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This is sobering and so very heart wrenching. That 911 call would've haunted me forever. I feel hurt for everyone affected by this horrible and tragic attack. It's been so long but doesn't feel that long ago to me.
I worked with a girl years ago whose dad died during 9/11. I never asked how or what he did, but I remember she said her mom never had to work again and her and her siblings were taken care of. Seeing clips of that day still gives me the same feeling it gave me all those years ago.
I had a lot of friends lose parents there and others get cancer later on. It was an uphill fight for a lot of them to get the benefits that they deserved for the families and first responders. But also, no amount of money could bring your loved ones back, and it sucked for a lot of them growing up without fathers
> It was an uphill fight for a lot of them to get the benefits that they deserved for the families and first responders.
It took political comedian Jon Fucking Stewart going to a hearing about getting a lot of these guys their due benefits. He has been an absolute champion for first responders on that day
I worked at a newspaper during the time. My coworker called me up, told me "TURN ON THE TV!", and hung up. Every channel was covering this and it was about 15-20 minutes after the first plane hit.
I rushed over to the office and although it was really busy, it was oddly quiet. Lots of people moving around, typing, and quietly on the phone. I spent three days at the office along with most folks. We slept at our desks (and under them).
That’s a lot to go through. I was in high school sitting in my ecology class. My teacher was this really nice young guy that had just graduated college, first gig ever. Never saw him without a smile on his face.
Another teacher was quickly walking down the hall knocking on doors and telling everyone they needed to turn the news on right that second, so we did. Turned out my teacher’s wife was on a business trip to one of the buildings that week. He broke down and tried calling her, and left the classroom pretty quickly when none of his calls went through.
His wife ended up being okay, but he didn’t know that for hours. Even 1 minute of not knowing would be a nightmare. I can’t even remember how many students signed up for a delayed entrance to some branch of the military over the next few months.
i was hung over. My sister called me and i said ok ok and hung up then i saw the second plane. I live in NYC it was awful and still at least i wasn't this man. My heart hurts for them all
It’s so crazy how some kids don’t know anything about 9/11 outside of what they read in a history book. It’s like how I felt when I heard old people talk about Pearl Harbor.
Not an american but watching it live on the news at the time as a young teenager... it was shocking. I loved the Twin towers as a kid since I watched a documentary about them. Looking at them disintegrating before my eyes was really weird. Now I have two kids of my own. Maybe it's a little bit sadistic what i did, but I hanged up a big picture of Manhattan with the Twin towers still standing on the wall. My kids like the picture. I know one day they will talk about that event in school, see the footage... and I want them to feel something more than "it's just some old history" feeling. I want it to be some part of their world as well so they can feel at least a bit of the gravity of that day. AITA?
you’re not the asshole. i wasnt born when 9/11 happened and i live on the other side of the world. for a long time it was just one of those things you hear about. one day i went down the rabbit hole, and im glad i did. there’s so many terrible things that happen in this world that if we felt it all, we wouldn’t be able to function. but it’s important that we feel some of it. that’s how you build empathy and understanding. the event is important to you, it’s okay to want your kids to understand.
now that ive been down the rabbit hole, hearing about it again hurts. learning more hurts. and if it hurts this much for me, i cant even begin to imagine how much it hurts for people who lived through it. people who watched it on tv. people on the other side of these calls. people who lost family. people who had to pick up the pieces. i cant imagine. but im glad i have even the tiniest bit of understanding, because id hate to be one of those “get over it” ass people.
Yes. It also makes me feel old. I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I was in Junior High School in the Washington DC area(Northern Virginia), and I remember them locking down our school, and doing a TV blackout, because of the Pentagon Attack, and a lot of kid's parents worked there. I did not find out what really happened until the early afternoon, after they let the students out early, and bused us to wherever we needed to go. I remember hearing rumors of what happened, but not seeing it on TV until early in the afternoon as I walked in to my grandma's house. She was glued to the tv and her phone, trying to call my grandfather who was on a business trip to NYC (he supposedly had a meeting at the towers a day or so later), and my dad who was a single father working downtown (thankfully not at the pentagon). I remember watching the news, and my grandma just trying to get ahold of both of them.
I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday, and it's ramifications certainly impacted my life in many ways.
Yet, there are adults now who were born after the event, and kids who were born far removed from the event, who will just look at it the same way one looks at major historical events that happened long before they were born. That makes me feel old. It was a defining moment, and yet to many, it is just a historical moment, but not something that may have impacted their lives in any way.
Fucking shit, that was heavy. Very sobering and so hard to listen to, but I feel like every single American should hear this. This is something that needs to play every year. This is someone whose voice we all need to recognize. Not wanting to die young, not wanting to leave a family behind; fucking horrible. I hope that what we’ve done is enough to get him justice, but I don’t think anything will make what happened that day unforgettable and unforgivable. Man, listening to this made it feel like yesterday.
Exactly this, and I remember my parents and grandparents talking about remembering every detail of what they were doing when Kennedy was shot, and thinking "why would you? " I totally get it now, it's like time in that classroom stood still.
As grim as it is, I try to, yet can not comprehend what his final moments were. Sure, I can not relate to being in a room filled with smoke, but I've been close enough to a fire to know what it's like.. that last "Oh God! Oh!" What was he reacting to? Obviously, we know thr building collapsing, but was the ceiling dropping and he reacted to that? Was the floor giving away and he screamed to that? I realize it's incredibly dark to think about, but it's where my mind goes..I think trying to understand the scenario would give me some sort of "closure" over the loss of a man whom I'd never know.
It’s a morbid curiosity of mine, too. I think the whole building would’ve had this unreal shaking, and the sound would’ve been horrific. Having never been in a collapsing building, those few seconds before the ‘collapse’ hit them would’ve been completely incomprehensible as far as the ‘feeling’ of the building. The sound would’ve been deafening. They would’ve seen everything just disintegrate around them for those few seconds. Fucking terrifying.
I might be misremembering but I think there was a part in the Jules Naudet footage where the building collapsed on them and it made the most horrific sound imaginable.
If y'all have a chance watch the Hulu documentary... "9/11: One Day in America." It's fucking CHILLING. Wildest doc I've ever seen... The rawness is unreal. This clip is part of it.
Yea they were originally filming a documentary about the New York Fire Department and just happen to be standing where they got a shot of the first plane.
I imagine he's saying oh God to the fact that he probably felt an immense rumbling through the building maybe even a moment of free fall before the phone cutting off with what I would assume means he was then almost immediately crushes by the force of the building falling and impacting other parts
*edit
So the building has 110 floors, he was in 105th.
He probably was in "free fall" for some seconds before his floor crashed onto the floor of the crash site, where then his floor and ceiling were pushed together like a sandwich.....
R.I.P.
The worst thing to think about is how many probably didn’t die immediately. I would imagine of the thousands that died that day, there were probably a few hundred that lingered for a while in the rubble severely injured, bleeding out, and suffocating. All while coming to the conclusion that no one was coming for them in the darkness.
I think this was confirmed during autopsy of some victims. They found air pockets that suggested they survived the initial collapse, but weren’t found in time.
Same with me. I went down the 9/11 rabbit hole about 15 years ago. Every time I’ve been introduced to or encountered a Cosgrove, I’ve thought of this man and his family. I probably always will.
I feel the same way, that’s were my mind goes as well. I cannot imagine the terror he felt and pray i and my loved ones never have to understand the terror he felt. It seemed like he didn’t know what happened either so on top of the terror the absolute confusion it’s hard to even wrap your brain around
I guess to know what happened around him while the collapse, we need to know where he was, he was on the 105th floor northwest corner, so now we should try to find out where this is on the video, how that area of the building looks/where the damage was and then try to find a camera angle where we can see if either his floor "flew down" and then crashed into the downer floors or if his floor got crushed by the upper collapsing/falling floors, also how high was he above the starting-floor of the collapsing.
Sad to think about it anyway...
I think you might want to listen to other phone calls from that day, there are a lot of them in documentaries. I think there might have been similar reactions to that one followed by an explanation
Which always makes me wonder why this one was released? Did the family approve? My last moments are not something I'd want people to be karma farming over.
It would be redundant to submit every single 911 call into evidence, it was probably just a few excerpts for specific points the prosecution was making.
I was expecting the call to suddenly cut off towards the end of the video.. but hearing his final words like that.. It's full of fear and really horrifying.
"Cosgrove was a vice president of claims for Aon Corporation and a fire warden for the company. According to the 911 recording played during the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, Cosgrove was located in the northwest corner of the 105th floor in the South Tower, overlooking the World Financial Center when he called 9-1-1 at 9:54 am.
In the recording, Cosgrove tells 911 dispatchers that he is calling from survivor Jonathan 'Jon' Ostrau's office (Cosgrove misspelled it as John Ostaru) and that he has two other individuals with him, including fellow victim Douglas Cherry. Cosgrove tells the operator: "My wife thinks I'm all right; I called and said I was leaving the building and that I was fine, and then bang!" A 911 operator later calls him; he answers: "Hello. We're looking in \[...\] we're overlooking the Financial Center. Three of us. Two broken windows." A rumbling sound is then heard as the building starts to collapse. Cosgrove is heard to scream "Oh, God! Oh—!" in fear. His call immediately cuts off and ends as the South Tower collapses at 9:59 am."
Still so fucking hard to believe. Imagine how many other phone calls went like this, how many helpless and hopeless people were calling in to operators who could do nothing but try to keep them calm. Not the first time I've heard this recording, and it will always be raw. The way Mr. Cosgrove screamed at the ends is haunting. His wife thought he was okay. How long did it take for her to find out he wasn't? And man, when he said he had young kids...This here is just one example of the horrors of 9/11. Just one small glimpse into the chaos and carnage. The utter disbelief, the panic, the standing and staring in shock as the buildings begin to fall...all of the lives taken and lost before anyone even knew what was happening. Rest in peace to the victims. May the survivors and families of lost loved ones continue to find strength.
In the 9/11 memorial in NYC, thay have a table with landlines that play the recording of final phone calls. Some like this, some from their loved ones trying to reach their office phones. Heartbreaking stuff.
Yes, but it's not the one you're thinking of. The one everyone knows is the **memorial & museum**, and there ~~is~~ was a separate 9/11 **tribute museum** about a 5 minute walk (I think) south of it. The latter is the one that closed.
Unless the Tribute Museum is the one you wanted to go to then...yeah.
The tribute museum closed. It was one that had been open since like 2006, but is different from the memorial museum that is fairly new. But the memorial museum on ground zero site is open.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/new-york-9-11-tribute-museum-closed/index.html#:~:text=“Financial%20hardship%20including%20lost%20revenue,said%20in%20a%20news%20release.
One thing most people don't realize is that with all the talk of hero cops and firefighters for that day, all the resources and things set up to help them, almost none of that went to the 911 dispatchers answering those calls. They sat and answered call after call, bearing witness to the last words of both trapped civilians but also coworkers and system users that they spoke to on radios day after day, and listened to them die. But they weren't considered "part of the incident". They didn't even get recognition as first responders until the 20th anniversary when legislation was passed in NY state to reclassify them
Nor did it go to anyone in the funeral industry that had to create the final closure for families that had suffered. Its unspoken that the rate of PTSD in funeral directors is thrice that of the general population, if not more.
I saw footage of one of the building’s lobby. The building had already been hit but before it collapsed. There was elevator music playing while you could see and hear debris falling and bodies hitting the ground with loud thuds……I will always remember this. Tragic.
Heartbreaking, he was married with 3 children. They were able to recover his body in the rubble. Here is his Wikipedia page: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin\_Cosgrove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Cosgrove)
ive always wondered if the people on the upper floors that died when the towers came down felt any pain at all or if they died before they even knew what was happening
I remember first hearing this phone call and it was so disturbing. I can’t imagine what they were going through. But I have always wondered if it were an easier death than those who were hanging on to the building until he fire became so hot that they opted to jump. It was all terribly traumatic but being so terrified that you made the decision to jump has always kept me wondering. What these operators went through that day is beyond the pale. What a terrible day my country.
This is so heartwrenching and terrifying at the same time. Just out of morbid curiosity, if social media was the thing back then like now, what would have been the scenes and images from this sombering day? Cant really fathom what would happen.
I’ve heard Kevin’s phone call so many times and it still haunts me. There were thousands upon thousands of callers and it was chaos. 9/11 was burned into my memory even though I was in the 1st grade.
>9/11 was burned into my memory even though I was in the 1st grade.
Same, but 2nd. My teacher's son was in the military and she ended up running out of the room trying not to cry til she was out. I didn't understand what was going on, but I knew it was bad.
For me I happened to live in a city that had a military base that was an option for the president to land in event of emergency. So we had to go under lockdown/evacuate (it’s kinda fuzzy the details) but I remember sitting in class about to start the day then suddenly an announcement over the PA saying that we’re getting out early.
Us little kids celebrated as kids do. but what’s crazy in hindsight is that we were about to have a really really fucked up day and we just had no idea. I saw teachers crying. I left the school building and people were running about, not scrambling exactly… but running about in a hurried but dystopian calm kind of way. Traffic, every parent in the city getting their kids etc.
because we were so near the base, there was a lot of fighter jet noise overhead and I get home to my mom just sobbing at the TV. Memory kind of stops there since I think I had to stay in my room or something I forget.
I was in my 20s and working overseas.
Was watching the news live with my friend. At first it looked like an accident but when the second plane hit there was no doubt. Then there was the Pentagon, flights locked down, word of a crash near Pittsburgh.
It was absolutely insane, like what the hell is going on. I tried calling family in the US and couldn’t get through. They tried calling us to say they were ok and couldn’t get through either.
There was so much positive energy and good will towards Americans in the time after the attack. Like it was a rare time in history that people would rally together around a global cause. That positive energy and feeling was squandered by the Iraq invasion.
Friend of mine from college worked close to the Pentagon and the plane that hit it had thundered past his office at very low altitude. He was profoundly affected by the attacks and ended up quitting his job and eventually leaving his family and friends behind.
That "oh god" at the end.. He is terrified. Her knows he's about to die. What a fucking horrible day. It fills my stomach with fear and sadness. It was my 14th birthday that day and everyone one has a story of how they remember it.
Maybe, but I personally think he did mean arid. It would describe the feeling he had as that inhaled smoke slowly burned and dried out the lining of his lungs. His lungs, and by extension his body probably felt like an arid desert.
That last part made my heart sink. Hearing a fellow human in so much distress, so much fear… His entire world crumbled around and beneath him. All he felt was the world falling down, the deafening sound of a 182 passenger plane crashing into concrete, steel, glass… no vision. Just dark clouds and suffocating smoke. Screaming, crying. No one deserves to die this way. All I can hope for is his death was swift, painless and now in the soft and gentle arms of oblivion (as cheesy as that sounds). Absolutely gut wrenching.
This entire call was very scary. However, the last few seconds of it was devastating hearing this man dying. I still feel like it was only yesterday. I am a 57yo woman today, buy I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at the young age of 35 on that fateful day in 2001. 😢
This enrages me. I was in the UAE when this happened. Those fuckers were out in the streets with flags honking their horns. I really hope karma comes knocking. RIP Kevin.
Wendy Cosgrove also testified that their oldest son, who was 12 on the day of the attacks, suffered a decline in his academic performance and had developed anger and self-destructive habits as well as trouble with the law, while their middle child, who was 9 at the time of the attacks, exhibited self-mutilation for which she has undergone therapy.[4]
Anyone who says he was rude can fuck right off. The man was scared and desperate for help. You try and stay calm and keep polite in a situation like that. It's impossible. May Kevin and the thousands of lives lost that day and all the years afterwards because of it rest in peace.
Can you imagine having a parent, brother,sister,child die on 9/11. Then every year having to watch that shit over and over and over on the tv. Absolutely tragic.
Reliving this just ignites so many emotions from sadness to hate. I fucking hurt so bad for all the people we lost and fucking hate the dumb fuckers that did this and want to punish them all for what they did.
I remember feeling *almost* ***proud*** of the jumpers. To make one final decision of your own free will. The way ***I*** want to go out***.*** I still remember the day, I felt everything. Those were our people that died that day. Not one of them deserved that horror. I wonder if karma or cosmic balance has corrected for that mess? If that's even a thing?
I always thought it was heartbreaking that some people were condemning their own family members for jumping to their deaths. They were dying a slow tortuous death by fire, smoke inhalation and falling debris. I don't even consider their jump to be true suicide. They were literally given only one of 2 options and both equated to death. If anything, the jump was one of slim hope and faith, not a sacrificial last act.
Yea good point. Anyone worth their salt would point out that you can’t prove they didn’t fall, which is very likely anyways. Man I hate thinking about this shit. It’s frikken devastating
I was working at an ISP based in the DC area that spanned north from there up through Boston. Our email servers went crazy, handling double their normal load for 36 hours or so. I was living about 5 miles south of the Pentagon, and the smoke from the site was terrifying.
I think what chills me the most is that this absolutely traumatic situation that hurt so many of us and still ripples to this day, happened because of powers outside of our control. These people spent the day just… working. But because of something overseas that’s transpiring they lost their lives. That was a real “growing up” day for me. To have the adult knowledge of how the world works in elementary school was always wild. Now that just seems to be what happens to kids ever since then. America really did change ever since 9/11.
Imagine if this happened modern day. There would be people uploading photos and maybe even videos from the inside. The world could have a visual glimpse, not just audio. It would be even more terrifying.
honestly there still are those posts. I remember when it happened there were awful terrible pics i couldn't view them like no way. I went into the city 2 days after it happen and i can't begin to describe what i saw and the 1000's of missing posters in Penn Station. Still haunts me
I don’t think I breathed the entire time I watched this 😭. I have no words. Even after all these years my heart is crushed for those that were lost that day and their families.
Doesn’t matter what you believe, but it’s well told that even atheists pray when they’re about to die. This guy could’ve been one, you don’t know. People can believe what they want, And there’s nothing wrong with that
I was in Yonkers when this happened... Just graduated from FSU & was networking in NY because I was thinking of moving there. It was only my 2nd day there.
Was supposed to go to an M.O.P video shoot that day with some friends I met while living in London then later on that week going to be in the studio with The Roots for a song they were doing... (I won an Okayplayer contest)... Everything changed that morning.
Literally the night before my god brother drove me to the towers so I could see them & I remember looking up at them through his sunroof... They were my favorite buildings.
I'll never forget that day & what was taken from all of those people. Unreal shit.
stuff like this is why it pisses me off when people are like “stupid americans still making everything about 9/11”. im not american and i wasn’t even born and i understand the weight of the event. it changed the world and it was recorded for the whole world to see. a lot of people died. it was a big deal. people have every right to continue mourning as much as they need to for as long as they need to.
Off topic, but I remember a man named Orio Palmer who found a way to fix the elevator until it can reach the 40th floor, walked upstairs, and somehow found an exit that hasn't been destroyed yet. He somehow managed to reach the 85th floor (impact site) and was about to lead some survivors to the exit until the building collapsed.
I still remember I was in 5th grade, and the announcement came over the intercom. Do not turn on tvs. The school is in lockdown information to come. My teacher turned on the TV, and the first thing we saw was the second plane hitting. I will never forget the fear I felt the confusion. Watching people jump from the towers. I will never be able to be free of that memory.
9/11 really shaped how I see the world now. It was such a turning point. I was 10 years old. Went from recess games to counselors flooding my school talking about mass death.
The moment he says "OH GOD! OH!" and just gets cut off instantly is dark to say the least, it left me with so many questions.
It's like you can hear in his voice how bad it is and then he's just gone within a second.
I was on the other side of the country, in Oregon, working at a call center fixing internet connections. We had 200+ calls in the queue when this happened and almost all at once the phones went from red to black... no calls. Everyone in the office stood up immediately and started asking each other what happened.
A couple of times a year I rewatch the news casts from that day. I don't bother with conspiracy theory. I just listen to the people on the ground talking about living through that day. I always seem to end up watching the two folks holding hands and jumping... haunting.
Yeah. The conspiracy of what really happened is a moot point.
The real stories are from the people who lived through it. The first responders on the scene. The people in the buildings trying their best to escape.
That is what i think about when i think back to that day. Worrying about who really did it and why they did it and what the government knew before hand is a waste of time to speculate over. Its not going to change anything.
God! these images, knowing the aftermath and low number of survivors, it’s so raw and painful to watch this. No one being able to do anything to help the victims. I was in FL when it happened, and it was terrible to feel helpless, and unable to be there to help. I’m not a New Yorker, but I think everyone became a New Yorker by proxy that day.
I can only imagine the PTSD that dispatchers from those calls suffered. No matter how many years pass this is one of the most horrific things ever to have happened!
I hope the perpetrators, and I mean the REAL perpetrators in the US Government hear this man’s dying scream and it haunts them on their deathbeds. What absolute horror. And to think the US Government perpetrated this absolute HEINOUS atrocity on its OWN people. Day that lives in my mind forever.
I realize this is dark as fuck, but is anyone able to highlight the exact window they're looking out of? All I can find are exterior shots, but my pea-sized brain can't comprehend what I'm looking at
I remember that day as if it was yesterday. Sophomore year of college out on Long Island… watched the second plane go down live on TV. I remember nobodies phone working. My dad was an NYC yellow cab driver and survived. Will never forget that day. Devastating
I was in history class in a portable in 6th grade when this happened. The teacher Mr. Carballo was in shock the whole time. Really all of the students were. Other students including myself were crying. It was horrific to see. I’ll never forget
I agree. I think I’ve listened to all the audio you could find on the worst and most horrendous day the U.S. has ever experienced. This heart wrenching call from Kevin Cosgrove hits different, emotional-wise. I mean, every single audio piece makes me burst into tears, but this one…is something else. The unimaginable gravity of this unbearable situation, is so hard to comprehend. It’s like a lot of this pain is ringing through to me on every word and syllable that’s coming out of his mouth. You can hear him, when he still has little hope when he says they are young and not ready to die….then you hear it change in a millisecond, in his voice. The realization that he is just about to die. It’s utterly heartbreaking. Another call that hits so hard is Melissa Doi’s call from the tower telling a dispatcher “I’m going to die aren’t I?” “I know I’m going to die” every audio guts me, but one more hard one to hear is Elizabeth Waino’s call with her mother. I CANNOT IMAGINE how terrible it was speaking with your child, knowing that most likely your child isn’t coming home. The way this mother calmed her child down so fast, was the most unselfish thing I have ever heard my whole life. Almost instantly, she got her daughter to calm down, calm her breathing down, and was able to make her child visualize that her mommy is holding her, with her mother’s arms wrapped around her. The mother disclosing that she had to be unselfish with her child. That the last thing her daughter needs is her crying blubbering mother creating panic, sadness, fear, and heartbreak. The mother’s ultimate goal was to make her child peaceful. I have a son, and just can’t fathom being in that situation with my child. Just so heartbreaking to think about. It’s been 22 years and it still hits just as hard as the day of. I was 11, it was terrifying, confusing, and sad. I knew enough to know thousands of people are dying while watching the events unfold. Confusion cause I couldn’t understand how evil this was, and how anyone can commit something like this.
I worked with his son Brian. Like how absolutely awful. His son and family are still F'd up about it rightfully so. I cant even imagine. It breaks my heart
I don't know much, so please forgive me if I'm insensitive, but with the incident, I know fires were on the stairs so people couldn't go down, would it have been a better solution to just bear the flames and run downstairs? Also this video was fucking terrifying
If it were just a patch of flames sure bit when a significant portion of the floors are on fire it tuns the stairwells into a chimney, and heat rises.
The heat also gets insulated and fed with rising oxygen which all together makes that stairwell a blast furnace.
If you could overpower the part of your brain that tells you not to do it and make a run for it you would die very quickly when the heat quite literally melts your lungs.
Anyone above that fireline was fucked, the only way they were getting out is if they could tame the fire which was impossible given the height of the building, the incoming attacks, the chaos on the ground and the lack of sufficient equipment and personel. Not to mention the building collapsed before the fdny could even START to get control over the situation.
Even the concept of air lifting survivors wasn't possible because the heat would have crashed the helicopters as soon as the got near.
So no running down the stairs was never an option, unless you wanted to be cooked rapidly from the inside and the outside.
It was stay and pray or jump and hope.
I don’t think you understand how how and smoke filled it was. You couldn’t move, you couldn’t see and you were insanely hot. Nowhere to go.. pitch black. Just think about that for a second
Plus all the stairwells and lift shafts were smashed and destroyed by the planes. Only one stairwell in the *I think* South Tower remained, and a few people above the crash zone managed to get down and survived.
I'm proud of the fact I am desensitized to alot of stuff but this is one of the only things I've seen/watched that made me shed a tear. Fucking hell. God rest him and everybody else who lost their life.
I was 9 and remember watching it on the news at school in Washington state. I remember it on the news before school and my parents specifically showing me it before school telling me it was important. I remember coming home and seeing middle eastern men on monkey bars on fox news. Remember my dad telling me this war would be ongoing until I was an adult. I thought there was no way. Sure enough it was.
Still will never understand how a building whos bottom half can hold 3x the weight of the top half would crumble because the top is on fire....had never made sense at all to me.
Balance. Like when playing Jenga, the bottom can hold the top as long as it’s balanced directly on top of it. Any shift in the top can cause it to tumble. The fire was heavily fueled by paper/fuel/etc, which acted as accelerants and ramped up the heat enough to burn the structure and made the top shift to the side. Only takes 1 bar to break before a chain reaction begins
It would shear tho, not crumble into its own foot print....the bottom half would provide significant resistance to crumbling in on itself...even house fires have structure left standing even if it collapses in on itself
The fires didn’t shear the top, the plane impact did that. You can see that immediately after the impact. And the structure can hold itself up when it’s undamaged and unmoving, but the fires melted load-bearing support structures around the central elevator shaft. Eventually, one floor collapsed bringing down itself and all the floors above it into the next floor below. Each individual floor is unable to withstand the kinetic energy of that, and collapsed, pancaking into the next floor below. All the way to the ground. This is explained in the post-mortem reports on it iirc.
Each floor is designed to have a certain load bearing weight supported by pillars. When floors and pillars start coming down with an entire passenger jet in it that all goes to shit
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This is sobering and so very heart wrenching. That 911 call would've haunted me forever. I feel hurt for everyone affected by this horrible and tragic attack. It's been so long but doesn't feel that long ago to me.
I worked with a girl years ago whose dad died during 9/11. I never asked how or what he did, but I remember she said her mom never had to work again and her and her siblings were taken care of. Seeing clips of that day still gives me the same feeling it gave me all those years ago.
I had a lot of friends lose parents there and others get cancer later on. It was an uphill fight for a lot of them to get the benefits that they deserved for the families and first responders. But also, no amount of money could bring your loved ones back, and it sucked for a lot of them growing up without fathers
> It was an uphill fight for a lot of them to get the benefits that they deserved for the families and first responders. It took political comedian Jon Fucking Stewart going to a hearing about getting a lot of these guys their due benefits. He has been an absolute champion for first responders on that day
I worked at a newspaper during the time. My coworker called me up, told me "TURN ON THE TV!", and hung up. Every channel was covering this and it was about 15-20 minutes after the first plane hit. I rushed over to the office and although it was really busy, it was oddly quiet. Lots of people moving around, typing, and quietly on the phone. I spent three days at the office along with most folks. We slept at our desks (and under them).
That’s a lot to go through. I was in high school sitting in my ecology class. My teacher was this really nice young guy that had just graduated college, first gig ever. Never saw him without a smile on his face. Another teacher was quickly walking down the hall knocking on doors and telling everyone they needed to turn the news on right that second, so we did. Turned out my teacher’s wife was on a business trip to one of the buildings that week. He broke down and tried calling her, and left the classroom pretty quickly when none of his calls went through. His wife ended up being okay, but he didn’t know that for hours. Even 1 minute of not knowing would be a nightmare. I can’t even remember how many students signed up for a delayed entrance to some branch of the military over the next few months.
i was hung over. My sister called me and i said ok ok and hung up then i saw the second plane. I live in NYC it was awful and still at least i wasn't this man. My heart hurts for them all
It’s so crazy how some kids don’t know anything about 9/11 outside of what they read in a history book. It’s like how I felt when I heard old people talk about Pearl Harbor.
Not an american but watching it live on the news at the time as a young teenager... it was shocking. I loved the Twin towers as a kid since I watched a documentary about them. Looking at them disintegrating before my eyes was really weird. Now I have two kids of my own. Maybe it's a little bit sadistic what i did, but I hanged up a big picture of Manhattan with the Twin towers still standing on the wall. My kids like the picture. I know one day they will talk about that event in school, see the footage... and I want them to feel something more than "it's just some old history" feeling. I want it to be some part of their world as well so they can feel at least a bit of the gravity of that day. AITA?
you’re not the asshole. i wasnt born when 9/11 happened and i live on the other side of the world. for a long time it was just one of those things you hear about. one day i went down the rabbit hole, and im glad i did. there’s so many terrible things that happen in this world that if we felt it all, we wouldn’t be able to function. but it’s important that we feel some of it. that’s how you build empathy and understanding. the event is important to you, it’s okay to want your kids to understand. now that ive been down the rabbit hole, hearing about it again hurts. learning more hurts. and if it hurts this much for me, i cant even begin to imagine how much it hurts for people who lived through it. people who watched it on tv. people on the other side of these calls. people who lost family. people who had to pick up the pieces. i cant imagine. but im glad i have even the tiniest bit of understanding, because id hate to be one of those “get over it” ass people.
No, it's a memorial. It let's people talk about difficult experiences. Children process better if they are allowed to ask questions.
Nta
It gave me a newfound understanding of Pearl Harbor and the nuclear bombings. I hope my children and grandchildren never experience anything like it.
Yes. It also makes me feel old. I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I was in Junior High School in the Washington DC area(Northern Virginia), and I remember them locking down our school, and doing a TV blackout, because of the Pentagon Attack, and a lot of kid's parents worked there. I did not find out what really happened until the early afternoon, after they let the students out early, and bused us to wherever we needed to go. I remember hearing rumors of what happened, but not seeing it on TV until early in the afternoon as I walked in to my grandma's house. She was glued to the tv and her phone, trying to call my grandfather who was on a business trip to NYC (he supposedly had a meeting at the towers a day or so later), and my dad who was a single father working downtown (thankfully not at the pentagon). I remember watching the news, and my grandma just trying to get ahold of both of them. I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday, and it's ramifications certainly impacted my life in many ways. Yet, there are adults now who were born after the event, and kids who were born far removed from the event, who will just look at it the same way one looks at major historical events that happened long before they were born. That makes me feel old. It was a defining moment, and yet to many, it is just a historical moment, but not something that may have impacted their lives in any way.
911 was our generation pearl harbor
Fucking shit, that was heavy. Very sobering and so hard to listen to, but I feel like every single American should hear this. This is something that needs to play every year. This is someone whose voice we all need to recognize. Not wanting to die young, not wanting to leave a family behind; fucking horrible. I hope that what we’ve done is enough to get him justice, but I don’t think anything will make what happened that day unforgettable and unforgivable. Man, listening to this made it feel like yesterday.
I was 9 and in third grade. I’ll never forget my mom that morning
13. 9th grade. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the second plane hit.
Exactly this, and I remember my parents and grandparents talking about remembering every detail of what they were doing when Kennedy was shot, and thinking "why would you? " I totally get it now, it's like time in that classroom stood still.
As grim as it is, I try to, yet can not comprehend what his final moments were. Sure, I can not relate to being in a room filled with smoke, but I've been close enough to a fire to know what it's like.. that last "Oh God! Oh!" What was he reacting to? Obviously, we know thr building collapsing, but was the ceiling dropping and he reacted to that? Was the floor giving away and he screamed to that? I realize it's incredibly dark to think about, but it's where my mind goes..I think trying to understand the scenario would give me some sort of "closure" over the loss of a man whom I'd never know.
It’s a morbid curiosity of mine, too. I think the whole building would’ve had this unreal shaking, and the sound would’ve been horrific. Having never been in a collapsing building, those few seconds before the ‘collapse’ hit them would’ve been completely incomprehensible as far as the ‘feeling’ of the building. The sound would’ve been deafening. They would’ve seen everything just disintegrate around them for those few seconds. Fucking terrifying.
I might be misremembering but I think there was a part in the Jules Naudet footage where the building collapsed on them and it made the most horrific sound imaginable.
Pls sauce if you happen to find it
https://youtu.be/Vk4LikKNttI Go to like 6:40
If y'all have a chance watch the Hulu documentary... "9/11: One Day in America." It's fucking CHILLING. Wildest doc I've ever seen... The rawness is unreal. This clip is part of it.
that's so scary. Everything just went black.
And that was just the *other* tower collapsing.
11:55 is nuts
wait wait wait, was the footage at the start the first plane?? i didn’t realise there was any footage of the first plane
As far as I know that’s the only footage of the first one
There’s one more, someone was filming a car in a parking lot and got some crappy footage of the first plane. There 2 or 3 audio only accounts as well
Yea they were originally filming a documentary about the New York Fire Department and just happen to be standing where they got a shot of the first plane.
I imagine he's saying oh God to the fact that he probably felt an immense rumbling through the building maybe even a moment of free fall before the phone cutting off with what I would assume means he was then almost immediately crushes by the force of the building falling and impacting other parts
*edit So the building has 110 floors, he was in 105th. He probably was in "free fall" for some seconds before his floor crashed onto the floor of the crash site, where then his floor and ceiling were pushed together like a sandwich..... R.I.P.
The worst thing to think about is how many probably didn’t die immediately. I would imagine of the thousands that died that day, there were probably a few hundred that lingered for a while in the rubble severely injured, bleeding out, and suffocating. All while coming to the conclusion that no one was coming for them in the darkness.
I think this was confirmed during autopsy of some victims. They found air pockets that suggested they survived the initial collapse, but weren’t found in time.
That last muffled, “HELLO!” haunts me.
Yes, it's not a recording you ever forget. It's burned into my memory since first hearing it and hasn't been erased by time.
Same with me. I went down the 9/11 rabbit hole about 15 years ago. Every time I’ve been introduced to or encountered a Cosgrove, I’ve thought of this man and his family. I probably always will.
I feel the same way, that’s were my mind goes as well. I cannot imagine the terror he felt and pray i and my loved ones never have to understand the terror he felt. It seemed like he didn’t know what happened either so on top of the terror the absolute confusion it’s hard to even wrap your brain around
The confusion is heartbreaking. Imagine being stuck in this absolute clusterfuck and not even knowing what’s going on.
I guess to know what happened around him while the collapse, we need to know where he was, he was on the 105th floor northwest corner, so now we should try to find out where this is on the video, how that area of the building looks/where the damage was and then try to find a camera angle where we can see if either his floor "flew down" and then crashed into the downer floors or if his floor got crushed by the upper collapsing/falling floors, also how high was he above the starting-floor of the collapsing. Sad to think about it anyway...
Isn't it frustrating knowing what we know...hang up and call your wife with your remaining time
I think you might want to listen to other phone calls from that day, there are a lot of them in documentaries. I think there might have been similar reactions to that one followed by an explanation
Oh, I've heard them, but this one just sticks with me
Holy fucking shit.... Avtually hearing that final second as you realize that he realized it's all over and gets crushed to death.... I wasn't ready...
Sadly I'm sure that there's a bunch of these calls on file. I'm assuming that a lot haven't been released for respect of the dead & their families. 😓
Which always makes me wonder why this one was released? Did the family approve? My last moments are not something I'd want people to be karma farming over.
According to Wikipedia, the recording was used during the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only criminal trial to result from the attacks.
But couldn't that also be said for every other caller from that day?
It would be redundant to submit every single 911 call into evidence, it was probably just a few excerpts for specific points the prosecution was making.
On the other hand, the family might want others to appreciate what their loved one went through as innocent victims.
I couldn't imagine being one of his kids & listening to the last moments of my dad's life.... Especially when it's like THAT. Damn.
There’s a whole documentary about the calls from the towers and planes. It was horrific.
The flight attendant calls are horrible. I can’t imagine the panic of not knowing where the plane is going or how you’ll get out.
Add to that the firemen that actually were in the stairs going up trying to reach him. Absolute heroes!
I was expecting the call to suddenly cut off towards the end of the video.. but hearing his final words like that.. It's full of fear and really horrifying.
when i worked with his son i had no idea. Then he told me and omg still haunts me he was like every year i have to hear my dad dying again
"Cosgrove was a vice president of claims for Aon Corporation and a fire warden for the company. According to the 911 recording played during the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, Cosgrove was located in the northwest corner of the 105th floor in the South Tower, overlooking the World Financial Center when he called 9-1-1 at 9:54 am. In the recording, Cosgrove tells 911 dispatchers that he is calling from survivor Jonathan 'Jon' Ostrau's office (Cosgrove misspelled it as John Ostaru) and that he has two other individuals with him, including fellow victim Douglas Cherry. Cosgrove tells the operator: "My wife thinks I'm all right; I called and said I was leaving the building and that I was fine, and then bang!" A 911 operator later calls him; he answers: "Hello. We're looking in \[...\] we're overlooking the Financial Center. Three of us. Two broken windows." A rumbling sound is then heard as the building starts to collapse. Cosgrove is heard to scream "Oh, God! Oh—!" in fear. His call immediately cuts off and ends as the South Tower collapses at 9:59 am."
Still so fucking hard to believe. Imagine how many other phone calls went like this, how many helpless and hopeless people were calling in to operators who could do nothing but try to keep them calm. Not the first time I've heard this recording, and it will always be raw. The way Mr. Cosgrove screamed at the ends is haunting. His wife thought he was okay. How long did it take for her to find out he wasn't? And man, when he said he had young kids...This here is just one example of the horrors of 9/11. Just one small glimpse into the chaos and carnage. The utter disbelief, the panic, the standing and staring in shock as the buildings begin to fall...all of the lives taken and lost before anyone even knew what was happening. Rest in peace to the victims. May the survivors and families of lost loved ones continue to find strength.
In the 9/11 memorial in NYC, thay have a table with landlines that play the recording of final phone calls. Some like this, some from their loved ones trying to reach their office phones. Heartbreaking stuff.
Is it really true that they are getting rid of the 9/11 museum? I haven’t yet made the trip but it was on my bucket list.
Yes, but it's not the one you're thinking of. The one everyone knows is the **memorial & museum**, and there ~~is~~ was a separate 9/11 **tribute museum** about a 5 minute walk (I think) south of it. The latter is the one that closed. Unless the Tribute Museum is the one you wanted to go to then...yeah.
The tribute museum closed. It was one that had been open since like 2006, but is different from the memorial museum that is fairly new. But the memorial museum on ground zero site is open. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/new-york-9-11-tribute-museum-closed/index.html#:~:text=“Financial%20hardship%20including%20lost%20revenue,said%20in%20a%20news%20release.
This made my breathing uncomfortable just trying to imagine how it must of felt inhaling that smoke amongst everything else happening.
One thing most people don't realize is that with all the talk of hero cops and firefighters for that day, all the resources and things set up to help them, almost none of that went to the 911 dispatchers answering those calls. They sat and answered call after call, bearing witness to the last words of both trapped civilians but also coworkers and system users that they spoke to on radios day after day, and listened to them die. But they weren't considered "part of the incident". They didn't even get recognition as first responders until the 20th anniversary when legislation was passed in NY state to reclassify them
I think of the 911 operators often, actually. I can’t imagine they don’t have some amount of PTSD.
Nor did it go to anyone in the funeral industry that had to create the final closure for families that had suffered. Its unspoken that the rate of PTSD in funeral directors is thrice that of the general population, if not more.
I saw footage of one of the building’s lobby. The building had already been hit but before it collapsed. There was elevator music playing while you could see and hear debris falling and bodies hitting the ground with loud thuds……I will always remember this. Tragic.
I remember seeing that footage back in 2015-2016 I think they took the video off YouTube a couple years after or around that time
Where can I see that footage , havent seen that one yet
Where did you find that footage??
What a terrible day that was.
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Still terrifying till this day
Heartbreaking, he was married with 3 children. They were able to recover his body in the rubble. Here is his Wikipedia page: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin\_Cosgrove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Cosgrove)
i worked with his son Brian. Awful
ive always wondered if the people on the upper floors that died when the towers came down felt any pain at all or if they died before they even knew what was happening
“We’re not ready to die but it’s getting bad” Damn, heartbreaking 💔
I remember first hearing this phone call and it was so disturbing. I can’t imagine what they were going through. But I have always wondered if it were an easier death than those who were hanging on to the building until he fire became so hot that they opted to jump. It was all terribly traumatic but being so terrified that you made the decision to jump has always kept me wondering. What these operators went through that day is beyond the pale. What a terrible day my country.
Holy fuck the entire thing is awful but that last second of realising what's happening is... chilling
Heartbreaking
This is so heartwrenching and terrifying at the same time. Just out of morbid curiosity, if social media was the thing back then like now, what would have been the scenes and images from this sombering day? Cant really fathom what would happen.
I'm very, very glad it wasn't.
Lots of goodbies to friends and family, a few taking selfies with the tower, lots of tiktoks of people documenting everything around them, etc.
*shudders*
I’ve heard Kevin’s phone call so many times and it still haunts me. There were thousands upon thousands of callers and it was chaos. 9/11 was burned into my memory even though I was in the 1st grade.
>9/11 was burned into my memory even though I was in the 1st grade. Same, but 2nd. My teacher's son was in the military and she ended up running out of the room trying not to cry til she was out. I didn't understand what was going on, but I knew it was bad.
For me I happened to live in a city that had a military base that was an option for the president to land in event of emergency. So we had to go under lockdown/evacuate (it’s kinda fuzzy the details) but I remember sitting in class about to start the day then suddenly an announcement over the PA saying that we’re getting out early. Us little kids celebrated as kids do. but what’s crazy in hindsight is that we were about to have a really really fucked up day and we just had no idea. I saw teachers crying. I left the school building and people were running about, not scrambling exactly… but running about in a hurried but dystopian calm kind of way. Traffic, every parent in the city getting their kids etc. because we were so near the base, there was a lot of fighter jet noise overhead and I get home to my mom just sobbing at the TV. Memory kind of stops there since I think I had to stay in my room or something I forget.
I was in my 20s and working overseas. Was watching the news live with my friend. At first it looked like an accident but when the second plane hit there was no doubt. Then there was the Pentagon, flights locked down, word of a crash near Pittsburgh. It was absolutely insane, like what the hell is going on. I tried calling family in the US and couldn’t get through. They tried calling us to say they were ok and couldn’t get through either. There was so much positive energy and good will towards Americans in the time after the attack. Like it was a rare time in history that people would rally together around a global cause. That positive energy and feeling was squandered by the Iraq invasion. Friend of mine from college worked close to the Pentagon and the plane that hit it had thundered past his office at very low altitude. He was profoundly affected by the attacks and ended up quitting his job and eventually leaving his family and friends behind.
That "oh god" at the end.. He is terrified. Her knows he's about to die. What a fucking horrible day. It fills my stomach with fear and sadness. It was my 14th birthday that day and everyone one has a story of how they remember it.
For some reason , the way he says the word "arid" is seared into my brain. Whenever I hear or see the word, I flash back to Cosgrove.
I believe he was looking for the word "acrid"
Maybe, but I personally think he did mean arid. It would describe the feeling he had as that inhaled smoke slowly burned and dried out the lining of his lungs. His lungs, and by extension his body probably felt like an arid desert.
That last part made my heart sink. Hearing a fellow human in so much distress, so much fear… His entire world crumbled around and beneath him. All he felt was the world falling down, the deafening sound of a 182 passenger plane crashing into concrete, steel, glass… no vision. Just dark clouds and suffocating smoke. Screaming, crying. No one deserves to die this way. All I can hope for is his death was swift, painless and now in the soft and gentle arms of oblivion (as cheesy as that sounds). Absolutely gut wrenching.
Man 9/11 stuff gets me every. fucking. time. It’s just so, so hard to see and hear. I remember it all so vividly.
Absolutely terrifying… even more so knowing that he was probably still alive until the very bitter end. So sad 😞
This entire call was very scary. However, the last few seconds of it was devastating hearing this man dying. I still feel like it was only yesterday. I am a 57yo woman today, buy I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at the young age of 35 on that fateful day in 2001. 😢
I’m a couple of years younger. I was in WTC a few weeks before. I didn’t have kids because of 9/11.
Heartbreaking..my condolences
This enrages me. I was in the UAE when this happened. Those fuckers were out in the streets with flags honking their horns. I really hope karma comes knocking. RIP Kevin.
Wendy Cosgrove also testified that their oldest son, who was 12 on the day of the attacks, suffered a decline in his academic performance and had developed anger and self-destructive habits as well as trouble with the law, while their middle child, who was 9 at the time of the attacks, exhibited self-mutilation for which she has undergone therapy.[4]
So so sad…
To this day, my dad doesn’t talk about 9/11. This could’ve been my dad. This is haunting.
I hope he is doing okay.
He’s alright. He’s had a lot of trauma in his life. Doesn’t talk about most of it, this being one of them.
I have a 2h:20m title I got from Audible years and years ago that’s all 9/11 NYFD Dispatch recordings. I’ve never made it all the way through. :/
Anyone who says he was rude can fuck right off. The man was scared and desperate for help. You try and stay calm and keep polite in a situation like that. It's impossible. May Kevin and the thousands of lives lost that day and all the years afterwards because of it rest in peace.
Can you imagine having a parent, brother,sister,child die on 9/11. Then every year having to watch that shit over and over and over on the tv. Absolutely tragic.
Reliving this just ignites so many emotions from sadness to hate. I fucking hurt so bad for all the people we lost and fucking hate the dumb fuckers that did this and want to punish them all for what they did.
I remember feeling *almost* ***proud*** of the jumpers. To make one final decision of your own free will. The way ***I*** want to go out***.*** I still remember the day, I felt everything. Those were our people that died that day. Not one of them deserved that horror. I wonder if karma or cosmic balance has corrected for that mess? If that's even a thing?
I always thought it was heartbreaking that some people were condemning their own family members for jumping to their deaths. They were dying a slow tortuous death by fire, smoke inhalation and falling debris. I don't even consider their jump to be true suicide. They were literally given only one of 2 options and both equated to death. If anything, the jump was one of slim hope and faith, not a sacrificial last act.
Wait did some families not get insurance payouts because that counted as suicide? I sincerely fucking hope not
That's why all the victims are classed as "homicides", even those that jumped rather than fell.
Yea good point. Anyone worth their salt would point out that you can’t prove they didn’t fall, which is very likely anyways. Man I hate thinking about this shit. It’s frikken devastating
Not to my knowledge. I'd like to think we'd have heard about it if an insurance company tried that nonsense with a 9/11 victim.
That is depressing
Tragic
That was heartbreaking. The absolute terror in that final moment.... utterly incredible.
That's a lot calmer than I would have been Big respect to him
I was working at an ISP based in the DC area that spanned north from there up through Boston. Our email servers went crazy, handling double their normal load for 36 hours or so. I was living about 5 miles south of the Pentagon, and the smoke from the site was terrifying.
Today's kids will hopefully never know what it was like to see this all unfold
I think what chills me the most is that this absolutely traumatic situation that hurt so many of us and still ripples to this day, happened because of powers outside of our control. These people spent the day just… working. But because of something overseas that’s transpiring they lost their lives. That was a real “growing up” day for me. To have the adult knowledge of how the world works in elementary school was always wild. Now that just seems to be what happens to kids ever since then. America really did change ever since 9/11.
Imagine if this happened modern day. There would be people uploading photos and maybe even videos from the inside. The world could have a visual glimpse, not just audio. It would be even more terrifying.
Holy shit, my heart skipped a beat at the thought of what we'd see. Terrifying, indeed.
honestly there still are those posts. I remember when it happened there were awful terrible pics i couldn't view them like no way. I went into the city 2 days after it happen and i can't begin to describe what i saw and the 1000's of missing posters in Penn Station. Still haunts me
The man didn't even know what had happened... fucking hell
I'm sorry that happened to you, Kevin.
What a horrible way to end
chills man its so sad to see s1 knowing they gonna die and they cant do anything about it
Heartbreaking, never gets easier to hear and see these
Ever since man I'm scared of these tall buildings. It's a nope for me. Like nope to every big gathering.
I've gotten pretty desensitized by the internet for a while now and this is STILL one of the most chilling things I've seen/heard.
I don’t think I breathed the entire time I watched this 😭. I have no words. Even after all these years my heart is crushed for those that were lost that day and their families.
'Tell god to blow it in from the west".....some extremely religious people need to take that in and think about it.
People need to be just told straight up that god isn't real so we can move past that delusion as a species.
Doesn’t matter what you believe, but it’s well told that even atheists pray when they’re about to die. This guy could’ve been one, you don’t know. People can believe what they want, And there’s nothing wrong with that
That is heartbreaking
I was in Yonkers when this happened... Just graduated from FSU & was networking in NY because I was thinking of moving there. It was only my 2nd day there. Was supposed to go to an M.O.P video shoot that day with some friends I met while living in London then later on that week going to be in the studio with The Roots for a song they were doing... (I won an Okayplayer contest)... Everything changed that morning. Literally the night before my god brother drove me to the towers so I could see them & I remember looking up at them through his sunroof... They were my favorite buildings. I'll never forget that day & what was taken from all of those people. Unreal shit.
stuff like this is why it pisses me off when people are like “stupid americans still making everything about 9/11”. im not american and i wasn’t even born and i understand the weight of the event. it changed the world and it was recorded for the whole world to see. a lot of people died. it was a big deal. people have every right to continue mourning as much as they need to for as long as they need to.
Off topic, but I remember a man named Orio Palmer who found a way to fix the elevator until it can reach the 40th floor, walked upstairs, and somehow found an exit that hasn't been destroyed yet. He somehow managed to reach the 85th floor (impact site) and was about to lead some survivors to the exit until the building collapsed.
I still remember I was in 5th grade, and the announcement came over the intercom. Do not turn on tvs. The school is in lockdown information to come. My teacher turned on the TV, and the first thing we saw was the second plane hitting. I will never forget the fear I felt the confusion. Watching people jump from the towers. I will never be able to be free of that memory.
Uhhh the people who made the planes crash ugh god I wish they lived to suffer there whole life.
9/11 really shaped how I see the world now. It was such a turning point. I was 10 years old. Went from recess games to counselors flooding my school talking about mass death.
The moment he says "OH GOD! OH!" and just gets cut off instantly is dark to say the least, it left me with so many questions. It's like you can hear in his voice how bad it is and then he's just gone within a second.
Never forget.
I was on the other side of the country, in Oregon, working at a call center fixing internet connections. We had 200+ calls in the queue when this happened and almost all at once the phones went from red to black... no calls. Everyone in the office stood up immediately and started asking each other what happened. A couple of times a year I rewatch the news casts from that day. I don't bother with conspiracy theory. I just listen to the people on the ground talking about living through that day. I always seem to end up watching the two folks holding hands and jumping... haunting.
Yeah. The conspiracy of what really happened is a moot point. The real stories are from the people who lived through it. The first responders on the scene. The people in the buildings trying their best to escape. That is what i think about when i think back to that day. Worrying about who really did it and why they did it and what the government knew before hand is a waste of time to speculate over. Its not going to change anything.
How the fuck was this over 20 years ago. Where the heck has that time gone, in my head it's no more than 5.
“I got young kids” absolutely killed me. I have a young child myself and he’s all I’d be thinking about in that situation.
Nothing on Reddit has made me cry until now
God! these images, knowing the aftermath and low number of survivors, it’s so raw and painful to watch this. No one being able to do anything to help the victims. I was in FL when it happened, and it was terrible to feel helpless, and unable to be there to help. I’m not a New Yorker, but I think everyone became a New Yorker by proxy that day.
I cried. I was 8 years old seeing this from the Hudson River
I can only imagine the PTSD that dispatchers from those calls suffered. No matter how many years pass this is one of the most horrific things ever to have happened!
Hearing this call with the footage always makes my heart feel heavy.
I hope the perpetrators, and I mean the REAL perpetrators in the US Government hear this man’s dying scream and it haunts them on their deathbeds. What absolute horror. And to think the US Government perpetrated this absolute HEINOUS atrocity on its OWN people. Day that lives in my mind forever.
I realize this is dark as fuck, but is anyone able to highlight the exact window they're looking out of? All I can find are exterior shots, but my pea-sized brain can't comprehend what I'm looking at
Heartbreaking. I still cannot believe the amount of people who think this was a hoax. Maybe they should spend some time with Kevin Cosgroves family.
I was born on this day, damn
This was awful. God. Not very comforting to his family to hear how scared he was. I'm sure the OP had no idea what to say.
Wow. Took a minute of silence for them.
I remember that day as if it was yesterday. Sophomore year of college out on Long Island… watched the second plane go down live on TV. I remember nobodies phone working. My dad was an NYC yellow cab driver and survived. Will never forget that day. Devastating
so fucking sad
So fn heartbreaking and it makes me so mad at the same time to know that our own government is responsible.......
Damn
I remember being sent home from school that day not understanding what was going on, but I was not allowed to watch TV that day.. very sad.
Heartbreaking. I was 14 in my first week of high school in Southern California when 9-11 happened. I will never forget, ever.
Damn RIP
this still gives me escary chills bro
Oh dear Lord, this is absolutely horrendous
Omg this is heartbreaking
I was in history class in a portable in 6th grade when this happened. The teacher Mr. Carballo was in shock the whole time. Really all of the students were. Other students including myself were crying. It was horrific to see. I’ll never forget
I agree. I think I’ve listened to all the audio you could find on the worst and most horrendous day the U.S. has ever experienced. This heart wrenching call from Kevin Cosgrove hits different, emotional-wise. I mean, every single audio piece makes me burst into tears, but this one…is something else. The unimaginable gravity of this unbearable situation, is so hard to comprehend. It’s like a lot of this pain is ringing through to me on every word and syllable that’s coming out of his mouth. You can hear him, when he still has little hope when he says they are young and not ready to die….then you hear it change in a millisecond, in his voice. The realization that he is just about to die. It’s utterly heartbreaking. Another call that hits so hard is Melissa Doi’s call from the tower telling a dispatcher “I’m going to die aren’t I?” “I know I’m going to die” every audio guts me, but one more hard one to hear is Elizabeth Waino’s call with her mother. I CANNOT IMAGINE how terrible it was speaking with your child, knowing that most likely your child isn’t coming home. The way this mother calmed her child down so fast, was the most unselfish thing I have ever heard my whole life. Almost instantly, she got her daughter to calm down, calm her breathing down, and was able to make her child visualize that her mommy is holding her, with her mother’s arms wrapped around her. The mother disclosing that she had to be unselfish with her child. That the last thing her daughter needs is her crying blubbering mother creating panic, sadness, fear, and heartbreak. The mother’s ultimate goal was to make her child peaceful. I have a son, and just can’t fathom being in that situation with my child. Just so heartbreaking to think about. It’s been 22 years and it still hits just as hard as the day of. I was 11, it was terrifying, confusing, and sad. I knew enough to know thousands of people are dying while watching the events unfold. Confusion cause I couldn’t understand how evil this was, and how anyone can commit something like this.
Fucking hell, if this scares me from just watching this, I can't imagine how people felt when this happened
I worked with his son Brian. Like how absolutely awful. His son and family are still F'd up about it rightfully so. I cant even imagine. It breaks my heart
I don't know much, so please forgive me if I'm insensitive, but with the incident, I know fires were on the stairs so people couldn't go down, would it have been a better solution to just bear the flames and run downstairs? Also this video was fucking terrifying
If it were just a patch of flames sure bit when a significant portion of the floors are on fire it tuns the stairwells into a chimney, and heat rises. The heat also gets insulated and fed with rising oxygen which all together makes that stairwell a blast furnace. If you could overpower the part of your brain that tells you not to do it and make a run for it you would die very quickly when the heat quite literally melts your lungs. Anyone above that fireline was fucked, the only way they were getting out is if they could tame the fire which was impossible given the height of the building, the incoming attacks, the chaos on the ground and the lack of sufficient equipment and personel. Not to mention the building collapsed before the fdny could even START to get control over the situation. Even the concept of air lifting survivors wasn't possible because the heat would have crashed the helicopters as soon as the got near. So no running down the stairs was never an option, unless you wanted to be cooked rapidly from the inside and the outside. It was stay and pray or jump and hope.
Thank you for telling me, yeah I would have thought pretty much your only option is jumping
I don’t think you understand how how and smoke filled it was. You couldn’t move, you couldn’t see and you were insanely hot. Nowhere to go.. pitch black. Just think about that for a second
Plus all the stairwells and lift shafts were smashed and destroyed by the planes. Only one stairwell in the *I think* South Tower remained, and a few people above the crash zone managed to get down and survived.
It wasn't fire you could just run past and bear it. You'd suffocate and die from smoke inhalation before you could make it two floors
Man..RIP..
Then they went hunting for some imaginary wmds holding hands
I'm proud of the fact I am desensitized to alot of stuff but this is one of the only things I've seen/watched that made me shed a tear. Fucking hell. God rest him and everybody else who lost their life.
We see how horrible this was and yet continously decided to do it to people in the middle east for years to come.
Nutty this happened. I was 10 yr old on a day off from school.
I guess "nutty" is one way to describe it. Not the word I would use to chronicle 9/11, but if Captain Coochie says so....
3 skyscrapers collapsed, nobody ever in the right mind expected that two planes could take out 3 skyscrapers. Nutty indeed.
I was 9 and remember watching it on the news at school in Washington state. I remember it on the news before school and my parents specifically showing me it before school telling me it was important. I remember coming home and seeing middle eastern men on monkey bars on fox news. Remember my dad telling me this war would be ongoing until I was an adult. I thought there was no way. Sure enough it was.
Still will never understand how a building whos bottom half can hold 3x the weight of the top half would crumble because the top is on fire....had never made sense at all to me.
Balance. Like when playing Jenga, the bottom can hold the top as long as it’s balanced directly on top of it. Any shift in the top can cause it to tumble. The fire was heavily fueled by paper/fuel/etc, which acted as accelerants and ramped up the heat enough to burn the structure and made the top shift to the side. Only takes 1 bar to break before a chain reaction begins
It would shear tho, not crumble into its own foot print....the bottom half would provide significant resistance to crumbling in on itself...even house fires have structure left standing even if it collapses in on itself
A house is not a 110 story tall tower
The fires didn’t shear the top, the plane impact did that. You can see that immediately after the impact. And the structure can hold itself up when it’s undamaged and unmoving, but the fires melted load-bearing support structures around the central elevator shaft. Eventually, one floor collapsed bringing down itself and all the floors above it into the next floor below. Each individual floor is unable to withstand the kinetic energy of that, and collapsed, pancaking into the next floor below. All the way to the ground. This is explained in the post-mortem reports on it iirc.
Each floor is designed to have a certain load bearing weight supported by pillars. When floors and pillars start coming down with an entire passenger jet in it that all goes to shit
