@@do0ranfrump260you can’t blame the kids for not knowing. Read Gomi comment above. Their school system is built around different history, even the parents are learning.
My mother worked at the world trade center, she was on her way to work and usally takes the express. That day she took the local and would have been there if not for the later train she took. I have never been more worried for her then on that day.
As a child (younger than both Atlanta and Denzel), we watched the nightly news, which included the body count ratio from the Vietnam War, the assassination of JFK, RFK, MLK, Nixon opening China, the Cuyahoga River burning, Nixon resigning, as well as Apollo 11 and mankind's first steps on the moon. We lived that in real time as kids. It is not unreasonable for them to learn of history at their ages if their parents want them to.
Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the TSA didn't exist and 90% of the screening stuff at the airport didn't exist. In fact I recall as a teenager being able to go with my family to the airport to see my dad off on a trip for work. We could walk all the way up to the gate and wave at the plane at the window, no ticket or ID check required. You only had to be verified to get on the plane itself.
I love your family's videos. I was shocked to see that you speak of the man and the day that changed my whole life. I live in New York State. Had family who lived and worked very close to the Towers. I can still tell you where I was when I heard the initial reports. I joined the military Oct 8, 2001. Served proudly with a few deployments. The day I was happiest, was hearing that man no longer lived. Thank you for remembering such a dark day in our history.
Guantanamo Bay, (AKA Gitmo), is a military prison, established in 2002 to house war criminals and suspected terrorists, within the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base located in Cuba.
@@brendanl0711 Not exactly. Gitmo was a us military base established after the Spanish American war (1898). The place was closen to hold terror suspects so they wouldn’t be landed in the US proper. Right now the population is reduced from its peak and now only holds the worst of the worst.
Despite this, 30 men remain detained at Guantanamo today. Most of these men were never charged with a crime, and many of them were tortured. Over half of them were cleared for release or transfer years ago and are still awaiting next steps - which never seem to come.Mar 22, 2024 Mansoor Adayfi is one of the men who survived Guantanamo. Mansoor is a Yemeni national who was released from the detention facility in 2016 after spending over 14 years detained without charge. Mansoor was still a teenager when he was kidnapped and taken to Guantanamo Bay, and he has detailed in his recently published memoir Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo how he was physically and psychologically tortured while detained.
It’s been awhile since your videos popped up on my screen, I guess UA-cam decides what I see. I am subscribed. Anyway, I didn’t realize how I missed you guys. Love your work. The kids have really grown. Mom, your daughter is like looking at your reflection, only a little younger. It amazes me how my country is more interesting to people from other countries than to a good portion of the population here. It is a shame on our people, but kudos to all our proud Americans who still honor our history, constitution, and flag. Thank you for loving our country also.
My daughter was born Sept. 11th... 91... so... that being her 10th birthday... it was rather unforgettable... I could not take my eyes off the TV... I remember her coming home from school... slamming the door... slamming her book bag down on the floor... stomping all the way to her room... where she slammed her door and proclaimed, "This is the worst birthday EVER!"... I couldn't argue with her... eventually she joined me in my room and we sat and watched the TV for hours... I don't think we did anything at all really for her birthday that year. Just too traumatized...
My cousin was supposed to celebrate her 20th birthday that day. She came home crying saying she was sorry that this happened on her birthday. We had to explain to her that her birthday and that terrible event had no connection and that no matter what we weren’t going to let anything take away from that special happy day. I hope that your daughter has reclaimed her birthday with pride as she should. Remember the fallen, honor them by living the best life you can. P.S. On that day I was going through training for my job in the Navy. That made it tough for her because she knew that meant I was going to war.
@@adammaynard5683 My mom told her that her brother had his birthday the day Kennedy was shot... we tried to console her that it was "ok" and all but she just wasn't having it. She did eventually get over it and we have celebrated her birthday every year since... but yeah... it was hard to even think about anything but what was happening that day and for months after that day. P.S. Thank you for your service... it means the world... really it does.
@@malagastehlaate9923 it’s totally understandable, it couldn’t have been easy to separate those events. I’m glad she’s celebrating that day. My service was out of love, you’re worth it. ❤️
The prison, also known as Camp X-Ray (and by other names), is a small portion of the military base which includes naval ports and an airfield. The prison was first built in the early to mid 1990s to house Cuban and Haitian refugees intercepted on the ocean who turned out to be dangerous criminals pending repatriation to their countries of origin. After 9/11, Camp X-Ray, was expanded and modified to house known and suspected terrorists captured during the US and Coalition's War on Terror. Many are still held there, but many others were transferred into the custody of other countries, and some were sent to US federal prisons.
@@skyhawk_4526 it should be noted that there has been several generation of detention (not prison) facilities on the base as it has moved from an emergency unplanned facility to the more permanent facility that is housing the worse of the worse now
Keep the history alive it's important that all of us remember this. Be very careful to not allow this to fall out of memory. And always remember the bad guys don't go unpunished.
Zero Dark Thirty (not for kids) is a great depiction of the events. Also, many of these Al Qaeda members that were interrogated and held prisoner were kept at CIA Black Sites in the Middle East, and not in Guantanamo. Guantanamo is located on a small area of Cuba, the only territory controlled by the U.S. in Cuba. Some of the 9/11 terrorists are still held there. In the Tom Cruises movie, A Few Good Men, part of the movie takes place at a fictional Guantanamo Bay. Great movie-nothing to do with 9/11, but worth watching.
There is a Wikipedia article on CIA black sites, secret locations where the CIA held prisoners mostly related to Al Quaida and other Islamist groups. Many countries helped America in this by arresting people and handing them over to the CIA or just letting the U.S. transport prisoners through their territory. Several of them allowed the CIA to erect sort-off secret permanent detention sites.
@@Sam-pv7bd It was all confirmed by Seal Team Six members. The interrogations were questioned, but the only criticism the movie got was implicating the success of finding Bin Laden from the use of illegal force (water boarding, etc.). 95% of the movie follows the events exactly.
My cousin was involved in the finding of Osama . Thank goodness! My mother in law was on a plane coming home from London at the time on 9-11 . All we knew was that the planes fly # was 11. We didn't know if it was longer but thankfully it was. They turned her flight around and she had to stay in London for another 3 weeks. It was a crazy time but we finally got her back home. ❤
I was on the local fire department at that time. One of our firefighter's mother was supposed to be on the flight but canceled. She was killed 5 or 10 years later by a drunk driver.
Nadine - you asked the most important question - was Pakistani intelligence helping the U.S.? I think they pretended to be helping - but Bin Laden was basically hiding in Pakistan - right down the street from a government military academy. A revealing detail in this story is that when the U.S. special forces flew into capture / kill Bin Laden - they did NOT alert the Pakistan government that we were entering their country. I think it's safe to assume that the U.S. believed the Pakistan Intelligence was hiding / protecting Bin Laden. Not everyone in this world believed Bin Laden had done something terrible. The Pakistan government had its own interests. But I'm glad you four are on our side. Hope you're enjoying your adventures through the U.S. Thanks for posting this one.
I 100% agree. They were help Bin Laden andBush wasn’t either smart enough to see it or didn’t want to believe Vin Laden was getting tipped off. This went on for several years until Obama came along and didn’t “ask” for permission to go in.
All governments had their own interests and also the ISI and Pakistani military are completely independent from the government and have separate interest and also during the soviets afghan the lower ranks of the ISI was filled ethnic Pashtuns and the ISI feared if they commit to any hostile rhetoric with Afghanistan they may intervene as the ISI had worked with many Mujahadeen during the soviets afghan war and many isi officers had close ties to the Taliban do to years of aid
I don't believe anything they tell us about that day. They tried to get us believe that they found passports but couldn't recover the plane's black box.
This NZ family brought me to tears as they watched the story of our national anthem w/so much respect and love for this nation on another of their postings. I was sold when I watched their kids faces. As a Disabled American Veteran, on behalf of all my fellow veterans here and abroad..."Let us adopt this NZ family as our own!". You may want to call yourselves unofficial dual citizens now! LOL. You have won the hearts of all Americans who know of you. I have PTSD and when I feel the need to feel patriotic, you are on my playlist, this NZ family... Come to Indy soon, the last weekend in any May, and you must notify me when you do, please. I look forward to meeting you with a few hundred thousand of my friends!!! (the Indy 500 is the "greatest spectacle in racing" at an avg of 350,000) you may never feel love like this in your lifetime again. Mike "Buck" Rogers-BM3/OS3/ SAR2 (USN retired) Thank you for your service to a nation in an identity crisis, you bring us back to who we were, who we are, and how we are looked upon.
Yep. From dozens and dozens of nationalities. It wasnt just an attack on us, it was an attack on the entire western civilization. It makes me mad when ppl try to make excuses for evil and act like they had legit reasons for such scumbaggery.
And countless others who died later from cancer, PTSD, etc. Such a tragedy. What I do remember as well, was we truly came together as neighbors and a united country. You couldn't find an American flag to buy because they were already flying on everyone's house, yard, vehicle, and business. The beautiful songs that were written and sung was heartwarming as we came together and remembered all the innocent lives lost.
@@brendaS1533 thank you for remembering us veterans. we do sometimes get forgotten in all of the numbers wrapped up in the tragedy, so when someone remembers us, it matters.
I was working in Guantonomo Bay, Cuba in 2003 for 81 days. I was working construction but whenever the prisoners from 9/11 arrived on base... you knew. The security for the transport was insane. Even on one of the most secure bases in the world. I actually have a video on UA-cam showing you around the base.
What an awesome family! I lived in Wellington and Tawa NZ as a kid. From 8 years old to 12 years old. Such a great country. Glad your getting to enjoy some American things. I wish I could visit NZ again. Anyway, I so enjoy your videos. Especially the BBQ videos. Texas BBQ is the best. Oh FYI I'm from Houston,TX. Keep the great videos coming. Thanks
GITMO is a US Navy Base on Cuba. We pay them $100 gold every year for rent. A military installation is considered US Land. The same as a consulate or Embassy.
Great video! You might like a movie such as "Zero Dark Thirty", which is the cinematic story of the hunting, finding, and killing of bin Laden. From mainly the CIA perspective. Oh, and you're right about Guantanamo Bay. It's an old U.S. base in Cuba, pretty much in disuse by the military, but used extensively by the CIA. They've taken lots of people there for interrogation. "Enhanced" interrotation. Thanks, again, and God bless you!
@@H2G2Stp Good point! Thanks! Is it still being used as much as it was before? That was my understanding, that the use of the base by the Navy isn't what it used to be. Thanks, again!
@@George-kv6gm it's nothing like it was at her peak and has less men/women stationed there but there is still a naval presence separate from the prison and they are still doing some upgrades and modifications to the infrastructure of the base and with recent Russian ships and a Russian sub in the area and catribean in general and it can easily handle our subs comimg into the bay it's in an ideal location. Itll never be what it was in the cold war days. They also assist with drug interdiction operations around the Carribean
@@H2G2Stp Thanks, again! Well, at least there's more than just a prison there. And who knows, there may be a need for them to have a place for a sub to stop in, at some point. It just makes me sad that we spend so much to put the facility in, and then don't use it to its full capacity. Thanks for the update!
If you enjoy American history, from beginning to end, I highly recommend "The Fat Electrician." Nick is basically a walking historian. Parents first, watching his material. He's a former service member, he uses colorful language. However, he teaches in a way that the younger generation identifies with. He has children in the US write him for help on book reports. If you all are interested.
Sam, you got the answer correct for Nadine's question--Guantanamo Bay is on Cuba, and I believe it's a tiny spot at the east end of the country--a very unique US Army base. Yes, the boat lift story is an amazing one. However, did you ever see the related video of a small town in Canada's island of Newfoundland that received multiple passenger jets when the worldwide order to empty the skies of all traffic ASAP was given? They fed and housed, on the spur of the moment, several thousand people for more than a week. It's an amazing story.
Another one to watch is about what happened to all the planes still in the air. Called The Plane People. About a town called Gander who took in numerous planes.
September 11, 2001 was my 11th birthday (yes I was born in 1990). I was supposed to get a Game Boy Advance back then after school but everything was shut down. Don't recall my school telling the class about it which was odd, unless my memory is foggy. I just remember coming home and being asked "Joey did you hear what happened?" Being my 11th birthday I'll never forget. It seemed such a normal, beautiful end of summer day here in Virginia.
There was a pretty good movie about this called Zero Dark Thirty. It’s about the real life, female, CIA officer who was obsessed with finding Bin Ladin. I think it won an Oscar.
As an American, (1.5 hour drive from Cincinnati), I have to say, New Zealander’s are cool 😎. Great video. You guys / gals are bound for stardom. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 (Love NZ landscape’s and beauty)
Since this is your newest video I hope you see this. Also, since you seem to enjoy American history I thought you would enjoy seeing and reacting as a family to how some of us Americans remember our history. The you tube title "Revolutionary War Reenactment: Battle of Germantown 2015" is about a battle fought on October 4, 1777 and is about 10 minutes long. Also, it is important to know that the house in the video is the actual house from the original battle 245 years before! This was the very first place I reenacted when I was 12 years old (back in 1991).
As an American who was just barely old enough to remember watching the towers fall on television, hearing "who is Osama bin Laden" was a shock to the system. Good on him for not being afraid to ask though, and its good he already had some context to understand. Haven't watched the video through yet but even more interested to see how he'll react to more info about it
Recently took my first international trip out of the US with my family. I told my grandmother who hasn't flown internationaly since before the 9/11 attacks that travelling out of the US is way different then travelling within. It took us maybe 10 mins to get past security landing in London Heathrow and roughly the same amount leaving London to fly to Paris. Coming back took like an hour to get through customs and we didn't even have anything to declare and we were in the handicap wheelchair access line which was way shorter than general admittance.
The Geneva Convention only applies to members of national standing armies not terrorist organizations so it doesn't apply to prisoners taken who are terrorists.
@@firstenforemost, I believe that was added in a later iteration, so some folks may have learned about this before the addition of this article. If I remember right, they added specifics on non-state combatants in response to the 72 Olympic attacks. Maybe around 75 or 76?
@@MikesClassicRadio Haha alright Mr. Chairman of the Retirement Community. It'll probably be my knees first though. Take it easy on that foot. Probably broke it off in too many people anyways with the attitude you gave me HAHAaaa
The funny thing about this is that when they actually went into the compound to get him, a neighbor about 1/4 mile away posted to twitter about the noise and lights being on. It was the raid happening. Literally broke one of the most important news stories by accident over twitter.
How can be they always unaware of situations prevaling around the world related to them whenever Pakistani terrorists attack certain countries thry say they are unaware how those terrorist literally get trained in military level combat skills n all and you are saying they are always unaware of these things ? Are you kidding me !
How can be they always unaware of situations prevaling around the world related to them whenever Pakistani terrorists attack certain countries thry say they are unaware how those terrorist literally get trained in military level combat skills n all and you are saying they are always unaware of these things ? Are you kidding me !
I'll echo what some others have said in the comments already: Watch the movie Zero Dark Thirty. It illustrates how difficult it was to find ObL and why it took so long to find him, and how the raid on his compound took place. It's very compelling and very well done. Maybe watch it without the kids present first, because it's somewhat harsh (although not in a gratuitous way).
It was actually a woman who found Bin Laden. This story goes wayyy deeper. The SEALs trained for every possible scenario going into this. Also, turns out Pakistan lies to America. Who knew? Lol. They knew where Bin Laden was. That's why he lived so close to that academy, and America knew they knew that's why we didn't include them in the raid. It sounds so simple in this video, but it actually goes much deeper and is way more complex. 🇺🇸
I was in my mid 20's when 9/11 happened. I remember exactly where I was when it happened and I remember exactly where I was when I learned of bin Laden's death. It's kind of crazy to think that it's been over 20 years and I can still recall it like it was yesterday.
I was a 22-year old Senior in College / University on that Tuesday. Fell asleep on my couch Monday night, woke up thinking I left some Sci-Fi B-Movie channel on the TV.
I was 21 working in an assembly plant next to a power station that morning. At one point there were dozens of planes unaccounted for and many were speculating if this was a much larger more organized attack. Thankfully, we were given the opportunity to go home. I did and went home and threw up. Not only did I think I was going to war but i knew my youth was over. I wasn’t drafted but I was right about youth.
The interrogation tactics that were used and eventually came to light happened at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. GITMO immediately stopped those tactics when several humanitarian organizations started reporting on the abuses. There is so much more, but GITMO was not the only one.
What’s prob craziest about us getting bin Laden is we had 1 of the helicopters crash land within the compound and yet no one heard it. Quite amazing, though the Khalid come here in to bait him out was pretty wild too.
@@JV-mw7gvlol. No. It was an experimental stealth helicopter. Idk why they felt is was ready for a mission of that magnitude. But maybe the cause of the crash was something unrelated to it being new tech. Idk. We’ll never know
My grandpa and father went to fight in Afghanistan after all this happened My grandpa was actually in the Pentagon when the plane hit Both came home without injury I also go to church with someone who's FBI group helped discover bin ladens location
I visited Cuba back in 2019, and I was about 2 hours away from where the prison is located. I come from a US state that gets a lot of snow, and I was not prepared for the temperatures down in this region. I believe the coldest it gets when the sun is up in this area is around 78 degrees Fahrenheit. I would guess that 90% of the time the high temperature is 86 Fahrenheit or hotter. When I was in Santiago de Cuba, the people from Miami were complaining about how hot it is, and they are used to hot and humid weather.
I worked at Gitmo in "03. I'm from Ohio where it gets pretty damn cold. It was over 100 several days and on the hottest day it reached about 107 and it was still like 96° at 3:00 a.m. crazy!
@@TKMars11 I'm from south central Wisconsin. I'm used to getting 2+ weeks in the single digits or lower, and also getting temps in the 90's. When I was in the Santiago de Cuba area, it was brutally hot, and I think it was 96 or higher every single day.
I was a Senior just about to graduate high school when they announced Bin Laden's death. I liked watching the blast of the past with the American news/history in this video
This video serves as a reminder and ties together what we lived day-to-day for all those years. It's a perfect explanation to a Utuber who upon watching the video of the killkng of bin Laden, asked, why didn't you arrest him? 😮
The shear magnitude of info in the intelligence world is overwhelming. It takes time to verify, by then, things have changed. Definitely check out more on the process of how OBL’s location was verified. Extremely high tech tools coupled with human interpretation. IE: Drones filmed the compound and measured shadows to establish heights of the people there. OBL was well over 6’ tall so extrapolate the shadows gave critical info. 👍
Guys, u should really try to watch the movie “zero dark thirty”. Its not a very family friendly movie but 20:22 its such a good dramatization of what “may” have taken place. Its not overly violent but has some harsh language. Enjoy❤
We actually had him at tora bora, overheard him on a radio saying to his troops it was ok to surrender but for some stupid reason we trusted pakistan and they let him through to escape
That's correct, but we signed a semi-permanent lease for the base, after the original Cuban revolution against Spain, but before the current government. So, the Castro (and post-Castro) regime want it back, but we said 'no thanks'.
I'm suggesting digging into flight 93, the one that crashed in Pennsylvania and never reached it's target. My brother in law's Dad was from Central City, PA which isn't far.from Somerset at all. I got to see the memorial in it's infancy stages. There's United 93 a movie about it and of countless videos on here. Essentially, the passengers fought back deciding they'd rather die becoming heroes than to be victims.
@@paulmolloy7206Nah, that's crazy. I remember hearing something about one of the last texts was sent to a family member that he had decided it was necessary to fight them.
@@paulmolloy7206 I just found, read, and posted the last conversations from Flight 93. They witnessed people getting killed, the hijackers said they had a bomb, somehow they found out the other planes crashed into the World Trade Center. They were trying to save themselves. They had no reason to believe they were going to survive unless they tried to stop it. It was survival mode not hero mode.
The helicopters that the Navy seals flew in on, were indeed classified above top-secret, and no other country knew that we had them, and they did have secret stealth technology, and they were known for being extremely quiet in the sky. If you’re sleeping at night and flies overhead you wouldn’t be able to tell what it is.
"Who is Osama Bin Laden?" folks I got some bad news. We're old.
True, but I appreciate the fact the heroes' names are remembered and not the villains' names.
@@cozccsand on top of that, they're from New Zealand, so this entire situation is foreign to them.
Not old.. we've just failed to teach history.
@@do0ranfrump260you can’t blame the kids for not knowing. Read Gomi comment above. Their school system is built around different history, even the parents are learning.
Well I dont think history books nowadays mention such a name but only what caused 9/11.
My mother worked at the world trade center, she was on her way to work and usally takes the express. That day she took the local and would have been there if not for the later train she took. I have never been more worried for her then on that day.
Was she gonna be late for work? (not sure what time her shift started, which is why I ask)
You still dont know that it was a inside job
@@hamzamughal5608islam is the problem!
I'm glad that you're finally including your kids in these types of videos to get some insight from the younger generation on these past world events.
I don't think they need to be included on them if they don't want to. I think Denzie is still a bit Young
@LindaC616 not your child. They think he old enough
@@Xfactor444-x4n, they don't give a rats ass about what he sees, they are here to make money. Everything they do is to make money.
@@Xfactor444-x4n not OP's child, either.
As a child (younger than both Atlanta and Denzel), we watched the nightly news, which included the body count ratio from the Vietnam War, the assassination of JFK, RFK, MLK, Nixon opening China, the Cuyahoga River burning, Nixon resigning, as well as Apollo 11 and mankind's first steps on the moon. We lived that in real time as kids.
It is not unreasonable for them to learn of history at their ages if their parents want them to.
Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the TSA didn't exist and 90% of the screening stuff at the airport didn't exist. In fact I recall as a teenager being able to go with my family to the airport to see my dad off on a trip for work. We could walk all the way up to the gate and wave at the plane at the window, no ticket or ID check required. You only had to be verified to get on the plane itself.
And what security that did exist was generally run by the airline or a private company.
Same my father went overseas a lot & we went to the gate to see him off
Which is WHY THIS HAPPENED.
@@MikesClassicRadio Not why it happened but made it easy to happen.
@@larrydlam No, it's WHY. Look up FALSE FLAG.
I love your family's videos. I was shocked to see that you speak of the man and the day that changed my whole life. I live in New York State. Had family who lived and worked very close to the Towers. I can still tell you where I was when I heard the initial reports. I joined the military Oct 8, 2001. Served proudly with a few deployments. The day I was happiest, was hearing that man no longer lived. Thank you for remembering such a dark day in our history.
Hope you're having a great and safe time in the US!
Thanks!
Thankyou so much David!
Have been watching for a few years. You have a great family. ❤
Unbelievable how much Atlanta looks like her Mother lately. Thanks for the post, guys!
Yay another video. Can’t wait to see the trip vlogs but I love what you have in the meantime.
Do you know Jesus is a messenger of God
Guantanamo Bay, (AKA Gitmo), is a military prison, established in 2002 to house war criminals and suspected terrorists, within the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base located in Cuba.
Check your facts buddy. Gitmo has been around for awhile. Taken to another level after 9/11 but it’s been there
@@brendanl0711 Not exactly.
Gitmo was a us military base established after the Spanish American war (1898).
The place was closen to hold terror suspects so they wouldn’t be landed in the US proper.
Right now the population is reduced from its peak and now only holds the worst of the worst.
Despite this, 30 men remain detained at Guantanamo today. Most of these men were never charged with a crime, and many of them were tortured. Over half of them were cleared for release or transfer years ago and are still awaiting next steps - which never seem to come.Mar 22, 2024
Mansoor Adayfi is one of the men who survived Guantanamo. Mansoor is a Yemeni national who was released from the detention facility in 2016 after spending over 14 years detained without charge. Mansoor was still a teenager when he was kidnapped and taken to Guantanamo Bay, and he has detailed in his recently published memoir Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo how he was physically and psychologically tortured while detained.
It’s been awhile since your videos popped up on my screen, I guess UA-cam decides what I see. I am subscribed. Anyway, I didn’t realize how I missed you guys. Love your work. The kids have really grown. Mom, your daughter is like looking at your reflection, only a little younger. It amazes me how my country is more interesting to people from other countries than to a good portion of the population here. It is a shame on our people, but kudos to all our proud Americans who still honor our history, constitution, and flag. Thank you for loving our country also.
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My daughter was born Sept. 11th... 91... so... that being her 10th birthday... it was rather unforgettable... I could not take my eyes off the TV... I remember her coming home from school... slamming the door... slamming her book bag down on the floor... stomping all the way to her room... where she slammed her door and proclaimed, "This is the worst birthday EVER!"... I couldn't argue with her... eventually she joined me in my room and we sat and watched the TV for hours... I don't think we did anything at all really for her birthday that year. Just too traumatized...
My cousin was supposed to celebrate her 20th birthday that day. She came home crying saying she was sorry that this happened on her birthday. We had to explain to her that her birthday and that terrible event had no connection and that no matter what we weren’t going to let anything take away from that special happy day. I hope that your daughter has reclaimed her birthday with pride as she should. Remember the fallen, honor them by living the best life you can.
P.S. On that day I was going through training for my job in the Navy. That made it tough for her because she knew that meant I was going to war.
@@adammaynard5683 My mom told her that her brother had his birthday the day Kennedy was shot... we tried to console her that it was "ok" and all but she just wasn't having it. She did eventually get over it and we have celebrated her birthday every year since... but yeah... it was hard to even think about anything but what was happening that day and for months after that day.
P.S. Thank you for your service... it means the world... really it does.
@@malagastehlaate9923 it’s totally understandable, it couldn’t have been easy to separate those events. I’m glad she’s celebrating that day. My service was out of love, you’re worth it. ❤️
My dad was born 9/11/50
Happy I decided to stay up a little later than usual because now I get to watch this!
I still have an FBI most wanted poster of Osama Bin Laden from 2011 . I got if from our local post office after he was no longer on the list .
"After he was no longer on the list" is a....gentle way to put it
@@whatbroicanhave50character35
He wasn’t “allegedly” behind the attacks. He was the mastermind. Big difference.
Nice to see a reaction video hope yall are enjoying your visit
What’s up guys I like the way you answered his question when he asked who osama was
Gitmo Prison is located in Cuba and is on the south side of the island.
The prison, also known as Camp X-Ray (and by other names), is a small portion of the military base which includes naval ports and an airfield. The prison was first built in the early to mid 1990s to house Cuban and Haitian refugees intercepted on the ocean who turned out to be dangerous criminals pending repatriation to their countries of origin. After 9/11, Camp X-Ray, was expanded and modified to house known and suspected terrorists captured during the US and Coalition's War on Terror. Many are still held there, but many others were transferred into the custody of other countries, and some were sent to US federal prisons.
@@skyhawk_4526 it should be noted that there has been several generation of detention (not prison) facilities on the base as it has moved from an emergency unplanned facility to the more permanent facility that is housing the worse of the worse now
Its cool youre siiting down with the kids to understand things that are more in depth than what's taught in school as a family. Cheers.
I love you guys… a gentleman fan from Virginia
When the USA decides to do something really super important based upon intelligence we dont ask for permission from anybody. Facts.
Easier to ask for forgiveness rather than permission
I wonder why Brics was formed and also despite that you're not benefitting from all the wars or pil you're stealing from, your enemy is within.
Love your videos. Great job parents!!
Keep the history alive it's important that all of us remember this. Be very careful to not allow this to fall out of memory. And always remember the bad guys don't go unpunished.
Zero Dark Thirty (not for kids) is a great depiction of the events. Also, many of these Al Qaeda members that were interrogated and held prisoner were kept at CIA Black Sites in the Middle East, and not in Guantanamo. Guantanamo is located on a small area of Cuba, the only territory controlled by the U.S. in Cuba. Some of the 9/11 terrorists are still held there. In the Tom Cruises movie, A Few Good Men, part of the movie takes place at a fictional Guantanamo Bay. Great movie-nothing to do with 9/11, but worth watching.
There is a Wikipedia article on CIA black sites, secret locations where the CIA held prisoners mostly related to Al Quaida and other Islamist groups. Many countries helped America in this by arresting people and handing them over to the CIA or just letting the U.S. transport prisoners through their territory. Several of them allowed the CIA to erect sort-off secret permanent detention sites.
A lot of stuff was portrayed incorrectly in the movie.
@@Sam-pv7bd It was all confirmed by Seal Team Six members. The interrogations were questioned, but the only criticism the movie got was implicating the success of finding Bin Laden from the use of illegal force (water boarding, etc.). 95% of the movie follows the events exactly.
My cousin was involved in the finding of Osama . Thank goodness! My mother in law was on a plane coming home from London at the time on 9-11 . All we knew was that the planes fly # was 11. We didn't know if it was longer but thankfully it was. They turned her flight around and she had to stay in London for another 3 weeks. It was a crazy time but we finally got her back home.
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I was on the local fire department at that time. One of our firefighter's mother was supposed to be on the flight but canceled. She was killed 5 or 10 years later by a drunk driver.
@@brendaS1533 I am so sorry to hear that. I know it's hard I lost my Dad in 2010 and my mom in 2018. Sending you a hugs.❤️
Thankfully she was safe I was 6 in Kindergarten in America and it changed our Country forever glad your mama was safe
Wow a rare monday night video lol. Keep it up yall
Nadine - you asked the most important question - was Pakistani intelligence helping the U.S.? I think they pretended to be helping - but Bin Laden was basically hiding in Pakistan - right down the street from a government military academy. A revealing detail in this story is that when the U.S. special forces flew into capture / kill Bin Laden - they did NOT alert the Pakistan government that we were entering their country. I think it's safe to assume that the U.S. believed the Pakistan Intelligence was hiding / protecting Bin Laden. Not everyone in this world believed Bin Laden had done something terrible. The Pakistan government had its own interests. But I'm glad you four are on our side. Hope you're enjoying your adventures through the U.S. Thanks for posting this one.
I 100% agree. They were help Bin Laden andBush wasn’t either smart enough to see it or didn’t want to believe Vin Laden was getting tipped off. This went on for several years until Obama came along and didn’t “ask” for permission to go in.
Exactly! Pakistan knew he was there, but spoon fed info to keep US at bay.
The Pakistani government motivation being the $500 million per year the U.S. government was giving Pakistan to assist in “finding” Bin Laden.
All governments had their own interests and also the ISI and Pakistani military are completely independent from the government and have separate interest and also during the soviets afghan the lower ranks of the ISI was filled ethnic Pashtuns and the ISI feared if they commit to any hostile rhetoric with Afghanistan they may intervene as the ISI had worked with many Mujahadeen during the soviets afghan war and many isi officers had close ties to the Taliban do to years of aid
I don't believe anything they tell us about that day. They tried to get us believe that they found passports but couldn't recover the plane's black box.
This NZ family brought me to tears as they watched the story of our national anthem w/so much respect and love for this nation on another of their postings. I was sold when I watched their kids faces. As a Disabled American Veteran, on behalf of all my fellow veterans here and abroad..."Let us adopt this NZ family as our own!". You may want to call yourselves unofficial dual citizens now! LOL. You have won the hearts of all Americans who know of you. I have PTSD and when I feel the need to feel patriotic, you are on my playlist, this NZ family... Come to Indy soon, the last weekend in any May, and you must notify me when you do, please. I look forward to meeting you with a few hundred thousand of my friends!!! (the Indy 500 is the "greatest spectacle in racing" at an avg of 350,000) you may never feel love like this in your lifetime again. Mike "Buck" Rogers-BM3/OS3/ SAR2 (USN retired) Thank you for your service to a nation in an identity crisis, you bring us back to who we were, who we are, and how we are looked upon.
The most important thing to remember.... Over 2000 humans were murdered that morning.
Yep. From dozens and dozens of nationalities. It wasnt just an attack on us, it was an attack on the entire western civilization. It makes me mad when ppl try to make excuses for evil and act like they had legit reasons for such scumbaggery.
And over 400,000 civilians were murdered in the middle east as a result of the actions of a few...
Let's not forget the london attacks in 2005 . 😢
And countless others who died later from cancer, PTSD, etc. Such a tragedy. What I do remember as well, was we truly came together as neighbors and a united country. You couldn't find an American flag to buy because they were already flying on everyone's house, yard, vehicle, and business. The beautiful songs that were written and sung was heartwarming as we came together and remembered all the innocent lives lost.
@@brendaS1533 thank you for remembering us veterans. we do sometimes get forgotten in all of the numbers wrapped up in the tragedy, so when someone remembers us, it matters.
I was working in Guantonomo Bay, Cuba in 2003 for 81 days. I was working construction but whenever the prisoners from 9/11 arrived on base... you knew. The security for the transport was insane. Even on one of the most secure bases in the world. I actually have a video on UA-cam showing you around the base.
What an awesome family! I lived in Wellington and Tawa NZ as a kid. From 8 years old to 12 years old. Such a great country. Glad your getting to enjoy some American things. I wish I could visit NZ again. Anyway, I so enjoy your videos. Especially the BBQ videos. Texas BBQ is the best. Oh FYI I'm from Houston,TX. Keep the great videos coming. Thanks
Another great video. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Guantanamo Bay is a a bay in Cuba and has a naval base where they detained these alleged terrorists for years.
They are still there. Latest public motions in the tribunal are from 6/14/24. Some transcripts are available for the public
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39 men remain there indefinitely, 27 haven't been charged with anything. that's insane.
@@romulus_ it is insane. I've lost track of how many attorneys and judges have rotated through. After 20+ years...just nuts
Sucha lovely family. Us Americans love you guys so much
I love your family and your children are so well-behaved so mature so smart! I love it
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! ❤️🇺🇸💝
Great VID! love my new zealand family!
GITMO is a US Navy Base on Cuba. We pay them $100 gold every year for rent. A military installation is considered US Land. The same as a consulate or Embassy.
Great video! You might like a movie such as "Zero Dark Thirty", which is the cinematic story of the hunting, finding, and killing of bin Laden. From mainly the CIA perspective. Oh, and you're right about Guantanamo Bay. It's an old U.S. base in Cuba, pretty much in disuse by the military, but used extensively by the CIA. They've taken lots of people there for interrogation. "Enhanced" interrotation. Thanks, again, and God bless you!
The naval base is still there and in use by the navy. It's the main base for the Carribean (outside of the prison and various on going tribunal cases)
@@H2G2Stp Good point! Thanks! Is it still being used as much as it was before? That was my understanding, that the use of the base by the Navy isn't what it used to be. Thanks, again!
@@George-kv6gm it's nothing like it was at her peak and has less men/women stationed there but there is still a naval presence separate from the prison and they are still doing some upgrades and modifications to the infrastructure of the base and with recent Russian ships and a Russian sub in the area and catribean in general and it can easily handle our subs comimg into the bay it's in an ideal location. Itll never be what it was in the cold war days. They also assist with drug interdiction operations around the Carribean
@@H2G2Stp Thanks, again! Well, at least there's more than just a prison there. And who knows, there may be a need for them to have a place for a sub to stop in, at some point. It just makes me sad that we spend so much to put the facility in, and then don't use it to its full capacity. Thanks for the update!
If you enjoy American history, from beginning to end, I highly recommend "The Fat Electrician." Nick is basically a walking historian. Parents first, watching his material. He's a former service member, he uses colorful language. However, he teaches in a way that the younger generation identifies with. He has children in the US write him for help on book reports. If you all are interested.
Sam, you got the answer correct for Nadine's question--Guantanamo Bay is on Cuba, and I believe it's a tiny spot at the east end of the country--a very unique US Army base.
Yes, the boat lift story is an amazing one. However, did you ever see the related video of a small town in Canada's island of Newfoundland that received multiple passenger jets when the worldwide order to empty the skies of all traffic ASAP was given? They fed and housed, on the spur of the moment, several thousand people for more than a week. It's an amazing story.
Love your family! These videos are great! ❤ much love from Palm Beach Florida USA
That doesn’t look like the RV! Hope yall are enjoying your US tour.
Really enjoy this channel!
Another one to watch is about what happened to all the planes still in the air. Called The Plane People. About a town called Gander who took in numerous planes.
Great video and the sound on this one for the watched video is great!
September 11, 2001 was my 11th birthday (yes I was born in 1990).
I was supposed to get a Game Boy Advance back then after school but everything was shut down. Don't recall my school telling the class about it which was odd, unless my memory is foggy. I just remember coming home and being asked "Joey did you hear what happened?"
Being my 11th birthday I'll never forget. It seemed such a normal, beautiful end of summer day here in Virginia.
I love that group “hi,” its so cheery.
Guantanamo Bay has a US naval base. The land is rented from Cuba on an irrevocable lease. There is a prison there also
The Carol Burnett Show I saw in the 70's the whole family will love!!
Yes!
There was a pretty good movie about this called Zero Dark Thirty. It’s about the real life, female, CIA officer who was obsessed with finding Bin Ladin. I think it won an Oscar.
As an American, (1.5 hour drive from Cincinnati), I have to say, New Zealander’s are cool 😎. Great video. You guys / gals are bound for stardom. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 (Love NZ landscape’s and beauty)
I love that you guys have so much know ledge about what really happened. Y'all have wonderful bright kidsm
Since this is your newest video I hope you see this. Also, since you seem to enjoy American history I thought you would enjoy seeing and reacting as a family to how some of us Americans remember our history. The you tube title "Revolutionary War Reenactment: Battle of Germantown 2015" is about a battle fought on October 4, 1777 and is about 10 minutes long. Also, it is important to know that the house in the video is the actual house from the original battle 245 years before! This was the very first place I reenacted when I was 12 years old (back in 1991).
As an American who was just barely old enough to remember watching the towers fall on television, hearing "who is Osama bin Laden" was a shock to the system. Good on him for not being afraid to ask though, and its good he already had some context to understand. Haven't watched the video through yet but even more interested to see how he'll react to more info about it
Wlow... I just turned 50. You brought out a lot of memories from that time....
Recently took my first international trip out of the US with my family. I told my grandmother who hasn't flown internationaly since before the 9/11 attacks that travelling out of the US is way different then travelling within. It took us maybe 10 mins to get past security landing in London Heathrow and roughly the same amount leaving London to fly to Paris. Coming back took like an hour to get through customs and we didn't even have anything to declare and we were in the handicap wheelchair access line which was way shorter than general admittance.
The Geneva Convention only applies to members of national standing armies not terrorist organizations so it doesn't apply to prisoners taken who are terrorists.
Not true at all. The Geneva Convention applies to "all persons in enemy hands."
@@firstenforemost, I believe that was added in a later iteration, so some folks may have learned about this before the addition of this article. If I remember right, they added specifics on non-state combatants in response to the 72 Olympic attacks. Maybe around 75 or 76?
America didn’t “invade Afghanistan.” It was an international coalition of nations led by the U.S.
let’s get some facts into the picture.
And I am not sure that a self-defense action can be labeled an invasion.
If that's not an invasion
Then Russian attack on Ukraine is not an invasion
What facts?
US drives the nato and their country is permanently under US occupation of it's invasion
Like US did in Iraq
A friend of mine, we were military policeman together, was by then an FBI agent and went to Germany to pick up and escort an individual involved.
The movie “Zero Dark-Thirty” is a very good description of those events.
I'm a veteran, and I'm an older millennial. Your thumbnail made me smile. Seems like everything makes me feel old now.
Yeah right!! When you get old enough that STANDING UP from bed to go to the bathroom BREAKS YOUR FOOT, *_THEN_* you can call yourself old!!
@@MikesClassicRadio Haha alright Mr. Chairman of the Retirement Community. It'll probably be my knees first though. Take it easy on that foot. Probably broke it off in too many people anyways with the attitude you gave me HAHAaaa
@@davidt1621 Just enjoy your YOUTH!! 🙂
@@MikesClassicRadio Yeah yeah. Enjoy guarding your lawn 🙂
The funny thing about this is that when they actually went into the compound to get him, a neighbor about 1/4 mile away posted to twitter about the noise and lights being on. It was the raid happening. Literally broke one of the most important news stories by accident over twitter.
Excellent detective work! I think if memory serves me a military K9 was involved too!
My Grandpa was in Guantánamo Bay as a prisoner for sometime
Something about smuggling drugs I think right after or during his military service
11:52 Pakistani government was totally unaware of what operation the USA was conducting in Pakistan.
Pakistan is always unaware. They are too concerned with kashmir and the silly border
Well..not silly to them..changing of the guard
How can be they always unaware of situations prevaling around the world related to them whenever Pakistani terrorists attack certain countries thry say they are unaware how those terrorist literally get trained in military level combat skills n all and you are saying they are always unaware of these things ? Are you kidding me !
How can be they always unaware of situations prevaling around the world related to them whenever Pakistani terrorists attack certain countries thry say they are unaware how those terrorist literally get trained in military level combat skills n all and you are saying they are always unaware of these things ? Are you kidding me !
Gosh darn it, I wanted to see the whole video play out 😂
As for 2009., you should definitely check out Miracle on Hudson river. Amazing story
I'll echo what some others have said in the comments already: Watch the movie Zero Dark Thirty. It illustrates how difficult it was to find ObL and why it took so long to find him, and how the raid on his compound took place. It's very compelling and very well done. Maybe watch it without the kids present first, because it's somewhat harsh (although not in a gratuitous way).
It was actually a woman who found Bin Laden. This story goes wayyy deeper. The SEALs trained for every possible scenario going into this. Also, turns out Pakistan lies to America. Who knew? Lol. They knew where Bin Laden was. That's why he lived so close to that academy, and America knew they knew that's why we didn't include them in the raid. It sounds so simple in this video, but it actually goes much deeper and is way more complex. 🇺🇸
Since you mentioned the boat lift, will you watch a video about the evacuation of Dunkirk?
I was in my mid 20's when 9/11 happened. I remember exactly where I was when it happened and I remember exactly where I was when I learned of bin Laden's death. It's kind of crazy to think that it's been over 20 years and I can still recall it like it was yesterday.
I was a 22-year old Senior in College / University on that Tuesday. Fell asleep on my couch Monday night, woke up thinking I left some Sci-Fi B-Movie channel on the TV.
I was 21 working in an assembly plant next to a power station that morning. At one point there were dozens of planes unaccounted for and many were speculating if this was a much larger more organized attack. Thankfully, we were given the opportunity to go home. I did and went home and threw up. Not only did I think I was going to war but i knew my youth was over. I wasn’t drafted but I was right about youth.
The interrogation tactics that were used and eventually came to light happened at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. GITMO immediately stopped those tactics when several humanitarian organizations started reporting on the abuses. There is so much more, but GITMO was not the only one.
What’s prob craziest about us getting bin Laden is we had 1 of the helicopters crash land within the compound and yet no one heard it. Quite amazing, though the Khalid come here in to bait him out was pretty wild too.
Were they supposed to crash that helicopter?
@@JV-mw7gvumm no lol.
@@JV-mw7gvlol. No. It was an experimental stealth helicopter. Idk why they felt is was ready for a mission of that magnitude. But maybe the cause of the crash was something unrelated to it being new tech. Idk. We’ll never know
It's so weird to hear of these crazy mishaps during such big and pivotal events in history.
My grandpa and father went to fight in Afghanistan after all this happened
My grandpa was actually in the Pentagon when the plane hit
Both came home without injury
I also go to church with someone who's FBI group helped discover bin ladens location
Your Grandpa? Oh no, now I do feel old.
@@catw6998 im only 16 so he wasn't a grandpa when it happened
Both my parents were still in highschool
No need to feel old
I visited Cuba back in 2019, and I was about 2 hours away from where the prison is located. I come from a US state that gets a lot of snow, and I was not prepared for the temperatures down in this region. I believe the coldest it gets when the sun is up in this area is around 78 degrees Fahrenheit. I would guess that 90% of the time the high temperature is 86 Fahrenheit or hotter. When I was in Santiago de Cuba, the people from Miami were complaining about how hot it is, and they are used to hot and humid weather.
I worked at Gitmo in "03. I'm from Ohio where it gets pretty damn cold. It was over 100 several days and on the hottest day it reached about 107 and it was still like 96° at 3:00 a.m. crazy!
@@TKMars11 I'm from south central Wisconsin. I'm used to getting 2+ weeks in the single digits or lower, and also getting temps in the 90's. When I was in the Santiago de Cuba area, it was brutally hot, and I think it was 96 or higher every single day.
If you haven't seen it Zero Dark Thirty is a movie about this. AWESOME movie worth seeing at least once :)
"He was the one who allegedly was behind it." Naw, my dude, he was behind, and now he's dead...FAFO.
Guantanamo bay is in Cuba, ironically, there is a military base on Cuba.
I was a Senior just about to graduate high school when they announced Bin Laden's death. I liked watching the blast of the past with the American news/history in this video
Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba. It's a U.S. naval base.
i have a buddy who was at gitmo. he said theyd throw poop on you but they werent allowed to carry firearms so they just beat em
There’s a movie about the timeline of events called Zero Dark Thirty. Worth a watch
This video serves as a reminder and ties together what we lived day-to-day for all those years. It's a perfect explanation to a Utuber who upon watching the video of the killkng of bin Laden, asked, why didn't you arrest him? 😮
The shear magnitude of info in the intelligence world is overwhelming. It takes time to verify, by then, things have changed.
Definitely check out more on the process of how OBL’s location was verified. Extremely high tech tools coupled with human interpretation. IE: Drones filmed the compound and measured shadows to establish heights of the people there. OBL was well over 6’ tall so extrapolate the shadows gave critical info. 👍
Zero Dark Thirty is the movie made depicting the 10 year hunt for Bin Laden
Loved ya'lls boat lift vid!
GITMO, aka gantanamo Bay, is in Cuba,
Guys, u should really try to watch the movie “zero dark thirty”. Its not a very family friendly movie but 20:22 its such a good dramatization of what “may” have taken place.
Its not overly violent but has some harsh language. Enjoy❤
We actually had him at tora bora, overheard him on a radio saying to his troops it was ok to surrender but for some stupid reason we trusted pakistan and they let him through to escape
There's another video done by someone else that does a good job of explaining the raid on the compound
Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba. It is Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
That's correct, but we signed a semi-permanent lease for the base, after the original Cuban revolution against Spain, but before the current government. So, the Castro (and post-Castro) regime want it back, but we said 'no thanks'.
The movie" Zero Dark: 30" is a good movie about this
Yes, definitely see this movie. Not for kids though.
@@stephentaylor9630 they alrways check the recommendations out to screen for the kids.
Trash movie used as propaganda
@@notjustklownin9506 TROLL - Keep your opinions to yourself !!!!!
@@juddosborne305same to you.
Helo brother your faimllly is very very cuit love from india
i have friend in goa
Ya'll should watch and react to the film Zero Dark Thirty. All about the investigation and raid.
I'm suggesting digging into flight 93, the one that crashed in Pennsylvania and never reached it's target. My brother in law's Dad was from Central City, PA which isn't far.from Somerset at all. I got to see the memorial in it's infancy stages. There's United 93 a movie about it and of countless videos on here. Essentially, the passengers fought back deciding they'd rather die becoming heroes than to be victims.
I don’t think becoming heroes was part of their decision making
@@paulmolloy7206Nah, that's crazy. I remember hearing something about one of the last texts was sent to a family member that he had decided it was necessary to fight them.
@@brendaS1533 Yes, I agree but not about becoming a hero as a result
@@paulmolloy7206 I just found, read, and posted the last conversations from Flight 93. They witnessed people getting killed, the hijackers said they had a bomb, somehow they found out the other planes crashed into the World Trade Center. They were trying to save themselves. They had no reason to believe they were going to survive unless they tried to stop it. It was survival mode not hero mode.
www.nps.gov/flni/learn/historyculture/phone-calls-from-flight-93.htm
Why you cut off the video before he explains the raid on Bin Laden?
That's the end of this video about the search for Bin Laden. At the end, the announcer said there was a separate video about the raid itself.
The helicopters that the Navy seals flew in on, were indeed classified above top-secret, and no other country knew that we had them, and they did have secret stealth technology, and they were known for being extremely quiet in the sky. If you’re sleeping at night and flies overhead you wouldn’t be able to tell what it is.