You should react to a New York Times article I read in 2008 when I got my first smart phone. It told how the Bush administration ignored warnings throughout the entire year of 2001 about the terrorists. They were warned the terrorists were here,that they were taking flying lessons but not learning how to land, and even taking practice flights. In late August they were warned of an imminent attack using planes. They did nothing about the warnings but the day after Bush flew the entire Bin Ladin family back to Saudi Arabia on 3 planes when no other planes were allowed to fly. And after the first plane hit while Bush said that must be some bad pilot, his right hand man Andrew Card I think was running around saying I hope that wasn't the guy taking flying lessons. I was a political news nerd back in the day.
That bit around 3:18 is when President Bush was told "We're under attack." But he was at a school, in front of teachers and young students. None of them knew what was going on. He had to maintain his composure until he could get out of the classroom and talk to his advisors and get accurate news.
The plane in Pennsylvania was intended to crash into the US Capitol in Washington. But the passengers and crew of the hijacked plane called their loved ones, learned of the attack, and banded together to overtake the terrorists. They managed to breach the cockpit before the hijacker pilot plummeted the plane to the ground.
What these documentaries usually don't show is the poor people who were trapped in the floors above the impact and chose to jump to their deaths rather than wait to be burnt alive, i watched this play out on the news, my girlfriend and i cryed for those people and their families.
Unfortunately, the jumpers made it far too hard for people to deal with. I know every time I saw them falling it hurt so bad I couldn't keep watching. I watched them fall live on TV too and you know, I still have occasional nightmares about it.
I knew that was going to happen even before we saw it. So terrible, regardless. I'm in California, but we all were so horrified. It happened the day after my 19th birthday.
What nobody talks about is how a small airport in Canada took in over 100 planes that was not able land in America & how Canadians gave food, cloth & housed Americans
Operation Yellow Ribbon at Gander Airport in Newfoundlamd. I've seen a few documrentaries on this. This is a good one - ua-cam.com/video/rteLASCbUrM/v-deo.html Those controllers pulled off nothing short of a miracle landing all those planes without one single incident!
You ever get really nervous, like you have the full body jitters, your hands are shaking and you can't think clearly? Imagine feeling like that ALL DAY watching this unfold. Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 I recall exactly where I was at this moment even over 2 decades later.
Exactly 7 weeks after 9 11 I gave birth to my daughter, it was quite overwhelming feeling her moving inside me while contemplating the kind of world she was going to be born into.
I remember this day like it was yesterday!! I lost my cousin and 9 friends that day! My cousin worked in tower 2 and alot of my friends were NYC firefighters, 9 of them lost their lives that day trying to get ppl out of the tower when it collapsed! Im 54 now and hope i never experience a day like this again! Thank you for reacting to this!
It's the day that many of us understood what Baby Boomers were talking about when they said they remember exactly where they were when they heard the news about JFK.
I came out of the shower, and my girlfriend was watching the tv after the first plane crashed. At first I thought it was a movie, and sat down to watch it with her. But, then I saw the tears in her eyes, and finally realized what actually was going on. I was 20 years old at the time, and I won't ever forget where I was and what I was doing on 9/11
I watched the second airplane hit live (on tv, I wasn't actually there). I thought it was just a replay of the first one. I don't think people realize just how much the world changed that day. It affected so many things.
Same. I was sleeping in that morning until my husband called to tell me about the first plane. Of course, none of us fully realized just how crazy it was about to get. I was just sitting in my living room watching live as the second plane hit, another was reported to have hit the Pentagon, more planes unaccounted for, then the towers collapsing, which almost no one expected. I know some random noise came out of me, but it wasn’t words, I couldn’t put it into words. Although I know all Americans felt it personally, like we were there too, tbh I’ve never been so glad to have been in Little Rock, Arkansas, just a small provincial capital probably on no one’s radar.
All this sadness! I'm going to tell you a funny joke that actually happened. Smile! On 9/11 a woman tried to call her husband to check on him to see if he was still alive after the towers collapsed. He worked in the first building that collapsed. She didn't get an answer so she did what most spouses would do in her situation: call until he answered or they came to tell her he had died. Around noon, he finally answered the phone. She was frantic and kept asking if he was okay. He said something like, "honey, I'm fine! What's wrong? I couldn't answer when you called, I was in a meeting!" She told him not to come back home... ever. They got a divorce.
This was such a horrible moment in America's history. I will say this though - America's was so united as a country after this. I wish we could get that feeling back. The feeling where we were all empathetic to our fellow Americans.
The Man & Woman who jump together holding hands still makes me bawl.I saw this going down live, & it hurt in so many ways.So many of those people didn't even get laid to rest, because they were disintegrated. The cruelty of people never ceases to make me puke.
Since this day I can’t view the world anymore like I’ve done the day before 9/11, this event paved the way the world is now that you live in today. I remember this too well when and where I was. And I was only 11 but I understood exactly what was happening. Everyday that passes I always think of this day. This girl I worked with recently was taking a history class in college and then she told me the subject was 9/11. I told her if she knew and was around that day she said she wasn’t and was born in 2003 then I said oh that’s why she didn’t know. So I told her I would never do that class if I had it, don’t need to because I lived through it that day not on site I live in AZ, but remember the sadness and pain I felt that day for the ones that were lost and saw that second plane hit live on tv. I also remember the skies being empty that day for like a week, no planes in the air.
I lost my grandmother this day. She was visiting Cantor Fitzgerald for an investor meeting that got rescheduled from the 7th to the 11th. I miss you grandma Mary
Just a few ironies about that day. Mark Wahlberg and the creator of Family Guy were supposed to be one of the planes that hit the WTC. Wahlberg and his friends decided to go to Kentucky for something else instead and McFarland got drunk the night before and missed the flight. Michael Jackson had a meeting scheduled for 9 am in one of the towers but did a show the night before and cancelled.
I was almost 10 at the time and remember the day quite vividly. The main thing I remember was just the sheer amount of fear that everyone was feeling, but I also remember the sense of togetherness too. The first few weeks of COVID were probably the most analogous big news event you've probably experienced. An event like this causes people to bond, but the scary thing is how that bonding can also be directed against an enemy, and that can be very dangerous.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. This whole country was watching their TV in horror. It was one of those moments where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing. For days, even weeks, people were almost in shock everywhere. Everywhere in the Nation, this just changed people. It was a dark day for the country, but it also demonstrated the level of resilience of our people. If the terrorist aim was to make us live in fear, they failed. What it did was pissed us off, and we sought retribution. They have to do a lot more than knock a few buildings down to defeat the USA.
I remember this day. I had just finished working a midnight security shift and watching it on the TV. In 2011 I was in Dublin and a museum had a display of the sound of the firemen over the radio and all of the posters of people who were missing. I wept both days.
I've seen every video, and I have every paper and magazine from that time. It was the moment I realized, as an American, that we were not safe. I was 23, and a HS teacher in Washington DC. The things I saw and my students endured...it was a reminder that life is both precious and short. My homeroom studen lost his sister, Asia Cotton, in the plane that hit the Pentagon.
Really appreciated that young people watch 9/11 footage. For many (who rmbr where we were & how we felt) it's difficult to watch. I felt sick, horror & RAGE. Wanted serious Revenge & Reckoning. Don't think USA kids learn enough (in school) abt WW1, Attack on Pearl Harbor, WW2, Jewish Holocaust or 9/11. I miss feeling of unity in USA after the attack. Sad how much we've bn divided since. Sad it takes a catastrophe to unite people. I know PM Tony Blair isn't loved by all in UK, but I rmbr him addressing Parliament saying firmly after 9/11 "America will NOT go it alone." In '03, I served alongside UK forces in Kuwait & Iraq. Shames me all the political crazy, isolationism, get out of NATO nonsense by many in USA. US & UK are Brothers in Peace & Brothers in War. Both our great nations hv issues that need fixing. But, any division btwn us hurts us all. Hopefully, we'll weather crazy times we're in & come thru w/common sense, strength & unity. U deserve to be proud of your nation. May God Bless & Save the US & UK!
There is so much more to this day than the few minutes showed. It was absolutely horrific. I think we should always honor the victims and hero’s of that day. So many people are still dealing with lifelong health conditions and cancer. thousands of people have since died from the smoke inhalation on 9/11.
Now you are watching the events with some knowledge and in a quick timeframe, now imagine you were watching this and have no idea what"s happening I was in 8th grade, terrorism wasn't even in my vocabulary. The first plane most people thought it was just a explosion, the second plane we knew we were under attack, we didn't know if there would be more or where. There were actually 4 planes involved, the 4th and final people onboard found out what was happening on the ground and knew they would be used as a tool of destruction and the crew of United flight 93 fought back against the hijackers and while they did best them, the plane was put into a nosedive in the process and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania sacrificing themselves to save countless others. It was a truly terrifying time in the days following, but the best America has ever been united was on September 12 when we started to pick up the pieces and make sure those responsible would pay.
I was at work doing children’s hair at the children’s shop that I worked at at the time and none of us had any idea this was going on until the customer came in and said some thing and we turned the TV on that we had in the shop and just everybody was glued to the TV
I forget the exact name of the video but you should check out the Boatlift that happened on 9/11. Thousands of people were trying to get away from where the towers were attacked but couldn't until boats started rescuing them. It's a story of hope, humanity, and heroes that took place on 9/11.
I was 17, a senior in high school. I was already a volunteer firefighter, fully trained and had only been actually acting as a firefighter for about 70 days or so (not sure where you live, but where I live, volunteer firefighters literally do everything paid firefighters do except collect a paycheck. Same training, same roles, same responsibilities. Volunteers are usually in areas that paid fire stations can't justify the expenditure). I watched the towers collapse live in a classroom and as such, I watched 343 firefighters perish for doing their jobs. You wanna talk about how terrifying THAT is?? September 11, 2001 was probably the darkest day in US history... but September 12, 2001 is probably the BRIGHTEST, BEST day in US history. Cops hugged drug dealers on the side of the road; Klansmen took off their white robes & hugged black people; billionaires sent money, construction equipment, water, food, even manpower to help; those of us who didn't have much to give..... we gave blood. My local Red Cross was actually giving out estimated wait times for donations in DAYS, not times. I stood in a line that circled the building TWICE. Literally everyone was there to send blood to help. We didn't have titles, races, sexes & genders, disabilities or categories. We were Americans and we were survivors. When the towers collapsed, everybody got covered by the dust (that ended up killing more people than the terrorists killed that day). For a brief moment, there emerged PEOPLE from the dust. There wasn't color, or sex, or anything: there was just people. And every one of them so covered in dust that you couldn't tell anything about them except they survived. Some carried those who were too injured to walk. That feeling of inclusion.. it's something you can't fake. And you can't understand it unless you experience it. We were hurt and we were scared, and really mad. We certainly could have treated the Muslims and Islamists here in the States better (Shameful really.. but we really were all terrified).
My bro in law worked in the towers. He stayed late the night before so he went in later then usual because he took his son to school. He was on the subway when they hit
Makes me sick and hurts to see! I was at work when this happened. It was all over the televisions and radios in the display areas of the Circuit City where I worked. I know the answer, but for the love of God and everything good, and moral, WHY DO WE DO THIS TO EACH OTHER?! Prayers to those lost, all the families and friends effected. Will never forget the first responders. the reporters all in the line of doing their jobs as professionals. I can't even see photos and videos of the towers, even ones showed in old tv shows and movies without thinking of this evil act! God Bless Us All!
I remember that morning like it was yesterday. I was in 7th grade choir class and someone barged in while we were doing our vocal warm ups and told us to turn on the tv. We spent most of the class watching it.
I was a Methadone counselor, and everybody was in an office watching it. I ask what show they were seeing. He said this is live. I was in deep shock too.
I watched while doing my inhaler right after lunch. I was in 4th no actually 5th grade. I think i was the 1st student to see it, i walked back to class, and the intercom asked the teachers to turn their TVs on. I walked home and my parents were watching it
This is so sad to me I cry every time I see something on 9/11. The amount of people who died so sad and I truely believe it was not only terriorists but the government played their part. I came home from work turned the tv on and at first I thought it was a movie but as I watched I saw the second plane hit and knew America was under attack I quickly told my mate who was in the room across from me and we watched together for hours we both saw the 2 towers come down.
I watched it live that day from my home in the UK, and it was the most shocking thing I've ever watched in my life. No innocent people should ever die, but at least it kept the Americans busy that day. Ignorance has its price, and America sure paid for it that day.
Sadly, a lot of people started recording or kept recording was because they thought they were going to die and they wanted there to be something for someone to find. Most of the people running survived but many suffered from cancer and respiratory illnesses due to breathing all of that dust in.
Right? Looks like a scene out of a crazy action movie. I've seen a lot of videos taken that day and it was way worse than any movie. About 200 people jumped to their death because they didn't want to burn or suffocate to death. Today there are still people dying from the dust they inhaled that day.
It was a cupple of years since the Columbine shooting which my heart goes to all the families for columbine, this happened a couple years later my heart goes out to all the families that lost everything, USA is strong very well . Thoughts and prayers for all 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
One thing not made clear in the film you watched is that the plane that came down in Pennsylvania was headed for a government building but the passengers rushed the terrorists and subdued them. Unfortunately, the pilots had been killed and the passengers couldn't fly the plane, so it crashed and all aboard died. There are heartbreaking recordings of phone calls from the passengers to their families saying something like "I love you. Goodbye." If you'd like to see a dramatization of the hunt for the terrorists, see the movie "Zero Dark Thirty."
I live 15 minutes from Shanksville, PA (ground zero). I don't think there will ever be a consensus on what actually happened. Many people said the plane just crashed. Others said they saw it get shot down by two American fighter jets, and still others didn't see it get shot down but saw the jets and heard explosions before the plane crashed.
Im in UK we were off college at the time watching reg TV with 5 lads drinking in day, having fun. then all channels here swapped to live vids after the first plane had hit. I watched the second come before it hit on our state broadcaster, was shocking. totally sobered us all up. we had many terror attacks similar time too. The Uk even did a very rare event from Queen to play the US anthem in London, we have never done that in history. 100k brits came to give US prayers ! we had many who worked in them buildings over 100 know brits i believe
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You can probably ignore about half the comments you will get on this one. Sick conspiracy theorists. I think you might like to see " Boatlift. An untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience ".
I m sorry, my english in not good. I can t undestand how young american never see this what happened in 2001. They know the the last time beyonce have is period but no know in 11 sept, 2001. I do nt know how it s write. It s same thing our country.. The children of today is me, my self and I. Beautiful theet, wonderfull clothes but no mather how is mother or father work hard for give him or her the best without no doing nothing.
It's also very weird that there is no video of a plane hitting the Pentagon even though there were tons of cameras in the area, probably because witnesses testifies that a rocket hit the Pentagon and not a plane, and the day after all cameras were removed from the area and were considered "lost".
Incorrect. The problem is that security cameras at the Pentagon weren't pointed up, no one expected an air attack. But one security camera did capture footage of the jet hitting the Pentagon(you can easily look it up). And the plane flew low knocking down light posts before it struck the Pentagon, not to mention there were pieces of the plane recovered at the site. That's simply not true that people testified a rocket hit the Pentagon, dozens of eyewitnesses saw the Boeing 757.
I was 18 at the time. I remember even Cartoon Network was interrupted for the news. All channels were interrupted for it. Our state fair was in town that week. Everyone left town who was here from out of state. Gas stations were empty. For days, it seemed like the entire world just stopped turning. The silence outside was loud, if that makes any sense. Not a single aircraft in the skies, and we live just 40 miles from the air capital of the world. It was surreal. My mom's aunt and uncle watched it all from a high rise hotel room in NYC as they were getting ready to checkout and go back to Florida. I'll also say this, my husband is far from a conspiracy theorist, but those planes did not explode on their own like that. He enlisted in the military at 17, and was deployed after he turned 18. He was 22 on 9/11. At the time, he didn't have the knowledge he did after 17 years of service. His job was engineering and he was trained in demolition and live explosives detection. There was an insurance policy placed on there just a day or two prior. And jet fuel doesn't just explode. It would absolutely cause a fire, but there were live explosives involved in this. Could there have been terrorists involved? Absolutely. However, our government is not innocent in this. There is a group of engineers who explain very well why this didn't happen the way the government says it did. And if you look at the Pentagon pictures and footage, pay attention the grass. The size of the hole in the Pentagon combined with the still perfect grass, that says it is physically impossible for it to have happened the way they said. Absolute tragedy, and our own government is not innocent. Right wing or left, they still belong to the same bird.
A group of young men arrested that day dancing and filming the planes hitting the towers on top of a box truck with a mural of planes hitting the twin towers
@@JasonRule-1 ... a weak, typical extremist pro-Islamic attempt at excusal through deflection ... infantile ... at best! ... pitiful ... at the very least!
@@JasonRule-1 ... a weak, typical extremist pro-Islamic attempt at excusal through deflection ... infantile ... at best! ... pitiful ... at the very least!
@danielwalker1538 ... when a person that exhibits so incredible a state of ignorance, poor taste, stupidity as so clearly evidenced by your post, such a post is not worth the amount of time that might be taken in responding to it! ... so, why have I ... responded to it? ... well, at least at the moment ... simply nothing better to do ... 😆😆😆
@@JasonRule-1 ... so ... by your reply, I hazard the assumption that you are a lover of not only Israel but also its people .... the "Israelis" ... and ... that, you are actually fully aware of the true identity of the religious affiliation (if we may call it that) of those who actually committed that act that was recorded on video ... and that they, the true perpetrators, in their delusion made the mistake of thinking that they were actually serving the one, Allah, in whose name these atrocities were committed. What a surprise awaits the perpetrators of these acts when at life's end, they are confronted with Allah, whose name they appropriated or hijacked to commit these atrocities ... a responsibility for which they will bear heavily. They should not be surprised that he, in the very, very least, will not be pleased!
@danielwalker1538 ... when a person that exhibits so incredible a state of ignorance, poor taste, stupidity as so clearly evidenced by your post, such a post is not worth the amount of time that might be taken in responding to it! ... so, why have I ... responded to it? ... well, at least at the moment ... simply nothing better to do ... 😆😆😆
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You should react to a New York Times article I read in 2008 when I got my first smart phone. It told how the Bush administration ignored warnings throughout the entire year of 2001 about the terrorists. They were warned the terrorists were here,that they were taking flying lessons but not learning how to land, and even taking practice flights. In late August they were warned of an imminent attack using planes. They did nothing about the warnings but the day after Bush flew the entire Bin Ladin family back to Saudi Arabia on 3 planes when no other planes were allowed to fly. And after the first plane hit while Bush said that must be some bad pilot, his right hand man Andrew Card I think was running around saying I hope that wasn't the guy taking flying lessons. I was a political news nerd back in the day.
The videos for "Building 7" that collapsed along with the towers.
For more, check out the website "Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth"
@@PerryBermanI bet you also remember the story about Bush's presidential daily briefing on the issue.
The secret behind this entire event is something another person noted below, "controlled demolition." Look up the term in this context...
Anyone old enough to remember knows exactly where they were that day. It still haunts me at seeing people jumping to their deaths.
That bit around 3:18 is when President Bush was told "We're under attack." But he was at a school, in front of teachers and young students. None of them knew what was going on. He had to maintain his composure until he could get out of the classroom and talk to his advisors and get accurate news.
The plane in Pennsylvania was intended to crash into the US Capitol in Washington. But the passengers and crew of the hijacked plane called their loved ones, learned of the attack, and banded together to overtake the terrorists. They managed to breach the cockpit before the hijacker pilot plummeted the plane to the ground.
What these documentaries usually don't show is the poor people who were trapped in the floors above the impact and chose to jump to their deaths rather than wait to be burnt alive, i watched this play out on the news, my girlfriend and i cryed for those people and their families.
yes to the horror. my late husband photographed 24 "jumpers" for NYC Times that day.
Not on UA-cam. I don't know if I would call it jumping. Most of them were just moving away from fire and smoke then falling.
Unfortunately, the jumpers made it far too hard for people to deal with. I know every time I saw them falling it hurt so bad I couldn't keep watching. I watched them fall live on TV too and you know, I still have occasional nightmares about it.
It’s generally considered disrespectful to show them jumping/falling, but I agree that it’s important to talk about it and remember.
I knew that was going to happen even before we saw it. So terrible, regardless. I'm in California, but we all were so horrified. It happened the day after my 19th birthday.
What nobody talks about is how a small airport in Canada took in over 100 planes that was not able land in America & how Canadians gave food, cloth & housed Americans
Operation Yellow Ribbon at Gander Airport in Newfoundlamd. I've seen a few documrentaries on this. This is a good one - ua-cam.com/video/rteLASCbUrM/v-deo.html Those controllers pulled off nothing short of a miracle landing all those planes without one single incident!
You ever get really nervous, like you have the full body jitters, your hands are shaking and you can't think clearly? Imagine feeling like that ALL DAY watching this unfold. Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 I recall exactly where I was at this moment even over 2 decades later.
Exactly 7 weeks after 9 11 I gave birth to my daughter, it was quite overwhelming feeling her moving inside me while contemplating the kind of world she was going to be born into.
I remember this day like it was yesterday!! I lost my cousin and 9 friends that day! My cousin worked in tower 2 and alot of my friends were NYC firefighters, 9 of them lost their lives that day trying to get ppl out of the tower when it collapsed! Im 54 now and hope i never experience a day like this again! Thank you for reacting to this!
Time fly very fast
It's the day that many of us understood what Baby Boomers were talking about when they said they remember exactly where they were when they heard the news about JFK.
I’m so so sorry for your dreadful loss xxx
I came out of the shower, and my girlfriend was watching the tv after the first plane crashed. At first I thought it was a movie, and sat down to watch it with her. But, then I saw the tears in her eyes, and finally realized what actually was going on. I was 20 years old at the time, and I won't ever forget where I was and what I was doing on 9/11
I was also 20 and thought it was a movie at first.
The young ones of today don't realize there are two different worlds. Pre 9/11 and post 9/11
I watched the second airplane hit live (on tv, I wasn't actually there). I thought it was just a replay of the first one.
I don't think people realize just how much the world changed that day. It affected so many things.
Same. I was sleeping in that morning until my husband called to tell me about the first plane. Of course, none of us fully realized just how crazy it was about to get. I was just sitting in my living room watching live as the second plane hit, another was reported to have hit the Pentagon, more planes unaccounted for, then the towers collapsing, which almost no one expected. I know some random noise came out of me, but it wasn’t words, I couldn’t put it into words.
Although I know all Americans felt it personally, like we were there too, tbh I’ve never been so glad to have been in Little Rock, Arkansas, just a small provincial capital probably on no one’s radar.
All this sadness! I'm going to tell you a funny joke that actually happened. Smile! On 9/11 a woman tried to call her husband to check on him to see if he was still alive after the towers collapsed. He worked in the first building that collapsed. She didn't get an answer so she did what most spouses would do in her situation: call until he answered or they came to tell her he had died. Around noon, he finally answered the phone. She was frantic and kept asking if he was okay. He said something like, "honey, I'm fine! What's wrong? I couldn't answer when you called, I was in a meeting!" She told him not to come back home... ever. They got a divorce.
@@kenanderson2002😮
This was such a horrible moment in America's history. I will say this though - America's was so united as a country after this. I wish we could get that feeling back. The feeling where we were all empathetic to our fellow Americans.
It’s horrifying to realize people are jumping from the building
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." -- Steven Weinberg
That’s probably the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard
The Man & Woman who jump together holding hands still makes me bawl.I saw this going down live, & it hurt in so many ways.So many of those people didn't even get laid to rest, because they were disintegrated. The cruelty of people never ceases to make me puke.
Since this day I can’t view the world anymore like I’ve done the day before 9/11, this event paved the way the world is now that you live in today. I remember this too well when and where I was. And I was only 11 but I understood exactly what was happening. Everyday that passes I always think of this day. This girl I worked with recently was taking a history class in college and then she told me the subject was 9/11. I told her if she knew and was around that day she said she wasn’t and was born in 2003 then I said oh that’s why she didn’t know. So I told her I would never do that class if I had it, don’t need to because I lived through it that day not on site I live in AZ, but remember the sadness and pain I felt that day for the ones that were lost and saw that second plane hit live on tv. I also remember the skies being empty that day for like a week, no planes in the air.
I lost my grandmother this day. She was visiting Cantor Fitzgerald for an investor meeting that got rescheduled from the 7th to the 11th. I miss you grandma Mary
What you didnt see that this didnt show was people jumping out the windows to their deaths bc they had no choice.
Just a few ironies about that day. Mark Wahlberg and the creator of Family Guy were supposed to be one of the planes that hit the WTC. Wahlberg and his friends decided to go to Kentucky for something else instead and McFarland got drunk the night before and missed the flight. Michael Jackson had a meeting scheduled for 9 am in one of the towers but did a show the night before and cancelled.
I was almost 10 at the time and remember the day quite vividly. The main thing I remember was just the sheer amount of fear that everyone was feeling, but I also remember the sense of togetherness too. The first few weeks of COVID were probably the most analogous big news event you've probably experienced.
An event like this causes people to bond, but the scary thing is how that bonding can also be directed against an enemy, and that can be very dangerous.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. This whole country was watching their TV in horror. It was one of those moments where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing. For days, even weeks, people were almost in shock everywhere. Everywhere in the Nation, this just changed people. It was a dark day for the country, but it also demonstrated the level of resilience of our people. If the terrorist aim was to make us live in fear, they failed. What it did was pissed us off, and we sought retribution. They have to do a lot more than knock a few buildings down to defeat the USA.
Indeed. It really sank in what the Baby Boomers were talking about saying they remember just where they were when they heard about JFK in 1963.
I remember this day.
I had just finished working a midnight security shift and watching it on the TV.
In 2011 I was in Dublin and a museum had a display of the sound of the firemen over the radio and all of the posters of people who were missing.
I wept both days.
I've seen every video, and I have every paper and magazine from that time. It was the moment I realized, as an American, that we were not safe. I was 23, and a HS teacher in Washington DC. The things I saw and my students endured...it was a reminder that life is both precious and short. My homeroom studen lost his sister, Asia Cotton, in the plane that hit the Pentagon.
Really appreciated that young people watch 9/11 footage. For many (who rmbr where we were & how we felt) it's difficult to watch. I felt sick, horror & RAGE. Wanted serious Revenge & Reckoning. Don't think USA kids learn enough (in school) abt WW1, Attack on Pearl Harbor, WW2, Jewish Holocaust or 9/11. I miss feeling of unity in USA after the attack. Sad how much we've bn divided since. Sad it takes a catastrophe to unite people. I know PM Tony Blair isn't loved by all in UK, but I rmbr him addressing Parliament saying firmly after 9/11 "America will NOT go it alone." In '03, I served alongside UK forces in Kuwait & Iraq. Shames me all the political crazy, isolationism, get out of NATO nonsense by many in USA. US & UK are Brothers in Peace & Brothers in War. Both our great nations hv issues that need fixing. But, any division btwn us hurts us all. Hopefully, we'll weather crazy times we're in & come thru w/common sense, strength & unity. U deserve to be proud of your nation. May God Bless & Save the US & UK!
Amen brother!
There is so much more to this day than the few minutes showed. It was absolutely horrific. I think we should always honor the victims and hero’s of that day. So many people are still dealing with lifelong health conditions and cancer. thousands of people have since died from the smoke inhalation on 9/11.
Now you are watching the events with some knowledge and in a quick timeframe, now imagine you were watching this and have no idea what"s happening I was in 8th grade, terrorism wasn't even in my vocabulary. The first plane most people thought it was just a explosion, the second plane we knew we were under attack, we didn't know if there would be more or where. There were actually 4 planes involved, the 4th and final people onboard found out what was happening on the ground and knew they would be used as a tool of destruction and the crew of United flight 93 fought back against the hijackers and while they did best them, the plane was put into a nosedive in the process and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania sacrificing themselves to save countless others. It was a truly terrifying time in the days following, but the best America has ever been united was on September 12 when we started to pick up the pieces and make sure those responsible would pay.
I was at work doing children’s hair at the children’s shop that I worked at at the time and none of us had any idea this was going on until the customer came in and said some thing and we turned the TV on that we had in the shop and just everybody was glued to the TV
I forget the exact name of the video but you should check out the Boatlift that happened on 9/11. Thousands of people were trying to get away from where the towers were attacked but couldn't until boats started rescuing them. It's a story of hope, humanity, and heroes that took place on 9/11.
It's called BOATLIFE - An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience and it is a truly amazing 12 minutes I've watched over and over.
@nightthornkvala94132 Thank you
@@seattanf2348 Sorry. It's called BOATLIFT, not BOATLIFE. I just now noticed my typo.
I was in 10th grade in shop class watching this. Then we were sent home. Good thing i drove. I was home and put in a VHS tape and started recording
I was a freshman in highschool. We had a delayed start that day. Probably the craziest school day I ever had.
I was 17, a senior in high school. I was already a volunteer firefighter, fully trained and had only been actually acting as a firefighter for about 70 days or so (not sure where you live, but where I live, volunteer firefighters literally do everything paid firefighters do except collect a paycheck. Same training, same roles, same responsibilities. Volunteers are usually in areas that paid fire stations can't justify the expenditure). I watched the towers collapse live in a classroom and as such, I watched 343 firefighters perish for doing their jobs. You wanna talk about how terrifying THAT is?? September 11, 2001 was probably the darkest day in US history... but September 12, 2001 is probably the BRIGHTEST, BEST day in US history. Cops hugged drug dealers on the side of the road; Klansmen took off their white robes & hugged black people; billionaires sent money, construction equipment, water, food, even manpower to help; those of us who didn't have much to give..... we gave blood. My local Red Cross was actually giving out estimated wait times for donations in DAYS, not times. I stood in a line that circled the building TWICE. Literally everyone was there to send blood to help. We didn't have titles, races, sexes & genders, disabilities or categories. We were Americans and we were survivors. When the towers collapsed, everybody got covered by the dust (that ended up killing more people than the terrorists killed that day). For a brief moment, there emerged PEOPLE from the dust. There wasn't color, or sex, or anything: there was just people. And every one of them so covered in dust that you couldn't tell anything about them except they survived. Some carried those who were too injured to walk. That feeling of inclusion.. it's something you can't fake. And you can't understand it unless you experience it. We were hurt and we were scared, and really mad. We certainly could have treated the Muslims and Islamists here in the States better (Shameful really.. but we really were all terrified).
My bro in law worked in the towers. He stayed late the night before so he went in later then usual because he took his son to school. He was on the subway when they hit
Makes me sick and hurts to see! I was at work when this happened.
It was all over the televisions and radios in the display areas of the
Circuit City where I worked.
I know the answer, but for the love of God and everything good, and
moral, WHY DO WE DO THIS TO EACH OTHER?! Prayers to those lost,
all the families and friends effected. Will never forget the first responders.
the reporters all in the line of doing their jobs as professionals. I can't even see photos
and videos of the towers, even ones showed in old tv shows and movies without thinking of this evil act!
God Bless Us All!
My mom and her finance took me to NYC a year after this happened, ground zero was still fenced in and seeing the warning signs.
I lost a friend from high school who worked there, on that day. RIP Heather.
I remember that morning like it was yesterday. I was in 7th grade choir class and someone barged in while we were doing our vocal warm ups and told us to turn on the tv. We spent most of the class watching it.
If you get the chance, please review the film “United 93”. It about the passengers who fought back. It’ll rip your heart out.
I was a Methadone counselor, and everybody was in an office watching it. I ask what show they were seeing. He said this is live. I was in deep shock too.
I watched while doing my inhaler right after lunch. I was in 4th no actually 5th grade. I think i was the 1st student to see it, i walked back to class, and the intercom asked the teachers to turn their TVs on. I walked home and my parents were watching it
I think the people in the office forgot I was there because everyone was watching the news
I was in 10th grade. I remember this vividly!
This is so sad to me I cry every time I see something on 9/11. The amount of people who died so sad and I truely believe it was not only terriorists but the government played their part. I came home from work turned the tv on and at first I thought it was a movie but as I watched I saw the second plane hit and knew America was under attack I quickly told my mate who was in the room across from me and we watched together for hours we both saw the 2 towers come down.
I was at school when it happened, didn't know about it until I got home from school. I was 11 years old.
I watched it live that day from my home in the UK, and it was the most shocking thing I've ever watched in my life. No innocent people should ever die, but at least it kept the Americans busy that day. Ignorance has its price, and America sure paid for it that day.
I also remember this day very well I was in school 7th grade when this happened and u should check out the movie next call united 93.
Every “woke person” who has no love for their country and only focus on themselves should be made to watch this video.
What has "woke" have to do with this??
Sadly, a lot of people started recording or kept recording was because they thought they were going to die and they wanted there to be something for someone to find. Most of the people running survived but many suffered from cancer and respiratory illnesses due to breathing all of that dust in.
Right? Looks like a scene out of a crazy action movie. I've seen a lot of videos taken that day and it was way worse than any movie. About 200 people jumped to their death because they didn't want to burn or suffocate to death. Today there are still people dying from the dust they inhaled that day.
It was a cupple of years since the Columbine shooting which my heart goes to all the families for columbine, this happened a couple years later my heart goes out to all the families that lost everything, USA is strong very well . Thoughts and prayers for all 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
ON THAT DAY MY BEAUTIFUL LADY "EVERYBODY BECAME A "NEW YORK CITIZEN" !!!! JS
One thing not made clear in the film you watched is that the plane that came down in Pennsylvania was headed for a government building but the passengers rushed the terrorists and subdued them. Unfortunately, the pilots had been killed and the passengers couldn't fly the plane, so it crashed and all aboard died. There are heartbreaking recordings of phone calls from the passengers to their families saying something like "I love you. Goodbye."
If you'd like to see a dramatization of the hunt for the terrorists, see the movie "Zero Dark Thirty."
It`s not a big stretch to say that Flight 103 was a pre curser plan for 911....
I live 15 minutes from Shanksville, PA (ground zero). I don't think there will ever be a consensus on what actually happened. Many people said the plane just crashed. Others said they saw it get shot down by two American fighter jets, and still others didn't see it get shot down but saw the jets and heard explosions before the plane crashed.
All those people trapped above the fire 😢
Im in UK we were off college at the time watching reg TV with 5 lads drinking in day, having fun. then all channels here swapped to live vids after the first plane had hit. I watched the second come before it hit on our state broadcaster, was shocking. totally sobered us all up. we had many terror attacks similar time too. The Uk even did a very rare event from Queen to play the US anthem in London, we have never done that in history. 100k brits came to give US prayers ! we had many who worked in them buildings over 100 know brits i believe
It is hard to believe how long ago this was. It seems like yesterday.
I was 21 years old when saw this on tv
The same amount of destruction and death in Ukraine in a couple of days, year after year, but no longer the same shock value...
Love reaction!!! ♥♥♥ Maybe listen .... Mans world James Brown and Pavarotti ????? :) ♥♥♥AND, or... Victor Wooten bass music????????? :)
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
please use your natural hair from now on?? LOVE YOU!!! ♥♥♥ ♥ 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And.... let's be Love together?? ♥USA
Horrible 😢😢😢😢
You can probably ignore about half the comments you will get on this one. Sick conspiracy theorists.
I think you might like to see " Boatlift. An untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience ".
I was there
No way
I m sorry, my english in not good. I can t undestand how young american never see this what happened in 2001. They know the the last time beyonce have is period but no know in 11 sept, 2001. I do nt know how it s write. It s same thing our country.. The children of today is me, my self and I. Beautiful theet, wonderfull clothes but no mather how is mother or father work hard for give him or her the best without no doing nothing.
PLEASE watch "Debris: 9/11 Documentary" 5 out of 5 stars.
You couldn't shave before going on camera? Not trolling. Just asking.
It's also very weird that there is no video of a plane hitting the Pentagon even though there were tons of cameras in the area, probably because witnesses testifies that a rocket hit the Pentagon and not a plane, and the day after all cameras were removed from the area and were considered "lost".
Incorrect. The problem is that security cameras at the Pentagon weren't pointed up, no one expected an air attack. But one security camera did capture footage of the jet hitting the Pentagon(you can easily look it up). And the plane flew low knocking down light posts before it struck the Pentagon, not to mention there were pieces of the plane recovered at the site. That's simply not true that people testified a rocket hit the Pentagon, dozens of eyewitnesses saw the Boeing 757.
Grate video. But the continues playing with your hair is very distracting.
I was 18 at the time. I remember even Cartoon Network was interrupted for the news. All channels were interrupted for it. Our state fair was in town that week. Everyone left town who was here from out of state. Gas stations were empty. For days, it seemed like the entire world just stopped turning. The silence outside was loud, if that makes any sense. Not a single aircraft in the skies, and we live just 40 miles from the air capital of the world. It was surreal. My mom's aunt and uncle watched it all from a high rise hotel room in NYC as they were getting ready to checkout and go back to Florida.
I'll also say this, my husband is far from a conspiracy theorist, but those planes did not explode on their own like that. He enlisted in the military at 17, and was deployed after he turned 18. He was 22 on 9/11. At the time, he didn't have the knowledge he did after 17 years of service. His job was engineering and he was trained in demolition and live explosives detection. There was an insurance policy placed on there just a day or two prior. And jet fuel doesn't just explode. It would absolutely cause a fire, but there were live explosives involved in this. Could there have been terrorists involved? Absolutely. However, our government is not innocent in this. There is a group of engineers who explain very well why this didn't happen the way the government says it did. And if you look at the Pentagon pictures and footage, pay attention the grass. The size of the hole in the Pentagon combined with the still perfect grass, that says it is physically impossible for it to have happened the way they said. Absolute tragedy, and our own government is not innocent. Right wing or left, they still belong to the same bird.
You might be onto something here …
Oh brother! Jet fuel is Highly combustible. The slightest spark from all that metal crashing through other metal would indeed create an explosion.
A group of young men arrested that day dancing and filming the planes hitting the towers on top of a box truck with a mural of planes hitting the twin towers
Israelis
@@JasonRule-1 ... a weak, typical extremist pro-Islamic attempt at excusal through deflection ... infantile ... at best! ... pitiful ... at the very least!
Nonsense. Hater.
@Craig-l5v It's true. They were Israelis.
@@Craig-l5v keep those eyes closed, buddy
Leave your hair alone...
Nah
Watch Bush at the elementary school listening “plane, must, hit, steel”
Conspiracy nuuut.
@ the things you accept… 🐑🙄
@@danielwalker1538 You're the sheep.
Who was the group sent to film the event? Where did they come from and why didn’t they warn anyone instead of celebrating and filming it?
Israelis.
@@JasonRule-1 ... a weak, typical extremist pro-Islamic attempt at excusal through deflection ... infantile ... at best! ... pitiful ... at the very least!
@danielwalker1538 ... when a person that exhibits so incredible a state of ignorance, poor taste, stupidity as so clearly evidenced by your post, such a post is not worth the amount of time that might be taken in responding to it! ... so, why have I ... responded to it? ... well, at least at the moment ... simply nothing better to do ... 😆😆😆
@@JasonRule-1 ... so ... by your reply, I hazard the assumption that you are a lover of not only Israel but also its people .... the "Israelis" ... and ... that, you are actually fully aware of the true identity of the religious affiliation (if we may call it that) of those who actually committed that act that was recorded on video ... and that they, the true perpetrators, in their delusion made the mistake of thinking that they were actually serving the one, Allah, in whose name these atrocities were committed. What a surprise awaits the perpetrators of these acts when at life's end, they are confronted with Allah, whose name they appropriated or hijacked to commit these atrocities ... a responsibility for which they will bear heavily. They should not be surprised that he, in the very, very least, will not be pleased!
The pentagon happened to be hit in the financial records department
It was the naval headquarters that was hit...
Untruth. See reply from joedirt8336 for truth.
Stop lying, Daniel. Or should you change your name to "Denial"?
@@richardstephens5570 ok Dick! Maybe you should do some research, effing loser.
You believe 9/11 was done by Saudi Arabia? You’ll believe anything.
What in the blue hell is this? Reaction content to innocent deaths? Holy hell, shame on you.
You see controlled demolition of three buildings and they could have cared less about the people living through it.
@danielwalker1538 ... when a person that exhibits so incredible a state of ignorance, poor taste, stupidity as so clearly evidenced by your post, such a post is not worth the amount of time that might be taken in responding to it! ... so, why have I ... responded to it? ... well, at least at the moment ... simply nothing better to do ... 😆😆😆
It was terrorism not “controlled demolition.” Too bad the feeble-minded can’t grasp the fact.
The following day I enlisted in the Army…