Where were -YOU-?

[not_you]

9/11: Like most Australians (who were in primary school at the time) I was complaining that the latest episode of pokemon wasn't playing.... oh god that sounds horrible in retrospect...

London bombings: lol wut? this completely slipped by me... Although 2005 for me was..... horrible, to say the least....

Bin Laden's death: hmmmmm, I would've been at university hanging with the insane group of people I call 'friends' making fun of how America set out to do that original job about 10 years ago...
then made worse jokes about how it took them 10 years to do anything right....

 

[Matt Oliver]

9/11 - High School
July 7th - College
Bin Ladens Death - Pub

The natural evolution of every self-respecting male.

9/11 elementry school
7/7 middle school
bin laden high school natural evolution of any kid born in 1994

 

[Malyc]

9/11 I was in my 6th grade science class. We had tvs in each classroom, and the teacher tuned his to CNN for coverage of the bombing,

7/7 I was probably over at a friends house. I do remember hearing a bit about it, but I didn't pay much attention to the news at that time.

Death of Bin Laden. Don't remeber where i was, but I probably heard it from the escapist... As i said before, don't pay much attention to the news.

 

[RyanBishop]

9-11 - back from school, standing in the living room, shocked, because just 3 months prior I had the opportunity to actually visit those buildings. Didn't happen.

London bombings - no idea, honestly.

Osama - got news of it just before leaving for uni, was verrry skeptical. And in reality - I still fail to see the prominence of this. It's just one guy. Definitely not as influential and powerful as Hitler was (seriously? comparing a ragged old extremist with his rag-tag group of deathwishers... with a national leader powerful enough to shake the whole damn world and exterminate fucking millions? c'mon now...) and in the long run - his death means nothing. Sad but true.

Now there's another thing I'd like to bring up that was not really made up into a global event or something (possibly because it did not happen in the US or UK)...

I am talking about the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings... "...suicide bombings carried out by two women during the morning rush hour of March 29, 2010, at two stations of the Moscow Metro (Lubyanka and Park Kultury), with roughly 40 minutes interval between. At least 40 people were killed, and over 100 injured." (Wiki)

Thing is, I actually happened to witness them firsthand, since my daily commute involves me passing through Park Kultury.

The first blast happened before I arrived at the overpass to the red line, and so it was on lockdown, I had to find a way around. It was via Park Kultury, so I got there just in time to witness the whole affair. Was awful, a state of barely contained panic everywhere... smoke, bodies being carried out of the station into numerous ambulances (even a helicopter on the street! never thought I'd see that) and people everywhere outside just without a clue what to do... most talking to someone on the phones (the network was overloaded till evening).

So, yeah. You know, I remember that way more vividly than any other terrorist attack abroad... not to say that I don't feel for those who lost families and were generally affected by those disasterous events... it's just the fact that when it happens to you and your friends, you kinda focus on your own stuff a bit more. One of my friends actually got caught in the blast, thankfully alive now.

So yeah, heavy shit.

 

[Berenzen]

9/11- Just getting out of my dad's car going to school in grade 3. He turned around and said to my sister and I "I think this is the start of World War 3."

London Bombings- I was at home while my father was in London. We called him immediately in order to make sure he was safe. He was thankfully, but he was only a couple streets away from where it happened.

Death of Bin Laden- Was watching the news with my father and sister when it was announced. We talked about it and how it was sort of the end of an era.

 

[St.Augustine6]

On 9/11 I was in the 6th grade. I can remember the principal going into every classroom and saying that there had been an event. Since I was in Eastern Pennsylvania at the time (i.e. the middle of the 9/11 triangle between NYC, Washington D.C., and the empty field), it was a pretty big deal. I can remember a lot of parents came and got their kids early on that day.

When they announced Osama bin Laden's death, I was watching my favorite sports team, the Philadelphia Phillies, on ESPN. I remember thinking that it was almost surreal that it was announced to a large audience while they were in the city where the nation had been declared (Declaration of Independence and Constitution were both signed in Philadelphia).

I wish I could remember where I was when I found out about the shooting at Virginia Tech University, for those who don't know, the shooting there killed about 20 people, including the shooter. This was is only important for me because I know people who do/have attended that university, and thus there was a possibility of them being there at the time.

 

[BreakfastMan]

9/11: I was in the car, on the way home from soccer practice when I first heard about it. I have no idea what time of day it occurred, or what I was doing then, so I am just going to put down where I was when I heard it.

7/7: No idea. Had not even heard of it till now.

Bin Laden's Death: In the car, on the way home from work was when I first heard it. There was stuff on NPR about rumors of his death, then right when I pulled into the driveway it was announced officially.

 

[Zyntoxic]

The only thing I remember about 9/11 was during dinner there was alot of talk about some airplane crashing into two huge buildings other than that I didn't care much, I just remember I thought the wave of 9/11 jokes that flooded the internet shortly after that was funny, no disrespect I was 10 and live in sweden (far far far away from the actual incident) so I didn't understand just how horrible and serious it actually was.

A date I remember very clearly was the Utoja shootings and the Oslo bombing, which was a way bigger deal here in the north.
I was actually on vacation in Greece and sitting at a café enjoying the company of a group of celebrating Norwegians, it was someones birthday, and the TV in the Café was on and sunddenly an elderly man pointed at the TV shouting "look! it's Oslo" and the TV showed a broken building and a bleeding woman, it seem kind of alien and surreal at the moment.
I left shortly after that, and the next day on my flight back to Sweden all passangers had been given a newspaper with all the news of the shootings and the bombing.
alot of the passangers cried that evening, me included.

 

[JLML]

The only one I remember is the Oslo/Utøya things, but that's just because it closely affected me, since my cousin lives just 1 block away from where the bomb went off, I knew a few who were on the island, and some of my best friends were supposed to be there, but had stayed home because of something I don't remember right now. I was taking a swim when the bomb went off, the rest of the day I spent in front of the tv, watching news, and chatting with aforementioned friends on my phone (was at my grandma's, so didn't have any computer to use) until more than half the night had passed. In the end, everyone I knew made it out fine, but my friends lost some close (and not so close) friends. :/