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[Reg]

A truely, truely terrible event and the perpertrators must be hunted without mercy.

That said, the incompetent actions of a certain US president has eroded the goodwill the whole world felt at that time.

Good bless the victims.

[Dundalk]

Been watching this all week on channel 4, the jumpers that was bloody awful never seen anything like that before    And the fella that rang 9-11 really hits home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA

Thats very sad 

[Woollyback]

i'll never forget that day - there's lots of 'where were you when...' events - like where were you when kennedy was shot, where were you when man landed on the moon - all the type of thing people will always remember exactly where they were whn they heard the news but none of them can hold a candle to that early afternoon (as it was here) when it happened.

i'd dropped my mum & dad off at manc airport at 5.00 that morning to go on the holiday of a lifetime to canada for 3 weeks, so when i got home i went straight back to bed and had a bit of a lie in. i was driving to the office at lunchtime, and about a minute before getting there radio 1 had a breaking news item, saying 2 planes had crashed and the wreckage appeared to have hit the WTC. that was shocking enough but as soon as i got into the office, it was deserted. everybody was packed into the conference room watching it all unfold on the telly. i absolutely could not believe what i was seeing. then the penny dropped and i tried to work out if the plane my mum & dad were on would've been over there by then. they'd gone via copenhagen so i rand sas airlines and they just said that all planes were coming back to europe, or would be continuing to america/canada if they were more than half way there but at that time they hadn't a clue which planes were where so i had no idea where my mum & dad were. it wasn't until 8pm that night i got a call from my mum's friend in toronto who said she'd asked at the airport where that flight was and they told her it, and all other US/canada-bound flights had all been grounded at a NATO airbase in newfoundland

anyway, what a horrendous day it was. i suppose we've all become a bit jaded toward the footage of the planes hitting the towers because we've seen it so many times, but watching it over and over again on the news back then shocked and sickened me to the bone like i doubt anything ever will in my life again. it just took so long for it all to sink in and to realise it was all so real. i haven't watched the youtube link yet - is it the one made by those 2 french brother film makers who just happened to be doing a fly on the wall programme about the FDNY on the day?

[Reg]

Excellent post Wooly, I think you capture everyone´s reaction there. No, the link is a phone conversation from a guy caught on the upper floors with the 911 girl pleading that they get them out of there quickly - then the building drops.