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Not sure why I’m bringing this up tbh as I try and stay away from it but I’d just like to echo your thoughts before I get distracted by the tennis
This is the best song ever written about it in my opinion - why it's not better known, I don't know. It perfectly captures how an ordinary morning in ordinary lives suddenly became something so shocking that no-one who experienced that day will ever forget it.
Twenty years on and I can still hear that sound too.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
As it happens we got out okay on the flight on time - But Manchester later became a nightmare as all flights to London Heathrow/Gatwick were diverted to Manchester
I started watching the new series on National Geographic, One day in America this weekend, it’s a tough watch. Some of the stories are heartbreaking and some of the stories of how people survived are quite amazing. Split second life or death decisions were being made.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
It was only when the second plane hit that wirk stopped and I put the radio on. When the towers collapsed I did a quick calculation of how many people I thought might have been in the building and my blood ran cold.
I took the bus home that night, I wasn't going to risk going on the Tube.
I still think that it's a miracle that so many got out alive.
Of course none of the passengers on the plane knew anything about it, as you had to switch devices off in those days, but I remember thinking how the cabin crew seemed unusually subdued.
The first we knew of it was when my mate picked us up at the airport and told us about it as he was driving us home.
But the event seems like a fulcrum now, to me, because I had no personal involvement with it. I know it sounds a bit wanky, but it symbolises a change in the world, and strongly influenced the first 2 decades of this century.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
[ I was working in an office in Smethwick and spent the afternoon watching the TV news in a meeting room]
He was known for bullshit so I didn't believe him at all. The web at work was blocked apart from pre-approved sites we needed for work so I had no way of checking.
So I called my mum thinking I'd just be able to go back to my mate and call him an arse. She hadn't heard anything but turned on the TV and then told me.
The company unlocked the BBC site as it was clear nobody was really doing any work and saw the rest unfold.
I didn't know anyone in it but my brother did - he was a trader and had worked for the several of the big guys.
Among the big events I remember vividly: Shuttle, Chernobyl etc etc this one still stands out as the others were accidents and this was far from it.
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