Where were you on September 11th 2001 when you heard the news?

in work.

I bought a copy of the M.E.N which had a small article about it, as it was breaking news.

I kept that newspaper.

Not beinbg funny but seeing as it happened on a Tuesday surely 90% of people's answers are gonna be "at my work" or "on my way to work" depending on which side of the Atlantic they live on.

For the record, I was at my work.

I was at work, noticed people watching the TV in the canteen, but it looked like a trailer for an action film and I didn't take much notice.

When I went back to my office everybody was talking about it and it took a while before I realised there had been a major incident.

I was in the lobby of a hotel in Monaco, waiting for a hire car to be delivered.

There was a big television in the reception area, showing Sky news. The place I was staying had no TV, so I was glad of the chance to catch up on the news. Initially, I thought the channel had changed to an adventure film – they had interrupted the broadcast to show the live footage from New York. When I realised what had happened, I grabbed a guy who was walking past and said ‘look’. Initially, he reacted like anyone else would when a stranger grabs him in a hotel lobby but as soon as he saw the TV he stopped and stood beside me. This was repeated may times and soon the area around the TV was full of people. I stood there for about an hour, then realised that the hire car would not be coming. I left the hotel and went to a local bar where I sat and watched for a while longer – until the second tower collapsed. The streets of Monaco were silent, everyone was just sat open-mouthed in front of the television.

The strangest thing about it for me was that I was supposed to be in NYC that day – I was all set to book the tickets and then changed my mind at the last minute.

I am the one in ten

Work experience at The Irish News.

Heard a huge commotion, went into the news office, and saw all the journalists gathered around the TV.

Diamond White wrote: I am the one in ten

I thought it was "one in three" sailor?

In a meeting at TGI's; we saw the second plane hit the tower live on CNN. What else can you say? It was the most awful and most unbelievable thing I have ever seen; and I hope I never do again.

I was in Comet in Huddersfield shopping for a new tv, every tv was showing it, put me off buying one on that day.

I was at work. They actually sent us home.

I was in bed. I woke up, watched neighbours, and it came on BBC.

Uncle Liam wrote: I was in bed. I woke up, watched neighbours, and it came on BBC.

liar! you missed out the "raided the fridge" bit.

If only. I do remember having a curry later though. After i got quite hammered in the pub.

Strangely, I was in the same place as when the Oklahoma bombings happened, at the home where I was a nanny. Without a television and trying to calm a 5 year old.

I was on a Risk Assessment course for my employer, the events of that day did kind of put 'assessing whether or not someone might trip over the water cooler' in perspective.

On my way to work - looking forward to telling co-workers how cool the Billy Idol concert was the night before.

Never did end up talking about the gig.

i was outside when the wife called,they saw the first plane hit the WTC and thought it was an accident, but when the second plane hit the other building, we knew it was not an accident or a stupid pilot. Wow,come to think of it its been 5 years already. I hope nothing like that would ever happen again. Cant forget videos of those people falling from the building/jumping, choosing death instead of severe heat.

I'd spent the night at a friend's house and we woke up quite late, something like 11:30 am. Went upstairs and his mom had left a message on their answering machine saying "Turn on the TV and see what's going on in the world today." We laughed and thought she was referring to us sleeping so long, but we turned on the tube and saw the news. Can't remember if the 2nd plane had hit by then (I think it had), so we watched until the towers collapsed.

heard the news when I was awake early that morn egtting ready to go to school

in a latin lesson, first days of high school

In a big Safety meeting at work with alot of other blokes,which happen periodically at our place...After the initial shock of what had just happened,the meeting turned into a discussion of who was of conscription age in the room if the call for war was to follow.Someone said conscription was 18-36 in this country..It was only in the hours that followed that it became clear it was a nutjob called Bin Laden responsible,and not the begining of WW3.Perhaps it was,it certainly did'nt help...

i watched it unfold from outside my job, i worked 2 blocks from WTC(I Work a block Closer now) it was insanity, the last 5 years have gone so fast. today it seems a lot of people are home from work, but there are tons upon tons of people down here, remembering, protesting, whatever... i did see a lot of people who lost someone, they are walking with pictures pinned to their clothes and i think those are the people i feel bad for today. i know one thing has changed in the last 5 years, for me anyway, america really turns me off, i dont know if its bush or the government in general but i dont feel the pride that i used to

In work! Someone rung me up and said to watch the TV. As we didn't have a TV in work we used the Internet. The news coming through was sporadic to say the least and the Net was on a go slow. ( Volume of Traffic?? ).

I managed to chat to someone in NY through Yahoo Messenger just before the second tower collapsed then they fell silent. I've always wondered if said person was alright.

El Jarvo wrote: I was at work. Remember it clearly. Sat at my desk when two lads came piling in saying they'd just seen the planes hit on Sky News in the Landmark hotel.

People probably won't remember this, but we were expecting a huge stockmarket crash the day before so, working for a bank, we were grateful to get that day over with.

And this went and happened the next day.

My sister was in Noo Yoik at the time. 15th floor of some uber hotel. They were alerted to the fact a plane had hit the first tower, and had all gone to the windows to see, so saw the second plane hit in slow motion. My sister's BA cabin crew. She was on the first BA flight back to Blighty about 4 or 5 days later. To say the atmosphere was tense and grim sounds like an understatement.

Jesus,talk about "getting back on the horse"! That must have been an awful flight home. I was at work in Salford when a customer come in and said a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers.Got home to watch it all unraveling on TV,unaware that anyone with a pinch of humanity would ever consider crashing them intentionally. The day the world turned to shit.

i was in bed. It must have been about one am. I had the radio on. I heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. At the time I didn't think it was such a big deal. I only became aware of the full extent of the attack at about six am when I got up.

I was in shock for a week.

Just starting work, Tuesdays and Fridays are our freight days and we start at 5:30 a.m. Our driver from Portland pulled in at 5:50 and wanted to know why we didn't have the radio on (we had no reason to turn it on really), so we did and tried to make sense of the various reports with no visual aid from the TV.

Any other day I'dve still been asleep, I don't usually rise until 6 am.

We wound up listening to the Howard Stern show, weirdly that was the station that came in best in our big warehouse that day. Great job by Howard and the rest of his staff on that day, I've gotta say.

I used to work in Dixons....... so we had wall to wall TV's, saw pretty much all of it. Staff from other shops came in to see it.

At home, listening to Orbital with my mate brad. Phone rings, and it's me ma telling me "WWIII just started". A couple of days later when my brain began to function, I backtracked my set-list and realised that when the first plane had hit, I had been listening to "Impact: The Earth is Burning".

Don't mind admitting I was terrified. Not of terrorists, I have a basic grasp pf statistics so they did not worry me in the least, no I was simply convinced it would be "nukes by teatime". All I could think was "fucking wonderful, you couldn;t have left it another fifty years could you, now when we die everything about us dies."