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9/11 can you remember where u was??

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Rich_P:
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.

landyman Ash:
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.

smog:
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.

dazzawhipple:
I was travelling back from a meeting in Arburg Moulding machines in Lemington spa

listenning to the radio

Darren

DaveS:
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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