9/11 5 Years on

[battybetty]

I had to watch it. But you do get immediately drawn into the intense emotion and horror of it all. It felt like it was just yesterday again.
I admit I did end up watching much of it through tears. I defy anyone to get through the whole programme without shedding more than a few tears.
I remember being in work when it happened. My son, who was only 16 at the time, called my office. I thought he was playing some sick joke. I even shouted at him not to be so stupid.
was the first on my floor hear about it. I began to cry as he described the scenes to me over the telephone.
Being a large government building and situated opposite an army barracks, we were immediately placed on alert.
The silence in my office was deafening, people were just struck dumb in disbelief. I can still see the looks on their faces now...

[silenthill]

I was in Florida with my family when it happened, we had just got there 3 days previous to it happening.

It was the most awful thing to watch it on the news, they kept showing the people jumping out of the buildings and replays of the planes hitting from every angle, it was like they had to keep replaying it over and over again, I found it quite disturbing and very sad.

Around Florida there were tonnes of american flags flying everywhere, messages on billboards "in god we trust", "god bless America", and messages to those people who had lost loved ones but we heard no Americans actually speak of it the whole time we were there, it was very much business as usual.

We were out there for 3 weeks, on the way home there were 17 people in total travelling on the plane, it wasn't very nice, I was also travelling on a seperate plane to my family so it was really quite a scary time for me.

[ravengirl]

i remember what happened and where i was i was in the cinema watching moulin rouge very powerful film blew me away so i already in a kind of shock when my mum called me within mins of coming out of the cinema and told me, it was very shocking as are all the events that have happened since, got to ask yourself when did it all start ppl have different views and opinions to why it happened i think it was revenge personally

[CazPar]

wigangirl said:

imagine my horror 5 years ago, at high school having a great day celebrating my birthday. I came in on a high and saw that on the tv, i was in shock

I think it's a bit like it is for people in their 50s and above when JFK got shot. They say that you always remember where you were when you heard that JFK was shot.

On 11th September 2001 I was at work and I heard about it in the smoking hut. Someone said two planes had crashed into the World Trade Centre. I thought they were joking, but when I got back to the lab I asked the guys and they confirmed it. I also remember thinking how I had to ask, and how I knew that they wouldn't have told me if I hadn't asked.

Which also reminds me of the other trivia that those gits wouldn't have told me if my lab coat was on fire I didn't ask them. I'm so glad I got made redundant and left there.

But yeah, it was horrid, over and over on the news, images we will never forget. We never thought it could happen there, did we? It has been non stop war since