Memories from Denmark:
1. "I was 19 and working at a riding school. The boring grunt work, mucking out stalls, getting saddles on the horses, that kind of thing. After I was done mucking out, I went to take a five minute break and a cup of coffee. I of course turned on the radio, hoping for music.
Instead I got a weird report about how the World Trade Center was crumbling and America was closing its air space.
Wanna know what I did? I turned off the radio and wondered out loud whether they were trying to revive radio plays like "Attack From Mars" and how many people would think it was real this time.
Then I went back to work. Horses don't know how to saddle themselves.
I was quite shocked when I came home that evening to learn that nope, that was NOT a radio play and World War III could very well be on the verge of starting."
- Reddit user /u/CalydorEstalon
Instead I got a weird report about how the World Trade Center was crumbling and America was closing its air space.
Wanna know what I did? I turned off the radio and wondered out loud whether they were trying to revive radio plays like "Attack From Mars" and how many people would think it was real this time.
Then I went back to work. Horses don't know how to saddle themselves.
I was quite shocked when I came home that evening to learn that nope, that was NOT a radio play and World War III could very well be on the verge of starting."
- Reddit user /u/CalydorEstalon
2. "I was on a treadmill in a gym. There was a line of machines and they could view four small TV screens hanging from the ceiling. Three ofthem showed music videos and the last one world news. No sound on any of them.
When the image switched to the smoking tower, the people on the machines stopped sweating and began to crowd in front of this 16 inch TV. It caught the attention of the rest of the gym and soon no one was exercising - everyone watched the screen. Or attempted to. Simply to many people were standing close for everyone to see. Maybe ten minutes went by before someone went and grabbed the remote so all four screens showed the news.
50-60 people just stood there watching in other shock. And I do mean shock, because not only was the people completely silent focusing on the screens and reading the bottom streamers of information. It took 20 minutes before someone asked the guy with the remote if he could turn on the sound."
- Reddit user /u/Econ_Orc
When the image switched to the smoking tower, the people on the machines stopped sweating and began to crowd in front of this 16 inch TV. It caught the attention of the rest of the gym and soon no one was exercising - everyone watched the screen. Or attempted to. Simply to many people were standing close for everyone to see. Maybe ten minutes went by before someone went and grabbed the remote so all four screens showed the news.
50-60 people just stood there watching in other shock. And I do mean shock, because not only was the people completely silent focusing on the screens and reading the bottom streamers of information. It took 20 minutes before someone asked the guy with the remote if he could turn on the sound."
- Reddit user /u/Econ_Orc
3. "I was on a school trip to Copenhagen, and thus cut of from any steady source of information.
We walked past an electronics shop, and the TV's facing the street were all showing footage from New York. I can't remember if the second plane had already hit at this point, but I get an immediate sense of dread. The rest of the day goes on with the scheduled program, but both teachers and especially one kid from my class are clearly in a heightened state of alert. The kid takes it upon himself to get as much information possible about the attacks, and inform the rest of us.
At the time, free newspapers was a new concept in Denmark. The entire time in Copenhagen, I remember every school kid and teacher walking around with a newspaper the days after the attacks, trying to comprehend the situation.
It's one of the few days from my childhood that I didn't have any active participation in, that's stands out in my memory."
- Reddit user /u/DnDkonto
We walked past an electronics shop, and the TV's facing the street were all showing footage from New York. I can't remember if the second plane had already hit at this point, but I get an immediate sense of dread. The rest of the day goes on with the scheduled program, but both teachers and especially one kid from my class are clearly in a heightened state of alert. The kid takes it upon himself to get as much information possible about the attacks, and inform the rest of us.
At the time, free newspapers was a new concept in Denmark. The entire time in Copenhagen, I remember every school kid and teacher walking around with a newspaper the days after the attacks, trying to comprehend the situation.
It's one of the few days from my childhood that I didn't have any active participation in, that's stands out in my memory."
- Reddit user /u/DnDkonto