We saw it live in our 8th grade classes. Every single tv in our school was pulled into various classrooms. We did zero work that day. Instead, we watched these terrible events unfold. The classrooms that didn't get a tv listened to the nearby tvs in other classrooms.
The Queen ordered the band at Buckingham Palace to play the US anthem - many Americans living in or visiting London had gathered at the palace gates. To this day we love and respect her for doing that.❤️🥰
In footage of it, you can see all the people standing at the gates holding American flags and crying while they play it. She broke a tradition almost as old as our country to do that. She was all class. God rest her soul.
I didn't know this. That's such an act of class that we all can live by now here in 2024. I'm an American, and also an Army Vet. I served in Afghanistan and I believe 911 had an impact on my decision to join later on. People say I'm a hero for being a soldier and serving my country. I thank people for saying that...but I feel like first responders don't get enough credit. They are heroes just as well. I'd also like to give a shout out to UA-camrs like Kabir here who like other foreigners take interest or give the US a nod now and then. Lol I know we can be annoying sometimes but then again most families are dysfunctional after all. Kabir keep up the awesome voodoo that you do sir!
First responders from 9/11 are still dying to this day from illnesses directly related to that day. Many have died of cancer and respiratory illnesses. Sadly they’ve had to work incredibly hard to get compensation for this
There were so many heavy metals in that dust, and then the ones who worked on the pile; the fires in the pit burned for six months. People who lived and worked in the area became ill as well. Even some kids at Stuyvesant High School got some of the rare cancers that a lot of firefighters did.
@@janeathome6643 there's another channel that I watch, the lady was/is a nurse of some kind, and she was there at the time helping take care of people, and she now has respiratory issues.
And you know how many of the same politicians who would've stood side-by-side with those first responders on that day (at least for the PR) would come back 10-20 years later voting down bills to offer that additional compensation out of a pithy, self-serving desire to cut down on money spent on government.
Yes, I was going to say we still don't know the full death toll of 9/11 because people are still dying. We wont have a final count for many decades to come.
My Dad was in Canada visiting family & had to remain there until the border reopened. He would park his car (which had NJ plates) & when he returned there would be flowers, notes & sympathy cards under the wipers. He still has those items all these years later.
I was in 8th grade when it happened. The teachers told us: "There's no homework tonight. Go home, and watch the news with your families. Today, the world has changed forever."
I was in second grade and I live in California we didn’t get the news until we were at school at 7 or 8 am so around 10 for New York. I just remembered that the teachers were told to turn on the tv in the classroom. I think to not cause panic the teachers said we are all waiting for your parents to pick you up.
I am a 73yo retired nurse who lived 35 min outside the city. I was part of a specialized IV team and we had called the Red Cross to see if we could help. They sent a New York City Fire Dept speedboat to pick us up from a marina near us. We sped down the Hudson River under the empty bridges as no traffic was allowed, no other boats were on the river and no planes except fighter jets in the sky. We were dropped off on the West Side where a military hospital was being put together. And there we sat all day doing nothing. There were so few survivors that the local hospitals handled them. In my 44 year career I have never felt so useless. Kudos to you for wanting to learn more and keeping the memory alive. 💗
At the time I was an EMT in Westchester (I'm a nurse, now). That evening we jumped on a train (one was still running into the city every few hours) and went to the Chelsea Piers where we got everything set up. There was an an area for each specialty of volunteers; medical, construction, etc. Unfortunately, the only people they came to collect were the mental health professionals and the heavy equipment operators. 😢In the triage area we cleaned eyes, mostly firemen, cleaned & bandage minor injuries. A couple of stitches were needed. That's it. I can never explain to people how my heart ached for more work, as it equaled more life. The next day we moved everything over from the Chelsea Piers to the Javits Center. So after 24 hours of heartbreak, I headed home. As I approached Penn Station I happened to glance up and see that the Empire State Building was dark. I burst into tears, sat on the library steps and cried. 😢
Even being across the country and being an ER nurse, I felt helpless. I can't imagine being right there and watching this all happen. I'm so sorry you had to live that nightmare.
@@janetrasmason6549 I really hope that all the lesser known but important stories, like your own, will be documented and organized for future generations. Yours is the kind of account that I, as a history major in college, would have been thrilled to use as a primary source of the events of that horrible day. Thank you for sharing it with us!
The highjackers had trained in the US to become pilots. They were armed and took control of the planes. No American pilot flew into any buildings on that day.
@@Liamshavingfunit also gave the government a excuse to do several things it already had planned, like the Patriot Act and Iraq, Syria, Yemen. Many many people across the globe were killed because of this attack.
Your government trained them and paid off their families for their sacrifice to cover up the 2 trillion dollars that they stole. Guess who was investigating that money that came up missing? Just saying. That's not a coincidence
I"m American, but have lived in France for many years. When this happened I, like many others in the world, spent countless hours in front of the television - it's incredible how many profound emotions one can share with a tv! After a couple of days I realized that I couldn't cope with the magnitude of the situation alone and so, for the first and last time in my life to date, I went down to the American Embassy to the memorial that had been set up . I took flowers and stood with others. A little elderly Frenchman came up to me and asked if I was American. I said I was and he took me in his arms and held me and said how sorry he was; said how France would not be France without the Americans. I could only answer in kind, that the United States wouldn't be the US without France and we cried together in the shared history, love and respect for our two countries.
Thanks for sharing that beautiful story. So glad you found that solace when you were away from the U.S. We do indeed have a close connection with France. I too feel like the other commenter who wrote they hope that somewhere these stories are being collected for first hand historical accounts.
I was living in Paris at the time, although I'm from London there were a few Americans in my social group who worked at the US Embassy. We watched it all unfold in horror at our local bar in my old neighbourhood. In the aftermath my embassy friends had to take precautions when going out and the local police put armed guards outside where they lived, it must have felt like having a massive target on their back. I had family in New York and remember it took ages to reach them and find out they were ok. Terrible times
@@aubreydavis8822 Perhaps our paths crossed in those days, even if we didn't realize it! I agree that the worst was reaching loved ones in NY! Absolute panic until a call finally went through and we heard those sweet voices on the other end of the line. I also had a friend who'd taken a flight that morning to go to her sister's wedding. They were more than half way into the flight when the pilot came on and announced that they had to turn around and return to Paris, explaining what had happened and that they wouldn't be able to land in the States. Crazy, crazy times!
I was in it, from everything I saw that day I suffered PTSD, it took me 10 years to heal from the trauma, it was surreal an horrific and I witnessed both towers falling. I had many friends who died that day. Still hard for me to watch any videos. I had flashbacks for years. This is something no one should ever have to go through, but it’s something we must not forget ever. I won’t!
I was there too. I still have horrific PTSD from it. I still sob every time I think of it. I still panic when I hear a plane that seems far too low or loud.
I remember that too... it was every dystopian horror film nightmare. I was23 at the time and I don't even remember if I called out of work that night I just didn't go and I recall the 20+ hours of not eating, going to the bathroom, just watching the news and crying... Those images were the stuff of nightmares for years for so many of us.The world felt so small yet I remember feeling so alone and having nightmares for what felt like forever. I remember looking NE from New Orleans as all of our bases were emptying out and fighters from Barksdale and Belle Chase Joint Naval Air Base filling the sky, and I was surprised I could not see the smoke from NYC... my perspective was so skewed. It was so surreal I still can't watch this and not cry. And even without the coverage I still see the jumpers and hear the bodies and the flight logs and tapes from Flight 93 in PA. I don't need the coverage anymore it is burned in my memory.
I was 8 when it happened and I remember it vividly. My mom was playing scrabble online with a woman in one of the WTC towers when they were hit. I was out of school that day and got woken up to it. That and what followed, I'm not sure we'll ever see America that closely knit ever again. Now any time tragedy strikes, it's just pointing fingers.
I was in 8th grade. My grandma always woke me up for school. Had the news on and would have a smoke together. My grandmother didn't have the news on that day.
@@teressareeves5856I didn’t feel like celebrating. I was just relieved. I don’t get a high for someone else’s death, even that man. I thought about his daughter who is a us citizen. How that had to have affected his family. And the only reason I was relieved, is because he couldn’t hurt anyone else.
Correct as the Twin Towers had many people from all over the world in them. My friend was supposed to be one of them that day she used to fly over to conduct business in the Twin towers from the UK. I knew she was there that day but she wasn't in either tower as she had to stop off at another place first and was on her way their and got stuck in traffic. So she had business friends who all died that day Americans and non Americans alike.
I live in California. Just got up and served my daughter some cereal, making myself a cup of coffee and about to get ready to take her to school and get myself to work. Had the tv on to listen to the news while we got ready for the day. Heard her drop her spoon into her bowl loudly. Looked up at her. She was open-mouthed, staring at the tv. Just as I looked at the tv, the second plane hit the south tower. I screamed, realizing what was happening. She started crying because she was only 7 and didn't understand but knew something awful had happened. What a terrible day. It was the only time I was ever thankful to be living in a small city that no one cared about.
I thought the same: I was working in a small town about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh and thought odds were I was safe - until the plane crashed in Shanksville, PA. Shanksville is about 30 miles SOUTH of Pittsburgh. If the plane had turned over Pittsburgh and gone north instead of south, the crash might have hit where I was. Still, I'm glad the passengers found out what was happening and fought back.
2,977 people died including 343 NYC firefighters. There are still over 1,000 people who's remains have never been found. Over 5,000 people have died since from illnesses from the serch and clean up and even just being there that day and living in the area after.
The plane that crashed in Pittsburgh was Flight 93, the one that the hijackers planned to crash into the White House. They hijacked 4 planes that were all supposed to take off at the same time, but Flight 93 was delayed, giving the passengers time to find out about the attack on the World Trade Center. Once they figured out what was going on, they broke down the doors to the cockpit, forcing the hijackers to crash the plane into a field. 60 Minutes did an interview with the fighter pilots that the Air Force scrambled to intercept the plane (you should watch it). They didn't have enough time to load any missiles, but the pilots decided to take off anyway. If the crew hadn't stormed the cockpit, the fighter pilots were planning to crash into the plane to bring it down.
I have heard since it was determined the Capitol that was likely the intended targeted. And also, based on the timeline presented at the flight 93 memorial, the fighter jets still wouldn’t have made it in time to intercept it before its intended target. Thankfully the passengers fought back.
@@williamlambert My husband’s 3x great grandfather, Christian Shank, settled that area. My mother in law saw this plane fly over her home that day and knew something was wrong due to the low altitude 😞
@@ghstdnsr Yeah. You'd think it would get more attention due to the efforts of the passengers, but the significance of the towers dwarfed that and the one that crashed into the Pentagon. Paul Greengrass made a movie on it (United 93) which netted him two Oscar nominations, yet it still gets overlooked.
In this case, it was both! A religion that does not respect life and lives to destroy and brings no peace, has no thought for the pain of others, only their own ideology! Beware! We need to wake up to the evil in our midst! We are once again in the incidious those throes of the same ideology that was put into action on that fateful 11 September day! The difference is that the take over is coming by stealth, from within! Every time a protest or attack is allowed to happen, that opposes our western culture, another step is taken towards what was attempted to be achieved on that fateful September day. 😢😢😢 May we see what is happening before it is too late, or may God save us all, and I mean that sincerely! 🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺
I'm 61. I first saw it on the news as I was clocking into work and we were all standing around the time clock in shock. I still cannot get the images of those who jumped out of my head. Thank you for this BBC coverage reaction. They did a great job expressing real emotion and concern.
The thought of the people jumping has always stuck with me - the hell that they must have been in inside the building was surely beyond imagination to even think that jumping was a good alternative. And the terrorists hijacked the planes. They had all taken flying lessons prior to 9/11. They actually flew the planes themselves, they didn't force the pilots to do it. There are many people, including first responders, who've died of lung/respiratory issues since.
There was a pair of brothers, film makers, doing a documentary on the New York fire department at the time of the attacks. They just happened to catch the first plane screeching overhead and as it struck the first tower. Only footage of that, I believe. One of them and his crew were with the first responders on the ground floor of the towers. The sounds of the jumpers’ bodies hitting the awning over the entrance was caught in film. Absolutely haunting. PBS broadcast the resulting film a couple of times.
@@ErnwaldoJust made a similar comment. It was the French brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet who were filming a documentary about NYC Firehouse Engine 7 Ladder 1. Jules Naudet was with Chief Pfeifer when the Firemen were checking for a gas leak near the World Trade Center and looked up with the camera when Flight 11 careened overhead and into the North Tower. Everyone looked up because planes weren’t allowed over Manhattan. And they did capture the sounds of the people crashing down onto the awnings and the Firefighters wincing in the knowledge. 😞 The camera used by Jules is in the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
@@hahatoldyousoThere’s a documentary, Voices from Inside the Towers. So illuminating about what was happening inside. Made with families’ permission. One young woman who called her father was there for one day, one meeting only. A Firefighter named Orio Palmer made it up to the 78th floor carrying 50 pounds of gear. One man’s 911 call was played at the subsequent trial of another perpetrator because of the suffering it revealed. So many messages of love to their loved ones. It’s worth a listen.
the terrorists killed the pilots and took over the planes all 4 planes had people on them sadly my cousin Diana was one of the ones who passed that day she was in the north tower when the first plane hit she died on impact
Sorry for your loss. My student of four years lost his little sister on the plane that hit the Pentagon. My other friend worked in the north tower but was late that day. After a few funerals, he had to hospitalize himself.
The building were designed to collapse they were erected in the early 1970s and that was put into a faction…if a commercial airline had an accident it would go down and not topple
I just met a woman whose son survived the attack. He was on the 88th floor of the South Tower and everyone was asked to stay put by firefighters who had reached them. Her son said that he had a newborn son at home and there was no way he was staying. I cried listening to her story. It was a miracle.
You must be mistaken about which tower or how high up he was because the south tower was hit between the floors 77-82. The highest floor reached by firefighters is thought to be 78, and I severely doubt if they ran across firefighters they would be told to not move. If he was in the south tower above the hit zone he was truly lucky, less than 20 people made it out alive.
@@ec1032ameveryone was told to stay in place and the ones who came down anyway were told to go back up, that everything was fine. Some people stayed because they remembered the bombs in 93 and thought it was safer to wait. There was either an automated message or a live message that told everyone over the speakers to basically shelter in place and wait for help. Sadly the ones who listened didn’t make it. It’s even worse for the ones who trusted their instinct at first but ultimately trusted their higher management and port authority to stay in the buildings. Remember that they did not kno what was going on outside of the buildings initially unless they were in the impact zone. This was all said in many documentaries from the survivors
@@BlackGirlLovesAnime6 When the North tower was hit at 8:46 its emergency PA system was broken. Three minutes before the impact on the South Tower the PA system broadcast to stay and wait for further information as they had no idea what would happen next. Two minutes later they sent out another broadcast stating people could evacuate if they wanted to, but that was only one minute from impact. There was definitely a lot of miscommunication and confusion that was going on that day.
@@ec1032am Right. I think that was understandable because no one knows if there'll be ground attacks that follows after that incident. I remember watching a video of some people running that day because they thought there were terrorists on the streets of NY too that day.
September 11, 2001 was a global historical punctuation point. It was a pivotal event that changed the world. It marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new one - especially for air travel.
@@IC27185I'm going to hazard a guess and say that they are American, and they said it would cause racism against people who are Asian Muslims due to the terrorists who committed the attack.
@@IC27185as someone with Middle Eastern family, the 9/11 attacks caused a high rate of hate crimes against Middle Eastern people especially those who wore any clothing like hijabs.
Years ago I watched a video of the "jumpers" of the world trade centre. I remember there were fire fighters inside of the lobby in one of the buildings and the sounds of bodies hitting the ground was horrendous; the fire fighters would get more and more upset and desperate every time the heard the sound.
The morning of September 12th I received an e-mail from an acquaintance in Mombasa, Kenya - expressing their condolences. The world was appalled that day.
Kabir, I will never (nor will any other American old enough to remember) forget that day as long as I live! It changed this country in so many ways, all of them bad.
I think it helped us all re - realize how strong we are, and how amazing it is, this country we call America, this country so many of us call home! The greatest nation on the planet and we will forever continue to fight the good fight no matter how many evils get thrown at us...no matter how many evils we endure. We're the United States Of America, and our Flag, will ALWAYS be there! 🇺🇲❤️🎆🇺🇲
I feel like the weeks after the attack showed me what true patriotism and community is. It's sad that such a thing was necessary for us to come together as a country, even sadder that we've since lost that togetherness.
I must disagree. For a time people in the US no longer judged others, the color of ones skin, where they lived, job or not. Everyone treated each other with Love and respect if only for a moment in time. We were ALL AMERICANS and proud to show it, willing to fight. And what a beautiful thing it was to see. With the current events going on in the World today.....Pray, that we are not destined to learn this lesson again.🙏
@@IvysMom330 ...except for all of the innocent arab americans who were harassed and attacked for the actions of ppl living on the other side of the world that they had zero connection to. ppl like to gloss over and forget the insane amount of islamophobia that happened post 9/11. it wasn't all love and camaraderie for all americans
@@evtv304 ...that's a whole other deeper, lengthy topic. There are some countries writing up policies to deport all islamists, because so many keep pushing for laws in countries that host them to be changed to benefit them, rather than graciously assimilate to the culture of the country THEY CHOSE to call home. I would never go to another country and expect them to change laws to accommodate my beliefs. That's ridiculous, and I see why it is becoming a problem, therefore I understand why some countries are putting together a framework to deal the overgrowing issue.
I remember I was in kindergarten. My mom came and pulled me out and I remember sitting in the back seat of the pickup truck, flying down the road towards my pawpaws because that was the safest place my mom could think to take us. We literally got air over some hills.
My Dad is an Engineer and when he saw the planes go in he called my brother to tell him to turn on the news. My Dad immediately said the buildings will not be able to withstand the impact and jet fuel fires. I was living in Florence, Italy (College Study Abroad) and everything shut down in the city and classes cancelled. Back then we had internet cafe's to check email, and the Italian people were wonderful and gave us free internet time for reading the news. I overheard one girl in the Internet cafe speak about how her best friend's father was an airline pilot and she found out that he was one of the ones killed on one of the planes. The day after the attacks, on our way to class the next morning in every shop window was a white piece of paper in English that said 'Our deepest sympathy goes out to all our American friend'.
As a New Yorker who was in the city that day, here's something I've noticed that bugs me. Reporters often use the term "chaos" to describe the event. There wasn't chaos, except for the moments the buildings were collapsing. People were worried, but there was no widespread panic. Everyone did what they had to do. One thing I'll never forget is my friend who worked across the street from one of the towers was not heard from all day. Later that night, he showed up at a friend's house. He'd walked all the way downtown from Ground Zero to the 59th Street Bridge. Buses were being used to take firefighters to the scene, but once things settled a bit, some of those buses started picking up people who were walking home. That's how my friend got home that night.
For those of us outside of the city, I’m sure it seemed like chaos was happening based on all the footage we were seeing. I’m guessing for those who were in the city, the atmosphere was more like one of disbelief and feeling numb. And much sorrow as well. The technology/social media of today was not around back then so it made things even more worrisome for people who couldn’t get in touch with their friends and loved ones right away. It’s hard to believe how much time has passed since it happened. Doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago.
@@conpop6924 my first thought when I heard it was, "what kind of schmuck can't see the towers on such a clear day when we can clearly see them from Jersey", then I figured the pilot had had a heart attack and felt bad for calling him a schmuck. Another thing that doesn't get mentioned a lot is all the posters of the missing. My local supermarket's doors and windows was covered in them. was really heart breaking to see them and realize most if not all of those people were dead :( What I don't recall is if my kids, who were in grammar school at the time, went to school the next day. I asked one of them recently, he doesn't remember either. He does know that his teacher asked him to run an errand to the principal's office and they had the tv on in her office so he saw the second plane hit the south tower. youngest was 4 so I doubt he remembers anything. tho I could be wrong. I mean at the time we were all in shock, and after that we never really talked about it.
In the years since 9/11, more people - fireman, police, residents - have died of various cancers and lung diseases than were killed that day and it continues to this day. I live here. I was down there. The government assured everyone the air was safe. It was anything but.
I remember watching this in the UK and it was a very sombre day. The atmosphere is hard to describe but people were going about their daily business as usual but we were just numb with shock for our US cousins and I saw lots of people in tears that day including my brother who worked in insurance and when he came home the first thing he said was "I've just sent the usual mail to a place that isn't there anymore". He had friends and colleagues in the towers and it affected him for a while. Us Brits really felt for America that day. None more so than our dearly departed Queen who ordered the royal guard to play the Star Spangled Banner outside Buckingham Palace the next morning. RIP to all🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@deborahdanhauer8525Yes, HM The Queen touched many Americans that day. But,when JFK was murdered, she also ordered the bells to toll at Westminster Abbey.
What do you mean “supporting” and “bleak”? You literally invaded Iraq that had literally nothing to do with 9/11 and Afghanistan is a whole different kettle of fish 🤦🏾♂️
@@intello8953 They mean innocent lives and families were suffering and terrified, traumatized, trembling, trying to call their dead loved ones who never picked up the phone. You're trying to act all logical and justifying, looking for an "ah-ha!" moment, in a comment full of nothing but sentiment and melancholy, devoid of politics or hatred. Where in their comment were they blaming anyone? You are the only one injecting politics, hatred and ego. Stop being a coward hiding behind the name of logic. Face the music: You are nothing but an evil person. Just say that next time. It's such a tired villain archetype.
@@myroselle6987Will never forget that gesture of friendship, the Queen instructing her Guards to play our National Anthem outside Buckingham Palace. It meant so much.
The hijackers did this with box cutters, not guns. They killed the pilots. The hijackers had trained enough to be able to fly the planes into the towers. The planes were full of innocents. The one plane that crashed in Pennsylvania did so bc the airplane passengers were able to fight and retake the plane from the hijackers, but with no living pilots the best they could do was crash the plane or prevent it from hitting anything else. All died.
The passengers did not properly retake flight 93. They rushed the cockpit, and the hijackers responded by putting the plane nose-down. The plane impacted the ground at high speed, almost vertically. Going by the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder, the passengers may have broke into the cockpit about 90 seconds before impact, and were likely struggling for control about 60 seconds before. The actual audio isn't available to the public, so a lot remains ambiguous. But if the passengers did win, it was almost certainly too late to make a difference.
@@galiantus1354 thanks for clarifying the facts, I would have done so myself. I do not see how that can be belittling of the achievements won by those on the plane.
Guns weren't needed. Because every prior hijacking in recorded history had been benign -- highjackers wanted to escape and get out alive, and airlines expected to get their equipment back -- airline policy was to simply allow hijackers to do what they wanted...which was usually "fly to Cuba, land, pay me two million dollars and let me go, and you can have the plane & passengers back". S==cidal martyrs were not on anybody's radar
My daughter was 2 blocks from the White House and was put into lockdown. At that time, cell phones were still a luxury so not everyone had one. I still bless the person who passed their cell phone around so that everyone could call home to say they were safe. ❤
Jumping from the buildings is a sight that will always be burned into my mind and will never be forgotten. Those who jumped were choosing to end their lives their way on their terms rather than waiting to die when the buildings collapsed. There were so many people trapped above the impact sights its absolutely gut wrenching to think that they were in a position to have to make that decision, jump or wait for the inevitable.
Interesting your take on why they jumped. I’ve always theorized that the towers did not have windows that opened and they were filled with toxic smoke and couldn’t breathe or flames were coming straight at them. I think I would jump before I would be burned alive.
There’s a book called “The Lives They Saved” about the first responders and mariners who helped treat survivors and evacuate Lower Manhattan. One of the testimonies talks about how they saw the remains of a jumper and their hand was completely black. They had chosen to jump instead of being burned alive. It’s a hard read, but full of first hand testimonies
I watched it live on TV from Costa Rca. We were two hours behind NY time so we were having breakfast. When the second plane hit there was no doubt that it was an attack. Seeing those people jumping off the building, some holding hands, is something I think about to this day. Watching those immense towers collapse was hard to believe.
@@TQV_4013 there are so many images from that day that will never fade from my memory no matter what I do. I was supposed to fly out of Boston that morning but didn't I canceled my trip after having numerous dreams nightly of dying in a plane crash and my intuition and dreams have never been wrong so when I couldn't shake that feeling and the dreams got more frequent I listened. To this day it's still hard to process it all and daily I keep those who lost family and loved ones in my thoughts, heart and prayers those voids created in so many lives will never heal and are likely just as if not more haunting and hard to process such an awful thing that didn't need to happen and created devastating loss. The first tower getting hit created a media firestorm that was shocking and breaking news the coverage was unreal and news traveled fast. The tower being hit the way it was I think in the back of people's minds was the thought of it being intentional but no one wanted to say it and held onto hope it was accidental. After the first tower was hit and news coverage was covering it very heavily, families of those on other hijacked flights were receiving calls from their loved ones who were unaware of the full nightmare unfolding and asking their families if they could find out anything about the hijackings. Of course those on the ground scrambled to find answers and turned their TVs on only to see the full scope and how bad it was. In those calls of final goodbyes knowing the outcome was not going to be good families who had gathered around their TVs helplessly watching it all unfold were beyond devastated when calls dropped as tower 2 was hit and that confirmed which flight it was. The day was full of devastation watching so many terrible things unfold and people who were stuck making decisions they never thought they would have to make it was a dark day and I hope it's never forgotten and above all i hope that the people and their families are not forgotten either they deserve to be remembered and have their stories told
I remember going outside about noon. People walked around yet no one spoke. There was an eerie silence similar to a scene from the film "Ladybug, Ladybug" (1963). In which the children of a rural school were quietly sent home due to an imminent nuclear attack warning.
7:57 Because of the way it was constructed. The WTC was one of the first buildings to use "central core framed tube" architecture, which relied on a very strong central core that was the anchor for external frames via floor spars, hence making a vertical "tube". The benefit of this was that the floors were very open, without the traditional pillars needed in common skyscrapers to the distribute the load. It was revolutionary at the time, but the biggest weakness was that if the spars between the core and the external frame failed, the external frame had nothing else to bear the load. THAT is why the towers fell, because the spars between the core and frame were not properly clad in fireproofing, and were thus able to be superheated by the fires and started to buckle downwards, which put tremendous strain on the weaker of the two parts, the external frame. When enough spars buckled, it pulled the external framing inwards (you can see it happening at 8:30 at the lowest floor with the smoke pouring out when the second tower fell, the whole thing seems to suck inwards moment before the tower starts to collapse), and when the weight of the building above that floor was suddenly accelerated downwards, you had a "pancake collapse" in that the weight kept driving downwards faster and faster, collapsing the structure.
The spars between the core and the external walls were initially properly clad in fire protection. The weakening of the spars came because the initial explosion and shock and shockwave from the airliners hitting the buildings actually blew the fire protection cladding off the spars, leaving the spars vulnerable to the heat from the fires. These fires were extremely intense due to the large amount of fuel needed to fly the planes to their original destinations, as you mentioned.
@@jamesmarciel5237 There's also a fair amount of evidence (i.e. video from a building dept. inspection) showing that the fire foam on steel structural members wasn't in the best of shape by the late 90s, and some areas were clearly not properly protected from the start.
You are talking out of your backside. The towers were destroyed using exotic weaponry. You're trying to argue those tiny floor trusses pulled down the HUGE columns that were holding them up. Not thd other way around. Wake up!!!
@@coolyoutubename16 Oh Dear - Violent language but you are almost correct..!! actually destroyed by pre-planted Nano Thermite explosive which literally pulverised the concrete slabs and literally cut the massive steel beams and columns in a controlled sequence.. absolutely vertically - straight down onto their own footprints. Classic controlled Demolition . ... .. Molten steel was found in the basement areas 3 months later.. Jet fuel could not have melted all those Tons of Steel Columns and Beams.. Bomb sniffer dogs taken Off Duty a few weeks BEFORE.. - what a coincidence !!!!! and Why did building 7 collapse only a few hours later in exactly the same way . ?? .. because it was already " wired " and Silverstein said " Pull It " and raked in Trillions of dollars in compensation.. an Inside Job if ever I saw one.....No Arabs anywhere near ..
Pretty sure Bin Ladin was motivated by civillian casualties from US drone strikes in middle eastern countries. It doesnt justify his actions, but that is something that tends to draw the ire of people in other countries.
I'm in Australia. The coverage started late at night. The first news flash, I thought "This is a new way to promote a movie". When the second tower was hit, it was "Oh sh*t, it's real!" I knew Americans in my community who had connections via work etc to people who died.
They attacked a financial institution, a military institution and many believe that the third plane was going to take out either the White House or the Capitol building before the passengers intervened and the plane crashed. They weren't just crashing into random buildings but chose those particular buildings to send a message.
The jumpers chose how they died. I don't think thought they were saving themselves. RIP. Edit. I realize not all the jumpers actually jumped but fell or slipped while trying to get air. Just want to clarify that before anyone else comes to correct me.
They didn’t choose, they were forced out of the windows by the extreme heat, flames and toxic smoke. They inched closer and closer desperate for escape and air and eventually they basically fell out of the windows.
@@Tateorsomething...I was awaiting another surgery to fix a broken back. I was heavily drugged and so relied on my then husband for information. He turned the tv in my room on just in time to see extreme close-ups of people standing in the shattered remains of the upper parts of the buildings. We saw, on live tv, people falling , jumping and being blown out of the towers. Some were on fire. It was horrific. It was also played over and over for the next couple of days. The horror of it became seared into my brain. It changed our world. Everyone in the world now has to deal with the consequences of 19 terrorists hijacking 4 planes on that terrible day.
It's so horrifying, and to think ppl were celebrating the death of innocent ppl dying, I try not to be blind of the evil around us but it's sad that it's out there. I live in CA and shed tears for what happened that horrible day. I hope if God exists, that those innocent people got taken care of.
I was in school in Florida where my homeroom teacher was getting attendance when another teacher wrenched the door open to say a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. We turned on the TV and watched with open-mouthed terror as we saw plumes of smoke billow out. We screamed and cried as we watched the second plane hit the other tower followed by their collapse. This attack solidified my decision to continue my family tradition of enlisting into the military after graduating high school.
I live in Pinellas County and same. I was in my senior Criminal Justice class and our teacher came in, turned on the TV and we watched maybe not even a minute then the second plane hit, he told us to go to all the other rooms in the school and tell the teachers to turn on their tv's, eventually it was being broadcasted via intercom. Everything was canceled after 2nd period and we were not allowed to go home unless someone came and picked us up so people that drove had to leave their cars behind. A portion of the guys in my program signed up immediately.
My husband was 21 that day... He had always known he was going to go Navy- cargo pilot... In April of that year he was in a car crash that left him paraplegic and in a wheelchair. He was on his porch in military housing in Coronado ( his dad was active duty Navy at the time) sobbing watching our battle cruisers rooster tailing it out to open ocean, and every fighter on the ground in San Diego going air born, sobbing because he could not be with them...Coronado Bay bridge was packed and this was all out of his front porch view. I was in New Orleans it was a few years before we met... By January I was back in college Army ROTC. To this day I regret Katrina in 2005 took that opportunity away from me as I was unable to finish school and get my degree and fully enlist with the plan to graduate and go full 2nd Louie. I still bleed for this day
I'm 67 years old and will never forget this day. I was living in Florida, but this affected all of us in America. I still can't watch these tapes without tearing up.
Me too and I'm British I was getting ready for work and getting my kids ready for school and I was just staring at the tv crying I couldn't get it seeing people falling I saw one man it was horrible
I understand. I'm 56 and live in Utah which is 2,000 miles away from everything. I was working in a building that was next door to the Salt Lake Olympic headquarters. At the time we weren't sure exactly what was happening and I was worried the Olympic headquarters would be attacked. It may sound silly all these years later but that day we just didn't know what to expect.
There's a documentary that was released a few years after this called 102 minutes that changed America (I think) that has so much home video footage from the area on this day. It's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
I've seen that documentary. It's full of home video and reactions from people on the street in NYC. I'd recommend it to anyone whose curious about what the average person was doing that day.
Brother, I was in 7th grade 1800 miles away in Louisiana, and I promise it was terrifying for everyone. We witnessed that second plane hit the tower on the TV and school stopped. They literally made us all leave class and go out to the baseball fields in the countryside of Louisiana because no one understood what was happening.
I was in 8th grade in Tennessee. They had us do this almost sorta "duck and cover" situations in classrooms for about 20 minutes that day because we have some chemical plants in the area that someone in the school system thought could be a target. (Even at the time, I thought it was a dumb thing to make us do because there were thousands and thousands of better places to attack in the US than the tiny towns in my area.) I had different classes each period. Some teachers just continued on like it was a normal day, but other teachers realized that we were too distracted to do any learning that day and many of them just let us watch the news on TV instead.
I was in NOLA at the time 23 years old, worked at PetSmart on Manhattan blvd in Harvey... I still recall being surprised I could not see the smoke when I looked NE... It felt so close yet like it was another world in some dystopian horror novel. I remember fighters in the formations over Old Jefferson as Barksdale and Belle Chase emptied. Avondale was on full alert as was that office complex on Causeway that housed the offices of Boeing/Dyne McDermott and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve evacuating. No one knew what the targets were. I don't remember if I called out that day or just didn't go to work. I do remember the 20 hours of news at my ex husband's grandparents house with the whole family. It was so quiet in that house no one wnated ot breath to loud and we all silently crying...
I can tell you exactly how it felt that day here. I was 17 and already a volunteer firefighter (I finished the class, written, and practical exams only 3 months prior) and was in day #3 of my Emergency Medical Technician course. It was the beginning of my final year in high school. I lived only about 65 minutes from the Pentagon, 90 minutes or so from Shanksville, and about 3 hours from Manhattan. Two other firefighters I knew had family members (a brother, and a cousin) in the FDNY, both died in the first tower when it fell. Only 2 years prior, one of my family members had finally retired... he worked in the Pentagon and where he would have been, he would have been killed. With such close proximity to all 3 sites, even a few of my high school peers lost mothers and fathers. It still gives me chills when I hear the Scott SCBA alarms going off at ground zero. the high-pitched alarms start ringing after 30 seconds of no movement once activated. That's why when you watch older fire videos, you'll see them hopping up and down every few seconds. Most of the time they were false alarms but in the case of 9/11, most of them were from killed firefighters. It's a haunting noise. Not a single person I saw that day didn't cry. And I spent that whole day around school, then my fire station. Bullies. Nerds. Jocks. Stoners. Paramedics. Firefighters. Police officers. Teachers. Students. Priests. Drug dealers. Prostitutes. Black. White. Christian. Jewish. Latino. Lawyers. Doctors. Nurses. On September 11, 2001, all those people I just listed... were just adjectives to everyone. We as a nation didn't classify each other that day... we were just 'people.' Nothing really mattered that day because police officers and drug dealers were hugging, and comforting each other. Doctors stood and watched the towers collapse in rooms with their patients. Crying. Hugging. Helping the other understand. Lawyers and judges, corrections officers and prisoners... nothing mattered that day. I stood in a classroom and watched people decide that falling 80 stories to their immediate death was a better idea than slowly dying from smoke inhalation or burning. When a body falls that far, there isn't much left when it hits the ground. A couple firefighters were killed when bodies landed on them. Some people who witnessed the bodies first-hand have spoken about it. They said it looked like what you'd expect to see at a slaughterhouse, but instead of cow's heads, there were fingers, hands, human brains and entrails scattered all over. Human blood looked like someone sprayed the area with a barrel full of blood, almost like a Halloween haunted house room. But this was real. It was real and it felt HORRIBLE. Sad. Hurt. Scared something else would happen. And for the next 2 days, every person in the USA wanted to help. And we did. We all did everything we could to help. People stood in lines measured in DAYS WAIT time to donate blood. We knew people were still alive under the rubble and maybe we couldn't all help dig them out, but goddamnit, we could make DAMN SURE not a single person who may need a pint or two of blood was going to die for a lack of blood! Some people waited days. Others took food to first responders, planted flags in their yards as a symbol of solidarity. Many enlisted in the military to fight. Others donated money to charities, people began volunteering again. Some of the homeless in my town had so much food to eat they had to actually turn it down. That day was incredibly painful and I still cry even when I think back about it, but then... I remember how unified we were and how, for only a few weeks, individuals weren't just titles they earned: cop; doctor; lawyer (solicitor, I think you folks across the pond call them); white guy; black girl; felon..... we were just people. Then we were just Americans.
This was the 6pm news bulletin, about 4 hours after the attacks. I was just settling down with a cup of tea at about 2pm (UK time) to watch some mindless TV before going to collect my daughter from school. They interrupted programming and switched to live coverage. The talking heads in the studio didn't even know what thy were watching at first. They were still speculating about some terrible accident with a light private plane, and then when the second plane hit, and was shown on their live feed, they didn't know what was going on. Then the pictures shifted without warning to the Pentagon, and the presenters were like "Hang on- that's not NY? That's Washington!" It all unfolded quickly from there. Those live images have stuck with me all those years. We lived a few miles from Stansted airport, and watching the regular large FeDEx plane come in much lower than nornmal over the town was really scary......because no-one knew if it was worldwide at that point.
This is how I remember it too. My husband had gone to pick up our daughter from school. He arrived home to find me in tears watching the live feed. I remember the confusion and horror.
As a person who lives on Long Island, New York, it was the saddest and scariest day and weeks of my life. The memories I carry from that day will haunt me for the rest of my life. The thing that was eye-opening was how we all came together as one to help each other. My heart will forever be with those we lost and their family's.
On September 11, 2001, 343 firefighters and paramedics from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Most of them died when the towers collapsed. The firefighters came from 75 firehouses across the city.
My father was in the area at the time. We don’t talk about his experience but the one thing he did say was that the sound of the bodies hitting the concrete still haunts him to this day
I was in the 5th grade living in Oregon on 9/11. I remember it was the 2nd day of 5th grade and my teacher brought in the TV and we watched the news live. Also, the weeks afterwards were pretty heavy in emotions and feelings about it all. I also lived in a small town, and it affected everyone.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and had been in those towers for a school trip in 1995 right after the first bombing in 1993. My mom and I used to pass by those towers every Sunday on our way home from church in Harlem. It was rough and I still have PTSD from this. My uncle was a NYC firefighter and had just retired a year before in 2000. I thank God he did but he lost a lot of his friends. I hope that the world never forgets. It’s just unimaginable about what happened. I visit the site every time I visit and it makes me cry every time to see those two waterfalls, water flowing into a black hole. It’s surreal.
I was unemployed at the time. My wife called me from work and told me planes had crashed into the World Trade Center buildings. Turned on the television and that was all that was on the major networks. Sat for hours astonished at what had happened. I live near a major International airport, constantly hearing planes fly over. When all aircraft were grounded, I stepped outside for a smoke and it was eerie, not hearing or seeing any planes in the sky. That day will never be forgotten.
I lived near Baltimore when it happened, which is within the greater DC airspace, and I remember the fighter jets patrolling overhead all day, instead of passenger planes.
This was before cockpits were heavily secured and flight attendants could freely access it during the flight, so once the hijackers overcame the flight attendants, it was easy to break into the cockpit and take over control of the plane if you knew how to fly. When I used to take roadtrips with my mom as a kid in Florida, we’d drive past a certain interstate exit in Venice, Florida and she’d always tell me that that exit contained a flight school where the 9/11 hijackers took private flying lessons to train and prepare for their attack. The unlucky owner of the flight school has lived with pretty significant regret and fear for his life due to unknowingly helping the hijackers in a way he didn’t foresee.
The planes also were always fully fueled for a cross-country trip, the fire from them was likely said to be the reason for the collapse of the towers and the extensive damage to the Pentagon.
@@coolyoutubename16 The trick is taking off and landing... if you don't have to worry about either of those then you could fly a jet from what you learn in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
FTR, Flight 93 didn't crash in Pittsburgh. It crashed in south-western Pennsylvania, near Indian Lake and Schenksville. They wanted to take it to Washington, DC and crash it there, but pasengers intervened in a big way. Edit: There is a memorial in the field in which they crashed.
I just drove past the memorial the other day and wanted to stop but didn’t get a chance. I’ve never seen that one or ground zero in New York. May all the fallen rest in peace 🙏🏻☦️
I was 14 when that happened and had stayed home from school because I was sick. Every awful moment of watching that happen live and trying to comprehend what we were seeing is burned into my memory. It was a horrific moment in history.
I was 17, in 10th grade, 2nd period, ironically enough called US History class. I specifically remember it was 9:36am when another teacher came in and whispered it to her. We did nothing the next couple of days but transfer from class to class, watching the news.
I was on my way to work when the first plane hit. Once I was in the office, I vividly remember radio after radio being turned on to listen to what was happening. Once I heard about the Pentagon, I remarked that 'we are under to attack and our world will never be the same.'
7:05 The terrorists killed the pilots and threatened to blow the plane up if anyone tried to rebel (they had fake explosives). Back then, the idea of a suicide terrorist hijack was not foremost in people's minds. Usually, people hijacked planes in order to get something else they wanted, and they usually landed at the airport.
That is so untrue. The United States was warned SEVERAL times in advance of this. Not to mention, people from CAVES are not going to overpower everyone on a plane, get to the cockpit, and EXPERTLY manuever planes to execute such an attack. Use your critical thinking skills here.
They also killed people on each plane and sprayed tear gas. The first death of the attack was a passenger who saw what was happening and stood up to help, not realising there was another terrorist with a knife behind him.
My son was in the Marines at the time and was a member of Presidential security team at Camp David on 9/11. My son was able to call just for a minute and it was pretty much, "I love you, Mom! It's crazy up here and we're heading underground to bunkers!!!!!" I don't EVER want to feel that kind of fear again!!!!!!!
I was in undergrad at this time and the university cancelled all classes. I will never forget sitting on my couch watching everything in absolute shock and heartbreak.
I was working at Boston College that day. My first- job out of High School. A female student came into the bookstore *I think* around 9AM in the McElroy Building) and started wailin--g un-controllably and she dropped to the floor at the entrance to the bookstore where a TV was brought out. still remember her shriek in terror. She yells: "My dad was on that plane--! My mom and I just dropped my dad off at (Boston) Logan Airport this morning- at 6AM. O-M-G! My dad was on that plane!" Mr. St. Martin who managed the store came out to talk to her and interject reason. "Are you sure?", "Maybe it was a different flight number.", "Are you sure?". Other students tried the same. "Maybe he didn't get on." Maybe his flight got switched", etc. She just says back "no no no. He-- Was on-- that-- plane!" The chaplains at the school came down to whisk her away, and to council her. I'll never forget the pain and just sorrow in her voice. My heart broke for her. She'd be prob. about 40 years old today? I hope she's doing better whomever she was. The only other thing I remember about that day. I got a ride-home with a co-worker I didn't know, because everything was shut down. All the streets were deserted. I remember just thinking. The whole way home that evening I only saw 3 cars driving on the streets in Boston. Everyone was waiting on what would come next.
Omg, that's so sad, poor girl and poor father. I hate to hear sad stories, but a part of me thinks that keeping the memories alive is better than not hearing then at all, I never know really what's better in the end 😢
They are still working on identifying remains to this day and the department in charge of the identifications has sworn they will never stop until every bit of remains they have are identified. There are a few documentaries on it that get in to the DNA technology and science behind it.
@@kabirconsiders I don’t know if you will read this but fun piece of evidence that i don’t know if you know. These buildings were 63x63 meters wide each and each around 415meters tall without the antenna. I know you said it is so surreal watching them collapse in one of your videos like if you were seeing Big Ben come down, something you just couldn’t believe you’re witnessing. I know this wasn’t your point but i just wanted to say Big Ben is still only 96meters tall and 12x12 meters wide. So despite how big and magnificent it is i just wanted to try and illustrate how small it really is compared to these buildings. They are just absolutely gargantuan and i had the same feeling as you even after watching all the angles of collapse videos it is absolutely unreal to imagine what the people there must have felt when they saw these buildings coming down and the horror.
I was in school. My first hour teacher always had the news on for discussion later, so we all (11-12 year olds) saw the second plane hit live, back when everyone thought the first one was an accident. It really was traumatizing. By third hour every teacher was listening/watching the news and so were we. Kind of funny, my city has a skyscraper built by the same architect as the Towers, and my dad worked there. They evacuated it that day because they just didn't know what would happen next, so he was home when I got home from school, which was usually not the case.
I highly recommend the 9/11 documentary about Gander NF Canada. A small town watched 38 huge airliners with 7000 people land and park in their airport. When the people came off, they were bewildered and needed care, which the Newfoundlanders gave with grace.
My step mum's family was living near Applewood at the time I think, and offered up their home if it was needed. Thankfully they didn't get the call because I'm sure they were worried over their family in Ontario who were military with everything that was happening and Canada was legitimately thought to be another target at the time.
I'm 21 now, so I wasn't around when this happened, but I remember first seeing footage of all of this in second grade. I remember crying my eyes out as it broke my heart. I've always had a soft heart, and I still get emotional thinking about it.
The towers fell because the intense heat weakened the steel infrastructure. Remember that they hijacked planes that were headed to the west coast because they would have the greatest amount of fuel on board.
Absolutely spot on. It really isn’t a hard concept to grasp. It collapsed like a pancake because the steel weakened causing it to buckle under the thousands/millions of tons of building on top of it. No where else for the building to go but straight down. I hate the conspiracy theories saying otherwise
Right. Because jet fuel burns sooo hot. 🤦♂️🙄 you do realize jet fuel is most similar to kerosene?? It isn’t some type of unobtainable fuel… it doesn’t burn anywhere near hot enough to melt steel and it also burns up on impact. Try again though!!! Oh and PLEASE do explain how the third building fell in completely on itself and it wasn’t even hit by a plane or this super special jet fuel.?.?.? How did the BBC know this building collapsed 20 minutes before it actually did?
@@djentyman4002 .. and the buildings were designed to fall straight down so they wouldn't and on other buildings , in that the architect succeeded remember the fallen honor the living USA !
@@topherd1011 "Try again though!!!" Don't need to; studied the attack...and report, in school. Saying that alone isn't enough to get people to believe it was an inside job. You know why? Third tier evidence (hearsay, speculation) at best 🤷🏻♂
@@topherd1011 "it doesn’t burn anywhere near hot enough to melt steel" Ah yes, because steel only has two possible consistencies: completely 100% solid or literally liquifying. As we all know there's no grey area in between, it can't possibly be weakened by fire or anything. "explain how the third building fell in completely on itself" Did you miss 8:04? Because the building had thousands of tons of flaming steel and concrete fall right on to it from a great height right there in front of you.
Hi Kabir! The Saudis who flew the planes into the World Trade Center had gone to airline pilots training school in the U.S.. That's how they were able to fly into the building. The one that crashed in Pennsylvania did so because the passengers fought back. It was also heading to Washington, probably to hit the White House. I remember that morning because I had to go back home from work because I forgot something. When I walked in the house, my wife told me that a plane had hit a building in New York. As I watched, the 2nd plane hit. I knew right then that it was no accident! It was weird that evening as I sat on my deck how empty the sky was. Normally I don't pay attention to planes and helicopters, but the absence of them was very noticeable.
New Yorker here. We will never ever forget that day. It was our 1st week of school. I was in HS. My dad was emergency response and my uncle was a police officer and both worked tirelessly to help with rescue and recovery. Actually my uncle passed away from cancer that he got due to toxic exposure from his rescue work. Every New Yorker has stories from friends who worked there about how they were late for work and got there right AFTER the planes hit and some were sick and didn’t go in that day. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
I was 18. First semester in college. I'll never forget where I was and who I was with. I slept in missed classed and walked in to my lecture of people silent watching the tv rolled in. Didn't go to any of my other classes that day. just watched the news and drank. To this day it makes me cry.
I saw this as an adult. I was in Michigan at the time but a week prior to the attack I was living in northern Virginia about 20 minutes from the Pentagon. I was shocked and horrified by the attack and thankful that I moved away before it happened. There are recordings of texts and phone calls from the passengers of flight 93 to their loved ones once they realized they had been hijacked. It's painful to hear knowing it was their last words to loved ones. I remember at first they showed the people jumping out of the building on the news but it was so upsetting that they stopped showing it. Those attacks unified the US in a very real way. We have our issues but if another attack happens we will once again come together. I don't think other countries realize that we aren't as divided as it appears.
In the months before the attack, the FBI had been tracking the *Saudi* hijackers as they trained at a flight school (I believe it was in Florida.) In their notes, they highlighted that the men were proficient at flying but having difficulty learning how to land.
I was a kid living in Queens, NY at the time, and was in elementary school. Our school had a direct view of the towers. I remember one of the teachers pointing out the window and saying, “looks like a small fire in one of the towers.” We could see flames and smoke, but had no idea it was because a plane had hit the towers. By lunch time, every student had been picked up by their parents except me. Both my parents worked in the city, and my mom worked in a building right near the towers. My aunts all worked in the south tower, which hadn’t been hit yet. I remember my dad finally getting home but was frantic because he couldn’t find my mom-she didn’t have a cell phone back then. He drove my brother and I as close to the city as we could, looking for her over the throngs of people running out across the bridge. I will never forget that scene, it was calm chaos. People were running, but not stampeding over each other. People were helping those who had fallen and were helping them across the bridge out of the city. My mom got home so late that night; she had walked from the city all the way to Queens. Insane. My aunt was saved by a firefighter, she was in the hospital for a week before we heard from her. When New Yorker’s say “never forget,” we mean it. I don’t think our city will ever forget that day. It’s amazing that people in other countries also never forgot 😔❤️
There is a movie by 2 french brothers who were filming the life of a rookie fireman. They were inside the building when the other collapsed and trying how figure out how to save themselves. The sounds of those who jumped hitting the ground is something that haunts my life
It was a devastating day. Most people remember where they were when they heard or saw the news. But Kabir im surprised, you as a kid in a different country, actually remembered it. Shows that you are a very compassionate person. RIP to everyone involved.
I remember this all too well. I lived in Connecticut and was at work when this happened. I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the tower. Everyone in the office gathered around a small portable TV and watched in horror. My company had trucks just outside the city in New Jersey. All the bridges around New York were closed. He had no way home for a couple days. But at least he was alive. There were people stranded everywhere when all planes landed wherever the closest airport was. I was also pregnant at the time and i cried for days for my unborn child in fear for the world i was bringing then into. The trauma was real. I still cry and get that dread in the pit of my stomach when i see videos of the planes.
Aww Kabir I, alongside my family watched as the second tower was hit,via the news 😔. The fear and devastation is unimaginable. My whole country was affected 😭.
I was in my high school senior year American history class when history was being made. Exact words from my teacher that day. So many things changed after that day.
I remember being at work and hearing everyone yelling in the break room. The TV was so loud that people were crying out what happened. I thought, to myself, these people need to get back to work and stop fooling around because surely no one would attempt to attack the United States. Tears and chills still come over my body when I hear the national anthem. I hope we'll never forget that day. Rest assured that it we can never feel safe again.😢😢😢❤❤❤
All the legitimate news channels agreed never to show the pictures of people jumping ever again.
I watched it live and it was horrifying.
Yes. I was so sick to my stomach when I realized what was happening. It was so horrifying and surreal.
We saw it live in our 8th grade classes. Every single tv in our school was pulled into various classrooms. We did zero work that day. Instead, we watched these terrible events unfold. The classrooms that didn't get a tv listened to the nearby tvs in other classrooms.
Yep. Imagine the fire fighters that stood in the glass tunnel between the buildings. They had to see it first hand when the people hit the glass.
@SacredWaves one jumper fell on a fire fighter and of course, both died from the impact. I can't fathom having to see that.
Same here and it still is horrifying to think about.😢
The Queen ordered the band at Buckingham Palace to play the US anthem - many Americans living in or visiting London had gathered at the palace gates. To this day we love and respect her for doing that.❤️🥰
In footage of it, you can see all the people standing at the gates holding American flags and crying while they play it. She broke a tradition almost as old as our country to do that. She was all class. God rest her soul.
100%. We not only "remember" the horror and tragedy of that day, but also the support and love shown around the world.
I didn't know this. That's such an act of class that we all can live by now here in 2024. I'm an American, and also an Army Vet. I served in Afghanistan and I believe 911 had an impact on my decision to join later on. People say I'm a hero for being a soldier and serving my country. I thank people for saying that...but I feel like first responders don't get enough credit. They are heroes just as well. I'd also like to give a shout out to UA-camrs like Kabir here who like other foreigners take interest or give the US a nod now and then. Lol I know we can be annoying sometimes but then again most families are dysfunctional after all. Kabir keep up the awesome voodoo that you do sir!
I watched that and was deeply moved. It meant a lot to me and others.
Of all the tributes that happened on 9/11, none touched me more than this one. I just put my head down and sobbed watching them play our anthem.😞❤️
First responders from 9/11 are still dying to this day from illnesses directly related to that day. Many have died of cancer and respiratory illnesses. Sadly they’ve had to work incredibly hard to get compensation for this
There were so many heavy metals in that dust, and then the ones who worked on the pile; the fires in the pit burned for six months. People who lived and worked in the area became ill as well. Even some kids at Stuyvesant High School got some of the rare cancers that a lot of firefighters did.
@@janeathome6643 there's another channel that I watch, the lady was/is a nurse of some kind, and she was there at the time helping take care of people, and she now has respiratory issues.
And you know how many of the same politicians who would've stood side-by-side with those first responders on that day (at least for the PR) would come back 10-20 years later voting down bills to offer that additional compensation out of a pithy, self-serving desire to cut down on money spent on government.
Anybody who breathed in the after-dust.
Yes, I was going to say we still don't know the full death toll of 9/11 because people are still dying. We wont have a final count for many decades to come.
My Dad was in Canada visiting family & had to remain there until the border reopened. He would park his car (which had NJ plates) & when he returned there would be flowers, notes & sympathy cards under the wipers. He still has those items all these years later.
I was in 8th grade when it happened. The teachers told us: "There's no homework tonight. Go home, and watch the news with your families. Today, the world has changed forever."
I too was in 8th grade and remember this day vividly.
I was in second grade and I live in California we didn’t get the news until we were at school at 7 or 8 am so around 10 for New York. I just remembered that the teachers were told to turn on the tv in the classroom. I think to not cause panic the teachers said we are all waiting for your parents to pick you up.
I just started college, and all classes were canceled in Southern California. It was a surreal day.
You should look into what happened with Flight 93, so many heros that died to save others. God Bless their souls. ❤
I second this!! I found not many people know about Flight 93 outside the USA. Their story should be told all together.
And I believe a movie too!!!!
Should just watch the movie United 93
I recently saw a documentary about a guy that basically surfed his way down the building on a stairwell landing and survived.
Lol you people actually believe this bs 😂😂
I am a 73yo retired nurse who lived 35 min outside the city. I was part of a specialized IV team and we had called the Red Cross to see if we could help. They sent a New York City Fire Dept speedboat to pick us up from a marina near us. We sped down the Hudson River under the empty bridges as no traffic was allowed, no other boats were on the river and no planes except fighter jets in the sky. We were dropped off on the West Side where a military hospital was being put together. And there we sat all day doing nothing. There were so few survivors that the local hospitals handled them. In my 44 year career I have never felt so useless. Kudos to you for wanting to learn more and keeping the memory alive. 💗
At the time I was an EMT in Westchester (I'm a nurse, now). That evening we jumped on a train (one was still running into the city every few hours) and went to the Chelsea Piers where we got everything set up.
There was an an area for each specialty of volunteers; medical, construction, etc. Unfortunately, the only people they came to collect were the mental health professionals and the heavy equipment operators. 😢In the triage area we cleaned eyes, mostly firemen, cleaned & bandage minor injuries. A couple of stitches were needed. That's it. I can never explain to people how my heart ached for more work, as it equaled more life.
The next day we moved everything over from the Chelsea Piers to the Javits Center.
So after 24 hours of heartbreak, I headed home. As I approached Penn Station I happened to glance up and see that the Empire State Building was dark. I burst into tears, sat on the library steps and cried. 😢
Thank you for doing all you could to help ❤❤
Even being across the country and being an ER nurse, I felt helpless. I can't imagine being right there and watching this all happen. I'm so sorry you had to live that nightmare.
Thank you so much for your service, that must have been incredibly overwhelming!
@@janetrasmason6549 I really hope that all the lesser known but important stories, like your own, will be documented and organized for future generations. Yours is the kind of account that I, as a history major in college, would have been thrilled to use as a primary source of the events of that horrible day. Thank you for sharing it with us!
The highjackers had trained in the US to become pilots. They were armed and took control of the planes. No American pilot flew into any buildings on that day.
They had box cutters..
This changed everything...In terms of flights and privacy for Americans. The war on terrorism was unleashed!
@@Liamshavingfunit also gave the government a excuse to do several things it already had planned, like the Patriot Act and Iraq, Syria, Yemen. Many many people across the globe were killed because of this attack.
Your government trained them and paid off their families for their sacrifice to cover up the 2 trillion dollars that they stole. Guess who was investigating that money that came up missing? Just saying. That's not a coincidence
Great you know that. Did you know they were Saudi and Egyptian too? Did you know Iraq was attacked in response?
I"m American, but have lived in France for many years. When this happened I, like many others in the world, spent countless hours in front of the television - it's incredible how many profound emotions one can share with a tv! After a couple of days I realized that I couldn't cope with the magnitude of the situation alone and so, for the first and last time in my life to date, I went down to the American Embassy to the memorial that had been set up . I took flowers and stood with others. A little elderly Frenchman came up to me and asked if I was American. I said I was and he took me in his arms and held me and said how sorry he was; said how France would not be France without the Americans. I could only answer in kind, that the United States wouldn't be the US without France and we cried together in the shared history, love and respect for our two countries.
Thanks for sharing that beautiful story. So glad you found that solace when you were away from the U.S. We do indeed have a close connection with France.
I too feel like the other commenter who wrote they hope that somewhere these stories are being collected for first hand historical accounts.
I was living in Paris at the time, although I'm from London there were a few Americans in my social group who worked at the US Embassy. We watched it all unfold in horror at our local bar in my old neighbourhood. In the aftermath my embassy friends had to take precautions when going out and the local police put armed guards outside where they lived, it must have felt like having a massive target on their back. I had family in New York and remember it took ages to reach them and find out they were ok. Terrible times
@@aubreydavis8822 Perhaps our paths crossed in those days, even if we didn't realize it! I agree that the worst was reaching loved ones in NY! Absolute panic until a call finally went through and we heard those sweet voices on the other end of the line.
I also had a friend who'd taken a flight that morning to go to her sister's wedding. They were more than half way into the flight when the pilot came on and announced that they had to turn around and return to Paris, explaining what had happened and that they wouldn't be able to land in the States. Crazy, crazy times!
I was in it, from everything I saw that day I suffered PTSD, it took me 10 years to heal from the trauma, it was surreal an horrific and I witnessed both towers falling. I had many friends who died that day. Still hard for me to watch any videos. I had flashbacks for years. This is something no one should ever have to go through, but it’s something we must not forget ever. I won’t!
Bless you x
God Bless you, so glad you are here, I will never forget xxxx ❤❤
I’m glad you are here ❤
I was there too. I still have horrific PTSD from it. I still sob every time I think of it. I still panic when I hear a plane that seems far too low or loud.
I remember that too... it was every dystopian horror film nightmare. I was23 at the time and I don't even remember if I called out of work that night I just didn't go and I recall the 20+ hours of not eating, going to the bathroom, just watching the news and crying... Those images were the stuff of nightmares for years for so many of us.The world felt so small yet I remember feeling so alone and having nightmares for what felt like forever. I remember looking NE from New Orleans as all of our bases were emptying out and fighters from Barksdale and Belle Chase Joint Naval Air Base filling the sky, and I was surprised I could not see the smoke from NYC... my perspective was so skewed. It was so surreal I still can't watch this and not cry. And even without the coverage I still see the jumpers and hear the bodies and the flight logs and tapes from Flight 93 in PA. I don't need the coverage anymore it is burned in my memory.
It was surreal. If you were an adult then, you will never forget it. It changed the country forever.
I watched it in Canada, I called my wife to see it on the tv, she asked "what movie is this?", i replied " its not a movie". Then silence.
I was 8 when it happened and I remember it vividly. My mom was playing scrabble online with a woman in one of the WTC towers when they were hit. I was out of school that day and got woken up to it. That and what followed, I'm not sure we'll ever see America that closely knit ever again. Now any time tragedy strikes, it's just pointing fingers.
It changed the world. Nothing has been the same for anyone since. I'm Canadian, was in grade7 at the time. Nothing has been the same since.
I was in 8th grade. My grandma always woke me up for school. Had the news on and would have a smoke together. My grandmother didn't have the news on that day.
I was in 6th grade and still remember it like it was yesterday, everyone's parents showed up at the school to get their kids
Although the attacks happened in America, many countries around the world were affected. We all lost innocent citizens that day.
Somewhere around 80 Nations had their own Citizens die on September 11th.
As I told my dad when explaining why I felt like celebrating when word came that Osama bin Laden had been killed..."he murdered our children".
@teressareeves5856 In war, the citizens always lose
@@teressareeves5856I didn’t feel like celebrating. I was just relieved. I don’t get a high for someone else’s death, even that man. I thought about his daughter who is a us citizen. How that had to have affected his family. And the only reason I was relieved, is because he couldn’t hurt anyone else.
Correct as the Twin Towers had many people from all over the world in them. My friend was supposed to be one of them that day she used to fly over to conduct business in the Twin towers from the UK. I knew she was there that day but she wasn't in either tower as she had to stop off at another place first and was on her way their and got stuck in traffic. So she had business friends who all died that day Americans and non Americans alike.
I've never seen the British coverage of the 9/11 attacks; thanks for reacting to this!
I live in California. Just got up and served my daughter some cereal, making myself a cup of coffee and about to get ready to take her to school and get myself to work. Had the tv on to listen to the news while we got ready for the day. Heard her drop her spoon into her bowl loudly. Looked up at her. She was open-mouthed, staring at the tv. Just as I looked at the tv, the second plane hit the south tower. I screamed, realizing what was happening. She started crying because she was only 7 and didn't understand but knew something awful had happened. What a terrible day. It was the only time I was ever thankful to be living in a small city that no one cared about.
I thought the same: I was working in a small town about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh and thought odds were I was safe - until the plane crashed in Shanksville, PA. Shanksville is about 30 miles SOUTH of Pittsburgh. If the plane had turned over Pittsburgh and gone north instead of south, the crash might have hit where I was. Still, I'm glad the passengers found out what was happening and fought back.
You’re very eloquent in your observations and remarks.
2,977 people died including 343 NYC firefighters. There are still over 1,000 people who's remains have never been found. Over 5,000 people have died since from illnesses from the serch and clean up and even just being there that day and living in the area after.
The plane that crashed in Pittsburgh was Flight 93, the one that the hijackers planned to crash into the White House. They hijacked 4 planes that were all supposed to take off at the same time, but Flight 93 was delayed, giving the passengers time to find out about the attack on the World Trade Center. Once they figured out what was going on, they broke down the doors to the cockpit, forcing the hijackers to crash the plane into a field. 60 Minutes did an interview with the fighter pilots that the Air Force scrambled to intercept the plane (you should watch it). They didn't have enough time to load any missiles, but the pilots decided to take off anyway. If the crew hadn't stormed the cockpit, the fighter pilots were planning to crash into the plane to bring it down.
I have heard since it was determined the Capitol that was likely the intended targeted. And also, based on the timeline presented at the flight 93 memorial, the fighter jets still wouldn’t have made it in time to intercept it before its intended target. Thankfully the passengers fought back.
it was actually near Shanksville, PA not Pittsburgh
Flight 93 is so overlooked in these stories.
@@williamlambert My husband’s 3x great grandfather, Christian Shank, settled that area. My mother in law saw this plane fly over her home that day and knew something was wrong due to the low altitude 😞
@@ghstdnsr Yeah. You'd think it would get more attention due to the efforts of the passengers, but the significance of the towers dwarfed that and the one that crashed into the Pentagon.
Paul Greengrass made a movie on it (United 93) which netted him two Oscar nominations, yet it still gets overlooked.
This still brings tears and heartache! Our country has never been the same! I will never forget! It is just evil not religion!
In this case, it was both! A religion that does not respect life and lives to destroy and brings no peace, has no thought for the pain of others, only their own ideology!
Beware! We need to wake up to the evil in our midst!
We are once again in the incidious those throes of the same ideology that was put into action on that fateful 11 September day!
The difference is that the take over is coming by stealth, from within!
Every time a protest or attack is allowed to happen, that opposes our western culture, another step is taken towards what was attempted to be achieved on that fateful September day. 😢😢😢
May we see what is happening before it is too late, or may God save us all, and I mean that sincerely! 🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺
I'm 61. I first saw it on the news as I was clocking into work and we were all standing around the time clock in shock. I still cannot get the images of those who jumped out of my head. Thank you for this BBC coverage reaction. They did a great job expressing real emotion and concern.
People are STILL dying from breathing in that horrible dust from the collapsing towers! Cancers and respiratory problems galore.
The thought of the people jumping has always stuck with me - the hell that they must have been in inside the building was surely beyond imagination to even think that jumping was a good alternative. And the terrorists hijacked the planes. They had all taken flying lessons prior to 9/11. They actually flew the planes themselves, they didn't force the pilots to do it.
There are many people, including first responders, who've died of lung/respiratory issues since.
There was a pair of brothers, film makers, doing a documentary on the New York fire department at the time of the attacks. They just happened to catch the first plane screeching overhead and as it struck the first tower. Only footage of that, I believe. One of them and his crew were with the first responders on the ground floor of the towers. The sounds of the jumpers’ bodies hitting the awning over the entrance was caught in film. Absolutely haunting. PBS broadcast the resulting film a couple of times.
The 911 phone calls from inside up the point of collapse are horrific
@@ErnwaldoJust made a similar comment. It was the French brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet who were filming a documentary about NYC Firehouse Engine 7 Ladder 1. Jules Naudet was with Chief Pfeifer when the Firemen were checking for a gas leak near the World Trade Center and looked up with the camera when Flight 11 careened overhead and into the North Tower. Everyone looked up because planes weren’t allowed over Manhattan.
And they did capture the sounds of the people crashing down onto the awnings and the Firefighters wincing in the knowledge. 😞
The camera used by Jules is in the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
@@hahatoldyousoThere’s a documentary, Voices from Inside the Towers. So illuminating about what was happening inside. Made with families’ permission. One young woman who called her father was there for one day, one meeting only. A Firefighter named Orio Palmer made it up to the 78th floor carrying 50 pounds of gear.
One man’s 911 call was played at the subsequent trial of another perpetrator because of the suffering it revealed.
So many messages of love to their loved ones.
It’s worth a listen.
the terrorists killed the pilots and took over the planes all 4 planes had people on them sadly my cousin Diana was one of the ones who passed that day she was in the north tower when the first plane hit she died on impact
My Condolences, I am so sorry for you and your family's loss.
Sorry for your loss. My student of four years lost his little sister on the plane that hit the Pentagon. My other friend worked in the north tower but was late that day. After a few funerals, he had to hospitalize himself.
I am so sorry..it was something that can’t be imagined.really I am so sorry..I pray for your loss
The building were designed to collapse they were erected in the early 1970s and that was put into a faction…if a commercial airline had an accident it would go down and not topple
So very sorry for your loss❤️
I just met a woman whose son survived the attack. He was on the 88th floor of the South Tower and everyone was asked to stay put by firefighters who had reached them. Her son said that he had a newborn son at home and there was no way he was staying. I cried listening to her story. It was a miracle.
You must be mistaken about which tower or how high up he was because the south tower was hit between the floors 77-82. The highest floor reached by firefighters is thought to be 78, and I severely doubt if they ran across firefighters they would be told to not move. If he was in the south tower above the hit zone he was truly lucky, less than 20 people made it out alive.
@@ec1032ameveryone was told to stay in place and the ones who came down anyway were told to go back up, that everything was fine. Some people stayed because they remembered the bombs in 93 and thought it was safer to wait. There was either an automated message or a live message that told everyone over the speakers to basically shelter in place and wait for help. Sadly the ones who listened didn’t make it. It’s even worse for the ones who trusted their instinct at first but ultimately trusted their higher management and port authority to stay in the buildings. Remember that they did not kno what was going on outside of the buildings initially unless they were in the impact zone. This was all said in many documentaries from the survivors
@@BlackGirlLovesAnime6 When the North tower was hit at 8:46 its emergency PA system was broken. Three minutes before the impact on the South Tower the PA system broadcast to stay and wait for further information as they had no idea what would happen next. Two minutes later they sent out another broadcast stating people could evacuate if they wanted to, but that was only one minute from impact. There was definitely a lot of miscommunication and confusion that was going on that day.
@@ec1032am Right. I think that was understandable because no one knows if there'll be ground attacks that follows after that incident. I remember watching a video of some people running that day because they thought there were terrorists on the streets of NY too that day.
September 11, 2001 was a global historical punctuation point. It was a pivotal event that changed the world. It marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new one - especially for air travel.
As an American I can tell you we were all pissed more than any other emotion. Sadness came later.
Absolutely, and we knew SOMEBODY somewhere was gonna get a receipt. Never Forget
I was sad mostly. I knew this would create a bunch of racist bs in my country and oh boy, did it ever
Can I ask what country are you from and why would 9/11 cause a racism problem?
@@IC27185I'm going to hazard a guess and say that they are American, and they said it would cause racism against people who are Asian Muslims due to the terrorists who committed the attack.
@@IC27185as someone with Middle Eastern family, the 9/11 attacks caused a high rate of hate crimes against Middle Eastern people especially those who wore any clothing like hijabs.
Years ago I watched a video of the "jumpers" of the world trade centre. I remember there were fire fighters inside of the lobby in one of the buildings and the sounds of bodies hitting the ground was horrendous; the fire fighters would get more and more upset and desperate every time the heard the sound.
I can see his eyes in my mind. The fear, stress, hope, despair to anger in seconds.
The morning of September 12th I received an e-mail from an acquaintance in Mombasa, Kenya - expressing their condolences.
The world was appalled that day.
Kabir, I will never (nor will any other American old enough to remember) forget that day as long as I live! It changed this country in so many ways, all of them bad.
I think it helped us all re - realize how strong we are, and how amazing it is, this country we call America, this country so many of us call home! The greatest nation on the planet and we will forever continue to fight the good fight no matter how many evils get thrown at us...no matter how many evils we endure. We're the United States Of America, and our Flag, will ALWAYS be there! 🇺🇲❤️🎆🇺🇲
I feel like the weeks after the attack showed me what true patriotism and community is. It's sad that such a thing was necessary for us to come together as a country, even sadder that we've since lost that togetherness.
I must disagree. For a time people in the US no longer judged others, the color of ones skin, where they lived, job or not. Everyone treated each other with Love and respect if only for a moment in time. We were ALL AMERICANS and proud to show it, willing to fight. And what a beautiful thing it was to see. With the current events going on in the World today.....Pray, that we are not destined to learn this lesson again.🙏
@@IvysMom330 ...except for all of the innocent arab americans who were harassed and attacked for the actions of ppl living on the other side of the world that they had zero connection to. ppl like to gloss over and forget the insane amount of islamophobia that happened post 9/11. it wasn't all love and camaraderie for all americans
@@evtv304 ...that's a whole other deeper, lengthy topic. There are some countries writing up policies to deport all islamists, because so many keep pushing for laws in countries that host them to be changed to benefit them, rather than graciously assimilate to the culture of the country THEY CHOSE to call home. I would never go to another country and expect them to change laws to accommodate my beliefs. That's ridiculous, and I see why it is becoming a problem, therefore I understand why some countries are putting together a framework to deal the overgrowing issue.
I remember I was in kindergarten. My mom came and pulled me out and I remember sitting in the back seat of the pickup truck, flying down the road towards my pawpaws because that was the safest place my mom could think to take us. We literally got air over some hills.
My Dad is an Engineer and when he saw the planes go in he called my brother to tell him to turn on the news. My Dad immediately said the buildings will not be able to withstand the impact and jet fuel fires. I was living in Florence, Italy (College Study Abroad) and everything shut down in the city and classes cancelled. Back then we had internet cafe's to check email, and the Italian people were wonderful and gave us free internet time for reading the news. I overheard one girl in the Internet cafe speak about how her best friend's father was an airline pilot and she found out that he was one of the ones killed on one of the planes. The day after the attacks, on our way to class the next morning in every shop window was a white piece of paper in English that said 'Our deepest sympathy goes out to all our American friend'.
As a New Yorker who was in the city that day, here's something I've noticed that bugs me. Reporters often use the term "chaos" to describe the event. There wasn't chaos, except for the moments the buildings were collapsing. People were worried, but there was no widespread panic. Everyone did what they had to do. One thing I'll never forget is my friend who worked across the street from one of the towers was not heard from all day. Later that night, he showed up at a friend's house. He'd walked all the way downtown from Ground Zero to the 59th Street Bridge. Buses were being used to take firefighters to the scene, but once things settled a bit, some of those buses started picking up people who were walking home. That's how my friend got home that night.
For those of us outside of the city, I’m sure it seemed like chaos was happening based on all the footage we were seeing. I’m guessing for those who were in the city, the atmosphere was more like one of disbelief and feeling numb. And much sorrow as well. The technology/social media of today was not around back then so it made things even more worrisome for people who couldn’t get in touch with their friends and loved ones right away. It’s hard to believe how much time has passed since it happened. Doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago.
i wasn't alive that day, but thats how it always seemed to me. more just a bunch of people stunned and in disbelief at what they were seeing
@@conpop6924 my first thought when I heard it was, "what kind of schmuck can't see the towers on such a clear day when we can clearly see them from Jersey", then I figured the pilot had had a heart attack and felt bad for calling him a schmuck.
Another thing that doesn't get mentioned a lot is all the posters of the missing. My local supermarket's doors and windows was covered in them. was really heart breaking to see them and realize most if not all of those people were dead :(
What I don't recall is if my kids, who were in grammar school at the time, went to school the next day. I asked one of them recently, he doesn't remember either. He does know that his teacher asked him to run an errand to the principal's office and they had the tv on in her office so he saw the second plane hit the south tower. youngest was 4 so I doubt he remembers anything. tho I could be wrong. I mean at the time we were all in shock, and after that we never really talked about it.
In the years since 9/11, more people - fireman, police, residents - have died of various cancers and lung diseases than were killed that day and it continues to this day. I live here. I was down there. The government assured everyone the air was safe. It was anything but.
I remember watching this in the UK and it was a very sombre day. The atmosphere is hard to describe but people were going about their daily business as usual but we were just numb with shock for our US cousins and I saw lots of people in tears that day including my brother who worked in insurance and when he came home the first thing he said was "I've just sent the usual mail to a place that isn't there anymore". He had friends and colleagues in the towers and it affected him for a while. Us Brits really felt for America that day. None more so than our dearly departed Queen who ordered the royal guard to play the Star Spangled Banner outside Buckingham Palace the next morning. RIP to all🇬🇧🇺🇸
From across the pond, thank you!❤️✊💯🇺🇸🇬🇧
What Queen Elizabeth did that day touched me more than I can say. I have always been grateful to her and the people of Great Britain for that.❤️
Even as I r3ad this now, some tears flowing. Your Queen was quite the classy woman. Let’s hope none of us have to ever go through this again.
@@catw6998she was a nazi
@@deborahdanhauer8525Yes, HM The Queen touched many Americans that day. But,when JFK was murdered, she also ordered the bells to toll at Westminster Abbey.
We appreciate your country’s support in our need of mourning and supporting us when everything was so bleak for us
And when Queen Elizabeth ll defied tradition and had our National Anthem played at Buckingham Palace. That was lovely and so emotional.🇬🇧🇺🇸
What do you mean “supporting” and “bleak”? You literally invaded Iraq that had literally nothing to do with 9/11 and Afghanistan is a whole different kettle of fish 🤦🏾♂️
@@intello8953 They mean innocent lives and families were suffering and terrified, traumatized, trembling, trying to call their dead loved ones who never picked up the phone. You're trying to act all logical and justifying, looking for an "ah-ha!" moment, in a comment full of nothing but sentiment and melancholy, devoid of politics or hatred. Where in their comment were they blaming anyone? You are the only one injecting politics, hatred and ego.
Stop being a coward hiding behind the name of logic. Face the music: You are nothing but an evil person. Just say that next time. It's such a tired villain archetype.
@@myroselle6987Will never forget that gesture of friendship, the Queen instructing her Guards to play our National Anthem outside Buckingham Palace. It meant so much.
@@intello8953 The invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Go read a history book.
I so appreciate your reaction, your comments and your heart! Thank you.
The hijackers did this with box cutters, not guns. They killed the pilots. The hijackers had trained enough to be able to fly the planes into the towers. The planes were full of innocents. The one plane that crashed in Pennsylvania did so bc the airplane passengers were able to fight and retake the plane from the hijackers, but with no living pilots the best they could do was crash the plane or prevent it from hitting anything else. All died.
The passengers did not properly retake flight 93. They rushed the cockpit, and the hijackers responded by putting the plane nose-down. The plane impacted the ground at high speed, almost vertically.
Going by the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder, the passengers may have broke into the cockpit about 90 seconds before impact, and were likely struggling for control about 60 seconds before. The actual audio isn't available to the public, so a lot remains ambiguous. But if the passengers did win, it was almost certainly too late to make a difference.
@@galiantus1354so your one of the people who have nothing better to do then belittle the achievements of other people.
@@Row_dog I'm not belittling anyone by stating facts. Check your attitude.
@@galiantus1354 thanks for clarifying the facts, I would have done so myself. I do not see how that can be belittling of the achievements won by those on the plane.
Guns weren't needed. Because every prior hijacking in recorded history had been benign -- highjackers wanted to escape and get out alive, and airlines expected to get their equipment back -- airline policy was to simply allow hijackers to do what they wanted...which was usually "fly to Cuba, land, pay me two million dollars and let me go, and you can have the plane & passengers back". S==cidal martyrs were not on anybody's radar
My daughter was 2 blocks from the White House and was put into lockdown. At that time, cell phones were still a luxury so not everyone had one. I still bless the person who passed their cell phone around so that everyone could call home to say they were safe. ❤
Jumping from the buildings is a sight that will always be burned into my mind and will never be forgotten. Those who jumped were choosing to end their lives their way on their terms rather than waiting to die when the buildings collapsed. There were so many people trapped above the impact sights its absolutely gut wrenching to think that they were in a position to have to make that decision, jump or wait for the inevitable.
Interesting your take on why they jumped. I’ve always theorized that the towers did not have windows that opened and they were filled with toxic smoke and couldn’t breathe or flames were coming straight at them. I think I would jump before I would be burned alive.
There’s a book called “The Lives They Saved” about the first responders and mariners who helped treat survivors and evacuate Lower Manhattan. One of the testimonies talks about how they saw the remains of a jumper and their hand was completely black. They had chosen to jump instead of being burned alive.
It’s a hard read, but full of first hand testimonies
I watched it live on TV from Costa Rca. We were two hours behind NY time so we were having breakfast. When the second plane hit there was no doubt that it was an attack. Seeing those people jumping off the building, some holding hands, is something I think about to this day. Watching those immense towers collapse was hard to believe.
@@TQV_4013 there are so many images from that day that will never fade from my memory no matter what I do. I was supposed to fly out of Boston that morning but didn't I canceled my trip after having numerous dreams nightly of dying in a plane crash and my intuition and dreams have never been wrong so when I couldn't shake that feeling and the dreams got more frequent I listened. To this day it's still hard to process it all and daily I keep those who lost family and loved ones in my thoughts, heart and prayers those voids created in so many lives will never heal and are likely just as if not more haunting and hard to process such an awful thing that didn't need to happen and created devastating loss. The first tower getting hit created a media firestorm that was shocking and breaking news the coverage was unreal and news traveled fast. The tower being hit the way it was I think in the back of people's minds was the thought of it being intentional but no one wanted to say it and held onto hope it was accidental. After the first tower was hit and news coverage was covering it very heavily, families of those on other hijacked flights were receiving calls from their loved ones who were unaware of the full nightmare unfolding and asking their families if they could find out anything about the hijackings. Of course those on the ground scrambled to find answers and turned their TVs on only to see the full scope and how bad it was. In those calls of final goodbyes knowing the outcome was not going to be good families who had gathered around their TVs helplessly watching it all unfold were beyond devastated when calls dropped as tower 2 was hit and that confirmed which flight it was. The day was full of devastation watching so many terrible things unfold and people who were stuck making decisions they never thought they would have to make it was a dark day and I hope it's never forgotten and above all i hope that the people and their families are not forgotten either they deserve to be remembered and have their stories told
I had to stop watching. I remember the news showing the jumpers over and over again 💔
Even though it's been over 20 years since this happened, I still find myself crying when I watch the footage.
I remember going outside about noon. People walked around yet no one spoke. There was an eerie silence similar to a scene from the film "Ladybug, Ladybug" (1963). In which the children of a rural school were quietly sent home due to an imminent nuclear attack warning.
Kabir, if you havent seen it already, watch the boat lift of that day. It really shows the American Spirit. Each time I view it I break down in tears.
Yeah the boat lifts on the Hudson taking NYCer's to NJ was... I am crying thinking about it...
7:57 Because of the way it was constructed. The WTC was one of the first buildings to use "central core framed tube" architecture, which relied on a very strong central core that was the anchor for external frames via floor spars, hence making a vertical "tube". The benefit of this was that the floors were very open, without the traditional pillars needed in common skyscrapers to the distribute the load. It was revolutionary at the time, but the biggest weakness was that if the spars between the core and the external frame failed, the external frame had nothing else to bear the load.
THAT is why the towers fell, because the spars between the core and frame were not properly clad in fireproofing, and were thus able to be superheated by the fires and started to buckle downwards, which put tremendous strain on the weaker of the two parts, the external frame. When enough spars buckled, it pulled the external framing inwards (you can see it happening at 8:30 at the lowest floor with the smoke pouring out when the second tower fell, the whole thing seems to suck inwards moment before the tower starts to collapse), and when the weight of the building above that floor was suddenly accelerated downwards, you had a "pancake collapse" in that the weight kept driving downwards faster and faster, collapsing the structure.
The spars between the core and the external walls were initially properly clad in fire protection. The weakening of the spars came because the initial explosion and shock and shockwave from the airliners hitting the buildings actually blew the fire protection cladding off the spars, leaving the spars vulnerable to the heat from the fires. These fires were extremely intense due to the large amount of fuel needed to fly the planes to their original destinations, as you mentioned.
@@jamesmarciel5237 There's also a fair amount of evidence (i.e. video from a building dept. inspection) showing that the fire foam on steel structural members wasn't in the best of shape by the late 90s, and some areas were clearly not properly protected from the start.
You are talking out of your backside. The towers were destroyed using exotic weaponry. You're trying to argue those tiny floor trusses pulled down the HUGE columns that were holding them up. Not thd other way around. Wake up!!!
@@coolyoutubename16 Oh Dear - Violent language but you are almost correct..!! actually destroyed by pre-planted Nano Thermite explosive which literally pulverised the concrete slabs and literally cut the massive steel beams and columns in a controlled sequence.. absolutely vertically - straight down onto their own footprints. Classic controlled Demolition . ... .. Molten steel was found in the basement areas 3 months later.. Jet fuel could not have melted all those Tons of Steel Columns and Beams..
Bomb sniffer dogs taken Off Duty a few weeks BEFORE.. - what a coincidence !!!!! and Why did building 7 collapse only a few hours later in exactly the same way . ?? .. because it was already " wired " and Silverstein said " Pull It " and raked in Trillions of dollars in compensation.. an Inside Job if ever I saw one.....No Arabs anywhere near ..
@@coolyoutubename16 Don't you have chem trails or lizard people to scream about? 🙄
Your so right!. It is sickening, people killing each other for religion!
Pretty sure Bin Ladin was motivated by civillian casualties from US drone strikes in middle eastern countries. It doesnt justify his actions, but that is something that tends to draw the ire of people in other countries.
Do you still think bin Laden did it?
Who DID do it @miked.7245?
@@ej62133 the people who benefitted from it obviously. You don’t commit the crime of the century if it doesn’t benefit you in someway.
@miked.7245 who got the benefit, if not UBL? 🤔
We will never forget 💔
I'm in Australia. The coverage started late at night. The first news flash, I thought "This is a new way to promote a movie". When the second tower was hit, it was "Oh sh*t, it's real!" I knew Americans in my community who had connections via work etc to people who died.
They attacked a financial institution, a military institution and many believe that the third plane was going to take out either the White House or the Capitol building before the passengers intervened and the plane crashed. They weren't just crashing into random buildings but chose those particular buildings to send a message.
Well duh, you have to find a way to take people's minds off the 2 trillion dollars they (your government) took the day before 9/11
Yup.
I remember this like it was yesterday. I could not move away from the TV, stunned, crying, every motion you could imagine
The jumpers chose how they died. I don't think thought they were saving themselves. RIP.
Edit. I realize not all the jumpers actually jumped but fell or slipped while trying to get air. Just want to clarify that before anyone else comes to correct me.
They didn’t choose, they were forced out of the windows by the extreme heat, flames and toxic smoke. They inched closer and closer desperate for escape and air and eventually they basically fell out of the windows.
@@ryanc9888 oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know there were eye witnesses.
@@Tateorsomething...I was awaiting another surgery to fix a broken back. I was heavily drugged and so relied on my then husband for information. He turned the tv in my room on just in time to see extreme close-ups of people standing in the shattered remains of the upper parts of the buildings. We saw, on live tv, people falling , jumping and being blown out of the towers. Some were on fire. It was horrific. It was also played over and over for the next couple of days.
The horror of it became seared into my brain. It changed our world.
Everyone in the world now has to deal with the consequences of 19 terrorists hijacking 4 planes on that terrible day.
@@ryanc9888 Some of them may have fallen but there were plenty of jumpers as well
It's so horrifying, and to think ppl were celebrating the death of innocent ppl dying, I try not to be blind of the evil around us but it's sad that it's out there. I live in CA and shed tears for what happened that horrible day. I hope if God exists, that those innocent people got taken care of.
The BBC commentator saying this was a “bewildering event” is one of the most succinct descriptions of the horrors of that day.
Your voice is so thoughtful. Thank you for doing this. Seeing from your eyes, going back in time. Gosh, I will never forget!
I was in school in Florida where my homeroom teacher was getting attendance when another teacher wrenched the door open to say a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. We turned on the TV and watched with open-mouthed terror as we saw plumes of smoke billow out. We screamed and cried as we watched the second plane hit the other tower followed by their collapse. This attack solidified my decision to continue my family tradition of enlisting into the military after graduating high school.
I live in Pinellas County and same. I was in my senior Criminal Justice class and our teacher came in, turned on the TV and we watched maybe not even a minute then the second plane hit, he told us to go to all the other rooms in the school and tell the teachers to turn on their tv's, eventually it was being broadcasted via intercom. Everything was canceled after 2nd period and we were not allowed to go home unless someone came and picked us up so people that drove had to leave their cars behind. A portion of the guys in my program signed up immediately.
My husband was 21 that day... He had always known he was going to go Navy- cargo pilot... In April of that year he was in a car crash that left him paraplegic and in a wheelchair. He was on his porch in military housing in Coronado ( his dad was active duty Navy at the time) sobbing watching our battle cruisers rooster tailing it out to open ocean, and every fighter on the ground in San Diego going air born, sobbing because he could not be with them...Coronado Bay bridge was packed and this was all out of his front porch view. I was in New Orleans it was a few years before we met... By January I was back in college Army ROTC. To this day I regret Katrina in 2005 took that opportunity away from me as I was unable to finish school and get my degree and fully enlist with the plan to graduate and go full 2nd Louie. I still bleed for this day
I'm 67 years old and will never forget this day. I was living in Florida, but this affected all of us in America. I still can't watch these tapes without tearing up.
Me too and I'm British I was getting ready for work and getting my kids ready for school and I was just staring at the tv crying I couldn't get it seeing people falling I saw one man it was horrible
I understand. I'm 56 and live in Utah which is 2,000 miles away from everything. I was working in a building that was next door to the Salt Lake Olympic headquarters. At the time we weren't sure exactly what was happening and I was worried the Olympic headquarters would be attacked. It may sound silly all these years later but that day we just didn't know what to expect.
same I am 46 now, was 23 at the time in New Orleans- I still can't get thru it either...
There's a documentary that was released a few years after this called 102 minutes that changed America (I think) that has so much home video footage from the area on this day. It's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
I've seen that documentary. It's full of home video and reactions from people on the street in NYC. I'd recommend it to anyone whose curious about what the average person was doing that day.
I remember watching this live on a tiny black and white tv... in my kitchen! It was surreal and I knew that things would never be the same again.
It was the first time I had ever seen my dad cry. He's from the Bronx. His uncle and two cousins were killed in the first tower. 💜
Brother, I was in 7th grade 1800 miles away in Louisiana, and I promise it was terrifying for everyone. We witnessed that second plane hit the tower on the TV and school stopped. They literally made us all leave class and go out to the baseball fields in the countryside of Louisiana because no one understood what was happening.
I was in 8th grade in Tennessee. They had us do this almost sorta "duck and cover" situations in classrooms for about 20 minutes that day because we have some chemical plants in the area that someone in the school system thought could be a target. (Even at the time, I thought it was a dumb thing to make us do because there were thousands and thousands of better places to attack in the US than the tiny towns in my area.) I had different classes each period. Some teachers just continued on like it was a normal day, but other teachers realized that we were too distracted to do any learning that day and many of them just let us watch the news on TV instead.
Everyone thought ww3 was about to start
I was in NOLA at the time 23 years old, worked at PetSmart on Manhattan blvd in Harvey... I still recall being surprised I could not see the smoke when I looked NE... It felt so close yet like it was another world in some dystopian horror novel. I remember fighters in the formations over Old Jefferson as Barksdale and Belle Chase emptied. Avondale was on full alert as was that office complex on Causeway that housed the offices of Boeing/Dyne McDermott and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve evacuating. No one knew what the targets were. I don't remember if I called out that day or just didn't go to work. I do remember the 20 hours of news at my ex husband's grandparents house with the whole family. It was so quiet in that house no one wnated ot breath to loud and we all silently crying...
I can tell you exactly how it felt that day here. I was 17 and already a volunteer firefighter (I finished the class, written, and practical exams only 3 months prior) and was in day #3 of my Emergency Medical Technician course. It was the beginning of my final year in high school. I lived only about 65 minutes from the Pentagon, 90 minutes or so from Shanksville, and about 3 hours from Manhattan. Two other firefighters I knew had family members (a brother, and a cousin) in the FDNY, both died in the first tower when it fell. Only 2 years prior, one of my family members had finally retired... he worked in the Pentagon and where he would have been, he would have been killed. With such close proximity to all 3 sites, even a few of my high school peers lost mothers and fathers. It still gives me chills when I hear the Scott SCBA alarms going off at ground zero. the high-pitched alarms start ringing after 30 seconds of no movement once activated. That's why when you watch older fire videos, you'll see them hopping up and down every few seconds. Most of the time they were false alarms but in the case of 9/11, most of them were from killed firefighters. It's a haunting noise.
Not a single person I saw that day didn't cry. And I spent that whole day around school, then my fire station. Bullies. Nerds. Jocks. Stoners. Paramedics. Firefighters. Police officers. Teachers. Students. Priests. Drug dealers. Prostitutes. Black. White. Christian. Jewish. Latino. Lawyers. Doctors. Nurses. On September 11, 2001, all those people I just listed... were just adjectives to everyone. We as a nation didn't classify each other that day... we were just 'people.' Nothing really mattered that day because police officers and drug dealers were hugging, and comforting each other. Doctors stood and watched the towers collapse in rooms with their patients. Crying. Hugging. Helping the other understand. Lawyers and judges, corrections officers and prisoners... nothing mattered that day. I stood in a classroom and watched people decide that falling 80 stories to their immediate death was a better idea than slowly dying from smoke inhalation or burning. When a body falls that far, there isn't much left when it hits the ground. A couple firefighters were killed when bodies landed on them. Some people who witnessed the bodies first-hand have spoken about it. They said it looked like what you'd expect to see at a slaughterhouse, but instead of cow's heads, there were fingers, hands, human brains and entrails scattered all over. Human blood looked like someone sprayed the area with a barrel full of blood, almost like a Halloween haunted house room. But this was real. It was real and it felt HORRIBLE. Sad. Hurt. Scared something else would happen. And for the next 2 days, every person in the USA wanted to help. And we did. We all did everything we could to help. People stood in lines measured in DAYS WAIT time to donate blood. We knew people were still alive under the rubble and maybe we couldn't all help dig them out, but goddamnit, we could make DAMN SURE not a single person who may need a pint or two of blood was going to die for a lack of blood! Some people waited days. Others took food to first responders, planted flags in their yards as a symbol of solidarity. Many enlisted in the military to fight. Others donated money to charities, people began volunteering again. Some of the homeless in my town had so much food to eat they had to actually turn it down. That day was incredibly painful and I still cry even when I think back about it, but then... I remember how unified we were and how, for only a few weeks, individuals weren't just titles they earned: cop; doctor; lawyer (solicitor, I think you folks across the pond call them); white guy; black girl; felon..... we were just people. Then we were just Americans.
This was the 6pm news bulletin, about 4 hours after the attacks. I was just settling down with a cup of tea at about 2pm (UK time) to watch some mindless TV before going to collect my daughter from school. They interrupted programming and switched to live coverage. The talking heads in the studio didn't even know what thy were watching at first. They were still speculating about some terrible accident with a light private plane, and then when the second plane hit, and was shown on their live feed, they didn't know what was going on. Then the pictures shifted without warning to the Pentagon, and the presenters were like "Hang on- that's not NY? That's Washington!" It all unfolded quickly from there. Those live images have stuck with me all those years.
We lived a few miles from Stansted airport, and watching the regular large FeDEx plane come in much lower than nornmal over the town was really scary......because no-one knew if it was worldwide at that point.
This is how I remember it too. My husband had gone to pick up our daughter from school. He arrived home to find me in tears watching the live feed. I remember the confusion and horror.
As a person who lives on Long Island, New York, it was the saddest and scariest day and weeks of my life. The memories I carry from that day will haunt me for the rest of my life. The thing that was eye-opening was how we all came together as one to help each other. My heart will forever be with those we lost and their family's.
People jumping out of the towers, the most heart wrenching phone calls!
On September 11, 2001, 343 firefighters and paramedics from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Most of them died when the towers collapsed. The firefighters came from 75 firehouses across the city.
And that was more firefighters lost in one day, than they'd lost up until that day
My father was in the area at the time. We don’t talk about his experience but the one thing he did say was that the sound of the bodies hitting the concrete still haunts him to this day
I lived an hour from New York City. I had a friend from high school who died in the South tower. It was absolutely surreal.
I am sorry for your loss, my Condolences 😢
I am so sorry 😞.
I was in the 5th grade living in Oregon on 9/11. I remember it was the 2nd day of 5th grade and my teacher brought in the TV and we watched the news live. Also, the weeks afterwards were pretty heavy in emotions and feelings about it all. I also lived in a small town, and it affected everyone.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and had been in those towers for a school trip in 1995 right after the first bombing in 1993. My mom and I used to pass by those towers every Sunday on our way home from church in Harlem. It was rough and I still have PTSD from this. My uncle was a NYC firefighter and had just retired a year before in 2000. I thank God he did but he lost a lot of his friends. I hope that the world never forgets. It’s just unimaginable about what happened. I visit the site every time I visit and it makes me cry every time to see those two waterfalls, water flowing into a black hole. It’s surreal.
I was unemployed at the time. My wife called me from work and told me planes had crashed into the World Trade Center buildings. Turned on the television and that was all that was on the major networks. Sat for hours astonished at what had happened. I live near a major International airport, constantly hearing planes fly over. When all aircraft were grounded, I stepped outside for a smoke and it was eerie, not hearing or seeing any planes in the sky. That day will never be forgotten.
I lived near Baltimore when it happened, which is within the greater DC airspace, and I remember the fighter jets patrolling overhead all day, instead of passenger planes.
This was before cockpits were heavily secured and flight attendants could freely access it during the flight, so once the hijackers overcame the flight attendants, it was easy to break into the cockpit and take over control of the plane if you knew how to fly. When I used to take roadtrips with my mom as a kid in Florida, we’d drive past a certain interstate exit in Venice, Florida and she’d always tell me that that exit contained a flight school where the 9/11 hijackers took private flying lessons to train and prepare for their attack.
The unlucky owner of the flight school has lived with pretty significant regret and fear for his life due to unknowingly helping the hijackers in a way he didn’t foresee.
The planes also were always fully fueled for a cross-country trip, the fire from them was likely said to be the reason for the collapse of the towers and the extensive damage to the Pentagon.
Being a terrible cessna pilot doesn't prepare you to fly a 767/ 757 and make maneuvers that professional pilots couldn't do
@@coolyoutubename16 The trick is taking off and landing... if you don't have to worry about either of those then you could fly a jet from what you learn in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
FTR, Flight 93 didn't crash in Pittsburgh. It crashed in south-western Pennsylvania, near Indian Lake and Schenksville. They wanted to take it to Washington, DC and crash it there, but pasengers intervened in a big way. Edit: There is a memorial in the field in which they crashed.
I just drove past the memorial the other day and wanted to stop but didn’t get a chance. I’ve never seen that one or ground zero in New York. May all the fallen rest in peace 🙏🏻☦️
I was 14 when that happened and had stayed home from school because I was sick. Every awful moment of watching that happen live and trying to comprehend what we were seeing is burned into my memory. It was a horrific moment in history.
I was 17, in 10th grade, 2nd period, ironically enough called US History class. I specifically remember it was 9:36am when another teacher came in and whispered it to her. We did nothing the next couple of days but transfer from class to class, watching the news.
I was on my way to work when the first plane hit. Once I was in the office, I vividly remember radio after radio being turned on to listen to what was happening. Once I heard about the Pentagon, I remarked that 'we are under to attack and our world will never be the same.'
7:05 The terrorists killed the pilots and threatened to blow the plane up if anyone tried to rebel (they had fake explosives). Back then, the idea of a suicide terrorist hijack was not foremost in people's minds. Usually, people hijacked planes in order to get something else they wanted, and they usually landed at the airport.
That is so untrue. The United States was warned SEVERAL times in advance of this. Not to mention, people from CAVES are not going to overpower everyone on a plane, get to the cockpit, and EXPERTLY manuever planes to execute such an attack. Use your critical thinking skills here.
They also killed people on each plane and sprayed tear gas. The first death of the attack was a passenger who saw what was happening and stood up to help, not realising there was another terrorist with a knife behind him.
@@popartpistolThat's also all true. RIP Daniel Lewin. 😢
My son was in the Marines at the time and was a member of Presidential security team at Camp David on 9/11. My son was able to call just for a minute and it was pretty much, "I love you, Mom! It's crazy up here and we're heading underground to bunkers!!!!!" I don't EVER want to feel that kind of fear again!!!!!!!
I was in undergrad at this time and the university cancelled all classes. I will never forget sitting on my couch watching everything in absolute shock and heartbreak.
I lived in upstate ny at the time. It was such a weird feeling for months. Then the anthrax scare later
I was working at Boston College that day. My first- job out of High School. A female student came into the bookstore *I think* around 9AM in the McElroy Building) and started wailin--g un-controllably and she dropped to the floor at the entrance to the bookstore where a TV was brought out.
still remember her shriek in terror. She yells:
"My dad was on that plane--!
My mom and I just dropped my dad off at (Boston) Logan Airport this morning- at 6AM. O-M-G! My dad was on that plane!"
Mr. St. Martin who managed the store came out to talk to her and interject reason. "Are you sure?", "Maybe it was a different flight number.", "Are you sure?". Other students tried the same. "Maybe he didn't get on." Maybe his flight got switched", etc.
She just says back "no no no. He-- Was on-- that-- plane!"
The chaplains at the school came down to whisk her away, and to council her. I'll never forget the pain and just sorrow in her voice. My heart broke for her.
She'd be prob. about 40 years old today? I hope she's doing better whomever she was.
The only other thing I remember about that day. I got a ride-home with a co-worker I didn't know, because everything was shut down. All the streets were deserted. I remember just thinking. The whole way home that evening I only saw 3 cars driving on the streets in Boston. Everyone was waiting on what would come next.
Omg, that's so sad, poor girl and poor father. I hate to hear sad stories, but a part of me thinks that keeping the memories alive is better than not hearing then at all, I never know really what's better in the end 😢
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It took about a decade of sifting through conveyer belts of debris to find identifying evidence of victims.
Such a long time
They are still working on identifying remains to this day and the department in charge of the identifications has sworn they will never stop until every bit of remains they have are identified. There are a few documentaries on it that get in to the DNA technology and science behind it.
@@kabirconsiders I don’t know if you will read this but fun piece of evidence that i don’t know if you know. These buildings were 63x63 meters wide each and each around 415meters tall without the antenna. I know you said it is so surreal watching them collapse in one of your videos like if you were seeing Big Ben come down, something you just couldn’t believe you’re witnessing. I know this wasn’t your point but i just wanted to say Big Ben is still only 96meters tall and 12x12 meters wide. So despite how big and magnificent it is i just wanted to try and illustrate how small it really is compared to these buildings. They are just absolutely gargantuan and i had the same feeling as you even after watching all the angles of collapse videos it is absolutely unreal to imagine what the people there must have felt when they saw these buildings coming down and the horror.
I was in school. My first hour teacher always had the news on for discussion later, so we all (11-12 year olds) saw the second plane hit live, back when everyone thought the first one was an accident. It really was traumatizing. By third hour every teacher was listening/watching the news and so were we. Kind of funny, my city has a skyscraper built by the same architect as the Towers, and my dad worked there. They evacuated it that day because they just didn't know what would happen next, so he was home when I got home from school, which was usually not the case.
I highly recommend the 9/11 documentary about Gander NF Canada. A small town watched 38 huge airliners with 7000 people land and park in their airport. When the people came off, they were bewildered and needed care, which the Newfoundlanders gave with grace.
My step mum's family was living near Applewood at the time I think, and offered up their home if it was needed. Thankfully they didn't get the call because I'm sure they were worried over their family in Ontario who were military with everything that was happening and Canada was legitimately thought to be another target at the time.
I'm 21 now, so I wasn't around when this happened, but I remember first seeing footage of all of this in second grade. I remember crying my eyes out as it broke my heart. I've always had a soft heart, and I still get emotional thinking about it.
The towers fell because the intense heat weakened the steel infrastructure. Remember that they hijacked planes that were headed to the west coast because they would have the greatest amount of fuel on board.
Absolutely spot on. It really isn’t a hard concept to grasp. It collapsed like a pancake because the steel weakened causing it to buckle under the thousands/millions of tons of building on top of it. No where else for the building to go but straight down. I hate the conspiracy theories saying otherwise
Right. Because jet fuel burns sooo hot. 🤦♂️🙄 you do realize jet fuel is most similar to kerosene?? It isn’t some type of unobtainable fuel… it doesn’t burn anywhere near hot enough to melt steel and it also burns up on impact. Try again though!!! Oh and PLEASE do explain how the third building fell in completely on itself and it wasn’t even hit by a plane or this super special jet fuel.?.?.? How did the BBC know this building collapsed 20 minutes before it actually did?
@@djentyman4002 .. and the buildings were designed to fall straight down so they wouldn't and on other buildings , in that the architect succeeded remember the fallen honor the living USA !
@@topherd1011 "Try again though!!!" Don't need to; studied the attack...and report, in school. Saying that alone isn't enough to get people to believe it was an inside job. You know why? Third tier evidence (hearsay, speculation) at best 🤷🏻♂
@@topherd1011
"it doesn’t burn anywhere near hot enough to melt steel"
Ah yes, because steel only has two possible consistencies: completely 100% solid or literally liquifying. As we all know there's no grey area in between, it can't possibly be weakened by fire or anything.
"explain how the third building fell in completely on itself"
Did you miss 8:04? Because the building had thousands of tons of flaming steel and concrete fall right on to it from a great height right there in front of you.
Hi Kabir! The Saudis who flew the planes into the World Trade Center had gone to airline pilots training school in the U.S.. That's how they were able to fly into the building. The one that crashed in Pennsylvania did so because the passengers fought back. It was also heading to Washington, probably to hit the White House.
I remember that morning because I had to go back home from work because I forgot something. When I walked in the house, my wife told me that a plane had hit a building in New York. As I watched, the 2nd plane hit. I knew right then that it was no accident!
It was weird that evening as I sat on my deck how empty the sky was. Normally I don't pay attention to planes and helicopters, but the absence of them was very noticeable.
I was always curious to other countries POV of that day, thank you for doing this video! ❤❤
New Yorker here. We will never ever forget that day. It was our 1st week of school. I was in HS. My dad was emergency response and my uncle was a police officer and both worked tirelessly to help with rescue and recovery. Actually my uncle passed away from cancer that he got due to toxic exposure from his rescue work. Every New Yorker has stories from friends who worked there about how they were late for work and got there right AFTER the planes hit and some were sick and didn’t go in that day. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
I was 18. First semester in college. I'll never forget where I was and who I was with. I slept in missed classed and walked in to my lecture of people silent watching the tv rolled in. Didn't go to any of my other classes that day. just watched the news and drank. To this day it makes me cry.
I saw this as an adult. I was in Michigan at the time but a week prior to the attack I was living in northern Virginia about 20 minutes from the Pentagon. I was shocked and horrified by the attack and thankful that I moved away before it happened. There are recordings of texts and phone calls from the passengers of flight 93 to their loved ones once they realized they had been hijacked. It's painful to hear knowing it was their last words to loved ones. I remember at first they showed the people jumping out of the building on the news but it was so upsetting that they stopped showing it. Those attacks unified the US in a very real way. We have our issues but if another attack happens we will once again come together. I don't think other countries realize that we aren't as divided as it appears.
In the months before the attack, the FBI had been tracking the *Saudi* hijackers as they trained at a flight school (I believe it was in Florida.) In their notes, they highlighted that the men were proficient at flying but having difficulty learning how to land.
Operation Able Danger
People been dying from that toxic dust for years after the emergency workers and civilians
I was a kid living in Queens, NY at the time, and was in elementary school. Our school had a direct view of the towers. I remember one of the teachers pointing out the window and saying, “looks like a small fire in one of the towers.” We could see flames and smoke, but had no idea it was because a plane had hit the towers.
By lunch time, every student had been picked up by their parents except me. Both my parents worked in the city, and my mom worked in a building right near the towers. My aunts all worked in the south tower, which hadn’t been hit yet.
I remember my dad finally getting home but was frantic because he couldn’t find my mom-she didn’t have a cell phone back then. He drove my brother and I as close to the city as we could, looking for her over the throngs of people running out across the bridge. I will never forget that scene, it was calm chaos. People were running, but not stampeding over each other. People were helping those who had fallen and were helping them across the bridge out of the city.
My mom got home so late that night; she had walked from the city all the way to Queens. Insane.
My aunt was saved by a firefighter, she was in the hospital for a week before we heard from her.
When New Yorker’s say “never forget,” we mean it. I don’t think our city will ever forget that day. It’s amazing that people in other countries also never forgot 😔❤️
There is a movie by 2 french brothers who were filming the life of a rookie fireman. They were inside the building when the other collapsed and trying how figure out how to save themselves. The sounds of those who jumped hitting the ground is something that haunts my life
It was a devastating day. Most people remember where they were when they heard or saw the news. But Kabir im surprised, you as a kid in a different country, actually remembered it. Shows that you are a very compassionate person. RIP to everyone involved.
I remember this all too well. I lived in Connecticut and was at work when this happened. I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the tower. Everyone in the office gathered around a small portable TV and watched in horror. My company had trucks just outside the city in New Jersey. All the bridges around New York were closed. He had no way home for a couple days. But at least he was alive. There were people stranded everywhere when all planes landed wherever the closest airport was.
I was also pregnant at the time and i cried for days for my unborn child in fear for the world i was bringing then into. The trauma was real. I still cry and get that dread in the pit of my stomach when i see videos of the planes.
Aww Kabir I, alongside my family watched as the second tower was hit,via the news 😔. The fear and devastation is unimaginable. My whole country was affected 😭.
There are plenty of documentaries covering the texts and calls to family from passengers on all the planes. Heroic and terrifying.
I was in my high school senior year American history class when history was being made. Exact words from my teacher that day. So many things changed after that day.
I remember being at work and hearing everyone yelling in the break room. The TV was so loud that people were crying out what happened. I thought, to myself, these people need to get back to work and stop fooling around because surely no one would attempt to attack the United States. Tears and chills still come over my body when I hear the national anthem. I hope we'll never forget that day. Rest assured that it we can never feel safe again.😢😢😢❤❤❤
The movie United 93 shows how it transpired
Yup. I've seen that movie.
Thousands of people past from that smoke. Years later. It was around 5 thousand in total
I saw this live in my 8th grade English class, I'll never forget...
I remember exactly where I was that day
I was watching the news with my mother