My memories

[Ruth]

I will never forget where I was on the 11th September 2001 when the first tower was hit. I was waiting at Edinburgh airport where my dad was due to land. I had radio 5 on and heard the news coming in live. We had closed on our villa only 11 days earlier having bought it at the end of July. We had been to the USA so many times and always had a fantastic holiday, it always feels like we are going 'home'. That day changed lives all round the world. My heart goes out to anybody who lost someone they loved that day, it will never be forgotton.

Ruth

[bellaepovera]

I was in Florida at the time. This was the first year my husband came in 13 yrs due to our business in Italy. The first week passed hurricane gabrielle which wasnt bad but rained the whole week. I was on my way to have coffee with my parents when i walked in their home and my dad said look what happen a plane hit the tower. Then boom another. My dad knew then who was at fault. I had the goose bumps at that moment that i will never forget. I ran to wake up my husband to tell him and we were both in shock. This totally ruined our vacation as we were all depressed for days. My mom made us the last 3 days go and have some fun but how can you...
We were very worried about flying out of Newwark on the 18th as you tended to always look at everybody...
My heart goes out to all the families who lost there love ones. This will be a day i shall never forget but i feel that we Americans have learned a lot from this tragic story and will learn much from it.

patti pacienza

[Debs]

I remember the day as if it were yesterday. I went to have coffee with a friend. She always has the TV on in the kitchen. As I walked in it was all happening - we both stood there mouths open. Then my friend turned to me in a daze and said "my Mum and her husband are there - in NYC". Little did we realise what we had just watched on a TV screen they had just seen from their hotel window.

My friend spent hours and hours trying to contact her relatives - eventually she did - they were ok. They had spent the hours after helping the rescue crews and walking wounded.

A day the world will never forget.

Debs.

[disney]

I remember that I was in work and the details were very sketchy. I went home early that day and my most vivid memory is seeing a constant repeat on Sky TV of the planes crashing into the towers and the towers collapsing. It didn't seem to matter how many times it was repeated, it still seemed unbelievable.

My thoughts are with everyone affected as we near the anniversary of this tragedy.

David Preece

[fiona]

I was at work speaking to someone on the phone who told me that a plane had been crashed into the WTC - but that it was terrorists. We couldn't believe it and I got on the net to see what had happened, and saw all the horrible details.

I collected my daughters from the coach, they had heard about it and we went home and switched on the TV. We couldn't believe what had happened, and I have to say, I felt as though London had been attacked.

The impact here was tremendous. I had friends refusing to go to London in case we were next. I felt very strongly about this, that we should not give in to terrorism. All these years we've faced atrocities from the IRA in London. My father was a senior army officer and spent quite alot of time in Northern Ireland and we always had to take special care, armed bodyguards, drivers etc. But I do feel we have to go on as normal, take extra precautions yes, but let it affect your life so you won't go about your normal business, no. But what I would have felt if I lived in New York I don't know.

I have to say I felt a twinge of nerves when I flew out to the States in December, but there was no question that we would not go. I can't tell you how many Americans talked to us and thanked us for coming, and what we (the Brits) were doing to support them.

Fiona

[caroline]

I remember being in town having lunch with a friend, and not hearing about until I got to school to collect my son - all the mums in the playground were discussing what had happened.

When the children came out, many of the older ones had been allowed to watch it on the TV during the afternoon - and our normally noisy children came out quiet and subdued.

We went home and sat silently in front of the TV watching the news, and probably like many others, everytime that the terrible scenes were shown, kept somehow expecting the plane not to crash and it all to have been some ghastly hoax.

One of my daughters friends has just done her A level art, and her main painting was of the Statue of Liberty, with tears on her cheeks and the reflection in her eyes of the ruined towers - when I saw it at the schools art exhibition - I too had tears rolling down my cheeks, along with just about everybody else that saw it.



Caroline

[orlandobabe]

We flew to Florida 9 days after Sept 11th. Normally I'm terrified of flying -but this time I was so upset and angry that people should violate our freedoms in this way-that I was absolutely fine. It didn't even bother me.

The day it happened was just harrowing!

Orlandobabe

[imported_n/a]

I was at work and couldn't believe what I was hearing on the radio so we turned on the telly to watch in horror - but it still didn't register that the States were under attack! We all sat there glued to the TV and then went to fetch my daughter and most of the children were very upset as they had heard the news.

I didn't stop watching Sky TV or CNN for days and still one year on, cannot believe that all happened.

I was apprehensive about flying and I too always seem to look at the other passengers......

I just pray that nothing ever happens like this again.

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

I was at work - it was just after lunchtime and a colleague returned from lunch to tell me an aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center. I immediately logged onto the BBC News website to be greeted by the pictures I could never have imagined I would see <img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>.

We spent the rest of the afternoon talking about what had happened amongst ourselves and keeping up to date with the breaking news on the net.

One year on and I still cannot believe such an evil thing has happened.

John & Sarah Rooke
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[Shroom]

One year on and I still find it hard to beleive that so many lives were lost.
Thank God the final toll was so much less than that expected.

My heart went out to the flight crews who knew what was going to happen and could do absolutely nothing to prevent it.

My son called me just as the first plane hit. I had just been swimming and got to a TV (wrapped in a towel) just as the 2nd plane hit.

When stories of the great losses suffered by firefighters from NYFD started coming in my concern was for my niece living in New York and just about to be married to a New York firefighter.

He was one of the ones who got through those terrible days alive.



Siobhan