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[enfieldspares]

I was also in Birmingham when Thatcher resigned. Coming out of Powell's on Carr's Lane and saw the headline in those wired frames that street newsvendors had on the front of the boxes on their pitches.

[Miserableolgit]

Hard to credit it was 23 years ago, but remembering how hearing the first reports on the radio that made me go into the front room and turn on the tv to watch the early live coverage. Our three year old lad wandered in and stood there asking if it was real and why it was happening. My wife was at the office so I called and let her know what was happening and then shot a few emails off checking with friends in and around NY, NJ and other places in the US.... and so the day went on, each event defying belief in a way.

There are so many important world and national events that I can remember where I was when I watched or heard about them, the murder of the undercover soldiers included. The Mountbatten and Airey Neave assassinations. WPC Fletcher shot... 

[ditchman]

1 hour ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, We all must have memories of certain events like the 9/11 , another one I remember is the 2 Undercover soldiers trying to escape the mob of people in Northern Ireland , sadly not a good ending for them

sadly i remember that...they were tooled up and didnt draw..........they were torn apart....

[Poor Shot]

I was 8 at the time and remember the teacher turning on a tiny CRT television that was in the corner of our classroom and never used.

The teacher and several others crowded around that TV and watched for hours as the events unfolded. No further teaching took place that day. We may have been sent home early, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure the US government/ CIA etc are 100% innocent and have some involvement in this. I often wonder when the next '9/11' will be. The first world seems to be spiralling out of control at moment and it's only a matter of time.

[welsh1]

I was working , me and my partner were in some woman's front room with a warrant of arrest for her horrible lad, as we were talking the pictures came up on the telly that was on, we all just stared open mouthed at the unfolding images, the son went to say something smart and the woman smacked him so hard across the back of the head he stumbled forward.

[Minky]

I was at work and heard about it on the radio.  I  think that it was vague reporting that it was believed that a lightplane had crashed into the world trade centre.   I  didn't know what the world trade centre was or anything about it.   First reports were a bit sketchy because NO ONE knew what was happening.  Everyone at work just carried on their daily work because no one had any idea of the scale of what had happened.  It wasn't until I got home and watched the news that the scale and total chaos of the situation was seen. I think that the worst thing was the sound of people hitting 5he ground as they had jumped.

7 hours ago, marsh man said:

Like others have said you can easily remember where you were on that fateful day , it was bad enough when the planes struck the twin towers , then it unfolded before your eyes when the building's collapsed and it looked like something out of a horror film .

I would put this in the top five events that will stay vivid in my memory bank until my time is up , the other's could be the moon landing , Princess Diana's car crash and the funeral , the late Queens funeral and 1963 worst Winter in living memory , or maybe something else .     MM

Yep I can remember that lot.

Its on TV now more4 and more4+1.  Total chaos and destruction. 

Edited September 11 by Minky

[Poor Shot]

12 hours ago, Minky said:

I think that the worst thing was the sound of people hitting 5he ground as they had jumped.

I sometimes lay awake at night with that thought in my head. It must be the single most terrifying thing to be faced with the situation of no escape in which you either jump to a certain death from hundreds of feet in the air or are consumed in the horrific and agonising death of being burnt alive in a jet fuel fire. 

The only relief being the possibility that they didn't jump but were rather pushed out by baying crowds of people trying to escape the fire and smoke. 

Truly horrific. 

I went to New York a few years back and couldn't escape the thought while trying to sleep in my hotel room on the 32nd floor of one of the smaller buildings in the Manhattan skyline. I had the chance to visit ground zero while there but having taken a girl I was keen to impress on the trip, I'm not sure me coming across as emotional and teary eyed was appropriate. 

[London Best]

Back in 1981 we had a meal in the ‘Windows on the World’ restaurant on the 107th floor of one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
We have visited the ground zero memorial. The museum below is very sombering. 
In 2019 we had a meal in the restaurant in the replacement ‘One World Trade Center’, which, I believe, is not quite so high.

[marsh man]

2 hours ago, Poor Shot said:

I sometimes lay awake at night with that thought in my head. It must be the single most terrifying thing to be faced with the situation of no escape in which you either jump to a certain death from hundreds of feet in the air or are consumed in the horrific and agonising death of being burnt alive in a jet fuel fire. 

The only relief being the possibility that they didn't jump but were rather pushed out by baying crowds of people trying to escape the fire and smoke. 

Truly horrific. 

I went to New York a few years back and couldn't escape the thought while trying to sleep in my hotel room on the 32nd floor of one of the smaller buildings in the Manhattan skyline. I had the chance to visit ground zero while there but having taken a girl I was keen to impress on the trip, I'm not sure me coming across as emotional and teary eyed was appropriate. 

Another heartbreaking moment was while, watching it live was the firemen carrying the equipment up the stairs while the residents were coming down and very soon after the building collapsed, truly horrendous .     

As for events that will stick in your mind for ever , another will be the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 , just could not imagine it happened the way it did .    MM

[Minky]

10 hours ago, Poor Shot said:

I had the chance to visit ground zero while there but having taken a girl I was keen to impress on the trip, I'm not sure me coming across as emotional and teary eyed was appropriate. 

It should have come across very well.  It shows that you care and have compassion for your fellow man and not an uncaring oaf. They like all that sort of thing. 

Edited September 12 by Minky