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Bazil Figura 16/06/2004, 4:06 PM
I was taking a training session with six team leaders in Southampton, it is commom practice to ask for all mobile phones to be switched off, it was a lovely sunny day and the venue was a 16th century house in beautiful gardens all this and we had no idea what was going on the other side of the Atlantic, imagine our stunned suprise at the end of the day when phones were switched on and the news filtered through, when I arrived back at the hotel I was staying in all the staff were in reception looking at the television - there was an strange feeling of helplessness and total disbelief at what we were seeing, I remember thinking its just like a hollywood blockbusted move but the difference is no one is going to shout 'cut' and everyone goes home, - its a day that will stay with me forever.

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Lynda 17/06/2004, 7:35 PM

I was in Castle Mall looking for a friend's birthday present and was feeling in a lighthearted mood as it was her birthday.

I saw a crowd gathered round a TV shop and stopped to see what they were looking at. All T V sets facing the window were on to show the news and they had subtitles on so we could follow what was happening. I couldn't really take in what was happening - there appeared to be people screaming, crying and running through the streets with a building collapsing. It was some time before I fathomed out what on earth was happening as I had trouble relating the two aeroplanes with the building collapsing. It was only that evening when I heard the Radio Norfolk news that it became clear what had happened. I, too, was reminded of films like "The Towering Inferno" but the major difference was that this was real. Such a waste of so many lives.

Lynda

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Louise Keeble 31/07/2005, 4:30 PM

God, I remember that day like it was yesterday. I had been up town and just walked in the door. I remember putting the TV on Channel 4 as there was something on I wanted to watch. The first thing I saw was a woman standing in the middle of the road with smoke and dust all around her. She was shouting about what had happened. I truely thought they'd put a film on instead on the planned programme.

It quickly dawned on me that it wasn't a film, but real. Every time they showed the planes going in the twin towers it sent chills down my spine.

For the grace of God go I.

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Elizabet Linhoff 16/10/2005, 11:28 AM

I was at my desk through most of it. My boss was at our site in New Jersey, and another director was on a plane somewhere. Her husband was screaming down the phone at me to find out what flight she was on, and her secretary wasn't around--I'm in America until I get to come home. At first, thought people were joking, then thought it was an accident, then it wasn't...

My boss called to tell me they were being evacuated because of the missing plane that was eventually grounded in Pennsylvania. One of my client relationship managers lost six friends that day, never heard a man scream before. There aren't many things in life that you'll never forget, but this is one.

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Haunted Weekend 28/10/2005, 4:41 PM

I was on my way to visit my wife who had been hospitalised the day before (her birthday) in the old Norfolk and Norwich. Listening to radio Norfolk interviewing someone and couldn't quite get what they were talking about at first. Then it dawned that there had been a terrible accident in NY, that was until the other planes hit and the world changed.

Got to the hospital and turned on the TV in the bay and it was soon surrounded by patients and staff who had not heard.

The pain felt in the USA was echoed around the world in decent minded people of all faiths. My anger at those responsible has since turned to sadness that young men of whatever faith should be so blinded by the teachings of their leaders that they actually believed they would go to a Paradise after committing an act of atrocity against innocent people.

The world and it's myriad faiths still has a long way to go before a true understanding of life and it's consequences take effect.

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JM 13/11/2005, 5:27 PM

I was at work in the old place where my work was before we moved. We were walking about the place doing various duties and a collegue said there's something on the news on radio broadland about planes crashing into the WTC in New York. Well back then I didn't really know much about what the World Trade Center was but I had a vague idea, more so when the 'twin towers' was mentioned. From what I remember it was before the 3pm news so I guees it took a little less than an hour for the news to reach us. Well of course as most people we though 'what a terrible accident' but then, although I don't quite recall the actual news report, a second plane crashed into the other tower of the WTC. By know as most people, we were thinking 'Well this can't be an accident' but as far as I remember terrorism didn't spring to mind straight away.

Anyway the end of the came, and I went home and switched on the telly to see more about it. It was not until then, flicking through news channels on cable, and other channels who were broadcasting the event in place of their normal schedule, I realised the complete horror of the situation. I think the things that stick in my mind the most was the time when someone was filming the burning tower and the second plane hit, and also the collapse and people running for their lives. Even if you weren't remotely involved, I think those images are something that's difficult to forget.

I know some of us have a little contempt for Americans, but that sort of thing that took place that morning in September, you can't wish that on anyone. Those people who died that day, they were not soldiers at war, they were not the government, they were not the enemy, they didn't asked to be murdered. I'm still not sure how to feel about the people who do this sort of thing. Are they cowards, do I pity them or hate them. Don't forget this was all before Iraq and Afganistan.

To the emergency services members who lost their lives trying to save others.

Remember Them.

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Budgie 29/11/2005, 1:36 PM

My wife and I were on a four-day 'cruise' around Holland. We berthed at a remote township in the evening and suddenly everyone's mobile phones began ringing.

It was concerned relatives telling their parents to return home as soon as possible. However, the messages were so garbled no-one really got the full story other than something at happened in NY.

The following morning I walked around the town and found a newsagents. All they had on sale were Dutch papers - but the pictures told their own story.

A discussion was held on whether to return home straight away but that was really not possible because our base and transport was at Amsterdam. We returned there and for most of the day my wife and I watched replays and the latest news in a bar in Amsterdam.

The organisers of the holiday had come via the Channel Tunnel and decided to go back that way. Blimey, it was like walking into a military camp with machine guns everywhere. All the buses were searched and I am glad everyone took the advice of the driver: don't say or do anything.

The return journey was without incident - but many people expected the Tunnel to be blown up at any time!

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Jes 19/12/2005, 6:41 PM

That day is still completely surreal to me.

I was still at school then, and came home just before the second plane hit. My dad was watching on sky news, but it took sometimes to realise what was happening. We have family in New York. One of my aunts works in Manhatten at a newspaper office. It took hours for us to find out that she hadn't gone into work that day.

It was my final year at high school, and 9/11 gave me such a sharp shock into real life, I don't think I will ever forget it. And I pray, nothing like it ever happens again.

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Eddie Mallett 17/03/2008, 8:24 PM

Funny that you said it was like a Hollywood blockbuster Basil.

I had been shoping in Brandon Suffolk & I poped into the video shop to get a video.

A TV was on the news station. Showing the disaster. I remember saying to the video shop owner. 'WOW. What film is that?'

To which he replied. 'Its not a movie, its just happened. Terrorist had hijacked planes & crashed them into the Two Towers.'

I stood there watching in horror of what I was seeing.

Best wishes

Eddie