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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: dreadnought110 on September 07, 2006, 21:47:24
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Can you remember where you was when it happened? I was on the M25 roadworks in a DAF1900 Crane lorry on the roadworks listening to Radio 2 Isn't it daft how you remember these sort of things?Any body else remember where they where when any other disatsers happened??
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at work all sat round the radio.
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I was up a ladder at Knights BMW in Newcastle Under Lyme when i first heard.....
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i was working in kensington high street, watching it on telly at moment absolutely terrible poor sods :(
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just watching that programme on BBC1 at the moment it makes you go cold did anyone watch that on the widows on channel 4 last night??
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We were on holiday in...............America :shock:
We were in Florida, woke up, switched on the telly and thought it was a film, we could not believe it was for real happening now, very frightening once it sunk in what exactly was happening.
Our return flight was delayed for 5 days, both Virgin and Disney resorts were excellent in such bizzare circumstances and looked after us very well.
The year before we were driving back from St Petes to Orlando, we thought the rain was rather heavy, a bit windy, it was a bloomin hurricane!! :P
Last year we had our honeymoon in the US, we flew into Las Vegas, all went very well until we got to the Grand Canyon, we both suffered quite badly from altitude sickness for the first day whilst there. Also we hiked down into the canyon, I innocently sat down for a breather and heard a rattle, I had almost sat on a rattle snake. :lol:
This year we had 2 different weeks in North Wales :D
Despite this, we love the USA and can't wait to take our kids their, probably not for quite a few years until they are old enough to appreciate it fully.
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i was sat at home watching it happen live on the telly.
was late back to work.
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I was at work when my boss phoned from his car to tell us to put a radio on.
Thought somewhere was going to be taken off the map, and that Nukes might be used. Suprised at the restraint shown.
Guess Bush really wanted the oil!!
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Running a training course at work, came back upstairs into the office and wondered why the office was SO quiet :( (at this time only 1 tower had been hit)
Trev
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I was on a waste site in Leicester changing a clutch on a wood recycler, its one of the few events i actually remember where i was and exactly what i was doing
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I was driving back up the M5 from devon in my car transporter, it was really chilling listerning to it on radio 2
Craig
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Ikea, Warrington.
I was on nights, came back & watched as unfolded on telly.
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i was just passing birmingham airport at the time.
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I was working in East London, some news report said the same might happen at Canary Warfe. Got out quick, and had the fastest run ever up the M25 everything was travelling 90+.
Mike
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i was building an extension on the back of my house ..............could not believe how sick these low lifes could go...hopefully to rot in hell forever.we still went to florida in october for our holiday,it was qiute eerie tho,never seen the parks so empty... :(
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I was at work sat in front of the tv when it came on news 24 as a newsflash .I couldnt believe my eyes :lol:
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i was at skool i came home and my mum made me watch the news :?
i didnt understand it at 1st but then i did
we watching the thing on telly now :)
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I was at a zoo :roll: that dont sound right, I remember the the streeing pump had just gone on a volvo 760 I had at the time.
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I being going into the office just after the first plane hit and the help desk that normaly takes 200 calls an hour being absolutly dead no phones ringing at all.
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Sat at my computer at work when a newsfeed splashed the vids of the first plane hitting the tower over the screen . . . . . whole place went silent, phones stopped ringing and the atmoshere was like something I had never experienced . . . . we shut the company doors and went home . . . .
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Heard about that a tower had been struck on the way home from school, and then saw the first tower collapse (live news!) on TV when I had got home, followed by tower no.2.
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At work in dentistry. In london and NO patients turned up.
We all just watched TV and I sent the staff home to be with family.
Its weird, lady friend flies to New York on 9th as flights £200 return.
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I was in bed ill (avoiding doing some work cos of jet lag) until my then wife called to say turn on the TV, we had got married in Boston Mass only 2 weeks before and only 3 days before the attacks were stood on top of the WTC admiring the view.
I was shocked and shaking with anger and grief it was almost surreal what was happening, I spent most of the day and days after calling my many friends in the states to makes sure everyone was ok
Everyone knows someone who had problems that day or indeed knows someone that lost someone it was a sad day for the world, it's such a pity it's been used as an excuse for so many other wrongs since.
What annoys me more about it all is that my daughter is now 8 and she only knows about the WTC attacks through what the bint and I have told her, surely this kind of thing should be taught to the children of today because lets be honest it is probably one of the things that will and has changed their lives and ours forever not unlike the Gulf wars and other wars.
Lastly without meaning to sound mean or insulting it happened a few years ago and all this past week or so we have been bombarded with this and that programme on TV and yet the 7/7 attacks in London had little to no coverage. I appreciate more were killed in the WTC attacks but still I think it was a wake up call for all of us especially the USA, we have had to deal with terrorists for years such as the IRA and lets be honest about it most funding comes directly from the USA ‘the downtrodden Irish freedom fighter syndrome’.
Sorry to rant and ramble (not in the RA way either)
Didn’t intentionally set out to upset or offend anyone and I apologise if I did so.
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I was travelling back from a meeting in Arburg Moulding machines in Lemington spa
listenning to the radio
Darren
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We were in the USA staying at the Grand Canyon lodge, got up at dawn to see the sun up. When we returned it was on TV but the reception was really awful(there was a transmission fault in the area) so could'nt really hear it properly
Went out in the car later and only really found out what happened by listening to car radio.
Needless to say our planned helicopter flight was a non starter.
Stopped in a small town for lunch-the locals were really stunned (as were we) Very appreciative of the support they received from the UK though.
Got home on time as we still had 10 days to go, we met some folks in Las Vegas who said they had been waiting 5 days for a flight booking home to UK after they closed the airspace.
The hotel staff in Vegas told us that after 9/11 you could not get a hire car for love nor money as all the californians there were trying to get home. Some bought cheap motors instead.
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Waiting at the school gates to pick our 2 lads up and another parent told us what had happend, at 1st we thought it was a wind up, as soon as we got home we put the tv on :shock:
Our eldest (8 at the time) wanted to know what 'game' it was advertising and the youngest (4 at the time) said " I don't like this film, can we watch another?" :(
Not the easiest thing to explain to young children :( , the school did the next day though, in a much better way than I ever could.
The eeriest thing was having no planes flying from Birmingham Airport, which is only about 5 minutes away from ours ~ it was so quiet :( .
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was at work at the sywell aerodrome sat on the forklift listening to the radio .... very sad day
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I work in a local hospital and was discussing a job with one of the "old school" ward sisters.
I can remember the exact ward and the sister I was speaking to.
Behind her was a television which was relaying the events live as they unfolded, I pointed out to her what was happening, we both couldn't believe what we were watching. Both of us ended up watching these events and very little work got done.
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I was at work. Kept on getting little bits of info off people who where calling in after the first impact and we all thought it was an accident then after the second impact it became clear what was going on
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I was at home on a day off.. chilling in front of the tv.. then it all became the wrong sort of chilling.....
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I was in bed, me mum foned me and told me to go watch the news.
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I was on nightshift that night and got up early, switched on the TV and saw it on the BBC just after the second tower had been hit, then I switched over to CNN to watch it.
Spent the rest of that day in front of the telly until I had to get ready for work at 7pm.
I remember the CNN reporter was stood with his back to the towers when the first one collapsed. At first he thought the smoke had just got worse and then realised what was happening.
Hats off to all the reporters from CNN that I watched that day, they all remained professional throughout, what must have been, a horrendous days work for them. =D>
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I was at work in London, in a bank. The IT team who I worked with just downed tools and sat watching it on the TV.
Our traders downstairs were frantically calling people in Cantor Fitzgerald in WTC, then the lines just went dead!!!
My bi*** of a boss turned and said "I can't stand here all day I've got a department to run" and walked off!!
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I was just pulling up behind a broken down truck at juction 2 of the m5.Strange how you can remember as if it was yesterday.
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I was just pulling up behind a broken down truck at juction 2 of the m5.Strange how you can remember as if it was yasterday.
I know what you mean i can also remember i was listening to steve wright (i think)
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Stood in the I.T. office at work watching it live on T.V.
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Actually i think one of the things I had forgotten about was the way the world just seemd to stop and hold its breath. I didnt apreciate it at the time but now everyone else mentions it I remeber.
Funny how that happens. Something bad or even just very risky happenes, not necesarilly somethign like that and its just as if the world is waiting for the next step. You see it in the environment around you, peoples faces, somehow even nature seems to know.
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i felt guilty as i was enjoying myself with my kids at a local mother and toddler heard about it when when we got home.
debbie
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I know where I was, I also knew where I was when the IRA detonated bombs in Manchester and Warrington.
At least we knew what was happening, the Yanks just chose to ignore what was coming through pure arrogance.
9/11 was not that special for me, nor will it ever be.
It is just another messed up episode in a world full of greed and destruction. :roll:
I totally understand where BinLaden is coming from.....I am not too keen on capitalism and I would not want democracy shoved down my throat by greedy westerners....I do not condone his methods, but I undersatnd the reasons behind them.
Try walking a mile in a Muslims shoes in Iraq or Iran or anywhere in the Mid- East....Would you wnat your core beleifs taken from you?
9/11 was necessary, just as all wars are.
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I know where I was, I also knew where I was when the IRA detonated bombs in Manchester and Warrington.
At least we knew what was happening, the Yanks just chose to ignore what was coming through pure arrogance.
9/11 was not that special for me, nor will it ever be.
It is just another messed up episode in a world full of greed and destruction. :roll:
I totally understand where BinLaden is coming from.....I am not too keen on capitalism and I would not want democracy shoved down my throat by greedy westerners....I do not condone his methods, but I undersatnd the reasons behind them.
Try walking a mile in a Muslims shoes in Iraq or Iran or anywhere in the Mid- East....Would you wnat your core beleifs taken from you?
9/11 was necessary, just as all wars are.
:? errr? how do you reply to this???
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Walking from school to my mates house, as she had just been cleared of a megingitus scare. We fogot all the "get well" messages and jokes and glued ourselves to the tv for the rest of the day.
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I know where I was, I also knew where I was when the IRA detonated bombs in Manchester and Warrington.
At least we knew what was happening, the Yanks just chose to ignore what was coming through pure arrogance.
9/11 was not that special for me, nor will it ever be.
It is just another messed up episode in a world full of greed and destruction. :roll:
I totally understand where BinLaden is coming from.....I am not too keen on capitalism and I would not want democracy shoved down my throat by greedy westerners....I do not condone his methods, but I undersatnd the reasons behind them.
Try walking a mile in a Muslims shoes in Iraq or Iran or anywhere in the Mid- East....Would you wnat your core beleifs taken from you?
9/11 was necessary, just as all wars are.
Almost 3000 human beings died in that short couple of hours. Americans or not these were people, many of whome were doing a job to save the lives of other. People like you and me. The uk has NEVER suffered a terrorist attck even close to the scale of this. Sure we lived with the IRA for years but theres a huge difference.
I started this post to remeber those who died, not to start a debate on right and wrong.
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I was working as a car valeter back then.
We were cleaning a Vauxhall Sintra at the time and one of the salesmen told us to get the radio on.
Then we noticed that the Sintra had 2 tv's in the head rests (customers car) and we all gathered around.
I was a bit shell shocked at the time and worried about my parents (they live in California) because i thought it was all out war!
All this on the day before my brithday too.
:(
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I know where I was, I also knew where I was when the IRA detonated bombs in Manchester and Warrington.
At least we knew what was happening, the Yanks just chose to ignore what was coming through pure arrogance.
9/11 was not that special for me, nor will it ever be.
It is just another messed up episode in a world full of greed and destruction. :roll:
I totally understand where BinLaden is coming from.....I am not too keen on capitalism and I would not want democracy shoved down my throat by greedy westerners....I do not condone his methods, but I undersatnd the reasons behind them.
Try walking a mile in a Muslims shoes in Iraq or Iran or anywhere in the Mid- East....Would you wnat your core beleifs taken from you?
9/11 was necessary, just as all wars are.
Almost 3000 human beings died in that short couple of hours. Americans or not these were people, many of whome were doing a job to save the lives of other. People like you and me. The uk has NEVER suffered a terrorist attck even close to the scale of this. Sure we lived with the IRA for years but theres a huge difference.
I started this post to remeber those who died, not to start a debate on right and wrong.
I can respect that, but......It is an emotive issue that goes very deep with myself.
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I had just got back in the truck at Wickes in town turned radio on It was steve Wright on Radio 2.
as for 7/7 london Bombings we were winching a tree out of the wreake in Melton park. We stopped what we were doing wandered into the centre to watch it on telly.
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The 7/7 bombings were a bit more scary.
I was in Tavistock Square the day before.
On the day we worried about our colleagues that were delivering in London but all were OK.
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I was at school getting shouted at for watching the tv
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I was taking my wife and daughter to Heathrow to get on a plane to New York to see wife's mother.
Daughter was asleep in the car so we didn't have the radio on - Got in a lift at the airport and a guy asks where we are going - When we said he started to tell us what had happened - I thought why would someone try and make a 3 year old feel so bad about flying with such a load of BS - I was ready to deck him.
Walked in to the terminal and there was not a sound - Very strange feeling.
Got to give full marks to Virgin - Got all our money back, even the booking fee.
Anyone who can condone the killing of so many innocent people is sick - If that was an act of war where were the military they were attacking?
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I was serving in Germany but on leave back in the UK. I remember seeing the live footage just after the first plane struck and thought it was a new take on the Orson Wells radio show (War of the Worlds). It took almost 5 mins to fully realise it was real and then I felt sick.
I was surprised the following day at the port at Harwich, the papers were full of all the gory details including pictures of those who chose to jump (I still think that those images were printed irresponsibly). There seemed to be no additional security at the port!
The next 6 weeks at work were hard too as the alert state went through the roof and paranoia set in.
I hope we never have to witness an atrocity like that again. Worse things have happened of course and I am sure more will. It was just because of the media coverage (live) that made it as shocking.
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I was at home watching it all happen on Sky News. :(
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I can still remember my boss coming back into the office and saying 'I've just heard the most dreadful news ...' her next few words as she explained what had happened are a blur - it took a couple of days for it to sink in that anyone was capable of such an act.
I think what I found most shocking was that the victims of the attacks were ordinary people, exactly the same as me, who had gone to work as normal to pay the bills. No matter what the organisation is, what the nature of its business is, how powerful, how glamorous, it still needs its cleaners, its admin staff, its catering staff and all the other usually unsung support staff, in order to function, in other words all the ordinary plebs like me, and these were amongst the victims.
RIP ALL the innocent victims of terrorism.
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It was(still is) my birthday, when plane one hit I was in my car on my way home from work so got home and put sky news on immediatly to see second plane hit.
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Was at home watching it all happen on BBC news, sitting there absolutely stunned and thinking the sh**s really hit the fan now.
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was running a busy mot station, when the lads came in from the workshop and told me the news, turned over the corparate tv in reception, and yes was very hard to believe what was going on in front of me, At that same time we fairly but completely slated a chaps nova on its test, he just paid up and said "on the scheme of things my mot isnt worth getting worried about" How very true,
As a reality check when things are "bad" for me i simply think of other parts of the world -- famine,disease, violence, terrorism , dictatorship-the list goes on-- and brings me back to reality , I guess most us arevery lucky really, I moan about being skint/overdrawn, poo on from most angles ect ect and then really i have 8ugger all to winge about really, things could be a LOT worse
for 7/7 i was in my first week of training to become a guard on the railways, i now am,
On a lighter note i guess having a overdraft n being skint is the price we pay for dabbling with the green oval ???
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Got home from school, about an hour later dad comes home "You seen what's happening? They're at war out their." And turns sky news on
For 7/7 I was doing work experience in the parts stock room at Hadwins Audi, first we knew was when one of them got a message on his bleeper (Regestered Paramedic) and we turned the BBC News Website on.
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I was sat watching it unfold with Sky/Fox news coverage in a Government Press Office.