Where were you, and how did you find out about 9/11 when it happened?

[winterback]

I want to know your situation that time.

[Zeuhl]

Why are you posting this in the section devoted to advertising?

You might find asking in 'Chatterbank' gets a better response

[woofgang]

Sounds made up but I was driving home from a meeting, turned on the radio and thought it was a play, switched stations to music and the traffic news, got home and turned on the telly and only then realised that it was real.

[quizbag]

I was teaching in school and watched it unfold with my pupils.

[factor-fiction]

You'll find some answers on this recent thread
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1169482.html

[Baldric]

Why?

[mccfluff]

why do you want to know?

[WELSHYORKIE]

Strange question to be asking. May I enquire as to why you would like to know 'my situation'?

[commoner]

Can't remember ....my memory doesn't go back that far.....:-(

[Robinia]

I was with my sister going from place to place and arranging our mum's funeral...she'd passed away just before midnight. I distinctly remember saying there was a funny atmosphere but sis said it was just us and the way we were feeling. We had no idea what had happened until we went home in the late afternoon and saw the news on tv.

[chrissa1]

My husband and I heaard it on the car radio driving home from our office for lunch. We switched the TV on when we got home and watched in absolute horror as the 2nd plane flew into the tower.

When we got back to the office, our staff wouldn't believe us at first. They tried to "google" it and the web was so busy, we never did find out anymore until we got home in the evening.

[cupid04]

Watching telly when the programme I was watching was interrupted for a serious news item. I couldn't believe my eyes. It's the most horrific thing I've seen in my lifetime. I still find it hard to believe what depths human beings can sink to. What can we do to make a safer world for our children and grandchildren???

[jd_1984]

At college.
I didnt finish until 4pm GMT so the events had been unfolding for some time.
I sat fixed on the TV until midnight not quite beleiving what I was seeing.

In my lifetime this and Princess Diana death have been the 2 "you remember exactly where you were when it happened" moments

[bookbinder]

I was at work. A colleague came to me and said, "Michelle has just heard on her radio that a plane has crashed into the Twin Towers, in New York." I assumed that the plane must have been a light, pleasure aircraft that had somehow gone off course, for I had heard that aircraft did not normally fly over New York.

[maggiebee]

Walked in to work to be told that America had been attacked. Thought it was a load of garbage until I looked at the TV and saw a plane fly straight into the second tower.

[JonnyBoy12]

At Shrewsbury Enterprise Rent a Car collecting a car to be delivered to a customer.

I thought that it was a little private plane at first.

[Essell]

My services son home on leave and we were pottering with DIY. His girlfriend, also services, phoned from Belgium and told us to put on TV immediately - no explanation. We sat in the DIY chaos and watched the horror unfold.

[andy-hughes]

At work in a large open-plan office. oncec we realised the gravity of the situation, we all gathered around the radio and listened with growing horror.

My first thought was for a good friend, a New Yorker, who was due in the city that day - but she was elsewhere thank heavens.

[mrs.chappie]

Shopping in the Co-op. Customers in the queue were talking about it.

[kat2206]

Funny that, this poster has also started a thread in shopping about what color (note American spelling) to wear at a wedding?? I just found that weird, that lots of random posts are appearing.

[Granger99]

I was in a meeting in New York in a building about 2 miles away.
I was due to go into the Twin Towers the next day.
Obviously I did not complete my expected work on that visit to New York.
Oddly enough we did not hear anything and the first we knew was when somebody received a text on their mobile phone from London.