you dont really understand everything.

[ILoveTRW]

well i was at school and there were some trespassers on the field digging a hole and the school were ringing the police and we were wondering why they couldn't bother to come and then i got home and was pissed that CBBC wasn't on

[pinkmichk]

i was at my then boyfriends house on a day off from work watching day time tv whe it was interupted with a breaking news story i sat and watched the news for hours one so saw the towers going down live it was like i couldnt turn it over or look away

[Scarlett.]

Watching the Pokémon movie with my bro, then we turned to BBC1 and saw it D:

[Brad*]

Originally posted by bronaaaa
Originally posted by raindropz.x
Originally posted by lili
I must admit, I love the 9/11 conspiracies, and some of them are very plausible.

Yeah, I love them too. I still watch all of the documentaries on YouTube to this day (even though some of them are a couple of hours long).:blush2:

I believe it was the American government that did it, I don't have the time to go into why because it would take me hours.

I love watching the documentaires but they scare the sh*t out of me..there's a blog thig on bebo about the plane number if you type it in to word and change the font to windings its like two towers and all *shudders*, and the dates add up of 9/11 etc.

OMG that scared me SHITLESS I was so scared and I still am. I have proved that this is totally true because on our desktop we had to get Microsoft Word 2000 (before 9/11) and when you type in the post code of the Twin Towers it comes up with a plane crashing into two towers). That was before 9/11 happened!

When the dates added up to 9/11 that was properly weird too! I think the video that you are talking about is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwW2912o3A

[Loukas]

I was at school and then came home and heard about it, ruined my friends birthday party.

[ange7]

Originally posted by lili
It's weird how you remember silly details like that isn't it?
nah it was a safe bet:tongue:

[BigSister]

I was coming home from school and my mum told me when i got home and i was worried because my aunty uncle their 3 kids and my gran were going to florida that day and they had to be diverted to Canada

[Shaun]

Walking out of school I saw loads of people in classrooms gathered around television sets - I didn't bat an eyelid, so I got into my mum's car and it was on the radio, and I got home just in time to see the towers collapse. I have goosebumps thinking about it :\

[Sod_James]

i had just finished school. (i was about 15 i think) i walked home as i usually do staring up at the sky wondering what to do about somthing or other i cant really remember.

I got home turned the tv on and i saw ait and thought it was just some movie. so i turned the channel over and over again and it was on every channel and i was like OMG WTF??. then my mum, dad, brothers and sisters came home and we all watched the TV. and thats it really the rest is history so they say.

[Novo]

I saw it about 8.30am on tv just before School

[John.]

Originally posted by .Andy.
I saw it about 8.30am on tv just before School

If you were in the UK that wouldn't be possible because of the time difference, so i'm guessing that your American then?


As for me, i came home from school and went to my Gran's house, she had the news on the kitchen then, i went over to my friends and traded Pokémon Cards.

[NettoSuperstar!]

At home. My mate rang me to tell me to get telly on, could'nt believe what I was seein

[Sam!]

Originally posted by JohnD
Originally posted by .Andy.
I saw it about 8.30am on tv just before School

If you were in the UK that wouldn't be possible because of the time difference, so i'm guessing that your American then?


As for me, i came home from school and went to my Gran's house, she had the news on the kitchen then, i went over to my friends and traded Pokémon Cards.

No hes English. But yeh here it was like 4-5pm?

[Twilight]

Originally posted by raindropz.x
Originally posted by bronaaaa
Originally posted by raindropz.x
Originally posted by lili
I must admit, I love the 9/11 conspiracies, and some of them are very plausible.

Yeah, I love them too. I still watch all of the documentaries on YouTube to this day (even though some of them are a couple of hours long).:blush2:

I believe it was the American government that did it, I don't have the time to go into why because it would take me hours.

I love watching the documentaires but they scare the sh*t out of me..there's a blog thig on bebo about the plane number if you type it in to word and change the font to windings its like two towers and all *shudders*, and the dates add up of 9/11 etc.

OMG that scared me SHITLESS I was so scared and I still am. I have proved that this is totally true because on our desktop we had to get Microsoft Word 2000 (before 9/11) and when you type in the post code of the Twin Towers it comes up with a plane crashing into two towers). That was before 9/11 happened!

When the dates added up to 9/11 that was properly weird too! I think the video that you are talking about is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwW2912o3A It works to i just tried it in notepad

[Spike]

At school, came home and saw it on the TV

[John.]

Originally posted by Sam!
Originally posted by JohnD
Originally posted by .Andy.
I saw it about 8.30am on tv just before School

If you were in the UK that wouldn't be possible because of the time difference, so i'm guessing that your American then?


As for me, i came home from school and went to my Gran's house, she had the news on the kitchen then, i went over to my friends and traded Pokémon Cards.

No hes English. But yeh here it was like 4-5pm?

2 o'clock!

[supernoodles!]

Id just started secondary school,came in throught the back looked threough the window and saw footage of the twin towers with loads of smoke and stuff coming out of it,went in and my mam was watching it on the news

[HeatherTWx]

i cant remember i think i was at school.

[andyman]

At the time i was working nights driving, but before these events i started work at around 3am and came home after work at around 1pm ish i think.
I sat down and put the tv on, flicked through the channels and when i hit sky news it was showing a building with black smoke coming out of it, at the time it was reporting a light air craft had hit the building but nothing about a terror attack.
Well i was hooked! I was tired but had to watch the news as changing news channels, flickin from one to another..
Then as the live pictures was fixed on the two towers a plane that looked tiny flew into the second tower.. Then it became clear that this was a terror attack, then reports about other attacks came through and it felt like some war has broken out in america!
Sky news was showing american news as they had live pictures on the streets, even one female reporter broke down as people were jumping from the towers..
Then even more twists as one of the towers came down as people were running for cover from the thick grey smoke covering all the streets, again all on tv for the world to see.

[officialleafan]

I was listening to my mum and dad arguing lol.

They got married on the same day, and split up on the same day :shocked:

[andyman]

Originally posted by officialleafan
I was listening to my mum and dad arguing lol.

They got married on the same day, and split up on the same day :shocked: :laugh:

[officialleafan]

Originally posted by andyman
Originally posted by officialleafan
I was listening to my mum and dad arguing lol.

They got married on the same day, and split up on the same day :shocked: :laugh:

It's not even funny, it's so scary lol