BBC Six O'Clock News - Twin Towers attack - 11 September 2001

[@Halucynating]

Even as a 10-year old in the UK, this hit hard. I remember coming in from school and seeing the shock on everyone’s faces, glued to the television. My heart goes out to all who lost their lives and their loved ones, as well as those emergency responders who have lost their lives due to associated illnesses in the intervening years.

[@c0wqu3u31at3r]

My grandad picked me up from school that day and I remember he looked absolutely shook

[@intensalexio]

I remember trying to watch neighbors in the afternoon and this being on live instead.

[@samw1937]

Same here, I was 8 and came back from school and seen it on the news I remember it very vividly and being scared incase a plane came and crashed into the house I couldn’t sleep properly for ages and I remember we had a talk in school about it and a girls dad in class was deployed to Afghanistan and then a few years later my older brother was deployed when he was 18.

[@sh4wz0r]

I was also 10 and I don't think I really appreciated the gravity of it at the time

[@ChequeWriter]

I'm 7 years older than you and I remember coming from from 6th form. No TV at school, no iPhones, just Nokias without news. Got home and was glued to the news.

[@KingRooney89]

Will never ever forget my dad picking me up from school and listening to the radio on the way home not understanding what it was. I came home and i literally watched TV the whole night without moving. I can still remember everything about that day

[@dariusanderton3760]

we were glued to the TV for days

[@antoniasinfield1762]

From this Londoner to New Yorkers, im thinking of you all this week. I watched this live at home as it unfolded. Will never forget it.

[@seanodwyer4322]

it was 2-3 a.m. in Auckland City when towers fell- The Judgement Hour.

[@demonhalo67]

​@seanodwsoyer4322 so most of you guys didnt find out about it until the morning.

[@HypervoxelRBX]

new york has nothing to do with london

[@Quibble1.1]

@@HypervoxelRBX And your point is?

[@HypervoxelRBX]

@@Quibble1.1 we should not concern ourselves with this issue

[@DJMorley18]

I was 8 when 9/11 happened and I can honestly say it was my first understanding that the world is not a safe place. Even being so young and in England I was able to grasp the uniqueness and the sheer extent of the attacks because of the reaction of all the adults around me. I’ll never forget coming in from school and seeing the news with my parents, with them trying to explain what has happened.

[@heliosperegrin]

Same

[@thegael791]

What are ye wanting a coconut? Big deal. Stfu.

[@Psychology_Exposed]

Nonsense. I was 8 at that time. I thought it was a bit like an earthquake on the news, something else would be on the news tomorrow.

[@josephgannon4208]

i was 11 and exact same thing happened to me , walked in from school and mum and dad watching the news.

[@chickenliver]

It was the first time as a kid I was interested in the news. I watched Sky News relentlessly for the next week or so.

[@ValueNetwork]

“A plane crashed in Pittsburg” is the only coverage that the 4th plane got that day. The heroics of the passengers on the 4th plane were completely unnoticed at the time!

[@Supermanfan99]

Well they hadn’t recovered the cockpit voice recorder at that point

[@godstenrules]

They didn't know that at the time. This was just a few minutes after the attacks

[@HKG4]

This was right after, they didn’t know the passengers revolted yet

[@sabercrosby8128]

This was 6pm (1pm ET) by 10pm news (5pm ET) it had been established that passengers had taken down the plane. Which was met with much skepticism from what I recall

[@stoneage8236]

In the following days that came out and they were viewed as heros. Pretty sure the first 9/11 movie made was about united 93

[@theliteralcolorred9842]

Yankee, here. Almost the anniversary. I never thought too much about how other countries reacted to this awful tradgedy in our country. I always thought "We're the big bad Americans, Im certain that we'll have to cope with this one on our own", but Im very glad that even though geographically you guys are half a world away, you all showed genuine concern, as did canada and a few other countries. Thank you, from your hillbilly little brothers across the pond. 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

[@Tommahelen]

My grandmother said at the time seeing the public running reminded her of her time in London during the Blitz in 1940. Destruction coming from the skies and as a ‘normal’ person, there was nothing you could do. 😔 We are more than a people separated by a common language sir. We are family. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸

[@walkwithmeASMR]

It was absolutely devastating. I remember watching it as it happened when the second tower was hit. Couldn't take my eyes off the TV. I was crying. Love from UK 🇬🇧

[@PrinceBarin77]

Remember hearing about this at my desk (in the UK). Assumed a plane meant a light aircraft and that it was an accident. Then the internet froze and rumours quickly grew that it was something much graver. Never forget getting home to see the news. The most profound historical event experienced in my lifetime.

[@TravelJennie]

I was asleep in Japan due to the time difference, living there as an American, and had no idea anything it happened until over half a day almost later. The news was very very limited in my village. When I turned the TV on at my office in Japan, the little office lady kept turning it off, and I basically ended up just shoving her out of the way so I could watch the news. I had lived in New York the year before, and just couldn’t comprehend anything like this happening. It’s a very strange “survivors guilt” to be on the other side of the planet helpless with no way to contact friends and family or get accurate information. All of us foreigners there just were in shock. And then to travel as an American overseas afterwards, I ended up having to use my British passport in most of the places just because I didn’t want everything to become a giant political conversation at every hostel our hotel I was in once they knew I was American (my British accent helped in that regard) Still to this day it feels so raw. I visited the 911 memorial two weeks ago in NYC. The entire courtyard was completely silent as everyone paid their respects.

[@warrenpuffett2359]

here in the UK we was glued to our TV scereens all day and mourning with you all. I was only 5 when the towers went down and watching that on the news is easily the clearest memory from my childhood. Regardless of race, religion, nationality.. those pictures made everybody stand still

[@Pavement101]

Can you imagine if smart phones were around back then? All the footage of people inside the towers, all over social media?

[@Turbogorilla]

I mean at least we would know what happened to the twin towers Plus why the hell do people joke about this

[@RonaldTrumpOfficial]

⁠​⁠@@TurbogorillaA lot of people hate America after all the illegal wars in the Middle East that this was used for justification. The entire region has been destabilised and millions were displaced because of it…

[@shapejaper4]

all the gossip women were active that day

[@digitalhen]

You’re right. The videos from inside the Grenfell Tower fire in London were hideous.

[@chelseahulmston9056]

​@digitalhen I was awake the night that came on the news. My kid at the time was little and didn't sleep great so I was awake. I remember just standing in the middle of the room watjing the TV, having finally rocked the kiddo back to sleep in my arms. It was very surreal to watch live knowing people are losing their life. It made me squeeze my little.one a little harder and longer than usual.

[@joelw9787]

Appropriate decision to not bleep out curse words in these videos. It really captures the shock and horror of everyone who experienced this awful day

[@habibhussain825]

Given the gravity of what happened, cursing and swearing should be given a free pass

[@52thephotoshop]

In general they don't bleep stuff in th UK

[@electrostar5161]

@@52thephotoshop We do before 10pm, but only sometimes

[@mrystalceth]

@@electrostar5161 that is a cool fact to know

[@ibnbhai]

wasn't even alive when this happened, but I feel sorry for those affected.

[@dannjp75]

I was working in a bar in the UK and it was live on the news, some guy walked in and asked what movie we were watching. That’s how messed up it was. Took a couple of days for it to sink in. 😢

[@nickhirst999]

That's exactly how I heard about it. I arrived at my local pub in Brighton at exactly 2pm. When I returned to the bar at 2.30, the barmen had the TV on and I saw the towers on fire. They told me 2 passenger planes had flown into the towers. I'm not sure that I didn't think they were watching a film at first but it soon became clear they weren't.

[@Buffalo31]

I walked into my local pub in Minehead to meet my family and the small TV above the bar was showing replays of the first tower being hit, which no-one was watching so I assumed it was a film/TV show and asked the barman what was it, to which he replied it's the news. Then he turned up the volume and everyone started realising what was happening just as the second plane hit. It still shocks me that this is real when I watch the same news now that I back than.

[@madanto2394]

I walked into my class after break & thought they were watching die hard with a vengeance-i swear

[@derekpurcell937]

I cam3 homw from college I put tv on I tmseen smoke coming from top of towers I thought it was film then I look at bottom of tv it was bbc news special

[@lewissthompson2005]

My dad literally asked that when he walked into a pub while it was happening, he also predicted the towers were gonna collapse because he watched a documentary a couple years before about how the construction firm that made the steel beams were actually not up to standard and had many weak points. but this was overlooked, a decision that would kill thousands.

[@muckspreader1able]

RIP all those lost.The uk stands with you in remembering the fallen🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@alukuhito]

The UK is the US's lapdog. When Americans say "fight", Brits join in. This continues the cycle of violence, ensuring attacks against both countries. The UK and US have been greedy in the Middle East for decades and decades. You will NOT simply casually live your lives while killing innocent people for oil and other interests.

[@alukuhito]

@@thebeatcreeperThat's good to know, but hard to completely believe with the UK's actions.

[@alukuhito]

@@thebeatcreeperGood to know. I'd like to make it back to the UK one day. It's been a super long time. I spent a summer there in 1992. In Canada, we were lucky when we had the Liberals in power because Bush asked Canada to join his silly war, and our PM said no. Unfortunately, the Conservatives were in power next and things changed.

[@giuseppeLizzi-rj3er]

I can’t believe that happened I was 17 at the time I remember watching it at home rip

[@PsychicPsal1742]

​@@alukuhitostupid comment

[@chrisblay]

I remember that day. I was working in the city of London when people in the office started talking about a plane hitting one of the twin towers. Everyone was going online to find out what was happening and the internet went down. A load of us walked up Cheapside in London and found a shop with TV’s in the window. We watched the news coverage in astonishment. When the second plane hit, we thought it was the start of WW3 and there was panic that Canary Wharf in London would be hit as well. Ended the day in my hometown in the pub, reflecting on the days events. Something I and so many others will never forget.

[@kikidevine694]

I was in London too. Someone had a radio and all we did was listen to the updates. My husband was in The Netherlands and I couldn't get through because of the sheer volume of calls and messages going through. One of my coworkers had a friend who was having breakfast in the restaurant at the time. She DID get a call from him to say goodbye

[@codswallop321]

Same experience here. We all thought this was the beginning of a worldwide conflict, and London would be next. Terrifying.

[@64andyjh]

Very reminiscent of my own experience that day. I was working near Old Street and everything seemed to come to a standstill. We were allowed to go home early. Walking back to the tube station, an airliner passed innocently overhead and everyone literally stopped in the street and looked up. It was a day that will forever live in infamy.

[@jeff4362]

That's probably the worst part, not being from the USA yet still being shocked to witness it. And then the feeling that it would happen at home or other places. Surely in that moment you could've expected an attack on London, Frankfurt, Kuala Lumpur or Singapore.

[@taffymackem2596]

Somber story 😢

[@iitzfizz]

I remember leaving school at around 3pm (UK time) and it was showing the towers burning, by the time I got home 90 mins later they had collapsed. Everyone was completely in shock

[@sean.furlong1989]

Same for me, I was walking home from school and a kid who lived on my street told me there has been a plane crash in America.

[@jali2012]

Same here, just got home from year 11 school, getting something ready to eat. Didn't hear anything on way home. Turned on tv and shocked. The world has not been the same since. There was life before 9-11 and life after. It was a seminal moment in history, ours lives.

[@jali2012]

just got home from year 11 school, getting something ready to eat. Didn't hear anything on way home. Turned on tv and shocked. The world has not been the same since. There was life before 9-11 and life after. It was a seminal moment in history, ours lives.

[@Peakfitn3ss]

Same. I was in year 9. Biked home, (Nobody had a phone back then, so no idea what was happening) and I still remember my mum poking her head out the door as I out my bike away and said "2 towers in America have been flown in to". No idea what she meant until I went into the living room. Weird what sticks in your mind on these historical days/events

[@kylyrichardson8014]

I used to do a paper round and can remember being sent home and waiting for a phone call to go back because all of the newspapers had to be reprinted. I sat in my bedroom in shock watching it on tv. I can remember it so vividly.

[@salaciouscrumb]

22 years later and the quality of this broadcast is unparalleled. Only 4 hours after the disaster started.

[@rich_edwards79]

Pity that Huw turned out to be such a wrong 'un, but yes, the quality of BBC news was absolutely unparalleled back then.

[@desmondmolloy9173]

In one of those strange little echoes of history, Huw Edwards would go on to announce the Queen‘s death 21 years later.

[@simonacland9028]

I was only 8 but this was such a big deal I can't help but recall watching it with my parents at about 4am in the morning and being told to be quiet lol. I just remember how serious they looked while they watched it.

[@dariusanderton3760]

@@desmondmolloy9173 makes me wonder if he was doing the news for Diana's death (1997) or The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989).

[@upturnedblousecollar5811]

@@rich_edwards79 I may be wrong here but wasn't Edwards cleared of those claims by The Sun and that newspaper was forced to backtrack on its allegations?

[@antonymay3799]

I am watching this 23 years on and it is still so horrible to watch

[@nicolelawless9942]

23 years on and this is even harder to believe because I’m a 2nd attempt 9/11 survivor after Woody attacked my plane on Monday 6th May 2024 and my heroic actions made headlines in Wales and Ponta Cana and I told my story hours after the incident. My sister, Come and See (1985), United 93 (2006) and Mummy are also survivors of the attack; our trauma from the morning of Monday 6th May 2024 is still in our memories and I successfully landed the plane safely after Come and See (1985) knocked Woody unconscious so I can fly. Wales was in deep shock when they find out me their beloved Queen was in the 2nd 9/11 incident and they cried finding out their Queen survived

[@sarahhunter5757]

I was 7 when it happened. I can still remember it.

[@sexobscura]

Probably because it's two enormous buildings inside a major, Metroplitan city falling after being hit by two passenger planes. Though I wonder if the same compassion your expressing is felt for all the people in other countries continually being bombed every day ...

[@w33btrash69]

I was five. Got sent home from school early (UK). Saw it on TV at home and thought it was a film.

[@michaelsnow7252]

especially when you see whose reading it....

[@darrensmith4932]

The images still as powerful and emotional now as 22 years ago. Never Forget ❤️

[@iBunZz360]

What an absolute tragedy this was, can't imagine the feelings of the passengers, workers trapped in the bulildings and rescue workers knowing full well they were never coming back down that building, absolutely heart breaking. I was 11 at the time and my heart goes out to all the victims and our American brothers and sisters as a whole every year since, God bless you all.

[@Muesli711]

It wasn't a tragedy, it was an atrocity.

[@rayhoughton8046]

And countries such as the UK has loads of them turning up on dinghy's unaccounted for and planning more criminal activity. Scum the lot of them

[@mikeoxlong4110]

What Passengers?

[@mcfcguvnors]

those flights were undersold & NO ONE EVER mentions the FACT that 8 of these terrorists were alive & well the next day ! one was a Turkish pilot whos pic/passport was stolen he was scared to death in a hotel room waiting on a new passport - he rag sly news begging them to retract their statement - they blocked him from calling - 7 of the 8 either were murdered or vanished ,Al Hamzi is still alive but lives like a nomad in the mountains as not only were the press interested but the CIA wanted him silenced

[@white-dragon4424]

A bit too young to remember the American funded IRA blowing up our highstreets, eh?

[@rosaquinnhere]

I remember seeing this on TV as a child (UK) its something ive never forgotten and i think about all those poor souls often. I definitely think it was an infuence on me wanting to help people as an adult. Im in my final year of my nursing degree now ❤

[@Chris-g8e5e]

I was no child. I was 14 and got back from school 3.45 as per usual and it was all on tv ...my mam and dad didn't know my mam was watching a dvd .dad in garden

[@MrAdster11]

Such a well structured, edited and reported news segment for something so massive that had only occurred 4 hours ago

[@Mmoselle1983]

Yep. Just like when Jane Langley reported the 3rd tower (WTC7) being hit and collapsing, 20 minutes early.

[@honved1]

It’s almost as if a massive, well established news organisation has the resources of experienced professionals on standby 24/7

[@buddyellfyre1238]

I was 17. Had a day off work. I'll never forget the news on every channel. I thought a replay was being shown until an eyewitness said "oh my god, another plane just hit". Absolutely numbing.

[@baldy_locks167]

I was 13. I remember I was off school because I’d pretended to be ill. My best friend was on his way to Disney land Florida. His flight was obviously turned around. I remember being in the garden after the first one hit. My mum standing in the kitchen watching it live on the small portable tv we had. I was playing with the dog. Moments later I heard my mum gasp and say “oh my god” I’ve never heard fear from her like that before. Real genuine fear. Even now it’s makes the hairs stand up on my neck. I remember coming inside and standing next to her watching it. R.I.P to our American brothers and sisters who lost their lives.

[@anonniemouse8042]

There were quite a few non Americans in that building and on the planes too.

[@baldy_locks167]

@@anonniemouse8042 Correct R.I.P to them too.

[@stalyirmangin6249]

I had double maths (an hour and ten mins) last period, I walked home, turned on the TV and thought "What film is this?" I dunno how long it took 12 year old me to realise what I was *actually* witnessing. It will stay with me the rest of my life. Solidarity with you all, from Scotland! 💙💙

[@douglasgonzalez5412]

Disney Land Florida is called Disney World

[@joshua.910]

Yeah a man by the name of Andrew Joseph Bailey from my neighbourhood in Birmingham, England was killed that day. He worked on the 93rd story of the North Tower. A security supervisor who it is believed that helped individuals who were less mobile than himself escape and went back up to help others when the tower came down. A truly brave remarkable man. RIP.

[@stratigeer]

I remember being at work in Bakewell in the UK at the time and the entire company was sitting in the canteen after lunch in mute shock at what was unfolding before our eyes. My boss turned to me and said "The world will never be the same again" and boy, he was right.

[@alfieking08]

Daunting words

[@Mike-tb9xq]

were you making tarts?

[@GuentherSteiner92923]

Who asked

[@white-dragon4424]

@@Mike-tb9xq It seems that certain people could do with buying themselves some IQ points, because they desperately need it.

[@norris667]

@@GuentherSteiner92923 I did. I text him and asked him to post his story

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

It still haunts me when I was 12 and I still remember it and even as an adult at 34 and everyone talking about it at school in Australia over 22 years ago and how horrible it was

[@MannoulaZ]

ok

[@hg_properties]

If you were one year older, you would have known the news reader a lot better

[@nickolasstrudwick7232]

Same age as you. It had quite a significant effect in a province of Canada connected to New York.

[@Jrt91]

@@MannoulaZ yo mama asked him to post that

[@MannoulaZ]

@@Jrt91 aye aye whatchu say nigga

[@silenoz111]

I'm in the uk. I was at work when someone came into the factory shouting the wtc had been hit. We all stopped working and listened to the radio. I called my dad and shouted at him to turn the TV on. He burst into tears, and so did I. It's a day I'll never forget...

[@silenoz111]

@maynardssoblue3839 What shards of utter bollocks!

[@lordbottaro4549]

@maynardssoblue3839No it wasn’t.

[@BVking509]

You cried your a full grown man, that's the chemicals bringing down your testosterone

[@RuFiOhYT]

I was on holiday as a child when the attacks happened. New York had been a destination my family considered, but opted not to due to the longer flight with my disabled older brother. Thankfully, we didn't go there. But sitting on holiday, watching this unfold on a little TV in the hotel, and knowing we would need to board flights ourselves just a few days later was worrying to say the least. Fortunately being young, I didn't understand the full weight of this, but I can remember the level of concern across everyone flying at that time.

[@stevemcmosh4271]

I was on holiday on a canal boat here in the UK having just finished school a couple of months beforehand. I'd been out playing and came back into the boat where my parents were watching it unfold on the news. I genuinely thought it was a movie they were watching. I'd never seen anything like it in my life. It was chilling.

[@tomben6180]

I was 10, got home from school here in England and people were stood in their gardens head in hands, my parents in tears. RIP to those innocents who lost their lives and sorry to their families.

[@johnjohnsilver]

I was the same at 9 years old. Got home from school and my mam was in tears. My dad glued to the tv he usually had bbc on for us when we got back for cbbc ... one of the strangest things looking back on that day is I can not remember anything about the day I had at school but I could walk through minute by minute of everything that happened the rest of that night. Its as if it happened yesterday them memories

[@koalaeinstein-y7r]

I had phone a relative I thought I was imagining it all

[@tomben6180]

@@johnjohnsilver Same here, my memory that day starts with me walking into my garden, seeing people stood outside looking horrified and my neighbour who was my age leaning over the hedge saying “someone has blown up the Empire State Building”, which was obviously false and he was a bit thick to be honest. After that I remember endless TV all night

[@Jake_5693]

Same, I heard my teachers talking about it in our PE lesson which was our last lesson before school finished. Went home and just remember watching it on the news with my parents

[@LouSassol69er]

​@@tomben6180interesting nonetheless, genuine reaction & confusion in the moment of what would be a huge shift in history of many countries.

[@JYMAHJAMES]

6:07 “a plane crashed in pittsburgh” if only they knew… RIP to the heroes on that flight

[@RH11THM]

I remember it like it was yesterday. I'd just got home from one of my first days in Year 4 and my mum was standing there watching the news telling me a plane hit one of the towers. We thought it was an accident to start with and my older brother came in shortly after with his mate. Then we all watched the second plane hit live and that moment will be burnt into my memory forever. The stunned silence in the room as we realised it wasn't an accident was haunting.

[@Jassisamess]

I had a similar experience

[@alexrussell2903]

Bet you can’t remember it was 20 years ago! Move on!

[@RH11THM]

@@alexrussell2903 are you diagnosing me with dimentia?

[@bbb5939]

@@alexrussell2903 Oh Alex, you need to get outside my friend. Maybe then you'll feel less angry about YT comments

[@invictvsevropa]

You must have got home from school early then to have seen the second plane hit live.

[@bobthegrinch]

I remember on the day I had the free periods from sixth form for the afternoon. I'd been watching Neighbours while having some lunch and when the episode finished it cut to the breaking news, I'm pretty sure I saw the second plane hit as it happened and it very suddenly dawned on everyone what had happened. The tone of the coverage changed from speculating and I guess hoping that it was a terrible accident to realising it was an attack and how serious the situation was. I was thousands of miles away and didn't know anyone there that day but I've never forgotten the horror of what we were witnessing and the valour of the firefighters and first responders. I can't imagine what they must have gone through. I remember seeing footage of people leaning out of the windows trying to escape the smoke, at the time I remember that you knew there would be loss of life but that maybe somehow people would get out. When the first tower collapsed it was horrific, you just hoped as many people had got out as possible but could see people in the other tower still hanging out of windows and feeling pure horror for them. You knew it was just a matter of time at that point before the other tower collapsed as well. It was such an awful day and I remember thinking it was the first time in my life that I knew the world was going to change and it was impossible not to think of the people who lost their lives in such horrible circumstances. It's always stayed with me. I visited the 9/11 memorial a few weeks and the room with all the pictures of the victims and information about their lives really honours the human cost of that day. It does such a good job of reminding you that they were people with lives, hopes and dreams and families that they meant the world to. I read about an emergency worker who had been planning his wedding and the night before the attacks his fiance asked if he still wanted to marry her and he said "Of course I do!" and seeing some stuffed toys on display that belonged to two children who had died with their parents on one of the planes. The toys had been kept in storage because they were soon to be moving to Australia and were on display with a message from their grandparents explaining how much they'd meant to the children. There were so many stories like that. I'm tearing up just thinking about them. I'm not religious so praying for people isn't my way, but I've kept them in my thoughts.

[@j-masako]

This is so beautifully written! Specifically your part about the victims. And I agree on the 9/11 memorial being incredibly well done. I’m a local to the area so my family goes often when guests are in town and it never ceases to amaze me the reverence that is shown by people of all walks of life and from all nations when they enter into the memorial/museum. Most times you can hear a pin drop in there, save for sniffling from the many tears. It always brings back what an indelible mark 9/11 and its many victims have left on all of us.

[@melisentiapheiffer3034]

It was profit driven. The memorial is now closed.

[@adrianh332]

Beautifully put. Don't lose your skepticism regarding religion it's a greater asset than you might imagine.

[@StefenFoy21]

@@adrianh332I agree with you, however, conversely, religion and not politics or racial hatred may well have been the biggest motivation for those evil terrorists who carried out the attacks on 9/11.

[@duncancurtis5108]

We'd an old news feed at work when a shout went up about a plane hitting the first tower, then the second and everyone fell 😶 silent.

[@Th3Butcher76]

I worked at Gatwick Airport when this happened. First we knew was when all flights were grounded. Truly shocking and heartbreaking

[@Nekoyaj]

23 years later it still hurts..

[@asumazilla]

The bad man is gone now.

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

@@asumazilla who

[@asumazilla]

@@MostlyLoveOfMusic The news presenter here.

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

@@asumazilla don't be mean

[@Jassisamess]

I was 9, in primary school and I remember my mum picking me up at 3:15pm UK time, and saying about it, and the news being on the telly at home. Rest peaceful to those killed and died in service 🙏

[@Jokesonyou123]

Same ! 9 as well our teachers put it on them big old tvs they had on trolleys and then realised people were jumping from the towers and soon turned it off we was like wtf then got back home glued to the news like just madness still remember that day clear as.

[@ShiftedReality90]

Crazy as this also happened with me. I was 10 at the time and we were in lessons in primary school, the head teacher came in to break the news. We had an assembly where it was on the big CRT TV they had. Can't quite grasp what to say about it even now...

[@joshi3518]

Why you Posting here about it it's past people die everyday that is life.

[@squidware]

"America is pounded" ~ Huw Edwards, 2001

[@mickeybee]

36 year old British citizen here - I remember vividly getting home from shopping in Liverpool with my friend that day, turning on the TV and wondering why every channel was showing the same thing. It quickly dawned on me. Something else I've found fascinating, is how, as the years have passed, and I've grown older, I've continued to meet people directly affected by the events of that day, even here in the UK. My soon-to-be wife lost a family friend in the towers - that family lost their father. How that day changed the world....

[@TAKTAK_Toys]

I was in Liverpool John Moores in my second year of University and it was really surreal

[@xoxxobob61]

If I recall correctly around 80 Nations lost people in the Twin Towers that day. For some reason some think that only Americans were killed on 9/11.

[@Amethyst93xo]

so sorry for your wife’s friend. 😢

[@FayeClegg]

10y.o Primary school kid from Liverpool. Father worked in John Lennon Airport at the time (significant position) he was in work until 2am on the 12th because of constant grounding of Planes and security procedures. Actually unreal when you you actually realise who & why it was perpetrated

[@kate2create738]

Amazed at how many Brits are sharing their experiences of that day, so vividly. As a Yank, it has been an insight to see how this affected you all as you guys were in the middle of your day, when for us our nightmare began early which by the time we went to sleep we hoped in vain what we witnessed, physically or on the tv, was a horrible dream that would end and we’d wake up to the real world. To be honest, that seems to be a habit starting that day of hoping one horrible day is just a bad dream for the last 22 years.

[@theculturedthug6609]

America is basically our Country aswell, obviously it's not but it was our Country at one point in time and most you are descendants of ours so we are Cousins and share a common language and Culture.

[@elwolf8536]

I was 16 got kicked out of school the day before and was trying to preparing for a job interview at that time... hit hard on every one, remember it Al to this day

[@xtroncool007]

Im British and was on holiday in crete at the time. Was on a german/Dutch complex Went to the bar to get a beer Maybe 10 people in the bar including the barman glued to the TV thought they was watching a film of the twin towers Then started to realise it was real Had maybe a week left of the two week holiday Strange holiday after that nothing was normal Walked into different bars and restaurants for the next days and its all that was on peoples minds. I remember walking out on the tarmac to board our plane back to England all passengers deadly silent boarding We all sat down got sorted and took off. Maybe 40 mins into the flight a Asian man (bless him totally innocent) stood up and reached into the baggage bin You could hear a pin drop in the plane He must have noticed the zero noise and looked up to every passenger onboard staring at him, He gingerly removed a walkman and headphones and sat quietly down with everyones Eyes burning into him. Think everyone Side a breath of relief. The fight carried on quite. I’ve never been on a flight like it! That day changed the world and its never been the same since I would really hope all GOOD HUMANS on earth would NEVER let something like this happen again. We can do so so so good on this earth but on the flip side really really evil. I hope people that was involved that day can find peace one day Love from 🇬🇧

[@arklife99]

What happens when you stamp big feet at people the retaliate, and still never learnt trying to bully russia now how's that going for ya ?

[@arklife99]

​@@xtroncool007considering they had warning to fuck off and was told it was going to happen, sometimes people need to listen had they removed troops lives would have been saved not ended, the human race is the worse group of mammils/animals which is more fitting than any other to walk the earth, we cause more carnage than dinosaurs did amongst them selves

[@Buff_Cupcake]

Truly truly horrifying. The loss of life and the scar it left on those left behind.The worst part for me was the poor souls jumping out of windows. Those poor poor people and the lives that were lost. The things they went through and the choices they faced that we'll never know because of the collapse. The innocence that was lost that day.

[@slopernafti902]

Yep. It was plane wrong.

[@alxonpc9388]

@@slopernafti902 that one almost flew over my head

[@slopernafti902]

@@alxonpc9388 Thankfully the joke didn't crash and burn!

[@jimmycricket5366]

Talking of windows... Is there any photographic evidence of windows on either of those planes?

[@Ron.S.]

Yeah poor souls… the people who made life a living hell for hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world and still do. AND there’s no such thing as the “Arab quarter” 😂 it’s the Muslim quarter… but who cares? Same thing. They’re all brown and we are smarter. They should also listen to us and their zionist lords in London, Washington and Jerusalem

[@NeveC_201]

Rest in peace 2977 or more people who died during the 9/11 attacks

[@lpsftw8572]

I wasn't even a year old when this happened. But when I first learned of this in secondary, I sobbed. To see such destruction was gut-wrenching. I cant begin to imagine how hurt the city, and the country felt at the time. And even today.

[@JoshAllingham95]

I can vaguely remember coming from school and my mum in a state. I wondered what was wrong with her then she showed me the news and at the age of 6 I was shocked at what I had seen. I hope all those poor souls are at peace

[@le6360]

I came home from my first day of college in the uk. I was 17. My mum was crying watching tv and as she was explaining it to me we watched the first building collapse live on tv. I’ll never forget it. We saw people falling from the buildings. I’m 39 now. I’ll never forget that moment

[@JustDaniel6764]

Oh my god. That is exactly what it was like for me, 17 first day of college got out early and went home and watched it with my mum.

[@carlwinfield4116]

Was my first day at college as well, same age. will always remember that first day, the day the world changed forever

[@honeypower]

I was in my second year of college, 18 years old. I'm 40 now. Seems like yesterday.

[@damedeviant1388]

I’ll never forget being 11 years old and coming from school, to see the live feed of the towers on every channel. I saw them collapse in real time. I had no idea what was going on, but the understanding of the horror of the day has been seared on my brain.

[@cannedham8630]

Remember the day well. Bright late summer day here in the UK almost 22 years ago to the day, I walked home from school, my final year at school i was 15.. and my mum is home with the tv on and the shock of seeing the world trade centre on fire. Later that evening i went to watch my local team play football, there was a minutes silence for what had happened before the match.. even though we were 3 thousand miles away across the Atlantic.. Its one of those things that always stays with you

[@SuperSaiyaGinge]

For those of us who were old enough to understand many things in the world, we all know where we were, what we were doing when this happened. I still remember and I'm 34 years old now.

[@TheBritishActingCoach]

My Dad said the same about when JFK was killed. I remember 9/11 and the tube bombings of 7/7 so clearly.

[@Rorz_1]

33, come home from school had the latest episode of the robot wars robot building magazine, dad told me to sit watch tv and build it because this is an event that would change the world as we know it.

[@andywalker3878]

I’m the same age, got home from school banged on saved by the bell on Nickelodeon, my mam got in about half an hour after me turned the channel to the news and the rest as they say is history

[@ashleighlancaster1683]

I was 9, so 31 now, and I didn't understand any of it, but I knew what when I walked in from school, and saw the north tower collapse on the TV, that something big had happened. I'm not someone who typically remembers what they had for dinner last night, but I can recall so much vivid detail - even down to the colour underwear I wore that day. I also remember my mum telling me to shut up, because she was watching the news and on the phone to my grandma. I also remember walking in from school a little disappointed because when my grandad picked me up from school that day, he'd forgotten to bring me my after school sweets. Course, once I saw what was happening on the TV, I kinda thought to myself, it could be worse. I ended up grabbing a kitkat and drinking mum's cup of tea.

[@weepingangel6805]

I was in year 7 on the school bus home when a girl I think she was year 9 said “there had been a plane crash”. Didn’t think too much of it but it was on every channel when I got home. I was too immature even at that age to really understand the severity of what had happened, so much so I even asked two days later “why do they keep going on about it”. He had to sit me down and explain it to me.

[@mathewhywelrees]

I was 17. And I remember this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that the world would never be the same again.

[@Megan-u7u]

Take a moment to remember everyone who lost their precious life or a loved one, hold your own life and those close to you extra tight today and be grateful for every moment you have

[@Mightyblackcats]

recall coming home from school and putting the TV on, like many, was in shock at what I had witnessed, thought it was a film being made that went horribly wrong, 20 years late and the footage still sends shivers down my spine and reduces me to tears, RIP to the 9/11

[@TMCsVideoADay.]

Heartbreaking then and still heartbreaking now. NEVER FORGET!

[@LightLife4]

This was the first time I'd ever watched the news for more than 5 minutes when I was 17. I was genuinely shocked

[@Sophia26488]

Same here, thinking about it.

[@jeanvaljean9398]

A daily thing in a lot of countries around the world victim of the US agression!

[@LightLife4]

@@jeanvaljean9398 if you say so

[@yas-per]

My mother is a Brit who visited New York only a year before the attack. There’s a photo of her standing at the top. It’s so insane that something as huge as 2 buildings could be destroyed in a day

[@JALC-x]

watching old bbc broadcasts is like playing a game of spot the nonce nowadays

[@blackmaxima]

I was 18 and right out of high school when this happened. I’m over here in Pennsylvania, USA, only about a 3 hour drive from manhattan. I had fallen asleep the night before with the TV on and was barely awake and able to process the news of a “fire” in the WTC. Just as I turned my head and looked at the tv, the second plane hit. I still have memories of watching this unfold live on tv. I’ve visited the 9/11 memorial a few times now, and the Flight 93 Memorial. May we never forget, and always remember to just take care of each other. I’m happy to see so much support from our friends across the pond in the UK.

[@comrade-uj5iy]

Won't see him announcing much anymore

[@zltoonslc2000rj]

The most heartwarming thing is how everyone around the world was as horrified about this as America, they felt just as bad and they made sure to tell America to stay strong. (Re-worded because the last version of this comment had some rather loose-ends, sorry 😢)

[@Alex-cs2wd]

It felt like it had happened to us. Everyone in the UK were glued to the TVs and in a total state of shock.

[@X4alwaysalone4X]

I remember all the Italian channels interrupting the regular programs and movies to start a live broadcast from the USA: it was a punch against civilisation, and everyone had eyes there

[@quiett6191]

@@Alex-cs2wd very true, everybody felt it. In my country, because of the time difference, it happened between the late hours of the 11th and the early hous of the 12th. I remember seeing it on the news as I got ready for school. We went to school where me and my classmates sat and talked about it till it was nearly lunchtime, the teacher didn't even give us any school work to do. Even at the young age of 8 and 9, we all knew something terrible had happened. I remember one of us mentioned that he had heard the news report say that there were people who had jumped from the buildings. We had all seen the Towers in movies and stuff, so we had an idea of how high they were. So when he mentioned it, we all just sat stunned for a few seconds. To this day, I feel sad when I see the Twin Towers in an old movie, and any footage of them (and the people) from 9/11 makes me angry.

[@Jac70]

The British have a strong affinity with America. I was in the North of England at the time and I remember seeing this on the news and was transfixed as things unfolded. Later that day I had martial arts training and people were shocked by the event - we held a minutes silence on the mat.

[@benmac6147]

How could the news in any country report this story like it's just a footnote? For a start, both the awesome and horrific nature of these attacks is shocking regardless of where u live. It wasn't just an attack on the USA it was an attack on the West and on democracy. Ultimately, it ended up affecting the globe economically, and it started a backlash against the Middle East that the British ended up getting involved in. As well as inspiring other radicals to carry out attacks throughout Europe in the years that followed. So it was hardly just an American problem that could have been ignored and swept under the carpet.

[@jainee4507]

Huw was probably thinking of kids as he was delivering this news.

[@vangroover1903]

It certainly adds some texture to the phrase: We need to think of the children

[@marklewis1750]

Probably had his trousers around his ankles on this one

[@audreyperrin320]

I felt sick when I heard what he did and he was the one that told us the queen was dead

[@vangroover1903]

@@audreyperrin320 He probably didn't make any dirty pictures of the dead Queen, if that helps. Even if he did, at least she was dead.

[@scottanderson3751]

Knowing the BBC he probably delivered is the “news” with some kid “servicing” him under the desk ✌️

[@DavidNightjet]

My mom worked (and still works) within a 5 minute walk of the trade center. She took that day as a work from home day to take care of me and my brother, while our dad worked at an engineering firm. I had just turned 4 when 9/11 happened. Watching these broadcasts 20-some years later gives me the chance to react to this the way my parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and all their friends did back then.

[@DomicidalCovers]

My memories of this was just coming home from school early after some mock exams at the age of 15. I arrived to see my mum watching the TV in shock, I don't know why but I wasn't able to take it as seriously as I would if I saw it now, I just couldn't comprehend how terrible it truly was, I think I was probably watching as the second plane hit too. It's scary how vivid these kinds of memories still are.

[@sisulart]

Remember hearing about this when at work then coming home and seeing the horrific footage. It was difficult to comprehend at the time.

[@coopsey]

My dog gave birth to puppies around midnight on Spet 11th, I was 13 and so excited to get home from school to play with them. Walked into the kitchen and my mum and dad were both just standing staring at the live coverage whilst 12 hour old puppies were running round their ankles. I joined them and we all just stood watching what was happeming. It was so surreal.

[@Toon1972]

​@@VMM34does it really matter if the dogs were walking or not ?

[@VMM34]

@@Toon1972 I like literal facts

[@VMM34]

@@Toon1972 okay I'll delete it

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

Running around at 12 hours old? 😅

[@Chimp981]

I remember when I went home and my parents had 182 ventriloquist dummies sitting on my bed 🛏️🤡🧎🏼‍♀️

[@bluebear1985]

I was 16 at the time. I live in Canada, and I was just settling into my first afternoon class in school when the principal broke the news over the public address system. Nobody could really focus on what our assignments were supposed to be, as this tragic news took all conversation over. Being in the middle of Canada, I recall seeing all local hotels and motels in Thunder Bay being full of stranded travelers whose flights got diverted here as a result of American air space being closed. I was one of many people who were shaking as a result of what happened, and that's putting it lightly.

[@mercedesbenzodiazapine]

i was 16 too, living in new jersey, 15 miles away. i know all about Operation Yellow Ribbon so thank you guys for living up to your canadian kindness :)

[@MarkPollard-yx8qg]

Did they make a movie about planes landing in a small airport in Canada on 911 in a place called gooseneck people in the town gave shelter to people stuck

[@mercedesbenzodiazapine]

@@MarkPollard-yx8qg pretty sure there was but i haven't watched it. i think its based in Gander, NL, which took the most planes after Vancouver and Halifax.

[@bluebear1985]

@@MarkPollard-yx8qg It was called Gander, which is in Newfoundland. I do recall seeing a TV movie about it once. While that's interesting in itself, what's even more interesting is that a stage musical about the day's events was eventually produced, "Come From Away". I think it's been on Broadway among other places.

[@starbase51shiptestingfacility]

Do they teach how terrorism started in Canada? I learned it from my teacher, even though it's against policy in the US. They risked their job telling us, but they also felt it was important. In 1941, the US, UK and the UN took land from Muslims in the area now known as Israel, unilaterally. That means without agreement or consent of Arabs living in the area now known as Israel. The Muslims home and lands were taken (stolen). The new government also dictated where the Muslims could and when the Muslims could not go. Any resistance and the Arab could be beaten or imprisoned. Since 1941, war and skirmishes broke out and all kinds of police brutality ensued, especially since the Arabs were going to resist. The land was taken without consent. They have no means of winning. Suicide attack common. Americans think Arabs are crazy, when in fact they are very angry. In the US, they actually confused the words "mad" with "crazy". It's easy to imagine, if you knew how you would feel if your land and house were taken and there was nothing you could do about, except suicide bombings. You can fight terrorism through education. UK is also largely to blame. They used to control the areas that is now Israel with soldiers. The last remaining days of colonialism and the managed to turn it into terrorism.

[@mendo5459]

I've been to where the towers were in NY and it was a sombre experience. Whilst I looked at both empty sites I just couldn't help but imagine the events of that day, the towers falling, the terror, the lives lost. You can almost feel a sort of atmosphere whilst looking at it

[@g.ray.1987]

There are so so many comments here of people who were very young when this happened , who have had this dreadful situation heavily imprinted on their memories at tender ages, myself included. The People in those windows still give me chills

[@MS-sb9ov]

It wasn’t just live on American tv. I’m in the UK and took the day off to chill with wife, and casually switched on tv as it was showing a live report of the first tower being hit. From thousands of miles away we watched the whole thing unfurl. I wasn’t there, but boy has it seared into my mind.

[@EpicNotch]

As someone born in 2002, this is crazy to see. This has been all my life has ever known

[@iTubeYourDadsMinge]

I’m a Brit and will never forget being in my first few days of Year 9 at school and hearing about the first plane and not really understanding what was going on, then getting home 20 minutes later to see my Dad stood right in from of the TV watching Sky News Live in silence. I couldn’t believe what happened next. :( Something that will be forever embedded in my brain and I’ll never forget it. Much love to this day for anybody effected by what happened that day x

[@dave_clarke]

I was 18 years old and on my lunch break from art college in Swindon, UK. Me and many others were crowded round a TV shop called Currys in the middle of the street, just all in total disbelief. I remember it like it was yesterday - undoubtedly this is the most memorable global event in my lifetime. Being quite young and rather impressionable I can admit that I was, for a time, taken in by wild conspiracies, which for me were and are a direct product of (sometimes necessary) government secrecy. As an older man I have come to accept the official version of events, but I will never forgive those in power who used this tragedy as a justification for their own acts of terror. Whatever your personal views of the BBC, you cannot deny that this coverage, pulled together in only a few hours, was fitting for the nature of the events. They knew it would be one of the most significant moments in modern history and it shows. RIP to those that lost their lives in USA that day, and the countless others that have since perished in conflicts that were a direct result of this provocation.

[@yuenkentsang9446]

I was same age as u. But at my mates college to pick him up. Gosh I'm old now lol😅

[@haveyouturneditoffandonagain]

Hello fellow Swindonian. Didn't expect to see anyone here...

[@MegaAndygo]

aahh, Currys, remember it well. Used to go in there and play Ghostbusters on the demo commodore 64 until the staff shooed us all off... Cut forward to this fateful day, working for the MOD aerospace in a satellite office at Filton, the coverage was piped in live on the internet (relatively new and slow then), will never forget that day....... 😞

[@joshi3518]

Bro I ain't reading all that no one cares about your little popsy art course, get over yourself.

[@user-mk8hi5lm4s]

I was in my mid twenties at the time and was at work in the UK. A colleague, got a text message from a friend and the look on their face when they read it out, is still imprinted on my mind. " A plane's flown into the WTC " I have to admit, I didn’t know what the WTC was, but knew that something seismic had happened. When I got home, I put the TV on and watched the news. It was only then that I saw the true horror unfold. I stayed up most of the night and watched the rolling footage; in a state of shock and disbelief. I knew from that point on, things would never be the same again. RIP to all the souls who lost their lives that day and since as a consequence.

[@hollow34]

I was 18 and joked about it thinking they've been pissing the world off. Got home that evening to see the extent and the amount of lives lost. Never felt such a twat.

[@Misses-Hippy]

Except for airport protocals, most everything has returned to normal.

[@nickyhaugh2390]

I cannot or don't even want to describe just how traumatic and tragically devastating the September 11 attacks proved in the history of all living memory. Even when reaching 22 years since the tragedy happened, our minds still struggle to overcome this horrific ordeal and as always our thoughts are with those who either perished in the tragedy or continue to live through the awful incident.

[@11geosno]

worst things happen and have happened to other countries its just the US attitude of acting like the world revolves around you

[@coyotelong4349]

We now realize just how crazy that day was, and how unbelievable it was With 22 years of hindsight we now realize that this was an extreme outlier in terms of casualties… No single terrorist act, or even coordinated set of terrorist acts since, has even come remotely close to what 9/11 achieved, in terms of just a perfect storm of horrific destruction The crashing of AA11 into the North Tower ALONE would have gone down as the deadliest terror act in history. Even if nothing else had happened that day. It only took 19 men armed with razor blades to kill more than 3000 people. That’s just mind-boggling to consider

[@E4RLIES]

@@coyotelong4349 ‘men’ is such a misleading description of miss-guided, cold calculating inhuman scum.

[@lissywissy9843]

@@coyotelong4349 i mean, ww2 had worse atrocities, idk what we define as terrorist attack but yea

[@coyotelong4349]

@@lissywissy9843 I’m not counting anything that happens in war, or talking about how severe the atrocity (which is subjective) I’m just talking in terms of peacetime terrorist attacks against civilian targets. 9/11 was by far an outlier in that category just in raw casualties

[@khymaaren]

I watched the second plane hit live in the school during the last period of the day when the teacher decided that the events were worthy of interrupting the class and turning on the TV. I made it home in time to see both towers collapse live on CNN. It was a bizarre day, even for us in the middle of Europe.

[@Hesgoneandwrittenitdown]

This Englishman will never forget. God bless America. Love from across the pond. I served with American soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. I'll always stand with America 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇺🇸

[@lisathuban8969]

Thank you for your support.

[@anonniemouse8042]

Just a Shame the biggest terrorists are running the US and the UK.

[@krashd]

@@lisathuban8969 Although those 3,000 people died on US soil and were mainly American citizens, this was an attack on the west and every western nation fell silent on that day in utter disbelief at what we were seeing on our TV screens. I'm Scottish and I remember on that day every single one of our 5 networks cancelled all programming and just showed news related to the attack. I had never seen TV do anything like that before and I haven't since, it was an event that captured the world. And not in a good way, sadly.

[@whatabouttheearth]

The bastards used 9-11 to mislead us and pull us into Iraq, Hussein hated Al Qeada but we service members didn't know that, I was in the US Marines at the time (and Army later) and had buddies die in Iraq, I'm still mad at how they spun the American people about Iraq, and we still don't know why. Part of their grand strategy to get Iran or mid east hegemony I guess.

[@whatabouttheearth]

The bastards used 9-11 to mislead us and pull us into Iraq, Hussein hated Al Qeada but we service members didn't know that, I was in the US Marines at the time (and Army later) and had buddies die in Iraq, I'm still mad at how they spun the American people about Iraq, and we still don't know why. Part of their grand strategy to get Iran or mid east hegemony I guess.

[@gtd65]

I was working in Pennsylvania that day. It was a surreal experience, to put it mildly. We were "locked down" at a federal facility and didn't really have much clue as to what was occurring. I had to call my mother back in Scotland and ask her to put on the TV and let me know what was going on.

[@paultapner2769]

I had a day off work. I went for an eight hour long walk in the countryside. In the days before smart phones I thus had no news updates, and didn't see many other people being out and about in the middle of nowhere. When I got on a train home at 5pm I heard someone on a phone saying 'America won't be happy.' I thought has something happened? But they said no more and the train was late leaving so it went off my mind. I happened to get home at the same time as my sister, and when she said have you heard about the planes hitting the world trade centre I said what planes? I went in and sat there with the radio on. But I couldn't take any of it in. Even nowadays, to think the world watched it happen but I didn't still feels very strange.

[@Chris-g8e5e]

Got back from school. Whipped my uniform off as per usual tvs on..boom..its all over but I don't remember any buildings dropping at that point .that was a bit later

[@adamwithey8194]

Away from Queen Elizabeth II's death whose deeply died at the age of 96 last Thursday, today marks the 21st anniversary of the September 11th attacks. In 2001, nearly 3,000 killed in the World Trade Center (World Trade Centre) and nearly 200 killed at the Pentagon in Washington D. C.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

Do you *REALLY* need to remind people that the Queen is dead - an event which has absolutely no relevance in any way shape or form to the 9/11 attacks? Also, how does someone “deeply” die??? That doesn’t make grammatical sense. Moron.

[@anarcho-pingu]

we get it

[@adamwithey8194]

@@anarcho-pingu yes we do.

[@Unfunny_Username_389]

"deeply died"?? come on - you're better than this, surely??

[@diehard21000]

@@adamwithey8194 Thanks for stating the obvious

[@RCT3Crashes100]

Due to time zone differences - British Summer Time (GMT +1) is five hours ahead of EST - some people were unaware of the disaster as it happened due to not having access to the media (for example by being at work or school and not having a radio or TV where they were), and came home in the afternoon to find out what had happened. I was only five at the time, but I remember coming home from primary school to find BBC news on television, showing footage of the disaster. Being so young, I didn't quite understand what was going on, and I don't think I saw much of it before going upstairs to play, but I knew that something was very wrong.

[@afalaad8325]

Same thing happened with me, a week away from my 5th birthday, but the school called us into the hall and wheeled in the TV and made us watch the second plane hit the towers. Got home for around 3:30 only to see the towers collapsed. It's a bit weird to be so young yet have such vivid memories of the day

[@LeeTillbury]

Truly the most horrifying thing I've ever witnessed. Such a sad day. RIP all the victims - you will NEVER be forgotten ❤

[@EveryTongueShallTell]

You haven't seen much

[@paddyanglais91]

​@@EveryTongueShallTellsounds like you grew up in N@zi Germany

[@haroldramislives]

The jumping out the windows statment, from who ever mentions it, the disbelief in their voices and the realisation they just saw people die chokes me up everytime.

[@judet5426]

This is the main reason I can't re watch this footage. At the time my brain wouldn't allow me to understand what was happening, I kept looking for safety harnesses...absolute horror. May all who have died Rest in Peace ❤

[@Joeyisatimelord]

I'd taken the day off work and turned up at a friends and asked what film his brother was watching on TV. Utterly surreal at the time, still feels like it was yesterday.

[@BigAlCapwn]

Huw Edwards visited our school not long after this and told us this was hardest news bulletin he ever presented. He was doing a documentary on the state of boy's changing rooms at state schools and chose our school as one to cover. He was so professional he didn't even need a crew, he just came on his own and even did all the filming himself! It was slightly embarrassing as he came into our changing rooms with a camera just as we were coming out of the showers! But, as luck would have it, our blushes were sparred as 2 weeks later he sent a letter to the headmaster thanking us for our time, however due to running out of budget the programme was shelved and was never shown on the BBC

[@JohnJones-mz2tc]

Typical BBC !

[@ss5447-p2q]

You had me until the end of the 3rd sentence!

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Try as I might, I cannot find the words to even adequately express my natural horror when I saw this atrocity on the TV news, here in the UK. I heard that the attack was deemed the worst since Pearl Harbour, but to my mind, as a Brit who has never personally experienced war or similar conflict in my lifetime... Nothing compares to 9/11. My heart goes out to families of those planes passengers and flight crews and of course to those within the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. There are quite simply not enough words to convey my feelings. I can only say (and I wish it would help, but I know nothing I can say could) I am so so so very sorry for all victims and their families, friends and connections. To the First Responders, Firefighters, Police... To you all, who died then and there, and later, due to contamination-induced carcinonas etc... My heart goes out to you all. May you Rest In Peace since bin Laden was killed. May the families and friends of the deceased eventually remember their loved ones more with happier memories than such sorrows and Please, (I cannot beg to any god, as I am an atheist) Please, in the name of all humanity, let such atrocities never be repeated. ❤😢❤😢❤😢❤😢❤😢❤😢❤

[@Josip-Broz-Tito]

have you heard of 7/7?

[@dabingxiao3281]

@@Josip-Broz-TitoOr Manchester, or London Bridge, or Westminster bridge.

[@dabingxiao3281]

Pointless virtue-signalling.

[@mikeh3084]

For 9/11 this year we need to focus on Building 7 and the Pentagon. We all know planes weren't the only thing going on that day. For those outside the US, Gun Violence is a lie. Demand your 2A rights back from your leaders. -Combat Vet

[@alexrussell2903]

Oh stop your stupid whining! It’s almost 20 years old! We have so many tragedies since! Christ grow up!

[@lisap3652]

I’m from the UK & watched it live as it happened. I’d put the TV on at home to watch something else. The first tower was burning & I saw the 2nd plane hit. I saw footage that wasn’t ever shown on TV again, although now you can see it on KZbin. There were people hanging out a window waving what was probably a white tablecloth. People jumping with the camera following them down. People lying injured in the streets, walking wounded escaping covered in ash. It was such a shocking event that I couldn’t comprehend it. I knew it was terrible but my brain just couldn’t take in everything that was happening.

[@SweetDreams84]

I remember coming home early from secondary school, watching the coverage and seeing the second plane fly into the second tower, it was unbelievably horrific! Now thinking of the countless people who died right there in front of us, absolutely awful beyond words. Then finding out pregnant woman jumping to their death instead of burning or suffocating to death and these brave emergency personnel trying to save others, my heart goes out to them all 💛 I will never forgive these selfish people who decide to kill.

[@jrsc01.]

One of the moments you knew exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard this news.

[@Dan.Dawson]

The same man that reported the Queens death. I didn't realise the BBC News intro music was still exactly the same as it was back then

[@baljj]

America has no better friend than the UK. We'll always have your back from across the pond.

[@columnedfox5508]

100% US/UK best friends forever

[@WildWillex]

@JohnBaigerinsecurity-driven? Lmfao

[@jackstraughan24]

@JohnBaigerwhat on Earth are you talking about? In terms of world politics and war etc we are very much allies these days and are very aligned. In terms of the people we think you have an insane amount of batshit crazy people but we know the vast majority of you are decent

[@mrpopo8298]

Is that why they only entered WW2 after the Japs bombed Pearl Harbour? Because we are such great buddies? Then there was the Suez crisis, and that business on Cyprus. With friends like that...

[@baljj]

@JohnBaiger jesus, are you on meds mate? The only one screaming insecurity here is... you.

[@shayZero]

Goddamn Huw, news peado seems to announcing everything important.

[@jakelover1731]

It's slightly politically incorrect to say, but I had to laugh when I heard him phrase it as "America was POUNDED", knowing about the nature of his crimes.

[@rych7852]

You have to think that even as this event was taking place. Back in his home, on his computer, were some awful awful pictures! 🙄🙄

[@MuchWhittering]

Huw Edwards was one of the leading news readers for more than 20 years. If you're surprised by this, that's on you for living under a rock.

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

don't be mean

[@katica04]

It’s amazing how accurate the suspicions were just from the beginning

[@hollyAE]

One of the worst days in modern history, and I was a 9 month old baby when this happened funnily enough I turned 9 months to the very day as my birthday is December 11th I’m 22 years old now and it’s hard to even believe this happened, the world stopped that day, you knew where and when you were that day. I was being babysat by my grandparents my mum was at work. I’ve got home footage of me as a baby and you can hear the news coverage in the background, watching it back a few years ago I was floored, it was a terrible day. Nearly 3000 people lost their lives that day the world will not forget this day.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

Ask anyone over the age of 6 where they were that day on 11th September they'll recall it like it was yesterday. I was 13 and staying after school for an extra curricular activity and the tannoy started going off calling kids to the office because worried parents were demanding their kids come home or stay at school to be collected. One of the teachers came into my class and told our teacher what was happening. The whole world stopped, stood still and looked on in utter shock and horror at what was unfolding

[@BVEfan]

I remember being in Year 11 in an English lesson at a Boarding School in Somerset UK that afternoon on the day when it happened but I didn't learn anything about it until I came back from Horse Riding for tea/dinner that early evening when I watched the 6 O'Clock News on BBC1 and finally learnt about what really happened. It was just absolutely devastating and I was one of the lucky ones including me and my family who were lucky enough to visit the World Trade Centre in New York 2 years early before the 9/11 attacks until 2 years later, it was destroyed by those Bastards afterwards.

[@JoeyXSmith]

Damn same age as me, then I was in year 11 in the West Midlands when this happened. Never forget it. Came home from school, turn on tv, and this was it.

[@jamesjameson4566]

What career have you got now

[@BVEfan]

@@jamesjameson4566 I work at the Ticket barriers at Putney Railway Station in South West London.

[@dazzassti]

still gives me goosebumps and a chill now. shocking., and still shocking.

[@LouSassol69er]

I was only 6 at the time but getting back from school and with limited understanding I could still understand this was an unprecedented moment in history.

[@jimbo6059]

I had just come back from a pub lunch near Gatwick airport at the time, someone rushed across and said a plane had just gone into the World Trade Centre, I dismissed it initially have been to New York the previous September and seeing how these buildings loomed large over the bottom of Manhattan. I got the bbc news coverage on my computer just as the second plane hit the south tower. We had 14 tours going to the USA and Canada that day, we had to find out where all the aircraft was after US airspace was shut, I managed to do that. We found all our clients, made sure they were settled and went home at midnight. Took upto two weeks for us to get everyone back to the UK. My heart goes out to the families of the people who lost their lives.

[@pablofrank2466]

It's hard to believe that this happened almost 22 years ago. I remember it as if it was yesterday. I met a friend of mine for lunch and as we were going back to our respective offices, he got a news alert on his mobile (which was unusual back in 2001) that a plane had hit the WTC. When i arrived back at the office, we went to my boss' office (as he had a television) and saw the 2nd plane crash. We will never forget those who perished, those who lost someone that day and those who survived ♥.

[@QUEUK-j8i]

Fucking crazy where does the time go

[@AlbaFire]

Always remembered. My son is 15 & as well as me telling him, he is being taught about this in history class. I was a very young in the head 16 year old back then. I remember getting home from school in Scotland just in time to see the towers collapsing 💔 at that time, I didn’t understand what the word terrorism even meant. Later that evening myself, brother, mum, cousin & uncle sat in my Grans house watching this news segment & once it was finished, I had so many questions. My uncle answered them as honest as he could. My mother said “she doesn’t need to hear this!” My uncle said “well actually she does, it’s her reality now and she will need to teach her own kids, she can know the reality of the world and still live a normal life, stop hiding everything!” He was so correct & I will always appreciate him teaching me anything I wanted to know. Never forget 🩵🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@hacob2004]

Crazy to think how much time has passed. I was 15 and in school when it happened. We ended up being evacuated since my school was in the downtown of a major American city and nobody knew what else may be coming. Now it's being taught in history class to 15 year olds, just feels surreal. Good advice from your uncle, gotta face the world as it is.

[@667neighborofdabeast]

I was only 8 and my grandmother more or less made me watch the footage that day. Now I know why.

[@RandomVideosFirst]

Still remember the day I was due to start colleague the week after , I was watching neighbours the tv show as you do when the news interrupted for the breaking news at 1:50pm. That day was truly tragic and showing to see what happened live on tv, my prayers and still with the family that have lost ones.

[@jennygibbs7801]

RIP to them all. I was at work and had no idea what had happened (knew it was bad but couldn’t comprehend it and we had no working internet after it all began) until I got home about half an hour before this was broadcast. I’ll never forget the people waving. I just hope it was quick for them.

[@anenglishmanplusamerican7107]

Do you know why this attack was so horrifying to everyone. Because it wasn’t us Americans only who were have perished, it was people from all over the world who were working at the Pentagon, World Trade Centre and in the flight 93. People from every country you can imagine, have lost their lives. Rest in peace to all of the poor souls, I’m glad that the killers were found and killed.

[@demonhalo67]

True, domestic flights were selected to contain as many Americans on it as possible, anyone else caught up was considered collateral damage. I believe UK lost 50-60 citizens on 9/11 the second highest casualty. That day very much belongs to us too despite the events being 3,000 miles away.

[@ryans756]

Yes I was only horrified because British people died. I didn't care at all about anyone else. If British people hadn't died in that attack, I'd have just watched the cricket.

[@Xxfancythat79xX]

No that’s not why. Almost every disaster has multiple nationalities among its victims. It was horrifying because it was an unprecedented attack - the largest attack on the western world, not to mention it happened live on tv and the utter devastation and destruction of the city of New York (probably the most famous city in the world and adored by so many) was happening right in front of us. It was an attack on the west - not just America. I live in the UK and I still remember where I was when I heard about this. 9/11 has changed the western world historically, psychologically, theologically and socially. It is in all of our psyches - even those who weren’t born when it happened.

[@anenglishmanplusamerican7107]

@@ryans756 appreciated your honesty.

[@adamquirke6024]

so you have no sympathy for people who weren't born in your country?@@ryans756

[@jossym]

And for any non-UK folk watching this now - the news presenter here has today (31/7/24/) pleaded guilty in court to kiddie porn. No wonder he was so fondly thought of by the BBC......

[@warwickbull5559]

He was also the one who announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II on BBC news nearly 2 years ago.

[@Maddie-e9y]

​@@warwickbull5559Ain't life strange?

[@warwickbull5559]

@@Maddie-e9y Sure is, but it doesn't make the BBC look good again.

[@magicaltour1]

We had a similar issue with Matt Lauer, who interviewed witnesses during 9/11, and was on the air when the second plane hit. He was later convicted of sexually assaulting women in his workplace.

[@warwickbull5559]

@@magicaltour1 So it seems being a news presenter is attractive place for really disturbing people, its a really messed up world out there in the media industry at times.

[@AC-LING666]

i would never in a million years have imagined Huw edwards being a child Whole Leicester, when i used to watch him on the bbc back then.

[@MrMisanthrope84]

I was home early from college after only being in that morning. Put the TV on and watched it all live. I remember the camera fixed on the first tower, with the reporter speculating on what had happened. Then, live on TV, watching the second plane hit the other tower. I'll never ever forget that. It was a sunny day here in the UK too, just like in New York. I remember watching just dumbfounded, and then a wave of disassociation as I watched the second tower fall and then the first tower fall. It was like being in a surreal dream, and I still find it hard to believe.

[@SessVlogs]

I remember hearing about this on the radio as my dad drove me back from school. I was barely paying attention, but every time the World Trade Centre was mentioned I would exaggeratedly look at my dad because he often stayed there for work. The first time I truly understood the horror of the situation was hearing the lady at 3:13. The disbelief and panic in her voice has been seared into my memory since that day.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

I remember my teacher running out the class and wheeling in the only school TV into the classroom and trying to get a signal but she couldnt get one. Then the rumours of something happening in America. When I got home, I remember seeing it. Initially I thought it was 1 tower being hit twice

[@Skull288_]

I’m from Russia and I haven’t seen this actions happening,even on TV, but 22 years later,I’m watching this videos about this terrible attack and I just can’t get those feelings of those Americans,who saw it happening at that day..I think this horrible attack should unite people all over the world in the struggle against terrorism,despite of political consequences..

[@Senriam]

I hope that you are safe in your home country from the terroristic actions of your president

[@Skull288_]

@@Senriam I don’t suffer from that,anyway I hope everything will end soon,because that’s not the best way to solve anybody’s problems

[@Wise__guy]

@@Senriamyou mean bush?

[@kayzeaza]

@@Wise__guyimagine thinking bush is worse than Putin bwhahahahahahahahah

[@yavoralexandroff2321]

@Mr_Epicurus Actually you are not right. They do see a lot on Russian TV. Well, mainly disinformation, but it is a lot! 😆