Looking back
Sep. 11th, 2006 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphFive years already? I guess so. I was sitting at work when the news came in.
Alan, who sat opposite me, had the BBC News tickertape running - his first comment was something like "some idiot's managed to fly a plane into a skyscraper". Then the details started to arrive. BBC live news was on one of the big screens in one of our meeting rooms. People drifted in and out, watching snippets, looking a little dazed.
People said that there might be 50,000 dead; that there were more dead than Hiroshima; that this must be Iraq. There were other planes, but nobody knew how many. Lots of rumours and misinformation.
Despite all the news footage, it took a little while to understand that this was real.
[I was already on LJ at the time. There are a few posts from 11/09/01 and the days that followed in the archives. It's strange for me to look back at that sort of thing, to see just how events have shifted]
Alan, who sat opposite me, had the BBC News tickertape running - his first comment was something like "some idiot's managed to fly a plane into a skyscraper". Then the details started to arrive. BBC live news was on one of the big screens in one of our meeting rooms. People drifted in and out, watching snippets, looking a little dazed.
People said that there might be 50,000 dead; that there were more dead than Hiroshima; that this must be Iraq. There were other planes, but nobody knew how many. Lots of rumours and misinformation.
Despite all the news footage, it took a little while to understand that this was real.
[I was already on LJ at the time. There are a few posts from 11/09/01 and the days that followed in the archives. It's strange for me to look back at that sort of thing, to see just how events have shifted]
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Date: 2006-09-12 07:47 am (UTC)One of my friends works at the Pentagon, and when the news came out that it had been hit, I was desperate to find out what had happened to him. The plane hit an area that was cleared and being renovated, so the damage wasn't as bad as it might have been, but I was so scared for him and his family. Bringing it down to one person made it seem more real, more within my grasp, than trying to comprehend thousands of people.