Where were you on September 11th 2001?

miss no stars

In school. Teachers kept schtum.

Then I got onto the bus and heard a frantic american voice on the radio (was sitting right behind the driver) saying something about "And then I saw a plume of smoke coming out of the building and I new it was bad"

My first reaction was "Bloody Americans have to over dramatise everything PSHAW" then I kinda thought "Hmm.... Plume of smoke out of a building and it's on our news...??"

Then I got home and saw the telly and went "Oh. Ok."

brian1991

Bump.

Celly Smunt

on a plane to toronto,didn't find out until i landed,scary time to land in an airport

onlyrocknroll

Well, I don't have an alibi or anything, if that's what you're getting at/ :eek:

Decuc500

pmcmahon wrote: »

on a plane to toronto,didn't find out until i landed,scary time to land in an airport

I was in Toronto watching a very early movie at the Toronto film festival. The film started at 9:00 am! When it was over we got the subway out to our hotel. It was packed with everyone leaving the city. Toronto basically shut down for a few days.

billymitchell

Berlin Zoo looking for the penguins!! Couldnt find the fookers

BUBBLES1978

upstairs in my mothers house heavily pregnant, watching the tele, her sitting room floors were being varnished so the smell was making me feel sick, heard the lad doing the floors let a "jesus ****ing christ" out of him so waddled down stairs to see it all unfold on the tele

unreal.........!!!

brian1991

There are a few documentaries about 9/11 on tonight:

Hotel 9/11 starts at 8 o' clock on the History Channel
102 Minutes that Changed America starts at 9 o' clock on the same channel, and then it's
9/11 in Memoriam at 23:15, also on the History Channel

More 4 are showing a few documentaries tonight as well.

Asphyxia

I was also in school, didn't know anything about it till I came home... I remember my father being on the phone to my cousins over there and finding out two of relations died, they were firefighters and after going in to one of the towers it suddenly collapsed on top of them. Three of my other cousins were with the New York Police Department and they were there securing the area well trying to anyway there was so much chaos and the ash falling was so ridiculous they couldn't see anything.

I distinctly remember them telling me when they visited a couple of years later that they couldn't go too near the building in case the people jumping from the towers crushed them. Such a horrible day

pebbles21

Was living in Ballymun at the time,someone told me that two planes crashed into the Towers

I said I didn't give a $hite, cos i drank in in the Penthouse.

D-K

Came home from primary school, walked in the door and it was on sky news! When the second plane hit i thought it was just a replay of the first plane!

Wood

Was working in BodyShock at the time had just finished piercing someone and a lad came running rdown the stairs shouted "America is after blowing up".

Went across to the music centre and watched it there for a few minutes

Elbow

Was in 4th year in school - In a double english from what i can remember

thomas353

i was with my ex girlfriend, the blood runs deep

Agent Smith

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

Where were you on August 15th 1998?

Coming back from Scout camp in Cong, Mayo

Run_to_da_hills

My ex told me at work, I thought it was only a small plane like a Cesena, when she explained first , then she mentioned something about a 757. I dropped, then she phoned me a half an hour later telling me that another one hit the towers. I took the rest of the afternoon off to watch developments..

JOCookie

Coming home from Galway on the Bus listening to the news on the radio.

thomas353

thomas353 wrote: »

i was with my ex girlfriend, the blood runs deep

the blood runs deep because she is now my ex, nowt to do with 9/11

Red Hand

Painting the doors in my mother's house.

pablomakaveli

I was in school. I think the first plane struck during my history class in which we were learning about Christopher Columbus.

piby

In second year of secondary school. Was in maths class when I first heard rumours of what had happened but didn't find out full story until I got home and turned on Sky News.

Saila

bluewolf wrote: »

I can just about remember, but why would anyone care? Does anyone care where I was on the 10th of September?

it was a day which more or less changed the modern world or reshaped it. there have been 2 and getting on for a turd wars based on the events of that day. It was an absolutely shocking day which most who are old enough [and blessed with empathy] will remember clear as day.

I was at home watching TV and my mam came in and told me about it, cue glued to sky news in horror for the next 1hr 30
and my brother had just got out of a mental hospital after a short stay after a breakdown, it was really tough on him.

thomas353

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Mod note: In future outbursts like this will be met with a ban.

ConmanTheKiller

I was in 5th class at the time. For some reason we had a half-day and my dad was collecting me. On the way home I heard about the first plane on the radio. I got home about 10 minutes before the second hit, so I saw it live on television.

My aunt was over in New York at the time and I remember my Mam being worried until she finally got through to her 5 hours later.

Micky Dolenz

tomas please turn off the caps.

thomas353

sorry about my caps:)

AckwelFoley

i was just going back to work after lunch, i was standing in Flynns of Moate hardware at the time of the first reports and i went into the Auld Sheebeen next door to look at the tv

Carl Sagan

thomas353 wrote: »

the blood runs deep because she is now my ex, nowt to do with 9/11

No one asked why.

Micky Dolenz

I was living in Melbourne, when I was told the Twin Towers had come down I thought they were talking about the ones in Kuala Lumpur

thomas353

Carl Sagan wrote: »

No one asked why.

my mate asked why, if you were here you would know that, i think thats just you being pedantic.