Yes , I thought it was a smaller plane to as I watched from home But it’s kind of obvious that the one hole was almost the whole width of 1 side. I would think most would then assume it was a large plane
@@sagemaster3408 I think the reason for so many assuming it was a smaller plane was because of how clear the skies were. so it was safe to assume an airline pilot would have seen those towers a mile away, and even if he had had a heart attack the co-pilot would have diverted the plane from the tower.
@@Jerseybytes2 yeah. I’m just saying once people saw the hole size, they would know it wasn’t a small plane. But yeah I could see why most people thought it was a small plane , there’s no way a commercial pilot would not see those buildings. Even I thought so. But omg. The size of the hole! I would imagine that most people , unless on the large hole side , couldn’t see it. Either way. All nightmarish day . Sux
@@sagemaster3408 I actually read about it online first because, even tho my tv was on, it was still on cartoon network from earlier on when my kids watched cartoons while eating breakfast. And because I was logging off I only read a couple of words out of the whole thing. So my brain auto filled the answers I didn't have. Had I not called my mother I wouldn't have found out anything else until much later on because in my mind I thought I already knew what had happened. She was the one who insisted I turn on the news, which I did because I wanted her to shut up. But I saw footage I was it I was in such shock that I never noticed the size of the hole in the building was too big for a small plane.
My most vivid memory of 9/11 was that Queen Elizabeth II ordered her Scottish Guard band to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" in tribute towards the United States, for those American tourists standing outside of Buckingham Palace on 9/11/01. The American tourists were sobbing, and I was sobbing right along with them.
My girlfriend’s (at the time) brother worked in the south tower, on the 82nd floor. He got drunk watching Monday night football, the night before and was too hungover to make it to work on time. Everyone in his office was killed. She couldn’t get in touch with him because the phones were all disrupted. We just watched and cried all day. He finally got through at 8:00 pm. Man, what a horrible day.
Wow. That is so traumatic. But what a blessing her family got. That hundreds never did. I love football. And you can honestly say football saved that guys life. Wow
I’m now 62 years old and will never forget that day. I watched live as the second plane impacted. I watched as individuals jumped and when the towers collapsed. I remember driving home from work that day and a pastor from a local radio station addressed how to speak to our young children regarding the event. I will never be able to erase those memories. I also lived next to a Marine Corp Air Station and the silence over the next few days was just eerie.
@vaibhavsingh_9538 it goes all the way back to the 80s and 90s under the Reagan and first Bush administration's had JFK RFK MLK lived men of peace men who saw war and tried to stop war this may not had happened they tried to bomb trade centers in 1993 when they killed JFK history changed on 11 22 1963
I lived next to NAS Jax in Jacksonville, FL. I remember that Friday. They flew out that day. For hours, it was one plane after another. That entire week was just surreal.
I was 18 years old, remember every vivid moment, never knew how much it would affect me…4 years later my husband of 2 weeks deployed to Iraq for 18 months, and this week we are celebrating our 18th Anniversary, and I thank God every day that he came home when so many did not
I was 17. I visited the twin towers in 1996 . Seeing that happen live on tv…shit hit hard. I can’t imagine the people that were there to witness it, yet alone seeing the plane hit the building while you’re in it. I think the highest floor of a survivor was 105 stories in the second tower. I would have been sitting bricks, bricks I tell you going down that emergency staircase.
I was 21, woke up hung over and stumbled into the living room to see this report.... My friend came over shortly after and said "this is one of those things we will remember where we were the rest of our lives." and I do.
My dad said the exact same thing to me here in England and even now I could go into the whole scenario of how I found out, it really does show how this shook the whole world
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The world literally stood still that day. I was 15 when it happened and I think everyone who remembers will never forget the fear and confusion we felt that day. 22 years later and it still sends shivers down my spine
The day after 911 was the last time America was united. Then the pols took over and destroyed our liberties with the fucking Patriot Act. Now the federal govt considers its citizens domestic terrorists. It’s difficult to not believe that the whole thing was a set up by the security apparatus of the US to take control and turn America into a totalitarian nation. TRUMP 2024!
I was 17 when this happened, and babysitting my 5 year old nephew. I remember him asking me “What movie is this?” And I told him “No, this is really happening!” Genuinely one of the most shocking days of my life.
I had the same reaction as your nephew. There's at least a 12hr time difference between NY and my country. I was 18, and didn't have school. I woke up mid morning and saw this on TV. I thought it was a movie, so I ignored it and went about my morning routine. Came back, it's still on. Had breakfast, came back, and it's still on. I thought, wtf is this movie and why do they keep repeating the trailer? Took me a while to realize it was real.
@@doctorbohr1585Well, children live in this world too. Its better to be honest with them in these types of situations, in my opinion. It's the life and world we all have to live in, unfortunately 😢
It still devastates me to no end that they didn’t immediately evacuate the South Tower when the fire started in the North - regardless what they did or did not know at the time.
Because bodies and debris were falling from Tower 1, people in Tower 2 were told to stay in place to avoid making themselves a casualty and getting in the way of firefighters. Ironically i guess the FDNY's first casualty was Engine 218s Daniel Suhr, killed by a jumper from the South Tower, 3 people jumped from Tower 2, 1 of them landed on him killing him instantly around 9:30am
@@Chimp981 With 2020 hindsight it seems like evacuating would have been the right thing to do. I wondered about that for many years too until it was pointed out to me that, for one, it was thought to be an accident and not a terrorist attack and, 2, that as another person wrote, the Port Authority personnel thought it was safer for people to stay inside because of the flaming debris and getting in the way of the fireman.
I was in 4th grade living on Long Island. Our teachers decided not to tell us what was going on. Presumably, my classmate’s parents were working in the city this morning. I had no clue until I got home. I will always appreciate Mrs. Boyle’s composure that day. Seeing this on the news when I got home is something I will never forget.
@@rotunda57 I walked in from school to find my mother sobbing in front of the t.v. that day. I had never seen her cry before that I could remember. My grandmother had just taken us to see JFK the year before.
That was the correct choice by her! As a teacher now, I really cannot believe that some teachers did the opposite and showed this to young children live (including children of firefighters who thought their parent was dead).
I was 12 blocks away when this happened going to my senior year of college in NYC. I watched the entire thing unfold before my eyes in person. It’s forever seared into my brain.
@@Jarrygames86they were simply sharing their story. I think a lot of people will never forget where they were when they heard the news, especially if you were close to where it happened. No need to be rude.
Definitely! When you see government lies right in front of you, you don't stop asking questions. Oh, sorry... did you mean you were dumb enough to believe the actual narrative? My bad...
My step sister worked in tower 1 3rd floor from the top. I called her that day for over an hour. I finally called her apartment and she answered. She had taken the day off for a date with her future husband. She was so lucky to be one of her few survivors of her firm. Till this day... she can not fly or live in a big city. On the anniversary of this day we spend it together outside.
0:23 American Flight 11 Hits the North Tower. (Aftermath) 9:46 United Flight 175 hits the South Tower. 45:55 American Flight 77 hits the Pentagon. 1:05:53 The South Tower collapses. 1:31:54 First report of United Flight 93. 1:35:27 The North Tower collapses.
My mother was supposed to be on flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon she flew ever other week to visit my grandma im grateful that the driveway got done on the 11th it saved her life
The firefighter who responded "it's my Job" when asked why he was going back in after the first tower collapsed. 😢 Bravery on a level that is hard to imagine. RIP to all the heroes 🙏
Yeah when I watched the documentary " Loose Change) I remember being heartbroken. No innocent humans should die this horribly. It is as if somehow we failed to protect them. The bravery of these men is what kept us together through that fear😢
JUST STOPPED BY TO REMEMBER THE DAY THAT LIVES IN INFAMY..!! I AM NOW 62 YEARS OLD ..!! I STILL HAVE TROUBLE BELIEVING IT HAPPENED..!! IT'S GOOD TO HEAR TOM BROKAW AGAIN.!! I DON'T SEE HOW WE COULD EVER FORGET..!! THEN AGAIN HOW LONG CAN WE LIVE THAT LIVED WITH THAT..!! ONE DAY WE WILL ALL BE GONE..!! SO WILL THE MEMORY..!! KEEP 9/11 ALIVE..!! 🙏'S FOR ALL THE FAMILIES & FRIENDS THAT SUFFERED FUE TO THIS TRAGEDY..!!
I always wonder if I would still be alive if I stayed in line at NY Coffee Station downstairs when the plane hit. I worked at Oppenheimer in South Tower and most mornings, I would get a bagel at NY Coffee Station. The line was so long, I decided to go across the street to Liberty Deli to get my bagel. I paid for my bagel and while waiting, the plane hit.
I will never forget the feeling in the pit of my stomach when that 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower. That's when you realized it wasn't an accident and that we were under attack.
I was 27 and know exactly where i was and exactly what i was doing . We all left work that day to be with our families . I will never forget that sick feeling i had all week did not even celebrate my birthday on 9/14 i just sat in front of TV and cried watching all the pictures of those who died . Remember it like yesterday .22 years later
I was a senior in high school in Pennsylvania. They locked down the school not allowing anybody to enter or leave because of the hijacked plane that was over Pennsylvania. Those beautiful souls downed it and saved plenty of lives on United 93 that day.
@@dicedmeat7857 I heard the Cosgrove call. He died quickly and likly was chopped up into little pieces. I interview people who briefly clinically are dead. Thier spirits leave the body and they say initially, they don't feel they died. They feel a huge amount of love and other amazing things as a spirit.
that would be all of us. We became dead men walking the minute we all swallowed these lies from Dick Cheney and other such horrible people. I didn't, but you did. And you'd insist that it's true if I asked you. Because you have zero discernment. Zero ability to reason logically. Just what "they" want in an american. bravo.
I was 27 when this happened and watched this awful tragedy unfold live on tv. Its really odd explaining this event to younger people who were born after 9/11 or were too young to have a living memory of this. I don't think they'll ever truly fathom how gut wrenching the fear was for those of us who saw this unfold in real time...especially when the second plane hit. It was the most horrific and most unimaginable thing you could ever have dreaded to see
Even though I agree that the attacks were horrible, I can´t help but wonder if you (or anyone for that matter) felt the same kind of "gut wrench" when the response was to kill 200 thousand iraqi civilians. Don´t get me wrong. 3000 dead IS horrible. But so are 200 000. Yet I never seem to read or see anything about that. Or people saying how shocking it was to witness these numbers.... Just something to think about.
@@derfalschelennox365yes I am angry at them then Australian PM John Howard invading Middle East. Not enough converse goes on about the murders that went on when usa invaded Iraq and surrounding countries. I’m sorry if you are connected to any of the deaths done by the “Allies”””
I was in 4th grade when this happened, they put the news on the TV in my classroom I still remember it. It was very scary. Our parents had to come pick us up. My family lived in a high rise building just outside of DC and we could see the smoke from the Pentagon from our balcony. I’ll never forget it. Tragic day, Rest In Peace to all those who perished 🕊
I was 16 and I’d never felt more alive in my life. Every adult was grieving, it was fucking electric. Overstimulation though, haven’t been able to replicate that feeling..
Me too! In 4th grade and remembered my teacher sat us down and told us what happened. Just remembered seeing the smoking building on every news channel.
I was in 10th grade Spanish class when the principal made an announcement for an emergency assembly. Even at that age I didn’t understand the full gravity of what happened. Watching this now is completely mindblowing and heartbreaking.
I was just about to leave for work when the first plane hit. At that time I worked on a psychiatric unit! When I finally made it into work none of the therapies were going on, everybody was around the tv. And then the moment we realized we were seeing people jumping from the building, the head nurse turned it off cuz it was just too much for our emotionally compromised patients. Too much for all of us, really. But we wanted to know what was going on because there was so much confusion. But we just couldn't let our patients watch it any longer.
I was a sophomore in high school. I walked into 3rd period chemistry and the tv was on. We watched the towers fall. I was sick to my stomach and had my mom pick me up at the next break. I was worried about my friends in Chicago. I felt stupid because no one else reacted the way I did. In retrospect I realize my emotions were valid. Life changing moments.
Yeah, I remember the morning of September 11th 2001. I was 22 years old and outside in my front yard of my house working on staining decking for deck my father and I were working on not too far from my home. When my father came out in a rush and said "Chris hurry up and get in here, ya gotta see what's on the news!" That day changed my life and the life of almost every other American. I'm 44 now and I still harbor horrible feelings about what took place on that day.
I was 22 when this happened. I had just come home from a short working day in Munich, Germany, turned on my TV and saw the first tower on fire. Saw the 2nd impact on live TV. Seeing something so horrible live on TV, seeing all these innocent people suffering, crying, hanging outside the windows for air, waiting in vain for someone to save them, many of them jumping or falling to their deaths has deeply moved me, and I don't think I'll ever forget this. I am German and have only been to the US once when I was 14, but I think most of us felt as Americans on that day, feeling just as if we ourselves had been attacked. My thoughts are with everyone we lost that day, as well as with everyone that lost loved ones, friends or colleagues.
@@0topon so hab ich es zumindest in Erinnerung (23 Jahre später würd ich da aber auch kein Geld mehr drauf wetten). Ich schätze aber auch, dass nach dem ersten Einschlag vermutlich auch noch keine Programme unterbrochen worden waren. Müsste wenn dann auf n-tv, o.ä. gewesen sein. Und CNN und NBC hatte ich damals glaub ich auch immer mal geschaut - also auch nicht ausgeschlossen, dass ich es da gesehen habe.
I was at college, at my class close to 4th Street. It was horrible. The aftermath was terrible, too. I was 19 years old, and all bridges, tunnels, subways, were closed going in and out of the city. I was a commuter from the Bronx, so I had nowhere to go. There were military jets flying around, and there was also no cell service. Luckily, I found my friend, who also lived in the Bronx and we walked from Astor place to 149th Street in the Bronx where the trains were up and running. I couldn't even really understand the devastation of the whole thing. The days after were crazy, too. I just remember bursting into tears on the train from seeing the pictures on the front page of the newspapers.
Even as a 9 year old living in Ethiopia, I had tears in my eyes when this was being broadcasted. 9/11 just so happens to be the day Ethiopian new years happens, and I remember it was about 7 or 8 pm and our new year party at my house was still going strong, and then somebody turned on the TV. Everyone at our house was shocked seeing those images. It's beyond my imagination what the people of New York went through.
I was also 9. Just stared the 4th grade and was sitting in my class when the teacher ran in franticly and announced what just happened. We didn’t know how to react.
@@Raven........10:41 she just won the grand prize of the world's dumbest comment. "I wonder if there's air traffic control problems". You seriously thinking air traffic controller is going to tell a pilot to fly a plane into a building?! You really think the pilot is going to be dumb enough to do that?!
I was getting ready too and once the 2nd plane hit I dropped all my stuff and started trying to call my boyfriend because he was in the Air Force. Sure enough he would be deployed in Nov. 2001-May 2002; again in Dec. 2002-March 2003 He left the Air Force in Aug. 2003 and went to the Reserves. Went to college instead on his earned GI Bill. He was a KC135 Mid-Air Refueler. I couldn't reach him the morning of 9/11 because he was sleeping from working the shift the night before. He said "I woke up and my answering machine was full; I knew something horrible had happened" I had left him 4 messages, his parents, and numerous military personnel. I think his answering machine held 45 min of recordings. How I'd love to hear those messages today and post them. I'm sure they were deleted, unfortunately. We broke up in 2003... but he's a great man. Distance kept us apart and it just wouldn't of working for us. Corey if you see this... thank you for all the memories and your service. ❤ SJS
Were you in the mountain time zone? I was in the eastern time zone (nowhere near NYC), in my 1st period HS civics class and the principal came in, whispered something to the teacher who then put on the TV to watch the news (this was probably a little before 10:00 and they were already showing replays of the 2nd plane hitting). My school decided not to cancel school that day, even though parents were showing up to pick up a bunch of their kids but it seemed pointless bc nobody was going to be able to focus, teachers just put on the news on the classroom TVs and all anybody talked about was speculation about who was behind it. I always wondered if most schools in the mountain/western time zone cancelled school that day as it was already everyone was talking about by like 7/6 am there.
@@giampaolofini1535 I was working at an elementary school in Denver and didn't find out about it until I got to school. I don't think any schools were closed here, but a couple of parents did come and pick up their kids. One mother worked at the Federal Center downtown and when they evacuated it, she was pretty frantic. Hope that helps.
It’s actually impressive how these big news companies handled the situation. Most of them remained calm and reserved speculation until the second plane and everyone pretty much knew by then it was no accident
@@ctcole77 thank you for your opinion, friend. It's not because I have no respect for your opinion or your intellect that I don't want to hear you express yourself, so please continue whenever it suits you.
I'm an American and was living overseas in Kyrgyzstan when this happened. I was at a bar where foreigners like to hang out when I got a text telling me of the first plane crash. We all rushed in to watch the news. When the second plane hit, you can't imagine the chill that went through all our spines. We were at war and stuck in another country! I immediately drove home and spent the next few days holed up in my house watching news and wondering if I had to abandon everything and fly home.
In my homeland Poland, the whole country was in a state of shock and in sympathy- we viewed it as similar to the Nazi attack on our country in 1939.The amount of tears and empathy was unfathomable.This was an attack on our civilized world and on all of US who love freedom.We think of it every year.💔💋💔God Bless all and America.
Why do you view this is an nazi attack ? Remember building 7 and the pentagon how can you not know that this was a perfect inside job for war on terror in the middle east 😅
civilized ? not sure about that one. The west have enslaved, raped and destroyed countries taking all they can for 100s of years. And Poland + ukraine is a full of Nazi, so guess you lost that war.
I was 13 years old when this happened. I was getting ready for school and I normally watch the news for the weather but I was stuck to the tv. I thought at first it was a terrible accident until I saw the 2nd plane hit the second tower and I knew something is wrong. I still went to school but the whole day we didn’t do any work and watched the news for the day. To this day, I’m still saddened for the lives we lost. Remember them and continue to rest.
It still blows my mind that we all saw a bunch of lives become extinguished in a split second on live tv. Innocent people didn't just get killed but they were killed live on tv. Your life, family, kids, accomplishments are all void as your plane speeds towards a building at 500-600 mph. I was 15 and a freshman in high school so at the time needless to say I didn't really grasp the scope of it all. It wasn't until people started uploading clips and coverage to UA-cam that I really started to realize how crazy and tragic the whole day was.
People who grew up during Vietnam saw people dying live on tv on the nightly news too. Then they had to see it again on 9/11. There are some things we can never unsee. Horrible.
Still get tears and emotional today. RIP to those who perished, thank you to those who responded, and peace to those who survived and their family and friends. I love my hometown of NYC no matter where I live on this earth❤️ 🇺🇲
I still get knots in my gut when I see this. I was in 2nd grade not knowing what was going on except that it was something horrific. May those who lost their lives rest in peace.
That had to be terrifying for the little guy that you were. I was teaching in an all-girls Catholic high school in the Chicago suburbs, quite close to O'Hare Airport. The students were OK, just scared. However a couple of them were pretty much losing their shit, thinking their parents who worked in the Sears-Willis Tower would be vulnerable to a similar fate. I held it together all day, then turned on the classroom TV. I'm not one of those emotional chicks and rarely cry, but I sobbed into a towel all the way home. At one point I missed the green light ... AND NOT A SINGLE PERSON beeped the horn at me. At another point, I was stopped for a light, and I looked up at the guy in the next car; he just nodded sadly. This was a rather unique event on Chicago's North Avenue. It's all blood sport on those roads/streets on every other day. But not that one.
@@josi4251, that must have been rough. I saw the ashen looks on the faces of the teachers that day and I admire how they kept it together when we arrived for school that day. Thank you for sharing your account of that day. I hope you're doing well.
I was just 11 days away from turning 3 and was home with my mother and sister watching Blue’s Clues when hundreds of airplanes started flying around our hometown and briefly after, my aunt called to inform my mother of what was going on. She immediately started panicking and hurriedly changed the TV channel to the news for us to see these tragic events happening. It was scary for me to see it happening live with obnoxious airplane noise all around us and my mother really had to hold me while providing comforting words.
I remember watching this at work, where I built these passenger jets. To this day I remember what I was wearing, where I was standing all my co workers what they were wearing and every detail and I'm the type of person that can't remember what I did yesterday. The next day myself and a fellow Co-worker went to the Army recruiters office. It still has the same effect on me to this day. God bless all those who lost their lives and to all the first responder and volunteers that fought to save lives.
I was 23 when this happened. Sound asleep with my girlfriend when my grandmother called to wake us up, telling me she thought World War 3 had just started. They were in their 20s during Pearl Harbor, the precursor to America's entry into World War 2, so it's understandable why she'd think another attack of that magnitude would lead to another big war.
Yeah I can see where someone who lived through Pearl Harbor would fear that. Like you said though, Pearl Harbor was the reason the US joined the World War and not the cause. Single attacks on one country by one other country usually don't cause a world war between many countries fighting each other. Especially when it's a terrorist attack and not another country attacking. That being said I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking that especially if they had lived through PH. Besides you really never know and 9/11 was the first thing of that magnitude to happen here so anything could of come from it.
@@floridamarinemom1749True, but there was such a confusion all over the world, I can guarantee you as Finnish, that for sure others must have felt exactly the same, that WW 3 was to start. Mostly because of the way they attacked; we knew about suicide bombers etc. But this? It was so completely uncalled for that it shook thr feeling of safety for citizens outside USA too. Because it took some time to become sure that this was an attack on America, or the whole world. And if air planes could be used as weapons, what couldn't? So yea even if the comparision did not work well as Pearl Harbor never started a WW, I am very sure Americans were not at that time alone fearing that WW 3 had started. Obviously later the rest of the world could feel ease when it appeared to be between USA and bin Laden... Then again, those chemical attacks via mail did spread outside the states. Some could say the world really was at war, but it wasn't fought with basic weapons. .
@@pontusbackman1863 I wish it was only a war between the US and bin Laden. Or Al Qaeda. I don't believe we ever really got to the bottom of everyone that was behind it. Bush just wanted to show that he was responding to the attack on US soil so he just started bombing Afghanistan killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people maybe even millions. Then he moved on to Iraq lying to Americans by telling us that Hussain had a connection with Bin Laden which he didn't and that they had WMD which they didn't. He used this tragedy as an excuse when it had nothing to do with it. Yet the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia was never given serious thought or investigation. If it was it was hidden from the citizens of this country.
Even 22 years later, it’s unbelievable that this actually happened… I live near Belfast in northern ireland, was 22 years old and had just had lunch with a friend. We called into a shop and I heard the staff saying to another ‘all flights cancelled’ and knew there was a concern in their tone. I said to my friend ‘there’s something going on somewhere’. When I got into my car, I phoned my mum to tell her I was on my way home and put kettle on for us to have a cup of tea. She told me planes had hit the WTC. When I got back, we were glued to the tv for days. It was shocking that while we sat in front of the tv, that devastation was actually happening in real time in America. It was also a clear, blue autumn day here aswell. God bless everyone affected on 9/11… all the deceased, their families, emergency personnel and those who continue to suffer the after affects of the WTC dust. A sad day which l will never forget, and the days and weeks which followed. God rest their souls xx
Same, I was 20 and working in a pub in Moira when someone ran in from the street asking if they could turn the TV onto Sky News. All of just sat for the next 6-7 hours watching the TV.
@@SurvivingTheApocalypse yea, everyone was the same. My dad actually thought for a split second the same ‘movie’ was on 2 different channels until he realised it was live news coverage. A day never to be forgotten. Look up the documentary ‘report from ground zero’ Very interesting accounts and one of the firefighter survivors talking about how he searched for his brother has since now passed away due to 9/11 cancers. Heartbreaking 💔
@@Godsucks.apestosodios what a hateful comment… so 3000+ Americans who were going to work etc deserved to be blown up, crushed etc on that day? You must be from the darkest depths of hell to make a comment like that.
@dylanmelotti4301 I went to the memorial/museum in 2016, so many of us left the museum in tears. All you could hear were people sniffling and literally no one talking.
Let's not forget that Jules Naudet was filming a documentary about a rookie FF, when he rode out with Chief Pfiefer and his crew investigating the smell of gas from the street, when he got the shot of the first plane hitting tower 1.
I was 15 when this happened, I'll never forget. A teacher ran into our classroom and yelled that we were at war. It was so bizarre, because obviously we hadn't seen anything.
I went to NYC the first night that Broadway reopened after 9/11. We saw Rent. It was the third time I’d seen it but this show was different. It’s normally a pretty heavy play but that night was indescribable. The emotion that everyone felt was life changing. I’ve never been a part of something so powerful in my life. We went because they were telling us to support the city but it was the most somber night of my life.
I was deployed 1 month later after 9/11/01 but to me, the heroes were the flight passengers and first responders and everyone who died. 😢Breaks my heart. I SHOOK ALL DAY. RIP
This still brings tears to my eyes every time I see this. When it happened live when I watched it I didn’t cry because of the shock and confusion of the situation you didn’t know what to do. I think most people were just waiting to hear what country we were going to war with.
I’ll never forget how united we were as a nation for many months after this. Everyone was kinder to each other. We were all Americans - not Democrats or Republicans. Such a surreal day. I finally understood how my grandparents felt about Pearl Harbor. May all victims of 9/11 rest in eternal peace. We will never forget.
I will never forget this day. I was working at a daycare and the director came in crying. Parents picked up their kids early. I lived near a major airforce base and there was a sonic boom in the sky. There was massive panic because we were told there was an attack at the base. (Which their wasn't) I walked home that day and I have never ever been anywhere that quiet. It was literally like the world stood still. RIP to all those who lost their lives that day. It still breaks my heart to see this.
The summer after 9/11 happened, my friend & I took a trip to stay a couple of nights in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. One morning we got up to take a walk and met a woman who was a church minister. She lost both her husband & son in the attacks. We couldn't believe how strong she was. She was out walking that morning and explained that horrible events happen & her faith was strong & she knew one day she was going to see them again. A very life changing day for both us.
Yes it is scary, that even when they are faced with the consequence of religious bullshit, they never reconsider but even fall further down the cultist rabbit hole.
Wow! She has hope but you two are clueless. Guess you’ll find out one day-God is real and gave His Son for our sins. You’re so full of hate that you can’t see the truth. Will be praying for you.
@ricklocket2812 That's such a juvenile response to that story. Her faith stopped her from falling into deep depression. Would you have preferred that? Then put her on medication for the rest of her life? If someone can use their faith in a positive way, they shouldn't be criticised for it.
@@StuTheDon17 I wasn't criticising her for her beliefs. I was amazed how strong she was. Don't jump to conclusions with your comments. It was not a juvenile comment. What is wrong with you people?
I was 12 years old and recently started the 7th grade on 9/11. I was living in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. I was in school like all other kids when it happened. It was such a depressing and sad time for our country. Never thought that we would move forward and go back to our normal lives.
I was Living in Birmingham, Alabama and I was 12 years old recently started the 6th Grade Huffman Middle School a New Chapter and we've moved forward after that attack.
And who would have thought on that day that almost 20 years later, not Islamic extremist, but conservative Americans would try to overthrow the government. Absolutely wild.
about 8 mo. ago i was near the logan airport in Boston and i saw this man driiving a really nice car and i told him nice car and he said he. was supposed to give it too his sister who was on the first plane . Its a small world sometimes but that was very humbling . God bless everyone that day
I was 18. Senior year. Televisions on and watched it. The feeling of learning it was terrorists sunk in slow because of the denial. Drove to work to empty businesses. Drove back home on empty spooky roads. Then i was in Oslo in 2011 right near the building that was bombed by their terrorist. Saw crazy stuff. It made me forever connected to what everyone must've felt in NYC. So tragic. Life is precious. Tell your loved ones you love them and share your feelings with them. God bless you all. #neverforget
And that was the point🤷🏻 you can truly trace the change of the world back to that day... especially america this was an entirely different country in soooo many ways ... I was 17 so I remember very vividly how different life in this country was 🤷🏻 I wasn’t a little kid I was old enough to recognize how different this one event made life in this country
Who else watched this, watching that clock, tensing up as it got closer to the time the second tower was going to get hit? And then waiting for the towers to fall. And also hearing Katie and Matt talk about how they hoped the second tower had been evacuated once the first tower got hit, knowing that's not what happened and they were told to stay? And then seeing how all those people's lives had been cut in one motion collectively as the towers fell. And how they had been SO CLOSE to being rescued, that the firefighters had found a way to get up to those people trapped on the impact floors and above of the South Tower, that it wouldn't have been as bad if only the towers hadn't collapsed?
Its a moment in life you never forget. I may not be American or have been in America at the time but it had such a huge impact on us as children. We were completely freaked out and heartbroken. We prayed at schools for the families every day. It didn’t feel real. It was horrific 💔🥺
he must be cussing bin lantern............ he prolly lost a few hundred thousand in royalties, who even remembers this turkey after the events of the day..........
Such an emotional day I lost two people that day and our family was forever changed by those events my mother got home the night before on an American Airlines flight from Barcelona Spain my father was stuck over in Scotland my uncle was stuck in Boston and another in Washington DC it’s hard to watch these events and it’s hard to believe it’s gonna be 20 years in September I won’t ever forget god bless those who lost there lives on September 11th you are never forgotten. And to the hero’s your never forgotten.
You are Sicker than the 'other' Katie... LOL Katie Couric Golly Gee Shoot Fire!!! You should be playing the Lottery... 2 People 'eh? Where are they NOW? lol Nice try Katie!!! Duh!
I just went to the museum in New York a couple weeks ago. It was the most powerful museum I have ever been too because I was young but I remember everything about that day. God bless America. May those who lost their lives always live on through memories. Never forget.
I remember watching this on TV with my husband. We were both getting ready to go to work in WA State. My husband is a pilot in the USAF. When he saw that second plane hit, he knew he would be mobilized, even before they called it a terrorist attack. I distinctly remember him saying that was NOT a commuter plane, even when the news cast was saying it was, judging by the giant gaping holes in that first building. Still gives me a sick feeling watching this.
@maverickshereshowlove6615 Black people living in the ghettos are the most racist people I've ever had the displeasure of being exposed too. I'd say those "racist" cops are just serving up some karma.
I was at home with my 1st child. He was a year and 10 days old. My mom called me and told me to turn on the news. As I watched in shock and horror I looked down at my beautiful, innocent, happy baby boy and thought to myself, "What kind of world did I bring my child into?!" It was a sad day indeed.
I want to echo what Chaotic Mark said. Thank you for posting this. I was in college when the attacks hit. That day needs to be remembered and documented, and we need to pray that nothing like it ever happens again.
I was 16 and had just made a big move to the other side of the state of QLD Australia (out of home from my parents) with my boyfriend….. I woke to him calling me to tell me what had happened and I spent the rest of the morning glued to the television watching things unfold….. in a way it was a removal of my innocence and the beginning of me realising just how big and cruel the world was……… I still think if all those that lost their lives today and I feel such a sense of sadness and loss…… RIP to all of them..
My thoughts are with the families of the hijacked planes, as the flight numbers were announced. What a sickening awful moment it must have been to know a loved one was on board. Rip to all the victims and sincere condolences to their families.
I was watching this broadcast the morning of the attacks while I was getting ready for work in Texas. I distinctly remember the Today show producer on the phone and how her tone changed dramatically as she realized second before impact a second plane was headed for the second tower. That’s when it all changed. That’s when I stopped getting ready for work. That’s when I started really paying attention and trying to understand what was really going on. I’ve watched a lot of documentaries over the years about 9/11, but watching this 2 hours or so in real-time should be required viewing as a history lesson for students in school.
lolol You are absolutely correct. EVERYBODY should have to re-watch this ridiculous pre-recorded Movie. That 2nd plane you supposedly witnessed is a motion blurred image of a video composite....LOL It's as real as King Kong walking up the Empire state building... It's FAKE. A Hollywoood production... DUH!!! Laugh out LOUD!!!! Good One!!!
sure, required viewing so that everybody can be as brainwashed as you and get it all wrong and insist that you have it right. You'll believe anything. Get in touch and I'll sell you the brooklyn bridge for a good price.
We were in class at college when this happened. We had just finished watching some seminar on the projection screen. When the teacher shut off the tutorial, for some reason the projector was hooked up to the live news. All we saw when the TV turned on was the first tower smoking. We thought maybe a fire . Then with in a minute or so the second plane hit in live time, broadcasted on a big screen to the whole classroom. Everyone was in shock, we were sent home shortly after. We were in the tri State area so it was all a very real threat and loss.On my way home my old Volvo started to have problems, I barely made it back, the car died that day. What a horrible event, truly a shocking experience. RIP to all lives lost
The oh my at 9:48 just shows you just how shuck the U.S. was for a second before realizing it was an attack. So sad RIP to all the people affected by 9/11 and the aftermath. RIP to my uncle who just a few months ago took his life because of going to war in Iraq. Love you Uncle Joe! We will reunite one day! ❤️
Yeah when I watched the documentary " Loose Change) I remember being heartbroken. No innocent humans should die this horribly. It is as if somehow we failed to protect them. My heart breaks
I was in kindergarten when this happened. I remember walking down the hallway and I saw a room full of teachers watching the TV. When I looked at it, I saw two huge towers on fire. I couldn't understand, I thought they were watching a movie, didn't pay any attention. Later, that day, when I got home my family told me the truth about what really happened. It was impossible for me, as a 6 years old, to digest such a terrible and evil event...
And I was student teaching kindergarten that day. I will never forget the fear in those babies eyes when they would talk about it in the next days and weeks, and how I would reassure them that we were okay, even while I panicked every time I heard an airplane in the sky. Hugs to your little kindergarten self. The adults around you couldn’t comprehend it either. 💗
@@saltcitysunshine Wow, thank you. I actually remember drawing pictures of New York City and the twin towers, days and weeks after the attacks, also because I've never seen a city like that in my life. It had a huge impact in me...
I find it incredibly eerie that at the time stamp of 9:37am, Katie said "if another incident could happen on the heals of these two, what sort of measures are in place to prepare?" Which is the very moment that the Pentagon was attacked.
I was in 5th grade. I didn't know what was happening. I watched my teacher get the phone call telling her that her husband was on the missing American flight. I could see in her face that something terrible had happened. She ran off; we never saw her again. We were called into an assembly later and informed. I remember it all so clearly.
That second plane is what really gives me the chills, that's when you know it was an attack. Americans were never more together than they were that day. We all need to help each other like this each and every day!
@@lemurianchick didn't vote for Biden and certainly never got a vaccine either. Don't make assumptions. Have I thought this has been questionable? Yes, but doesn't take away from the fact that the people still came together in times of needing each other.
Many knew was terror on first attack, fdny assumed it was and some witness stated looked deliberate but fdny were under no doubt on first plane, chief pfeifer called it as he saw the plane go in
Such a tragic day, beyond words. Incredibly chilling that at the exact minute the reporter was saying ‘if another incident could happen on the heels of these two’, the Pentagon was hit. And that their correspondent at the Pentagon had no idea what was about to unfold when they were speaking minutes before… still as shocking today as it was then.
The fact that a lot of people thought it was a "smaller plane" gives you an idea of how massive those buildings were. Those planes were huge.
Yes , I thought it was a smaller plane to as I watched from home But it’s kind of obvious that the one hole was almost the whole width of 1 side. I would think most would then assume it was a large plane
@@sagemaster3408 I think the reason for so many assuming it was a smaller plane was because of how clear the skies were. so it was safe to assume an airline pilot would have seen those towers a mile away, and even if he had had a heart attack the co-pilot would have diverted the plane from the tower.
@@Jerseybytes2 yeah. I’m just saying once people saw the hole size, they would know it wasn’t a small plane. But yeah I could see why most people thought it was a small plane , there’s no way a commercial pilot would not see those buildings. Even I thought so. But omg. The size of the hole! I would imagine that most people , unless on the large hole side , couldn’t see it. Either way. All nightmarish day . Sux
@@sagemaster3408 I actually read about it online first because, even tho my tv was on, it was still on cartoon network from earlier on when my kids watched cartoons while eating breakfast. And because I was logging off I only read a couple of words out of the whole thing. So my brain auto filled the answers I didn't have. Had I not called my mother I wouldn't have found out anything else until much later on because in my mind I thought I already knew what had happened. She was the one who insisted I turn on the news, which I did because I wanted her to shut up. But I saw footage I was it I was in such shock that I never noticed the size of the hole in the building was too big for a small plane.
@@Jerseybytes2dog not allowed ect
My most vivid memory of 9/11 was that Queen Elizabeth II ordered her Scottish Guard band to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" in tribute towards the United States, for those American tourists standing outside of Buckingham Palace on 9/11/01. The American tourists were sobbing, and I was sobbing right along with them.
😢💔
Queen Elizabeth II showed class and compassion for the USA. She was a true ally to all Americans. Thank you, Your Majesty.
I love the Queen so much! Amazing woman!❤
@@maryhlad7501of course she was... as a matter of interest first.
In which planet do you live?
Ok q
My girlfriend’s (at the time) brother worked in the south tower, on the 82nd floor. He got drunk watching Monday night football, the night before and was too hungover to make it to work on time. Everyone in his office was killed. She couldn’t get in touch with him because the phones were all disrupted. We just watched and cried all day. He finally got through at 8:00 pm. Man, what a horrible day.
Wow. That is so traumatic. But what a blessing her family got. That hundreds never did. I love football. And you can honestly say football saved that guys life. Wow
If that's real then that's crazy luck
I remember that night before because the Denver Broncos played the Giants i think cause ED McCaffrey broke his leg.
@@rayyou7032 yup. I had mccafrey on my fantasy team, lol
The Giants got killed that night yet saved a lot of people from being killed.
I’m now 62 years old and will never forget that day. I watched live as the second plane impacted. I watched as individuals jumped and when the towers collapsed.
I remember driving home from work that day and a pastor from a local radio station addressed how to speak to our young children regarding the event. I will never be able to erase those memories.
I also lived next to a Marine Corp Air Station and the silence over the next few days was just eerie.
Don't you hate Pakistan for did this., sorry for bad English
@@vaibhavsingh_9538 dont hate the majority, hate the groups who did all of this
@@Cr3reeper you don't know that, Pakistan is supporting them
@vaibhavsingh_9538 it goes all the way back to the 80s and 90s under the Reagan and first Bush administration's had JFK RFK MLK lived men of peace men who saw war and tried to stop war this may not had happened they tried to bomb trade centers in 1993 when they killed JFK history changed on 11 22 1963
I lived next to NAS Jax in Jacksonville, FL. I remember that Friday. They flew out that day. For hours, it was one plane after another. That entire week was just surreal.
I was 18 years old, remember every vivid moment, never knew how much it would affect me…4 years later my husband of 2 weeks deployed to Iraq for 18 months, and this week we are celebrating our 18th Anniversary, and I thank God every day that he came home when so many did not
Hugs
I was 17. I visited the twin towers in 1996 . Seeing that happen live on tv…shit hit hard. I can’t imagine the people that were there to witness it, yet alone seeing the plane hit the building while you’re in it. I think the highest floor of a survivor was 105 stories in the second tower. I would have been sitting bricks, bricks I tell you going down that emergency staircase.
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What really haunt me to this day is the images of the people who jumped when they realized the situation was hopeless. Tragic.
I know .. I can't even
That, and all the recordings of people in the buildings making goodbye calls to their families. I can't listen to any of those. Too awful 😢
Very tragic.
And the moment that all of us watching it on TV realized that people were jumping and it wasn't just debris
I was at work watching this. A friend yelled, "Oh my God, people are jumping!" That was horrible to watch. Yes, it also haunts me too.
I was 21, woke up hung over and stumbled into the living room to see this report.... My friend came over shortly after and said "this is one of those things we will remember where we were the rest of our lives." and I do.
I was hungover too...I was glued to the TV
My dad said the exact same thing to me here in England and even now I could go into the whole scenario of how I found out, it really does show how this shook the whole world
I don’t remember being hungover because this happened on a Tuesday morning. I was getting ready for work.
don't forget to also drink a lot of water when you drink alcohol. During and after.
The dehydration the morning after is what is causing headaches, because it takes a lot of water to digest alcohol.
@@wh1tewolf4look at Mr. Big Man over here with his fancy job on a Tuesday morning
The world literally stood still that day. I was 15 when it happened and I think everyone who remembers will never forget the fear and confusion we felt that day. 22 years later and it still sends shivers down my spine
The day after 911 was the last time America was united. Then the pols took over and destroyed our liberties with the fucking Patriot Act. Now the federal govt considers its citizens domestic terrorists. It’s difficult to not believe that the whole thing was a set up by the security apparatus of the US to take control and turn America into a totalitarian nation. TRUMP 2024!
Not me. I thought it was a cessna hitting a roadside diner until I saw the news that night.
@@kiandrah8517thought I was the only one! 😳
OMG, LITERALLY????????????!!!!!!!! Sure it wasn't figuratively?!
I was 20 years old in 2001. A lot of people back then were scared sh*tless after the Pentagon was hit.
I was 17 when this happened, and babysitting my 5 year old nephew. I remember him asking me “What movie is this?” And I told him “No, this is really happening!”
Genuinely one of the most shocking days of my life.
I had the same reaction as your nephew. There's at least a 12hr time difference between NY and my country. I was 18, and didn't have school. I woke up mid morning and saw this on TV. I thought it was a movie, so I ignored it and went about my morning routine. Came back, it's still on. Had breakfast, came back, and it's still on. I thought, wtf is this movie and why do they keep repeating the trailer? Took me a while to realize it was real.
You should have told the poor kid it was a movie (ID4 II?). Horrible stuff for a kid to see, though most did see it 😢
@@doctorbohr1585Well, children live in this world too. Its better to be honest with them in these types of situations, in my opinion. It's the life and world we all have to live in, unfortunately 😢
@@nikkibest5010dog not allowed ect
@@doctorbohr1585suicide not allowed
It still devastates me to no end that they didn’t immediately evacuate the South Tower when the fire started in the North - regardless what they did or did not know at the time.
This.
Because bodies and debris were falling from Tower 1, people in Tower 2 were told to stay in place to avoid making themselves a casualty and getting in the way of firefighters.
Ironically i guess the FDNY's first casualty was Engine 218s Daniel Suhr, killed by a jumper from the South Tower, 3 people jumped from Tower 2, 1 of them landed on him killing him instantly around 9:30am
They were told to go up to the 101st floor to see the ventriloquist show there 💃🏼🧎🏼♀️
@@AB-mw8oz So the jumpers survived? You insensitive jerk.
@@Chimp981 With 2020 hindsight it seems like evacuating would have been the right thing to do. I wondered about that for many years too until it was pointed out to me that, for one, it was thought to be an accident and not a terrorist attack and, 2, that as another person wrote, the Port Authority personnel thought it was safer for people to stay inside because of the flaming debris and getting in the way of the fireman.
I was in 4th grade living on Long Island. Our teachers decided not to tell us what was going on. Presumably, my classmate’s parents were working in the city this morning. I had no clue until I got home. I will always appreciate Mrs. Boyle’s composure that day. Seeing this on the news when I got home is something I will never forget.
Bout the same happened when President Kennedy was shot. We weren't told at school and I had to ask mom why I saw flags at half staff on the way home.
@@rotunda57 I walked in from school to find my mother sobbing in front of the t.v. that day. I had never seen her cry before that I could remember. My grandmother had just taken us to see JFK the year before.
That was the correct choice by her! As a teacher now, I really cannot believe that some teachers did the opposite and showed this to young children live (including children of firefighters who thought their parent was dead).
I was 12 blocks away when this happened going to my senior year of college in NYC. I watched the entire thing unfold before my eyes in person. It’s forever seared into my brain.
Why make your comment about yourself? I don't even feel I have the right to comment.
But here you are ... "Me me me I I I.
Screw you bud.
@@Jarrygames86they were simply sharing their story. I think a lot of people will never forget where they were when they heard the news, especially if you were close to where it happened. No need to be rude.
Aww you poor thing 😢
I’m sorry you went through this. Very scary 💔
@@Jarrygames86 And, yet you commented negatively. Ppl have a right to their feelings.
22 years later I am watching this as it has just happened. Thanks YT and may the innocent souls who passed that day rise in glory.
23 years later and I’m still in disbelief.
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@@brooke8567 aww who's an edgy boi?
im watching this right now 11/23/2024 and i still cant believe it.. im shedding many tears again
I was 21 years old and being alive for something like this changes you forever.
how to make this about me, poor you
For better or worse?
Godzilla died reading this
Definitely! When you see government lies right in front of you, you don't stop asking questions. Oh, sorry... did you mean you were dumb enough to believe the actual narrative? My bad...
Didn't change my a bit
My step sister worked in tower 1 3rd floor from the top. I called her that day for over an hour. I finally called her apartment and she answered. She had taken the day off for a date with her future husband. She was so lucky to be one of her few survivors of her firm. Till this day... she can not fly or live in a big city. On the anniversary of this day we spend it together outside.
Every year I watch all this coverage again. I never want to forget. I am afraid too many politicians have forgotten!
Because they never cared about what happened that day.
@@OnlyTimefps9bingo
@@OnlyTimefps9exactly. Too bad humans are sheep. They don't care about us just the money they use to cause trouble.
They sold us out
0:23 American Flight 11 Hits the North Tower. (Aftermath)
9:46 United Flight 175 hits the South Tower.
45:55 American Flight 77 hits the Pentagon.
1:05:53 The South Tower collapses.
1:31:54 First report of United Flight 93.
1:35:27 The North Tower collapses.
Just before this timestamp at 9:46 you can hear the jet fly over her place and she says "oh my goodness." It's eerie.
My mother was supposed to be on flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon she flew ever other week to visit my grandma im grateful that the driveway got done on the 11th it saved her life
Where was the wreckage of the plane??
@@mattsmith1173a missle hit the pentagon.
@@mikehoncho3695no it was a plane!
@@judythompson4971 No it wasn't
@@richpiana8020 I was a ✈️
The chaos and panic everyone must have felt this day having no idea what was going on. RIP to all the lives lost.
The firefighter who responded "it's my Job" when asked why he was going back in after the first tower collapsed. 😢 Bravery on a level that is hard to imagine. RIP to all the heroes 🙏
God bless America and may the brave American hero Rest in peace❤.
Yeah when I watched the documentary " Loose Change) I remember being heartbroken. No innocent humans should die this horribly. It is as if somehow we failed to protect them. The bravery of these men is what kept us together through that fear😢
@@huggybear3098controlled demolitions no doubt
Also called stupidity
JUST STOPPED BY TO REMEMBER THE DAY THAT LIVES IN INFAMY..!! I AM NOW 62 YEARS OLD ..!! I STILL HAVE TROUBLE BELIEVING IT HAPPENED..!! IT'S GOOD TO HEAR TOM BROKAW AGAIN.!!
I DON'T SEE HOW WE COULD EVER FORGET..!! THEN AGAIN HOW LONG CAN WE LIVE THAT LIVED WITH THAT..!! ONE DAY WE WILL ALL BE GONE..!! SO WILL THE MEMORY..!!
KEEP 9/11 ALIVE..!!
🙏'S FOR ALL THE FAMILIES & FRIENDS THAT SUFFERED FUE TO THIS TRAGEDY..!!
I always wonder if I would still be alive if I stayed in line at NY Coffee Station downstairs when the plane hit. I worked at Oppenheimer in South Tower and most mornings, I would get a bagel at NY Coffee Station. The line was so long, I decided to go across the street to Liberty Deli to get my bagel. I paid for my bagel and while waiting, the plane hit.
you made the right decision.
I will never forget the feeling in the pit of my stomach when that 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower. That's when you realized it wasn't an accident and that we were under attack.
Too bad our government knew about this attack and let it happen. All for money and war.
Sad. RIP to all those who passed for a greedy government.
Ikr? Shudder.
The voice of Jennifer O. just after the second plane must have echoed the emotions of so many people.
I was 27 and know exactly where i was and exactly what i was doing . We all left work that day to be with our families . I will never forget that sick feeling i had all week did not even celebrate my birthday on 9/14 i just sat in front of TV and cried watching all the pictures of those who died . Remember it like yesterday .22 years later
I was a senior in high school in Pennsylvania. They locked down the school not allowing anybody to enter or leave because of the hijacked plane that was over Pennsylvania. Those beautiful souls downed it and saved plenty of lives on United 93 that day.
Anybody else here starting their 9/11 binge to remember since the anniversary coming up?
for me its the Cosgrove 911 call during the collapse, it's so frightening to literally hear the building collapse and the panic in his voice.
yes.. and it feels so bad
@@dicedmeat7857 I heard the Cosgrove call. He died quickly and likly was chopped up into little pieces. I interview people who briefly clinically are dead. Thier spirits leave the body and they say initially, they don't feel they died. They feel a huge amount of love and other amazing things as a spirit.
RIP to all those lost that day.
that would be all of us. We became dead men walking the minute we all swallowed these lies from Dick Cheney and other such horrible people. I didn't, but you did. And you'd insist that it's true if I asked you. Because you have zero discernment. Zero ability to reason logically. Just what "they" want in an american. bravo.
Except the terrorists
Also those poor afghans and Iraqis america killed in retribution
@@HoLeeFuk317The US are the terrorists
Remember being 11 in Nairobi Kenya 🇰🇪 and watching this unfold with extreme horror
John O’Neill warned the FBI and CIA for 2 years yet he was ignored. RIP John as you were correct.
I was 27 when this happened and watched this awful tragedy unfold live on tv. Its really odd explaining this event to younger people who were born after 9/11 or were too young to have a living memory of this. I don't think they'll ever truly fathom how gut wrenching the fear was for those of us who saw this unfold in real time...especially when the second plane hit. It was the most horrific and most unimaginable thing you could ever have dreaded to see
Even though I agree that the attacks were horrible, I can´t help but wonder if you (or anyone for that matter) felt the same kind of "gut wrench" when the response was to kill 200 thousand iraqi civilians.
Don´t get me wrong. 3000 dead IS horrible. But so are 200 000. Yet I never seem to read or see anything about that. Or people saying how shocking it was to witness these numbers....
Just something to think about.
(in NY) i remember it being like that scene from ID4 when will smith wakes up and its a perfect day until he turns on the tv
@@derfalschelennox365well... that wasnt the inmediate response, going to irak. Irak war was 2 years after the attacks. So you are wrong.
especially with the looming effect of a possible 3rd world war.
@@derfalschelennox365yes I am angry at them then Australian PM John Howard invading Middle East.
Not enough converse goes on about the murders that went on when usa invaded Iraq and surrounding countries. I’m sorry if you are connected to any of the deaths done by the “Allies”””
Watching this footage back all these years later still feels surreal. I remember watching it live on tv.
I remember being 15 years old and angry af that all the regular tv programming didn't come on. I'm still mad about it lol
I was 20 when this happened. A tragic day I’ll never forget. The world has never been the same since this horrific event.
Me too
I was in 4th grade when this happened, they put the news on the TV in my classroom I still remember it. It was very scary. Our parents had to come pick us up. My family lived in a high rise building just outside of DC and we could see the smoke from the Pentagon from our balcony. I’ll never forget it. Tragic day, Rest In Peace to all those who perished 🕊
Same we were in the dmv aswell it was crazy
I was 16 and I’d never felt more alive in my life. Every adult was grieving, it was fucking electric. Overstimulation though, haven’t been able to replicate that feeling..
Me too! In 4th grade and remembered my teacher sat us down and told us what happened. Just remembered seeing the smoking building on every news channel.
you are sick...I feel sorry for anyone that has to live with you@@Fhhsfft
@@Fhhsfftbizarre response - were you high?
I was in 10th grade Spanish class when the principal made an announcement for an emergency assembly. Even at that age I didn’t understand the full gravity of what happened. Watching this now is completely mindblowing and heartbreaking.
And i a lot of people don't imagine, they can't just figure how violent and graphic was this event
I remember my 3rd grade teacher just barely being able to continue our class on this day. I will never forget the look in her teary eyes.
I was just about to leave for work when the first plane hit. At that time I worked on a psychiatric unit! When I finally made it into work none of the therapies were going on, everybody was around the tv. And then the moment we realized we were seeing people jumping from the building, the head nurse turned it off cuz it was just too much for our emotionally compromised patients. Too much for all of us, really. But we wanted to know what was going on because there was so much confusion. But we just couldn't let our patients watch it any longer.
Why do I still cry when I see this footage, 22 years later?😢
Why not? Its horrible
Because you care as do I.
Because it's relatively rare in your country
Because your human. I've seen different kinds of coverage through the years and cry every time. Of course, I live in NYC.
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I was a sophomore in high school. I walked into 3rd period chemistry and the tv was on. We watched the towers fall. I was sick to my stomach and had my mom pick me up at the next break. I was worried about my friends in Chicago. I felt stupid because no one else reacted the way I did. In retrospect I realize my emotions were valid. Life changing moments.
Yeah, I remember the morning of September 11th 2001. I was 22 years old and outside in my front yard of my house working on staining decking for deck my father and I were working on not too far from my home. When my father came out in a rush and said "Chris hurry up and get in here, ya gotta see what's on the news!" That day changed my life and the life of almost every other American. I'm 44 now and I still harbor horrible feelings about what took place on that day.
Nice! You are around my age. Born in 1981 here.
I was 22 when this happened. I had just come home from a short working day in Munich, Germany, turned on my TV and saw the first tower on fire. Saw the 2nd impact on live TV. Seeing something so horrible live on TV, seeing all these innocent people suffering, crying, hanging outside the windows for air, waiting in vain for someone to save them, many of them jumping or falling to their deaths has deeply moved me, and I don't think I'll ever forget this.
I am German and have only been to the US once when I was 14, but I think most of us felt as Americans on that day, feeling just as if we ourselves had been attacked.
My thoughts are with everyone we lost that day, as well as with everyone that lost loved ones, friends or colleagues.
Wusste gar nicht dass man im deutschen Fernsehen schon nachdem ersten Flugzeug die Lage live übertragen hatte
@@0topon so hab ich es zumindest in Erinnerung (23 Jahre später würd ich da aber auch kein Geld mehr drauf wetten). Ich schätze aber auch, dass nach dem ersten Einschlag vermutlich auch noch keine Programme unterbrochen worden waren. Müsste wenn dann auf n-tv, o.ä. gewesen sein. Und CNN und NBC hatte ich damals glaub ich auch immer mal geschaut - also auch nicht ausgeschlossen, dass ich es da gesehen habe.
@@martin1042 Ok, danke für die Antwort!
You wonder who knew from the first hit that this was terrorism? I was sitting next to an 80 year old war vet when it happened and he knew immediately.
If you listen to the Howard Stern recording from 9/11, they also knew immediately we were under attack when the second plane hit
I believe it. And yes Howard knew right away. And a lot of people in that building knew too, they had not forgotten 1993.
Nonsense. He just made a guess and it happened to be right, he didn't know shit
I was 21 and in college and I had two uncles working in Jersey City. It was horrible and changed our lives forever.
I was at college, at my class close to 4th Street. It was horrible. The aftermath was terrible, too. I was 19 years old, and all bridges, tunnels, subways, were closed going in and out of the city. I was a commuter from the Bronx, so I had nowhere to go. There were military jets flying around, and there was also no cell service. Luckily, I found my friend, who also lived in the Bronx and we walked from Astor place to 149th Street in the Bronx where the trains were up and running. I couldn't even really understand the devastation of the whole thing.
The days after were crazy, too. I just remember bursting into tears on the train from seeing the pictures on the front page of the newspapers.
Back at home we celebrate as America is never at fault for its actions against our country
@@Sausagerills have fun celebrating in your shithole country 😂
Yup, I was 20 years old in college as well in 2001. Students were freaking out back then. The world was different in 2001.
Even as a 9 year old living in Ethiopia, I had tears in my eyes when this was being broadcasted. 9/11 just so happens to be the day Ethiopian new years happens, and I remember it was about 7 or 8 pm and our new year party at my house was still going strong, and then somebody turned on the TV. Everyone at our house was shocked seeing those images. It's beyond my imagination what the people of New York went through.
Liar ...You wish you flee it.
I was also 9 when this happened
I was also 9. Just stared the 4th grade and was sitting in my class when the teacher ran in franticly and announced what just happened. We didn’t know how to react.
I was -7
@@Raven........10:41 she just won the grand prize of the world's dumbest comment. "I wonder if there's air traffic control problems". You seriously thinking air traffic controller is going to tell a pilot to fly a plane into a building?! You really think the pilot is going to be dumb enough to do that?!
I turned on the TV around 8:58, 23 years ago and tuned in to this very station. This is like reliving these events.
This is the exact broadcast i was watching when i was getting ready for school that morning...ill never forget that day
I was getting ready too and once the 2nd plane hit I dropped all my stuff and started trying to call my boyfriend because he was in the Air Force. Sure enough he would be deployed in Nov. 2001-May 2002; again in Dec. 2002-March 2003 He left the Air Force in Aug. 2003 and went to the Reserves. Went to college instead on his earned GI Bill. He was a KC135 Mid-Air Refueler. I couldn't reach him the morning of 9/11 because he was sleeping from working the shift the night before. He said "I woke up and my answering machine was full; I knew something horrible had happened" I had left him 4 messages, his parents, and numerous military personnel. I think his answering machine held 45 min of recordings. How I'd love to hear those messages today and post them. I'm sure they were deleted, unfortunately. We broke up in 2003... but he's a great man. Distance kept us apart and it just wouldn't of working for us. Corey if you see this... thank you for all the memories and your service. ❤ SJS
Were you in the mountain time zone? I was in the eastern time zone (nowhere near NYC), in my 1st period HS civics class and the principal came in, whispered something to the teacher who then put on the TV to watch the news (this was probably a little before 10:00 and they were already showing replays of the 2nd plane hitting). My school decided not to cancel school that day, even though parents were showing up to pick up a bunch of their kids but it seemed pointless bc nobody was going to be able to focus, teachers just put on the news on the classroom TVs and all anybody talked about was speculation about who was behind it.
I always wondered if most schools in the mountain/western time zone cancelled school that day as it was already everyone was talking about by like 7/6 am there.
@@giampaolofini1535 I was working at an elementary school in Denver and didn't find out about it until I got to school. I don't think any schools were closed here, but a couple of parents did come and pick up their kids. One mother worked at the Federal Center downtown and when they evacuated it, she was pretty frantic. Hope that helps.
Me too. I was just about to leave for work when they broke in with the news. Ended up being late to work
When it zooms out at 9:33 and you can see the second plane descending, and you know whats about to happen...
These videos are hard to find. Thank you for archiving this!
I was 24 years old when 9/11 happened and seeing this makes it feel like it just happened yesterday all these years later still shakes me
Oooooooh
It’s actually impressive how these big news companies handled the situation. Most of them remained calm and reserved speculation until the second plane and everyone pretty much knew by then it was no accident
some of them were honest at the beginning before they got the word that their advertising would be cut off if they tried to tell any truth.
It's a professional news broadcast, they need to be calm, just look how news broadcast act when other tragic events happen.
they come across as sociopaths with low IQ
@@lebergerdesphotons4565 lying conspiracy theorist
@@ctcole77 thank you for your opinion, friend. It's not because I have no respect for your opinion or your intellect that I don't want to hear you express yourself, so please continue whenever it suits you.
My school in massachusetts was evacuated immediately, and we were all sent home. Never ever forget
I'm an American and was living overseas in Kyrgyzstan when this happened. I was at a bar where foreigners like to hang out when I got a text telling me of the first plane crash. We all rushed in to watch the news. When the second plane hit, you can't imagine the chill that went through all our spines. We were at war and stuck in another country! I immediately drove home and spent the next few days holed up in my house watching news and wondering if I had to abandon everything and fly home.
I was in 8th grade when this happened..i still find it really sad up to this day.Hope all the souls that was lost that day found peace😢
You were born in 1918?
I was 14😢
@@blazingstar9638 I was 14 too
@@MisterMcKinney haha I don't remember the significance of that #s on my username 🤣 I just realized it now that you asked🤣
What is disgusting is our Government didn't immediately react putting all Military on High Alert !
Never gets easier to watch. Visited the 9/11 memorial earlier this year. Still feels absolutely ire around the memorial.
In my homeland Poland, the whole country was in a state of shock and in sympathy- we viewed it as similar to the Nazi attack on our country in 1939.The amount of tears and empathy was unfathomable.This was an attack on our civilized world and on all of US who love freedom.We think of it every year.💔💋💔God Bless all and America.
Why do you view this is an nazi attack ? Remember building 7 and the pentagon how can you not know that this was a perfect inside job for war on terror in the middle east 😅
What Nazi? You mean germans, right?
F*ck America. Single biggest cause of the world's problems.
civilized ? not sure about that one. The west have enslaved, raped and destroyed countries taking all they can for 100s of years.
And Poland + ukraine is a full of Nazi, so guess you lost that war.
It's so regrettable that people weren't told to evacuate from the South Tower after the the North Tower was hit.
I was 13 years old when this happened. I was getting ready for school and I normally watch the news for the weather but I was stuck to the tv. I thought at first it was a terrible accident until I saw the 2nd plane hit the second tower and I knew something is wrong. I still went to school but the whole day we didn’t do any work and watched the news for the day. To this day, I’m still saddened for the lives we lost. Remember them and continue to rest.
It still blows my mind that we all saw a bunch of lives become extinguished in a split second on live tv. Innocent people didn't just get killed but they were killed live on tv. Your life, family, kids, accomplishments are all void as your plane speeds towards a building at 500-600 mph. I was 15 and a freshman in high school so at the time needless to say I didn't really grasp the scope of it all. It wasn't until people started uploading clips and coverage to UA-cam that I really started to realize how crazy and tragic the whole day was.
People who grew up during Vietnam saw people dying live on tv on the nightly news too. Then they had to see it again on 9/11. There are some things we can never unsee. Horrible.
Still get tears and emotional today. RIP to those who perished, thank you to those who responded, and peace to those who survived and their family and friends. I love my hometown of NYC no matter where I live on this earth❤️ 🇺🇲
rip 1 million killed by us forces the year after
Crocodile tears
find the right room to post this undocumented number@@timopint1125
who are you to make that assumption? Nobody@@randyjam9925
Was your own government.
I still get knots in my gut when I see this. I was in 2nd grade not knowing what was going on except that it was something horrific. May those who lost their lives rest in peace.
That had to be terrifying for the little guy that you were. I was teaching in an all-girls Catholic high school in the Chicago suburbs, quite close to O'Hare Airport. The students were OK, just scared. However a couple of them were pretty much losing their shit, thinking their parents who worked in the Sears-Willis Tower would be vulnerable to a similar fate. I held it together all day, then turned on the classroom TV. I'm not one of those emotional chicks and rarely cry, but I sobbed into a towel all the way home. At one point I missed the green light ... AND NOT A SINGLE PERSON beeped the horn at me. At another point, I was stopped for a light, and I looked up at the guy in the next car; he just nodded sadly. This was a rather unique event on Chicago's North Avenue. It's all blood sport on those roads/streets on every other day. But not that one.
@@josi4251, that must have been rough. I saw the ashen looks on the faces of the teachers that day and I admire how they kept it together when we arrived for school that day. Thank you for sharing your account of that day. I hope you're doing well.
I was the same age and was there a month after it happened. It’s shaped my life ever since.
I was in 7th grade, so at that age where you're beginning to understand these things, and it was terrifying.
I was just 11 days away from turning 3 and was home with my mother and sister watching Blue’s Clues when hundreds of airplanes started flying around our hometown and briefly after, my aunt called to inform my mother of what was going on. She immediately started panicking and hurriedly changed the TV channel to the news for us to see these tragic events happening. It was scary for me to see it happening live with obnoxious airplane noise all around us and my mother really had to hold me while providing comforting words.
I remember watching this at work, where I built these passenger jets. To this day I remember what I was wearing, where I was standing all my co workers what they were wearing and every detail and I'm the type of person that can't remember what I did yesterday. The next day myself and a fellow Co-worker went to the Army recruiters office. It still has the same effect on me to this day. God bless all those who lost their lives and to all the first responder and volunteers that fought to save lives.
Duck those religitards who did this and duck those religitards with their God Bless bullshit.
10:42. I wonder if there is a traffic control problem.
That person must only be shocked to think something like that
I was 23 when this happened. Sound asleep with my girlfriend when my grandmother called to wake us up, telling me she thought World War 3 had just started. They were in their 20s during Pearl Harbor, the precursor to America's entry into World War 2, so it's understandable why she'd think another attack of that magnitude would lead to another big war.
Yeah I can see where someone who lived through Pearl Harbor would fear that. Like you said though, Pearl Harbor was the reason the US joined the World War and not the cause. Single attacks on one country by one other country usually don't cause a world war between many countries fighting each other. Especially when it's a terrorist attack and not another country attacking. That being said I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking that especially if they had lived through PH. Besides you really never know and 9/11 was the first thing of that magnitude to happen here so anything could of come from it.
@@floridamarinemom1749True, but there was such a confusion all over the world, I can guarantee you as Finnish, that for sure others must have felt exactly the same, that WW 3 was to start.
Mostly because of the way they attacked; we knew about suicide bombers etc.
But this?
It was so completely uncalled for that it shook thr feeling of safety for citizens outside USA too.
Because it took some time to become sure that this was an attack on America, or the whole world.
And if air planes could be used as weapons, what couldn't?
So yea even if the comparision did not work well as Pearl Harbor never started a WW, I am very sure Americans were not at that time alone fearing that WW 3 had started.
Obviously later the rest of the world could feel ease when it appeared to be between USA and bin Laden...
Then again, those chemical attacks via mail did spread outside the states.
Some could say the world really was at war, but it wasn't fought with basic weapons.
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@@pontusbackman1863 I wish it was only a war between the US and bin Laden. Or Al Qaeda. I don't believe we ever really got to the bottom of everyone that was behind it. Bush just wanted to show that he was responding to the attack on US soil so he just started bombing Afghanistan killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people maybe even millions. Then he moved on to Iraq lying to Americans by telling us that Hussain had a connection with Bin Laden which he didn't and that they had WMD which they didn't. He used this tragedy as an excuse when it had nothing to do with it. Yet the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia was never given serious thought or investigation. If it was it was hidden from the citizens of this country.
Even 22 years later, it’s unbelievable that this actually happened… I live near Belfast in northern ireland, was 22 years old and had just had lunch with a friend. We called into a shop and I heard the staff saying to another ‘all flights cancelled’ and knew there was a concern in their tone. I said to my friend ‘there’s something going on somewhere’. When I got into my car, I phoned my mum to tell her I was on my way home and put kettle on for us to have a cup of tea. She told me planes had hit the WTC. When I got back, we were glued to the tv for days. It was shocking that while we sat in front of the tv, that devastation was actually happening in real time in America. It was also a clear, blue autumn day here aswell. God bless everyone affected on 9/11… all the deceased, their families, emergency personnel and those who continue to suffer the after affects of the WTC dust. A sad day which l will never forget, and the days and weeks which followed. God rest their souls xx
Same, I was 20 and working in a pub in Moira when someone ran in from the street asking if they could turn the TV onto Sky News. All of just sat for the next 6-7 hours watching the TV.
@@SurvivingTheApocalypse yea, everyone was the same. My dad actually thought for a split second the same ‘movie’ was on 2 different channels until he realised it was live news coverage. A day never to be forgotten. Look up the documentary ‘report from ground zero’ Very interesting accounts and one of the firefighter survivors talking about how he searched for his brother has since now passed away due to 9/11 cancers. Heartbreaking 💔
@@Godsucks.apestosodios what a hateful comment… so 3000+ Americans who were going to work etc deserved to be blown up, crushed etc on that day? You must be from the darkest depths of hell to make a comment like that.
Agreed. Still can't believe this actually happened. Recommend anyone to visit the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan any chance they get.
@dylanmelotti4301 I went to the memorial/museum in 2016, so many of us left the museum in tears. All you could hear were people sniffling and literally no one talking.
Let's not forget that Jules Naudet was filming a documentary about a rookie FF, when he rode out with Chief Pfiefer and his crew investigating the smell of gas from the street, when he got the shot of the first plane hitting tower 1.
I was 15 when this happened, I'll never forget. A teacher ran into our classroom and yelled that we were at war. It was so bizarre, because obviously we hadn't seen anything.
I went to NYC the first night that Broadway reopened after 9/11. We saw Rent. It was the third time I’d seen it but this show was different. It’s normally a pretty heavy play but that night was indescribable. The emotion that everyone felt was life changing. I’ve never been a part of something so powerful in my life. We went because they were telling us to support the city but it was the most somber night of my life.
Those were the nights where the city started being rebuilt, not physically but emotionally.
We saw Rent, on a holiday to New York from United Kingdom, on September 4 2001 having been up the South Tower 2 days earlier
This event caused a worldwide ripple like never experienced before. Life hasnt been the same since anywhere.
I was deployed 1 month later after 9/11/01 but to me, the heroes were the flight passengers and first responders and everyone who died. 😢Breaks my heart. I SHOOK ALL DAY. RIP
lucky they found those intact passports though ?
This still brings tears to my eyes every time I see this. When it happened live when I watched it I didn’t cry because of the shock and confusion of the situation you didn’t know what to do. I think most people were just waiting to hear what country we were going to war with.
it will 100% make me tear every time. no other video of anything does that
I’ll never forget how united we were as a nation for many months after this. Everyone was kinder to each other. We were all Americans - not Democrats or Republicans.
Such a surreal day. I finally understood how my grandparents felt about Pearl Harbor.
May all victims of 9/11 rest in eternal peace. We will never forget.
No matter how long passes, each anniversary is remarkable from this historic day, rip those lost their lives this tragedy.
I will never forget this day. I was working at a daycare and the director came in crying. Parents picked up their kids early. I lived near a major airforce base and there was a sonic boom in the sky. There was massive panic because we were told there was an attack at the base. (Which their wasn't) I walked home that day and I have never ever been anywhere that quiet. It was literally like the world stood still. RIP to all those who lost their lives that day. It still breaks my heart to see this.
U are sexy I'm sorry
Which Air Force base, if you don’t mind. That’s not the first time I’ve heard of a sonic boom occurring on a military base on that day..
Yo WHAT MILITARY BASE, if you aren’t a 🤖
@@RenaeJS thank you
@@RenaeJSthat was right by my childhood home! We were terrified all over again. I remember running to my brother, scared as hell.
The summer after 9/11 happened, my friend & I took a trip to stay a couple of nights in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. One morning we got up to take a walk and met a woman who was a church minister. She lost both her husband & son in the attacks. We couldn't believe how strong she was. She was out walking that morning and explained that horrible events happen & her faith was strong & she knew one day she was going to see them again. A very life changing day for both us.
Yes it is scary, that even when they are faced with the consequence of religious bullshit, they never reconsider but even fall further down the cultist rabbit hole.
@@ricklocket2812yeah its bull but if it gets weak minded folks through it then go for it
Wow! She has hope but you two are clueless. Guess you’ll find out one day-God is real and gave His Son for our sins. You’re so full of hate that you can’t see the truth. Will be praying for you.
@ricklocket2812
That's such a juvenile response to that story.
Her faith stopped her from falling into deep depression. Would you have preferred that? Then put her on medication for the rest of her life?
If someone can use their faith in a positive way, they shouldn't be criticised for it.
@@StuTheDon17 I wasn't criticising her for her beliefs. I was amazed how strong she was. Don't jump to conclusions with your comments. It was not a juvenile comment. What is wrong with you people?
I was 12 years old and recently started the 7th grade on 9/11. I was living in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. I was in school like all other kids when it happened. It was such a depressing and sad time for our country. Never thought that we would move forward and go back to our normal lives.
I was in 2nd grade and also in Buffalo grove!
I was 12, I knew something wasn’t right something told me it was very serious. Like the Oklahoma City bombing. That same feeling one i can’t describe
I was in pre-school and had the day off that day.
I was Living in Birmingham, Alabama and I was 12 years old recently started the 6th Grade Huffman Middle School a New Chapter and we've moved forward after that attack.
And who would have thought on that day that almost 20 years later, not Islamic extremist, but conservative Americans would try to overthrow the government. Absolutely wild.
I go back and watch this each anniversary, and pray for the victims and their families. May God Bless them always.
Me too, Godbless 🙏❤️
@@Mhel2023 Amen
I do too. #AlwaysRemember #NeverForget
Amen 🙏🏽❤️
Jennifer: freaks out after the first one. Loses her mind after the second.
The whole country was losing their minds after the second one. Couldnt imagine actually being there and seeing it 1st hand.
about 8 mo. ago i was near the logan airport in Boston and i saw this man driiving a really nice car and i told him nice car and he said he. was supposed to give it too his sister who was on the first plane . Its a small world sometimes but that was very humbling . God bless everyone that day
I was 18. Senior year. Televisions on and watched it. The feeling of learning it was terrorists sunk in slow because of the denial. Drove to work to empty businesses. Drove back home on empty spooky roads. Then i was in Oslo in 2011 right near the building that was bombed by their terrorist. Saw crazy stuff. It made me forever connected to what everyone must've felt in NYC. So tragic. Life is precious. Tell your loved ones you love them and share your feelings with them. God bless you all. #neverforget
Was 23
The world has never been the same since. Such a tragic day. RIP to all the victims of this horrible tragedy 💔🙏
Meanwhile...just about EVERY day there is a mass shooting in the U.S. but somehow..."that is O.K.".
The world is the same , just full of terrorist co*k sucking cu*ts !!!!
a "tragedy"???? WHAT THE FROG???
@@anotherwolff3650Ummm yeah, a tragedy, what part of the friggin video don't you comprehend? Idiot
And that was the point🤷🏻 you can truly trace the change of the world back to that day... especially america this was an entirely different country in soooo many ways ... I was 17 so I remember very vividly how different life in this country was 🤷🏻 I wasn’t a little kid I was old enough to recognize how different this one event made life in this country
Who else watched this, watching that clock, tensing up as it got closer to the time the second tower was going to get hit? And then waiting for the towers to fall. And also hearing Katie and Matt talk about how they hoped the second tower had been evacuated once the first tower got hit, knowing that's not what happened and they were told to stay? And then seeing how all those people's lives had been cut in one motion collectively as the towers fell. And how they had been SO CLOSE to being rescued, that the firefighters had found a way to get up to those people trapped on the impact floors and above of the South Tower, that it wouldn't have been as bad if only the towers hadn't collapsed?
It was heart breaking.
I know 😢
Its a moment in life you never forget. I may not be American or have been in America at the time but it had such a huge impact on us as children. We were completely freaked out and heartbroken. We prayed at schools for the families every day. It didn’t feel real. It was horrific 💔🥺
Imagine praying to an invisible god who just let 3000 people die in a horrific way. 🫣
@@robotstonka7118imagine trying to be an edgelord
@@robotstonka7118imagine having no hope and no one to pray to. So sad. Hell is real. Better wake up, bud!
0:01 imagine being that author, finally with your big publicity break on prime time morning TV
he must be cussing bin lantern............ he prolly lost a few hundred thousand in royalties, who even remembers this turkey after the events of the day..........
Such an emotional day I lost two people that day and our family was forever changed by those events my mother got home the night before on an American Airlines flight from Barcelona Spain my father was stuck over in Scotland my uncle was stuck in Boston and another in Washington DC it’s hard to watch these events and it’s hard to believe it’s gonna be 20 years in September I won’t ever forget god bless those who lost there lives on September 11th you are never forgotten. And to the hero’s your never forgotten.
So sorry for your loss, such an important day for both America and the world to remember both the cruelty of evil and importance of good.
You are Sicker than the 'other' Katie... LOL Katie Couric Golly Gee Shoot Fire!!! You should be playing the Lottery... 2 People 'eh? Where are they NOW? lol Nice try Katie!!! Duh!
@@garyaustin8595you’re sick.
weird@@garyaustin8595
Inside job
Many times since this tragic event, I go back & watch it all again. My eyes see it but my brain can't accept it & I don’t think it ever will.
I just went to the museum in New York a couple weeks ago. It was the most powerful museum I have ever been too because I was young but I remember everything about that day. God bless America. May those who lost their lives always live on through memories. Never forget.
I remember watching this on TV with my husband. We were both getting ready to go to work in WA State. My husband is a pilot in the USAF. When he saw that second plane hit, he knew he would be mobilized, even before they called it a terrorist attack. I distinctly remember him saying that was NOT a commuter plane, even when the news cast was saying it was, judging by the giant gaping holes in that first building. Still gives me a sick feeling watching this.
Was declared terror by fdny on first aircraft, and some witnesses said deliberate
Never forget. Never forgive.
@maverickshereshowlove6615 Black people living in the ghettos are the most racist people I've ever had the displeasure of being exposed too. I'd say those "racist" cops are just serving up some karma.
@@TheYzemanIs it surprising that some of the Black people that experienced lots of racism, might become racist themselves?
what's that got to do with 9/11?@maverickshereshowlove6615
You have forgotten and forgiven.n9w europe is full of them,with rape gangs
I was at home with my 1st child. He was a year and 10 days old. My mom called me and told me to turn on the news. As I watched in shock and horror I looked down at my beautiful, innocent, happy baby boy and thought to myself, "What kind of world did I bring my child into?!" It was a sad day indeed.
I want to echo what Chaotic Mark said. Thank you for posting this. I was in college when the attacks hit. That day needs to be remembered and documented, and we need to pray that nothing like it ever happens again.
I was 16 and had just made a big move to the other side of the state of QLD Australia (out of home from my parents) with my boyfriend….. I woke to him calling me to tell me what had happened and I spent the rest of the morning glued to the television watching things unfold….. in a way it was a removal of my innocence and the beginning of me realising just how big and cruel the world was……… I still think if all those that lost their lives today and I feel such a sense of sadness and loss…… RIP to all of them..
My thoughts are with the families of the hijacked planes, as the flight numbers were announced.
What a sickening awful moment it must have been to know a loved one was on board.
Rip to all the victims and sincere condolences to their families.
I was watching this broadcast the morning of the attacks while I was getting ready for work in Texas. I distinctly remember the Today show producer on the phone and how her tone changed dramatically as she realized second before impact a second plane was headed for the second tower. That’s when it all changed. That’s when I stopped getting ready for work. That’s when I started really paying attention and trying to understand what was really going on. I’ve watched a lot of documentaries over the years about 9/11, but watching this 2 hours or so in real-time should be required viewing as a history lesson for students in school.
lolol You are absolutely correct. EVERYBODY should have to re-watch this ridiculous pre-recorded Movie. That 2nd plane you supposedly witnessed is a motion blurred image of a video composite....LOL It's as real as King Kong walking up the Empire state building... It's FAKE. A Hollywoood production...
DUH!!! Laugh out LOUD!!!! Good One!!!
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sure, required viewing so that everybody can be as brainwashed as you and get it all wrong and insist that you have it right. You'll believe anything. Get in touch and I'll sell you the brooklyn bridge for a good price.
SAME!
We were in class at college when this happened. We had just finished watching some seminar on the projection screen. When the teacher shut off the tutorial, for some reason the projector was hooked up to the live news. All we saw when the TV turned on was the first tower smoking. We thought maybe a fire . Then with in a minute or so the second plane hit in live time, broadcasted on a big screen to the whole classroom. Everyone was in shock, we were sent home shortly after. We were in the tri State area so it was all a very real threat and loss.On my way home my old Volvo started to have problems, I barely made it back, the car died that day. What a horrible event, truly a shocking experience. RIP to all lives lost
The oh my at 9:48 just shows you just how shuck the U.S. was for a second before realizing it was an attack. So sad RIP to all the people affected by 9/11 and the aftermath. RIP to my uncle who just a few months ago took his life because of going to war in Iraq. Love you Uncle Joe! We will reunite one day! ❤️
Yeah when I watched the documentary " Loose Change) I remember being heartbroken. No innocent humans should die this horribly. It is as if somehow we failed to protect them. My heart breaks
Sorry for your Uncle, but that war was biased on lies, people like your Uncle were just used for financial gains.
I will never ever ever ever ever forget this day
I was in kindergarten when this happened. I remember walking down the hallway and I saw a room full of teachers watching the TV. When I looked at it, I saw two huge towers on fire. I couldn't understand, I thought they were watching a movie, didn't pay any attention. Later, that day, when I got home my family told me the truth about what really happened. It was impossible for me, as a 6 years old, to digest such a terrible and evil event...
And I was student teaching kindergarten that day. I will never forget the fear in those babies eyes when they would talk about it in the next days and weeks, and how I would reassure them that we were okay, even while I panicked every time I heard an airplane in the sky.
Hugs to your little kindergarten self. The adults around you couldn’t comprehend it either. 💗
@@saltcitysunshine Wow, thank you. I actually remember drawing pictures of New York City and the twin towers, days and weeks after the attacks, also because I've never seen a city like that in my life. It had a huge impact in me...
The amazing professionalism of Matt, Katie, and Tom. Truly amazing journalism.
Far better than that wittering idiot Rather on CBS.
Next month, will be the 22nd anniversary of this tragic event. I still remember this like it was yesterday.
Yes weirdly people say "Why did USA invade Afghanistan?"
Seems like they forget all the planes crashing
Same.
I find it incredibly eerie that at the time stamp of 9:37am, Katie said "if another incident could happen on the heals of these two, what sort of measures are in place to prepare?" Which is the very moment that the Pentagon was attacked.
I was in 5th grade. I didn't know what was happening. I watched my teacher get the phone call telling her that her husband was on the missing American flight. I could see in her face that something terrible had happened. She ran off; we never saw her again. We were called into an assembly later and informed. I remember it all so clearly.
That second plane is what really gives me the chills, that's when you know it was an attack. Americans were never more together than they were that day. We all need to help each other like this each and every day!
@@lemurianchick didn't vote for Biden and certainly never got a vaccine either. Don't make assumptions. Have I thought this has been questionable? Yes, but doesn't take away from the fact that the people still came together in times of needing each other.
@@erichdewald5600 Okay fair enough but I was responding to it giving you chills and knowing it was an attack--inplying a foreign country.
Many knew was terror on first attack, fdny assumed it was and some witness stated looked deliberate but fdny were under no doubt on first plane, chief pfeifer called it as he saw the plane go in
Sadly, I don't even remember the togetherness. I only remember the terrorism.
Such a tragic day, beyond words. Incredibly chilling that at the exact minute the reporter was saying ‘if another incident could happen on the heels of these two’, the Pentagon was hit. And that their correspondent at the Pentagon had no idea what was about to unfold when they were speaking minutes before… still as shocking today as it was then.