20 years on I watch footage on TV of the 9/11 disaster and it still shocks me. I remember what I was doing so well on that day, I was at Silverstone doing a Ducati TD, had no idea what had happened until I got home in the evening, the hire van had no radio! Anyone here on the same TD?
Not on the track day but 9/11 was one of the things where you remember where you were when you heard the news...... I were building with a mate, we were building his out-building for his z thou. It's as shocking now as it were then.... It changed all our lives one way or another
Not on the trackday, but I was in year 9 in art class and the teacher turned the TV (on that classic wheelie stand) to watch the news. I might have been too young for a TD . I also went to NYC a few years later when it was a building site pretty much and more recently the museum. It's incredibly shocking even today as you say. Me and the Mrs watched a doc recently and she asked me turn it off half way through cause she couldn't watch it. Also one of my school friends had a family member that died there and goes every year to the memorial. The only thing I sometimes think is how much other stuff happens we just don't see on the news in countries that people just don't care about as much to put it bluntly.
I was serving in the military in Germany at the time, and watched it develop on the day, with a cold feeling that our world had just changed and that this would have a huge impact on (the military) our future moving forwards..
I remember it as if it was yesterday, the footage still haunts me. I was lucky enough to have a meal at the top of the Trade Center in 1999, and as someone that isn’t too keen on heights was blown away by how high it was up there. The cutlery was shaking on the table as the building moved with the wind! I can’t begin to imagine what was going through the peoples minds that decided to jump on that fateful day.
Yes i have been watching that as it completes the circle for me, i'd just plugged the new T.V into the socket that morning and like others just couldn't believe my eyes what was on my screen..
My cousin and her husband both worked in the WTC. Both were on annual leave that day… my uncle also owns a few bars and restaurants mainly off of 5th. All a little close to home. We used to fly United all the time as well.
there is no its 11/9 not 9/11 in the UK I was at the Uni and didnt give a single fuck actually Only 10 years or so later I can say I feel sorry people died, but hey, no one creating threads about Beslan tragedy
Awful. But hundreds of thousands of innocents paid for it with their lives. And Tony Blair, dick Cheney and others made a fortune.
No doubt it was a huge tragedy, didn't say it wasn't. There have been many tragedies happening since 1991, not many of them are promoted to the Holy Grail of tragedies by Hollywood and American media complex.
It was terrible. I was on a corporate day at Winchester golf club. USA has had its pound of flesh and taken several more tonnes to match. And every day in parts of the world more atrocities occur and are never reported on. Many involve West interference or, because it suits, lack of it to stop it.
I was undergoing technical training in Bray, Southern Ireland. We watched it live after the first hit. I always remember a reporter asking if the fire engine ladders could reach the stricken people…. Lightened the mood
We where in Northern Oman prepping to play the enemy on an exercise (Saif Sareea) The OC recalled everyone back to our base in Muscat and placed us in isolation. It was clear before the last plane hit that there would be a significant military response. (From the briefings at the time, it wasn’t entirely clear which Middle Eastern country would receive Uncle Sam’s attention first) A few days later we piled onto HMS Illustrious, sailed to the coast of Pakistan where we set up an FOB with the Americans, the rest is a tragic 20 year history
I was on a trackday at Mallory and we watched it on someone's phone in pitlane. It was a very sombre day afterwards.
RIP to all those taken that day. I was on my first sales visit to customers in Dublin. I heard the first plane news in the radio, arrived at my customer who I had never met before and immediately said turn in the TV please. We stood there open mouthed and transfixed for ages, felt totally in appropriate to talk business later on. the next day was a national day of mourning in Ireland, but my boss expected me to work , so I had to drive for mobile phone reception, roads totally empty which meant I could discover the maximum speed of my Saab.
