[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 9/11 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/1/2011 2:00:39 PM EDT
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Just watching a program on ITV
I was at work at lunch time when someone said a plane had crashed into the WTC. At first we thought it must have been a light aircraft but then the DJ on the radio started reporting that it appeared to be a commercial airliner, and as he was watching it on the monitor in his studio, reported that the building was burning. I happened to phone Scope Eye and said what had happened and he should have a look at the news, coz he was at home with a TV and I felt blind at work. After a while I hung up and moments later he called me back to say that while he was watching a second plane slammed into the second building. He thought it was a replay until he noticed the first building was still burning. I realized right then what was going on and also realized right then that we were at war! Some while later the DJ reported that the first building had collapsed. About this time we had more Or less stopped work. Then a while later he reported the second building had fallen I went across to the newsagents and everyone was gathered around the TV looking at the carnage. Going back into work inwas shaking. It was unbelieveable. So bad that i just grabbed my stuff and went home...shaking. It was a Tuesday and that was club night but I just stayed in watching the news That is my memory 
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I was working for HM Prisons at the time. One of the guys was looking at BBC news on the internet when the first plane hit. That got all of our attention and everyone started clamouring for news. We watched as the second plane hit and ensuing events. A lot of innocent lives got taken out that day.I find myself angry at those that planned and carried out that attrocity. After HMPS i went to work for Aon in Devonshire Square. They actually had an office on one of the towers. in Dev Square there is a small sculpture commemorating the event. Its a representation of part of thtte frame of one of the towers jutting up into the air.
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I phoned Weekend Warrior the next day and we were discussing it. His words were "that wasn't just an attack on America, it was an attack on all of us" He was right 
Ten years on, I'm still angry to this day Yeah me too. I was on my way back from working on the Foot and Mouth Crisis in Cumbria as Army Liaison for my Govt Department. I have been there on shifts of 6 days on and 2 off since the crisis began.I had had a meeding up near Penrith and was on my way home down the M61 at the time when I heard it on the radio that a light aircraft had crashed into the WTC. By the time I got home it was an airliner, and shortly after my neighbour and I watched live as the second aircraft hit......... The feeling of utter helplessness and the concern that the towers would collapse was awful. I remember seeing both towers come down and thinking that the death toll would be a lot more than it was. I knew we would be at war within the year and we would be stood beside our US cousins and be destroying those who had orchestrated, supported and harboured the planners of the attack. From that point on I knew the world had changed. My initial fear was that the US would respond in an overwhelmingly destructive fashion out of understandable pure rage, and part of me hoped they would. Fortunately, calmer, more deadly heads prevailed. Bloody horrible day.
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Terrible day.. I remember how utterly surreal an dissociated I felt as we watched it unfold. Its still distressing to watch 10 years on Like many felt, I remember commenting to a colleague 'from today nothing is going to be quite the same' .. though we've had period of semi normality in between I think that years from now the period from that point on to whatever marks the next big (fourth
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I can remember vividly, I was designing a new set of Grecian cutters on the pc at work when I received a text message from the missus saying that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. From there on it was a constant stream of messages as to what was happening, practically the whole workforce was receiving messages about it and essentially everyone stopped working as we listened to the radio. I don't think it truly sank in to be honest until I got home and watched it for myself on the telly.
Very horrible event and even now feel for the people that lost their lives and their families as well as the poor fire crews, police and others trying to help. To the innocents that lost their lives, rest in peace , to those that carried it out, rest in pieces  .
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I had just been for a job interview and came home and switched the TV on. I wasn't listening to the sound and could just see the twin towers with smoke pouring out of one them. When I did turn the sound up and heard what had happened I couldn't believe it. I called a couple of friends and stayed glued to the TV for the next 3 or 4 hours.
When the buildings collapsed it seemed completely surreal, like watching a CGI film. I couldn't believe that anyone would be stupid enough to attack the U.S. on such a large scale and that someone would be paying a heavy price for attacking New York and murdering thousands of people. I hoped that we would stand alongside the U.S. against whoever had been behind the attack. I tried to imagine what it must have been like to be trapped above the crash site in the second building after watching the first collapse. I remember hearing the stories in the following days of the bravery of the Emergency Services and also of the people that fought back to retake the plane that missed it's target. It just made me more angry. The company that I had been to the interview for was from the U.S. and as a result it delayed the start of my job by nearly a month. I was just glad that the U.S. didn't respond with nuclear missiles. R.I.P. all of the innocents that died that day. To the all the terrorists - rot in hell screaming. |
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I was at work, the workshop staff had a small portable TV that they watched during break times. 1 of them came up and said that a plane had crashed into the WTC so I went downstairs to have a look. It wasn't more than a couple of minutes before the second tower was hit, everyone looked at each other in silence because only at that moment it was crystal that it was no accident. The rest of the day was just surreal, seeing them collapse was just sickening The wife phoned our friends in PA just as it was reported that another plane had crashed not far from them, they were absolutely distraught understandably.
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I was on 12hr shifts, 4 on 4 off in Northants Police Control room at the time, as was my wife. On that day we were on a day off and was in the process of having SKY satellite installed. The Sky chap had just got a picture on the screen when the news broke and they were showing pictures of a Fireman standing in the street as the plane went over his head and struck the building. That must have been the longest ever sky installation as all three of us just sat for ages watching the news and seeing the second plane hit the other Tower. Grim, very grim indeed. I said to the wife we would be called in to work soon and sure enough, we were, that was the start of a 19hr shift.
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Just watching a program on ITV I was at work at lunch time when someone said a plane had crashed into the WTC. At first we thought it must have been a light aircraft but then the DJ on the radio started reporting that it appeared to be a commercial airliner, and as he was watching it on the monitor in his studio, reported that the building was burning. I happened to phone Scope Eye and said what had happened and he should have a look at the news, coz he was at home with a TV and I felt blind at work. After a while I hung up and moments later he called me back to say that while he was watching a second plane slammed into the second building. He thought it was a replay until he noticed the first building was still burning. I realized right then what was going on and also realized right then that we were at war! Some while later the DJ reported that the first building had collapsed. About this time we had more Or less stopped work. Then a while later he reported the second building had fallen I went across to the newsagents and everyone was gathered around the TV looking at the carnage. Going back into work inwas shaking. It was unbelieveable. So bad that i just grabbed my stuff and went home...shaking. It was a Tuesday and that was club night but I just stayed in watching the news That is my memory I remember it well, sitting on the phone to Bradders on the floor in front of the TV in disbelief watching it unfold in realtime. Not a good memory
It's a bit like the news of JFK being shot, we all remember where we were when we heard the news. ETA: I must just mention I wasn't born when JFK was shot, but everyone says they can remember where they were when they heard the news. |
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I was at happy valley race course in Hong Kong and we'd just got back to the hotel, we were all sitting around on the beds drinking beers and watching the tv and to be honest we thought it was a movie!
I think the feeling that night was definatley that things had changed, travelling back from HK was knowhere near as pleasent as going and I felt sorry for the muslim family on the plane who were watched and followed everywhere by passengers and crew alike, A trully sad day in history, RIP to all those that died |
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I was at work, and one of our guys was listening to Steve wrights radio 2 show, when it was announced, we went to our canteen and put the TV on in there, we heard it was a small plane, but looking at the huge hole in the tower, it was obvious it was much larger, a couple of minutes after putting the news on, we watched like, as millions of other people around the world did, the second plane hit the WTC.
We all then sat in almost complete silence until we saw both towers come down. Not long after that, my wife rang me to say her best friends husband was in NY on business, and may well be in the WTC. It was almost 24 hrs before we found out he was safe, he was on the 15 th floor of the south tower when the first plane struck, it was a short while before he had any idea what was going on, but was evacuated safely. He is an American, working for a British finance company, he had some particularly harrowing memories, mainly of the 'jumpers'
I will be keen to read what our American friends add to this thread, I was on the phone to muddy on Wednesday night and we spoke of 9/11, he had some. interesting memories. Something I always think about, if you see close up footage on tv, you see hundreds of people hanging out of the Windows above where the planes struck, waving and begging for help, it was confirmed, no one above the plane strikes survived, you are seeing people in their final moments, and they are fit healthy people, with everything to live for, and nothing could be done to help them. The program on itv last night was very interesting, and from the perspective of the politicans in command. RIP to everyone involved will never go far enough, this gross act of barbarity changed our world forever. Never forget
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I was in the Police at the time. I was out on vehicle patrol in NW London.
As Bradders said, my first assumption was that it was a light aircraft and an accidental collision. My ex-wife called and told me and I replied that I had already heard and mentioned the light aircraft thing. She told me that it was a big passenger airliner. At the same time every police unit was recalled to base and told to standby for further deployment. There was a very real fear that an attack on London was minutes away. We all stood around the TV in the canteen and I recall watching the NYPD and NYFD running into the towers - somebody said something to the effect that they were taking a chance because it might all collapse. None of us really thought it would though. To see the collapse was a big shock and very very emotional for us. Some of those brave guys must have been concerned about the possibility of collapse but went in anyway. Oustandingly professional men and women. As an aside - I know there have been conspiricy theories since but one thing I heard that morning stood out..........................a colleague who had worked in demolition prior to becoming a police officer.................... He remarked that it was very very difficult to bring a building down completely vertically. He said that one coming down vertically ( as a result of an accident ) was highly improbable but both doing so was almost impossible. |
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As an aside - I know there have been conspiricy theories since but one thing I heard that morning stood out..........................a colleague who had worked in demolition prior to becoming a police officer.................... He remarked that it was very very difficult to bring a building down completely vertically. He said that one coming down vertically ( as a result of an accident ) was highly improbable but both doing so was almost impossible. There were three that came 'straight down'..... 
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As an aside - I know there have been conspiricy theories since but one thing I heard that morning stood out..........................a colleague who had worked in demolition prior to becoming a police officer.................... He remarked that it was very very difficult to bring a building down completely vertically. He said that one coming down vertically ( as a result of an accident ) was highly improbable but both doing so was almost impossible. There were three that came 'straight down'..... I know but the third one was much later as I remember it ? And it was completely overshadowed in terms of media coverage. |
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I was in Ireland, we had parked up just over the bridge on Valentia Island looking out over the Atlantic. We were going to walk up to headland but there was a typical Irish rain shower so we put the radio on while waited for it to pass. Like everybody else my first reaction was in was a light aircraft, but when we heard it was an airliner I guessed correctly the hi-jackers had some flying skills and overpowered the crew. More shock when the second aircraft hit. Shortly after meet some American tourists who hadn't heard and that evening lots of Americans in the place we were staying, all shocked. On the Friday Ireland declared a National Day of Mourning and virtually the whole country closed for the day, we travelled home that day and we had to fill the car on Thursday because most petrol stations would be shut.
The daughter of the g/f I was with in Ireland works in Chicago and her company evacuated the tower block "just in case" It was one those events you will always remember where you were when you heard the news.
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I was waiting in line for my morning coffee at the Starbucks on 4th and South in Philly on that day. One of the staff members got off the phone and turned to all the waiting customer and said that a plane had just hit the WTC. Turning to the customer next to me I said I doubt that's an accident, you cant miss those towers it must be terrorism. Heading to our office a few blocks away it was difficult to get any information (especially on a 33.6 dialup modem). CNN.com and MSNBC.com were down. And the BBC news site would just about load. Finally I got a local talk radio station to stream and we listened to that. One of the girls in the office was from NYC and her friend who worked down in Soho called her to say she was running away from the building and could see people failing from the top. It was shocking to hear of first hand accounts. That afternoon Philly was a ghost town and I was given a lift home to NJ as the transport system was shutting down. I worked at home the next few days, with CNN on the back ground. News was on every station and it was not till Friday that normal programs resumed. I went up to NYC for a day around the 25th as Mayor Giuliani had asked people to try to return to normal life and that NYC was open as usual. I didn't go down to the site until 2003, but paid respects to the memorials outside the fire houses I passed wandering the city that day. Amazing to think that was 10 years ago now. It will never be forgotten though.
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Saw the program last night. Very interesting to hear from those that were in and around the president at the time, aswell as the National Guard pilots on station over the City.
Everytime I watch it, its like I'm seeing it happen for the first time. The scale of the attack is just too unbelievable to comprehend when you see it. To have been there & witnessed the events unfolding firsthand must have been horrific.
I was working for a Global Telecoms Provider at the time, supporting their Network Management Centre & their systems. The impact on the various voice networks was unbelievable, as the call volumes ramped up across the world In the control centre we had huge video walls with live TV feeds etc & also screens displaying the state of the network. One displayed a map of the world which quickly disappeared underneath a mass of network alarms as the systems stuggled with the worldwide call congestion. We later saved the data from that period & it was used for customer demos to demonstrate the effects of the attack on our networks. |
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The day after 9/11. Stranded Americans congregate outside Buckingham Palace in London, England. They can't go home because a no-fly order is in operation. The Queen orders the Guards to play the Star Spangled Banner as a sign of the UK's sympathy for the USA. Even Prince Andrew can be seen stood to attention. An astonishing departure from tradition, Brits are also moved to tears when this clip is televised.   |
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Got called into the gym by my boss, the tv was showing the first plane & we stood there & watched the second plane hit. overwhelming disbelief doesn't come close, seeing those people jumping was so shocking, pointless trying to find the words, they wont ever be enough.
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Quoted: The day after 9/11. Stranded Americans congregate outside Buckingham Palace in London, England. They can't go home because a no-fly order is in operation. The Queen orders the Guards to play the Star Spangled Banner as a sign of the UK's sympathy for the USA. Even Prince Andrew can be seen stood to attention. An astonishing departure from tradition, Brits are also moved to tears when this clip is televised.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0I must be getting old , gay or American coz i always fill up watching that  i too was at work that day , we had a tv in the reception area and we all just stood silent , some of the admin girls started to cry and only then did it dawn on me that people are inside them , as said above the feeling of anger , but more of helplessness at just being a spectator . if i had to pick an image that will stay in my mind till the day i die , it was that of some firemen walking towards the towers and one had a look of dread on his face as he passed the camera , scared shitless yet he still walked in . never forget , never forgive |
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I was down in Brighton, visiting the main office. We'd walked into town for some lunch and as we passed a TV shop we could see a breaking news item which said that a light aircraft had crashed into one of the towers. When we got back to the office we were told that it wasn't a light aircraft but a passenger jet. As we got to the boardroom where the TV was we turned it on just as the second jet was flown in. From there on we were glued to the TV and watched stunned as first one then both towers came down. As someone said previously, you knew you were watching history and that the world would never be the same again.
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I was out of the office when the first plane hit and didn't have a radio or TV on. When I got back to work one of my colleagues told me what happened. Like others I thought at first it was a light plane, but we got the news running on one of the PC's and just sat in disbelief.
I can vividly remember how quiet it was, the phones didn't ring at all, and there was no movement in the street outside, pedestrians or traffic. It was like the whole area (and probably country and world) was holding it's breath in disbelief and sadness. A terrible day, can't believe it's been almost 10 years.
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The day after 9/11. Stranded Americans congregate outside Buckingham Palace in London, England. They can't go home because a no-fly order is in operation. The Queen orders the Guards to play the Star Spangled Banner as a sign of the UK's sympathy for the USA. Even Prince Andrew can be seen stood to attention.
An astonishing departure from tradition, Brits are also moved to tears when this clip is televised. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0That's awesome |
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I was on the phone to one of the guys in our NY office when the first plane hit, we all thought it was a light aircraft. It quickly became apparent it was an airliner & the NY office was evacuated.
I work for a news agency & so we had a number of live feeds showing what was going on - everyone in the office just watched it all in silence for the rest of the day. 6 guys who worked for the company were in WTC at the time, none of them made it out
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I was working at DSEI (a big defense show) in London supporting industry doing equipment demos my wife was delivering a presentation for her company in the next hall she came to tell me what had happened we had no news from her father who was doing business in NY or from her brother who was a banker there for two days!
The next day we had a business lunch one of the guys worked for a company that makes screening equipment he never ate bite his phone just kept ringing! |
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I was working at home compiling a database. My wife had the TV on and called to me, we watched in utter disbelief at what unfolded. I said to her that it was an act of war, although at the time there was no indication of who was behind it.
The courage of the fire service and police personnel who went into those buildings will humble me for ever, it still chokes me up to think about it. I recommend this: 
It is the story of the fire chief who was in the second tower and called for an evacuation when he realised what had happened to the first. He and his team were still high in the tower when it came down, their survival was a matter of chance. We had two Pakistani guys working for us at the time. Neither of them condemned the attack, saying it was an act of legitimate retaliation to US intervention in Muslim countries. One just managed to stop short of approving it. I am glad to say they both returned whence they came after a matter of weeks, and good riddance to the pair of them. Although many of the staff including myself had friends and business contacts in the USA there was no overt hostility, but a very definite coolness towards them afterwards as the company had world wide interests and several offices in the USA, although none of our people were directly involved. . There was a real feeling that something major had changed, it was obvious that the world was not going to be the same after that. We saw history being made that day, I hope I never see anything like that again. |
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I was staying home from school that day, feeling sick. I woke up around 9 and turned on the TV hoping to watch a TV show (the wonder years) on a kid's channel, but when I turned on the TV I saw the first tower burning. I didn't think much of it (I was about 12 at the time), and figured it was some sort of small plane accident like the news was reporting at the time, so I tried to turn the channel. But it turned out EVERY channel on the satellite subscriber I had was playing that building burning, so I watched. A few minutes later the second plane hit; and even at a young age I knew we were going to war. I wanted so badly to join the military, but when I finally reached the age that I could talk to a recruiter, I realized my asthma would keep me from that.
My dad was a huge anglophile, so we watched a ton of BBC coverage; at the time I didn't really think of you guys as a separate nation, I just figured we were all on the same page, fighting for the same cause, all under the same threat (which we really were!) - one in the same. I found this recently and I still remember watching this with my dad just a few days after 9/11! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmpo0csiIMs&feature=related[/youtube] During the 7-7 bombings in london, I was just as pissed! The fuckers attacking you felt just as if those fucks were attacking us! I'm glad to know that our countries have been working together to wipe those cockroaches out; and I will continue to celebrate each time I read about someone responsible for those attacks is killed. We have to continue that fight for as long as it takes, no matter the toll- this is war! Great thread you guys. Let us never forget. |
I appreciate the sympathetic words, guys. Thanks.
That day was surreal. I was living with my brother at the time. We weren't working that day and he told me "There was a tragedy in New York" when I got up. I turned on the TV. At that point the second building was hit, and it was obviously terrorism. I remember going to the supermarket and everyone was just in a stunned state. All the gossip rags were so horribly outdated––for once no one cared what some useless celebrity was doing. When I went to WAL-MART (where else) for an American flag of some sort, there wasn't one to be found. There was a serious flag shortage for some time after. All but the most limp-wristed Americans were howling for the blood of those responsible, myself included. |
| The thing I remember most about 9/11 is watching the TV late that evening and seeing a tape of the Palestinians celebrating. Their ugly fat women making that stupid yodeling noise that Arab women make, and the way they were giving out cakes and candy to celebrate the destruction of "the trade place". I'll never forget it and I'll never forgive it. |
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Next Sunday the History Channel are showing "102 minures that changed America" It's a minute by minute brakedown of what happened exactly when it happened 10 years ago.It starts at 1:46pm
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Next Sunday the History Channel are showing "102 minures that changed America" It's a minute by minute brakedown of what happened exactly when it happened 10 years ago.It starts at 1:46pm 102 minutes that changed America Seen that, it is well worth a watch |
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Next Sunday the History Channel are showing "102 minures that changed America" It's a minute by minute brakedown of what happened exactly when it happened 10 years ago.It starts at 1:46pm 102 minutes that changed America Seen that, it is well worth a watch Yeah me too. Quite harrowing and a very candid reminder of what happened that day. |
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Mrs Strangely Brown and myself were at an antiques fair at Ardingly in Sussex just down the road from Gatwick; because of the proximity to the airport it brings in a a lot of American antiques buyers.
It was around lunchtime that I started to notice the Americans crowded round the stalls that had transistor radios playing looking quite shocked, one of the stall holders looked across at me and said "It's war!" I honestly thought he was off his trolley as a number of the dealers I see appear to be quite eccentric in the way they behave and dress. It wasn't until we got home and turned the telly on that the full horror emerged and I felt sickened that we had not realised the full extent of the mass murder.
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On the BBC website - slideshow about the towers themselves...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14634600 |
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The day after 9/11. Stranded Americans congregate outside Buckingham Palace in London, England. They can't go home because a no-fly order is in operation. The Queen orders the Guards to play the Star Spangled Banner as a sign of the UK's sympathy for the USA. Even Prince Andrew can be seen stood to attention.
An astonishing departure from tradition, Brits are also moved to tears when this clip is televised. Thank you and God bless the UK |
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I was supposed to fly from Honolulu HI to Denver CO that day. Its about an 8 hour flight and I was on one of the first flights able to leave Honolulu when flights resumed. That will probably be the first and only time that I am ever on a flight for 8 hours and do not hear a single sound uttered by another human being for the entire duration of the flight. Very surreal and quite stressful to be aboard a flight of that duration so soon after the attacks. |
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Gentlemen, thank you.
If I may, here is a short documentary about how close our two beloved nations are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPqhoOKUws |
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I hope this will be a good insight to the perspective of at least one American.
I was 15 at the time. Now, ten years later it is amazing how much of my life is seperated into pre and post 9/11. Also, one of the few things I remember from the blur of those few days was seeing the video of our national anthem played at Buckingham. That's how much your support means to me and I suspect many others. |
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The day after 9/11. Stranded Americans congregate outside Buckingham Palace in London, England. They can't go home because a no-fly order is in operation. The Queen orders the Guards to play the Star Spangled Banner as a sign of the UK's sympathy for the USA. Even Prince Andrew can be seen stood to attention.
An astonishing departure from tradition, Brits are also moved to tears when this clip is televised. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0Love ya guys. 
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It's amazing that despite all the "Brit-Bashing" from some of the US and the "Yank-Calling" from some of the Brits, when it comes down to the wire, we're all on the same side really.  9/11 is never far from peoples minds. I'm Ex Police Officer and a million miles from Ground Zero but it still pulls at my heart strings when ever 9/11 is discussed and you see the selfless bravery of the cops and fire fighters who gave so much of themselves in an attempt to help/save others. What makes my blood absolutely boil is when you see in Britain, how we allow those scumbag fuckwits dressed as Black Pill Boxes to parade up and down our streets with banners shouting "defend Islam". This was a day of remembrance and honour for those who were murdered by Muslims and yet we allow them to peddle their sewage openly and unchallenged on our streets. America, you were in our thoughts and prayers (special prayers also said at our Catholic Mass)today.
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Gentlemen, thank you. If I may, here is a short documentary about how close our two beloved nations are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPqhoOKUws The first laugh I've had today. Thanks for that.
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It is interesting to see you had the same feelings, used the same words as we do/did.
That morning I was on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to St. Louis. My plane landed about 12 minutes before the National airspace was closed. I didn't know what was happening until I got into my rental car and it was on the radio. Then my wife trying to get through to me. I was scheduled to fly back to Chicago on Friday...of course airspace was still closed. I just drove my rental back to O'Hare (6hrs) I figured AVIS would charge me a drop fee...but they just waved me through the gate. The buses, which usually just run between the rental lot and the terminals, were taking people to the parking lots so people could get their cars. No extra fees...all the agencies were working smoothly with the customers. Now...the following Monday I was scheduled to fly off again. I don't know how many of you have ever been to O'Hare airport, but at 0800 Monday morning, I stood in the middle of the C concourse...looked right, then left. I counted, I swear this is the truth, 34 people...TOTAL...that I could see in the C concourse. THAT was surreal. It told me just how far-reaching the shock waves were going to be.
I will never forget, nor ever forgive, nor ever trust. My thanks to our Cousins across the Pond. Know this, as much as we may bicker, there are 10's of thousands of us who would/will come willingly to your aid...when ever needed. |
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The day after 9/11. Stranded Americans congregate outside Buckingham Palace in London, England. They can't go home because a no-fly order is in operation. The Queen orders the Guards to play the Star Spangled Banner as a sign of the UK's sympathy for the USA. Even Prince Andrew can be seen stood to attention.
An astonishing departure from tradition, Brits are also moved to tears when this clip is televised. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0I must be getting old , gay or American coz i always fill up watching that
i too was at work that day , we had a tv in the reception area and we all just stood silent , some of the admin girls started to cry and only then did it dawn on me that people are inside them , as said above the feeling of anger , but more of helplessness at just being a spectator . if i had to pick an image that will stay in my mind till the day i die , it was that of some firemen walking towards the towers and one had a look of dread on his face as he passed the camera , scared shitless yet he still walked in . never forget , never forgive It's OK. Your royalty agrees. 
Let it be known that we appreciate your support. "Because I believe with Mr. Bernard Shaw that the British and the Americans are two peoples separated by a common language. Since it is the destiny of the British and Americans to rule the world the better we know each other the better we will do it." |