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September 11. Went to bed early the night America was attacked. Next morning was in the car with my ex taking our son to pre school. Heard George Bush talking seriously on FM radio and told my ex to be quiet this is serious, this could be the start of WWIII.

Went onto work and saw a bird from work in the carpark and she showed me the photos on the front page of the West. 

Just the most remarkable act of terror. The world has never been the same as it was before since that day. Now we've got Covid and have to get used to living with that.

Can't remember if it was a Monday or Tuesday night.Around 9 pm Perth time when the first tower was struck.
Remember the mass confusion . Trying to work out what was going on.It didn't appear to be true and could not happen..Then being glued to the tv for hours. 

I'd finished work early that Tuesday afternoon and pottering around the house. Then in the evening, heard on the radio news a small plane had struck a New York skyscraper. About 20 mins later, turned on the tv to watch a documentary. The evolving story was being shown live on every tv channel. And quickly apparent the story was much more than a small plane accidentally flying off course. Many of the images will never be forgotten, especially when the first tower collapsed. The newspaper photos of the people that jumped trying to escape the flames and the smoke is haunting.

I was at work at the fire station.Was in my room reading, one of the fellas came in and said, ccome and have a look at this.I went to the TV room and saw what I thought was a movie. I asked what it was. They told me it was happening right now.
It sent a shudder through me.
When I see clips of it on TV , I get visions of me standing watching it in the TV room.Not a nice feeling.
It was the date I joined the Fire Brigade and also finished up the date I left the job.
The changing of the world as we knew it. And it has gone backwards since then.

Went to bed at 9pm that night just after the first plane hit one of the towers. I used to have the radio on snooze for 30 minutes and heard about it on the news but thought nothing of it. Woke up the next day and saw what had happened.
Two days earlier at a famiky get together for Fathers Day I told everyone I was planning a trip to America in November 2002. I still went ahead with it, with my last stop in New York. The clean up was still going on, but I made sure to visit the site where the buildings used to be.