Six years ago tonight.....9/11

[Sebastiaan56]

There I was in the Golf Club Motel at Bunbury, the bloke in the room next to me has the TV flat out at midnight, me yelling and swearing about turning the TV down, didnt find out till the next morning,

where were you?

[NCArcher]

To be honest, I don't remember and i don't care. Get over it and move on.

[Lignum]

I was living in Freo, sitting having a beer, turned the telly on and thought it was just another Bruce Willis movie, so i changed the station and the same thing was on, and thought :oo:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

:?

[HappyHammer]

I was in Sydney and was up early to meet a guy who'd come to dig a hole for our pool, we both stood in the living room mouths agape watching the events of a few hours prior.....

HH.

[ss_11000]

i was at home wondering why mum and dad were watching the news on fox when there were better things like cartoons on nickelodeon:D

[Alastair]

I was idly watching TV, and not concentrating when first newsflash came on.

Talked about an air crash.

While a newsman was standing talking about the "air disaster" with the smoking TT's in the background, watched the 2nd aircraft hit, and said to self "That was not an accident".

Stayed up until the early hours glued to the box as the rest of the drama unfolded.

No-one in the family would believe me when told in the morning.

[Wongo]

I know what you are on about now.

Yep I remember. It was 10 day before our first daughter was born. I was watching TV downstairs. My wife was resting in the bedroom upstairs.

OMG ……

[bitingmidge]

Four days before that, I'd put my house on the market.

Probably dropped 25% in value overnight, because the press kept telling us the world was going to end.

P
:rolleyes:

[Gra]

Was on holidays in NZ, had to get up early that morning to catch the bus to go skiing. Was having trouble getting out of bed, so flicked on the TV, wife was in the shower and all she heard was a string of swear words. she came out to find me sitting up in bed swearing at the TV. Took her a couple of minutes to work out what had happened (she thought I was having a heart attack).

Then spent the next week trying to work out if the people I know in NY were ok

[Ashore]

Shmbo and I were walking around soho in london flew home 2 days later security was redicilous at heathrow , on the way over Thai airways Thermal travel tracksuits, silver service, crystal glasses
Way home still got the thermal tracksuits to change into but plastic knives forks and glasses all changed in two days :?

[jmk89]

Got home late from work - negotiating some boring legal document with guys in London.

Came home. Felt like a beer adn some late night TV to put me to sleep! Spent the next 5 hours watching. It had happened in the 15 minutes it took to get from office to home!

I woke SWMBO to tell her.

[silentC]

Was in bed early, Rory was exactly 4 weeks old. Wife's brother rang and left a garbled message on the answering machine (I could hear him from bed but couldn't understand what he was saying). Wife was asleep. I got up because I figured it must be something important. He was saying "just ringing to say I love ya's 'cause I mightn't see you again. Turn on the TV, the world is coming to an end". At that stage no-one knew what the hell was going on. I went into the bedroom and the wife asked what it was. I turned on the TV and we just sat there and watched it. It was one of the catalysts for us leaving Sydney, so I'm not likely to forget it - although I had to think for a minute when I read this thread title.

[wheelinround]

I was on the net chatting to an american lady who asked me what I thought about it hadn't heard a thing .
my daughter came down at about 6am and said yeh heard it all just before going to bed the night before the 10th here in AU so that morning here was the 11th how do I know our monthly aniversary 11th one month prior our actual aniversary 11th OCT.

go figure 11-09 the correct way to right a date

get over it I did.

[Barry_White]

I was in bed sound asleep with all my systems shut down and the phone rang at about 3:00am. It was my son ringing who was working at the Big Prawn Service Station in Ballina on the 11:00 pm to the 7:00 am shift yelling turn the TV on all hell has broken loose.

That was the end of sleep for that night.

[silentC]

yeh heard it all just before going to bed the night before the 10th here in AU so that morning here was the 11th

I think what you mean is that she heard it on the news the night before - the 11th. It happened at about 1/4 to 9 in the morning of the 11th over there, which was 1/4 to 11 on the evening of the 11th here. Most people in Australia found out on the morning of the 12th. :)

[Stuart]

I had just gotten home from the MIL birthday (which is the 11/9), turned on the box and watch till about 5am of the 12th. Rang Dad in NZ, and talked with him while we watched it unfold.

Saw a large cloud develop in the city - not a word from the commentators about it, and mentioned to Dad that something else had just happened - thought it might have been yet another plane. Turned out it was the first tower.

I have a book here in my office - September 11, which is a photo essay of the events as shot by Magnum Photographers.

What for us will always be an event on the same scale as something like the Moon landing ("where were you when it happened" scale event) will only be ancient history for my daughter. Of course media coverage is gigantic compared to many previous events, but think back - there are times like this throughout history that were profound for those that lived through them, which now are just another chapter, or even just another mark on a calendar of history.

[Sebastiaan56]

What for us will always be an event on the same scale as something like the Moon landing ("where were you when it happened" scale event) will only be ancient history for my daughter. Of course media coverage is gigantic compared to many previous events, but think back - there are times like this throughout history that were profound for those that lived through them, which now are just another chapter, or even just another mark on a calendar of history.

Thats what fascinates me about this event, it was a tragedy and a bookmark, a before and after event for most of us. Most people have instant recollection, a bit like the moon landing. One of those events where the ordinariness of life is temporarily shattered.

Makes me feel for the diggers, survivors, they will never really be able to communicate their experience and doom future generations to repeating the same mistakes.

[wheelinround]

I think what you mean is that she heard it on the news the night before - the 11th. It happened at about 1/4 to 9 in the morning of the 11th over there, which was 1/4 to 11 on the evening of the 11th here. Most people in Australia found out on the morning of the 12th. :)

ok so I maybe wrong but all of us not likley. I know UK at that time of year is still on daylight savings time putting them 11 hrs behind us a usual 10 hrs.

The lady I chat to in US and I always joke about I'll let her know what sort of day I/we had and what to expect, weather, personal just a running joke as to what sort of day to expect. she lives Tenessee a few hrs more difference I know from the east coast but not that much.

All the family using dates the same at work, all news items I read say earlier then that more like 1/4 to 8 peak hour at 1/4 to 9 you'd expect more people to be in their offices not heading to work as announced.

No as when I went to se LOML who was still in bed first thing said was happy aniversary the 11th Sept in Sydney it has puzzled the whole family since. Maybe LOML was having dejevue moment :U but again no.

[wheelinround]

Thats what fascinates me about this event, it was a tragedy and a bookmark, a before and after event for most of us. Most people have instant recollection, a bit like the moon landing. One of those events where the ordinariness of life is temporarily shattered.

Makes me feel for the diggers, survivors, they will never really be able to communicate their experience and doom future generations to repeating the same mistakes.


Here's something to consider John howard was there at the time if they had closed of NY like we just closed off Sydney what would the result be.
Where were all the Australian media contingent where is all their film and video/photos who would have been following Howard.

At that time of day where were all the sky traffic reporting choppers???

Talk to armed services men I have, both bravado stories and tears I have heard, I talk to ex-navy neighbour regularly. His US stories are hillarious to the point he has stated they wouldn't know what day it is hs me in stitches.

[silentC]

I'm having trouble following you, but all I can tell you is that according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks), the first plane crash was at 8:46:30 a.m on the morning of September 11. At that time, it was 10:46:30pm on the evening of the 11th in Sydney, which is where I was. You can work out what time it was here by putting the date and time into this site (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html).

Most people here did not find out until they got out of bed the next morning, which was most definately the 12th. I'm surprised you didn't get a thump from your wife for missing your anniversary.

[TEEJAY]

Seeing the planes hit the towers in the morning news was surreal. I thought about it a bit for a few days then my best friend's sister phoned me and said their sister was on the 105 floor when they hit. I phoned my mate and he said he would have called me but didn't know what to say.

Leslie Thomas was a girlfriend of mine from when I was younger and lived on the farm, and a neighbour for more than two decades, she married a US futures market guy and lived in NY travelling to work and back across the harbour by ferry. They were a lucky and good looking couple.

It is a sad day for my friends - they remember it by a band they wear around their wrist.

[silentC]

Family friends of ours lost a daughter in law. She had gone to NY with her new husband to start a new job. He was also working in one of the towers but wasn't at work that day. He talked to her on the phone before the building came down. Very sad stuff.

[wheelinround]

I'm having trouble following you, but all I can tell you is that according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks), the first plane crash was at 8:46:30 a.m on the morning of September 11. At that time, it was 10:46:30pm on the evening of the 11th in Sydney, which is where I was. You can work out what time it was here by putting the date and time into this site (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html).

Most people here did not find out until they got out of bed the next morning, which was most definately the 12th. I'm surprised you didn't get a thump from your wife for missing your anniversary.

The thump nah it's only a monthly thing think its to help me recall its getting closer like today always hugs n kisses the month prior so I don't foget the real one :no::U.

Don't fret SC I and family still shrug shoulder and go oh well maybe WE skipped a day :D:D I have trouble following it also.
I had been up since early hours couldn't sleep and on the net i from :rolleyes: 3am ish.

Same as Moon landing started watching it at school by the time I got home walked in and went and read. I am one of the sceptics in relation to it didn't really happen the first time.

It was about 6am ish US lady pm'd me andsaid howdy oh no she always says g'day mate.:D another sepo wishfull in becoming an ozzie.

[Gingermick]

Well, I was watching a movie on pay telly, and a banner flashed across saying planes had hit towers or some such thing. I had only just got out of hospital and was still in recovery mode, and thought 'Thats a bit late for April fools day?"

[Tankstand]

I was on night shift, the electrician came in and told us the news he had heard on the radio. Saw the sickening footage when I got home that morning.

[Doughboy]

A good friend of ours lost his son in the first tower to go down. As I type this he, his wife and his daughter in law are at the site. Sad sad time.

[Wild Dingo]

Talking to mates on the net in the states... one rang me on the phone voice in a major panic "TURN ON THE TV!! ITS GOTTA BE ON THE TV!!" and hung up... I had no idea what he was on about so went to the next room and turned it on.

There was the first plane going into the tower... a few seconds later as the commentator is going off about the first one around comes the second and wham..

Dropped my coffee cup and slid down the wall... a few minutes or some time later the cameras panning up the side of one of them and theres these people falling... camera cuts out the comments "ooh my god oh my god"... then seemingly mintues later the building impodes.. the ghostly white dust over everything the exhausted firemen the bleeding survivors then the fireys being caught as the building comes down

Later that day I found out that my younger brother had been transfered to NY and work in the nth tower... several days of frantic phone calls later from Perth to NY to Manhattan back to Perth to Hong Kong and back again and finally his adoptive mother rang to say she was on her way to NY... a brother I didnt know I had and had met only twice since finding out he was even alive and hes gone in one appalling pathetic mongrel act of madness... I attended her funeral a year ago she never "got over it" and commited suicide... now Ive got a young neice (9) and nephew (7) Ive met only once and now living with his wifes family in San Diago as she no longer lives either having shot herself the day they told her he had died in the nth tower... she never "got over it" either the kids will never get over it her parents will never "get over it" his brother (me) his other brother and sisters will never "get over it"!!

A day I will never forget

A day thousands of others will never forget

Get over it? Dont ever ask me or anyone else directly affected by what those mongrels did to "get over it" :~ I and all the other families of lost ones from that day will NEVER "get over it".

[Sebastiaan56]

A day I will never forget

A day thousands of others will never forget

Get over it? Dont ever ask me or anyone else directly affected by what those mongrels did to "get over it" I and all the other families of lost ones from that day will NEVER "get over it".

My sister in law got out about an hour before it happened, she was in a meeting in the second tower. She lost work colleagues. I met some of the firemen when I was in the states, lost a bunch of their friends/work colleagues. Met a guy who was 15 offices from the crash into the flat building, he lost a bunch of colleagues.

You dont get over it, it goes cold and you forget details, but you never get over it. Ive lost family in other ways, I know...

[MurrayD99]

...........A day I will never forget

A day thousands of others will never forget

Get over it? Dont ever ask me or anyone else directly affected by what those mongrels did to "get over it" :~ I and all the other families of lost ones from that day will NEVER "get over it".

Nicely put Mr Dingo.

[Honorary Bloke]

I second that sentiment. :(:(

[wheelinround]

My sincere and heart felt appologies for offending with my "get over it"
I know lives were lost, I know many thousands/millions of people have been effected me included.
Having had traumatic times in my own life this is what I have been told to do and I have become hard very hard arsed because of it, sceptical and suspicious of everything.

With lives so valuble to us all why do we go on and not change??
Why do we want to get even, angry or frustrated, walking away isn't the answer.
Since this event we have seen many world wide natural disasters, but to make a commercial killing from any of it is a greater disaster I believe.

[RETIRED]

Keep it on topic. Don't start pushing another barrow.

[m2c1Iw]

Hard to believe its six years.

I was watching the late news the cross to NY just after the first hit and I'm thinking thats no accident. The second hit and I'm dumb struck sat there glued to the TV, then when the Pentagon hit came I start thinking oh my god this could be the start of the end. Seems a little silly now especially when my son came home at that point from the club I tell him what had happened and his response was "Gee, oh well see you in the morning" oh to be 19 again.

An enormously sad event that will never be forgotten and changed so many lives so its a bit hard to just get over it. For me the lasting image of the sections of girders after the collapse standing at angles that seem as headstones in a cemetary is one of the most haunting.

[erich]

I was blissfully unaware till I got in the car to drive to work at 7am... my wife (who was sleeping in with our baby son) called me at 10am all upset when she awoke and found out what had happened.

I feel sorry for the people that watched the live coverage... I'm glad I only got to see the censored versions... :no:

It was sad and horrible but I think there are much bigger tragedies unfolding that we still have a chance to alter.

The thing about 9/11 is it made us frightened and made us angry. (IMHO)

[thesupervisor]

i was playing in a pool compitition think it was 2130 ish me and another guy made it to the finals
we were about to start when it came on the tv we decided to not go on
split the prize money and went home it will always remain with me what i saw that night
i hate to say it but i belive that will be small scale compared to what may happen in the future

[Glen]

I seem to remember I was watching an episode of The West Wing when the first reports flashed on and at first I thought it was part of the show, it soon became apparent that it wasn,t. as an emergency service worker it really struck home how many lost their lives just trying to help other people. Every anniversary it causes you to reflect on losing that amount of shift mates in one go.

[rgum]

God bless Australia. Save us from this evil. :)
Home from work....11pm only saw a smouldering skyscraper on tv and thought nothing about it. Too tired after serving 4oo people dinner ....went to bed. Really tired. Realised the next morn.

Damn the bastards who want to kill innocent people. :((

God bless our country. Democracy is not to be forced upon others, by idealists. Damn the idealists. We are all unique in our culture and laws govering our lives. Let us be free within ...OUR own society.

Bad bad persons who did this. It's terrible to influence the young with radical ideals. Just gross.