September 11

[Four Years On]

Tomorrow's the fourth anniversary.

Where were you on 9/11?

I can remember precisely where I was and what I was doing that morning.

[Nurse Duckett]

On my way back from a funeral.

[Captain Nudnick]

At work in the IT department of the Veterinary Laboratories Agency. One of the female engineers came back from lunch and told us about the first plane, and we then hit the net trying to find a news source that was accessable - eventually CNN came through...

[Pooka]

Where were YOU, "Four Years On"...?


It was around 7am, LA time, and I was on my way to work that morning. I was tuned into 102.7 K-IIS FM radio station, and Mr. Rick Dees was interviewing someone who'd witnessed the first attack. I thought it was a joke, knowing Mr. Dees. Then I realized it was not a joke.

I'd arrived to work, and the second attack hit. My colleagues and I gathered around the television to watch the latest. Since my company is considered to be in the postal region of Los Angeles, we were a bit frightened that our city had been on the 'list' as well.




A frightening day. I remember listening to, and watching, the news all day long for the next several days.* It did feel quite alone, me being in my lil' apartment, listening to our poor world being thrown into a spin yet again.

* As I also did on 7th July of this year.

[Crusoe]

I was, boringly, at work, although pubs seemed to figure greatly in the day. I recall hearing the news go round but it seeming very remote.

I then heard that some of my colleagues, who worked in Canary Wharf, had been evacuated from the building as a precaution. They adjourned, of course, to a local pub.

I was at a meeting in the afternoon and went to the pub afterwards, so the first time I saw pictures of the World Trade Center being hit were on the television in The Plumbers’ Arms.

[Tiger Lil']

Mr Lil' and I had just walked out of Tate Modern and were in a nearby second hand book shop. The owner got a call from a friend - and that's how we found out - and listening to our taxi's radio - and then the full horror was revealed when we got to a telly.

[moonbeam]

I was definitely at work. Haven't got a clue what I was doing though... I must think about changing my job.

[Crusoe]

moonbeam said:

Haven't got a clue what I was doing though

Thinking about changing your job, probably.

[Luxury Yacht]

I was at work too ... the bloke who walked into my office and told me about it was a well-known winder-up and I didn't believe him until I went onto the net and saw it.

[Benbow]

Discussing something of incredible triviality at a team meeting - and not appreciating exactly how trivial until I listened to the radio while driving home.

[sea horse]

I was at work and a black guy told me a plane had hit the one of the towers, commenting "so the pilot'll be up for it when they find the dumbhead".