“We stopped giving each other the finger for a couple of days.” Beautiful retelling of that unspeakable day. What a solid, sensitive and insightful human being.
I was 10 when we were attacked. At the time, I lived in Brooklyn Heights with my family. My bedroom overlooked the Promenade, which is a walk way between Manhattan and Brooklyn. I had a clear visual of the Towers. When the first plane hit I did not see it. I was dressing to go to the doctor. When it came on the News, my mom screamed and I went to the window. Within 10 minutes or so, the second plane hit. I told my Mom, those are terrorists. She said "Emily, you watch too much tv, that had to be an accident". Nothing, and I do mean nothing, will ever affect me as that day did. 9/11 happens to be my older sister's birthday, she turned 15 that day. My dad went and got her from school since we all had no idea what was going on. Many people in NY thought we were at war. The way everyone from all over the Country came together was amazing. There were police officers from every State helping out at Ground Zero. When the bridges and tunnels opened, my dad would drive me and my sister to lower Manhattan and get as close as possible to where the Towers once stood. We had three wagons, filled with ice and bottled water. We would give them out to the First Responders. In retrospect, we really did nothing. At the time though, it was all we could do due to our young ages. God Bless all the Souls that were lost that day and afterwards.
It may seem like nothing to you but in my mind what you guys did was awesome because you all cared so much that from the bottom of your hearts you guys were trying to make a awful situation better and if you and a bunch of other families did what you did then it combines to be a huge help. Also those first responders you gave ice water to probably made their days just cuz it was from the heart. Thank you for sharing and God bless you
hi! another born and bred new york kid here i was 9 at the time of the attacks growing up in Queens. i didnt completely understand what happened as none of the adults were completely open with the kids but i remember i could feel the terror. the smoke even came to queens and i remember the smell. i believe i had have ptsd from the attacks and maybe im only able to comprehend it all now i dont speak for anyone but i do think that this affected us as kids and we didnt get to deal with our emotions bc that was way before the era of opening up about how you feel
What a beautiful soul you were. Since you were down there, I hope you registered with the 9/11 Health registry, or whatever it's called, I can't remember at the moment. God bless your little soul for being helpful in a time of need.
Hes an awesome guy! My mother worked at Resorts in AC back in the 90's as a buffet manager and she came home and told me he came in to eat and asked her to sit with him. He gave her a windbreaker or jacket. I cant remember all the details. I was young. But he was so nice.
I’m not kidding. I was hanging out with my cousin in NYC for the weekend, it was 3 in the morning and we decided to see the towers. My cousin told me to do this, he slept on one bench & I slept on another different bench to look up at the towers. It was awesome. Seeing the view of the dark sky with the towers lit up. We wanted to go to the top of the towers but obviously it was 3 am and not open. He promised me next time we will go inside and see the towers. 4 days later. I’m getting ready for my first week at school, (Senior Year) I start up my car, look at the sky and say to myself wow, this is such a beautiful day. First period, I hear that a plane hits the World Trade Center. We didn’t have iPhones in our time and the school wouldn’t allow kids to see what’s on the TV because they didn’t want kids to panic. So I’m assuming in my mind, a two seater plane hit the building and it’s just dangling outside a couple of windows. Then I hear that another plane hit the building. I’m not from New York, I didn’t know what the World Trade Center was. I just called them the Twin Towers, I couldn’t process what was going on. I didn’t know what was going on. Then I heard rumors that somewhere in Texas a plane crashed into something, Washington got hit, I couldn’t put into words how crazy that day was. I finally went home, saw what was happening. It was a day I felt all emotions of anger, confusion, shock, sadness, & not knowing what was going on. It was crazy that I saw those towers up close just 4 days ago, and now they are gone along with thousands of innocent people who died on that horrible day. Still can’t believe it.
Tony Danza summed up the feeling of unity for a short time after 9/11. It's sad it was shortlived. My children were 6 and 3 years old. I remember every minute of that horrible day. My older daughter remembers seeing live news and my crying. We are an hour or so from NYC. My husband worked in a building with a county jail. How extensive were the attacks going to be? I did let fear take over when the Pentagon was hit. We were blessed that our loved ones survived.
We had a church youth group activity that night and there was talk of cancelling it. But like Tony we didn’t want “them” to win, and knew it would be therapeutic. We had scheduled a Navajo hoop dancing family to do a show for us and decided to go with it. We opened the gathering with the Navajo family and they sang the national anthem in Navajo. There definitely was not a single dry eye in the room. It was so touching and beautiful to hear the anthem in the native tongue of the people who were here first. We all cried and hugged and prayed together. I’m glad they didn’t cancel it because I know it helped every one of us process what happened
I was 17. My birthday was on the 15th. I had been planning my big 18th bday party. I woke up around 9isn I think. Waiting on a friend to drop off her kids. I was babysitting for her. My dad was standing up in front on the TV. That was odd. He should have been at work and he's never stood to watch the news. I seen a building on fire. Dad siad a planned crashed. When he said that I seen a plane crash into the other building. I said " look dad they replayed it. It was a big one." He said no... that was a live plan hitting. We are under attack.
I was in college when it happened and they released us early and told us to go home and classes were cancelled for the rest of the day. my college was closed for the next couple of days and classes were cancelled
Easy to criticize leadership when it's not on you. Of course, it was emotional for everybody. It would be a lot worse now with the vacancy in the White House.
That’s right Gloria, get your little right wing zinger in there that has NOTHING to do with 9/11. “How many snowflakes can I piss off today?”. It just comes off as pathetic.
@@veot.2869 the cadence is exactly the same. And the way he will start a thought and not finish it, and then spend 3-4 sentences on a side detail that isn’t really relevant, it’s striking.
@@darindunnPlease explain more because you lost me, I don't see that at all, he's just explaining how he feels about 9/11 and what he thinks about it.
I don't care where Tony Danza, Kelly Ripa, damn Brad Pitt Taylor swift or any other celebrities were at I care about the people who died saving people and families so why post where you were it was a very sad and sure it affected everyone but unless they lived it they don't know
Celebrities Are people Just like all of us. We often make it a separation between us and them. I love all people and I have never been a favoritist. I treat all people with the same congeniality. This event affected all people more some than others. But all we Americans know the sinking feeling in our hearts when 9/11 happened. It was life changing.
@@zzzroxyzzz Watch other celebrity interviews about their 9/11 stories. They are typically about how shocked they were and how they knew someone who was killed or the effect it had on them. It's been a while since I watched this but I just recall Tony talking about how he got to sing with someone he really wanted to sing with or stories about "the business". Edit: I rewatched parts and most of this video is about Tony hosting the Miss America pagent 🙄
Wow, critiquing a man who’s recounting his 9/11 experience. That’s low. It was literally about his experience, part of which was hosting the pageant right after, when shows were getting canceled. How is that narcissistic? Jesus did you miss the part about how we should all come together when thinking of this tragedy? Just be nice.
@@sophiapetrillo3008His story is 10 seconds of where he was on 9-11 and the rest is about the Miss America pagent and a little about the war on terror. It's narcissistic because I get the impression he was upset about 9-11 taking the spotlight from him with the pagent potentially being cancelled. At the end he says that he doesn't think 9-11 memorials should be used for ratings? Again, it's like he doesn't want to be upstaged 9-11. He couches it in the "we can't let the terrorists win" argument but I don't think he's being genuine. He's co-opting that to make sure his life and career isn't impacted. He also had a talk show in the mid 00s. Go watch it. It's also narcissist city. Especially the last episode when they were getting cancelled. He's so shocked they were cancelling his fabulous show.
“We stopped giving each other the finger for a couple of days.”
Beautiful retelling of that unspeakable day. What a solid, sensitive and insightful human being.
I was 10 when we were attacked. At the time, I lived in Brooklyn Heights with my family. My bedroom overlooked the Promenade, which is a walk way between Manhattan and Brooklyn. I had a clear visual of the Towers. When the first plane hit I did not see it. I was dressing to go to the doctor. When it came on the News, my mom screamed and I went to the window. Within 10 minutes or so, the second plane hit. I told my Mom, those are terrorists. She said "Emily, you watch too much tv, that had to be an accident". Nothing, and I do mean nothing, will ever affect me as that day did. 9/11 happens to be my older sister's birthday, she turned 15 that day. My dad went and got her from school since we all had no idea what was going on. Many people in NY thought we were at war. The way everyone from all over the Country came together was amazing. There were police officers from every State helping out at Ground Zero. When the bridges and tunnels opened, my dad would drive me and my sister to lower Manhattan and get as close as possible to where the Towers once stood. We had three wagons, filled with ice and bottled water. We would give them out to the First Responders. In retrospect, we really did nothing. At the time though, it was all we could do due to our young ages. God Bless all the Souls that were lost that day and afterwards.
It's so great how your experience is worth so much more than mine because you lived in Broooklyn Heights and I was just mowing a lawn in Texas.
It may seem like nothing to you but in my mind what you guys did was awesome because you all cared so much that from the bottom of your hearts you guys were trying to make a awful situation better and if you and a bunch of other families did what you did then it combines to be a huge help. Also those first responders you gave ice water to probably made their days just cuz it was from the heart. Thank you for sharing and God bless you
hi! another born and bred new york kid here i was 9 at the time of the attacks growing up in Queens. i didnt completely understand what happened as none of the adults were completely open with the kids but i remember i could feel the terror. the smoke even came to queens and i remember the smell. i believe i had have ptsd from the attacks and maybe im only able to comprehend it all now i dont speak for anyone but i do think that this affected us as kids and we didnt get to deal with our emotions bc that was way before the era of opening up about how you feel
You knew the term terrorist at age 10?
What a beautiful soul you were. Since you were down there, I hope you registered with the 9/11 Health registry, or whatever it's called, I can't remember at the moment. God bless your little soul for being helpful in a time of need.
Hes an awesome guy! My mother worked at Resorts in AC back in the 90's as a buffet manager and she came home and told me he came in to eat and asked her to sit with him. He gave her a windbreaker or jacket. I cant remember all the details. I was young. But he was so nice.
I’m not kidding. I was hanging out with my cousin in NYC for the weekend, it was 3 in the morning and we decided to see the towers. My cousin told me to do this, he slept on one bench & I slept on another different bench to look up at the towers. It was awesome. Seeing the view of the dark sky with the towers lit up. We wanted to go to the top of the towers but obviously it was 3 am and not open. He promised me next time we will go inside and see the towers. 4 days later. I’m getting ready for my first week at school, (Senior Year) I start up my car, look at the sky and say to myself wow, this is such a beautiful day. First period, I hear that a plane hits the World Trade Center. We didn’t have iPhones in our time and the school wouldn’t allow kids to see what’s on the TV because they didn’t want kids to panic. So I’m assuming in my mind, a two seater plane hit the building and it’s just dangling outside a couple of windows. Then I hear that another plane hit the building. I’m not from New York, I didn’t know what the World Trade Center was. I just called them the Twin Towers, I couldn’t process what was going on. I didn’t know what was going on. Then I heard rumors that somewhere in Texas a plane crashed into something, Washington got hit, I couldn’t put into words how crazy that day was. I finally went home, saw what was happening. It was a day I felt all emotions of anger, confusion, shock, sadness, & not knowing what was going on. It was crazy that I saw those towers up close just 4 days ago, and now they are gone along with thousands of innocent people who died on that horrible day. Still can’t believe it.
Tony Danza was thoughtful, open and wonderful in his story, feeelings, and relections about 9/11.
Tony Danza summed up the feeling of unity for a short time after 9/11. It's sad it was shortlived. My children were 6 and 3 years old. I remember every minute of that horrible day. My older daughter remembers seeing live news and my crying. We are an hour or so from NYC. My husband worked in a building with a county jail. How extensive were the attacks going to be? I did let fear take over when the Pentagon was hit. We were blessed that our loved ones survived.
We had a church youth group activity that night and there was talk of cancelling it. But like Tony we didn’t want “them” to win, and knew it would be therapeutic. We had scheduled a Navajo hoop dancing family to do a show for us and decided to go with it.
We opened the gathering with the Navajo family and they sang the national anthem in Navajo. There definitely was not a single dry eye in the room. It was so touching and beautiful to hear the anthem in the native tongue of the people who were here first. We all cried and hugged and prayed together. I’m glad they didn’t cancel it because I know it helped every one of us process what happened
I watched Tony host the Miss America Pageant after 9/11 in 2001. He was amazing and did an incredible job hosting it. I was 12 years old at the time.
😢 I’ve seen a few of these and this has to be the most emotional one with Tony Danza ❤
Yeah I agree 😢
I think Dana’s wanted to cry in this video. We all felt sadness and anger. I remember the same feeling when JFK was shot. 😢
I always like Tony Danza.
I was still in my moms belly when it happened and I look back at the videos and everything and it still takes my breath away
Love him.
Always loved him 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🤗🤗🤗
I could not stop crying watching the fire fighters and police going into the towers
Great story. I understand his feelings 100%
I ❤️ Tony Danza
A day that will forever haunt me. 😔💔🕊
I was 17. My birthday was on the 15th. I had been planning my big 18th bday party.
I woke up around 9isn I think. Waiting on a friend to drop off her kids. I was babysitting for her. My dad was standing up in front on the TV. That was odd. He should have been at work and he's never stood to watch the news.
I seen a building on fire. Dad siad a planned crashed. When he said that I seen a plane crash into the other building. I said " look dad they replayed it. It was a big one." He said no... that was a live plan hitting. We are under attack.
I was in college when it happened and they released us early and told us to go home and classes were cancelled for the rest of the day. my college was closed for the next couple of days and classes were cancelled
I was in college Spanish 301 that morning when it happened
I was on the camino in Spain
Saw it on TV at hostel later that day!
Exactly! Bravo!
Wow, I really miss him.
He is still around
He is still alive!!!!
Hold me closer tony Danza...
“We stopped giving each other the finger for a couple of days.”
🇺🇸 Never Forget
Word. 🙏🏼💜🎖
Tony excellent
Hold me closer Tony Danza.
Never forget!
I get the feeling Tony Danza refuses to do interviews unless it's at a good restaurant.
Well, he is Italian, so....can't blame him.
Which event in Norway is he referring to?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
Awwwww 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
He was in LA? So why are we hearing about where he was? wtf?
I guess explain it to the kids the same way parents in war torn countries have been explaining it.
More importantly, where was Angela?
Obviously Tony Danza is beating around the bush
Hmm, Linda Cassell. Ya think? Thanks for watching!
I doubt it. Some topics are too emotional to explain straight forward.
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yes
It wasn't all that much a good world for most ppl pre 9/11.
Omg you are so hotttt! And that accent um um um!♡♡ huge fan of yours for years!
Thank you! Oh... you mean Tony. Oh well. :)
A bunch of guys with beards drinking coffee?
The terrorists.
Tony Danza is so hot
You're lucky you had a wife
Easy to criticize leadership when it's not on you. Of course, it was emotional for everybody. It would be a lot worse now with the vacancy in the White House.
That’s right Gloria, get your little right wing zinger in there that has NOTHING to do with 9/11. “How many snowflakes can I piss off today?”. It just comes off as pathetic.
How ironic that tony pledged aliegence to the flag who was responsible for it
Wow. He talks just like Trump. Same style of speaking. Must be a NYC thing.
Nope. Don't get it twisted... 😐
@@veot.2869 the cadence is exactly the same. And the way he will start a thought and not finish it, and then spend 3-4 sentences on a side detail that isn’t really relevant, it’s striking.
@@darindunnPlease explain more because you lost me, I don't see that at all, he's just explaining how he feels about 9/11 and what he thinks about it.
@@Mrd9960 the accent is of course the same, but it’s more the style of speaking. The cadence. Wow. So similar.
Only thing I liked him in was the true story of a classmate I knew. Samuel Jackson was in the movie also.
I don't care where Tony Danza, Kelly Ripa, damn Brad Pitt Taylor swift or any other celebrities were at I care about the people who died saving people and families so why post where you were it was a very sad and sure it affected everyone but unless they lived it they don't know
And yet, you seem to be responding to a lot of these videos. How come?
Celebrities Are people Just like all of us. We often make it a separation between us and them. I love all people and I have never been a favoritist. I treat all people with the same congeniality. This event affected all people more some than others. But all we Americans know the sinking feeling in our hearts when 9/11 happened. It was life changing.
Tony comes off as a self involved narcissist in this IMO.
How so, it's literally an interview about his perspective and experience he's supposed to talk about himself
@@zzzroxyzzz Watch other celebrity interviews about their 9/11 stories. They are typically about how shocked they were and how they knew someone who was killed or the effect it had on them.
It's been a while since I watched this but I just recall Tony talking about how he got to sing with someone he really wanted to sing with or stories about "the business".
Edit: I rewatched parts and most of this video is about Tony hosting the Miss America pagent 🙄
Me too -- this was a bizarre interview
Wow, critiquing a man who’s recounting his 9/11 experience. That’s low. It was literally about his experience, part of which was hosting the pageant right after, when shows were getting canceled. How is that narcissistic? Jesus did you miss the part about how we should all come together when thinking of this tragedy? Just be nice.
@@sophiapetrillo3008His story is 10 seconds of where he was on 9-11 and the rest is about the Miss America pagent and a little about the war on terror.
It's narcissistic because I get the impression he was upset about 9-11 taking the spotlight from him with the pagent potentially being cancelled.
At the end he says that he doesn't think 9-11 memorials should be used for ratings? Again, it's like he doesn't want to be upstaged 9-11. He couches it in the "we can't let the terrorists win" argument but I don't think he's being genuine. He's co-opting that to make sure his life and career isn't impacted.
He also had a talk show in the mid 00s. Go watch it. It's also narcissist city. Especially the last episode when they were getting cancelled. He's so shocked they were cancelling his fabulous show.
I cant watch Tony because hes such a scam so Im turning it off.
WTH do you mean by that? Weird thing to say.
Yes what do you mean
Humbling account.