Six years ago today 9/11

[donegal]

Where were you six years ago today when you heard of the terrorist attacks in the US

[dmj]

I was in work at Currys and we all crowded round the TV section, there were 20 odd tvs showing the horrific images of the twin towers, I will never forget it...................

[confused79]

I was 8 months pregnant and was about to go to see hear-say in concert - i know sad but i was taking my yonger brother, i remember feeling dreadful thinking what world am i bringing my child into, i considered not going to the concert, but it was my brothers birthday present and it was right next to canary wharf but i went, and they held a 2 minute silence at the concert.

[river]

My Dad picked me up from school and was listening to what had happened on the radio he told me to keep quiet so he could listen. Then he explained what had happened.

I dont think I fully understood it until I got home and saw the extent of it on the TV.

4 years later I was caught up in a terrorist attack myself and I can only really only then could I really appreciate a small amount of what those people felt.

God Bless their families

[ELVIS68]

I had a day off work and was in the pub watching the racing on telly when someones phone rang and told them about it...they turned the tv onto sky news and there was one of the towers burning

We was all thinking it was a small aircraft that had hit it until the second plane came into view and smashed into the second tower

Proper beer spraying moment

[zipadeedodah]

I had just come out of the last lesson of the day at school - the 6th formers had been watching it on a TV in the common room, and on the way to the buses they told a few of us about it. I had visions of it being a small light aircraft that had flown into it by accident, until I got home and turned on the TV.

[Neilzulu1]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question45 4357.html

This is also being answered here.

[Meg888]

I was at work when one of the workmen came up to tell us what happened, they had been watching it in their lunch break on a tv in the bate room. At the time we didnt have the internet at work so had to wait until we got home to see the news. Words cannot describe what i felt, just utter disbelief, like watching a die hard movie. I stayed up all night thinking Bush was going to declare war there and then. I was a bit naive about him back then, and now feel he has an awful lot to answer for and should bear a huge amount of responsibility when it comes to debate about this horrific event

[Lucy Thomas]

Oh, yeah. I'd forgotten about all that.

[Reverandfunk]

Just as a side issue did anyone watch farenheit 911 yesterday?

[Lucy Thomas]

Yes, I did. Very thought provoking. Many pieces of a huge jigsaw suddenly seem to fall into place.

[Tigress]

I was having my very last driving lesson as my driving test was the next day. I was out for 3 hours and didn't know anything about it until I got home at 4pm, and my mum who'd been looking after my 2 youngest children started jumping around the living room trying to explain what had happened. Needless to say I passed my driving test on 12th September 2001, and through my elation, this hung over us for weeks on end...

[Cetti]

Waiting patiently for 'Diagnosis Murder' to start, then there was a newsflash and Kirsty Young (I think it was her) said that there was a rumour of a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre....... I was glued to the screen for the rest of the day as the terrible events and scenes unfolded.

Did anyone else feel as though it was all unreal and that it was a dreamlike sequence?

[hippyhoppy]

Like Cetti, I was looking forward to Diagnosis Murder (second of a two parter if I'm not mistaken) and the news just took over the channel. I watched it all evening and then the next morning when I woke up I tried to remember the name of the disaster movie I had watched before remembering it was actually real...

[donegal]

i did not heard anything until i came back from school at 4pm . i came into the house and saw my brother watching the tv . I asked him .What was going on ? he just said a plane had crashed in a building in new york . i did not think it was a big deal unlit i went 2 my room and put on the radio and the normal show was not on .they were taking about it so i found out it was a terror atttack so i watched the news all night

[donegal]

wow have just thought it was six years ago right now as it was just after 4 pm on tuesday

[kyra16]

9/11 its my husbands birthday; so i got up early to make him breakfast..turned on CNN and was in shock. i woke him up and we watched in horror as the second plane hit WT2. we sat glued to the tv all day. We go to NY often and have friends there. it was impossible to reach anyone that day; all phone lines were so busy...its something that even to this day we can't believe happened. @ the time we were in Ann Arbor, Mi. its a university town, vigils were held downtown..it was a surreal time. its a time i wish i could forget yet @ the same time never want to . it brought out the best in our citizens. people bonded like never before. today we should not only remember all the victims, but the heroes of that day.

[oldgrape]

laying on my mums sofa i thought it was a film when i realised it was real was shocked
my heart goes out to all the victims and thier familys today

[sleepyj]

i was on the beach in cornwall st ives .. had a small radio with us ..time gone so fast

[EngTeach]

I was on a free period in school when a conselor came down and asked if anyone had a radio b/c she was on the phone with someone in Manhattan and the person said taht they had tro go b/c the building was being evacuated. The couselor did not know where the caller was exactly, but later found out that she was in tower 1. We spent the whole day keeping the students (and staff) calm. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get home that day. It is a 20 minute drive. School was closed the next day, but I am on the crisis team and had to report. The school psychologist was in too and her husband was missing until about 4 am on th 12th. The school would not let her stay home. She was a wreck. Her husband was in shock and would not shower or lie down and the damn Board of Education threatened her with insubordination charges.

we had a moment of silence today and i realised my ninth graders were only about 8 years old in 2001. They have very vague memories of that day. It was weird to see that they really had/have no understanding of the gravity of what happened that day. It is so vivid to me.

[Whickerman]

I was sitting in my car driving towards town to pick up my daughter, listening to Joe Duffy on RTE radio, and he announced a plane had hit one of the towers. The show continued and then the 2nd plane hit...

It was just after that I got to a tv and saw the footage. Gobsmacked doesn't describe it.