15 Years ago , on this date

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https://youtu.be/XYeog6lXjAA

 

[John]

I was conscious of the date a day or so ago.

Can't believe 15 years have passed since.

Yahoo did a good "before and after" set of pictures:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/9-11-then-now-15-090031476/photo-p-twin-towers-world-trade-photo-090031190.html

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Yes, still so fresh in my memory. My aunt was enjoying a tour around the North Tower just the day before this happened. I'll never forget us all watching the chilling live footage on the news.

Even 15 years on I'm still drawn to watching TV documentaries about the attack. It warms my heart to read and hear about the many hero's on that day that risked their own lives to help others.

Ant.

 

[Gollom]

The former Mrs. Gollom and I were supposed to be meeting a friend in NY but she could not make it. so we changed plans and went to Homestead, FLA instead. At about 8am EDT that day, we set off for Sarasota. We had the radio on and of course, the very first report was that a light aircraft had flown into the side of a tower. We stopped for coffee and all TV's were tuned to the news and the true horror of what was happening became apparent. Was an extraordinary time and my estimation of Americans and their resilience increased 10 fold

Incidentally, we got caught up in Hurricane Garbrielle in Sarasota when there, so something was trying to get us!

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

Wow it goes so quick, I was working at McDonald's at the time on window 3. I remember commotion from the break room and people gasping, me and a colleague walked in there just as the second plane flew into the second tower,

I thought they were watching a film at first. Crazy

 

[brucemillar]

It was my office.

Sent from my iPhone using MBClub UK

 

[moonloops]

Our "tea lady" at work mentioned an air crash in NYC, I was working for a global USA company at the time in London and the memory is so vivid. Within 2 hours the airspace over london was empty of aircraft.

Still the USA and UK remain bound as close friends regardless of other influences.....

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

The time has passed so quickly since that very sad day. It didn't seem real as it all unfolded on television, and even now fifteen years later, it still doesn't seem real.

Unusually I left the office very early that day, and apparently I was on the last train out of Euston, as they started to lock down and tighten security in London.

 

[moonloops]

The time has passed so quickly since that very sad day. It didn't seem real as it all unfolded on television, and even now fifteen years later, it still doesn't seem real.

Unusually I left the office very early that day, and apparently I was on the last train out of Euston, as they started to lock down and tighten security in London.

I think most of us in London that day had a long walk to the train stations.....

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I think most of us in London that day had a long walk to the train stations.....

Strangely I left the office early on 7/7 too, which meant that I missed the mayhem again. I worked in Canary Wharf then, and apparently the water transport arranged by the company all went East, which made it a very late night for my colleagues who lived in the opposite direction.

 

[Red C220]

I was in Page, Arizona on the North rim of the Grand Canyon the day this happened.

It's one of those "where were you moments" Obviously being 3 hours behind it had already happened when we got up at 8am for our Grand Canyon Helicopter tour, which didn't happen of course.

We'd flown to Vegas two days before on an American Airlines flight and had never seen so much intense security at Gatwick, there was an insane level of security checks, every passengers luggage and hands swabbed. They certainly knew something big was happening, just not what or where.

 

[Scott_F]

And whilst we remember the victims of 9/11 let us also remember the hundreds of thousands of innocent Afghan and Iraqi civilians that have subsequently been killed in our "war on terror".

 

[HB]

And whilst we remember the victims of 9/11 let us also remember the hundreds of thousands of innocent Afghan and Iraqi civilians that have subsequently been killed in our "war on terror".

Exactly but you won't hear it from the controlled media.

Arabs aren't clever enough to control a 767 at that speed and altitude into a building.

 

[Dryce]

Exactly but you won't hear it from the controlled media.

Which controlled media? The media in the ME, Europe, US, SE Asia, China, whereever?

You can't be refering to the BBC which is so out of control morally and intellectually that if a radical socialist group flew an airliner into their offices they'd find some logical way of blaming it on the USA and prostating themselves to their attackers.

Arabs aren't clever enough to control a 767 at that speed and altitude into a building.

The low frequency of collisions of 767s with buildings suggests that pilots in general lack these specific skills.

 

[PXW]

As with many others, I remember the day clearly. I was in my office having a meeting with a colleague about a corporate restructuring when the news started to trickle through. Over the course of the next hour the work done got less and the news checks got more frequent, until we abandoned work completely as the true scale of what had happened became apparent.

 

[219]

Pretty much the same as me : I worked in a large , open plan office and somebody saw the report of the first hit on the Internet , everyone thought it was a tragic accident . Then further news came in and we all ended up watching it unfold on the computers ; the Internet started to slow down and I doubt any more work was done that day . Once home , we watched the news on TV all night .

 

[markmifsud]

I was chatting to a friend on IRC at the time, he was working in NY and heard the initial blast as the plane hit. We set up some TV's in the office and watched the story unfold. Such a surreal moment that I shall never forget.

 

[lisa110rry]

I was working on a cross-country pipeline project on the day, my (half American) 19 year old son was a junior Quantity Surveyor on the same project. He came into my office and told me not to go to the meeting room where a television had been set up, he didn't want me to be there among so many others. I'm sure he knew I would be in bits.

The internet was not then what it is now, and it was so difficult to get information, but after my church visit, I watched the coverage all night.

That evening I walked to a local church and just sat there for an hour or so before walking back to my digs.

I remember the building of those two amazing towers, it was quite a thing in my youth.

 

[brucemillar]

My colleagues were in the first tower to be hit, which was the second tower to fall. At just over a minute a floor (going at almost running speed) getting out was never going to be easy. When hit, our receptionist tannoyed our people to get out. The building tannoy was advising to remain. Our people survived because they took the receptionists advice and left immediately.

I was due to present that morning to Reuters in the WIndows On The World Suite on the 106th Floor. All of those people perished.

Life deals us very strange cards. I was diverted from my US bound flight to Paris and thereby missed my connection to NYC. My team had my presentation slot moved back to allow them to prepare without me being there.

While they all survived we lost one chap, who was (incredibly) on the plane that flew into our tower!! How does that work?

I sat and watched the whole thing unfold in Paris unable to phone home to my wife and kids (the phone network all collapsed). They were watching in the UK not knowing that I was not there. That took some time to recover from for them.

Sadly. Nothing changed. The world kept on spinning, wars continued and more people were killed.

 

[abecketts]

Friend of mine lost his brother in the first tower, he wrote a song about it as a way of handling it.

I still wonder about the whole set of events, and the conspiracy theories abound. The article below made we wonder again.

The countless Iraqi and other civilian casualties as a consequence must never be forgotten

http://www.thegovernmentrag.com/911...s-and-nature-were-suspended.html#.V9bOX7t4WK1