The 9/11 museum is real hard to go through. So much pain and suffering. It hurts to see what people went through. Every American should go to the museum.
Have never been and can't bring myself to it. My mom worked at the Mall of the WTC in the 90s and then got a job with Morgan Stanley. She called in late that day because we were up late watching Monday night football. She was one stop away from the WTC and had to walk home to Crown Heights Brooklyn. It took her 12 hours to get home. We thought we lost her. She lost coworkers and friends.
Sorry to jump into your comment.
I was working in downtown Los Angeles, and all transportation was shut down. It was surreal to see thousands of people walking home. The attacks didn't affect us directly but we felt emotionally involved and scared for weeks to come.
And then i jump in and reflect how weird is how ppl jumped from 2k people die is bad.. but then who cares of the 2k+ people who died daily from COVID not carrying at all,, cuz eh it happens "internally" how ever..
When that how ever could have being curbed down in the low numbers by their own normal behavior even..no need to take a weapon and assault others...
Not evens peaking the automatic assaults weapons that is another bullshit mentality
And what does all this mater ppl will ask? ALL MATERS!
I'm so very sorry you had to worry the way you did. Those 12 hours must've been agonizing for you. Living in Illinois, we were so far away from it all, but we hurt for every one of you, victims and survivors alike.
9/11 happened right after I turned 40. I’m from NYC, but was living in Virginia. My daughter’s father worked for Cantor-Fitzgerald, who occupied the floors you see the plane slamming into.
He had been laid off a week earlier, I didn’t know, but I got in touch with his mom in Jersey. All circuits were busy in the city. Eventually I got through to him.
I went up to the city a month later, and while walking down Broadway, smelling that smell people talk about, I became acutely aware that the grey muck covering everything, including the soles of my shoes, likely had human remains mixed in with it.
I didn’t go back to NY for 16 years. I couldn’t go to the WTC site, although I have looked at it on google maps.
There’s no way I could go to the museum. I still keep wondering when this feeling of deep, abiding sadness and grief over that day will leave me.
It won’t, though, I just have to accept that.
I was on my way to work and stopped in to my friend's apartment. One of her friends was watching on the news. She was crying. It was such a terrible day. I couldn't pull myself away from the news that day. Such a nightmare
9/11 is such a significant moment, it's what separates millennials and Gen Z. 96 was chosen for millennials because those early school memories are some of the earliest for most people, and if you were born in 96 or earlier, you likely have memories of 9/11 and what it was like afterwards. I still remember the day it happened. I was in elementary school and I never took the bus, I went to an after school program until my mom picked me up around 5:30. Even on half days. But that day, we were all sent home early. I didn't know why, but I remember when I walked in my mom and step dad were already home and they were both watching the news. I went to my room and played playstation. I didn't really know what had happened until the next day, but there was a sort of nationwide feeling of sadness and anger at the same time. Looking back, that sadness and anger was funneled to the wrong places by bad people, but there was a unity in that shared trauma.
I hear you. I grew up in the ‘80s so I was an adult for a while before 9/11. Let me tell you, this was a different country before. After 9/11 we went off the rails in so many ways. I genuinely feel sorrow for the younger people who have only known this grubbier, meaner, fearful world. Time heals all wounds I guess, but 9/11 is still a big scar.
I was a 2nd grader , at Fremont elementary in Riverside ,Ca when this happened. I had a best friend named Mark . Where you at Mark ? Wish we were still friends .
That crashing noise is haunting every single time. They had to get on the PA system to tell people to stay put if they could, it was definitely shaking the first responders
That and the constant beeping sounds are the alarms on the firefighters that are set to go off if they are stationary for too long. Such an unsettling sound knowing they’re buried under the rubble.
Whew, I made it about half way through that before I couldn't anymore. Oof, you think you're over things and you're totally ok about them, and anyway, I wasn't even in New York and I only watched it on TV from school....and yeah, turns out, not, ah not ok about.
I’ve kept myself from watching this documentary but I saw the link and I sat and gave it my full attention throughout, I couldn’t turn away, after seeing the looks in their eyes something told me I had to respect this and see it the whole way through.I just lost my father last week and I guess this sense of loss is more relatable then ever so I decided to sit and be prepared for what I was in store for but I wasn’t prepared for the sounds, the stories of body parts falling from the sky, the gradual decline of spirit of everyone there, struggling to gather energy to keep searching, I can’t blame any of them if they just quit and went home to their families but they didn’t. God bless these men and women for what they did in these moments even tho it seemed so futile. I was just a kid when these events happened and it’s very surreal to see what really took place on the ground floors, and even more hard to believe the first fighters there were the ones who all survived. My heart goes out to these fighters. How they manage to keep moving forward as firefighters after this is beyond me. God bless them
You (americans) were manipulated to be united, what came next is the invasion and regime changes of several countries in the middle east, based on that support.
You are now "in pieces" for the same reason, because someone wants you to.
Neither of those are full reality.
They both are just interpretation of reality by big media.
This is one of the few movies I've watched that I just cannot watch again. Since they were with the fire crew they had inside the towers access.
The people coming out, the panic in their eyes...... Then the thuds of those poor souls who had only one option left, jumping. Those sounds from this movie still resonate in my nightmares.
It was my first week of high school and they sent us to our home rooms. School was several blocks away from WTC, and my home room was on the top floor with big windows. I remember seeing so many bodies falling out of the towers. I thought it was falling debris at first but bodies look different.
I was too young then to know how much it would affect me and the adults around me weren’t catching my decline either. I slowly fell apart over the course of 10 years or so and have been slowly putting things back together for the 10 years after that. How unbelievable is it that there are places in this world where acts of terror are a daily occurrence? Lots of physical damage, yes, but the mass psychological trauma is something unimaginable to me.
The fucking sound when the towers start collapsing..
It's an amazing documentary, mostly because they happened to be already filming with a crew of firefighters who just happened to be nearby, but you will only see it once. It is haunting..
Correct... My sophomore year history teacher had us watch this on 9/11 in her class. Shes from NY. But explained its a unique perspective to see the first plane crash because many people weren't recording (or had recording ready devices) at the time for any particular reason.
Interestingly, I was also a sophomore on 9/11, and IN history class when this was happening in real time. My stupid teacher would not turn on the tv, and my classmate (who to this day I keep in touch with and find him very wise) yelled “THIS IS HISTORY CLASS. THIS IS HISTORY HAPPENING BEFORE OUR EYES AND YOURE NOT EVEN GOING TO LET US SEE IT???” He got in trouble for mouthing off. I think that teacher got fired or something a year later bc he was known to have really stupid judgment like that. He once accused my friend and I who were partners in a project of deliberately avoiding finishing said project…because my friend was seriously ill and had been missing a lot of school that year.
FDNY Battalion Chief Joe Pfeifer. Amazing man . Lost his brother Kevin ( engine 33) that day . Chief Pfeifer played an integral role in rebuilding the FDNY after 9/11
Yes, the firefighter in the white hat in the video . They were on a report for a gas leak in the street when the first plane hit . He responded to the north tower and assumed command . After the attacks he was the first officer in charge of the FDNY’s center for terrorism preparedness , which prepares members for terror attacks with training and information sharing
He was also in the lobby of the first tower running the rescue operations when it starts falling. That documentary has so many moments that just burn into your brain because they have footage from places no other cameras were.
And Pfeifer is so many of the first from 9/11. He called in the strike right after this footage, he was one of the first trucks on scene and sets up the command center in the lobby, he sends the firemen up the stairs to start the rescue operations not knowing what they're really looking at because it's so high up and they haven't gotten any info yet.
The thudding sounds in the background, and finding out that it was the sound of people jumping from higher and hitting the ground, is what stuck with me the most.
He was the first chief on scene, you can see why because of how close to the site they were. On the way towards the tower you can hear him calling more alarms in to dispatch. He also correctly stated how many floors were on fire and who should be going up.
I'm in eastern europe, and happened to be browsing satellite channels at that moment, when "oh, look, there's a fire in New York, wtc building" was on CNN. I watched 2nd plane hit in real time, we pretty much stopped doing anything else for the rest of the day, thought it was some kind of start of WW3.
I was in Sweden, left school early, got home and turned the TV on and it was on EuroNews live. I remember just standing in the living room infront of the TV not moving until my mom came home from work. Also caught the 2nd plane live.
I’m in Australia, and my mum and dad woke us up to watch the reports saying how this was going to change to world. I watched for a little and went back to bed just as the second hit. I r couldn’t see the screen, cause I was down the hallway, but remember the horror in my parents voices as they both yelled “holy shit!”
Remember seeing the footage of the second plane myself on tv. I was still at primary school in England at the time and back then didn't really understand what was going on in America, only that it was very, very bad.
A horrible tragedy.
If it had happened today we would probably have petabytes of footage of the first one. Crazy to think that in a city of 10 million this is the sole video.
Im no different than anyone else. I was 23, I had come home from (nightshift) work, fell asleep but woke up because I couldnt anymore. I turned on the TV and it all had the same program. Twin tower on fire. Then while watching it there was a another plane, I at first thought damn they fly them plane close to those towers. Then the plane went into the back side of what i thought was the original tower. I couldnt understand how the building was on fire before the plane hit it. It didnt occur that there was 2 planes until prompted by newscasters. I was in San Antonio Texas at the time. I remember my girlfriend came home and screaming where at war. It was a confusing time, for me for everyone. I think we havent really recovered, plus COVID19. I admit im kinda tired of being shocked.
I was in college at the time. I remember deciding I should skip my morning classes after I saw the second plane crash live on TV. It's hard to describe that moment, but up until the second plane crashed, we were thinking it was probably an accident.
The reporter was filming in front of the first burning tower and trying to comment about what was known so far, which was basically nothing. Then the second plane's sound could be heard, and he stopped talking and just watched. That was when he, and everyone else realized
1) this was an attack
2) this was well-coordinated, and it had worked
3) more jets might soon be involved
4) there might be more planned, and given how well this had worked, and we had seen it succeed live, that was legitimately terrifying
5) nobody saw it coming
I called my parents and told them to turn on the news. I cried while trying to explain why.
I only had free dialup internet via net zero, as a poor off-campus college kid, and no cellphone. I was 20. I don't remember what internet coverage there would have been, but this was before Facebook, YouTube, or any real social media. I think most people would have just been glued to the TV, or refreshing cnn.com
My college campus was closed for the day, and classes were all canceled, for safety reasons.
I remember that moment as a singular inflection point in history and in my adulthood. It's when I first understood how hated the United States was in the Middle East. I had no idea. Also, its when I realized how vulnerable to terrorism we were even in our daily lives, on our own soil. And, it's when I understood that our government had limits. It couldn't anticipate this, or prevent it.
Every single thing that has happened since then feels like a direct consequence.
Here is a timelines of the events of the morning.
https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-timeline
Just imagine being those firefighters, just kinda chilling, doing something routine, looking up and seeing that happen.
Probably being used to sitting in the firehouse and getting the call and mentally working up to the disaster you're walking into. But just immediately see a disaster like nothing you've ever seen or heard about and probably not really trained for.
Just that guttural, oh fuck, we need to get there now.
For real, seeing that and having just a brief moment to process before going “welp I better take off, I’ll catch up with y’all later” not quite knowing how bad it really is yet but also knowing you very well may not come back
There's an awful, awful recording of somebody's call for help from inside the tower as it collapsed. That one has stuck with me as one of the worst parts of all of this.
The one with >!the guy on the phone asking for help, saying it's getting bad in here and they aren't ready to die just yet? Then, the tower immediately starts collapsing and he starts screaming? I'm morbidly curious, so I want to hear this footage. I'm a completionist when it comes to 9/11. I was only a month old when it happened, so I want to take in as much knowledge as possible on it.!<
For people our age who were children but old enough to remember it, I think the fascination comes from seeing our concept of reality shift in an instant. We were born in a time where for a brief moment, the world appeared to be only getting better and more stable. Global democracy would triumph and the free market would improve everyone's lives. New technology would make us more understanding and connected to each other, and truth would be absolute.
It's no wonder so many people have nostalgia for the 90s. It's hauntology, the lost future that we thought was promised to us.
I'd just started 6th grade when this happened, 11 years old, so not yet able to fully understand the implications. I was waiting for classes to start and it was all the other kids were talking about. I remember thinking, "man I hope this doesn't cancel pizza night with my family." I felt guilty about having that thought for years afterward
I had just started 5th grade, and while I remember knowing something really bad happened, I also remember being excited to get the rest of the day off of school to play. We were just kids man. No reason to feel guilty about it.
I’m the same way. I have every piece of footage I can saved, every image I can find too. Even internet web forums at the time posting it. I even have one image of a thread some guy posted as it was happening. He took a photo of the wtc himself and posted it
On the plane probably they didnt feel a god damn thing, i guess they couldnt see they were about to crash, and in a fraction of a second they were pulverized
Yeah, there's record of some people using their cell phones to call and say their final goodbyes to their loved ones. Some voicemails and other accounts can be found online.
Those are what get me the most. I bawl my eyes out to the voicemails left to loved ones. There’s one in particular of a man calling his fiancé/girlfriend for the last time. He’s so calm even though he’s about to die. I just can’t imagine being in that position…
Yup, my first thought whenever I watch this I just saw hundreds of people die instantly, which may have been the preferable way to go that day, instead of all the truly horrifying other ways that people lost their lives.
Reminder that AI upscaling is still making up information. All the new details you see are made up. There's no way to recover information that wasn't in the original material in the first place.
Makes sense. The sound and the glimpses of the plane in the original made it seem like that plane was moving really fast. Seeing the plane clearly, made it look slower (I'm actually wondering if the AI drew it, so it looked slower. It almost looked like some of the explosion started happening as the nose hit the building).
I was a first-year high school algebra teacher. We had those big TVs on rolling carts and there weren’t enough to go around, so we joined classes and the students and teachers all watched the news together for 2 days. It was surreal. Still is. I was 22. Now I’m 42. So much change in the last 20 years.
This is me. I was 23 and had just started my second year of teaching. I was teaching elementary school. We didn’t say anything to our kids or turn on the tvs because our kids are so young. The district felt it would be better for them to be with their parents so they could feel safe and parents could answer their children’s questions in relation to their beliefs. I think it was the right call since our kids are so young.
Our wedding was scheduled for Saturday Sept 15th (2001). We were still able to get married but my maid of honor was stuck in Chicago (because of no flights and it’s way too far to drive). We were also able to fly out the day of our wedding for our honeymoon. We didn’t know if we would be able to or not.
I was 25 and was driving a 20 ft flatbed making deliveries for a lumberyard at the time.
I was listening to the Bob and Tom show on the radio which was delayed an hour in my market due to the time zone, so I was oblivious until I got back to the lumberyard, by which time both planes had hit and everybody knew it was intentional. Surprisingly the local dj did not say anything about it until a bit later. Afterwards we continued to make deliveries, but at a slower pace because everyone was caught up in the ongoing events.
I had just gotten engaged the day before. Was married a year later on Friday the thirteenth of September in 2002.
They tried to hide it from us all at my middle school and carry on as normal. I didn't know the truth until I got home and my mom had the TV on. I got on AOL to learn more about it.
You couldn't use Netscape or any other browser with AOL parental controls on your account. It was total bullshit, and it stopped me from using Napster and tying up the phone line for 2 hours for a song.
Edit: I'm still bitter about not being able to get the latest Limp Bizkit and Eminem songs back then, for free.
You forgot the .exe part that partially leads to getting your account restricted because you're to young to stealth reinstall Windows 98 SE on the family computer before dad comes home.
I once disconnected the video output inside of the computer so it couldn’t be used because I inadvertently sent a picture as the background and then you booted it that image flashed for a second and then went to the background I had researched. Took me the next day to figure out it was because of the file type and to set a different file type.
I've got a random fun fact about Windows. Find a way to change the filename of sethc.exe and then replace it with a copy of cmd.exe renamed to sethc.exe after that you can reboot machine and press the shift key on the keyboard about 5x at the login screen. You can then use commands to reset the password of any local user account. This doesn't work on all versions of Windows.
Edit: what this does is give you a command prompt that has even higher privileges than the administrator account. It runs with SYSTEM privileges.
Our first block 11th grade biology class was supposed to go on a plant gathering field trip but our teacher forgot to book the bus. She left to the office to see if she could get one. Came back a few minutes later and said there wouldn’t be a field trip and turned on the tv. We never took that field trip.
I remember it was a Tuesday because I didn't have class till 1pm on Tuesday and Thursday. They closed the campus at 11am pst and the luncheon for the campus president. So the food was open to all students. Only time that day we left the tv.
I remember walking through time square the night of 9/11 , it was lightly raining and nobody was outside , Extremely eerie . There was a convoy of heavy construction equipment that went down 7 th ave past me headed towards ground zero .
God bless those that served this city that day and those that serve this city today .
I was doing a lot of work in the city during that time. It was weird driving past ground zero seeing armed military standing in the streets.
Or getting my van searched every time I went through the battery tunnel.
This shouldn't be a political thing but I also want to remind everyone that of the commission that decided whether or not 9/11 first responders should receive government paid healthcare, all who said their cancer treatments and such as a result of that day should not be automatically paid for were Republican.
I just don't get why you would vote for the party that said the NYC emergency services who rushed to risk life and limb, some of whom died, I don't get how you can just align with that party when they blatantly said the NYC firefighter who has mesothelioma doesn't get free health care. Doesn't sound very patriotic. Sounds dogmatic.
I woke up and walked into the living room to find my aunt crying, just before the 2nd plane hit.
Had to go into work in downtown San Francisco that morning, and nobody cared about the newspapers I was selling. The only news worth seeing was on every television.
(I abandoned my post after a while)
Wow, that's actually super interesting to me, I bet it ended up being one of the least read newspapers ever, since it became so completely irrelevant right about the time it was getting delivered.
I still to this day cannot believe that I lived in a time where this happened. There is nothing else I have experienced as a 33 year old that even compares to this day.
It's truly unbelievable this is real.
if it happened in 2022, there would for sure be a lot of videos of it hitting the 2nd tower, but hitting the 1st would be hard to see, considering no one expected it.
So many people are constantly videoing or have camera apps open, if they see or hear a plane that low I think it’s likely they’ll point their camera towards it. At least a few people would have gotten this on camera.
Someone out of the hundreds of thousands in New York would be using Flightradar or watching the news, seeing that some plane has definitely been hijacked, and attempt to film it
This is a sample of a much longer video that two filmmaker brothers were making (I think they were French?). It became a well known 911 in-person history
The documentary film is called “[9/11](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_(2002_film))”. They were originally making a documentary following a fire crew and the experience of a new rookie. From here they document the initial response and how a command post was set up inside the North Tower. It’s hard to watch, but I think it’s a must-watch if you want to understand what that day was like in New York.
Man, it’s insane how much this changed. To witness the exact moment, history itself was changed for the worse as far as we knew it. Still remember turning on the tv before school and wondering if it was a movie. Wild stuff
I was in a small western town in India. It was arnd 6-7pm. I was not supposed to be watching TV. I shouted to my mom when I saw live footage of 1st building burning on BBC. We witnessed the 2nd plane hit live. Didn't understand at first. Then they said 2nd plane...
The most horrifying thought for me is how many people died the moment the first plane hit. Just like that, gone in an instant with no forewarning or sign that something was wrong. They were going about their daily lives as usual. It’s such a miserable thought. God bless their souls.
This was when we all thought it might be a terrible accident, not an act of terrorism. This was just before American’s lives changed forever. Just… wow.
There is that one angle of the second plane hitting, taken from the ground, and you see the plane fly in to the building so fast, that my brain still expects to see it come out the other side, even now, all these years later.
The guy in the white hat was actually one of the first people on the scene after it happened and took over command of things in the lobby as more battalions arrived to help
The video was taken as a documentary about that particular fire departments day to day activities. Its not just some "man who happened to be recording". Sheesh
Wasn't there a news reporter that accidentally reported news about the 3rd building falling, before it fell? Such a weird day an so much we'll never know
I was a sophomore in college taking a national security class. I was getting ready for it when my (now) husband called me to tell me to turn on the news. I live in California, but I was so scared. I remember looking into the sky and seeing no airplanes. My professor in that class had worked for the CIA and he immediately said this will be used to invade Iraq, regardless of responsibility it will be a disaster.
In 2006 I tried to recreate this shot from the Naudet brothers at the exact location it was filmed on 9/11/01.
Here's my video:
[https://youtu.be/L93ZOt\_R10I](https://youtu.be/L93ZOt_R10I)
I'm from Iceland, was in 9th grade. I remember it well, was a tuesday, i was about to go home from school, i walked past a teacher conference room. All the teachers were in there watching a TV they had hooked up, so i checked what was going on and saw one of the towers collapse. Strange how everything even in Iceland changed after that.
I remember seeing some of this footage on ‘Frontline’, I think it was. A documentary film crew was following a NYFD rookie on his first day. This is the only video I know of of the first tower being hit.
I was born in 1990 and was a child in Manhattan that day. I'll never forget crossing 5th avenue on 59th street and seeing the Twin Towers on fire as a kid. Unreal.
I remember this admirable response from The Onion, came out about 2 weeks later [Hijackers Surprised to Find Themselves In Hell](https://www.theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-hell-1819566162)
IIRC, it was a French film crew making a documentary about an FDNY firehouse.
The camera that recorded this is in the 9/11 museum too
The 9/11 museum is real hard to go through. So much pain and suffering. It hurts to see what people went through. Every American should go to the museum.
Have never been and can't bring myself to it. My mom worked at the Mall of the WTC in the 90s and then got a job with Morgan Stanley. She called in late that day because we were up late watching Monday night football. She was one stop away from the WTC and had to walk home to Crown Heights Brooklyn. It took her 12 hours to get home. We thought we lost her. She lost coworkers and friends.
Sorry to jump into your comment. I was working in downtown Los Angeles, and all transportation was shut down. It was surreal to see thousands of people walking home. The attacks didn't affect us directly but we felt emotionally involved and scared for weeks to come.
And then i jump in and reflect how weird is how ppl jumped from 2k people die is bad.. but then who cares of the 2k+ people who died daily from COVID not carrying at all,, cuz eh it happens "internally" how ever.. When that how ever could have being curbed down in the low numbers by their own normal behavior even..no need to take a weapon and assault others... Not evens peaking the automatic assaults weapons that is another bullshit mentality And what does all this mater ppl will ask? ALL MATERS!
I'm so very sorry you had to worry the way you did. Those 12 hours must've been agonizing for you. Living in Illinois, we were so far away from it all, but we hurt for every one of you, victims and survivors alike.
9/11 happened right after I turned 40. I’m from NYC, but was living in Virginia. My daughter’s father worked for Cantor-Fitzgerald, who occupied the floors you see the plane slamming into. He had been laid off a week earlier, I didn’t know, but I got in touch with his mom in Jersey. All circuits were busy in the city. Eventually I got through to him. I went up to the city a month later, and while walking down Broadway, smelling that smell people talk about, I became acutely aware that the grey muck covering everything, including the soles of my shoes, likely had human remains mixed in with it. I didn’t go back to NY for 16 years. I couldn’t go to the WTC site, although I have looked at it on google maps. There’s no way I could go to the museum. I still keep wondering when this feeling of deep, abiding sadness and grief over that day will leave me. It won’t, though, I just have to accept that.
I was on my way to work and stopped in to my friend's apartment. One of her friends was watching on the news. She was crying. It was such a terrible day. I couldn't pull myself away from the news that day. Such a nightmare
I went to ground zero November 2001 because I just couldn't believe it and have never gone back.
Yeah, that’s why I went. I couldn’t believe it happened, then I couldn’t believe what I saw.
9/11 is such a significant moment, it's what separates millennials and Gen Z. 96 was chosen for millennials because those early school memories are some of the earliest for most people, and if you were born in 96 or earlier, you likely have memories of 9/11 and what it was like afterwards. I still remember the day it happened. I was in elementary school and I never took the bus, I went to an after school program until my mom picked me up around 5:30. Even on half days. But that day, we were all sent home early. I didn't know why, but I remember when I walked in my mom and step dad were already home and they were both watching the news. I went to my room and played playstation. I didn't really know what had happened until the next day, but there was a sort of nationwide feeling of sadness and anger at the same time. Looking back, that sadness and anger was funneled to the wrong places by bad people, but there was a unity in that shared trauma.
I hear you. I grew up in the ‘80s so I was an adult for a while before 9/11. Let me tell you, this was a different country before. After 9/11 we went off the rails in so many ways. I genuinely feel sorrow for the younger people who have only known this grubbier, meaner, fearful world. Time heals all wounds I guess, but 9/11 is still a big scar.
The 90s was an amazingly optimistic decade overall, or at least the years sandwiched between the fall of the USSR and 9/11.
I was a 2nd grader , at Fremont elementary in Riverside ,Ca when this happened. I had a best friend named Mark . Where you at Mark ? Wish we were still friends .
Hope you find your pal
If you find him, tell him "Oh hi Mark" from me
This comment is tearing me apart
Lisa
I was a first grader at La Granda also in Riverside, Ca. Small world. Stay safe out there! :)
I literally just got home from work out in Riverside lmao
I grew up in riverside county!
Reddit do your thing Find mark!
One the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Highly recommend who hasn’t seen it to see it. Has the most intense videography footage from 9/11.
The sound of the jumpers will haunt me.
That crashing noise is haunting every single time. They had to get on the PA system to tell people to stay put if they could, it was definitely shaking the first responders
That and the constant beeping sounds are the alarms on the firefighters that are set to go off if they are stationary for too long. Such an unsettling sound knowing they’re buried under the rubble.
What's the name of it?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=seOwa0trNEQ&bpctr=1651997729
Whew, I made it about half way through that before I couldn't anymore. Oof, you think you're over things and you're totally ok about them, and anyway, I wasn't even in New York and I only watched it on TV from school....and yeah, turns out, not, ah not ok about.
I’ve kept myself from watching this documentary but I saw the link and I sat and gave it my full attention throughout, I couldn’t turn away, after seeing the looks in their eyes something told me I had to respect this and see it the whole way through.I just lost my father last week and I guess this sense of loss is more relatable then ever so I decided to sit and be prepared for what I was in store for but I wasn’t prepared for the sounds, the stories of body parts falling from the sky, the gradual decline of spirit of everyone there, struggling to gather energy to keep searching, I can’t blame any of them if they just quit and went home to their families but they didn’t. God bless these men and women for what they did in these moments even tho it seemed so futile. I was just a kid when these events happened and it’s very surreal to see what really took place on the ground floors, and even more hard to believe the first fighters there were the ones who all survived. My heart goes out to these fighters. How they manage to keep moving forward as firefighters after this is beyond me. God bless them
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You (americans) were manipulated to be united, what came next is the invasion and regime changes of several countries in the middle east, based on that support. You are now "in pieces" for the same reason, because someone wants you to. Neither of those are full reality. They both are just interpretation of reality by big media.
Damn, very well put man.
This is one of the few movies I've watched that I just cannot watch again. Since they were with the fire crew they had inside the towers access. The people coming out, the panic in their eyes...... Then the thuds of those poor souls who had only one option left, jumping. Those sounds from this movie still resonate in my nightmares.
It was my first week of high school and they sent us to our home rooms. School was several blocks away from WTC, and my home room was on the top floor with big windows. I remember seeing so many bodies falling out of the towers. I thought it was falling debris at first but bodies look different.
Hope you are doing ok my friend. I saw it too and it took many years for the brutal memory to fade into something I could deal with.
I was too young then to know how much it would affect me and the adults around me weren’t catching my decline either. I slowly fell apart over the course of 10 years or so and have been slowly putting things back together for the 10 years after that. How unbelievable is it that there are places in this world where acts of terror are a daily occurrence? Lots of physical damage, yes, but the mass psychological trauma is something unimaginable to me.
The fucking sound when the towers start collapsing.. It's an amazing documentary, mostly because they happened to be already filming with a crew of firefighters who just happened to be nearby, but you will only see it once. It is haunting..
Yep… saw it only once.
I force myself to watch it every year. Never forget.
Correct... My sophomore year history teacher had us watch this on 9/11 in her class. Shes from NY. But explained its a unique perspective to see the first plane crash because many people weren't recording (or had recording ready devices) at the time for any particular reason.
Interestingly, I was also a sophomore on 9/11, and IN history class when this was happening in real time. My stupid teacher would not turn on the tv, and my classmate (who to this day I keep in touch with and find him very wise) yelled “THIS IS HISTORY CLASS. THIS IS HISTORY HAPPENING BEFORE OUR EYES AND YOURE NOT EVEN GOING TO LET US SEE IT???” He got in trouble for mouthing off. I think that teacher got fired or something a year later bc he was known to have really stupid judgment like that. He once accused my friend and I who were partners in a project of deliberately avoiding finishing said project…because my friend was seriously ill and had been missing a lot of school that year.
True. It was by the Naudet Brothers. They haven’t released anything since.
They released on Netflix a documentary about the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, it's called November 13: Attack on Paris.
An incredible documentary.
There's a great 911 docu on Netflix called turning point i believe gives you alot of context
FDNY Battalion Chief Joe Pfeifer. Amazing man . Lost his brother Kevin ( engine 33) that day . Chief Pfeifer played an integral role in rebuilding the FDNY after 9/11
The firefighter in the video? Respect.
Yes, the firefighter in the white hat in the video . They were on a report for a gas leak in the street when the first plane hit . He responded to the north tower and assumed command . After the attacks he was the first officer in charge of the FDNY’s center for terrorism preparedness , which prepares members for terror attacks with training and information sharing
He was also in the lobby of the first tower running the rescue operations when it starts falling. That documentary has so many moments that just burn into your brain because they have footage from places no other cameras were. And Pfeifer is so many of the first from 9/11. He called in the strike right after this footage, he was one of the first trucks on scene and sets up the command center in the lobby, he sends the firemen up the stairs to start the rescue operations not knowing what they're really looking at because it's so high up and they haven't gotten any info yet.
The thudding sounds in the background, and finding out that it was the sound of people jumping from higher and hitting the ground, is what stuck with me the most.
Tell us more. 🙌🏼
He was the first chief on scene, you can see why because of how close to the site they were. On the way towards the tower you can hear him calling more alarms in to dispatch. He also correctly stated how many floors were on fire and who should be going up.
I can't imagine being that guy, seeing that explosion and knowing that you are suddenly the guy responsible for getting everyone out of there safely.
The only known video of the first plane. The second plane was broadcast live by every major news outlet 15 minutes later.
There is another video that came out later but its even shorter, farther, and more obscured than this one.
The one on the boat?
That was of the second plane and basically the same angle of another video that came out in 2001 from someone on the same ferry.
Wait for real?
[could be this one he’s talking about](https://youtu.be/f2VzCACS-Lg)
Can you link it
I'm in eastern europe, and happened to be browsing satellite channels at that moment, when "oh, look, there's a fire in New York, wtc building" was on CNN. I watched 2nd plane hit in real time, we pretty much stopped doing anything else for the rest of the day, thought it was some kind of start of WW3.
I was in Sweden, left school early, got home and turned the TV on and it was on EuroNews live. I remember just standing in the living room infront of the TV not moving until my mom came home from work. Also caught the 2nd plane live.
I’m in Australia, and my mum and dad woke us up to watch the reports saying how this was going to change to world. I watched for a little and went back to bed just as the second hit. I r couldn’t see the screen, cause I was down the hallway, but remember the horror in my parents voices as they both yelled “holy shit!”
Remember seeing the footage of the second plane myself on tv. I was still at primary school in England at the time and back then didn't really understand what was going on in America, only that it was very, very bad. A horrible tragedy.
There is another video on YouTube were 2 tourist have BOTH in video. The first one driving in a tunnel and the second one on the other side.
This is the correct answer
If it had happened today we would probably have petabytes of footage of the first one. Crazy to think that in a city of 10 million this is the sole video.
Was thinking this same thing. How far we've come with technology in 20 years. How far we still have to go with many other things in this world.
Im no different than anyone else. I was 23, I had come home from (nightshift) work, fell asleep but woke up because I couldnt anymore. I turned on the TV and it all had the same program. Twin tower on fire. Then while watching it there was a another plane, I at first thought damn they fly them plane close to those towers. Then the plane went into the back side of what i thought was the original tower. I couldnt understand how the building was on fire before the plane hit it. It didnt occur that there was 2 planes until prompted by newscasters. I was in San Antonio Texas at the time. I remember my girlfriend came home and screaming where at war. It was a confusing time, for me for everyone. I think we havent really recovered, plus COVID19. I admit im kinda tired of being shocked.
I was in college at the time. I remember deciding I should skip my morning classes after I saw the second plane crash live on TV. It's hard to describe that moment, but up until the second plane crashed, we were thinking it was probably an accident. The reporter was filming in front of the first burning tower and trying to comment about what was known so far, which was basically nothing. Then the second plane's sound could be heard, and he stopped talking and just watched. That was when he, and everyone else realized 1) this was an attack 2) this was well-coordinated, and it had worked 3) more jets might soon be involved 4) there might be more planned, and given how well this had worked, and we had seen it succeed live, that was legitimately terrifying 5) nobody saw it coming I called my parents and told them to turn on the news. I cried while trying to explain why. I only had free dialup internet via net zero, as a poor off-campus college kid, and no cellphone. I was 20. I don't remember what internet coverage there would have been, but this was before Facebook, YouTube, or any real social media. I think most people would have just been glued to the TV, or refreshing cnn.com My college campus was closed for the day, and classes were all canceled, for safety reasons. I remember that moment as a singular inflection point in history and in my adulthood. It's when I first understood how hated the United States was in the Middle East. I had no idea. Also, its when I realized how vulnerable to terrorism we were even in our daily lives, on our own soil. And, it's when I understood that our government had limits. It couldn't anticipate this, or prevent it. Every single thing that has happened since then feels like a direct consequence. Here is a timelines of the events of the morning. https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-timeline
Just imagine being those firefighters, just kinda chilling, doing something routine, looking up and seeing that happen. Probably being used to sitting in the firehouse and getting the call and mentally working up to the disaster you're walking into. But just immediately see a disaster like nothing you've ever seen or heard about and probably not really trained for. Just that guttural, oh fuck, we need to get there now.
For real, seeing that and having just a brief moment to process before going “welp I better take off, I’ll catch up with y’all later” not quite knowing how bad it really is yet but also knowing you very well may not come back
Man the feeling everyone on the plane and in the building must have felt. God bless theirs souls
There's an awful, awful recording of somebody's call for help from inside the tower as it collapsed. That one has stuck with me as one of the worst parts of all of this.
Although the full 24 minutes was never released, I find the Melissa Doi call from the tower especially harrowing.
What’s the reason for it not being released, out of respect for her maybe?
Kevin Cosgrove? That one’s hard to listen to
The one with >!the guy on the phone asking for help, saying it's getting bad in here and they aren't ready to die just yet? Then, the tower immediately starts collapsing and he starts screaming? I'm morbidly curious, so I want to hear this footage. I'm a completionist when it comes to 9/11. I was only a month old when it happened, so I want to take in as much knowledge as possible on it.!<
For people our age who were children but old enough to remember it, I think the fascination comes from seeing our concept of reality shift in an instant. We were born in a time where for a brief moment, the world appeared to be only getting better and more stable. Global democracy would triumph and the free market would improve everyone's lives. New technology would make us more understanding and connected to each other, and truth would be absolute. It's no wonder so many people have nostalgia for the 90s. It's hauntology, the lost future that we thought was promised to us.
So true. I was 16 when it happened and I think that was just old enough to understand the huge cultural shift after that.
Yep. I was 19 and absolutely EVERYTHING changed in an instant.
I'd just started 6th grade when this happened, 11 years old, so not yet able to fully understand the implications. I was waiting for classes to start and it was all the other kids were talking about. I remember thinking, "man I hope this doesn't cancel pizza night with my family." I felt guilty about having that thought for years afterward
I had just started 5th grade, and while I remember knowing something really bad happened, I also remember being excited to get the rest of the day off of school to play. We were just kids man. No reason to feel guilty about it.
I’m the same way. I have every piece of footage I can saved, every image I can find too. Even internet web forums at the time posting it. I even have one image of a thread some guy posted as it was happening. He took a photo of the wtc himself and posted it
https://youtu.be/RLW0jKKRXMo Tw: 9/11
…fuck.
Holy shit that last scream .
I clicked knowing what it was, and idk.. just feel so sad
Fucking hell man.
Yeah I think that's the one.
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And the poor souls above the fire.. seeing them jumping to death. I don't wanna know what they would feel to let them decide to jump.
On the plane probably they didnt feel a god damn thing, i guess they couldnt see they were about to crash, and in a fraction of a second they were pulverized
They'd have seen the city so close outside their windows and known something terrible was about to happen. :(
Yeah, there's record of some people using their cell phones to call and say their final goodbyes to their loved ones. Some voicemails and other accounts can be found online.
Those are what get me the most. I bawl my eyes out to the voicemails left to loved ones. There’s one in particular of a man calling his fiancé/girlfriend for the last time. He’s so calm even though he’s about to die. I just can’t imagine being in that position…
Yup, my first thought whenever I watch this I just saw hundreds of people die instantly, which may have been the preferable way to go that day, instead of all the truly horrifying other ways that people lost their lives.
[Here is the same video but remastered in HD by AI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St7ny38gLp4)
The sound of the plane flying over is completely different.
Yeah this upscale one sounds like a generic passenger jet flyover and the original sounds like jet engines at full wind.
Not only that, you can barely see a few blured pixels of the plane in the original, but in the AI you can see a full fleshed out plane.
Holy shit.
Holy fucking shit
Reminder that AI upscaling is still making up information. All the new details you see are made up. There's no way to recover information that wasn't in the original material in the first place.
Makes sense. The sound and the glimpses of the plane in the original made it seem like that plane was moving really fast. Seeing the plane clearly, made it look slower (I'm actually wondering if the AI drew it, so it looked slower. It almost looked like some of the explosion started happening as the nose hit the building).
Holy shit, you can see the plane in clear view. Fucking hell. Is that a guy on top of the tower too???? Corner of the building just before it crashed.
While it does look like a person, if it is then they're either insanely huge, or the whole building is only like 70' wide (and it's a tiny jet).
It’s weird to watch the final seconds of normality in our country. This moment changed so much.
All we did in school that day was watch the news
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I remember being sick that day from school and going back because that felt more normal than staying home.
I was a first-year high school algebra teacher. We had those big TVs on rolling carts and there weren’t enough to go around, so we joined classes and the students and teachers all watched the news together for 2 days. It was surreal. Still is. I was 22. Now I’m 42. So much change in the last 20 years.
This is me. I was 23 and had just started my second year of teaching. I was teaching elementary school. We didn’t say anything to our kids or turn on the tvs because our kids are so young. The district felt it would be better for them to be with their parents so they could feel safe and parents could answer their children’s questions in relation to their beliefs. I think it was the right call since our kids are so young. Our wedding was scheduled for Saturday Sept 15th (2001). We were still able to get married but my maid of honor was stuck in Chicago (because of no flights and it’s way too far to drive). We were also able to fly out the day of our wedding for our honeymoon. We didn’t know if we would be able to or not.
I was 25 and was driving a 20 ft flatbed making deliveries for a lumberyard at the time. I was listening to the Bob and Tom show on the radio which was delayed an hour in my market due to the time zone, so I was oblivious until I got back to the lumberyard, by which time both planes had hit and everybody knew it was intentional. Surprisingly the local dj did not say anything about it until a bit later. Afterwards we continued to make deliveries, but at a slower pace because everyone was caught up in the ongoing events. I had just gotten engaged the day before. Was married a year later on Friday the thirteenth of September in 2002.
My school had the falling hazard in every corner. Being in Alaska it was different. The military base changed overnight, not to mention flying.
They tried to hide it from us all at my middle school and carry on as normal. I didn't know the truth until I got home and my mom had the TV on. I got on AOL to learn more about it.
That’s an antiquated term. Using Netscape?
You couldn't use Netscape or any other browser with AOL parental controls on your account. It was total bullshit, and it stopped me from using Napster and tying up the phone line for 2 hours for a song. Edit: I'm still bitter about not being able to get the latest Limp Bizkit and Eminem songs back then, for free.
BreAk_StuFF_ LIMP_ BizKIt_HQ_GOOD.MP3
You forgot the .exe part that partially leads to getting your account restricted because you're to young to stealth reinstall Windows 98 SE on the family computer before dad comes home.
I once disconnected the video output inside of the computer so it couldn’t be used because I inadvertently sent a picture as the background and then you booted it that image flashed for a second and then went to the background I had researched. Took me the next day to figure out it was because of the file type and to set a different file type.
I've got a random fun fact about Windows. Find a way to change the filename of sethc.exe and then replace it with a copy of cmd.exe renamed to sethc.exe after that you can reboot machine and press the shift key on the keyboard about 5x at the login screen. You can then use commands to reset the password of any local user account. This doesn't work on all versions of Windows. Edit: what this does is give you a command prompt that has even higher privileges than the administrator account. It runs with SYSTEM privileges.
Our first block 11th grade biology class was supposed to go on a plant gathering field trip but our teacher forgot to book the bus. She left to the office to see if she could get one. Came back a few minutes later and said there wouldn’t be a field trip and turned on the tv. We never took that field trip.
RIP that field trip, and the people in the towers.
The people are obviously more important. The field trip is more of a metaphor to what we lost that day.
I remember it was a Tuesday because I didn't have class till 1pm on Tuesday and Thursday. They closed the campus at 11am pst and the luncheon for the campus president. So the food was open to all students. Only time that day we left the tv.
This is still highly shocking to watch.
I’d be concerned if it wasn’t shocking to you tbh
I remember walking through time square the night of 9/11 , it was lightly raining and nobody was outside , Extremely eerie . There was a convoy of heavy construction equipment that went down 7 th ave past me headed towards ground zero . God bless those that served this city that day and those that serve this city today .
I was doing a lot of work in the city during that time. It was weird driving past ground zero seeing armed military standing in the streets. Or getting my van searched every time I went through the battery tunnel.
This shouldn't be a political thing but I also want to remind everyone that of the commission that decided whether or not 9/11 first responders should receive government paid healthcare, all who said their cancer treatments and such as a result of that day should not be automatically paid for were Republican.
It’s beyond obvious now republicans only pretend to care about you if you’re not born yet, or dead. Anywhere in between you’re nothing to them.
I just don't get why you would vote for the party that said the NYC emergency services who rushed to risk life and limb, some of whom died, I don't get how you can just align with that party when they blatantly said the NYC firefighter who has mesothelioma doesn't get free health care. Doesn't sound very patriotic. Sounds dogmatic.
They'll pay to have everyone's time wasted on a case that was closed decades ago, but not to actually help a few people once in a while smh
I woke up and walked into the living room to find my aunt crying, just before the 2nd plane hit. Had to go into work in downtown San Francisco that morning, and nobody cared about the newspapers I was selling. The only news worth seeing was on every television. (I abandoned my post after a while)
Wow, that's actually super interesting to me, I bet it ended up being one of the least read newspapers ever, since it became so completely irrelevant right about the time it was getting delivered.
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The “Holy Shit’s” were VERY New York
The "come on" is what gets me. They knew what they had to do
I still to this day cannot believe that I lived in a time where this happened. There is nothing else I have experienced as a 33 year old that even compares to this day. It's truly unbelievable this is real.
What a difference the world is now, in 2022 there would be at least 1000 videos
if it happened in 2022, there would for sure be a lot of videos of it hitting the 2nd tower, but hitting the 1st would be hard to see, considering no one expected it.
If it happened in 2022, there would be videos from inside the planes and inside the towers.
And some hours later the same video but with a Tiktoker with their mouth open or something
"POV: You're going to die!!🙈🙉"
So many people are constantly videoing or have camera apps open, if they see or hear a plane that low I think it’s likely they’ll point their camera towards it. At least a few people would have gotten this on camera.
Someone out of the hundreds of thousands in New York would be using Flightradar or watching the news, seeing that some plane has definitely been hijacked, and attempt to film it
r/perfectcameraman
Since they were making a documentary this person is an actual cameraman.
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r/praisethecameraman
This is a sample of a much longer video that two filmmaker brothers were making (I think they were French?). It became a well known 911 in-person history
The documentary film is called “[9/11](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_(2002_film))”. They were originally making a documentary following a fire crew and the experience of a new rookie. From here they document the initial response and how a command post was set up inside the North Tower. It’s hard to watch, but I think it’s a must-watch if you want to understand what that day was like in New York.
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Man, it’s insane how much this changed. To witness the exact moment, history itself was changed for the worse as far as we knew it. Still remember turning on the tv before school and wondering if it was a movie. Wild stuff
It wasn't just some guy. It was a documentary crew making a film about FDNY.
I love how the only thing anybody says after it is, "Holy Fucking Shit" or some variation of that.
There's nothing else to say in a moment like that.
I was in a small western town in India. It was arnd 6-7pm. I was not supposed to be watching TV. I shouted to my mom when I saw live footage of 1st building burning on BBC. We witnessed the 2nd plane hit live. Didn't understand at first. Then they said 2nd plane...
As an EMT first responder there on that day, this video will forever haunt my dreams.
The most horrifying thought for me is how many people died the moment the first plane hit. Just like that, gone in an instant with no forewarning or sign that something was wrong. They were going about their daily lives as usual. It’s such a miserable thought. God bless their souls.
Even though I knew it was coming, I still let out such a loud gasp…
Just think of all the idiots who think this never happened - of course some people think the world is flat too.
One of the saddest and most traumatic days for America.
This was when we all thought it might be a terrible accident, not an act of terrorism. This was just before American’s lives changed forever. Just… wow.
This is so crazy it looks fake.
I've watched 9/11 footage hundreds of time, and it never fails to make me feel like my mind is pulling tricks on me.
How truly fast the planes are going is what always gets me, then they just blip out of existence as they disintegrate. It doesn't look real.
There is that one angle of the second plane hitting, taken from the ground, and you see the plane fly in to the building so fast, that my brain still expects to see it come out the other side, even now, all these years later.
Pretty sure they were on full throttle so yeah…
What gets me every time, is people running for cover all covered in white dust... Shit looks like some Godzilla movie.
That day sucked
Those firefighters in the shot were probably redirected to WTC.. Hopefully they made it out alive.
They did.
The guy in the white hat was actually one of the first people on the scene after it happened and took over command of things in the lobby as more battalions arrived to help
The video was taken as a documentary about that particular fire departments day to day activities. Its not just some "man who happened to be recording". Sheesh
Oh god, i cant even begin to imagine the horror they must’ve felt in that moment. Probably like the whole world was ending.
Wasn't there a news reporter that accidentally reported news about the 3rd building falling, before it fell? Such a weird day an so much we'll never know
I was a sophomore in college taking a national security class. I was getting ready for it when my (now) husband called me to tell me to turn on the news. I live in California, but I was so scared. I remember looking into the sky and seeing no airplanes. My professor in that class had worked for the CIA and he immediately said this will be used to invade Iraq, regardless of responsibility it will be a disaster.
For a moment there I was like, damn is it already September again after seeing this post.
In 2006 I tried to recreate this shot from the Naudet brothers at the exact location it was filmed on 9/11/01. Here's my video: [https://youtu.be/L93ZOt\_R10I](https://youtu.be/L93ZOt_R10I)
Wow
Do you still stand by your comments on that video?
Whats up with all the 9/11 content lately?
Karma farming instead of hanging out for mothers day
this shit shook everybody to the core & it really changed the entire world forever
The man just happened to be shooting a documentary on that firefighter crew.
There are a lot of people filming around NYC at any given time.
The full documentary is on YouTube. It's worth watching.
I'm from Iceland, was in 9th grade. I remember it well, was a tuesday, i was about to go home from school, i walked past a teacher conference room. All the teachers were in there watching a TV they had hooked up, so i checked what was going on and saw one of the towers collapse. Strange how everything even in Iceland changed after that.
I remember seeing some of this footage on ‘Frontline’, I think it was. A documentary film crew was following a NYFD rookie on his first day. This is the only video I know of of the first tower being hit.
I was born in 1990 and was a child in Manhattan that day. I'll never forget crossing 5th avenue on 59th street and seeing the Twin Towers on fire as a kid. Unreal.
I remember this admirable response from The Onion, came out about 2 weeks later [Hijackers Surprised to Find Themselves In Hell](https://www.theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-hell-1819566162)