Did anyone else here experience 9/11 from outside of the US? Your thoughts?

[NRaleighLiberal]

Here is our unusual reflection on the day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1318269

[Biafran]

1. I was in France

It was amazing the anti-american comments that were being spouted then. Many people were actually celebrating that day. It was shocking. Most citizens hated the U.S., even though the people in government and tv tried to show sympathy for America.
But when push came to shove and U.S wanted to go to war, French govt. listened to its people and vehemently opposed war.
I also remember the boycot of everything French engineered by the US.

[HockeyMom]

2. My sister-in-law worked for US Air and was in Paris

She couldn't get back for days. She told me the hotel put her up for free including her meals. The French people went out of their way to help her, including offering to take her into their homes, when they found out she was a stranded American. She told me that she was very surprised at their reaction.

[Rabid_Rabbit]

3. I was in the US

but my wife was in Sweden at the time.
When she came back she told me how sanitized the US news was. In Europe they had video of people jumping from the towers to escape the flames.

[louis-t]

4. I know a group of ladies that were in Greece.

They were stuck there for days, and were shocked by the presence of military personnel with AK-47s every where they went.

[Nay]

5. Not me, but a friend's sister and her kids were visiting relatives in Italy. They were on the plane

back to NY when the towers were hit. The plane did a big U-turn in the sky and went back to Rome. All the passengers were frantic to know what was going on, but the pilots would only say that a catastrophe had taken place and no planes were allowed into US air space at all. They were stranded in Italy for a couple of weeks. They only found out exactly what happened when they landed back in Rome and watched it on TV.

[BlueinOhio]

6. Flying over Russia

Landed in Beijing the guide who met us at the airport told us about what had happened. It was hard to believe. People we met were very supportive. One man who was there from Egypt on business and a muslim was very supportive but was worried. I was naive enough to think that this country would know the difference between the actions of a religious nut case and not the entire muslim community. That there was a difference between a religious sect and a country.

[Ron Obvious]

7. I was in Italy...

My wife and I were in Italy and encountered none of the hostility the first poster encountered in France (Muslim neighbourhoods perhaps?). Quite the reverse, actually. We encountered nothing but support and goodwill from just about any nationality we met there. Canadians particularly. It took one hell of a lousy president to piss away all that goodwill so quickly.

What a weird time. I felt the world had changed forever, and of course, it really had...