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I think what you mean is that she heard it on the news the night before - the 11th. It happened at about 1/4 to 9 in the morning of the 11th over there, which was 1/4 to 11 on the evening of the 11th here. Most people in Australia found out on the morning of the 12th. :)Quote:
yeh heard it all just before going to bed the night before the 10th here in AU so that morning here was the 11th
I had just gotten home from the MIL birthday (which is the 11/9), turned on the box and watch till about 5am of the 12th. Rang Dad in NZ, and talked with him while we watched it unfold.
Saw a large cloud develop in the city - not a word from the commentators about it, and mentioned to Dad that something else had just happened - thought it might have been yet another plane. Turned out it was the first tower.
I have a book here in my office - September 11, which is a photo essay of the events as shot by Magnum Photographers.
What for us will always be an event on the same scale as something like the Moon landing ("where were you when it happened" scale event) will only be ancient history for my daughter. Of course media coverage is gigantic compared to many previous events, but think back - there are times like this throughout history that were profound for those that lived through them, which now are just another chapter, or even just another mark on a calendar of history.
Thats what fascinates me about this event, it was a tragedy and a bookmark, a before and after event for most of us. Most people have instant recollection, a bit like the moon landing. One of those events where the ordinariness of life is temporarily shattered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart.
Makes me feel for the diggers, survivors, they will never really be able to communicate their experience and doom future generations to repeating the same mistakes.
ok so I maybe wrong but all of us not likley. I know UK at that time of year is still on daylight savings time putting them 11 hrs behind us a usual 10 hrs.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
The lady I chat to in US and I always joke about I'll let her know what sort of day I/we had and what to expect, weather, personal just a running joke as to what sort of day to expect. she lives Tenessee a few hrs more difference I know from the east coast but not that much.
All the family using dates the same at work, all news items I read say earlier then that more like 1/4 to 8 peak hour at 1/4 to 9 you'd expect more people to be in their offices not heading to work as announced.
No as when I went to se LOML who was still in bed first thing said was happy aniversary the 11th Sept in Sydney it has puzzled the whole family since. Maybe LOML was having dejevue moment :U but again no.
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Originally Posted by Sebastiaan56
Here's something to consider John howard was there at the time if they had closed of NY like we just closed off Sydney what would the result be.
Where were all the Australian media contingent where is all their film and video/photos who would have been following Howard.
At that time of day where were all the sky traffic reporting choppers???
Talk to armed services men I have, both bravado stories and tears I have heard, I talk to ex-navy neighbour regularly. His US stories are hillarious to the point he has stated they wouldn't know what day it is hs me in stitches.
I'm having trouble following you, but all I can tell you is that according to Wikipedia, the first plane crash was at 8:46:30 a.m on the morning of September 11. At that time, it was 10:46:30pm on the evening of the 11th in Sydney, which is where I was. You can work out what time it was here by putting the date and time into this site.
Most people here did not find out until they got out of bed the next morning, which was most definately the 12th. I'm surprised you didn't get a thump from your wife for missing your anniversary.
Seeing the planes hit the towers in the morning news was surreal. I thought about it a bit for a few days then my best friend's sister phoned me and said their sister was on the 105 floor when they hit. I phoned my mate and he said he would have called me but didn't know what to say.
Leslie Thomas was a girlfriend of mine from when I was younger and lived on the farm, and a neighbour for more than two decades, she married a US futures market guy and lived in NY travelling to work and back across the harbour by ferry. They were a lucky and good looking couple.
It is a sad day for my friends - they remember it by a band they wear around their wrist.
Family friends of ours lost a daughter in law. She had gone to NY with her new husband to start a new job. He was also working in one of the towers but wasn't at work that day. He talked to her on the phone before the building came down. Very sad stuff.
The thump nah it's only a monthly thing think its to help me recall its getting closer like today always hugs n kisses the month prior so I don't foget the real one :no::U.Quote:
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Don't fret SC I and family still shrug shoulder and go oh well maybe WE skipped a day :D:D I have trouble following it also.
I had been up since early hours couldn't sleep and on the net i from :rolleyes: 3am ish.
Same as Moon landing started watching it at school by the time I got home walked in and went and read. I am one of the sceptics in relation to it didn't really happen the first time.
It was about 6am ish US lady pm'd me andsaid howdy oh no she always says g'day mate.:D another sepo wishfull in becoming an ozzie.
Well, I was watching a movie on pay telly, and a banner flashed across saying planes had hit towers or some such thing. I had only just got out of hospital and was still in recovery mode, and thought 'Thats a bit late for April fools day?"
I was on night shift, the electrician came in and told us the news he had heard on the radio. Saw the sickening footage when I got home that morning.
A good friend of ours lost his son in the first tower to go down. As I type this he, his wife and his daughter in law are at the site. Sad sad time.
Talking to mates on the net in the states... one rang me on the phone voice in a major panic "TURN ON THE TV!! ITS GOTTA BE ON THE TV!!" and hung up... I had no idea what he was on about so went to the next room and turned it on.
There was the first plane going into the tower... a few seconds later as the commentator is going off about the first one around comes the second and wham..
Dropped my coffee cup and slid down the wall... a few minutes or some time later the cameras panning up the side of one of them and theres these people falling... camera cuts out the comments "ooh my god oh my god"... then seemingly mintues later the building impodes.. the ghostly white dust over everything the exhausted firemen the bleeding survivors then the fireys being caught as the building comes down
Later that day I found out that my younger brother had been transfered to NY and work in the nth tower... several days of frantic phone calls later from Perth to NY to Manhattan back to Perth to Hong Kong and back again and finally his adoptive mother rang to say she was on her way to NY... a brother I didnt know I had and had met only twice since finding out he was even alive and hes gone in one appalling pathetic mongrel act of madness... I attended her funeral a year ago she never "got over it" and commited suicide... now Ive got a young neice (9) and nephew (7) Ive met only once and now living with his wifes family in San Diago as she no longer lives either having shot herself the day they told her he had died in the nth tower... she never "got over it" either the kids will never get over it her parents will never "get over it" his brother (me) his other brother and sisters will never "get over it"!!
A day I will never forget
A day thousands of others will never forget
Get over it? Dont ever ask me or anyone else directly affected by what those mongrels did to "get over it" :~ I and all the other families of lost ones from that day will NEVER "get over it".
My sister in law got out about an hour before it happened, she was in a meeting in the second tower. She lost work colleagues. I met some of the firemen when I was in the states, lost a bunch of their friends/work colleagues. Met a guy who was 15 offices from the crash into the flat building, he lost a bunch of colleagues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Dingo
You dont get over it, it goes cold and you forget details, but you never get over it. Ive lost family in other ways, I know...
Nicely put Mr Dingo.Quote:
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