Spare A Thought.

[Bert]

All you have to do, is look at the date and I'm sure you'll realise what i mean.

7 years on, and I can still pretty much remember the events, as clear as day.

Here's the thread to remember all those innocent people killed.

I hope they're all resting in peace.

[LeeCovFox]

It was horrible. I feel for all the people who were involved that horrible day. The world has changed for the worse since that day, largely due to the Neo-Cons in charge in Washington.

The worry is that it will probably take another such event to awaken the American political elite to their own culpability. Decades of American foreign policy made this event possible. Sooner or later there was always going to be a bastard willing to take a shot at them.

[The Reverend]

7 years ago, Christ. I still remember the day it happened.

[Libertine]

I think about it every single day of my life so, you know.

[Alexikokopops]

I remember sitting in my library at school in year 11 because I didn't have to do GCSE English anymore and my History teacher walking through and expressing bewilderment at how a plane had managed to fly into the World Trade Centres. That was before the second one hit. I remmeber getting home and just sitting in front of pictures of the towers blazing on every single channel.

[General Smuts]

I remember sitting in my library at school in year 11 because I didn't have to do GCSE English anymore and my History teacher walking through and expressing bewilderment at how a plane had managed to fly into the World Trade Centres. That was before the second one hit. I remmeber getting home and just sitting in front of pictures of the towers blazing on every single channel.

I remember something similar, getting home from my paper round to the news. I hadn't a clue what was gan on.

[Tilley]

Seven years ago, bloody hell.

I can still remember coming home in my bogey green Ratby Primary School uniform and seeing it all over every news channel.

Horrible, hope everyone is resting in peace.

[hairy]

I remember the London bombings trying to get hold of my sister to make sure she and her husband were ok. Fortunately he had cycled to work that day else he would have been involved. Took me ages to get hold of her.

A friends daughter was on one of the tube trains and will give you a graphic recount of having to walk past some of the bodies to get out of the tunnel. She had therapy for three years after.

[James.]

It was during the summer break between my first and second years of uni. I was in Swindon doing door-door sales. As if that couldn't have got any more depressing I remember sitting in a pub on our lunch break hearing all sorts of rumours start to emerge. First there were 3 planes, then there were 7, it was all just so surreal. My idiot boss didn't call an end to the day though, we were back out knocking on doors after lunch. Didn't seem quite right trying to sell protective coating for outside walls with all that going on...

[Dr The Singh]

Terrible event, one which has changed the world forever!!

[purpleronnie]

I was still living in england I was around my parents house I was in the kitchen frying a steak when my dad called me in, I remember being shocked but it all seemed to be unreal, I went and ate my dinner, I obviously didnt realize it was a terrorist attack at the time (before the 2nd plane hit), and these actions would change the world.

I guess its this generations 'I remember where I was when'.

[Thracian]

All you have to do, is look at the date and I'm sure you'll realise what i mean.

7 years on, and I can still pretty much remember the events, as clear as day.

Here's the thread to remember all those innocent people killed.

I hope they're all resting in peace.

I'm sure they are resting in peace - it's just that they don't have lives to live any more because of the brainwashed and much misguided softheads who ended them and who, in so doing, became an insult to the very concept of any God.

Religion to me is an inner thing and should be expressed in the doing of good not the building of places of worship and the brainwashing of people before they can properly think for themselves.

September 11 still disgusts me and always will. I think not only of those who died just going about their lives but of their families who have had to carry on scarred for ever by that saddest day of premeditated murder.

Life has gone on, seeds have been planted amidst the ruins, but the world will never be cleansed of this deed.

[morris1234]

i was on holiday when this happened i remember loads of people wtching tv but we all only truly realised what had happened when we got back. it was horrible and i dont ever want to see something like tha again.

i hope those involved that survived are doing well and those that died may they rest in peace.

[Lovejoy]

I remember vividly being in school when the first one hit. I then remember getting home and telling my mum that a plane had crashed into the twin towers when she told me that a second one had, and that it was a terrorist attack, not an accident.

[Ric Flair]

7 years, jesus. Can remember the day like yesterday. I had finished my A-Levels and spent the summer down in London living with my brother.

I was severely hungover, sitting on possibly one of the sickest looking sofas in London in my brothers flat trying to focus on the TV. I flicked over channels and saw the tower ablaze, but I didn't have the volume on, I assumed it was a decent looking action film. Then when I saw the 2nd plane drill in to the other tower, alarm bells started ringing as this film was unfamiliar to me. So I turned up the volume to find it was real and live and I actually vomited on the sofa and it was horrible.

Me and my brother just sat there and didn't say a word for about 30 minutes, total shock.

We had to go and do some promotional work in the afternoon in the centre of London. Thought about sacking it off, but decided to go. Got in to Leicester Square and after about 15 minutes, the news broke through that most of the centre of London needed evacuating as there had been a Terrorist Alert in Canary Warf and the surrounding areas. Legging it down to the tube with hundreds of over petrified folk was fairly unpleasant, I may or may not have been sick again I can't quite remember.

I do remember going straight to the boozer in Finsbury Park when we finally squeezed on to a tube and I got devastated on anything I could get my hands on to try and take my mind off the days tragic events.

R.I.P.

[Ashley]

Rip.

[Trumpet]

I think I'd just started year 7, I didn't get home until about 5 due to football training at school. It feels like 2 years ago, not 7!

[The People's Hero]

It was during the summer break between my first and second years of uni. I was in Swindon doing door-door sales. As if that couldn't have got any more depressing I remember sitting in a pub on our lunch break hearing all sorts of rumours start to emerge. First there were 3 planes, then there were 7, it was all just so surreal. My idiot boss didn't call an end to the day though, we were back out knocking on doors after lunch. Didn't seem quite right trying to sell protective coating for outside walls with all that going on...

I had that very same job.

Everyone does it at some point.

As regards the 9/11 tragedy - absolutely... so shocked at the time. So horrible. Can't believe it's seven years too. Makes you feel almost guilty - seven years have passed since those innocent people lost their lives - in those seven years, I've done diddly squat.

[Maybes]

I can't believe it was 7 years ago. Like others have said I remember it like it was only yesterday. I was round my mates house, and his mum came in telling us that planes had flown into the twin towers. Oblivious to what the twin towers actually were it didn't really hit home what had happened until I got back and turned on the TV to see the devasting pictures. Heart goes out to the ones they left behind.

[Flynny]

I'm sure they are resting in peace - it's just that they don't have lives to live any more because of the brainwashed and much misguided softheads who ended them and who, in so doing, became an insult to the very concept of any God.

Religion to me is an inner thing and should be expressed in the doing of good not the building of places of worship and the brainwashing of people before they can properly think for themselves.

September 11 still disgusts me and always will. I think not only of those who died just going about their lives but of their families who have had to carry on scarred for ever by that saddest day of premeditated murder.

Life has gone on, seeds have been planted amidst the ruins, but the world will never be cleansed of this deed.

I have to agree with that in its entirety.

I was in my 2nd week at "big school", Year 7 when it happened. There were football trials so I didn't get home until about 4.30. Our whole family sat in front of the telly watching the reaction until 11.

[The People's Hero]

Agree with Thracian.

Regardless of religion - it's more important to be good.

I have a few stories of recent experiences with religious people, but this probably isn't the thread for them.

Let's just say that in many cases, the more you talk about a deity, the less you have to act in the way which they might expect.

[Katy]

Weirdly enough they haven't mentioned it on Radio 5 as yet. I was at work at the time. When you view the footage it looks unreal, I have saved a newspaper from that day as a reminder, should I ever need one, of the day the world pretty much changed forever.

Falling man

[Libertine]

I'd just started Year 7 at New College.

I got home to see my Dad parked infront of the TV. When I asked what was going on, I seem to remember him saying something along the lines of 'Something big'.

Anyway I remember only watching it for a short while, not having heard of the WTC at the time. As ever, I then went upstairs to the computer.

Nowadays I feel like a mug for not paying attention etc at the time, so regularly research things about it and so on. And now I can't even look at a shot of the WTC, even in it's normal state, I have to turn away.

RIP, of course.

[Katy]

I'd just started Year 7 at New College.

I got home to see my Dad parked infront of the TV. When I asked what was going on, I seem to remember him saying something along the lines of 'Something big'.

Anyway I remember only watching it for a short while, not having heard of the WTC at the time. As ever, I then went upstairs to the computer.

Nowadays I feel like a mug for not paying attention etc at the time, so regularly research things about it and so on. And now I can't even look at a shot of the WTC, even in it's normal state, I have to turn away.

RIP, of course.

I know what you're saying, when watching repeats of Friends it's odd to see it as a background shot and then in later ones there's just a...gap

[Flynny]

Falling man

I've watched that documentary about 2 1/2 times. First time I watched it with people was just as quiet as the second time I watched it on my own.