Walking around New York City on 9/12
Вставка
- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Footage of people in New York City following the horrific attacks that took place the previous day.
Shots of people walking about, various mainstream and local businesses closed, people signing up to give blood and all the silent sounds and noises.
This video last around 24 minutes.
#911
#912
9/10 and 9/12, two completely different realities!
September 10,2001 the last full day of living the vibes of the 90s September 12,2001 a new full day of a new normal
exactly, when the whole world split from "before" to "after"
@@DaveFisher-cq2dr Same with the COVID year.
@@zionismisterrorism8716 yes, the year 2020, you're absolutely right
@@DaveFisher-cq2dr It was also the year that BRICS overtook the whole West in GDP and economic output. We now transitioned into the actual economic decline of the West.
I absolutely cannot believe it's been 23 years already !!!
It’s wild. I was in high school. The next day was so sad.
The further we get away from it, the more unbelievable it seems
UNBELIEVABLE that it's been that long.
Time really fly's by! I remember when it was the 10th anniversary. :(
Believe it sister!
Thank you for keeping the proper format rather than artificially widening it.
In 4X3 like most of us would’ve seen it.
Now all we need is a 60fps upload (No Ai)
@@IonicHyperspace not how it works
This is the closest we can get to timetravel. Thanks for uploading!
I think we'll get closer to the time travel immersion when AI gets better.
Absolutely agree, too bad we can only go to the past for the time being.
I was just 19 right out of my parents house.. 42 now. Time flies
You're a couple of years older than me. I was in high school at the time.
I was 23 years old married with two little baby boys in Australia my daughter was born in 2007. Just before the 15th Anniversary in 2016 I was in New York City and stood at the memorials and remembered back to that day in Australia when I was 23 and saw the bodies falling and splatting, then now i was standing in that same spot it was eerily quiet and our expressions you can see the look of sadness in our eyes in the photos. I was there with my Canadian partner we traveled from Montreal to NYC for some days. I have Ivy still that I collected that was growing around the memorials
I was 18 just graduated high school 41 now
18 here. Still living at home. 🎭
I’m 7
What a strange silence. I visited for a concert the following month, a lot of sirens/ fire truck activity. Flowers and candles and flyers posted for missing loved ones.
the world was so different then. it's like we lived through three different time periods in just 20 something years. before 9/11, right after when everything changed, and then the current times where weird things like the COVID lockdowns happened and social media hysteria and society hysteria in streets a lot
@@averagecarpentryskills7148▪️
AKA
BOOGEYMAN-I9 lockdowns.
🟥
@@averagecarpentryskills7148Covid and modern wars
@@averagecarpentryskills7148 I wonder what will happen in a few more years, will something worse come? I hope that humanity will learn from past mistakes once and for all, although I don't think so.
I live in Michigan and it was just as silent that next day😢
I can't believe it's that time again... the years keep going faster it seems.
R.I.P. to all the innocent lives taken. And R.I.P. to anyone in this vid who may be gone.
Such sacrifices!
I went there right after the World Series, and believe it or not, it was still smoldering. I still found papers and trash stuck in the trees. Unreal experience.
I turned 8 on 9/11/2001. Still feel for everyone who lost loved ones in NYC that day.
What a birthday, wow. Especially at the age where you’re making your early formative memories ❤
Well, it was some birthday!
I like knowing how old people were on that day as they try to "relate" to it somehow.
My favorite is "I was too young to understand what was happening" Great! I'll file that away in the information bin👍
@@jamesmiller5331I was 5 about to turn 6 a week later and I still remember. Now I'm 30
@@jamesmiller5331I was 5 about to turn 6 a week later and I still remember. Now I'm 30
I was a freshman in high school in Brooklyn NY. I woke up on sept 12th from the sound of fighter jets buzzing my house. the airspace over NYC was closed to commercial air traffic and was now being protected by the air national guard i assume. i remember instantly thinking how surreal this all was and that the world is now a different place.
I was a high school student in Brooklyn too at the time. Which HS did you attend? For me, Brooklyn Technical High School, Class of '04.
@@TheyCallMeSledge St. Edmund Prep. Class of 05
was there anything open in public
grocey stores anything
@gilbertalaniz9180 From what I remember, yes. I remember going shopping for school supplies on sept 12th. Classes were canceled, but i needed an expensive calculator for math class and stores were open. This was in Brooklyn and it was just like any other day. 'City that never sleeps' is real.
At 0:29 you can see a promotional poster for the adventure novel "Valhalla Rising" by Clive Cussler. In an eerie coincidence, this book's story happens to contain a terror plot to destroy the World Trade Center.
Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Square.
Wow....
Suddenly tempted to read all Clive Cussler books to form a list of places to never be.
The year was 2001, I was 15 years old high school days... never thought I saw this day.
Me too!
I was 13 at the time
I was only one😢
I was 14 and a freshman in high school that year. That day was so surreal.
I wasn’t even a year old yet. The city still looks mostly the same today. If the camera quality was better you could’ve convinced me that this was taken yesterday. But knowing the context just makes it so eerie
It makes me realize that nothing ever changes and yet *everything* changes, constantly. Life is just a strange paradox.
RIP to the victims. Never forgotten
“Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
- Oscar Wilde
September 12th. A day no one realized was the first day where literally EVERYTHING changed from that point. We were officially no longer in the 90s.
Edit: I’m aware the 90s ended in 1999 🥴thats not my point. 9/11 aggressively pushed us into the 2000s and the war on terror. We were at the turn of the century and so optimistic about the 2000s. Then this happened.
A youth’s innocence lost
How so? The 90's literally speaking ended after 1999. And figuratively speaking ended in 1997.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 Civic Nationalism was the prevailing belief system at the time, that anyone could come to our country, integrate, and become one of us. This held from the 90s until 2001.
This event disabused the public of that thought, and led to the forever wars countless civilizations have fallen into in the middle east. We deliberately ignored intel that stated Osama was in Afghanistan for ten years. Instead we went after Iraq. 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'.
Screenings at the airport became far more invasive in the name of 'safety', The Patriot Act literally gave the government permission to do whatever they wanted to you, if they believed you were an 'existential threat' to the nation.
Pre 9/11, there was a sense of optimism in American culture, we were on top.
@@scoticvsgossage9378 Thanks for the elaboration. But that still doesn't mean that 90's or whatever, means anything here. The 90's is that overglorified overrated decade that every little Timmy loves to name drop just to sound cool. And I grewup in the 90's for goodness sakes. "My car got bluwn to pieces on August 2000 OMG that's when the 90's ended"...
@TheMasterofDisaster48 9/11 was a significant event but didn't change an entire country forever. The world really changed after the recession in 2008 and the later covid in 2020
*I visited my buddy a NYU a month later. The fence surrounding Ground Zero was completely covered. People posted well-wishes and fliers looking for loved ones.*
I remember signing that banner. I went on a family trip in October 2002 and it was just a giant hole in the ground by then.
R.I.P. to those who died on 9/11, 23 years ago. This is their Memorial Day. I was 4 years old and already started pre-K.
🙏🏽🕊
There's no rest for the wicked.
I can feel the sadness of this day through the screen 😟
🙏🏽🕊 man if i lived in New York at this time,id have my head in the sky every 5 seconds being so nervous. I was only in second grade at the time now im 30 and it still is painful and sureal knowing that day happened.
This is exactly how I felt living there. I was 9 at the time, living just across the river in Hoboken, saw the sky go from clear blue to black in what felt like an instant, and the paranoia didn't leave me for a while. It's no problem now, but for a long time, hearing a plane overhead made my heart skip a beat.
@@trashcrow 🙏🏽😢fr,thats what it felt like. And for me being in cali,it was a fear of are we next and etc.
Yup that’s was me..and to top it off I lived in a twin tower building in Brooklyn ny & at the time I was thinking what if they after all twin tower buildings😩
I was 13 when this happened and had just started 8th grade. I remember back then the teacher wheeled the old CRT TV into my class and we all couldn't believe what we were seeing. It was so surreal. I remember that being a crazy time. It seems like it was just yesterday. RIP to all those lost that day.
I still can't believe people walked outside the day after!
A surefire way to remotely or even slightly get pulmonary issues...
For many, it was defiance at what was done. We weren’t going to be imprisoned in our own city.
They don't call it "city that never sleeps" for nothing
I can. Cowering in fear and paranoia is what terrorists want.
It's NYC lol
Eager to watch this when I have time. Thanks for uploading. Remembering all the victims on that day, the first responders, and the families of both ♥️
We didnt know it at the time but the world we grew up in was gone after that day.
And became better because now we had the PS2, PSP, MP3, best music, best films, best cartoons, best comics, best videogames, best TV shows.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 No. just no.
@@Indiana_Jones-Z History says so.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 just stop….
@@pabloescobarschanclas Truth hurts I know.
I just know you kept this one on ice until today.
Born, raised, Morningside Heights. Was at college in Connecticut. Family still in Manhattan in shock. Stayed away from the city for 2 weeks. Arrived by train. Went to a boxing match w my dad in the Garden that Friday. Strange feeling. Saw some friends that weekend. You couldn’t escape what happened. Just strange feelings everywhere.
My grandparents told me that when this happened i was outside in the backyard and I said "why is it so quiet"
No planes in the sky at all
The birds even were being quiet
My mother says the same thing. My house is underneath the start to an approach for an airport in CT, and we get planes flying by all the time. According to her, that day, she didn’t hear a thing in the air. Plus, I think I recall ash from the wreckage actually coming down in my yard days or weeks after the attack. For context, I was seven years old that day, and I grew up in greater Hartford, almost exactly 100 miles away and upwind in the jet stream from lower Manhattan.
yeah it was eerie. I live half the country away but right after it there was this eerie stillness. I was at an open window and the air was stale and no sounds at all outside on a late summer day which is very odd. I go outside and it's same. trying to explain that to people they would think you were crazy. it was like all the air had been sucked out of us. everything was a haze for weeks.
There's a reason why most birds in fairy tales respect the dead.
@TaccRaccoon, I lived in New York then. Two weeks prior, I was parked on Church Street across from The WTC. There was a Century 21/Burlington Coat Factory there from memory. I kept looking across at the complex because I had a very uneasy feeling and premonition and realize much later there were no pigeons flying around like there always was. I kept looking across the street at the complex and didn’t know exactly what made me feel uneasy.
Well, birds start migrating this time of year... 🤷
The city is so quiet. You can feel the sadness. People must have still been in disbelief. The world has never been the same.
The days following 9/11 we were all so nice to each other and everywhere where I lived at them time all you saw was American flags being flown, on houses, cars, all buildings. There was no division, we were all Americans. I was a police dispatcher at the time in a major city and for 2 weeks we had no crime at all.
N now we get crime constantly on normal days today
Wow, I never knew that. I wonder if that's the longest period we ever went without crime.
Many people in New York just went on walks on sat in parks talking to random people and reflecting on the events. I mean with nothing open what else was anyone to do
A Sikh man was murdered outside a gas station 4 days after 9/11. Muslims and other religious/ethnic minorities everywhere faced hate crimes and violence while hundreds of thousands called for war in the Middle East.
Thank you for uploading this! Never forget!
the most striking scene is everyone standing looking down the street to where the buildings had always stood against the skyline. it must have bene so unreal for them. just yesterday to have these monoliths and the next day gone and the shock of the devastation. I will never not be shocked seeing the planes hit no matter how many times I see it or to see the buildings crumbling down.
This shows that 9/12 mentality where people put their differences aside and prayed for peace and recovery
I remember people driving through town with American flags strapped to their cars. People were putting up signs in their yards saying things like "stand together". It was the most united this country has ever been in my lifetime. It's sad that it took something like 9/11 to make it happen, and maybe sadder still that we'll probably never be that united again.
I’ve always said that if something like 9/11 happened today, everyone would just be fighting with each other and blaming different sides instead of coming together.
@@charlottecorday8494 it's the media man. it's all censored now and literally trying to divide us. just get through to the other side, make it known that you dont hate them. make an active effort to go to their spaces, break the algorithim trying to separate you guys.
bring it up too. "Man what's with the fucking divide and censorship nowadays" and you'll find most real people will unite on that front. Humanize eachother, connect and learn what they've learned. teach them what you've learned. don't look at them as immediate enemies.
The last time we came together as a country. It’s sad, but over 20 years later, in today’s US, seems Bin Laden ultimately got what he wanted. A United States that’s divided, and spiraling downward.
If only we could've hung on to that brief feeling of togetherness we felt after this.
The city that never sleeps was eerily quiet.
I was 12. I’ll remember it like it was yesterday 💔
I lived in the East Village during this time, it was, until the recent lockdowns, the most surreal experience of my life.
For a few short weeks, we were neither liberals nor conservatives; Republicans nor Democrats. We were ALL Americans.
Yeah and then it was back to business as usual
@@idna90it went fully back to normal 6 months later
@@Frankieefootballmundialthe moment that America was forever divided...in ways worse than ever.
SURE BECAUSE GOVT NEEDED HELP SO THEY ACTED ALL NICEY NICE TO GET AID FROM THE OPPOSITE PARTY
100%. But today? There would be masses of people waving Palestine flags celebrating it.
Even where I lived about 2000 miles away you can feel the depression from every one I'm after 9/11
I was at work in the preschool I worked at. The director yelled bring the kids inside!!!! We all came inside from recess and could not believe what was happing!!
23 years already!!! Wow. God bless everyone
Thank you for uploading this my dude.
I was 5 years old in Connecticut when this was recorded. This is such good quality of after 9/11. Amazing video, truly time traveling. 🙏🙏
I was in Connecticut too. Born and raised in Manhattan but on my Senior year at UConn when it happened.
Wow. For New York, its eerily quiet.
Very interesting video. The day after. I don't know if I ever really thought about the perspective and what the vibe would've been like around there at that time.
I'll never forget the silence that overtook the city
People still look pretty much the same. Style hasn't changed much at all. Yet in 2001, if you were watching a 23 year old video, you would be watching something from 1978 and people would look drastically different.
Maybe the common people as they don't care as much about looks would put any old thing any shirt, a single pair of pants and go out, and especially the day after 9/11 I'm assuming they cared even less about how they looked.
But when you look at celebrities, singers, all types of people that for some reason or the other HAD to care about their looks and the newest trends did look incredibly different from today.
That really does show how much style has changed
How many Things were different in 2001?
Skinny jeans, super low, very thin eyebrows, the makeup is all different, the hair is all different
Just look at Christina Aguilera or Paris Hilton from the time and you'll see what I mean
Nobody ever looks like that today
Everything has changed a lot
Even in the 70's, you'd be very surprised to see how normal the common people walking on the streets would look.
Because people who don't have time or will, or after a traumatic event, who are just gonna go get some milk at a grocery store, aren't gonna look like Cher in the 70's, they also would just wear a normal shirt, a normal pair of pants, and just be out doing their simple business, and if the camera quality was really good like nowadays, and so the audio recording, I can assure you even in 1978 the common people would look pretty much like today
@maikopasma9176 I appreciate your thoughts on this as it's something I think about a lot. Skinny jeans aren't a distinctive enough trend to the point where someone would look odd wearing them today. And I don't see the hair or makeup all that different. Thinking about still photographs, you could take one random picture from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80, and 90s and easily tell what decade it's from. Sometimes even what half of the decade it's from. But any still photo from the year 2000 onward could pretty much have been taken in any year since. I've watched music videos from songs I like not even realizing that it's a 15 year old video.
As someone born in the early 2000s it's crazy how the 80s were closer than 2024 is
@@1w72stWell, since covid19 time (2019-2022) Nostalgia time from these decades: 80's 90's,2.000's we're the tendency and still does, that's reason why it looks kind of the same in fashion.
I think you are completely correct. And yes, as has been pointed out, if you watch a music video or some other thing that by definition had to be “ trendy” or current from the year 2001, there are some stylistic differences that you could point to that date the video. But for the most part, the huge stylistic differences that defined the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s 80’s and early 90’s , started evaporating in the late 90’s right around the same time the internet started catching on, and are almost completely gone now. I personally could not tell the difference between a photo taken in 2001, 2011, or 2021 (unless someone had their phone out)
Every time I watch an old video of anything I start thinking about every person that has passed away since. In my small social world I know at least 50 people and it's probably way more than that.
It feels like September 11 just happened a couple months ago...insane that it's been a year already since the last.
RIP to all who died that day, never forget.
Yeah Muslims havent forgotten.
I was a naïve 11 year-old who had never heard the word, "terrorism" before, much less knew what it meant. 9/11 brought to an end the hazy, relaxed, carefree days of my 1990s childhood and ushered in a new era of anxiety and terror. However, I remember how united Americans were in the following months; it was beautiful to witness people putting aside their political differences for the good of the country. It saddens me that it didn't last, in fact we are divided as ever. United we stand, divided we fall....
Really you dont know terror? You French perfected it on the poor Africans.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 An 11 year old would have nothing to do with that. Get real dude.
how do we really know it was terrorism we will truly never really know what happened that day for that to happen
These replies appear so prescribed.
It's mind boggling that it's 20+ years ago. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I couldn't get through all of this. But thank you!
Thank you for uploading this. RIP 9/11 Angels. Sorry got what happened to you guys. I mourn you all every day not just today. This situation traumatized me as a child. I still never healed from this event mentally. I’m scared of elevators at 35 years old because this situation triggered the phobia. I was 11 watching on tv. Hey did anyone notice Mariah Carey in the back 05:13 her Glitter album released Sept 11
She's from Long Island.
Yeah and the movie was released the same day. Needless to say, it tanked.
@@normairizarryni She made a movie? Lady Gaga is smarter.
@@user-er3ri6sc3j yes, the poster that you see is for her movie “Glitter.” Also, I like both singers.
I was 10. I remember the haze sticking around for so long afterward
I was about that same age. The sky wasn't clear again like it was that morning for months. My mom worked in another Trade Center plaza building, and every day for years, she would come home from work and her dark red car had turned a sickly beige from the dust.
@@trashcrowFour and 1/2 months the site burned and you could smell the burnt wires scent that got into my pillow case when the wind changed.
@@OSTARAEB4 oh goodness, yeah, I've never smelled anything else like that air in my life, but I can still remember exactly what it smelled like when I think about it. Asbestos, ash, concrete dust, and metal.
@@trashcrow Exactly!
I can literally sense every single person's tension
Same here
To those we lost that day, You are not and will not or ever be forgotten.
Surreal.. feels like walking through a mall in the 80’s, early in the morning before all the stores opened, just a handful of people of what would be a great crowd of shoppers.
or like walking through any mall in the 2020's, unfortunately...
To think that at the moment this was being filmed, there were still many people unaccounted for and maybe even people still alive waiting to be rescued.
Why does the world still seem better on that day vs the present day 😢
Because this was before social media brainrot.
In 2001, people would watch old VHS tapes of 1978 and claim it was a better time. This is the cycle of nostalgia.
Not really, this looks super depressing ngl. The world changed big time after 9/11..
I was 19 years old.
Even over here on the other side of the world in Australia it was a very quiet day.
The bus trip on the way to my class the next day was quiet, we were listening to the bus driver's portable radio.
The same happened here in Colombia South América.
I can’t believe people were out walking around the next day.
I remember this very clearly. The mood felt like we were all waking up from a nightmare and the mood in the city was extremely somber the day after with everyone going out to donate blood and looking for missing loved one who were most likely dead.
I was...a baby during this time, I learned about in school around 4th grade, R.i.p to the ones who could not have made it to this day, insane how this happened so many years ago, 9/11 was for sure a troubling time for many, It's terrible.......To those who had lost their family, their lover,friend you have my sympathy.....🙏🏾🕊🕊
One thing people would say was, “never forget”. I don’t hear that anymore.
So strange seeing the streets empty and so quiet. What a tragedy.
Thank you for posting this: we need to remember this day, too. Because it was day one of our new normal.
It's crazy how 24 hours after the worst day in NY's History, the city is cleaner than it is today.
That says a lot.
23 years. Never forget. 🙏🙏
This is a fascinating watch
I went to the WTC to attend the last 9/11 ceremony. I can tell that seeing in person the relatives of the victims and watching the pictures of the victims themselves, many of whom really young, made me feel the same sadness I felt in 2001.
So eerie! And everyone was so bewildered.
Nobody glued to their phones ….. amazing!
Some had cell phones, but they were just for phone calls and occasionally text messages. Not like the computers we carry in our pockets and rely on everyday. It’s sad, but cell phones are the modern day Swiss Army knife.
There wasnt “smartphones” in early-mid 00s until late 00s starting to remember that people are now smartphones zombies.
Escapism has always been a thing. Before phones it was TV, before TV it was the radio, Before Radio it was books and newspapers and so on.
We’ve always been distracting ourselves from the things that make us miserable and always will.
Yeah, a blessed time. If this took place today you'd have people trying to take selfies with the rubble...
Everyone in shape too, their body types would called unrealistic by todays standards
UA-cam is the BEST time capsule
I hope this videos never get taken down
Damn. Time flies. I was 6yrs old on this year
Manhattan was closed below 14th Street for a week following the 9/11 attacks
Life goes on, everything's changed, but life goes on. It's so quiet. 😞 My most sincere condolences to everyone who lost someone.❤❤
6:05 Lone rollerblader, still living the dream!
Wow, 23 years ago 😢 I wasn't born back then, but things have changed since then. RIP to all of those who died that day. 💔 🙏 😢
When taxis, payphones, and newspapers still existed.
Well, Taxis still exist today....
@@scarecrow108productions7no more crown vic though
@@agony5344 oh man. Both for NY Taxi and NYPD or every US PD across the states.
I promise you could still find all three of those in New York, even payphones.
@@elliothill3953 no crown vics though!!!
I had just turned 26 and was getting ready for work and my dad called from work letting us all know what was going on. My thoughts and prayers still go out to all the families of this horrible event.
The quietest day I’ve ever experienced
What a difference a day makes
I remember waking up and seeing this on the tv. I was in my early 20’s working at a restaurant. I went to work and we had tvs and all the customers that day were silent and in shock and still processing what happened that day. It was a weird eerie feeling like no other. Which was different back then you would talk and have conversation with your regulars. The only thing that was understood that day was the historical moment.
I'm from Australia and i didn't hear about 9/11 until 10 hrs later due to time difference. Even Aussies were so shocked this could happen.
I love this Time Machine of a channel. Where has the time gone!
As a UPS driver I suspected that 9/12/01 would've been a business-as-usual type of day even given the horrific events of the prior day. And at 6:40 in this video my suspicions were confirmed! Looks like there might've been a driver supervisor with the driver that day, probably all hands on deck to bring everyone in early.
What a beautiful video. Thanks, Vampire Robot.
Thanks for uploading sharing all these awesome videos from the past. Truly a time capsule! I was a sophomore when 9/11 happened. YT and social media wasn't even around yet. Until the mid and late 20's. Overall the simple times back then. Even better no smart phones! No zombies staring down 24/7 like today's people and the life we live in now.
The silence is haunting.😕
Unreal. Like a ghost town
This is what modern day looks like. We will never have what we had before 9/11 happened. This marks the new era that we know today. I know many people name different years that they think "this is when everything ended" but 9/11 literally is the shift. I feel like with everyones behavior and attitude in this video that this is indistinguishable from today. Only difference is the video quality. if this was in HD i wouldnt be able to tell if this was today or not.
Thank u Mayor Giuliani for getting this city through this horrible event! It’s a shame how ur being hated now!
Thank you!! 💯 He changed New York for the better. Amazing things! And it seems like all of his years of hard work, loyalty, compassion, empathy etc for people and the city was all for nothing. Did everyone forget about everything he did all those years? Everyone used to love him. Now people are haters, hypocrites, and stone throwers. It's really quite demented when you think about how quickly people will throw someone under the bus or stab them in the back. It just goes to show the ethical and moral decay of people nowadays. Sickening. Absurd. Very disheartening.
Worshipping false idols.
He was a great mayor at that time. People looked to him for direction.
He was an effective mayor, but a terrible person. As we would find out later.
@user-er3ri6sc3j God is always in control. No matter how much we like to fool ourselves that it is us in charge. Nothing happens unless he allows it to happen. All to fulfill his plans... his purpose. That includes allowing people in leadership positions. Simply admiring the good things someone did for a city is not worshipping false idols. At the same time we must not forget, he only got there because God allowed it to happen.😉
The City That Never Sleeps had to rest that day
I remember watching this on TV when I was 14… the city looked like it was in the middle of a wildfire for WEEKS afterward because Ground Zero just kept on burning. I just couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing 1,000 miles away even as it shook me to my core.
It’s strange but there was this vibe of not business as usual, but keep on keeping on/don’t let the terrorists win. Would we have this same mentality if something like this happened today?
powerful video. gave me goosebumps.
What an absolutely surreal time to experience. Even though I was halfway across the country and knew no one lost that day, there was a very real feeling of loss and sadness. That feeling was quickly replaced with an overwhelming sense of pride and patriotism for America that's hard to describe. It's something you'll only know if you were alive during that time, but I've never felt that way again.
I was 11 years old and in 6th grade when 9/11 happened. My dad hadn’t been retired from the army a year and I remember being terrified that the government would call him back to go to war.
It’s weird to see the empty or sparsely-populated streets. Even streets that have a relatively normal amount of activity seem so quiet.
I remember reading that so much blood was donated that most of it had to be thrown out. No one could use it because no one really needed it.
One thing I definitely remember about the day after the attack was how quiet it was at school (I was in the 3rd grade in Jersey City at the time). Everyone was emotionally drained.
I was 6 about to turn 7 a week later and I can still remember 9/11. Tragic day
I was only 9 when this happened, but my only memory that day was my father picking me up from school in Kew Garden Hills and going to his friends house nearby and got confused by the horror of the World Trade Center.
Life moves on..
I wonder how did it feel to wake up that morning without the Twin Towers in the skyline.
I was in 11th grade, science class. We watched it on tv and had an early release. Just crazy 😢
My 10th birthday now I'm 33 😱