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Dom

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11th Sep 13 at 14:00

I was celebrating my 16th birthday; it put me off the slice of cake i was eating

Tiger

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11th Sep 13 at 14:05

I was 21, at work, all standing round the radios as it unfolded. Still hard to believe it happened.

Hammer

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11th Sep 13 at 14:16

I went to a Strathclyde Uni Open Day i.e. Pizza Hut.

My most vivid memory of the day though is of my relatives in America, who are NY cops, posting pictures from a hill fairly close to the Twin Towers laughing and posing with the smoking building in the background. Found out later they hadn't a clue what was happening, just acting like typical Americans.

John

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11th Sep 13 at 14:19

I think I made it to that open day then we went to the bar in Cineworld, didn't hear about it until I was getting the bus back to school.

Balling

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11th Sep 13 at 14:19

Remember laughing at the news of some retard hitting the WTC in a plane.

Then got home in time to see the second plane hit and both buildings collapse live on CNN.

Ben G

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11th Sep 13 at 14:25

Was doing the monitoring at my school. End of the day, a mate came over and said what had happened and they'd all been watching it instead of doing p.e.

We then went to a mates house who lived on the same road as the school to watch it.

Even today, I can't believe what I saw. Horrific.

whitter45

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11th Sep 13 at 14:32

quote:
Originally posted by micra_pete
The impact that this event has had on the world and normal people has been huge.

No matter your view on the 9/11 issue, its causes, the wrongs and rights or conspiracy theories. Its worth noting that in addition to the 3000 people who tragically lost their lives the following

I've tried to take low figures, and I think most people or of the opinion that 9/11 was the catalyst.

Iraq War (from the wikileaks cables - 2010)
"Civilian" (66,081 deaths)
"Enemy" (23,984 deaths)
"Coalition" (3,771 deaths)

All the above figures have increased since these records (civilian is at least 110,000, civilian now and 4,799 coalition).

Afganistan War
"Coalition" (3,372 deaths - one of which was a friend)
"Civilian" (over 3000 this year)

NSA / GHCQ spying, anti terror coverall laws, War crimes on all sides.

It was an horrific event that will be remembers and the impact of felt by many people for many years to come.

in time to come the death toll will be huge due to all the cancer related illness involved in the rescue/clean up

Its one of the most moving experiences being at ground zero, maybe not as much now as the towers are rising Been 3 times since 2009

I know in 2009 when I first went and the freedom tower was only 3 floors high it was very moving

3CorsaMeal

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11th Sep 13 at 14:39

We hardly mention the london bombings.

RichR

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11th Sep 13 at 14:44

I think you have to look at it comparatively; any loss of life is terrible but 9/11 deaths were 2977 whereas 7/7 was 52. It was also the scale of the atrocities and the fear factors that came thereafter - to hijack not one plane but four and fly them into landmarks like the WTC and pentagon seems so far from comprehension to even consider as an act. That's not to take anything at all away from 7/7 but 9/11 was also the initiation point of much of what will define the early 21st century.

3CorsaMeal

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11th Sep 13 at 14:50

Pentagon deffo was the USAs doing imo

mike56gte

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11th Sep 13 at 14:53

quote:
Originally posted by SVM 286
Jammy bit of timing there Mike. Just a few days later mate

Edit: Edited for terrible spelling.

[Edited on 11-09-2013 by SVM 286]

I know! Think about that all the time.

SVM 286

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11th Sep 13 at 15:06

quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
I went to a Strathclyde Uni Open Day i.e. Pizza Hut.

My most vivid memory of the day though is of my relatives in America, who are NY cops, posting pictures from a hill fairly close to the Twin Towers laughing and posing with the smoking building in the background. Found out later they hadn't a clue what was happening, just acting like typical Americans.

Ooh.

Regret much? (as they would say)

Conway563

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11th Sep 13 at 17:40

I remember watching most of it with my girlfriend and her just crying the whole time as her dad was meant to be on a plane at the time after working at the pentagon

AlunJ

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11th Sep 13 at 17:55

I was doing my paper round after school, and if you remember you could subscribe to news and sports text messages, had it come up on there, then came home to watch it on telly. RIP

alan-g-w

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11th Sep 13 at 18:05

Remember when the BBC reported the third building falling before it happened

Aaron

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11th Sep 13 at 19:00

I can remember the day like it was yesterday. I was just starting out in the I.T, working at a secondary school who were getting ready for the students to come back.

A female member of staff (no pics) came into the area i was working and asked if we "knew what was happening in the world". I looked on Yahoo at that point and saw a very early photograph of the first impact. It didnt look to be much, and the first reports said that it was a small plane. I was like, "meh", and then i went to the caretakers room who had the TV on...and then the buildings fell. Madness

Parents were on holiday at the time, and for some reason knew nothing about what had happened...even 7 hours after the planes hit.

mike56gte

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11th Sep 13 at 19:22

quote:
Originally posted by alan-g-w
Remember when the BBC reported the third building falling before it happened

Did they?

VegasPhil

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11th Sep 13 at 19:28

This is the only thing in our lifetime where you can ask anybody what they were doing on that day. Tragic event. I was walking home from School and it was on in the Youth centre.

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Matt H

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11th Sep 13 at 19:52

All this just for my CS 12th birthday

mike56gte

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11th Sep 13 at 20:04

Did you register before or after the attacks?

Matt H

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11th Sep 13 at 20:05

Because of them

Jambo

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11th Sep 13 at 20:09

Ive missed that avatar Hogan

I was off work that day, driving my new car, an 18Month old Corsa B. My mate text me and told me to turn tv on, so went home and spent rest of the day in disbelief.

SVM 286

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11th Sep 13 at 20:19

quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
All this just for my CS 12th birthday

Bloody hell Matt!

You picked a hell of a day to register.

SVM 286

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11th Sep 13 at 20:25

Just re-watching 'The Falling Man' on More4 and one of the interviewees mentioned something I don't remember hearing before.

I don't know which tower he was referring to and it could well have been the case for both.

He said that when the aircraft struck the building, the fireball it generated immediately, travelled all the way down a lift shaft or shafts and people were burned almost instantly in the actual lobby of the building!

Ronson

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11th Sep 13 at 20:39

quote:
Originally posted by Tomnova16
mental, remember it like yesterday
some people on here were 5 years old at the time

[Edited on 11-09-2013 by Tomnova16]

Some are still that age mentally.

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