September 11th 2001 - Where were you?

Do you remember the events of 9/11?

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KevinB said:
I had started my first year of secondary school only a little more than a week before 9/11. The attacks happened in the early afternoon Western European time, so I was at school when it happened and unaware until later. I actually first heard about the attacks from my father in the car when he picked us up from the bus stop, although he didn't really communicate just how bad it was, or didn't yet know at the time. Soon thereafter at home I first saw and was shocked by the infamous footage of the Twin Towers, I seem to remember I saw the towers collapse more or less live on tv. I remember thinking, although I was an 11, almost 12-year old with pretty little understanding of the world back then, that this would change things majorly and that things would not be the same after this.

Unfortunately in the first couple of years of 9/11, being darker-haired and darker-skinned than the average Belgian teen and being the most foreign-looking kid (despite not being a foreigner, though I do have some Mediterranean blood), at least in my relatively rural region, I was subjected to quite a lot of racist bullying at school, starting the long misery that were my secondary school years for me.

To those who may have been personally affected by 9/11 or any other terrorist attack, I offer you my most sincere sympathy.
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God, that must have been awful for you having that bullying in school. I hope you still had a decent few years at school aside from that.
 
I wasn't born of course but my dad tells a story of how he was working in sales on the tragic day. He knocked on a woman's door to discover she was crying and looked to be scared. Upon asking what was wrong, she swiftly told my dad of the incident leading to him rushing to a TV store. He arrived just in time to see a crowd of people watching the second plane crash into the towers. Sorry I'm a bit late to the thread I just forgot to post my story.
 
I remember that day very clearly, won't ever forget it
I was a senior technician at the time working in biosciences department at Birmingham University. Myself and three other technicians had a radio on,when suddenly the news came on that aircraft were flying into the twin towers, it must have taken a good 5 minutes for it to sink in.We decided to find other people to share the news ,obviously the news was spreading fast .All the labs and lecture theatre's were so quiet with people listening to radio's and television's, and then everyone started to talk all at the same time, everyone was in shock and or finding it difficult to believe. The rest of the day was a waste of time workwise.
The following days were just surreal with a very nervous thought ,what will happen next???
 
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