I remember a plane flying into a building.
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I had my first experience of swimming in school on the Tuesday of 9/11. My father was glued to the television when I came home.
As icebreakers go it was a doozie.
Pal Qaeda
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Didnāt @fenwaypark spend 9/11 in a strip club in Boston with his brother? I always enjoyed that story.
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I saw it live on Sky News waiting for my dinner after coming home from school.
We used get off at 1.30 up to 1st Class.
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Thought you a lot older
Pity no one ever told that that New Jersey hijacker not to throw dollar bills. Might have stopped him being radicalised.
I remember having to help a locked down neighbour herd in his mad mountainy sucklers for a re test on the day of mourning that we got off school. He gave us a Mars bar for our troubles the mane cunt
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Just a building collapsing in solidarity with the twin towers
Taking a knee, in its own imitable fashion.
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About the same number of people who died in 9/11, died in an increased number of road accidents (due to peoples fear of flying in the year after) which caused an increase in long distance car trips
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Thatās the Cantor Fitzgerald employees I think, every one of them perished.
I remember working on a building site at the time of the attacks.
Was passing a digger driver,who was listening to the radio in his cab and called me over and announced,dead seriousā¦
āHey lad-a fooking plane has just crashed into the Empire state buildingā
āSeriously?ā Says I
āYeah just heard it there nowā
āFuckā
Went home that evening and herself was glued to Sky News and she turned around with a look of utter disbelief on her face after watching what was after happening.Ill never forget it.
I suppose it would be fair to call it my generations JFK moment.
I wonder what the Gen Z one will be?
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āHey lad, thereās a guy in China after getting a coldā
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I was living and working in Dublin at the time but had to drive home to Limerick on business in the early afternoon. I remember the sketchy nature of the early breaking news on RTE Radio 1, when it was initially assumed that the first strike was some kind of terrible accident. I think SeĆ”n OāRourke was the presenter, but I could be wrong on that.
More info flowed as the day wore on. I spent most of it in the car as I drove back to Dublin later that evening. Mrs. Kremmen, 30 years old at the time so therefore entering the batshit phase, thought the end of the world was nigh.
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Bravoš