9/11 - Seven years on

[Dee]

Seems like just yesterday Where were you all when it happened?

I was sat at my desk in my first job out of college, when a workmates husband called to tell her. He called back 15 minutes later to say it was no accident, another plane had hit the second tower. Noone could quite believe it.

I got home that night to find my dad at the door, asking if I had heard the news. I was fighting back tears at this point, horrible, horrible day

I will be observing a silence later.

[vix]

I was working in a call centre for HSBC. I'd just come out of a training session and someone started telling us about it. I was actually waiting for the punchline, I found it so unbelievable.

It was a quiet day as everyone was watching the news and not ringing us, but we were asked to do overtime as they expected it to get busy later.

Next day, we were given instructions what to do if someone rang with a bomb threat :/

[leowyatt]

I was back at Uni on a summer school for our department. Attempting to learn about java virtual machines sat on IRC when an american lad came into the channel and told us what happened.

[Burble]

I was sitting at my desk in the office in Paris pondering what would be happing if my planned business trip to New York hadn't been cancelled at the last minute. Had ti gone to plan I would have flown into NYC the day before it happened.

[AboveTheSalt]

I was in a meeting at a client's office when someone came in to say that a plane had flown into the "Empire State Building" in New York.

Everybody had a good laugh. A short while later, we heard the true extent of the horror.

[loki]

Was having a simillar conversation this morning at work with some of my mates. Ironicially the one's who I was having lunch with at the very time it all started to go off. I remember very clearly having a discussion about the state of the world and saying that I thought there wouldn't be any major conflicts as a lot of the wars would be fought between big businesses rather than nations. Low and behold I get back from lunch to a load of people round my desk as I was one of the only people to have internet access in the building at the time.

Before I got home I knew I had to goto the Trafford Centre(local shopping mall) to pick up a replacement phone that I kept meaning to collect for two weeks. A call the previous day said if I didn't collect it it would be sent back. It was like something out of a horror movie. Not the usual bustling crowds. Empty carparks, shops and walkways. The odd staff member watching the TV's for a glimpse of the news. Other than that you could have heard a pin drop from one side to the other.

When I got home I just remember sitting watching Sky News with Sarah and then an 8 month old Alexander thinking what had I done bringing a child into such a wretched world.

The most eerie thing was taking the dog for a walk the following morning. I think you take a lot of things for granted and dismiss a lot of the hustle and bustle as background noise. I remember walking across the field seeing that there wasn't a jet stream in the sky nor was there any planes at all. That was certainly a sobering moment as the events of the previous day had really sunk in

[Wryel]

I was working in a factory making some cash until I went back to uni, someone from the office brought in a print out from the BBC website so we turned the radio on. I remember after about half an hour someone turned the radio off and put on a cd or something, uttering the words 'so the american's got ****ed'. I nearly smacked the ignorant ****.

[Feek]

At my desk when the news hit and we all dashed up to the kitchen where the telly was.

A week or so later I flew to the USA for the Grand Prix. Security was a bit tight and I didn't manage to get my usual flight deck visit (the previous year I'd had the jump seat for landings in both KIAD and EGLL).

[semi-pro waster]

Summer holidays before uni started for the first time for me, was spending the day messing about with a mate enjoying the last few days before moving away. Came in for a drink of juice and switched on the TV and couldn't believe it was real at first, realised rapidly that it was and thought "that's the World changed irreperably".

[Will]

I have no idea where I was... until I looked it up on my outlook diary, I was in France at the time so probably working on a yacht. I didn't hear all the fuss until I got home - whilst I thought it was awful at the lives lost, I wasn't TOO affected by it somehow? In fact it wasn't until I saw this thread that I realised what the date was. I'm sorry for being heartless