11/09/2026
25 years ago on the 11th September 2001, I was sat at my desk at the Holiday Hypermarket not knowing the darkest day and period of my professional career was about to happen.
The Internet and Social Media wasn't used like it was today. It started with a Phone Call.
My colleague came up to me and said she had received a Phone Call to say a plane had hit the Twin Towers.
Then came a second call.
And then the third call to say a third plane had hit the Pentagon.
I knew then everything had changed and this was not going to be good.
I called my friend on holiday in the US. My then boyfriend working in Canary Wharf, rumoured to be a target.
The few days following, we had flights grounded. Holidays cancelled. People too scared to fly. Every day was so hard. More and more information came out and it was just heart breaking. I was emotionally exhausted.
I think I am glad that it happened before the influx of Social Media. I think it would have made everything worse.
Today, 25 years on, we remember the people that left for work that day, that never came home. Ordinary people, just like you and me. Police, Firefighters, Paramedics. People just doing their job.
For a long time after that I had a picture of the Firefighters in wreckage of the towers raising the American Flag. It inspired me to remember no matter how bad my day seemed, it would never be that bad.
I've been to New York many times since. It's one of my favourite cities in the World. For them. Lets never forget.
RIP to all those that lost their lives that day. You will never be forgotten.
