Same as some of you I can't really remember that much about it or where I was etc.

Must have been away from news channels/news outlets on holiday or something..

I don't think the news grasped what had actually exactly happened at first looking back did it? Whereas with 9/11 it was pretty evident straight away what had happened

Yeah I remember reading an evening paper on the day to see if they had anything about it but they reported it then just as a minor explosion on the underground because of a technical problem or something like that, though that must have gone to print pretty soon after it happened

Yeah I think that's what I was getting confused with!

I was in class in Year 5 and we watched it on the news

I didnt really understand it though :laugh:

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I can't remember I think I was at school and when I got back home it was strange because my mom and dad were both sitting down watching the TV and they didn't speak to me till I got in the room, then they told me

I can't remember that much tbh

I had just started Year 2 when 9/11 happened

At Primary school, and then we got called into assembly

I was in work and one of our temps rang to say she wasn't going in as she was watching the news! I thought it was a pretty lame reason for not going in to work and told her that but she had family in Central London so told me about the bombings then...

Must've just started secondary at the time or something but I do remember it being rather horrific.

i think i was in primary school

all i remember was knowing that someone had killed a lot of people and it was probably the same people who did 9/11

I feel terrible but I never knew this existed?

I was 23, drunk and trolling a Britney Spears fan forum. I remember waiting for more to happen, I remember expecting more to happen, but thankfully it didn't. I put 7/7 in the same category as the Madrid bombings and the Bali bombings. Don't really think it's in the same category as 9/11. It's more like the 1993 attack on the WTC than 9/11.

any loss of life from a terrorist attack is in the same category.

I think domestic terrorism (all of the 7/7 terrorists were british) and international terrorism are separate things. 9/11 was an act of war from a foreign power, 7/7 was more like the Oklahoma city bombing because it was domestic terrorism.

I don't remember anything about where I was during the Oklahoma City bombing, or the Madrid and Bali bombings. Interestingly I do remember where I was when the OJ Simpson verdict was read though, and I remember where I was when Princess Di died.... I don't know what that says about "moments in history".

Yeah I agree. I actually remember more about the Madrid bombings than I do about the London ones because I was writing for my school newspaper and that was the main story. 9/11 was visually shocking and a call to war. 7/7 didn't have the same impact, perhaps because the UK was already involved in the conflict.

7/7 was the UK's first ever suicide attacks and to happen in a city like London, during the rush hour, carried out by one of the biggest threats of the world.. it was a huge deal. Just because it didn't have as much impact as 9/11 doesn't mean it should be overshadowed. Not everything needs to be about 9/11

I agree with this - I'm sure the devastation to the people and families affected was exactly the same

By the same logic I'm sure parents of a kid who died in a road accident feel it's just as devastating as 9/11 on a personal level.. but you are missing the point... we are talking about things in a larger sense, terrorism.

Obviously anyone losing a loved one is HUGELY devastating, period. ...whether from cancer or terrorism or even suicide. We are talking about major world events though, not personal tragedy.

Of course... but in terms of global impact; 9/11 will forever remain one of those moments that will be imprinted on the eyelids of anyone old enough to remember the footage at the time. Truly shocking stuff.

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9/11 is more recognisable because the world literally watched the events unfolding live on TV. That's an image I won't forget and I think everyone can remember what they were doing that day like it was yesterday.

For me I can remember what I was doing on 7/7. The damage wasn't as catastrophic but caused by the same mindless group wanting to cause destruction and murder of innocent lives.

To me, it doesn't matter that 7/7 isn't as well known as 9/11. Just that both were tragic and lives were needlessly lost.