9/11

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Jonny68

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6 year now since the disaster that was 9/11, does everyone remember what they were doing on that fateful day?

I remember well, i was working in London at that time for a web design company,i read online that there was some type of attack on the World Trade Centre so said it to the others, we turned on the TV and just watched in disbelief at what was happening.

I know someone who lost a relative that day so today is always one for commemoration for them and many others..RIP to all.
 
I was in Ibiza, we didn't even hear about it til 36 hours after it happened, I think we were one of the few people in the world who weren't aware what was going on.

Can't believe it's 6 years ago.
 
Barbie said:
I was in Ibiza, we didn't even hear about it til 36 hours after it happened, I think we were one of the few people in the world who weren't aware what was going on.

Can't believe it's 6 years ago.
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me and you have talked about this before, haven't we??

and erick's new york new york tribute at WLS

(hello btw!)
 
Barbie said:
I was in Ibiza, we didn't even hear about it til 36 hours after it happened, I think we were one of the few people in the world who weren't aware what was going on.

Can't believe it's 6 years ago.
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I can understand if your somewhere on holiday like Ibiza you wouldn't necessarily know what's happening elsewhere in the world.

I remember getting the Tube that evening, i think it was Fulham Broadway or something, everyone was just reading copy's of the Evening Standard in silence and there was some man with a big placard on the platform saying "the end is nigh, London will be next" 8O put the creeps right up me and he may have been mad but it turned out he was right as London did ineed suffer an attack several years later.
 
God it was awful - we were in the middle of a massive Board Meeting - someone rushed in to say put the screen on (we have 24 hour news on at work constantly in the vid/con room) and we just sat in disbelief for the rest of the day - in between making calls to our guys who were working in the WTC - we lost 12 staff who working at client sites at the time...

A truly awful day.....
 
was sat at work surfing the net... and watch the whole thing unfold from aviation accident to a full blown terrorist attack/govt conspiracy.

a very surreal feeling that morning.
 
I moved to Moscow 2 weeks before, and had spent a week of that in Ibiza, so I was just settling in. At 5:45pm, I got a phone call from my travel agency to come pick up my registration (foreigners have to register with the police in Russia). As I walked out the door, Russian channel NTV had a news brief and showed the airplanes hitting and then the towers falling.

I couldn't stay to watch as the travel agency closed at 6:00pm, so I rushed down to their office near Red Sq to pick up my document. Surreal moment - the travel agency had a large photo of the twin towers on the wall as part of a montage of destinations. They weren't watching TV - I told them those towers no longer exist.

I then stepped out on Revolution Sq (right next to Red Sq) and called my brother in NYC to make sure he was ok.

I hadn't installed cable TV at home yet so instead of heading back there to try to decipher news in Russian, I ducked into an Internet cafe at the shopping center right next to the Kremlin. I remember it was nearly impossible to get the news websites to reload as there was so much traffic. I spent a couple of hours there.

I then went to the Aerostar Hotel where a friend of mine in town on business was staying along with a high-ranking US government official. Together, we sat in the hotel lobby glued to CNN into the wee hours of the night.

When I tell the story, I always think - all those years growing up, we always thought it was the Russians who would attack us. Here I was, at the center of Russia, watching the attack come from someone or something entirely different.

Also frightening that the two attacks came where my family lived at the time - Washington (and more specifically, the Virginia suburbs) and New York.
 
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I was working in my first job in Watford, I got an email from my friend saying "A plane has crashed into the World Trade Centre" with jokey references about "only in America" sort of thing. We didn't realise the severity of it until word went round the office saying "put the TV on". Everyone went downstairs to our reception where we saw both towers on fire, we realised then that this wasn't just some stupid mistake, those planes were flown into the towers on purpose.
I remember watching the coverage of people jumping out from the windows, and the sheer unbelievable shock when the towers fell. I remember just standing there with my hand over my mouth and nobody around me saying anything, everyone was just speechless and what we were watching.

I was glued to the coverage all day and just remember feeling so, so sad at how humans can do this to eachother :cry:
 
I was in Ibiza, on the beach in Figueretas. I remember Morillo missing his night at pacha because there were no outbound flight from the us.
 
puppylover said:
God it was awful - we were in the middle of a massive Board Meeting - someone rushed in to say put the screen on (we have 24 hour news on at work constantly in the vid/con room) and we just sat in disbelief for the rest of the day - in between making calls to our guys who were working in the WTC - we lost 12 staff who working at client sites at the time...

A truly awful day.....
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that must have been terrible.

it's one thing looking at it happen, but to have a link like that must have made it seem even closer to home.

After it happened i was convinced someone somewhere was about to be nuked, i remember ringing the missus at work and telling her to get home on time for once.
 
I was at my then office in the West End of San Antonio. I went down to watch the tv in Mega Music and saw the first tower go down live. It didn't look real.

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I was in Ibiza too (surprise :lol:)...got told that evening by one of the old dears we'd befriended in our hotel.

Didn't realise the seriousness until I checked the telly - at which point we convinced ourselves armageddon had hit and fluffed over the issue with a vodka binge and VERY inappropriate giggling session.

The following day was spent at Sa Trinxa - VERY strange atmosphere...and the only cloudy sky of the holiday.

Still ranks as my fave year spent on the island so far tho.
 
MARKB said:
that must have been terrible.

it's one thing looking at it happen, but to have a link like that must have made it seem even closer to home.

After it happened i was convinced someone somewhere was about to be nuked, i remember ringing the missus at work and telling her to get home on time for once.
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it was horrible yet at the same time it was hard to believe it was real. For some bizarre and surreal reason - I kept imagining Bruce Willis in a dirty white vest coming running down the street from where the WTC were shouting Yippee ki Ay - it was so "Hollywood Blockbuster" but then my brain kept switching to "F*** this is real.....
 
chewie_oo7 said:
sorry thats ****ed up!
:lol:
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Perhaps, but it really did look like that. Our entertainment braintrust in Hollywood comes up with the most amazing horrors to inflict upon all mankind in the movies (usually centered around a US city, i.e. War of the Worlds, Independence Day, etc).

When you watched the towers go down, it looked like something straight out of a CGI-laden Hollywood summer popcorn movie.

If not Bruce, then Denzel. Maybe Keanu to attract a younger audience.

It just looked too unreal to fathom that it really happened. I don't think I understood it fully until I went to NYC 16 months later and saw that big empty space where lives used to be.
 
Morbyd said:
It just looked too unreal to fathom that it really happened. I don't think I understood it fully until I went to NYC 16 months later and saw that big empty space where lives used to be.
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same ere.

was one big building site when i went.

still think it a govt cover up
 
chewie_oo7 said:
same ere.

was one big building site when i went.

still think it a govt cover up
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I don't think there's much to cover up. Outsmarted and caught off guard.

I drove by the Pentagon on that same trip. Similarly surreal... you could see the part that was being rebuilt. I used to go by that building every day to work a few years earlier.
 
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