That police officer who lost his brother got his wish. A park like setting with trees and and a wall with the names of people who lost their lives that day.
Same, the only reason that plane crashed was because the passengers fought back against the terrorists. If they hadn't, who knows how many more hundreds or thousands of innocent people would've died. They all died heroes and i'll never forget them or their final act.
Much to my surprise the identification process is still ongoing, granted very slowly. The New York City Medical Examiner's office is in possession of about 22,000 human body parts in hopes that as technology evolved identifications could be made. On September 8, 2021 Dorothy Morgan and another man, whose family doesn't want to be made public, were identified. Of all that perished only 60% have been identified. It's incredible to think that families might still get the phone call they've been waiting 20 years for.
That’s one thing I think we can all appreciate technology for, even though right now it is limited, it continues to evolve and provides answers previously thought to be impossible.
speaking of body parts yes they do DNA tests on them i wounder what un-useal things they find 20 years later in the rubble buried under ground things like someone's hair brush photos in frames ID photos drivers L or bus passes someone's bank/crited card missing clothing/shoes left behind when some was runing up/down stairs to get out things left in lifts that broke down watches/rings some one's pet dog that died inside left behind by accident
Going back I think last year, just last year, they found human remains ontop of a building. Just confirms how powerful the event was that day. People were literally torn apart not just by the planes going into the buildings but when the buildings came down
20 years later, watching a video like this still brings back sadness and disbelief of what has happened. Praying for those who have lost a loved one from this nightmarish event, and may all those who perished rest in peace.
@@denisejaydub I read about it in the NY Times as well as a CNN article. A woman and a man were identified. The dedication these people have in trying to identify every single person who was there that day is amazing.
The body around that heart was blown to bits, and the heart expelled. It's nightmarish. I can't believe his widow can take comfort in that. But I'm glad she does.
People seem confused about this. It's very unlikely that's the only part of him that survived the destruction, but that's the tissue they found. It wouldn't have been found immediately, it would have been discovered after tonnes of material had been moved, weeks or even months later. All that movement disturbs the scene, and the remains. They weren't moving all this debris stone by stone, that would have been impossible. It's sad, and it's graphic to say, but many of those victims would have been further damaged by the movement of material.
These sanitation workers at the landfill are remarkable and I am so pleased to see this dedication to find anything that will help families of those lost. To see this 20 years later, this is what being American is all about!!!!!! Bless those still helping to find peace after a day that changed so many American's for life.
Ya God Bless America using a suicide attack 2 drone bomb entire cities & send soldiers n2 Nations never w/ ties 2 Taliban so US took death toll from 3,000 on 9/11 to nearly a million lives lost 20years later & growing! If only US could live what we preach....
Watching this makes me think about all of those men who weren't aware that they themselves, were doomed for death. They were breathing in toxic debris and atomized fuel, bodies, concrete, etc. So many of them would succumb to cancer. Its so unfortunate.
@@codybishop7526 Oh that's an interesting one there. Definitely something I am wondering about myself, but then again so many things in our normal life and even maybe going into pld buildings downtown or something that can also provide some sort of similar concern
I question WHY there were not mask available? People must have known the dust and the air was toxic at the scene. Some first responders did have mask. I'm sure the N95 was around then.
@@The51Jasmine That’s mostly because Giuliani made certain that the EPA was on all major networks by 11:30 that morning, stating that the air quality was perfectly safe for people to breathe, and would not be considered a hazard to human consumption. What a fool believes, right…? 👌🏼
I was 2 months pregnant with my daughter when this was made, doesn’t time fly. I was thinking the other day on the 20th anniversary how much has changed in my life time. I’m 60 now ,who’d have believed we’ve all lived through a pandemic, hope things settle soon
That could mean someone who never told anyone they where going to the towers that day and no one knows where they could be or if they're alive or dead.
It looks so overwhelming to clean up and they literally started by passing buckets around. An amazing achievement to get it from that to what it is today. Humans can do amazing things sometimes. And other times they do despicable things.
I realized yesterday they started by passing buckets while listening to Steve Buscemi's 9/11 story. He was one of the people who helped passing the buckets or once in a while a body bag with human remains in it. He was a fire fighter in the 80's in NY, that's how he ended up there. And you are so right, humans can do incredible things, in both ways.
Indeed - it’s an impressive thing. Although, look at the cities of Europe or Russia during WW2. Many were totally destroyed in a similar fashion. In Berlin the women became famous as the ‘rubble women’ who formed huge lines passing the debris for months during the clean up.
Thanks for this. I cried. It's heartbreaking and helps realign me with my nation. It's hard in these times now to remember what American connection was like back then. This video helped.
20 years ago seems like yesterday! I was 19 and I'm from Massachusetts...I woke up to the tv on (I hardly ever leave the tv on overnight) I watched the first plane crash. So confused,sad but so much love and respect for our heroes and you will never be forgotten ❤
The woman's story at around 7:40 really speaks to me. I'm glad she was willing to share what remains were found and about her desire to have her husband's remains identified and accounted for. I completely respect and understand why others wouldn't want that. After all, many people believe that once a person's spirit leaves their body that the body itself isn't really *them*. But still, I wish Western society overall could be more accepting of those who want whatever parts of their loved ones that they can have and for it not to be seen as taboo or even macabre. Because to me personally, the idea of my loved ones having literally nothing left behind to recover is so upsetting to me that I'm honestly holding back tears right now. Anyway, I'm really glad this piece highlights those people and I'm also glad that the search is continuing over 19 years after these interviews took place. Technology is improving and I pray that more people can get some form of their loved ones back, even if it's a bone fragment.
I’m British so we saw the horror on live TV on that day. I work for an American company and every time I come to New York on business I visit initially the blocked off building site. Now I look at the beautiful memorial and I hope those who lost their lives so horribly can Rest in Peace
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It's been 20 years and they're still identifying people from the unidentified remains... So I think it will go on as long as it can still feasible be done
My two friends that died there were never found. Their floor was hit by the first plane so I am assuming they were basically vaporized. I still don't understand how anyone who was working there did not wear a mask of some kind. Christy Todd Whitman belongs in jail for saying the air was safe.
What really got to me was the police officer, Dan Henry who lost his brother in the attacks. The fact he was still looking for him made me think of my own brothers, and what I would do if they died in a similar circumstance.
Watched the whole thing as it happened from beginning to end for the first time ever. Never seen such horror and felt so sick watching it. God bless everyone who was innocently involved 💔
8:43 She said the identification process will take probably a year. 20 years later, the process still continues and they still are finding DNA matches. So sad. May a match find healing for those who lost loved ones.
I'm too young to have remembered anything about the events of this tragedy when it occurred, and my only visit to New York was after the completion of the One World Trade Center. Pieces like this are very important for me to better understand how this all happened and why things are so different now compared to before.
I want to go back to NYC now that the museum is open. OWT was still under construction last time I was there. I'd strongly recommend watching the Naudet brothers' documentary if you haven't. That's my go to 9/11 doc every year
@@BESmith-ms8zm That was my go-to as well for a while but I haven't watched it in several years. I'm about to find it to rewatch it. I also was in NYC (for the first time) when they were constructing OWT in 2011, then I was there again very briefly in 2018 and made sure to visit the museum. It was very difficult, more than I expected. But so incredibly powerful. It's worth doing if you get a chance
It was a horrible day. I hope you never see a day like it in your lifetime. America used to feel 100% safe, the strongest country in the world. This took that all away.
The first mass death I ever remember was during the Gulf war. It was on 2-13-1991 in Baghdad The Amiriyah shelter bombing at least 408 mostly woman and children died in the bombing. I remember it so well because of the husbands and fathers crying as they hauled the dead that they had wrapped in white cloth out of the rubble. So many little bodies. One man who was interviewed was crying out that he thought his family safe in the shelter that he never thought they would bomb an civilian shelter. It's been since then labeled a war crime. They say when the first plane dropped the bomb there screaming for 4 minutes until the next plane came with the second bomb and the screaming ceased. This was in a neighborhood at 4:04am in the morning and they where sleeping at the time. And that was the first time I had ever seen that type of grief and heartbreak. But over the years I watched civilians dieing in other countries. Apartment complex being bombed. So many tragedies every year. Then 2001 the world trade center was attacked. And I looked at my parents and asked them why do people care about this and not all the other tragedies that took more lives. Why are they so effected by this when not long ago that apparent building was bombed. What about the genocides and all that happened recently. I was told that people don't care about others who aren't like themselves and they didn't see those people as people especially the ones killed by our military. That they care about this because they can't not notice it because it's in there own country. But what happened in other countries don't matter to them nor do they feel for those people because they are so far away it's like they aren't real. They feel it doesn't effect them. But this effects the whole country so today they care. I have never been to NYC so to me it was as real as Baghdad, Czechoslovakia or even Rwanda. I remember 9-11-2001 I saw the grief and sadness. I saw the shock and how people where so eager to go to war. I saw it's effects. Then I saw the US military go in a city that we've already bombed in my own vary short lifetime to bomb it once again. I was 11 and wondered if anyone was surprised that the locals where scared and called us evil this was collective generational trauma and would these people ever forgive us for what we kept doing to them. Would the next generation also be moved to attack us in a unending cycle that never ended.
It's quite sad to hear the wife saying that they might still be processing the remains a year later. They're still processing remains 20 years later, but they have new analysis methods which might help them identify more.
This is the best kind of footage, raw and unedited with no narrator or music. But I think to myself what are all these people up to now, that were captured In time 2 decades ago.
If this doesn't make a person understand hw fragile we actually are imagine being crushed to dust as your fate dam. . Found his heart that is so astounding I pray for families 21 yrs later
All of the people working at Ground Zero were clearly, deeply effected by their experiences. On 9/11/01, I was watching the news and thought I must be mentally off for not being emotional: Then they announced how many firefighters and police officers had been killed, and the waterworks started for me. Maybe it was all too overwhelming. Seeing a huge fire and rescue truck bent up like a toy was something my mind could comprehend I guess. RIP to all those we lost.
Thank you for sharing. Even these days here in 2021, I still miss the two tall older buildings along with the other World Trade Center buildings. I use to sit in front if World Trade Center 2 eating pizza.
@@Mike-zf4xg aware of WTC building 7 going down. All ya ever saw was the two towers standing up the most famous ones. There alot of buildings that dot the Coastline of NYC so it just blends in. I do not really buy into those silly conspiracy theories about that. Just a tragic event that happened of who know what and when. There still families that even years later that still have not gotten some closure or death certificate issued yet.
When i went back to the site in 2003 yeh it practically all cleaned out the street some of the buildings nearby looked untouched while some still standing had visible damage done to them still had netting up. Now seen pics of the memorial looks so peaceful now with the trees they done a good job.
@@amrose4214 steel buildings don’t just fall down like a bunch of tooth picks. Thermite helps them come down I didn’t believe much either until I found out about that.
I remember 9/11 like it was last week. I know that's something everyone says but I was 16 when it happened and now I'm 36 and it still feels like it just happened.
I was only in 5th grade when 9/11 happened. I've always been so in touch with it though. I went through the emotions, and still do. What really struck me was, my dad was scared. He was never scared. Or never showed it.
Not really. Do you understand that some of the biological material is smaller than the head of a pin? And that some has been severely compromised by fire, exposure and decomposition? That the ability to extract DNA from samples so small is possibly years in the future? We are only now able to identify MIA service members’ remains from Korea and Vietnam. I don’t think most Americans comprehend the force brought to bear on the human body in the explosion and the collapse and how little is left to identify. This isn’t a failure to work hard and fast. It’s a job of inconceivably difficult proportions. Don’t assume a lack of effort or desire to finish the job. That’s an insult to those working so very hard to bring closure to those waiting.
This is probably the 52 60th documentary or series I've watched on this, and this is the first time any of them as ever mentioned anything beyond crates in 1, 2, and 7
The memorial site with the 2 reflecting pools is quite stunning tho it represents the footprint of where both towers once stood but it would have taken alot of work to engrave all those victims names & to construct the area so beautifully. No, many won't be recovered because they were turned to dust but to find a heart that is astonishing. On a final note I think some jumped because they wanted to be identified otherwise they would have burned to death as the towers crumbled. It brought closure to some, this is my opinion. It will always be sad to alot of people & the memorial is all they have.
I cant imagine the sheer destructable force that came down when those buildings collapsed. Fires hotter than hell that burned for months, the crushing power of a hydraulic press. The explosions when the planes hit and the force of impact in the plane. Alot of people were literally vaporized to bone broken up so small its impossible to see in 1 million tons of debris. They did all they could and they did a remarkable job at finding what they did. The families that dont have any remains, i cant imagine the pain. Just know that they are at peace.
(1:50) "I've seen the look on people's faces like they still can't believe it, even though it's months later." Honey, twenty-two years later, we still can't believe it. Perhaps that will never fade. Perhaps it shouldn't.
It may have been found shortly after the collapse but not identified until months later. I'm sure they were overwhelmed with bits and pieces, 20 yrs later they are still identifying people.
It's important to remember that they were gathering evidence while this was happening. There was debris all over lower Manhattan. Casey Neistat even explains in his video about what he experienced that day that as he left his apartment to go out onto the street someone was laying sheets over the bodies strewn around on the roads. This is likely also how they found the passport of one of the terrorists. It's entirely plausible that his body, or parts of him, were thrown out of the other side of the building, which is why his passport was still intact, because it was probably still in his pocket.
A heart is a combination of, among other types of tissue, not only heart muscle but also cartilage, especially around the valves. It's not like it's one soft blobbery substance.
I think Dan Henry is proud of what ground zero has become. I was 8 on that fateful day but i remember that day in whole. R.I.P to those lost on that day and to those lost sense. May we never forget.
Every time I see the landing from one of the planes I think about the poor lady that got hit by one and the fact that it tour her skin of her back from shoulder to hip. Good thing is she was found and survived.
The stories are never ending. I hear something brand new each time and to think so many that never got told but some things should be protected. I don’t think the families minds and hearts could handle the possibility of what exactly happened to their loved ones body. Finding that man’s heart is truly unimaginable.
I wasnt there, i didn't have friends that lost their lives that day. Having said that, my fellow Americans that lost their lives in that absolute horrific day will be embedded in my memory forever. However, we are a strong nation, we can overcome enemies far and wide! We are a nation of strong men and women!
Sadly he really didn't because firefighter Joseph Henry's remains never were found so the family couldn't have a funeral , all though they built a park like he mentioned it's still not closure for the family.
No, they dug down to the bedrock. Anything that could be found within the site was found. There was just too little left of some victims to even be identified as human remains. At this point, more than 1,100 victims’ remains have never been found.
I didn't realize when I visited the site that this was the final resting place for 1,100 people. Very somber that so many people were essentially vaporized or turned into dust.
@@nosilee2964 Reply was about tube not allowing mentioning three passports found after fire, explosion, destruction of plane, buildings... Since 7.9. the became very sensitive to certain words, opinions.
I remembered seeing this event unfold on TV when I was 5 looking at my parents confused why the towers are on fire. No wonder why 9/11 changed everything...
I never knew or thought of the fact that it wasn't just the towers of the wtc plaza that were destroyed... It's was also all the little(in comparison) buildings around them too (which I didn't know existed)
God bless everyone who participated in this grim, traumatic process to help attain answers and closure. God bless the survivors and those who were lost in this horrible tragedy. And God bless all friends and family of those lost; I wish each and every one of them strength.
@@morissalan8242 Definitely. Getting ready to go to bed after a decent day. Mercifully I did not lose anyone I knew in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (But our hearts all ache for those who did) Hope all is well for you, too; thank you for the greeting!
@@glennhecker4422 Yeah it's a good day for me thanks for asking, I have to be honest with you you do have a lovely name your name glenn sounds like that of an angel, Where are you from if you wouldn't mind me asking? I'm glad to hear that your family are safe from the terroist attack.
Cried at the end because that police officer got his wish in the end. The Twin Tower memorial is a beautiful area that is usually filled with silence out of remembrance for the victims of 9/11, and his brother 🥲💝
For a brief time in this country there was no white, black, brown or any other skin color. No religion, no political affiliation . It didn't matter who you were or how much money you had. We were ALL just human beings. My GOD people, how quickly we forget. Why can't we act like we love each other all the time ? Wait, I know why. It's because we are all animals, only concerned about what we can get from somebody else. I can only hope and pray that my now 11 year old daughter will continue to treat people as we have raised her ( we are all the same in GOD's eyes).
That’s a nice but false memory. Almost immediately Muslims were targeted across the U.S. in many communities. Muslim business owners were harassed and threatened. Children were bullied at school. One school had to close after threats by parents when they learned their children were being asked to copy Quran verses in Arabic script to become more familiar with Islam and Arabic as part of a world cultures course. I remember going along with others to help patronize one man’s pizza shop in New Jersey because he was being harassed and threatened because of his faith. Sikhs, who have no relation to Islam, are frequently mistaken as Muslim by those who don’t know thé difference, and they too were targeted for vengeful threats and attacks. I believe there may have even been some deaths.
Not true because everyone was very suspicious of Muslims. I was in a Target in NJ and I overheard middle eastern teenagers playing a video game and laughing and one said, "the blood of Christians." I just do not believe that that is a peaceful religion.
It's very true. Maybe people like you and I haven't forgotten but every anniversary the first thing I do is go to FB to see if anyone posted about it and there will usually be One post out of all of my friends. So I make it a point to post something every year and I spend that entire day watching videos about 9/11
@@indichic29 It's so important we share stories and pass down that information too... One of the most memorable Memorial Day messages I heard years ago was "You can't remember what you haven't heard" - Just emphasizing the importance of continuing to share that information so that the next generation doesn't forget. To me, there is just no way I'd ever be able to forget about that day... we all know exactly where we were or what we were doing when we first heard about it. That stuff just stays with you for life.
In NYC and NJ, church bells ring to mark the times each tower was hit and when each tower fell on each 9/11 anniversary. I moved one state away, and they don't do that. It's different when you're actually from NYC.
@@morissalan8242 yes I am alan thank you for your kind words the world can be so beautiful with kind hearts like your ♥️ life has not been easy but it was nice for you to ask me how my day is going it touch my heart 😘
@@christa9985 Smiles, Thank you for your kind response i have to be honest with you,you are one kind of a lady who is honest and have a good sense of humor, Where are you from if you wouldn't mind me asking?
I still can't believe it 23 yrs later, from another continent, i was living in the US that day. RIP those victims... and that includes the America that was 😢
oh my god 😱 his heart was outside his body and was found i…..i mean Jesus 🥺 this is the worst way to leave earth and for your family to find you. Rest in peace is not enough to say to this poor man.
That guy really misses his brother. You can see his emotion as he tries so hard to keep it together. They have built this memorial with each name and your brother will never be forgotten. I saw your brother as I saw my Dad's. A tear.
You can see how our culture has changed since. Seemingly not for the better. People came together then under these circumstances, now in 2024 division and hate dominate our way of life.
I guess she could’ve never possibly imagined that after 20 years people would still be identified maybe at most 5 to 10 years but hopefully all families get closure but at the very least they know that their loved ones are at peace
@@dannigro8794 , when this aired PMCR DNA analysis, for instance, did not yet exist. Once it became available, tiny sets of remains, including bone, that had not been previously identifiable could now be identified.
Its 2024 now in the future..and they just Identified 2 people recently...its crazy..R.I.P. to all the victims and workers police and fireman who helped clean up and who have died also..never forget.
Found a heart? A heart. Like a literal heart. That’s insanely sad but also amazing how strong the heart is
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Its just unreal they picked her husbands heart off the ground it just sounds so gruesome!!
It is meant to be found and returned to his loved one.
It beats continuously without stopping from the day you were born until the day you die. The heart is truly amazing.
@@xero8865 What's so funny, MISTER ZERO?
and now (2021) many crew members are sick from the dust. Such a horrible tragedy that continues. Never Forget.
my dad :(
And being rejected compensation
I was thinking the same thing. How many people in this video are gone now.
many people do, so many people in nyc now have lung problems or cardiac problems
There was so much asbestos, around 400 tons to be exact. A lot of it was insulating the steel beams. Not to mention all the concrete.
That police officer who lost his brother got his wish. A park like setting with trees and and a wall with the names of people who lost their lives that day.
And the footprints of the towers are represented with the reflection pools which I think is very beautiful and poignant
I started sobbing when I heard him give a description of how the memorial turned out. So sweet.
@@KegOfMeat Very true!
I thought the same thing. His exact wish.
I thought the same thing. I am happy that his wish came true.
I always feel sad that the plane crash in Pennsylvania hardly ever gets mentioned. Bless all the lost souls and their loved ones. #NeverForget
damn
Same, the only reason that plane crashed was because the passengers fought back against the terrorists. If they hadn't, who knows how many more hundreds or thousands of innocent people would've died. They all died heroes and i'll never forget them or their final act.
They do. There are quite a few docs on Flight 93 and a movie.
Suzanne Hedderly Watch all the beautiful footage of the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville. PA! There is a huge memorial and Tower of Voices there!
@@conniecrawford5231 Yes, I've seen it (not in person). It's just as important a site as the Twin Towers and Pentagon. They were true heroes!!
Much to my surprise the identification process is still ongoing, granted very slowly. The New York City Medical Examiner's office is in possession of about 22,000 human body parts in hopes that as technology evolved identifications could be made. On September 8, 2021 Dorothy Morgan and another man, whose family doesn't want to be made public, were identified. Of all that perished only 60% have been identified. It's incredible to think that families might still get the phone call they've been waiting 20 years for.
That’s one thing I think we can all appreciate technology for, even though right now it is limited, it continues to evolve and provides answers previously thought to be impossible.
speaking of body parts yes they do DNA tests on them
i wounder what un-useal things they find 20 years later in the rubble buried under ground
things like someone's hair brush photos in frames
ID photos drivers L or bus passes someone's bank/crited card
missing clothing/shoes left behind when some was runing up/down stairs to get out
things left in lifts that broke down
watches/rings
some one's pet dog that died inside left behind by accident
Going back I think last year, just last year, they found human remains ontop of a building. Just confirms how powerful the event was that day. People were literally torn apart not just by the planes going into the buildings but when the buildings came down
There’s still hope for some closure
@@lovejetfuel4071 they found a piece of one of the hijacked airplanes wedged between two buildings many years after they cleaned the city.
20 years later, watching a video like this still brings back sadness and disbelief of what has happened. Praying for those who have lost a loved one from this nightmarish event, and may all those who perished rest in peace.
She said the identifications could take a year. It’s amazing the the ME’s office is still working on it 20 years later.
Are they really identifying remains 20 years later?
@@managingmonasmoula9811 2 people were identified only about a week before the anniversary Saturday.
@@kait6994 Wow, that is amazing! After 20 years...that is just incredible to me.
@@kait6994 wow thats amazing... do you mind sharing where you read that?
@@denisejaydub I read about it in the NY Times as well as a CNN article. A woman and a man were identified. The dedication these people have in trying to identify every single person who was there that day is amazing.
Incredible that a human heart 🫀 survived the destruction.
That got me. Not only imagining how his body must've been ripped apart in multiple directions, but that his heart survived. Gives me chills.
The body around that heart was blown to bits, and the heart expelled. It's nightmarish. I can't believe his widow can take comfort in that. But I'm glad she does.
People seem confused about this. It's very unlikely that's the only part of him that survived the destruction, but that's the tissue they found. It wouldn't have been found immediately, it would have been discovered after tonnes of material had been moved, weeks or even months later. All that movement disturbs the scene, and the remains. They weren't moving all this debris stone by stone, that would have been impossible. It's sad, and it's graphic to say, but many of those victims would have been further damaged by the movement of material.
Incredible isn't it!? Wow
@@bbtank3000 damn
These sanitation workers at the landfill are remarkable and I am so pleased to see this dedication to find anything that will help families of those lost. To see this 20 years later, this is what being American is all about!!!!!! Bless those still helping to find peace after a day that changed so many American's for life.
Ya God Bless America using a suicide attack 2 drone bomb entire cities & send soldiers n2 Nations never w/ ties 2 Taliban so US took death toll from 3,000 on 9/11 to nearly a million lives lost 20years later & growing! If only US could live what we preach....
The fact that they found that ladies husbands heart just goes to show how gruesome the recovery was for the people digging through the rubble
Watching this makes me think about all of those men who weren't aware that they themselves, were doomed for death. They were breathing in toxic debris and atomized fuel, bodies, concrete, etc. So many of them would succumb to cancer. Its so unfortunate.
With Covid finishing them off…
I wonder if it’s still safe to visit that area or if there remains asbestos or atomized fuel
@@codybishop7526 Oh that's an interesting one there.
Definitely something I am wondering about myself, but then again so many things in our normal life and even maybe going into pld buildings downtown or something that can also provide some sort of similar concern
I question WHY there were not mask available? People must have known the dust and the air was toxic at the scene. Some first responders did have mask. I'm sure the N95 was around then.
@@The51Jasmine That’s mostly because Giuliani made certain that the EPA was on all major networks by 11:30 that morning, stating that the air quality was perfectly safe for people to breathe, and would not be considered a hazard to human consumption. What a fool believes, right…? 👌🏼
Hard to believe 20 years have flown by already
20 years feels like it happen a few weeks ago still on my mind/talking about on youtube/forums on interent
You could’ve used any word and you picked FLOWN?
My daughter was 8 months old , her baby book has 911 articles in it 🥲🥲
@EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout NEVER FORGET
I miss the simplicity & innocence of the late 90's & early 2000's man.
A different time. A different world.
Yes.We do.Nothing has been the same since.Awful times today.
I was 2 months pregnant with my daughter when this was made, doesn’t time fly. I was thinking the other day on the 20th anniversary how much has changed in my life time. I’m 60 now ,who’d have believed we’ve all lived through a pandemic, hope things settle soon
Those folks working at the pit and on Staten Island have haunted extremely sad eyes
They just identified the 1,600 victim a couple of weeks ago.
That in itself shows the enormity of the devestation and tragedy of the events of one day in the history of this country.
Must mean there still like over 1,000 still missing or non recovered remains left.😢
@@amrose4214 unfortunately, yes. They're still finding pieces of victim even 20 years alter
Really? Omg! 😢😲
That could mean someone who never told anyone they where going to the towers that day and no one knows where they could be or if they're alive or dead.
It looks so overwhelming to clean up and they literally started by passing buckets around. An amazing achievement to get it from that to what it is today. Humans can do amazing things sometimes. And other times they do despicable things.
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I realized yesterday they started by passing buckets while listening to Steve Buscemi's 9/11 story. He was one of the people who helped passing the buckets or once in a while a body bag with human remains in it. He was a fire fighter in the 80's in NY, that's how he ended up there.
And you are so right, humans can do incredible things, in both ways.
@@tonka9573 Steve's statements were a great help to me.
Indeed - it’s an impressive thing. Although, look at the cities of Europe or Russia during WW2. Many were totally destroyed in a similar fashion. In Berlin the women became famous as the ‘rubble women’ who formed huge lines passing the debris for months during the clean up.
@@rare6499 indeed there are many examples of humans bouncing back and rebuilding in places that appear hopeless. It’s amazing
12:45 I am so happy his vision for a memorial came true. 9/11 memorial is almost what he described. Hope you have found some measure of peace there
Thank you to all of the people who worked at ground zero sifting through all of the debris.
To breathe in all that toxic crap for nothing. Thousands now ill.
8:25 gave me goosebumps. So chilling. RIP to all those who lost their lives on this horrible day.
It's amazing to me that people born after this are adults now.
@Rowdy Jr If more people started to think like you we might actually get somewhere.
Thanks for this. I cried. It's heartbreaking and helps realign me with my nation. It's hard in these times now to remember what American connection was like back then. This video helped.
20 years ago seems like yesterday! I was 19 and I'm from Massachusetts...I woke up to the tv on (I hardly ever leave the tv on overnight) I watched the first plane crash. So confused,sad but so much love and respect for our heroes and you will never be forgotten ❤
The woman's story at around 7:40 really speaks to me. I'm glad she was willing to share what remains were found and about her desire to have her husband's remains identified and accounted for. I completely respect and understand why others wouldn't want that. After all, many people believe that once a person's spirit leaves their body that the body itself isn't really *them*.
But still, I wish Western society overall could be more accepting of those who want whatever parts of their loved ones that they can have and for it not to be seen as taboo or even macabre. Because to me personally, the idea of my loved ones having literally nothing left behind to recover is so upsetting to me that I'm honestly holding back tears right now.
Anyway, I'm really glad this piece highlights those people and I'm also glad that the search is continuing over 19 years after these interviews took place. Technology is improving and I pray that more people can get some form of their loved ones back, even if it's a bone fragment.
I’m British so we saw the horror on live TV on that day. I work for an American company and every time I come to New York on business I visit initially the blocked off building site. Now I look at the beautiful memorial and I hope those who lost their lives so horribly can Rest in Peace
...Knowing it was an American false-flag attack.
God bless you! If you have jot already, please consider believing in the gospel of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and eternal life in Heaven. God loves you so much.
It's been 20 years and they're still identifying people from the unidentified remains... So I think it will go on as long as it can still feasible be done
Can’t even find words to describe how brave these men are to do these jobs. Whew 😢😢🙏🏽💗
WEEEEEEE WOOOOOO WEEEEE WOOOOO
My two friends that died there were never found. Their floor was hit by the first plane so I am assuming they were basically vaporized. I still don't understand how anyone who was working there did not wear a mask of some kind. Christy Todd Whitman belongs in jail for saying the air was safe.
I am sorry for your lost. I hope one day they will find something from them one day
What really got to me was the police officer, Dan Henry who lost his brother in the attacks. The fact he was still looking for him made me think of my own brothers, and what I would do if they died in a similar circumstance.
I cant imagine the survivors guilt that poor guy probably went through. I dont know what I would do if my brother died while I survived
Breaks my heart , rest in paradise to all of these people
Watched the whole thing as it happened from beginning to end for the first time ever. Never seen such horror and felt so sick watching it. God bless everyone who was innocently involved 💔
The official 20 year time lapse is beautiful and is a great showcase of the memorial. Thanks for putting this up, I'd never seen it. Be safe.
8:43 She said the identification process will take probably a year. 20 years later, the process still continues and they still are finding DNA matches. So sad. May a match find healing for those who lost loved ones.
I'm too young to have remembered anything about the events of this tragedy when it occurred, and my only visit to New York was after the completion of the One World Trade Center. Pieces like this are very important for me to better understand how this all happened and why things are so different now compared to before.
I want to go back to NYC now that the museum is open. OWT was still under construction last time I was there.
I'd strongly recommend watching the Naudet brothers' documentary if you haven't. That's my go to 9/11 doc every year
@@BESmith-ms8zm That was my go-to as well for a while but I haven't watched it in several years. I'm about to find it to rewatch it. I also was in NYC (for the first time) when they were constructing OWT in 2011, then I was there again very briefly in 2018 and made sure to visit the museum. It was very difficult, more than I expected. But so incredibly powerful. It's worth doing if you get a chance
It was a horrible day. I hope you never see a day like it in your lifetime. America used to feel 100% safe, the strongest country in the world. This took that all away.
The first mass death I ever remember was during the Gulf war. It was on 2-13-1991 in Baghdad The Amiriyah shelter bombing at least 408 mostly woman and children died in the bombing. I remember it so well because of the husbands and fathers crying as they hauled the dead that they had wrapped in white cloth out of the rubble. So many little bodies. One man who was interviewed was crying out that he thought his family safe in the shelter that he never thought they would bomb an civilian shelter. It's been since then labeled a war crime. They say when the first plane dropped the bomb there screaming for 4 minutes until the next plane came with the second bomb and the screaming ceased. This was in a neighborhood at 4:04am in the morning and they where sleeping at the time. And that was the first time I had ever seen that type of grief and heartbreak.
But over the years I watched civilians dieing in other countries. Apartment complex being bombed. So many tragedies every year. Then 2001 the world trade center was attacked. And I looked at my parents and asked them why do people care about this and not all the other tragedies that took more lives. Why are they so effected by this when not long ago that apparent building was bombed. What about the genocides and all that happened recently. I was told that people don't care about others who aren't like themselves and they didn't see those people as people especially the ones killed by our military. That they care about this because they can't not notice it because it's in there own country. But what happened in other countries don't matter to them nor do they feel for those people because they are so far away it's like they aren't real. They feel it doesn't effect them. But this effects the whole country so today they care.
I have never been to NYC so to me it was as real as Baghdad, Czechoslovakia or even Rwanda.
I remember 9-11-2001 I saw the grief and sadness. I saw the shock and how people where so eager to go to war. I saw it's effects. Then I saw the US military go in a city that we've already bombed in my own vary short lifetime to bomb it once again. I was 11 and wondered if anyone was surprised that the locals where scared and called us evil this was collective generational trauma and would these people ever forgive us for what we kept doing to them. Would the next generation also be moved to attack us in a unending cycle that never ended.
It's quite sad to hear the wife saying that they might still be processing the remains a year later.
They're still processing remains 20 years later, but they have new analysis methods which might help them identify more.
This is the best kind of footage, raw and unedited with no narrator or music. But I think to myself what are all these people up to now, that were captured In time 2 decades ago.
Man. That is so hard to hear. I just cannot imagine losing someone and just never getting that closure.
Wow this is great everything they found. I hope they located most of the families to their items.
If this doesn't make a person understand hw fragile we actually are imagine being crushed to dust as your fate dam. . Found his heart that is so astounding I pray for families 21 yrs later
Un abrazo eterno a todos los familiares que perdieron seres queridos, saludos desde España, como duele..
Muchas gracious, es muy gracioso. :)
All of the people working at Ground Zero were clearly, deeply effected by their experiences. On 9/11/01, I was watching the news and thought I must be mentally off for not being emotional: Then they announced how many firefighters and police officers had been killed, and the waterworks started for me. Maybe it was all too overwhelming. Seeing a huge fire and rescue truck bent up like a toy was something my mind could comprehend I guess. RIP to all those we lost.
Thank you for sharing. Even these days here in 2021, I still miss the two tall older buildings along with the other World Trade Center buildings. I use to sit in front if World Trade Center 2 eating pizza.
Wow i did not realize there were 6 buildings destroyed in the attack even when i was the site.
How did you not know? Every quack in the world is claiming WTC 7 is proof it's an inside job.
@@Mike-zf4xg aware of WTC building 7 going down. All ya ever saw was the two towers standing up the most famous ones. There alot of buildings that dot the Coastline of NYC so it just blends in. I do not really buy into those silly conspiracy theories about that. Just a tragic event that happened of who know what and when. There still families that even years later that still have not gotten some closure or death certificate issued yet.
When i went back to the site in 2003 yeh it practically all cleaned out the street some of the buildings nearby looked untouched while some still standing had visible damage done to them still had netting up. Now seen pics of the memorial looks so peaceful now with the trees they done a good job.
I only knew of 4, the twins, bldg 7 and the hotel which was cut in half when one of the towers fell on it
@@amrose4214 steel buildings don’t just fall down like a bunch of tooth picks. Thermite helps them come down I didn’t believe much either until I found out about that.
I remember 9/11 like it was last week. I know that's something everyone says but I was 16 when it happened and now I'm 36 and it still feels like it just happened.
I was only in 5th grade when 9/11 happened. I've always been so in touch with it though. I went through the emotions, and still do. What really struck me was, my dad was scared. He was never scared. Or never showed it.
the fact that the people who died on this day are still being identified till today (2021) is insane
Not really. Do you understand that some of the biological material is smaller than the head of a pin? And that some has been severely compromised by fire, exposure and decomposition? That the ability to extract DNA from samples so small is possibly years in the future? We are only now able to identify MIA service members’ remains from Korea and Vietnam. I don’t think most Americans comprehend the force brought to bear on the human body in the explosion and the collapse and how little is left to identify. This isn’t a failure to work hard and fast. It’s a job of inconceivably difficult proportions. Don’t assume a lack of effort or desire to finish the job. That’s an insult to those working so very hard to bring closure to those waiting.
It's all just a big fictional story...
This is probably the 52 60th documentary or series I've watched on this, and this is the first time any of them as ever mentioned anything beyond crates in 1, 2, and 7
12:53 He's not far off of what we got.
It's pretty sad to think that some victims pretty much had Almost nothing left of themselves, really they were just pulverized into dust. . .
Literally, "dust to dust, ashes to ashes".
The memorial site with the 2 reflecting pools is quite stunning tho it represents the footprint of where both towers once stood but it would have taken alot of work to engrave all those victims names & to construct the area so beautifully. No, many won't be recovered because they were turned to dust but to find a heart that is astonishing. On a final note I think some jumped because they wanted to be identified otherwise they would have burned to death as the towers crumbled. It brought closure to some, this is my opinion. It will always be sad to alot of people & the memorial is all they have.
They jumped because they didn't want to burn alive to their death. They were murdered. There wasn't time to rationalize how to die. So sad!
I cant imagine the sheer destructable force that came down when those buildings collapsed. Fires hotter than hell that burned for months, the crushing power of a hydraulic press. The explosions when the planes hit and the force of impact in the plane. Alot of people were literally vaporized to bone broken up so small its impossible to see in 1 million tons of debris. They did all they could and they did a remarkable job at finding what they did. The families that dont have any remains, i cant imagine the pain. Just know that they are at peace.
The fact that almost everything was Pulverized into dust is terrifying and heart wrenching. R.I.P to all those people 💔🙏🏻
To go through that much rubble piece by piece thank you God bless you
(1:50) "I've seen the look on people's faces like they still can't believe it, even though it's months later." Honey, twenty-two years later, we still can't believe it. Perhaps that will never fade. Perhaps it shouldn't.
The museum is beautiful you will cry ❤️ God bless all .No better people than these ❤️
FOR US ALL; STREGNTH THROUGH PAIN , LOVE THROUGH LOSS
“Lucky of the unluckiest.”
They found a heart? Wouldn't it have been severely decomposed after all those months? I can understand bones, but a heart is tissue.
It may have been found shortly after the collapse but not identified until months later. I'm sure they were overwhelmed with bits and pieces,
20 yrs later they are still identifying people.
Probably charred and covered in ash
It's important to remember that they were gathering evidence while this was happening. There was debris all over lower Manhattan. Casey Neistat even explains in his video about what he experienced that day that as he left his apartment to go out onto the street someone was laying sheets over the bodies strewn around on the roads. This is likely also how they found the passport of one of the terrorists. It's entirely plausible that his body, or parts of him, were thrown out of the other side of the building, which is why his passport was still intact, because it was probably still in his pocket.
A heart is a combination of, among other types of tissue, not only heart muscle but also cartilage, especially around the valves. It's not like it's one soft blobbery substance.
Where was this said at?
I think Dan Henry is proud of what ground zero has become. I was 8 on that fateful day but i remember that day in whole. R.I.P to those lost on that day and to those lost sense. May we never forget.
20 year's on,and it still breaks my heart watching 9/11 vids
😇may u all rest in peace 😇
😇😷🌍✌💖😷😇
September 11th, 2001 was the worst day in modern American History! It is a day that I shall NEVER FORGET AND I DON'T THINK MOST OF AMERICA WON'T!
Every time I see the landing from one of the planes I think about the poor lady that got hit by one and the fact that it tour her skin of her back from shoulder to hip. Good thing is she was found and survived.
12:44 That broke heart
I broke down so sad…. I could never imagine looking for my brother.
The stories are never ending. I hear something brand new each time and to think so many that never got told but some things should be protected. I don’t think the families minds and hearts could handle the possibility of what exactly happened to their loved ones body. Finding that man’s heart is truly unimaginable.
Was down there from Sept 2002 till April 2005 left In 2016 started my surgeries Rare Bladder Kidney DISEASE Transplant in 2019 6 surgeries in 5 years
God bless!🙏
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@@CWAIGN82 TY I fight for my life last 5years. But it tough as can be
I wasnt there, i didn't have friends that lost their lives that day. Having said that, my fellow Americans that lost their lives in that absolute horrific day will be embedded in my memory forever. However, we are a strong nation, we can overcome enemies far and wide! We are a nation of strong men and women!
So sad that there were health issues for the people who worked at ground zero for all that time, trying to find peace for these families
It's 2021 and this is still incredibly sad.
The police officer got the memorial he wanted ❤️
Sadly he really didn't because firefighter Joseph Henry's remains never were found so the family couldn't have a funeral , all though they built a park like he mentioned it's still not closure for the family.
And to think that those who were burried deeper or just not found are now forever lost burried under the new complex
No, they dug down to the bedrock. Anything that could be found within the site was found. There was just too little left of some victims to even be identified as human remains. At this point, more than 1,100 victims’ remains have never been found.
Damn, Scott Pelly is a good writer.
Its a beautiful Memorial today so that you could see your brother☺🙏
They found his HEART!!???
I have no words
I didn't realize when I visited the site that this was the final resting place for 1,100 people. Very somber that so many people were essentially vaporized or turned into dust.
How do they find a heart? What has to happen to a person for just their heart to be found? My mind is trying to make sense of that
Haha, no? Why should i not mention three passports, youtube?
@@codaalive5076 what? I think you replied to the wrong comment, your comment doesn’t make sense replying to mine
@@nosilee2964 Reply was about tube not allowing mentioning three passports found after fire, explosion, destruction of plane, buildings... Since 7.9. the became very sensitive to certain words, opinions.
I remembered seeing this event unfold on TV when I was 5 looking at my parents confused why the towers are on fire. No wonder why 9/11 changed everything...
I never knew or thought of the fact that it wasn't just the towers of the wtc plaza that were destroyed... It's was also all the little(in comparison) buildings around them too (which I didn't know existed)
Marriott 73m, Deutsche Bank 163 m, WTC7 190m. Meanwhile the antenna alone on WTC1 was 110m in its own right.
Finding an actual heart? I could not imagine...😢
She said DNA identification may take up to a year... unfortunately it's been 23 years and DNA identification is still going on...
God bless everyone who participated in this grim, traumatic process to help attain answers and closure. God bless the survivors and those who were lost in this horrible tragedy. And God bless all friends and family of those lost; I wish each and every one of them strength.
Hi Glenn hope you are having a good day so far??
@@morissalan8242 Definitely. Getting ready to go to bed after a decent day. Mercifully I did not lose anyone I knew in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (But our hearts all ache for those who did) Hope all is well for you, too; thank you for the greeting!
@@glennhecker4422 Yeah it's a good day for me thanks for asking, I have to be honest with you you do have a lovely name your name glenn sounds like that of an angel, Where are you from if you wouldn't mind me asking? I'm glad to hear that your family are safe from the terroist attack.
Cried at the end because that police officer got his wish in the end. The Twin Tower memorial is a beautiful area that is usually filled with silence out of remembrance for the victims of 9/11, and his brother 🥲💝
12:42 his exact description of the memorial is spot on description
These dear, dear people working so hard for people they will never meet.
Wow his heart
For a brief time in this country there was no white, black, brown or any other skin color. No religion, no political affiliation . It didn't matter who you were or how much money you had. We were ALL just human beings. My GOD people, how quickly we forget. Why can't we act like we love each other all the time ? Wait, I know why. It's because we are all animals, only concerned about what we can get from somebody else. I can only hope and pray that my now 11 year old daughter will continue to treat people as we have raised her ( we are all the same in GOD's eyes).
That’s a nice but false memory. Almost immediately Muslims were targeted across the U.S. in many communities. Muslim business owners were harassed and threatened. Children were bullied at school. One school had to close after threats by parents when they learned their children were being asked to copy Quran verses in Arabic script to become more familiar with Islam and Arabic as part of a world cultures course.
I remember going along with others to help patronize one man’s pizza shop in New Jersey because he was being harassed and threatened because of his faith. Sikhs, who have no relation to Islam, are frequently mistaken as Muslim by those who don’t know thé difference, and they too were targeted for vengeful threats and attacks. I believe there may have even been some deaths.
Not true because everyone was very suspicious of Muslims. I was in a Target in NJ and I overheard middle eastern teenagers playing a video game and laughing and one said, "the blood of Christians." I just do not believe that that is a peaceful religion.
"While the rest of the country has gone on with it's life" - That's so insulting to hear that, first thing. Couldn't be further from the truth...
It's very true. Maybe people like you and I haven't forgotten but every anniversary the first thing I do is go to FB to see if anyone posted about it and there will usually be One post out of all of my friends. So I make it a point to post something every year and I spend that entire day watching videos about 9/11
@@indichic29 It's so important we share stories and pass down that information too... One of the most memorable Memorial Day messages I heard years ago was "You can't remember what you haven't heard" - Just emphasizing the importance of continuing to share that information so that the next generation doesn't forget. To me, there is just no way I'd ever be able to forget about that day... we all know exactly where we were or what we were doing when we first heard about it. That stuff just stays with you for life.
In NYC and NJ, church bells ring to mark the times each tower was hit and when each tower fell on each 9/11 anniversary. I moved one state away, and they don't do that. It's different when you're actually from NYC.
Oh my God the lord gave this lady the heart of her husband that's God's work♥️🙏
Hi Christa hope you are having a good day so far??
@@morissalan8242 yes I am alan thank you for your kind words the world can be so beautiful with kind hearts like your ♥️ life has not been easy but it was nice for you to ask me how my day is going it touch my heart 😘
@@christa9985 Smiles, Thank you for your kind response i have to be honest with you,you are one kind of a lady who is honest and have a good sense of humor, Where are you from if you wouldn't mind me asking?
Is that the lord who let that happen and took her husbands life? 🤔 just wondering
The fact that their bodies are not recoverable does not mean God cannot find them. God can find anyone any time. They will all be in the resurrection.
In 2021 yr. And listening to this.
I still can't believe it 23 yrs later, from another continent, i was living in the US that day. RIP those victims... and that includes the America that was 😢
oh my god 😱 his heart was outside his body and was found i…..i mean Jesus 🥺 this is the worst way to leave earth and for your family to find you. Rest in peace is not enough to say to this poor man.
Finding body parts... Not beginning of closure, Beginning of Knowing
4/7/24.
12:44 Goodness 😢
That guy really misses his brother. You can see his emotion as he tries so hard to keep it together. They have built this memorial with each name and your brother will never be forgotten. I saw your brother as I saw my Dad's. A tear.
Unbelievable! Amazing recovery effort!
You can see how our culture has changed since. Seemingly not for the better. People came together then under these circumstances, now in 2024 division and hate dominate our way of life.
She was wrong they are still IDing after all this time
I guess she could’ve never possibly imagined that after 20 years people would still be identified maybe at most 5 to 10 years but hopefully all families get closure but at the very least they know that their loved ones are at peace
DNA and technology has improved over time. We are capable of things today that wasn't available 20 years ago.
@@dannigro8794 , when this aired PMCR DNA analysis, for instance, did not yet exist. Once it became available, tiny sets of remains, including bone, that had not been previously identifiable could now be identified.
I know this video is quite older but to be told your husbands heart is found!😢can’t imagine.
Its 2024 now in the future..and they just Identified 2 people recently...its crazy..R.I.P. to all the victims and workers police and fireman who helped clean up and who have died also..never forget.
This is the first time I heard of identifying someone's heart! That's tough!!
Blessings