For bored folks (Re: 9/11)

For those who are slightly bored and weren't here 4 years ago, if you go to the final page of this forum you'll see a thread which was made while the attacks were happening and people's reactions.

 

Makes for quite a harrowing read. Really was America's second day of infamy - lets pray there isn't a third.

 

Twas a tragedy which should not befall any nation. Even one as ignorant as America

 

It was truly terrible. I remember going to my Gran's after school on that day. I turned on the radio only to discover that the attack was going on. We were watching BBC News 24 all evening.

Harrowing times.

 

I came home to watch TV & discovered the same thing on almost every channel

I didn't really kinow what was going on until my mum phoned and said what had happened

I feared for those in Canary Wharf for ages afterwards

 

The first I heard about it was at 1615, when I switched on the TV to watch Countdown.

 

I was digging a site in lincolnshire, miles from anywhere and all we had to go on was the txt alerts one of the site managers were getting. In our imaginations we thought it was independence day. I prob missed a really important significant find because i wasnt concentrating, that day.

 

I got home from school and turned on BBC2 to watch some programme or other. Instead, I saw two people talking. Wondering what this was about, I watched longer and discovered what had happened.
I then turned over to SkyNews and further information came in. At this point, I still didn't know both towers had collapsed. I phoned my Nan and she told me that they'd both collapsed. It was utter shock. At first I didn't believe her and said she must be mistaken. I then saw the towers collapse on the TV.
I watched SkyNews and CNN every night until the dust from the collapse settled.
A truly awful day. We shall never forget those who lost their lives that tragic day.

 

I'd arrived in New York a few days before, and the hijackings happened the morning I was due to fly home. Hence, I was stuck out there a while longer.