Spare a thought this week

[Asha]

Unlike everyone else I have no recollection of the day and what I was doing whatsoever.

I don't either. I must have been Year 5, but I can't recall anything about it at the time.

[AoWW]

Missed the documentary last night but I'll try to catch it online soon. I've no doubt I'll get upset watching it, but it's one of those things I feel I 'ought' to see.

RIP to all those who lost their lives that day.

[AmericanScott]

The documentary last night was frightening.

Has anyone ever seen the 9/11 Faker?

That one is quite interesting. How low some people will go is disgusting.

[Jimothy]

I remember it really well. I was 18 and I only spent an hour at college on Tuesdays. I got home and turned the TV, and nothing happened, I thought it had broken. Turned out I'd turned on the TV at the exact moment the news broke and the TV had gone blank before the news special started. I just sat there all afternoon watching the events unfold. To be honest at first when it was just one I thought it was a terrible accident, then I watched as the second one went in and I really had no idea what I was thinking.

Horrible day but I'll never forget sitting there watching it all unfold.

RIP all 2975.

[City Lad]

I was 8 at the time, was so shocked coming home to watch this even though I didn't know what the Twin Towers were. Watching people fall that distance still sends shudders down my spine.

Someone mentioned it earlier but tomorrow is 9/9/9 (999) which could, hopefully not, be another. September 11th was 09/11 (911).

RIP to all who died. So sad.

[Bert]

I was 8 at the time, was so shocked coming home to watch this even though I didn't know what the Twin Towers were. Watching people fall that distance still sends shudders down my spine.

Someone mentioned it earlier but tomorrow is 9/9/9 (999) which could, hopefully not, be another. September 11th was 09/11 (911).

RIP to all who died. So sad.

Especially with 90,000 people at Wembley....

[Libertine]

Especially with 90,000 people at Wembley....

Oh God.

[Bert]

Oh God.

I'm gonna be there too!

[Fez of Mahrez]

I'm gonna be there too!

If Emile gets a hat-trick, I'd make a sharp exit if I were you.

I remember everything about 9/11, absolutely horrifying. Still got the newspaper I saved from the following morning. One of only two major world events in my lifetime about which I think I'll always remember exactly where I was when I heard, the other being Princess Diana's death.

Will certainly be sparing a thought and more.

[Maybes]

Like you have all said I remember exactly what I was doing on that day.

I can only imagine what it have must have been like for those firefighters who had the guts and guile to go inside the towers to attempt to rescue the innocent members of this tragedy. My hats go off to them all.

It shows how horrible it must have been for people to even consider jumping to their death. Horrible.

RIP.

[potter3]

Remember it well, just came back from school and was watching nickelodeon and at the bottom of the screen it said PLEASE TURN TO A NEWS CHANNEL.

I didn't know what the World Trade Centre was, was probally the most unbeleiveble thing i had ever seen watching Planes going into buildings and then crumbling to the floor.

Never forget it.

One of the main things I remember is having Diamond Cable at the time and from 40-50 channels the only 3 that didn't have a report about it on was Cartoon Network and 2 shopping channels.

[Raj]

Missed the documentary last night but I'll try to catch it online soon. I've no doubt I'll get upset watching it, but it's one of those things I feel I 'ought' to see.

RIP to all those who lost their lives that day.

The documentary last night was frightening.

Has anyone ever seen the 9/11 Faker?

That one is quite interesting. How low some people will go is disgusting.

Any links to this documentary you are all going on about as i must have missed it.

About the actual day,i remember finishing work and watching it "Live' on TV as it unfolded.

Firstly from being 'just an incident' at the Trade centre to the actual events coming to light and then the true accounts being shed of what actually happened.

When you take it into perspective as someone who has actually visited the TTowers, you realise how HUGE the area was and its mind blowing that it actually DID occur.

Anyone who's been will tell you that they were IMMENSE structures.(not just your average block of offices)

Would not like to even contemplate what some fcukers had to go through physically and emotionally....thats why anyone who says football is more important than life or death should think about what they say...(not having a dig at anyone)

[lou]

I was at school, was only like my second week of secondary school. Didn't even know anything had happened until I got home, then I walked in and my mum was in the middle of getting a haircut and Sky News was on. From then on, I just seem to remember asking my mum if I could turn it off and go on the Playstation. I basically had no idea what was going on, like a few others have said I hadn't even heard of the World Trade Center.

Every year I always watch the documentaries though, I find them fascinating. I think it's because I didn't really get it at the time.

I was at home after fetching my Daughter from nursery and watching the news so saw the 2nd plane hit live on tv........ it was bizarre and like some kind of Die Hard movie, kept seeing things falling from the building and remember feeling sick when they said it was people. You cant get your head round the fact this was actually real people dying right in front of your eyes. I was stunned.

Although Id heard of the WTC I just didnt appreciate at the time the huge ramifications of what had just happened.... I dont think anyone did really, the world changed at that moment and I dont think it will ever be the same again.

[Guest]

Anyone who's been will tell you that they were IMMENSE structures.(not just your average block of offices)

I couldn't get over the size of them when we went, seeing how easily the towers collapsed on the TV and remembering their size, it was frightening.

I was at work when it kicked off, and Sir F emailed me to tell me that a plane had crashed into one of the towers; we'd only been there the December before, and we had gone as far up one of the towers as you could get without paying. We ummed and ahhed over whether to pay and carry on, but decided to go up the Empire State building instead, saying we would do the WTC the next time.

Obviously I was shocked and thought Sir F was pulling my metaphoricals, so tried to see if the story was on the internet. I remember that the BBC news website had gone into meltdown, as had all the other news websites I tried to access. I think I was driving home when the first tower collapsed, and had just got in and switched on the TV to see the second one go.

I can imagine the thoughts of those trapped inside the building, and it scares the hell out of me. Having been there, and seen ordinary people going about their business really brought it home for me. It's one of the few events that has happened in the world that has upset me. Soft as it sounds, I cried when we had the minute's silence a few days later.

RIP

[Alexikokopops]

I remember everything about 9/11, absolutely horrifying. Still got the newspaper I saved from the following morning. One of only two major world events in my lifetime about which I think I'll always remember exactly where I was when I heard, the other being Princess Diana's death.

Will certainly be sparing a thought and more.

Same here. I was in the library at school because I didn't do English in year 11. My history teacher happened to pop through and mentioned that a plane had flown into the WTC. I was 15 and still didn't really grasp the enormity of it all until I got home and turned the news on.

As for Diana's death I remember going downstairs and my dad was in the kitchen in his dressing gown with the radio on and mentioned that she'd popped it.

[purpleronnie]

I was in england at the time actually at my parents house making dinner, my dad called me in to show me what was going on, at that time nobody really knew what had happend, rumours of a plane hitting the tower, who knew that it would cause so many deaths in New york and around the world, people seem to forget about the plane crashes in pittsburg and astonishingly enough you hardly ever hear of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

[Bert]

I can remember going to play football on the back to try and get away from it because I was scared!

Every time I'd see a plane fly over in the next few weeks, I'd be panicking!

[Bert]

I was in england at the time actually at my parents house making dinner, my dad called me in to show me what was going on, at that time nobody really knew what had happend, rumours of a plane hitting the tower, who knew that it would cause so many deaths in New york and around the world, people seem to forget about the plane crashes in pittsburg and astonishingly enough you hardly ever hear of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

That's sad, and personally I believe it's because of how much more of a catastrophe the WTC attacks were, in comparision.

[StanSP]

I can remember going to play football on the back to try and get away from it because I was scared!

Every time I'd see a plane fly over in the next few weeks, I'd be panicking!

I went on a school trip to Canary Wharf and we got taken to the 27th floor. We looked out the window and saw a plane flying really low.

The teachers could tell we were getting pretty scared, but the woman who worked there said that it was normal and the plane wasn't actually that low. We were all like ' it's normal!?!'

[Libertine]

I was in england at the time actually at my parents house making dinner, my dad called me in to show me what was going on, at that time nobody really knew what had happend, rumours of a plane hitting the tower, who knew that it would cause so many deaths in New york and around the world, people seem to forget about the plane crashes in pittsburg and astonishingly enough you hardly ever hear of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

This. Madness really, but kind of understandable.

[purpleronnie]

This. Madness really, but kind of understandable.

Yes I understand it, but the fact that it happend on the same day and at the pentagon I always find it odd that its rarely mentioned.

[Libertine]

Yes I understand it, but the fact that it happend on the same day and at the pentagon I always find it odd that its rarely mentioned.

I know. Truly bizarre. Not even on the news do they often mention it.

[The Doctor]

I know. Truly bizarre. Not even on the news do they often mention it.

because compared to the fallout of the WTC (body count, damage to area around etc.) the plane crash in the pentagon was nothing. shocking that it has been eight years already. i doubt the families of the people lost to the event will ever truly forget but by now they should be just about able to return to how their lives were before what was, in essence, mass murder, after all time heals all wounds... RIP

[Libertine]

because compared to the fallout of the WTC (body count, damage to area around etc.) the plane crash in the pentagon was nothing. shocking that it has been eight years already. i doubt the families of the people lost to the event will ever truly forget but by now they should be just about able to return to how their lives were before what was, in essence, mass murder, after all time heals all wounds... RIP

Yes, that's what we're saying. You can sort of see the reason for it, but it doesn't make it right.

[AmericanScott]

I can remember going to play football on the back to try and get away from it because I was scared!

Every time I'd see a plane fly over in the next few weeks, I'd be panicking!

Where i lived in NY, it was between 2 major airports (Newark and JFK).

You'd always see planes flying very low to land/take off. All air traffic was grounded for a couple of weeks after 9/11 but when they finally resumed, everyone stopped what they were doing to look up when you heard one flying over.