9/11

[kiwimama]

9/11 - I first heard about it when I got to school and a guy asked if I'd heard about it (I hadn't.) I was in 4th form so must of been 14.

7/7 - I'm not actually sure.. :/ I do remember being a bit frantic because a friend of mine was over in London at the time and I was worried about her.

 

[HGLyman]

7/7 was most on our news and radios. It was a pretty big deal here in the States, but at that time we were at war and our News focused a lot on finding Weapons of Mass Distruction, so it wasnt broadcasted as widely as 9/11 because there were always so many other headlines.
I remember hearing about it, and the fear of 9/11 coming right back. I remember being scared to go to a mall, or anywhere that there was a lot of people.

 

[dizzyisacow]

i was standing up, walking past the tv and saw it but didnt realise the extent of it. i was only a teenager and didnt see past my own nose tbh and didnt pay much notice. but i did later and realised what an idiot i was for not understanding back then.

 

[dani_tinks]

9/11 - I had just finished school for the day and got into my Mums car as she was picking me up and the radio station was reporting it.. I didnt really understand what was going on until we got home and turned the tv on... we all sat there in complete silence gobsmacked.

7/7 - I woke up to loads of missed calls/answer phone messages and txts messages from my friends in Hastings asking if I was okay, if I was alive, where I was etc. That day I was due to go up to Hastings from Cornwall via London. The tube train I would have taken at about the right time was one of the trains that was attacked that day.
I had overslept however due to being ill the night before.
I haven't been to London since.

 

[mommyof3co]

9/11 I was in my 10th grade history class and an announcement came on telling teachers to all stop classes and turn on the news. We stayed in that class for a long time that day watching the news, it seemed surreal.

 

[rosie5637]

i was at work, in the baby room of a nursery. just after lunch one babys dad came to pick her up early cause he was a pilot and had been told not to go to work. he told us what was happening.

 

[Jody R]

For 9/11 I'd just come home from shopping at that outlet place near Leeds and my Dad turned on the TV and we saw the towers on TV with all the black smoke pouring out of them.

We were just speachless and when we saw the first one fall it was awful, we were silent, just waiting to see if the second one would fall too.

In the meantime the news kept showing the image of the second tower being hit by a plane while smoke was pouring out of the first and it was just so heartbreaking to realise we were watching the moment that people died, over and over. Worse knowing that the families of the people on that plane and in that tower would be watching too and knowing the same think only about their own loved ones.

We've been watching some of the documentaries over the weekend and it was the same then, watching those images and news reports and just hoping that somehow history could change and stop it happening this time. Like if you watch it often enough one day it will change and the plane won't hit or the tower won't fall.

For 7/7 I was at work. We got a call from our MD to turn on the radio and we heard the news reports. Everyone just went mad phoning people to find out if they were okay. We had loads of offices in London, all of us had friends or relatives living there or working there and it was just horrifying to think that someone might be there, just innocently going about their day and then caught up in that, possibly hurt or killed even.

 

[pip holder]

9/11
I was at work - in a hospital and we were just stuck in one man's room staring at the telly. I remember thinking that this was genuinely going to be IT, and we were all going to die. People were saying that bombers would target places like hospitals first to maximise civilian disaster and I just wanted my mum but obviously couldn't just wander out and leave all my patients.

Awful

 

[futuremommy91]

I was just a kid then, and I remember coming downstairs before school to find my mom staring at the TV. I was really upset bc she was crying (something she NEVER does)- and I didn't really understand it at the time. For some reason I thought terrorists would start bombing the school. It's crazy that it's been 9 years

 

[Jody R]

9/11
I was at work - in a hospital and we were just stuck in one man's room staring at the telly. I remember thinking that this was genuinely going to be IT, and we were all going to die. People were saying that bombers would target places like hospitals first to maximise civilian disaster and I just wanted my mum but obviously couldn't just wander out and leave all my patients.

Awful

I know what you mean about wanting your mum. I was glad I was with my parents but my DH was on a ship somewhere near Greece but on his way out to the middle east and all of a sudden his deployment were on the news with people saying they were going to be diverted here, there and everywhere to start the inevitable war with whover was responsible. I just wanted him home.

 

[Tiff]

Just wondering; to all the people in USA, Canada etc: was the news about the 7/7 bombings televised where you are? It's all related to 9/11, but half the time I think they don't bother mentioning this stuff. Half the friends I know in the States have no idea 7/7 even happened, and for us, it's massive. We automatically hear about things in the States, but I don't think that other people hear about things like this in the UK.

I'm in Canada, we heard about the bombings... but nowhere near the extent of media coverage as the 9/11 attack though.

 

[Vickie]

I heard about the 7/7 bombings (was in the States at the time) and it seems that it got pretty extensive coverage at least in the online news sources I read (don't think I had cable tv at the time). (CNN, ABC news, Fox news etc. so the major national networks in the States). Probably not to the extent that 9/11 did but there was still quite a lot of coverage

 

[loulou10]

9/11 i had just woke up after heavy night out and put tv on and couldnt believe what i was witnessing still in shock to this very day i will always remember 9/11 6 years later my daughter had open heart surgery

7/7 i live in london and was walking back from school after dropping lo off and heard what i can describe as a sound like thunder i turned and looked round as it sounded like it came from behind me when i got in put the tv on they said there had been a power surge on underground then it became reality that it was bombings then it was drastic calls to get hold of my dad to travels on underground to work luckely all was ok

 

[MrsRabbit]

I was in Canada for 9\11 and in the US for the Madrid and London bombings. I think they got a lot of coverage - not as much as I saw in Canada after 9-11 but I think the scopes of 9-11 was different. It brought terrorism into our daily vocabulary. The second time we were comparing that attack to 9-11. The only thing similar on 9-11 was Oklahoma City or Pearl Harbor.

 

[happynbubbly]

9/11 I was a junior in high school. My first class of the day the teacher was making a drawing of what happened on the chalk board. It also happened to be a World Religions class, and we were learning about each major religion of the world for two weeks each for that class. We skipped straight off to Islam, so we could be educated about what it truly means, and it was very interesting I think to have been in that class at that time in the world. I went to a Catholic high school, so either that day or the next day we had a mass in the gym and said prayers for the victims and their families.

7/7 I was with my mom, that happens to be her birthday.