I was working from home and had the radio on in the background... there was a little aside from the DJ saying that they'd received reports of a plane hitting one of the twin towers. I thought it would just be a light aircraft so continued working... after a minute something inside me told me to turn on the TV in the bedroom. One tower was on fire... I shouted to my ex- Colin to come and see. He walked into the bedroom just as the other plane came into view and crashed into the other tower.
I was in shock... couldn't comprehend what I was seeing but Colin assessed the situation correctly within a second and said 'terrorism'.
The rest of the day was spent watching the news, trying to email friends in America... especially Alex (Colin's friend) who worked in Tower 5. He was safe and it took him six hours to walk home.
Did anyone see that documentary, filmed by the two French brothers, which happened to be about New York Firemen and coincidentally at the same time as Sept. 11th? It was incredible, shocking, moving and again shocking... took a while to get some images out of my head.
Was it really three years ago... for different reasons it feels that it occured longer ago than that and for others just like yesterday... if that makes sense!