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9/11 Anniversary


I don't usually make this topic every year, but as this was the 20th anniversary since the attack it feels right to do so.

It's weird because the majority of us on here (myself included) may not have been alive during the attacks and some of the others may have been too young to understand what happened. However, I still think we may have several keshi-heads who were old enough to at least have a recollection of the day, and it'd be interesting to know how everyone felt.

My parents had just gotten married in Summer of 2001 and had planned a honeymoon to New York. They got there a week or two after the attacks and they say it wasn't a very nice trip. There was dust everywhere and just knowing what had happened made the trip less enjoyable. Not to mention I hear that New York events were cancelled for weeks afterward.

My uncle was in the World Trade Center a lot, though he worked mainly in Rockefeller Center. I also remember someone in my CCD class had an aunt or uncle who worked in the WTC, and on the morning of the attack kept spilling their coffee and they got fed-up and decided not to go to work that day.

I don't have much to share personally as I was not alive for it and was lucky not to lose anyone to the attack, but recently I've been reading a lot about it and I feel really sad thinking about it and how it changed everything. Not that I was around for anything before it... I don't know... hard to explain. Watching the news from that day is particularly surreal.

Anyway, I would be curious to know if anyone on here has any stories. And of course, Never Forget.

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The events began in mid afternoon our time, whilst I was in school. I was 15, just having begun Year 11, which is the Northern Ireland Year 11, which is different to the English and Welsh Year 11. Northern Ireland's Year 11 is the English and Welsh Year 10, which if my research is correct, in 9th Grade in the US.

The final lunch period in my school would have just finished. The final plane, the famous United 93, went down with about 25 minutes to go before the end of the day. The taxis taking special needs pupils home, which come up to the door, compared to most pupils having to walk downhill from the school building to near the front gate to get the school bus, or just plain walk home through one of the two sets of gates on opposite ends of the campus, was the first I heard of the events. Talking to the driver who handled my transport last year - the one who did it that year and the following year was off that day so I had to wait for a substitute driver to arrive - I thought it was a joke initially. New York? Those two big towers? How could one attack wipe those out? The substitute driver drove me home in silence. We listened to the radio, with the commercial station - I assume many of the UK and Ireland's commercial stations - having ceased broadcasting and just played out audio from Sky News.

It was a clear sunny day here as well. I got home first as usual, and seeing all the major channels covering the same thing with different teams made it clear how huge this was. TV schedules were warped out of shape with wall to wall to roof news, and drama programmes cancelled and replaced with comedy and light entertainment at certain times to lighten the mood for families in the following month. It was interesting when the series Quiz about the famous cheating scandal on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? aired last year, we had to explain to international viewers that yes, the investigation into the Ingrams really did take place as 9/11 unfolded.

Our house at the time had a large field directly in front of it, which the neighbourhood used for play, and exercise, and for us, dog walking. I remember being out for the dog walk this time around with mum, and as we played fetch with the dog, we looked up to the clear night sky and the sparkling stars, and my mum said a prayer as I asked her "what the hell must it be like right now in America?" We thought terrorism was bad here after 30 years of conflict, but it took us 30 years for as many people to be killed as there were on that single day. Our great aunt lives in San Francisco, still to this day. We prayed for her safety. The next day, I did so again in the school's chapel, in addition to a whole school service replacing afternoon classes. I didn't use it much in my seven years there, my 'relationship' with religion becoming distant as I got older. It is a Catholic school, and coming of age just as the Troubles were ending, plus other 'things' to do with the Catholic Church meaning I wasn't too keen on faith as I went through my teens, but that week, it felt like it could help for a change. Anything for a routine. We didn't say such a desperate prayer for her again until after the 2016 election, after I declared I wouldn't feel safe going to America, upset that I found myself saying that for the first time since that night we looked to the stars. I have never been to America in my life, but this fateful day still shaped my view of it in some form, and like many of us, likely always will. Maybe one day I will go, but it will always be in the back of my mind.

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Well, I and my younger brother were watching the TV in my room when the first news broke that one of the WTC towers had been on fire. We started switching the channels to find out more and realized that one of the channels - NTV (I'm from Russia)- is broadcasting a live feed from the top of the building in which they had their NY office. It happened to be across Hudson, so, I assume, somewhere in Jersey City, and so the camera had a clear view of the Manhattan shoreline and the Towers. As we were discussing the possibility of an aircraft being the cause of the incident, to our surprise, an aircraft, indeed, appeared on the left of the screen - it was approaching the towers from the left. For a moment there, we were confused as to what we were watching. First thing, I thought that the channel's editors had finally found the footage of the impact and switched to showing just that but, in a split second, I realized that one of the towers was already smoking, so the picture might be, in fact, live. Before I fully processed it, the aircraft hit the second tower just like so, causing a huge explosion. We were speechless. Much later, watching the clips from 9/11 TV broadcasts, I noticed that many TV anchors at the time made the same mistake - so unbelievable was the idea that a second aircraft can crash-land on Manhattan because initially, everyone thought the whole thing was an accident.

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I got up late (as usual) and check news on TV.
Two planes have hit WTC. Now, for a while I was under impression that these were small planes, I imagined they had for some reason flown in formation too close and thrown to the buildings by freak wind.
Eventually I got the picture.

The Finnish news people were very confused and uncertain about events and there was a point that for quite some time I kept wondering "shouldn't the other tower be showing, what kind of angle is this" about the live pictures before they said they've been informed that one of the towers has fallen.

I don't remember how or at what point we got info on Pentagon or the fourth plane. But I believe I watched live the fall of second tower.

Tbh, this wasn't an event that touched me personally. It was more like natural disasters in news, tsunamis, quakes, hurricanes, floods...
However, it did spell the end of the positive and optimistic look of the world/future that had been over 90's after end of Cold War.

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The worst thing about it, it happened on my 4th birthday. But I have no memory of it at all. Probably as I was way too young.
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Thank you everyone for sharing, interesting stories there. I remember miamigirl told me one of her students on that day brought a big sign saying something like "It's 9/11, wish me a happy birthday" before the attack happened. Very unfortunate and sad. It's strange how that used to just be a generic day of the year to everyone.

Here's the news coverage that is so surreal. So many sad coincidences:



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