9/11

[ShineyHappyPeople]

It was the day I had an appointment at Hammersmith Hospital to collect my sisters remains and take them to the funeral director. I remember standing on the tube wishing the day would end... and I wasn't having to do that. I went to the hospital came out with my little box just as the second plane must have hit the towers... I walked passed a TV shop and there were loads of people crowding round it... I thought it must have been football (btw I know NOTHING about football)... When I got home my ex didn't ask me anything just said "OMG have you seen the news!!" all his friends were round watching it... I said no, cursing him for not even giving me a cuddle..took Tia into her room to play with her... I think I must be one of the few people in the world who wasn't glued to a TV screen that day Needless to say I get reminded each year of a terrible day in my life, but I am humbled by how much worse it could have been and it helped me pùt things in perspective.

For me it does feel a long time. A lot has changed in my life in that time and what was happening back then seems so far away.

That can't have been easy for you

 

[fran_23]

Me and my best friend were shopping in camden and her mum phoned us up and begged us to come home and get out of london as she was worried that something would happen there next. we didn't understand what she was talking about and said she was mad until we went in the piercing studio and they had it on the tv..we all just sat there watching it unfold and we were scared so we got the tube home! the buzz in london was that they were gonna do the same thing to canary wharf!

god bless all in the tower that day that didnt make it, there families, all the heroic rescue workers the ones who lost there lives helping and the ones that didn't and to all those involved in the aftermath of recovering and identifying bodies for months and months afterwards, and also to those who were on the planes involved.

 

[JoAnn&Aimee]

I was at the computer doing college work when my dad shouted me into the living room to see the news. Just as I sat down the second plane hit. I thought it was a replay, couldn't believe I had saw it live on TV. It was shocking, it still shocks me even today, 7 years on.

 

[mummykay]

I remember comin home from skool and just bein glued to sky news, my heart still goes in my throat everytime they play the planes hittin the towers

f*ckin sons of bitches who orchestrated that, its just barbaric and for what??????

 

[zebrastripes]

I remember I'd come home from a ballet lesson and was in the kitchen doing my homework. My dad turned on the news and just stood there...then told me to come and watch this...he said that everyone in future would remember where they were when the planes hit..

 

[Happybunny]

I was in a meeting when someone turned up late. They said they were late because they had been listening to the news on the radio in their car. I got home and OH and I watched the news in silence for hours.

Saddest thing was the next day and having to make sense of it with my class of 11 year old children. They were old enough to be really effected by it, (many talked about the terrible photographs of people jumping from windows) but they did not really understand it (not that any of us really do). We had to spend days discussing events and discussing the Muslim faith. Many were convinced that Muslims were bad people.

 

[Jelly_Fly]

I was with my ex in the dentist. I was sat in the wating room & they had a tv in there & saw the 2nd plane hit. It was just so unreal. I don't think anyone will forget what they were doing that day.

I saw that 9/11 hotel last night & I thought that about the mans sister & niece the most upsetting. Being that close.

 

[emeraldsroses]

I was at the library on the internet chatting with some friends in an MSN chatroom when someone came in with the name rageagainstthegoverment telling us that a plane hit the Twin Towers. I thought he was kidding as we had people come in with the most sarcastic names, but others confirmed it. I tried checking the CNN site, BBC site, any English news site, but they were all "busy", so I went on a Dutch news site and translated what was written to all in the chatroom. It was then that I saw footage of the second plane hitting the building. When I finally arrived home, I turned on the tv and was practially glued to it, watching in disbelief.

 

[babyroo]

I remember this day very well and it was one of the turning points in my life. I had just been sent home from hospital where i had just went in on the morning for an operation but was told they couldn't operate because i was too ill with an infection and temperature.I was very very sorry for myself until i saw what happened and it was that day i truly realised to be thankful for what i've got.

 

[Baby&i]

It all makes me want to cry my mum and dad had just landed in heathrow from NY the day it happened i was so scared incase they hadnt got on that plane when they did, they were meant to be there that whole week but something came up with my dads building company and he had to make an early exit home. i was so gratefull to have my parents back and to know they wer both OK. They were stood by the twin towers the day before taking pictures RIP all those that lost their lives on that terrible day