11-09-2021, 02:38 PM
I was in work and one of the lads came out of the kitchen where the TV is and said that a plane had just hit one of the towers. I just assumed it was a small plane, not an airliner. I went into the kitchen a short while later and the second plane had just hit. Every one was in shock and stayed there watching the TV for the next half hour or so. Then word came that the Pentagon had been hit and I rushed back to my desk to let the American guy who sat next to me that he needed to contact his family as his brother worked there. Thankfully his brother was on the opposite side of the building when the plane hit, but because of the disruption to communications it was a good bit later that evening before my friend got confirmation that his brother was OK. Another guy I worked with at the time grew up in New York and had worked in our offices in one of the other buildings in the WTC previously. Sadly some people he knew were among the victims.