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« on: 11 September 2011, 12:02 PM » |
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Doesn't time fly? It's hard to believe it's 10 years since 9/11 happened. I remember that day really well still. Does everyone else remember where they were and what they were doing that day?
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« Reply #1 on: 11 September 2011, 12:12 PM » |
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Can't believe how quick it has gone, I remember coming home from school and seeing it on tv.
It looks worse every time I see it on tv when the planes went into the twin towers and the sight of seeing people jump out of the buildings is just horrible.
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« Reply #2 on: 11 September 2011, 12:19 PM » |
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Strange, I don't remember anything about it. I know I was only nine at the time but still.
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« Reply #3 on: 11 September 2011, 12:23 PM » |
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I was at work and somebody came in and said a plane had crashed into the world trade centre. We all thought it must've been a small plane and it was an accident. We put the television on and couldn't believe what we were seeing. Then the second plane smashed into the other building. Perhaps the maddest thing I've ever seen in my life.
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« Reply #4 on: 11 September 2011, 01:14 PM » |
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Similar to me Dave. I went to a meeting and as I got there someone told me a plane (we all thought it was a small one) had crashed into one of the towers.
As the meeting went on, someone came into it and told us that all hell was breaking lose in America - that the tower was on fire and told us about loads of reports of suspected hijacked planes.
After the meeting we came out to see TV reports about it, with everybody stood around watching it.
As it was all happening in America it did not really bother me too much - just a morbid fascination with events. It really hit home the next time I caught a plane though with all the baggage checks and later still with those tossers who attempted to blow up the planes with liquids - and the subsequent airport checks that followed - bastards!
I can remember JFK being shot too, if anybody is interested!
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« Reply #5 on: 11 September 2011, 01:14 PM » |
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My wee boy was 7mths old and was in the house with a friend while I cut the grass outside. She called me in to watch the news and I think we just thought it was a terrible accident. She called me back in a short while later when the second plane hit and the garden never got finished. We sat there speechless just watching the news as it unfolded. My thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones in the towers and on the flights that went down.
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« Reply #6 on: 11 September 2011, 02:33 PM » |
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I was in my last year of secondary school, was quite ironic that I was in a Religious Education classroom at the time it happened.
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« Reply #7 on: 11 September 2011, 02:35 PM » |
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I was sat in a pub when the news broke.
Stayed all day to watch/get pissed.
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« Reply #8 on: 11 September 2011, 04:12 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: 11 September 2011, 05:05 PM » |
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I was at work when the news broke on the tv. A work colleague who was a former squaddie turned round and said. ' It will be the work of Bin Laden.' I must admit I didn't really know anything about Bin Laden at that time. I can remember thinking the whole thing was almost surreal. I am sure the Americans must of been in a state of shock for some time. I find it quite fitting and apt that they hunted Bin Laden down before the tenth anniversary.
I can't remember Kennedy getting shot nor England winning the World Cup. I was still at junior school and I was more interested in getting my sixpence pocket money on a Friday night so i could head down to the corner shop.
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« Reply #10 on: 11 September 2011, 09:25 PM » |
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was a work when the whispers started to happen, so the TV's got turned on and tuned into BBC1 (instead of some stupid RBS shíte channel). I can remember sitting at my desk and watching as the 1st tower came down and not really realising what was happening - as it just seemed like a disaster film! Then as the second tower came down and the smoke, dust and debris started to fill the streets of New York - the whole office just fell silent.
Even when going back to Radcliffe, on the tram (as I used to catch teh tram from Radcliffe station in those days) everyone was silent and just seem stunned.
A very erie day
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« Reply #11 on: 11 September 2011, 09:35 PM » |
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Jesus, those ten years certainly have whizzed by. Was a shocking day and what for - just lots of people losing their lifes for no reason.
I was watching some of the footage today on one of the documentary channels, I think the most awful part was seeing people hanging out of the windows over 100 floors up with minutes left to live and people jumping from 100 floors up, you just can't imagine how awful it must have been for them knowing their lives were over.
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« Reply #13 on: 11 September 2011, 10:54 PM » |
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I wonder how long it took them to hit the ground? I bet it was quite a while if they were high up. What must've been going through their heads as they fell?
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« Reply #14 on: 11 September 2011, 10:56 PM » |
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Is there any truth in what someone told me once that people jumping from such a height are actually dead before they hit the ground?
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« Reply #15 on: 11 September 2011, 10:57 PM » |
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Why would that happen? People who free fall during a parachute jump would die if that was true surely?
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« Reply #16 on: 11 September 2011, 11:27 PM » |
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They died when they hit the ground; or if they hit the building on the way down.
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« Reply #17 on: 11 September 2011, 11:40 PM » |
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Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid
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« Reply #18 on: 12 September 2011, 08:34 AM » |
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They died when they hit the ground; or if they hit the building on the way down.
I saw something about this on some 9/11 programme the other day. Apparently they exploded like a water balloon when they hit the ground and nothing was left of them. |
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« Reply #19 on: 12 September 2011, 12:41 PM » |
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I saw something about this on some 9/11 programme the other day. Apparently they exploded like a water balloon when they hit the ground and nothing was left of them.
I would like to think that if I worked in a building that high up that I would purchase a parachute and leave it in my drawer at work just in case of an emergency. It is a shame the building didn't have a big fireman's pole or ladder for people to climb down the outside of the building. I don't think I would have jumped no matter how bad it was in there. |
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« Reply #20 on: 12 September 2011, 12:45 PM » |
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It was either burn to death or jump I guess.
Tough choice.
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« Reply #21 on: 12 September 2011, 12:49 PM » |
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Suffocation would have got to most of those, who died in the Twin Towers, before being burned.
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« Reply #22 on: 13 September 2011, 09:48 AM » |
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I was off my face in Amsterdam when it happened. I was all very surreal.
I turned off that 9/11 tribute on Sunday. Depressing as fucck.
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« Reply #23 on: 13 September 2011, 03:36 PM » |
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I can remember JFK being shot too, if anybody is interested! What was the coverage like in the UK, Sluffy? Obviously it was a major event but the world was much less connected then, and certainly there was no 24 hour news cycle. |
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« Reply #24 on: 13 September 2011, 03:47 PM » |
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I was watching something not too long ago about JFK being shot. Was he shot twice? One in the neck, you see him grab his neck and cough or gasp for air, then the shot to the head. The guy sat in front of him also takes a bullet I think?
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