September 11th

It seems a very long time ago. It's always a sad/happy time for me, as it is my daughter's birthday today. She was 22 when it happened and she remembers it with great horror.

I couldn't believe it! I was sitting at my office desk and someone told me to switch on the news - and there it was. Absolutely horrific. We were all transfixed and found it hard to believe but it was real. We were stunned into silence

A lady who sat next to me at work was in a dreadful state as her daughter was working in NY very close to the towers. She couldn't get back to where she was staying. A co-worker took her home with her. My friends DD had to have counselling.
When we visited NY a few years later we went to the site. It was very moving in the little church there which had been used for the rescue workers to rest and eat before going back into what they described as 'the pit'.

The cruelty of mankind knew no bounds that dreadful day.

I walked into the gym unaware and found a huge crowd round the TV, silent, transfixed. Hard to believe it wasn't a film then reality hit.

My friend's daughter has gone to the Twin Towers just the day before and left to come back to Scotland the same day. We were sick thinking about how close tragedy had come to our wee group. I couldn't watch the footage as it was so upsetting. All those people jumping to certain death and then when the towers collapsed... It was horrific

Remembering the poor souls.💐
Such a horrendous event.

I was with a friend in her garden admiring some of her plants when her neighbour came out, seemingly in a daze, and over the fence mentioned a plane crash.

When I got home, I switched on the TV to find the full horror.

The world changed on that day. Let's remember all who died on that day, or who were involved in the rescue services.

I was due to fly to New York the next day to spend a few days with some friends before flying on to Toronto to stay with my best friend.

I was actually on the phone to one of my friends in NYC finalising arrangements when the first plane struck- his office was about 10 blocks from the World Trade Centre. He just shouted "gotta go" and the phone went dead.

I did get to Toronto on the Saturday but skipped NYC - obviously. It was a scary few days and I eventually heard from my New York friends on the Monday. Their stories of how they got out of downtown Manhattan and the aftermath will stay with me forever.

Yes, let’s remember those poor folks who died and those brave men and women who were running up the flights of stairs to help those who were trapped above, only to come down with the towers, when they collapsed. Let’s remember the bereaved families - let’s remember them all 😢

I well remember retuning from morning only work, to be met at the door by a white-faced (early 20s) dd. Dh had left for SE Asia for work, so I immediately thought she’d learned of a plane crash on the news.

The TV was on - IIRC it was just before the 2nd plane hit.
Unimaginable horror.
But dh’s old aunt phoned anyway, to complain that Countdown wasn’t on.
I said, ‘But haven’t you seen the dreadful thing that’s happened in New York?’

‘I don’t care about that! I want Countdown!’ 😩

Somebody my DH worked with lost her son. He was in his late twenties, her only child.

It's so ingrained in my mind, I was with my mother, my father had recently died. I wandered into a shop it was playing out on the news. I initially thought it was a light aircraft that's what the first reports suggested. When the full magnitude unfolded I, like everyone, just horrified. 23 years ago, my children were still at school, they couldn't believe it either.

We arrived home from holiday the night before.

I sent the school age children off to school, and started on the enormous pile of holiday laundry.

I was matching up socks in the kitchen and put the TV on, I can still remember the horror I felt, and the awful images of people jumping out of the windows.

We had only eaten in the restaurant at the top of one of the towers a few years previous.

One of the most heinous acts in my lifetime.

Can't believe it's so long ago ,it was on my late sister's birthday .💐

Oh yes. I well remember it. 23 years!! Blimey.

Another one of those days when you remember exactly where you were. 🥀

Time goes so fast.. But, yes, my thoughts go to those who died and the families who lost loved ones in this dreadful event.

Goodness.

RIP