BBC1 Closedown - 11th September 2001

[joshJolly1999]

i was only 1 when this happend

[Elberiver11]

"The towers were brought down by a controlled ground explosion - not by planes".

BBC-reporter and author Alan Hart, London. 

[JollyJosh99]

sad

[horse69outside]

Peter Dobbie has aged a lot in ten years. He needs to get out in the fresh air, and stop peddling propaganda for the BBC.

[Cool2BCeltic]

The United States was struggling to come to terms with it? The whole world was and is still trying to come to terms with it.

[mrstaffytoots]

evil bs

[TheBingojim]

was 5 months old when this happened...

[97AlexN]

Mourning the death of 3000 Americans, but not giving a fuck about the thousands upon thousands of Iraqi's gunned down daily?

^^AMERIICAAAA

[Halo4Lyf]

@97AlexN Uh... yeah. That's kind of how a nation-state works. Your countrymen come first.

[97AlexN]

@Halo4Lyf It is,

But I'm from Australia, and many of us are STILL ignoring whats going on in the Middle-East, and still making such a big deal over the September 11 attacks.

Infact, Ive heard some of the schools here, and in the UK actually have a day to mourn 9/11. But still no sign of a day about the thousands of men, women and children killed in the middle east.

[Halo4Lyf]

@97AlexN Tell me, there in Australia, is there a day to mourn the Japanese war dead from WWII?

[97AlexN]

@Halo4Lyf Not at all! Im beginning to think we only mourn over the "White" countries.

And correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the Japanese suffer more losses then Australia?

Yet again, nobody in the western world cares.

[Halo4Lyf]

@97AlexN "correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the Japanese suffer more losses then Australia?"

Yup. Japanese war dead was around 2 million military fatalities. Australian war dead was around 32,000 military fatalities. Do you know why no one cares about the Japanese war dead? Because they were the enemy. You won't get anything more than a shrug from me. Same for the Muslims killed in recent conflict. I feel sorry for the children, but I couldn't care less about the adults.

[Elberiver11]

@97AlexN actually , over ONE MILLION were murdered in the middle east by the Bush-family.

Half of them were Iraqi children.

[97AlexN]

@Elberiver11 My point exactly.

But I cant blame the soldiers/operators responsible, they were simply assuming the 5 year old was going to kill them.

Kill the little kid before he kills you. Regardless of innocence.

[HoshiNoKaabii2000]

How is this a closedown?

[owen82100]

I was 4 years old when it happened, appeared on CNN down here in Australia.

[ejcmoorhouse]

the day that changed the world, well you could say the same about the start of WW1, WW2 and discovery of america in the first place!!?!

[Lousypenguin]

Ahhh good times

[Romantotalwar]

when i heard about the attack i can remember exactly to the exact position what i was doing and where i was.

[starrattmaster]

i was 9

[vid1688]

9/11 that time

[mbsjrcc06]

I was 15.

[BlueMeteor2009]

@channel4squares 1997?

[BlueMeteor2009]

@NGMan62 I was 5

[TheMrCaddyshack]

Man, this is creepy, as I remember being alive at the time of this attack.

[MrXclio]

@TheMrCaddyshack so most of the time you're stone dead? XD

[TheMrCaddyshack]

@MrXclio Kind of, with how little sleep I get these days.

[open768b]

do you have the financial slot for bbc breakfast september11th 2001 in which declan curry tells viewers about a lady who rang in asking about a crash on the stock market and told her not to worry? 6hrs before the first plane struck?

[weespud212008]

9/11/01 is September 11th 2001 the AMERICAN way because their date system for some strange reason is MONTH DAY then YEAR MM/DD/YYYY

[gab21113]

@weespud212008 Abraham Lincoln didn't fight the Germans at the Battle of Bunker Hill to date things like the Europeans.

[electrogeek77]

I turned 16 the day before, and it was my dad's 43rd birthday. He's still guilt-ridden about that.

[Dominik0366]

i was 3 and half years old at this time

[NoFaceChannel]

I was 2 years old at this time... Arrgggghhhhh....

[Ackworth97]

Dobby! Blobby!

[pancakeman22]

I love this closedown!! But, it was during 9/11/2001!!!!!!

[pistak09]

@pancakeman22 Nothing happened on 09 November 01, unless you mean 11/09/01.

[SpunkiSpirou]

@pistak09 I thought it was 9th November as well.

[thepod96]

I know this might seem a bit insensitive, but look at the ident at the start. Is it just me, or by following logic, the balloon must be really small?

[FrancisIdents]

@thepod96

Believe me, it's bigger than you think...

[thepod96]

@FrancisIdents I know, but on that ident I just think that the river looks small and so it makes the balloon look really small. Like a miniature village balloon.

[ShannHanlonOfficial]

I was 6 at the time :o that was near the time me and my family where going abroad for our first time to salou :ooo

[SPTSuperSprinter156]

i remember this like it was yesterday - I was on my way home from school and the bus driver was listening to what had happened on a portable radio... always a joker, i thought he was taking the piss, until I got home and walked in and the TV was on showing the buildings on fire.

[CHANNELMICHAEL]

8 at the time

[FrancisIdents]

I was 3 at the time.

[Lousypenguin]

I was 16!! My god Im old!

[racrimbpsvc]

I was 7 at the time.

[573W1E6R1FF1N]

Oct 96 me