9/11 (1 Viewer)

I was at work in my office just north of Canal St. Heard the first plane impact and then watched the second hit and both towers fall from the roof of our building. Walked home to Brooklyn that evening over the Manhattan Bridge. I work in the WTC now - I’m here today; security incredibly tight with Biden, Harris, Trump and Vance all on site this morning.

I had the day off work to go to look at fireplaces in the shops at Ernesford Grange.
Was watching it on telly before i went out. It was surreal as they initially thought the first impact was an accident and then you saw the second one. A moment that changed the world in a bad way.

People talking about how there was no smartphones etc. I wonder what would be the reaction of some nowadays with social media?

Would you see loads of people close by running to the site to get it on their phone to put on instagram, youtube etc?

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:

People talking about how there was no smartphones etc. I wonder what would be the reaction of some nowadays with social media?

Would you see loads of people close by running to the site to get it on their phone to put on instagram, youtube etc?

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Almost certainly. Getting in the way of the emergency services.

9/11 is the entire basis for my job still being around.

At that time there was a lot of talk of scrapping large parts 24/7 QRA ops for the UK namely Military Radars etc as we could rely on NATS to do everything. I'm lucky that some of the people I work with were conducting uk surveillance/ops at the time and the stories of the impact on airspace after is crazy. 23 years on and the vast majority of UK air policing is still based around this threat.

Saddlebrains said:

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On the day it didn’t seem real. Nobody knew what was going to happen next; that was the scariest. It’s odd the things that trigger memories though; the kids selling $5 rides on wheeled office chairs for those to infirm to walk home over the Manhattan Bridge. The quietness in the following days other than F15’s patrolling over the city. Eating free big Mac’s courtesy of a mobile McDonalds at ground zero (we were providing structural triaging for cranes and recovery equipment placement for the OEM). Will take the kids to the Essex County 9/11 memorial at Eagle Rock tonight where we live in NJ.

Saddlebrains said:

Almost a quarter of a century on today.

The world changed for the worse that day as we all know. One of them days that you always remember where you were.

So, where were you and what are your memories of it?

For me I remember coming home from school (had just started secondary) looked at the TV and said to my mum "what film is this?"

She responded "it's not a film mate. It's happening now". Will always remember that

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Had P.E that afternoon - Golf at Hawkesbury, driving back in the minibus, it came through on the radio, my grandad was picking me up as we were off to Pboro for a city game (ended 0-0 and an awful penalty shootout)