I was just finishing work, a workmate came to relieve me and said "A small plane has hit the WTC, how did he not see it, it's big enough! What an idiot!"
My mother picked me up and said it looked like it was more serious than that and we got home and switched on the tv just in time for them to announce a second plane had hit.
We sat there for the rest of the afternoon just watching in disbelief, epsecially when the towers collapsed. I didn't even get changed - i was sat there in full snowboard gear in the middle of September. I know a lot of people have said this, but it really did feel like we were watching a movie - i couldn't get my head around the fact i was watching this, live and it was really happening.
Of course, there's been the usual spate of documentaries again this year. But i still feel the same sense of horror and sorrow when i watch the footage and think of all those people who died. I always wonder how those poor people on the planes must have felt, knowing these were their last moments - and that always makes me teary.
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Date: 2008-09-12 08:01 am (UTC)My mother picked me up and said it looked like it was more serious than that and we got home and switched on the tv just in time for them to announce a second plane had hit.
We sat there for the rest of the afternoon just watching in disbelief, epsecially when the towers collapsed. I didn't even get changed - i was sat there in full snowboard gear in the middle of September. I know a lot of people have said this, but it really did feel like we were watching a movie - i couldn't get my head around the fact i was watching this, live and it was really happening.
Of course, there's been the usual spate of documentaries again this year. But i still feel the same sense of horror and sorrow when i watch the footage and think of all those people who died. I always wonder how those poor people on the planes must have felt, knowing these were their last moments - and that always makes me teary.