13 Years ago this day -
It was my final year of uni, I had to go in pre semester to do a Solid Works Modelling test and there were a few of us in deep concentration - ....one of my mates started to email funny stuff across and I thought don't need the distraction at first thought it was a wind up as she was in the Learning Resources Centre having a coffee....then her emails changed to Oh My God This Is Horrible ....
I thought no need for a wind up but out of curiosity, I opened my internal uni email - and there it was one plane had smacked into the Twin Towers and then another .....on the news ...did not take a semi genius of a final wear aero and mech student like my good self to figure out something was way not right.....
There were murmurings and muttering so throughout rest of the afternoon from those not comatose and those in semi comatose from nights out down the SU Bar and in Londoninium ....
I figured I get the train home and ironically enough the peeps , the City commuters were not talking much about anything bar the usual BS the atmosphere was not much the same as every day...
Left the station but then got dragged back into our rock club by a mate who spied me walking in his direction ......and there was some chatter chatter but not much about the news...the clubs two wall mounted TVA where they used to play everything from porn movies to MTV vids were off...
By 2300 hours went into my folks house and my cousins and my mom were glued to the TV as the Pentagon had been hit and then other airliner which was in the Penn countryside....
So I like to pay tribute and homage to my mates on both sides of the pond - both air and ground crew and doing who are serving, have served in the war fighting the bad guys both on land and bit sea, more importantly , let us remember the victims of this day , 2001 and those who haVg given the ultimate sacrifice.
So take care and all the best and stay safe so many happy landings .
Chopper2004
Last edited by chopper2004; 11th Sep 2014 at 07:50.