9/11 Memories

[gav-ffc]

Coming home from school and being raging that Art Attack had been taken over by the news

(irony I know)

[Detournement]

8 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Cheney openly admits he gave the order to shut down the plane, its not a point of contention. I believe that the hostages attempted to retake the plane and the terrorists crashed it, I dont see why the americans would cover it up if they did shoot it down given they openly admit they gave the order to do so. If you watch the timeline of that day they were so slow to even get a fighter escort for air force one that I completely believe it went down before they could get a fighter anywhere near it. 

They made false stories about Jessica Lynch and Patrick Tillman for propaganda purposes. They may well have done so here. The heroic patriots crashing the plane is a far better story than the military killing them all. 

Mineta's version of events provides a slightly different timeline to the  commision's report and it seems likely that the "order" and the crash were connected. He gave testimony in public and under oath. Cheney gave testimony in private and not under oath. 

 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

42 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

Was working in Limehouse, Docklands and stood outside the office looking up at the big skyscrapers at Canary Wharf (there were only a couple at the time) to see if any planes would bash into it. The place was very tense and all Locked down. Mrs then drove into the secured area and ran out of petrol, abounding her car on a roundabout in the middle of Canary Wharf. 
 

 

A mate of mine was in Canary Wharf at the time. Phoned me up to say he was being evacuated (ooer) but didn’t have a clue what was going on. I told him a jumbo jet was heading for Canary Wharf.

[Paul Kersey]

I was a student in Dundee at the time. I'd moved into a shared flat just a few days previously. There was a tv in the kitchen. I'd just returned from Tesco and I switched the tv on as I was packing my groceries away. I was kinda half paying attention and I caught an image of the telecommunications mast, surrounded by smoke, on one of towers out of the corner of my eye along with the commentator screaming. At first I though it was some NASA thing, like a space shuttle exploding. It was only after I'd finished putting my stuff away that I sat down and realised what happened.

I remember the tabloid newspapers had black mastheads instead of red the following day. I also remember quite a few stranded Americans were put up in Dundee university halls as their flights home were cancelled. I encountered quite a few old guys with ridiculous golf clothes hanging around Perth Road over the next week or so.

 

[johnnydun]

I was offshore, on the Brent Delta. I don't think anyone did much work that day, just watched Sky News. No change to a usual offshore day.

[D Angelo Barksdale]

Pep would have enjoyed this thread.

[cb_diamond]

Sitting in a computer suite in the McCance building at Strathclyde Uni. A guy very randomly and loudly shouted "holy shit" and bolted from the room. The rest of the people in the room looked at each other in bewilderment until a girl clocked what had freaked him out and let us know. 

Spent most of the rest of the afternoon standing at the window of the Sony centre on West Nile Street watching it all unfold with my workmates from my part time job across the road on Gordon Street.

[Fullerene]

1 hour ago, Proposition Joe said:

Pep would have enjoyed this thread.

Don't be silly.  Everybody is talking about where they were when it happened. 

Nobody is talking about who was really behind it and I don't mean the people who were accused of being behind it or even the people who claimed they were behind it.

This thread is a total smokescreen for yet another worldwide conspiracy.

[Nutz_the_Squirrel]

2 hours ago, gav-ffc said:

Coming home from school and being raging that Art Attack had been taken over by the news

(irony I know)

This is a terror attack;

This is a terror attack;

This is terror attack. 

[sophia]

7 hours ago, Lex said:

Remember seeing it on the TV after school at my grans and thinking it was some kind of disaster movie for a couple of minutes before realising it was real life.
Was a good documentary on the Beeb last night about it ‘Inside the Presidents War Room’. Bush gets interviewed and I think he comes across fairly well on it. Will be on the iplayer I’m sure.

What?

As a person that previously gave him the benefit of the doubt as someone that might just be better than his communication skills, I thought he came across as monstrous and especially so towards the end of the documentary when he whipped up the mob and marched to war.

 

 

 

[Rugster]

1 hour ago, Proposition Joe said:

Pep would have enjoyed this thread.

Yes, he could have regaled us about how he was sitting wiping Condie’s brow in the sit room. 

[superwell87]

I was in S2 when it happened and didn't really find out about until I got home.  The next day when in registration, our regi teacher had revealed that both her sons were in New York and had visited the  twin towers the previous day. Both had still been in their beds when the attacks had happened, but it was horrible seeing her break down in tears when telling us this. 

[BillyAnchor]

I had a friend who worked in the WTC but not in the towers, at that time I had no idea there was more to it than the towers. was worried for him but he got away alright.

 

I was living in a small town in Indiana and the police sent cops to all the schools to stand guard, I suppose they had no idea what was going on but it was pretty surreal that day.

[Distant Doonhamer]

Off work with a viral bug and feeling shit. Switched on the TV to witness an aeroplane flying into the first tower. Spent the next few hours watching the whole thing unfold with a mixture of disbelief and horror. An awful day.

[Forest_Fifer]

I was at work, I worked for the IT division of Schlumberger at the time so knew a lot of people from the US and had spent a couple of weeks in Austin a month or so before it happened.
On the day we were having a conference call meeting with the rest of the project team from Austin and we were waiting for our manager to join the call. He eventually came on, saying sorry he was late, explained what was going on. Needless to say the call was abandoned and we spent the rest of the day watching the BBC news website grind to a halt.

[sophia]

My main recollection of the day is being in Argyll and on the phone to a colleague from another country who was simultaneously and on another line, passivating her mother who was increasingly in need of calming. My memory is therefore of a poor soon to be deceased woman I didn't know, was completely unconnected with the event and who I only fleetingly heard on another line. 

Other that it was the long drive home and the rolling news updates on the radio. Such were the pictures painted on the radio, the subsequent tv images were somehow less remarkable and shocking than they now at a twenty year distance.

 

[Shandon Par]

Seems to have dropped off the listings but Channel 4 did a fantastic documentary on it. The calamitous early response from the US military/defence services defied belief. Interviews with military air traffic control revealed how they thought it was all an exercise and the whole thing became like a re-enactment of Dr Strangelove. “There’s some crackpot on the phone saying a bunch of airliners are heading to some important buildings”.. hang up, laugh, return to coffee and donuts. 

[101]

3 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

hang up, laugh, return to coffee and donuts. 

God bless America x

[David W]

That morning, Rangers were told they had to go and play Anzhi Makhachkala in a European tie near war-torn Chechnya. I can remember hopping in the car for my lift home and saying as much to my Dad. He said, "Aye, but wait until you hear what's going on in the USA".

Rangers, of course, ended up playing that tie in Warsaw after the events of 9/11.

I can also remember Clyde winning a penalty shoot-out that night against Stenny. I can remember a bit of an outcry because games went ahead on 9/11; I think a lot of European games were cancelled the following night.

[Shandon Par]

5 minutes ago, 101 said:

God bless America x

15 minutes later, someone’s boss got someone’s boss on the phone and eventually the military air traffic control room “were like, cool!”. The police pulled over one of the pilots for speeding the day before too. Seems someone at the flight school he was attending hadn’t told the authorities it was odd their new intake of jihadi pupils were only interested in the part where they point the plane at stuff and not the landing.

It makes such a mockery of conspiracies when you see just how shoddy “homeland security” was.