September 11 - Ten Years On

[comrade]

This doesn't really fit either Music or Entertainment, but I thought it would be appropriate to have a thread acknowledging the events of September 11, 2001 ten years later.

I was 14 in 2001 and still remember waking up to the carnage like it was yesterday. The world literally changed overnight. It seemed like something good was taken away and replaced with fear and paranoia.

No doubt everyone was affected in different ways. If anyone has anything to add, whether it be where they were or how they felt at the time, feel free.

[LostDoggy]

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I was 21, had just come home from the pub drunk as a poet and sat in the couch.....

I watched, wide-eyed for 5 mins then ran in and said to dad that "somebody had bombed the world trade centre". He woke and said "what, Sunbury has bombed the world trade centre??? I did'nt have the heart to tell him thathe wasn't far off.

[LostDoggy]

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I was 14 in 2001 and still remember waking up to the carnage like it was yesterday.

I was 14 also. Remember laying there in the lounge room when it was all going down, watched the 2nd plane hit on their live coverage. Can still remember the images on tv, scared me stiff.

[comrade]

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I was 14 also. Remember laying there in the lounge room when it was all going down, watched the 2nd plane hit on their live coverage. Can still remember the images on tv, scared me stiff.

Watching the second plane live would have been horrific. That's when you knew that it was an attack, rather than accident.

I was actually scheduled to fly out of the country for a school exchange trip to Germany on September 12. We drove to the airport in silence and the only thing on the radio was constant reporting from Ground Zero as well as screams and crying from eyewitnesses. It was pretty chilling. The airport was practically empty, save for way too many security guards.

[1eyedog]

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It was like watching a movie.

I think it was halfway through Rove when they said we have some breaking news, we think a plane has hit the World Trade Centre. I thought it was a light aircraft or something. I remember watching and after about 50 mins into the the coverage the network went to an ad break, just before the break the camera went back to the image of the building burning and then for a split second I saw the first tower start to crumble from the top.

I said to my partner at the time, shit, the building has just fallen!

[jazzadogs]

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Was only 11 at the time. I remember the front page of the herald sun the next morning, said something like 'ATTACKED'. Then when I got to school, we did a prayer session in the morning. The prayers meant nothing to me, but that session highlighted to me how huge this event was in history.

Horrific.

[AndrewP6]

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Our school does a huge school production each year, at the end of Term 3. I was on my way home from the theatre in Warragul, when, for some reason I turned on the radio - usually I listen to CD's in the car. I heard the Triple M broadcast with audio from Channel 10's late news... was just stunned. Was living at home at the time. Got home, and woke Mum up. She in her half-asleep voice said "A bomb... anyone hurt?"... I stayed up for hours watching in horror at the sheer brutality, the spine-chilling video footage of both towers being struck and going down.

The next day at school, everyone was trying to get updates whenever possible. Our production is this week, and every year since, I get the chills about it all.

[BulldogBelle]

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I was travelling through Europe when the WTC went down, I remember having just arrived in Istanbul, Turkey and we were checking into our hotel and the hotel staff pointed to the television in the lounge area. We were absolutely shocked.

[The Coon Dog]

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Luke Darcy

"We (Darcy, Tony Liberatore, Nathan Brown, Simon Garlick and Craig Ellis) were in a cab on the way down (to the World Trade Center) when the first plane hit and we jumped out. But with so many high-rise buildings around, the second plane hit, but we weren't on an angle where we could see it, and the noise was unbelievable.

And then walking down, a lot of film crews set up at the spot where we were. You wouldn't go any closer. All the people that were going the other way were just covered in debris and all the dust that was flying from when the first plane hit.

"Obviously it's the worst thing I've ever seen, and horrific memories. We did see people jumping from the building, and that image is really, really clear in your head. Just standing there and looking up and probably seeing maybe 30 or 40people jump from the building, and that is just a shocking thing to see and something that you never get from your mind.

"We were just in absolutely stunned silence, looking at this building, which was the biggest thing you had ever seen in your life, and just watching it fall to the ground. We just couldn't believe it was happening.

"It was just like, well I'm on another planet here. The city shut down and you wanted to help, but obviously there was nothing you could do. Up Fifth Avenue was a million people just shut down to nothing and there were armoured tanks rolling down and F-18s circling the whole city.

"It is just this incredible picture you've got in your head. I think things that happen to you every day - finding out you are going to be a dad changes your life, or winning or losing a game of footy changes your life from one week to the next - but to stand there and see something on that scale on a world level, you realise how insignificant things in your life are.

"We lost, obviously, last weekend, and I've been flat for the past 40hours thinking about what could you have done to change the game. But you think, 'Well, at the end of the day, it's what I do for a living'. I go out there and try as hard as I possibly can every week and try to prepare the best I can and do the best for the side each week.

"But at the end of the day, if we win or lose, maybe it's out of my control and I can't beat myself up and hang my head for a week. At the end of the day, AFL footy, on a world scale, is reasonably insignificant, and I think that (September 11) put it in perspective."

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[anfo27]

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I was 23 at the time and i was up watching the late night news on channel 10 waiting for Sports Tonight to come on while I waited for my partner to get home from work. I remember news coming through about a plane crashing into the WTC and they weren't sure if it was an accident. When they showed the footage of the first plane i thought there was no way that was an accident.
Then watching the coverage live while the 2nd plane hit was surreal, it really was like watching a movie. I couldn't take my eyes of the tv and then the news kept getting worse with more reports of more hijackings. I was up for most of the night and its a night I'll never forget ever. I remember it like it was yesterday. Its amazing how clearly i can remember what happened that night but i struggle to remember what i did yesterday.
I heard an interview an hour or so ago from Michael Cuddyer a star from the Twins baseball team. He was recalling where he was when this was taking place. At the time he was in the playoffs for his AA affiliate team for the twins who also had Australian pitcher Brad Thomas on the team. Brad Thomas and his future wife had tickets for the plane that crashed into the first tower but because of Cuddyers heroics by hitting a walkoff homer in the first game and a 2run go ahead homer in the 2nd game that kept the team winning and kept Brad Thomas and his future wife off that plane. To have tickets for that plane and not be on it is an amazing story and i guess it just wasn't his time.

[LostDoggy]

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I was 11 and for some reason I remember my teacher talking about it to us all at school, cause none of us really understood what happened, being 10 or 11 years old. I don't remember much about the actual event, but I remember the hysteria and how everyone was really scared and the confusion and the horrible image of the guy who threw himself out of the building.

[LostDoggy]

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I was an Ansett employee, and waking up that morning I switched on the tv expecting to see more about the rough trott we were going through on the news. Kind of forgot all about my job and put a few things into perspective for me, even though Ansett shut the gates the next day.

[AndrewP6]

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I was 11 and for some reason I remember my teacher talking about it to us all at school, cause none of us really understood what happened, being 10 or 11 years old. I don't remember much about the actual event, but I remember the hysteria and how everyone was really scared and the confusion and the horrible image of the guy who threw himself out of the building.

Watching the special on Channel 9, and the video footage from inside One WTC, hearing the noise from people jumping is awful.

[hujsh]

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I was an Ansett employee, and waking up that morning I switched on the tv expecting to see more about the rough trott we were going through on the news. Kind of forgot all about my job and put a few things into perspective for me, even though Ansett shut the gates the next day.

My dad was in the same position.

[Murphy'sLore]

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I'd just had my first baby a few weeks before and when the first plane hit I was fast asleep next to her. My husband came rushing in to wake me up and tell me what was going on, but I was so sleep-deprived I just couldn't rouse myself - just rolled over and conked out again, I couldn't take it in. I thought it was a dream. But when I got up later for the 2am feed and it was all over the radio, it became chillingly real.

I've never held a baby so tight as I did that morning.