NFR 9/11

[Andrew]

I've just been watching a moving documentary about 9/11... I can't wait until the end so am recording it.

Brings things back into sharp focus.

[cookieg]

This was one of those JFK moments. I was working for Barclays Bank at the time and was in the Camden branch when this happened and just couldn't comprehend what I was seeing. I went to the 9/11 memorial in NYC a while back and was amazed at how small the footprint was of the towers but the museum is so moving you can't help crying at it all.

[Logicalman]

This was one of those JFK moments. I was working for Barclays Bank at the time and was in the Camden branch when this happened and just couldn't comprehend what I was seeing. I went to the 9/11 memorial in NYC a while back and was amazed at how small the footprint was of the towers but the museum is so moving you can't help crying at it all.

Totally agree. Visiting the memorial brought a lot of memories of that day back, and stands as a reminder to all.


I was in my office in Indy when I saw the initial BBC post about a 'small plane' hitting an office tower in NY, that was around 8:45, not all my colleagues were in the office by that time, but as they arrived the story was being filled out and the full horror set it, most went home.
Suffice to say, just about everything seemed to stop that day, and watching the evening news and feeds was traumatizing.

I was still a Brit only at that time, but you could not ignore the grief friends, family and neighbours had, it was a levelling experience for all walks of life, age and status, and woke America up to the world outside it's borders in the most dreadful of ways.

Tribute always to those firefighters, EMTs and cops that ran towards the towers on that day, many of whom gave everything, literally, to save others.

[perry geyton]

was listening live to Howard stern that morning was absolutely mental

[Holders]

It's one of those events - like Kennedy getting shot, Man landing on the moon, Thatcher resigning and Diana dying - when we can all remember where we were.

I was at my desk and one of the directors had an American client visiting that morning. He later told me that the client's reaction was "this will really hit my investments".

[C Block]

If you've never heard American country singer Alan Jackson  sing "where were you" (when the world stopped turning)
I suggest you take a few minutes or so to listen, wonderful song and truly moving.

[FFCBadger]

I'd popped back home from work for lunch and turned the TV on. The first plane had hit and I didnt know what I was watching. Then the second hit and it was obvious. I got back to work and no-one knew a thing, word spread and no work was done that afternoon.

What's the name of the doc?

[rcube333]

I worked in the World Financial Center which is across the street to the west of the WTC site. I flew out the night before and was in Germany on a business trip. Watching it on tv I thought some of my colleagues must have died but luckily they were all safe. Watching documentaries on it is still tough for me. 

[YankeeJim]

I was living in LA County at the time and was lying in bed, looking at the alarm clock which was set to go off at six am. At five of six my phone rang and when I answered my sister-in-law said, "some dumb sob just flew an airplane into the World Trade Center". She and my wife had only four months earlier taken a girls trip to NYC and took a series of photos from the top of the Trade Center. I turned on the TV and the first image I saw was the second plane. Scary. All I could think was "My God, we're at war". As a combat veteran I know what that really means. I just didn't know nor understand how so many politicians could then and even until now, screw the whole thing up so bad.  To those that perished that day.

[FloridaFFC]

I was in my senior year of High School about two hours north of Shanksville, PA; where the fourth plane went down. My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, was going to Robert Morris University, which is even closer to the crash site. When we eventually talked the whole area was shut down and everything was at a stand still. 

My innocence and naivety died that day and i still can't watch any docs on it. My wife and I ended up visiting NYC in 2010 and they had yet to finish the memorial site. We walked through the makeshift museum and the room that played the audio recordings of the voicemails left by loved ones to their families will forever echo in my ears.

[The Rock]

I worked in the World Financial Center which is across the street to the west of the WTC site. I flew out the night before and was in Germany on a business trip. Watching it on tv I thought some of my colleagues must have died but luckily they were all safe. Watching documentaries on it is still tough for me. 

Where? I worked for ML at 4 WFC at the time as well and was on holiday in Ireland playing golf at the time as well. 1 under after 7, heard the news and finished with a 95! Going back after saw some not so great stuff. I've been tough as nails ever since.

[SG]

I was at lunch with a group of Americans from Boston. We went back to their hotel room and watched the horror unfold live on the television. Their cars were parked at Logan airport and had to be retrieved from a parking lot many miles away on their arrival back in the States

[Fulham Tup North]

 
I was working at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, it was the first day of the PLASA Exhibition ...  stands from across the world ... they had the news live on giant screens in Earls Court One.... such a sombre day... people could not believe what they were seeing.. so many Americans were on site.. everyone felt for them.
Such a sad day... 😔

[St Eve]

I live in New York and was in Manhattan that day. I was also the project manager for the construction of the restaurant on the top floor, windows of the World. Lost a lot of colleagues that day.

[bencher]

I live in New York and was in Manhattan that day. I was also the project manager for the construction of the restaurant on the top floor, windows of the World. Lost a lot of colleagues that day.

Very sorry for your loss, it must have been very traumatic.

I was on a gap year programme with lots of New Yorkers, one of whom's father worked at the WTC. We were on a tourbus  when it was suddenly all over the news and he was freaking out, until he finally got confirmation that his father had a meeting away from the office that morning. You couldn't help but watch the footage of the second plane hitting the building with incredulity. Nothing was ever the same again.

[akf]

I was working a block away on the 42nd floor of a building on Broadway, the one with the big red cube.  There was an early meeting going on in the boardroom when the first plane hit. I was at my desk complaining about the amount of coffee the cart guy gave me in my Grecian Urn cup when the meeting room emptied and people went to the windows to take a look. That is how I found out. The first plane hit the north tower and we had no view of the impact site. 

A few of us went down the elevators and were standing in front of the doors to the building, looking at the paper debris on the ground and more still floating in the air. I recall seeing some which looked like the old style hard paper airline tickets with dot matrix printing, they were from a firm called Cantor Fitzgerald.  The moment after I register that company name in my head, I look up at the second plane sliding right into the second building, then a massive fireball.  I look down at the crowd between the towers and me, and people just started running at me in a wave of panic. 

I will never forget that feeling.  A stampede of scared adults out of their minds with fear running right at me.  I got out of the way behind some concrete planters. After the rush thinned out, I started to jog, over Chase plaza and past the ugly Dubuffet statue they had. After going down the stairs I stopped in the plaza by the Fed which was used in the Die Hard 3 movie.

I found a few coworkers and we walked up town. Later on I was able to locate my wife who was working in midtown, and we made it down to Brooklyn.  I still have a full copy of the NY Times from the day after. 

Well, my eldest daughter was conceived during the next few weeks while I couldn't get back to the office, and prior to her birth we made a last-in-a-long-time vacation to the UK.  I saw my first Fulham game on that trip, and that is why you are stuck with me.