that plane that crashed in Pennsylvania crashed in a field because the people stood up and fought, they knew they wouldn't make it but they did manage to prevent even more death. A famous phrase was said "Let's roll" during the fight. the terrorists were trying to hit the capitol building but because of those brave people they did not manage to.
@hermunkulus
Жыл бұрын
Yep. Todd Beamer. You’d think it would get acknowledged more due to some of the movies they made, but they don’t. As a whole, Flight 93 and the one that crashed into the Pentagon get overlooked (which they shouldn’t).
@jerellebowens4367
Жыл бұрын
That’s actually a lie that plane was heading towards the White House and it was shot down by fighter jets, that story is made up
@RubyGB
Жыл бұрын
The passengers on Flight 93 knew they had no ability to take back the plane and safely land it. They could have chosen to be helpless victims, but they chose to die on their own terms and save thousands of lives. True heroes who deserve much more recognition than they receive. "No greater love hath man..."
@PenelopeFrank
Жыл бұрын
Flight 93
@dionnemosier3324
Жыл бұрын
I remember when the news released the audio record of the passengers who called and left messages to their loved ones. It was so heart wrenching.
@carolynbertram5598
Жыл бұрын
I was an American living in England on that day. 'Just wanted to comment on the genuine kindness and caring shown to me by the English people. Whenever I spoke and my American accent was heard, complete strangers would offer their condolences. I remember one woman said:"'So sorry about what happened to your country." Others expressed their condolences to me, as an American in England, whether they knew me personally or not. I will always remember the kindness, so Kabir, well done to your country's people. ♥️
@DreamsRemorse
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad that while in another country, far from home and family, you were shown such love from strangers who didn't know you...but knew that even though you weren't home that the loss there was your loss also. It's so very nice to know the world came together for this and supported American's even in other countries. I suspect it happened everywhere that an American was in another country at this time.
@rivercitymud
Жыл бұрын
I was in Dallas for a short contract job, and my Southern accent was distinct enough from the Texas drawl that everyone could tell I wasn't local, so I got treated the same way. That Friday night I was wandering around Deep Ellum still kind of in a daze, a bouncer came over to me, took me by the shoulder, and led me to the bar of the nightclub where he worked. He told the bartender that my drinks were on the house, and I got good and properly plastered and didn't pay a dime for any of it. It was a strange scene, it looked festive as long as you weren't paying attention to people's body language, but nobody was dancing and the mood was more like a funeral. Lots of weeping and hugs, there was no such thing as a stranger in that club, names were just a formality.
@The_Lelouch
2 ай бұрын
@@rivercitymud now that seems so strange and cartoonish that it’s very believable
@laurieweatbrook5020
2 ай бұрын
Same thing happened to me and I was surprised but more importantly, I was deeply touched
@speedreadr
Жыл бұрын
My sister was in one of the Trade Center buildings (not one of the towers). I spent 2 days glued to the TV hoping to spot her in the crowds. She saw the people jumping to their deaths to avoid the fire. She was in a subway that traveled under the area when the first tower collapsed. She was stuck in the dark with hundreds of panicking people. To this day, when I see these videos, I always look for my sister. Thank you for this although it made me cry very much
@mystiegillbert9506
Жыл бұрын
Oh I am so sorry for. Your lose that was a really sad day here in America on 9/11
@Megan-rr6qg
Жыл бұрын
Wow that’s an interesting perspective I’ve never heard an account from someone *beneath* wtc that day-if you have any more information or if she does maybe she could share it!
@UMCentral
11 ай бұрын
@@Crazy_Blitzshe unfortunately did as it seems…
@quantaviuslamartrell6781
4 ай бұрын
🧢
@jamiescott5461
Жыл бұрын
I’m a New Yorker and was in my early 20’s. I lost friends and coworkers (which were on the plane that hit tower). It was a very emotional day then and still today. Bless all the lives lost, first responders and all ❤️❤️
@ennteraycie111
Жыл бұрын
I’m in my mid 20’s now from Berkshire County, MA so I‘m very ö close to NY state. I remember they sent us home from school when it happened (I was 6) and my parents were just completely glued to the TV. Even when I see the clips of it today, it’s still emotional for me. RIP to everyone who lost their lives that day, and their families
@chetstevens4583
Жыл бұрын
Back when cops were recognized as heroes for running into the buildings. God bless ALL of our first responders and military personnel for the sacrifices they make every single day.
@loveislove-le5nj
Жыл бұрын
in high school my theology teacher had a friend who died on united 93
@jamiescott5461
Жыл бұрын
@Luke Starkiller Gaming thank you ❤️
@bradleyamuso9332
Жыл бұрын
So sorry
@knash97
Жыл бұрын
The worst thing that's not shown here is the videos of people choosing to jump from the top floors, rather than burn or suffocate to death. Absolutely horrible, I can't imagine having to choose between jumping to end it or staying and hoping you can survive somehow.
@VesperLestrange
2 ай бұрын
I was 12 when this happened and remember seeing that and looking to the adults that put this on the TV and just cried, but never explained to us what was going on just that we had to see this. We saw people jumping to their death and the adults around us failed us because us kids didn't understand what was really happening just that is was a tragedy
@loveislove-le5nj
Ай бұрын
@VesperLestrange mu 6th grade were watching it, and we had a pretty good understanding. We had learned about terrorism in history just a week before. When the news was showing people jumping. Our teacher turned it off and we had a discussion about what had happened. A bunch of 6th graders had so many questions.
@DonnaBrooks
Ай бұрын
@@VesperLestrange *WE kids didn't understand.... not "us kids didn't understand." To remember whether to use we or us, just take out the other words (in this case the word, "kids"). You wouldn't say, "Us didn't understand," you'd say, "We didn't understand." Did you kids ask any questions? They didn't tell you to go outside & play & not to watch?
@SebasTian58323
Жыл бұрын
My father was in the military when this happened and got pulled over by the police when he was speeding after getting called in. He was let go after the officer saw that he was in the military and he explained that he'd been called in. Apparently, the rescue dogs were getting depressed when searching for people, because they kept finding corpses, so they had to stage rescues to keep the dogs from getting depressed.
@ashleydixon4613
Жыл бұрын
Every American old enough remembers exactly where they were and how they felt that day. It was horrific. I was 26 and happened to be home that morning when my husband called me to say a plane hit the World Trade Center. Sitting there watching on live TV as the second plane hit, and other planes were unaccounted for...Then suddenly they’re reporting from DC that another passenger airliner has hit the Pentagon, but they think there are still others. Even after flight 93 was taken down in Pennsylvania by the passengers fighting back, you couldn’t help but still feel the confusion and fear- of not knowing how many more there were, what they were aiming at, who/what was next-even still. Watching the towers fall was surreal, I can’t imagine being one of the people trying to get away from that debris cloud. The most disturbing part to me were all the jumpers. Millions of us sat there and watched multiple people jump to their deaths on live TV. In fact, the first fire fighter killed at the scene was killed by being hit by a jumper.
@ashleydixon4613
Жыл бұрын
@@benjamindouglas862 yeah, I know. Never said “dozens,” or anything other amount; just said “multiple.” No matter the number, it was traumatic.
@brooke_reiverrose2949
Жыл бұрын
+1. I was about your age, on the west coast, woke up to the news cause always switched npr on first thing, half awake. Step outside my room and my roommate was the only one with a tv, everyone in the house crammed in her room, aghast, and watched the second plane hit
@ashleydixon4613
Жыл бұрын
@@brooke_reiverrose2949 I was in my apartment in downtown Little Rock, and frankly happy to be in a small provincial city, especially right then! But like you I had the TV flipped on after my husband called to say the first plane hit, and watched everything from there. I just sat there watching the news-as they’re reporting that there are more planes, and we could only speculate what else, and no one knew what else was coming, or where.
@xDawhite
Жыл бұрын
Not just americans actually. Im from germany and i was 8 years old and i still can remember nearly everything from that day. Saw my mother crying as she watched events unfold and my uncle who was in the german military at this point said "Now we are at war" he immadietly knew that article 51 of the nato pact will be called and due to Casus foederis germany and every nato partner will be in war aswell. I actually was traumatized from that day for some time.
@blackflagheavyhaulsupport5579
Жыл бұрын
Wolftever Creek Elementary School. 4th grade. Mrs. Thompsons class. A teacher I didn’t know ran into the room and said we were under attack and to turn on the tv(2nd plane hadn’t hit yet). We watched the 2nd plane hit. We saw the jumpers. I was 11.
@louisejohnson6057
Жыл бұрын
That debris is filled with bits and pieces of human beings too. Thousands of dead people raining down on the city. I was 30 when this happened, and it's seared into my memory.
@StageYoutube
Жыл бұрын
How old are you?
@louisejohnson6057
Жыл бұрын
@@StageKZitem , why did you ask how old I am?
@alexwallberg5607
Жыл бұрын
@@StageKZitem do the math kid
@mystiegillbert9506
Жыл бұрын
That was. Really sad.
@coldwhite4240
Жыл бұрын
Sadly, Louise is right. One of the most shocking aspects witnessed live across the world as the events unfolded, which has been understandably edited out of this video and many reviews of the attacks on the WTC since, was the number of people jumping and/or falling from the burning towers between the time the planes hit and when they collapsed. Others could be seen vainly pleading for help, waving items from windows to get attention from the streets below. There was no way out for hundreds once the planes had impacted and the millions of gallons of aviation fuel had ignited and was pouring through the buildings so many chose to jump to their deaths rather than burn alive, while others no doubt fell from windows in a state of desperate panic.
@Elijah_Elias
Жыл бұрын
8:52 The steel support beams had fireproof foam to protect the integrity. Because of the explosion and debris, the foam was blasted away and the support beams were wiped out or melted by the remaining fuel.
@topherd1011
Жыл бұрын
Look up the melting point of steel and the burning temperature of jet fuel… and you’ll have a LOT of questions. It would make sense that the building MIGHT collapse at point of impact and above- but NOTHING accounts for two entire buildings falling in on themselves to the near bottom of the building. WTC 7, a building less talked about did the same exact thing, except it wasn’t touched by planes or jet fuel. They came down way too perfect. Look up “Engineers for 9/11 truth”.
@Elijah_Elias
Жыл бұрын
@@topherd1011 hey, that’s what I’ve been told and heard. Don’t come at me if scientists are bullshitting.
@KSATSpotting
Жыл бұрын
they didn't melt, they were weaked and couldn't hold the floors above. You can see the face of the building sag inwards in certain angles.
@reaIixx
Жыл бұрын
It was a combination of those. They couldn't have held the weight for long, but without the fireproofing, it got hot enough to cause them to give way sooner then they would have otherwise.
@Nyx_2142
Жыл бұрын
@@KSATSpotting Yup. People don't realize that even steel gets hot enough to bend like a wet noodle from fire, it doesn't need to melt to fail structurally.
@MrsMoody01
Жыл бұрын
At first, we thought the first plane was a terrible accident. When the second plane hit, I remember we all looked at one another and said this isn’t an accident…we’re being attacked. RIP Linda Gronlund Flight 93.
@dionnemosier3324
Жыл бұрын
As all Americans who were alive during this attack, my husband and I watched on live TV the 2nd plane hitting the tower. We saw footage of the Pentagon being hit, then the plane going down in the field. I lived and worked in Lawrenceville Georgia at the time, and it was sickening to learn that the hijackers took Advanced Aviation Training at the airfield across the road from us, Brisco Field.
@benjamindouglas862
Жыл бұрын
I watched in my 6th grade class, but not all Americans my Dad worked 3rd shift at the time so he was sleeping and didn't find out until 1 o'clock when he got up.
@brittanygale2551
Жыл бұрын
@@cygnusx-3217 I think they meant the footage we saw in the video of the fire that happened after
@ashkaash9819
Жыл бұрын
What’s crazy is I live in lawrenceville georgia and my cousin lives in Sarasota Florida, where some of the hijackers also trained at the small airport there
@mystiegillbert9506
Жыл бұрын
I am. So. Sorry for your lose
@tarheel8757
Жыл бұрын
As someone who was a kid living in upstate NY that day… I remember every second of what happened that day. I was about 3 hours north of the city, in 8th grade, they closed all public schools that day in fear of them being targets. To answer your question about how the buildings fell the way they did, the heat from the jet fuel fire melted the steel support beams. This brings back all the emotions… the pain the anger the confusion; but it’s also a very important story that should be told and seen.
@The_lukas_official
Жыл бұрын
not true at all
@tarheel8757
Жыл бұрын
@@The_lukas_official lol ok
@mystiegillbert9506
Жыл бұрын
Oh wow. God. Bless America
@nikkis7375
Жыл бұрын
I was in elementary in Michigan and even we got evacuated too. I remember they had us in a tornado drill all lined up against brick hallway until our parents came to get us. All the adults crying around us.
@TheOtherGuys2
10 ай бұрын
If I might clarify a thing here, six months later as it may be. It's true that the melting point of steel is higher than the temperature of burning jet fuel. But it's also true that steel doesn't have to completely melt to become weakened from extreme heat. And also from having an airplane crash into it.
@tobortine
Жыл бұрын
I'm British but I remember it well. Tuesday lunch time, I was working at home and my wife came in to my office and told me a plane accident had happened in New York. We spent the rest of the afternoon watching the live footage. It was harrowing from 3000 miles away, I can't imagine what it must have been like in the city itself.
@msdarby515
Жыл бұрын
I was an EMT at the time and had been volunteering in Manhattan at Chelsea Piers after the attack. I returned home on the 13th and turned on my TV and on the news they showed the Guard band (sorry I don't know their official name) at Buckingham Palace, at the Queen's request, playing the Star Spangled Banner at the changing of the Guard. That set me off and I started crying again and cried hard for an hour, and then off and on for the next few days. We weren't getting much national news......mostly just our local news stations. So when the national news came back on and we saw that everyone in the country was flying American flags and were ANGRY, it was amazing. We New Yorkers were heart broken, so it was kind of nice to see that people were mad for us, if that makes sense. You said you can't imagine what it was like in the city so I'll share my experience......it was empty. When I came out of the subway at Times Square there was one car and 4 people in the entire square. Imagine that! It smelled like an electrical fire and there was CONSTANT sound of sirens. There were hardly any cars moving about. There was a police officer stationed on every corner. All of the stores and restaurants were closed except for the rare convenience store. There were a few people out on the street. Most were walking a dog. Everyone was very quiet, and everyone's faces were full of grief. Certain streets were designated as through streets and those were the streets emergency vehicles were using. Companies had donated their big trucks to move emergency products and equipment and I saw a police car going about 50 MPH with it's sirens and lights on and a Pepsi truck hot on it's tail. We only had a few people come in for medical help, which was frustrating. We kept waiting for the rescue crews to find a big cavern in the rubble just filled with people that would need us.....but, unfortunately, that never, ever happened. On the 13th we got word that we were moving everything to the Javits Center, so we loaded trucks with products on their sides, such as Pepsi, Doritos, Budweiser and any other product you can think of, and moved everything. That's when I left to go back home. I was on my way to Penn Station to get a train and stopped at the library to sit on the steps for a bit, called my mom and let her know I was headed back home, and just kind of take in everything that had happened in the previous 48 hours. I sat there next to one of the big stone lions. It was just getting dusk, with the sun setting and some street lights coming on. There were maybe about 2 dozen people outside Penn Station compared to the thousands there would normally be entering and exiting. I looked up at the Empire State Building. A habit of many New Yorkers, to see what color it was that night. It was dark. Not a single light on it except for the red light on top to warn planes and helicopters. That's when it hit me how much this was going to change our world, and it broke me. I sat there, sobbing, for a long time. Now.....normally a woman sitting on the steps of the library, sobbing, in Manhattan, isn't going to get a second look. Most New Yorkers, if they even notice, would just keep on walking. But as I sat there, face buried in my knees and arms hugging my legs, I felt a gentle hand on my shoulder. When I looked up I saw a woman, maybe in her 50s, she was crying too. I reached up and took her hand and she pulled me up and hugged me. We hugged for a couple of minutes, both crying, both reassuring the other that we were going to be okay. And then I left and caught my train and she went wherever she was going. One of the most beautiful moments of my life and I didn't even ask her name.
@brooke_reiverrose2949
Жыл бұрын
I remember the news coverage of so many people from around the world sharing condolences, and the anthem at Buckingham Palace. It meant a lot then and still does, so thank you for that
@tobortine
Жыл бұрын
@@msdarby515 Thanks for sharing in such a detailed way. I've been to NYC a couple of times, once before and once since so I'm not entirely unfamiliar with it. Your account is beautifully written and heartfelt.
@bobbobbo5278
Жыл бұрын
@Ms Darby I feel speechless, thank you for sharing. Such a horrible thing to experience
@josephharrison5639
Жыл бұрын
I was born post-9/11 but my mom has shared a few times how tense it was. My dad was just at the pentagon two days prior and now was in West Point army academy. She hadn’t heard anything from him after the first plane hit, she was panicking they had only been married for a few months. She calls everyone she knows trying to get any info make sure West Point wasn’t hit, then 4 hours after the pentagon was hit she gets this voice mail from my dad “hi honey, I only have a few minutes. I’m safe, we are under lockdown and all communication is prohibited for the foreseeable future, we are allowed to make one call to inform loved ones. In case anything happens I love you, there’s nobody I’d rather love than you.” She broke down in tears and when she saw him a few days later According to my dad she couldn’t let go of him
@rachelmckitterick
Жыл бұрын
Omg I feel almost at the brick of tears after having read this 😢 That one quick phone call would have meant so so much! Your mum was right. It was extremely intense and that's coming from who lives in Australia and watched it on the news at sunrise. Words can't really describe how big this event was. It hit so deep to the whole world.
@Charmcity199
Жыл бұрын
I have nieces who were born post-9/11 and I always tell them that the world was literally LITERALLY a different place on 9/10 than it was on 9/11. Everything changed even if you weren’t in the US. It was a new type of war that turned everyone and everything into a target.
@sonofmoss
Жыл бұрын
For at least a week on all the main network channels it was a straight 24 hour coverage. I was 19 when it happened and the first day was just so damn surreal I could barely process it in my head. My younger sister and I were home by ourselves, everyone else at work, eating breakfast. Older sister calls and says turn on the news now. We turn on the tv and the first thing we saw was the first tower burning. When the coverage said a airplane has hit, I thought it had to be an accident, maybe the pilot had a stroke or something. And even when the second plane hit, it didn’t even occur to me that it was intentional. I thought how could two planes accidentally crash into the twin towers.
@susanfontaine5214
Жыл бұрын
I, to this day, remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. It was literally unbelievable. I’ve been to NYC before and after this tragedy. I watched 2nd plane hit on live tv. Horrifying. It was surreal watching. Unfortunately, people continue to lose their lives as a consequence of the dust and chemicals they inhaled. Many jumped to their deaths rather than be burned by jet fuel. Both planes were fully fueled.
@steeljawX
Жыл бұрын
I think a lot of people who were alive and cognizant (by that I mean capable of remembering things) remember what they were doing and where they were. I recall my teacher at the time did not hold a lesson. He told me something prophetic and it hasn't be false to this day. "Keep your eyes on the TV, class. Remember this day, because you're seeing history change. You will not forget this day as long as you live." He was a Vietnam Vet so it wasn't like he was spouting lofty philosophies, but needless to say, I didn't learn any Spanish that day and I have not forgotten that day either.
@bigschmill294
Жыл бұрын
I was only 8 so I don't remember every little detail. But I do remember when I first saw it. I lived in Colorado at the time so I was getting ready for school. My mom came in, she said "you need to watch this" and turned my TV on. I remember the image of tower 1 burning. I don't think the second one had hit yet, but both were hit before my mom drove me to school. I remember it being on TV at school too, but I don't really remember what the teacher said about it. But I remember seeing the towers collapse. And, some time later, I remember making tiny picket signs to try and communicate to other airplanes (clearlu it was not feasible that the pilots would see my sign from the sky lol). I didn't really understand the scope of what happened. I assumed all planes were going to do the same thing. It impacted children who saw it just as much as adults, but in a different way. The tone of the world shifted, and I dont think we're gonna ever be able to get past that. So much has changed since then that we can't return to a pre-9/11 world
@vlnavi
Жыл бұрын
I remember those images, too. It was quite a bit later before news channels pulled the images and videos of the jumpers off the air. They are hardly mentioned anymore, which I find horrifying. Deeming their deaths 'too graphic' is heart-breaking, though I understand why the images are no longer shown.
@sortaamy3003
Жыл бұрын
@@bigschmill294 we watched the Challenger explode at school at age 8. It's so strange to see such things as a kid because you know it's something huge but at the same time, you're a kid so you don't quite understand just how huge it really is.
@un1qu3n4m3
11 ай бұрын
A lot of people don’t talk about how the clouds of dust were filled with asbestos causing even more damage and death as years go on
@annrabie7988
Жыл бұрын
I remember that day clearly... hearing the news and watching the TV coverage. What I'll never forget seeing, is the people jumping out of the building, already knowing they weren't going to be rescued. Very sad.
@andrearay5134
Жыл бұрын
It’s still unreal. 9/11 really brought us together. It shouldn’t take something so tragic! I feel like we, as a nation are so divided and full of hatred right now and we need to get it together… COME TOGETHER! We are so busy fighting each other! 🙏🏾
@sofyuchiha9
Жыл бұрын
I felt this so hard. our country is so divided now it hurts and I'm terrified it'll take something like this or maybe even worse to truly bring us back together. never EVER want to see something like this ever happen again.
@maxpeck7382
Жыл бұрын
It brought us together but we didn't do effectively anything worthwhile with it. I mean Bush sold America on wars in Iraq and Afganistan that lasted more than a decade based on peoples shared reaction, but in spite of killing a few terrorist leaders who were replaced and Saddam Hussain being killed all we did was chase vanishing people around the desert in the middle east and have soldiers blown apart by IEDs. It was a waste of our fighting forces and we didn't win or secure any enduring improvements/advantages from it. LOL We gave the Taliban back everything, it was like we went there to use them just to give some US military generations some war fighting experience that didn't even show America to be an effective war machine in that part of the world. Chasing insurgent ants hiding in the ground around with the sledge hammer of the US Army doesn't win the war and even what if anything you have gained by driving them from the battlefield they chose is questionable. It's like we are addicted to fighting wars that are clones of the format of the War in Vietnam.
@bigschmill294
Жыл бұрын
@@sofyuchiha9 if worst came to worse, the American people would come together again. Try not to pay attention to the loud annoying extremist crap. We will be ok
@frostking3566
Жыл бұрын
I will never forget this day i was a 1st grader and the absolute horror on the faces of my teachers and fellow students.....i was in Oklahoma and the horrors of the OKC bombing was still fresh in the minds of the people and they thought we were next.....every single television was broadcasting this on almost every single channel....RIP to everyone who lost their lives in this tragic day
@sofyuchiha9
Жыл бұрын
Same. I was in fifth grade at the time and you always look to adults, especially back then to feel safe, but seeing how terrified everyone was stuck with me even 21 years later. they locked down our schools cause they didn't know what to do otherwise.since we were he older kids they let us watch it unfold.
@ashleymeggan
Жыл бұрын
I remember the day that happened as well. I was actually home from school bc I was sick. Wild.
@nikkis7375
Жыл бұрын
I was in first grade as well though I don’t remember much from back then. I remember them putting us in a tornado drill all lined up and it felt like hours crouched down to our young brains but probably wasn’t that long. Then all our parents came to get us early. I remember all the adults crying. My mom didn’t tell us what happened I don’t think. We were really sheltered and I had even younger brothers but I could tell something was very very wrong.
@joshuajimenez4408
Жыл бұрын
I was born in April of 2004, but I could imagine how terrifying it must have been for you guys that were very young kids when it happened
@loveislove-le5nj
Жыл бұрын
I was 12 yrs old, and my house and school were both downtown. Living in Chicago, the city was a ghost town! The school went on lockdown, and even though I was living only 10 mins walking distance. No student could leave the school without a parent, guardian, or approved pickup. Since my parents were at offices in the burbs and metra was shut down, I was at school from 7:30am to at least 8pm.
@CoinCommunityCollectors
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the south tower actually had one usable emergency exit stairway. The debris from the crash however was a cause for concern because people assumed all stairways were blocked off. If you watch the video you can see the plane hit the south tower a little to the right just enough for the stairway to be free. However only 4 people discovered this and escaped the building. Really sad.
@msdarby515
Жыл бұрын
Kabir, I lived in New York on 9/11/2001, 15 miles north of the towers in a burb of Manhattan. My brother worked just 3 blocks north of the WTC and my sister-in-law in a building across the street from the Empire State Building. Needless to say, we were scared to death. The news was reporting 7 jets not accounted for and cities all over the country were emptying out their skyscrapers for fear of also falling victim. People were trapped in Manhattan. All the tunnels and bridges were closed. My brother and SIL were part of the Great Boatlift of 9/11. It took them 8 hours to get to their home in New Jersey, but they were blessed to be there and safe. I happened to be home that morning because I'd flown in late the night before and had taken the morning off from work. At the time I was an EMT (now a nurse) and I went into the city to respond to the call for medical volunteers. I was stationed at the Chelsea Piers. Unfortunately, there was little for us to do other than give oxygen, wash people's eyes out, and suture/bandage the occasional cut or scrape. It was also the place were family members were sent to register their missing loved ones. Seeing each enter was like being punched in the stomach and unable to breathe. The entire city was heartbroken for months after, and many are still mourning lives that were lost. It is often remarked that every New Yorker knew at least one person in the buildings, and all had 3 or less degrees of separation from someone that died. It's true for me. I was fortunate in that the 3 people I knew that worked in those buildings all made it out. Someone did the math and counted 10,000 children who had lost a parent in the attacks. A few lost both parents, and many lost the only parent they had. It's almost too much for the human heart to bear. I would encourage you to watch more videos on 9/11 and learn more about it. There are so many wonderful stories to go along with the heartbreaking stories. For example, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania did so because the passengers knew what had happened in NY and WA and determined that it would not happen again. They hoped to save their own lives, but at the very least, these heroes were not going to allow that plane to be used as a weapon!! Many social media personalities stay away from these stories for fear of being disrespectful as well as it being a very sad story. But after it happened we promised to never forget and I fear we, the country and the world, are breaking our promise. You, and other social media hosts, have big platforms and I think you would reach people in a different way than the schools do, as they really just give kids a Who, What, When and Where breakdown. I know many of the videos are long, but I think people would tune in for parts 1, 2, and 3 if necessary. I'm not suggesting you make this a focus, but I think the occasional 9/11 video would be wonderful for educational purposes. God Bless!!
@masteroftheassassins
Жыл бұрын
I was 10 years old when 9/11 happened. My school was in NJ but we could see the WTC from a distance. We were studying world geography that day. I can still remember the maps and charts we used. I looked out the window and I saw one of the planes hit one of the towers. It’s a sight I’ll never forget.
@kimberlys8422
Жыл бұрын
I was 11 and both my parents had gone to work and I was preparing to go the bus stop for school after the first plane hit and I thought it was a freak accident until I got to school that morning and learned the country had been attacked. Education was suspended because administrators and students had to watch the news all day that day.
@williamtauriello1581
Жыл бұрын
I was living in CA on 9/11. When I pulled into my parking garage, a coworker I parked next to said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I said ‘unfortunate’ knowing that a B-25 Mitchell bomber flew into the Empire State Building many years ago. Tragic, but it happens. As I was getting my gear out of my car, my coworker said a 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower. I had only one response: “This means war…” That night, I held my wife in my arms on our back patio. The sky, usually a busy commercial flight path, was empty. Only the occasional jet fighter traveling far faster than any airliner ever could, went streaking through the star-lit sky. We both knew, and quietly said to each other, that our world will never be the same.
@darrinlindsey
Жыл бұрын
After the first plane hit, many people were interviewed by reporters that happened to be close by. Most of them agreed that it had been a small, two seater plane that hit. So speculation was that it was an accident by someone that maybe had a health emergency. Then, the 2nd plane hit, live on TV. We began hearing that there might've been some commercial planes hijacked. Then the report that the Pentagon had possibly been hit by a commercial plane. It was a fair amount of time later that the Pennsylvania plane had gone down in a field. We started hearing some recordings of messages that people on that plane had left for their loved ones. When pieced together, they told us that the 3 other attacks were known of, by the people on that plane. There's an actual phone call recording of a Son telling his Mom that they knew about the others, and they had formed a plan to either take the plane back over, or take the plane down. They knew that it had to be going towards another building. At the end of that phone call, the Son was heard saying "Let's Roll". The plane went down shortly after that. It's now believed that that plane was headed for our White House or Capitol Building. All U.S. airspace was shut down for 3 days.
@cinmarksx
Жыл бұрын
the plane crash in Pa. that one was headed to the Capitol, until passengers attacked and overcame the hijackers. They were aware of what had happened in DC. and chose their own way to perish. God Bless their Souls.
@kentgrady9226
Жыл бұрын
I was stranded at the airport in Boston that morning. We were watching the coverage on a television in the terminal when we learned that the hijacked flights had originated from Boston. Instantly, the departure status of every flight on the board flipped from "on time" to "cancelled". For a brief (felt eternal at the time) moment, everyone blinked, looked around, then made a mad dash for the car rental counters. I got lucky and outran enough people in order to get one of the last available cars, and drove half way across the country. It was the most bizarre and tragic single day I've ever experienced.
@historyking9984
Жыл бұрын
Sadly. So many of those people on the ground and first responders are still fighting today for resources and money due to the things they’ve suffered due to the attack such as many types of cancers.
@GraveDigger35
Жыл бұрын
8:57 What happened was that the jets took out a lot of the supports beam initially, then the ones that were left got so hot from the burning jet fuel that they were able to bend freely and then just snapped from the weight of the floors above, which is why Tower 2 fell first, because those remaining support beams had more weight above them to snap due to where the plane hit, and what their plan was to get the towers to topple over like a domino and cause as much damage as possible (which was also the plan in the 93 bombing) but the building was designed to kind of collapse inwards on itself
@siochainmama5025
Жыл бұрын
I was in high school in Northwest NJ when this happened. My dad was there and witnessed it happen. He was a little late commuting into NYC that morning and decided to take his car that day instead of the bus. He heard on the radio what had happened in the first tower when they were still reporting it was a small plane but he felt it was worse and got off the highway before the tunnel and watched on the NJ side of the Hudson River. Our town was mostly a commuter town with people who didn't want to live in the city but worked in the city. In between classes they were calling names of children to go to the office to find out about whether their parents were still alive or not and I remember when my brother and I were called to the office to find out about our dad and the fear in that moment. But my dad had finally made it to a place where is calls to home would actually go through. We could not make calls out of our town because there was so much congestion on the lines with 911 calls and people just trying to find loved ones and apparently my dad's calls from near the city couldn't go through either. We will never forget but I feel like a lot of people who weren't there or had someone there have forgotten. So thank you for doing this video!! 👍👍
@paulineandrushuk8923
Жыл бұрын
always listen to your intuition !
@paigeharrison3909
Жыл бұрын
I can certainly emphasize with this feeling. My mother worked for the Department of Agriculture in Oklahoma City. The day of the Murrah Building bombing it took me half the day to get through on the phones. I lived in Texas at the time. My mother was fine, but she lost colleagues.
@siochainmama5025
Жыл бұрын
@@paigeharrison3909 Oh I am terribly sorry to hear about this and her loss!! I would not wish this sort of event on my worst enemy and I am very happy your mom survived!! That is the sort of thing that never leaves you!! Blessings be upon you both 🙏❤️
@ashleydixon4613
Жыл бұрын
@@paigeharrison3909 I certainly remember the bombing in OKC well. I was a college freshman in Central Arkansas at a small private school, and knew several students from that area, of course. (And I remember Timothy McVeigh later referring to the children killed in the daycare as “collateral damage.” 🤯)
@brooke_reiverrose2949
Жыл бұрын
Holy crap
@nobodycallsmetubby5586
Жыл бұрын
To get an even more eerie feel, watch about the phone calls from the planes and the towers during the attacks. There's a phone call of a man trapped inside the upper floors as the tower collapses.
@edwardcorey1071
Жыл бұрын
Or on planes to there love ones
@Mboogie69
Жыл бұрын
I was living on an Army post in Hawaii that day and it was really early morning there when it happened, but I was awake with my son and saw the 2nd plane hit. Just such a surreal moment to realize what was happening. The lockdowns of all the military installations in Hawaii alone caused a lot of hassle for military and civilians, but it made sense at the time. There was definitely an immediate attitude of payback time among the military people I knew. What’s crazy is I knew a lady that could remember Pearl Harbor as well. I wonder what she thought that day
@scarletc.7055
Жыл бұрын
I was an RN in NYC and I live on 15th St. I was working all the way up on 72nd St at the time in a small research hospital but we were prepared to take some patients from NY Hospital if they received many burn patients. They didn’t. (Unfortunately) I worked taking blood from people until 8pm and then it took me about 21/2 hours to get home. I hadn’t seen everything that happened yet and I sat in front of my tv the rest of the night crying. I was horrified. I lost 2 friends who worked in the Trade Center. It still feels like yesterday to me. I remember every moment.
@HRConsultant_Jeff
Жыл бұрын
the air controllers in Canada had to land all the planes in the air. Their comment was "we have 400 potential missals in the air" They landed them all over the air fields.
@jenniferpecha4393
Жыл бұрын
Will never forget that day, and watching this brought tears. The way it always does.
@amberburris5674
Жыл бұрын
I was in Indiana and woke up to nurse my baby and everything changed..... I was never more scared for my child.
@roberthaines1227
Жыл бұрын
The fire from the jet fuel was so hot the beams reached a state where they could no longer handle the load and failed. The weight of the structure collapsing onto the floors below caused what they call pancaking. Floor after floor just collapsed onto the floors below, until there were no more floors. I was in college at the time studying Civil Engineering and our professor, who was a structural engineer explained the collapse to us students.
@speedreadr
Жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly, they knew where to hit in order to make them collapse. Both planes hit very close to the same spots. They learned from their failed bomb attack from before that they set off in the basements. They left enough weight over the crash site in order to bring the towers down. It worked.
@Jon.A.Scholt
Жыл бұрын
I was in college at the time and we studied the same thing in my physics class. It always has bugged me that "truthers" can believe in outlandish conspiracies but somehow simple physics, chemistry and engineering is too hard to imagine as an adequate explanation.
@christopherking4932
Жыл бұрын
That's completely bullshit, there's been buildings on fire for several days and never collapsed, those buildings on 911 were demolitioned.
@themourningstar338
Жыл бұрын
There is a PBS docu that I watched a few years ago which explains why the Pentagon didn't collapse or suffer worse damage like the WTC. They had "over engineered" the Pentagon when they'd built it in the 40's with the structural beam support system being a lattice work type design, which was well beyond what was required for the building. When the plane hit it, there were beams that failed/were broken throughout the crash point, but with the lattice work structure there was plenty of surrounding supports to take the weight of the building and upper floors and keep them intact. Really fascinating and worth looking into.
@MannyBrum
Жыл бұрын
@@Jon.A.Scholt Yeah, they think the metal beams had to become liquid for it to crash. They only needed to become just pliable enough to bend under the weight above it. If it was a controlled explosion like they think it is, it would have collapsed immediately. What happened is consistent with the beams heating up and failing.
@d0ublestr0ker0ll
Жыл бұрын
The weather was perfect that day. 75° F (24° C), slight breeze, not a cloud in the sky. They grounded all aircraft in the country. I'll never forget how quiet and tranquil it was outside after the attacks. As upset and angry we were, it was the perfect setting to reflect on how the world was different now.
@md_vandenberg
Жыл бұрын
Be sure to watch the video on the 9/11 Boatlift. Civilian and commercial watercraft united to evacuate Manhattan Island. It was an amazing feat not seen since WWII. On another note, 21 years ago, the late Queen Elizabeth II authorized the Coldstream Guards to play the American National Anthem in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, in a show of solitude and assurance for the American people across the pond and those grounded in England. There's footage of the scene and it is moving to be sure. It's good to know America had such a loving grandma.
@dianecomly6132
Жыл бұрын
The scariest part for me was the question of what else is coming.
@Ordzo88
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing this video Kabir. Everytime I watch 9/11 videos it feels like I'm experiencing it all over again. We will never forget those lost 🇺🇸 ❤️
@melissabelle8626
Жыл бұрын
The amazing thing about that day was there was no bad weather anywhere in the US and Canada that day and we’re able to ground all flights very quickly because of it. That day was surreal. I live in California. My brother at the time was in the Air Force stationed in North Carolina. He and his wife were visiting us and he got called back. He had to scramble to find the fastest way back to NC with no flights going out. I don’t remember if he rented a car and they drove straight through or if he had to wait a few days.
@elizabethshow5105
Жыл бұрын
We live about 35 miles from where Flight 93 went down in Pennsylvania. It flew directly over my sister in laws house, upside down, right before it crashed over the next hillside. The brave crew and passengers, charged and fought the terrorists , knowing that the plane was already on a suicide mission.. the cool thing was, they decided to try to take back control of the plane- but first they prayed then voted on their plan. Although, they all perished when the plane crashed, they still managed to avoid the terrorists from crashing it into another densely populated area. God bless them all. Thanks for showing this.
@jenshaw5017
Жыл бұрын
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping,’” -Mr. Rogers I was 16 years old and a Junior in high school. My dad always had the news on in the morning. We watched the second plane hit on live television. I watched the towers fall in my first period study hall. All you could hear were the echos of the televisions on in each classroom, otherwise silence. In each class all we did was watch footage, footage of people falling to their death, footage of death all day long. This day impacted our country in ways that can't be measured, but it impacted my generation in ways we couldn't comprehend that day. In remembrance, I try to focus on the good of that day instead of just the horror. I look at those that ran to help and those that helped after and are even involved today, still trying to identify remains. I visited ground zero 15 years ago and the museum that honors those lost and those that rushed to help. I saw the best of humanity among the horror of an act that showcased worst of humanity. I look for the helpers. I can barely handle watching this footage. It makes me cry and I feel the fear and the horror of that collective trauma. I'm 37 and I will remember that day for the rest of my life. It's hard to describe the world before or after... it changed everything. And I can't express how finally hearing President Bush Speak helped me feel better. There's a window into my teenage naivete that I felt so much relief when he spoke.
@lizrutherford2656
Жыл бұрын
21 years old, a sophmore at the local junior college. The night before, I had fallen asleep to the radio, something I never did. Next morning, I wake up and hear that a plane had crashed in New York. I thought it was a King Kong/Empire State Building thing and fell back to sleep. I was woken up a second time by the radio saying that a second plane had crashed. I got up and ran to the TV in the living room. I can still hear the ping of that old TV as it came on. The first image I saw was a replay of the second plane coming into view and crashing into the WTC. I screamed, and my mom (who was reading the paper) came in and said "What?" I pointed at the TV and then mom grabbed me by the arm and we sat on the couch in horror. About 45 minutes later, the phone rang. It was my dad. He said that the plant he worked at was going to close for the day and he'd be on the way home. My sister worked at the same plant and rode home with our dad. For the rest of the day, the four of us sat in stunned silence. There was nothing that could be said, but my dad, who lived through both Kennedys and MLK (both parents did, btw) said "This...this is right up there with Kenne..." and his voice trailed off. I know that I felt utterly and totally helpless, like a little kid. For the first time in years, I wanted my parents to fix it, but just by looking at them, I knew they felt the same way. Alan Jackson does a beautiful song called Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning). It can be a kick in the gut, but it's pretty accurate in describing the feelings people had on 9/11.
@seclark09
Жыл бұрын
Same, I remember exactly where I was when this happened. I was in Denver, CO at the time but my company had an office in one of the towers. We lost 13 employees - most got out. I believe the towers came down like that because the planes that hit the towers had just taken off from Boston (Boston to Los Angeles) and were fully loaded with fuel. The fire was very intense and compromised the integrity of the buildings.
@jenshaw5017
Жыл бұрын
The heat from the jet fuel is what caused them to collapse.
@Traci2000
Жыл бұрын
Seeing you watch this takes me right back to that day. I'd just gotten out of the hospital. I woke up, turned on the TV and then just sat in stunned silence, unable to truly process what I was seeing. I scared the crap outta my husband (though that was before we were married. We were 19 & 20 when that happened) shaking him awake like our roof was caving in. I just couldn't believe it.
@lkayh
Жыл бұрын
I was at work when it happened. One of the admins brought out a TV after the first plane hit, and we all sat in the conference room and watched it off and on through the rest of the day. Seeing it today is just as traumatic as it was then-maybe even more so because we know so much more about what people inside those buildings suffered. Seeing the first responders clustered around the buildings, knowing so many of them died in those buildings, and so many more are now struggling with health issues because of the air they breathed that day and for weeks and months after. I think a lot of us still have at least a little PTSD from seeing that happen in real time.
@kimberlyallsup8472
Жыл бұрын
Wow. That one made me cry all over again although I was fortunate to not have any loved ones that perished that day. I was driving to work when the first plane hit the WTC. I thought it was horrible accident. When the second plane hit, I realized what it was and started shaking so badly I had to pull to the side of the road. Good job as always, Kabir
@lindarichardson6763
Жыл бұрын
I remember exactly where I was. It happened to be my birthday. My husband took leave from the U.S Navy so we could spend time together. Of course, he was called back. My oldest son decided to enlist. What a crazy time. Our country came together like no other time. Something I'll never forget.
@nancyaylward1176
Жыл бұрын
My late Husband was working at Denver International Airport (DIA) at the time. He had just come off of a nighttime 12 hour shift and he was laying down to sleep when the first plane hit. I woke him up and told him and as we were coming down the hall, the second plane hit! By the time 2 o’clock came around all the airports were closed. They were worried about DIA, because it’s registered as a type “Z” Airport. That means that it’s a high risk airport because it’s International. My husband couldn’t go to work for six days, because all Security Badges were deemed invalid. We also have a Friend who lived in NYC at the time. He was working across the bridge in New Jersey and saw both planes hit the Twin Towers. The company shut down all the trucks and the workers that were at the job site just watched everything unfold. He said that he never felt so helpless in his life. From Loveland, Colorado!
@alanahendrick4550
Жыл бұрын
I was 20 years old and running late for work that morning. I came downstairs and saw my mother sitting silently on the couch with a look of horror on her face and tears running down her cheeks. I spent the next week in a weird kind of shock, glued to the news and watching and rewatching the footage. I’m thankful that the videos that showed all the people jumping from the building aren’t circulating anymore, because that was truly horrifying to see. I’ll never forget thinking how helpless and trapped they must’ve felt to make that choice to jump. 21 years later and I still can’t watch footage of that day without sobbing.
@brooke_reiverrose2949
Жыл бұрын
Same
@evanirvana500
Жыл бұрын
You should here the cell phone messages from the people thst died to their families. Chilling and heartbreaking. Some families still have those messages 21 years later
@ThatShyGuyMatt
Жыл бұрын
I was 19 I believe. My mom called me into the room saying "They said a plane hit the WTC!" I told her I just seen that by someone I was playing a game with. Didn't think much of it. A plane is pretty small. I came in anyways just to see how a plane managed to hit. A few seconds later I seen the plane hit and though "Thats a frickin jet! What a terrible accident!" My mom said no, this isn't a replay, this is a second jet just now. Oh my...." At that second I realized two jets is not an accident or coincidence... it was an attack of some sort. Also knowing the first hit was a jet and moving fast towards it sort of showed also this was no accident at all.
@X3AmySarah
Жыл бұрын
It still boggles my mind to think that people were still inside those towers when they collapsed, and so many were never found. It’s hard to comprehend that. I’m from upstate NY and was 15. I had never heard the word “terrorist” before that day. Didn’t know what it was. Many people I know enlisted after high school because of 9/11, including my husband. He’s been to Afghanistan 4 times. It changed my life but on that day I didn’t know that the after effects would shape my adult life. My heart still hurts for all of the people who lost loved ones that day, and the ones who never got anything of their loved ones. Horrible. I remember going home from school and we weren’t allowed to use the phone (or internet as it was dial up back then and you had to use the phone line to connect) so the people in the city could try to contact loved ones. So sad, even two decades later
@BaronessErsatz
Жыл бұрын
I was home sick with the flu that day. My then-husband called me to tell me to turn on the TV. It was at that moment that the first building was falling and the second one was hit. We had a German foreign exchange student with us at the time, and her father later called in tears, terrified for us. The next day at work, there was a bomb threat.
@gidget8717
Жыл бұрын
I was watching it. I was eating a bowl of cereal and had the Today Show playing in the TV. My husband called me to see if I had the TV on, his boss had motioned for everyone to come into their breakroom to watch the news, we were talking to teach other when the second plane hit. It was one of those, "I always remember where I was" moments.
@shag139
Жыл бұрын
There are a ton of shows on history channel that talk about all the various aspects from how the buildings failed, military response as day went on, hell the head of Air Traffic Control was on just FIRST DAY ON THE JOB! It was the craziest thing being perfectly clear across the entire country that day and the next several days and to not see a plane in the sky for a week plus.
@jamescurfman3284
Жыл бұрын
The buildings did not fail; they actually did their jobs very well. If they HAD to come down because of outside forces, they came down as they had been designed to do and NOT the way the terrorist plans seemingly wanted them to, which would have been to topple sideways. Nobody would have thought about designing a building that is Jet-Fuel-heat-resistant (we probably don't have that technology even now to keep steel from weakening before reaching more than three thousand degrees). It wasn't the buildings' faults that they got hit. This was a failure of people.
@shag139
Жыл бұрын
@@jamescurfman3284 wasn’t one of the issues that the fire retardant that was on the steel structures blown off by the force of the explosion?
@jamescurfman3284
Жыл бұрын
@@shag139 I don't remember hearing about that.
@theabstracthour178
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in NYC, my mom used to bring me to sit right in between the towers in this seating area. My friends dad ran away from the giant clouds of dust and ash holding him. The preschool he was starting was blocks away. We all know someone directly affected (we being 2nd+ generation NYC peeps)
@michaelschemlab
Жыл бұрын
Two planes hit the World Trade Center in NYC. One plane hit the Pentagon, and a fourth plane, destined hit the White House or Capitol Building, crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township in Pennsylvania. Since the fourth plane failed to hit its target, we don’t know the intended target for sure.
@bookwoman53
Жыл бұрын
I was driving to my job at the library, in the NY suburbs, when it started and the announcer began telling us about it on the car radio. In 2000 I had gone on a couple of dates with a man named Bill who was a chef at the Tower Blue restaurant in the Windows of the World at the top of Tower 1. He worked evenings so it’s possible that he wasn’t at work yet. I really hope that he wasn’t.
@rswear
Жыл бұрын
I was in downtown Chicago on 9/11. I worked as an on-site consultant and flew somewhere weekly. Some of my co-workers, friends of mine, were in the south tower. It took a couple of days before I got word they were okay. They evacuated downtown Chicago, but as I was staying in a hotel there, I had no where to go. I remember the sky over downtown being empty and a pair of f-16 fighters streaking across it. Very surreal. As fate would have it, a couple of years later I was working in NYC with several people who were in the south tower, when the US invaded Iraq. I was in a meeting with one of my friends who was in the tower. He said if we should need to evacuate today, everyone call this number and leave a voice mail so we know if you are okay. When I looked up at him, I saw the veins popping out of his forehead and sweat running down his face. I remember thinking, so that is what PTSD looks like.
@jl6714
Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what brought me to your video but thank you, It's very touching seeing your reaction from a BRIT. As an American I can't explain how devastating this was to all of us mentally, emotionally, and physically! I cried for months, still do whenever I look back at the footage, I'm still in disbelief! After 9/11 happened the next thing I knew was, healthy happy people were suddenly on antidepressants and Xanax, the fear this day has brought upon people has had a profound effect in mental health. I learned anything can happen at any moment. I am so angry that as a nation America is so divided WTF is wrong with people? Why can't we just get along and love each other like we did 20 years ago!
@chrscmo
Жыл бұрын
Hey Kabir, thanks for another great video. Since you did not know about the Pentagon, you may also not know the story of the 4th plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Upon hearing what was happening in NY, the passengers on that plane fought back. It's assumed that the plane was heading to DC but those brave folks were not going to let that happen. After speaking with his wife, Todd Beamer led the attack on the terrorists with the words "Let's Roll". That flight ended with the crash in PA
@Charmcity199
Жыл бұрын
I live by the elementary school named after Todd Beamer. He, and the other passengers, are American hero’s
@jenniferwilson2637
Жыл бұрын
It was a truly surreal, unbelievably sad day. My daughter was 3 years old, and we had just come downstairs. I put on the morning news/talk show and it was only a minute or so after the first plane hit. At the time, it was being reported as an accidentally collision by a small plane. On live TV, the second plane hit. I distinctly remember the anchor looking offscreen, her face ashen, and asking, "was that live? Did that just happen?" She looked into the camera with the most shocked, haunted look I've ever seen and said, "Obviously, this is not an accident." I'm thankful my daughter was too young to comprehend what we were seeing, and didn't remember it. 21 years later, I still can't see that footage without feeling the same horror and grief as that moment.
@susanhunter9196
Жыл бұрын
One of the planes that day departed from Dulles airport in Virginia. I lived and, worked near Dulles. I was so used to seeing numerous airplanes in the sky on my drive to work. That day, I left at 3 p.m. as usual. Even though I knew, all commercial air traffic had been grounded, it was so eerie to not see one plane in the sky. I drove by the exit to Dulles International Airport and all I could see was a ocean of blue and red flashing lights. I was borderline obsessed with watching every news story possible for a week. I was finally told by friends that I needed to take a break. I just couldn't imagine that kind of hate. It's disgusting to watch people use their religion as a justification for killing other living breathing beings. That includes animals.
@lrsrosebud
11 ай бұрын
I can relate…I was living just outside Minneapolis then and the flight path for many of the flights to the airport went over our neighborhood, some so low you could see what airline the plane belonged to. It was so eerie to not hear planes overhead every 20 minutes or so like we were used to hearing.
@datmanydocris
Жыл бұрын
I was in kindergarten at the time, only my second week of school. I grew up in Alexandria, VA, just a little over two miles from the pentagon. We could see the pentagon from our classroom window and since a sizable portion of Alexandria's population are military families, many kids at our school had family that worked at the pentagon. The teachers started acting strange a little after 9 AM and some of us picked up on it and were wondering what was going on. Just after 9:30 we heard an explosion and looked over and could see smoke coming from the Pentagon. That was terrifying and shortly after that out parents came and picked us up.
@Justin.Franks
Жыл бұрын
I was in college in New Jersey at the time, and a volunteer EMT with the school's first aid squad as well as the township's first aid squad where the school was located. After the first tower fell, myself and some of the other EMT's on campus were gathering supplies and other squad members to drive up to New York. The second tower fell a few minutes before we left. It normally would be about a 50-minute drive, but since the NJ Turnpike was closed except for emergency vehicles and we could floor it the entire way, we made it there in about half that time. There were multiple triage areas being set up in New Jersey right across the Hudson River, one at Liberty State Park in Hoboken, and another at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford. We were sent to the latter. Over the next few hours, volunteer first aid squads from all over the east coast came to help, and doctors and surgeons from local hospitals even set up an open-air surgery center. We expected and were ready for many hundreds of casualties to be transported over with severe injuries, but unfortunately none came. At least not to where we were, I understand that a few did make it over to Liberty State Park. In the end there were just not many people with serious injuries; for the vast majority of victims, either people got out and had some smoke/dust inhalation or a sprained ankle running away, or they were killed. It was definitely a dark day, but it was also incredible to see how many people from as far away as Maine to the north, the Carolinas to the south, and Ohio and Kentucky to the west, came to help. There were hundreds of ambulances and several hundred volunteers from basically every state within several hours away.
@JPMadden
Жыл бұрын
My uncle is a former volunteer firefighter who by 2001 had switched to helping run a Salvation Army "canteen" truck. They would provide free meals and drinks at fires or other locations where police and firefighters were working long hours. Late in the day of 9/11, the truck drove the few hours to New York City to help where they could. My uncle was unable to leave his place of business, so the other head guy went. My uncle did not seem disappointed, and I remember he specifically mentioned the danger of airborne pollution, which the government flat-out lied about in 2001. Several years ago, the local newspaper ran a series of articles about locals who had worked cleaning up the wreckage at Ground Zero and the illnesses they subsequently developed. Some had survived, some had not. One of the survivors was the guy who took the truck to NYC. I have heard that there have now been more deaths among the cleanup workers than the 3000 who died that day.
@thetwistedspartan4602
Жыл бұрын
Finally someone does a react about the day of, and not some just a specific part. Thank you Kabir!
@reneehomen2226
Жыл бұрын
After 20 years , everytime I see anything related to that horrible day, it brings me back. It's so real! It's still hurts and disturbing. My daughters at the time were in the school gym. They got dismissed early that day. We will never forget! My husband at the time knew many of the firefighters that were killed. He being a Lt.on the fire dept. It hit him hard. FYI Kabir, United plane 93 was also high jacked and the passengers were heros! The overtook the terrorists ad crashed the plane in a Pennsylvania field to save more lives. It said that the plane was headed to the White House. It makes my heart break when they are never mentioned.
@PrincessJuliet101
Жыл бұрын
Despite being 6 I remember 9/11 so vividly. I remember being in first grade sitting in class when all the teachers got called into the hallway over the PA. I remember a kid in my class saying how someone hit a building in New York and they’re probably worried about downtown Chicago where we live. I remember the teachers coming back and telling us some terrible people stole a plane and hit two building in NYC and our parents were coming to get us. I assume they got called into the hall once the second plane hit. I remember getting in our van and my dad telling me my mom was gonna be on the phone trying to get ahold of my aunt who was a flight attendant and uncle who was a pilot. I remember my mom being on the phone for hours before finally finding out my uncle was overseas flying and my aunt was on the other side of the country nowhere near New York. I don’t remember watching the live footage until I was 11 for the 5th anniversary and the impact finally truly hitting. In 2011 my high school had a 9/11 NY firefighter come and tell his story of that day. The gym full of 2500 teenagers was silent. Everyone listened. I had a friend growing up who’s dad was in Philadelphia supposed to head to NYC once all the flights got canceled he said how there were tons of military planes flying over and he never saw anything like it. For being so young it still surprises me how much I remember, how vivid the day actually was and still is 21 years later.
@corvus1374
Жыл бұрын
I was living in Southern California, and was driving to work. The West Coast is three hours behind all of this, so by the time I got into the car and turned on the radio, the attacks had already happened, The news was just reporting that the towers were collapsing as I turned in. I worked in downtown Los Angeles, so I kept looking up into the sky on the way to work to see if any of the LA skyscrapers were going to be attacked. When I got to work, everybody was watching news on whatever website they could get to. Finally the bosses told us to go home, just in case Los Angeles was going to be hit. In two weeks, I'm going to see the musical play "Come From Away". which is about the small town of Gander, Newfoundland which took in all of the international flights that were coming across the Atlantic and couldn't enter US air space.
@twanadenson1293
Жыл бұрын
There is a documentary featuring and from the perspective of first responders
@emarjamaa2276
Жыл бұрын
I break down every time I see this. When the first one hit, everyone thought it possibly could be an accident, but watching that second one hit in real time and knowing it was planned -- that was devastating. It took that one moment to realize the world as we knew it had changed.
@TheRapt0r02
Жыл бұрын
I was born a little less then a year later so I never witnessed it first hand but in school on September 11th we always had a moment of silence and in history we watched the documentary and I cried everytime watching it. May all the people who lost their lives that day rest in peace.
@LexyThomas134
Жыл бұрын
I don't believe it was an inside job, BUT if you look at those pictures of those Eastern "students" that was in the buildings weeks before the attack, behind them in one of those pictures were a bunch of boxes with numbers on the side, and if you look up those numbers, they trace back to a company that manufacturers detonation fuses. Which is kind of weird to be in those buildings. And another thing no one talks about anymore, is that 900 Jewish people didn't show up to work that morning, seems a little weird that many people got sick all at once.
@JaceAVinson
Жыл бұрын
Here’s some parts that the video didn’t mention. It didn’t mention that there was a 4th plane that crashed into a field. The passengers on that plane heard about what happened to 3 other planes that got hijacked and hit the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Once they heard about it they immediately knew they were next. So they attacked the terrorists flying the plane and caused the plane to crash into a field and not make it to its destination. Unfortunately. The crash didn’t just kill the terrorists. But also all the passengers. People believe that the plane was flying to Washington D.C. to hit The White House. Also Osama Bin Laden “The leader of the terrorist group behind it called Al Queada” wasn’t found until almost 10 years later. When Obama had a speech late at night announcing that they had found and killed Osama Bin Laden. The entire country was cheering. You should know you’re a terrible person when an entire country of over 300 million people celebrates when you get killed.
@edittheworld-ct5yu
Жыл бұрын
You must have not watched the video. It does mention United 93.
@bigjimmy6956
Жыл бұрын
I’m a New Yorker from lower manhattan and lost many people. Thanks for watching Kabir our city will forever endure 💯
@reneerobbie7611
Жыл бұрын
I was in 1st grade, in Texas, and my mom came and picked me up early. We got home and she had left all the lights and tv on, and I remember the news channel replaying shot for shot the entire day. My mom sat and cried the whole time but I was only 6 and didn’t know what was happening.
@anarchyneverdies3567
Жыл бұрын
Mr Ballen did an episode where one of the survivors tells a firsthand account, it's what really made me understand what they went through (I had to watch in school but I didn't understand what was happening and nobody explained it, just made us watch)
@zackberry6729
Жыл бұрын
As an aviation enthusiast, I found it really interesting to watch videos that “replayed” telemetry from the planes in a simulator, allowing you to see what happened from the cockpit POV. If anyone else out there has some basic aviation knowledge, I’d highly recommend
@TomCat777
Жыл бұрын
I got married 3 days before this tragic event. We left from JFK going to Mexico. I don't have the words for what we saw coming back from our honeymoon. There was a huge hole where the towers stood and still thick smoke billowing out from the hole.
@erinchamberlain1315
Жыл бұрын
Kabir, there truly are no words to express how it felt that day. I had three young children, two in school and one home with me. I picked them up and went to my parents house with them because we just didn't know what would happen next. When we watched it live, in real time, so many people actually jumped from the buildings, preferring suicide over being burned alive. I'm sorry to describe that but that was the horror of that day. And for what? Because they think their sky wizard is the best? Just so senseless. Thank you for sharing this and reminding us ❤️
@april4769
Жыл бұрын
It was my daughters 4th birthday that day & after the 2nd tower was hit, I rushed to get her & my son from school (we lived by an airport) they thought it was gonna be a "fun day" meeting dad for lunch ect.. we all went to my in-laws & tried our best to explain it to all the kids there. That day is unforgettable 😭
@erinchamberlain1315
Жыл бұрын
@@april4769 I'm with you ❤️. Just wanted to be with the people I love the most
@sherrypalmer8215
Жыл бұрын
I was watching the television show television show about 5 years afterwards where a man who had been in a coma for 10 years woke up. He was sitting in a park having a conversation about his recovery. He looked into the distance, then turned to the other person and said, "Hey, where are the towers?" It was like getting punched in the stomach.
@popperroux
Жыл бұрын
what show was it
@andrewmize823
Жыл бұрын
September 10th, 2001, was the last day of innocence for myself and the people I grew up with. The day after shook us to the core.
@user-us5pv8zw3z
3 ай бұрын
I live outside of Boston. I was teaching my first period English class when a colleague opened my door to tell us that one tower of The World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. I put my TV on, and my students and I watched the second tower get hit. For the rest of the day, everyone was glued to the news. The feeling of fear was palpable.
@Trenton-om9qs
Жыл бұрын
I was born after 9/11 but the footage and stories gives me goosebumps and chills. I've been to the Pentagon where the plane flew into but I would like to go to the memorial where the plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania and the World Trade Center memorial someday. I have so much respect for those who gave up their lives to save others🇺🇲🕊
@scottbivins4758
4 ай бұрын
I was about 3 or 4 when 9/11 happened an as a kid i can honestly say every school year i had to watch the videos of 9/11 i honestly started feeling hatred... I dont know for who but i was definitely hating someone.
@cattfink5036
Жыл бұрын
When I try an explain the confusion and lack of information to anyone even slightly younger than I am... someone that may not have been old enough to recall, ya know? I was 16. Current events / news day in 2nd period sociology. We watched the 2nd one live. My teacher's brother was in the building. It was horrible. The internet wasn't going to give any additional information - nothing more than the news. Social media was... weird forums and maybe GeoCities sites? We weren't getting updates by text or twitter. We knew what the news told us second by second. I remember the day in detail, but it's hard to imagine now not being able to have immediate access to information in a crisis.
@rotru4977
Жыл бұрын
I was dreaming that I was in a war and there was an air raid siren going off. I woke up to my phone ringing, my friend told me to turn on the TV. As I did the 2nd plane hit. It was a beautiful day. I went outside and no one was out. I live near Toronto. There was fear they'd target the CN Tower or something. We didn't know what was going on. I've been to NYC before & after and it's surreal. Those buildings were massive. RIP to all those who lost their lives 😔
@hilarymol6607
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. I'd normally say I enjoyed your reaction to the video, but I think it's more appropriate (and more accurate) to say that, as an American, I was touched by your reaction and am thankful that we have such love and support from across the pond.
@FrancisXLord
Жыл бұрын
I'm ashamed to say that I slept through that day. I remember my mother knocking at my door, hours after it happened, saying, 'I think you should get up. They're bombing New York.' Now I pictured German Laftwaffe flying over Broadway. I never could have imagined the 'bombs' in question could be passenger jets. The scary thing is that I heard jets passing overhead so often. Were planes going to start raining from the sky? Frightening times.
@monicapdx
Жыл бұрын
I had a severe migraine and was in bed the whole day and night of the 11th. I didn't know a thing until I signed in to a mail list the next day and started seeing condolences from our foreign members. Then I turned on the news... I felt guilty for that migraine for the longest time. I live on one of PDX's flight paths, and did feel it was weird I'd heard no planes, but was in too much pain to check anything. Later, we had fighter planes from the local Air National Guard flying patrols over the city. That was even more weird.
@Laura-mi3nv
Жыл бұрын
My dad was a pilot for United Airlines when this happened and he was in the air that morning. I remember dialing his cell phone for 4 hours straight until he finally answered. He'd been diverted to Dallas and was thankfully fine. When the pictures of the terrorists came out, he recognized one. The guy had been on another of his flights about 6 months earlier and had told my dad he was a pilot and would love to see the cockpit. My dad politely declined. He wrote an article about it for the local paper, unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available on their website or I'd link it.
@JennRighter
Жыл бұрын
9/11/2001 was my 21st birthday. It still hits me in the gut seeing footage from that day. I have a coworker with the same birthday, 9/11, but he’s 19 years old. Makes me think about how impossible it would be for someone to genuinely understand that day who wasn’t even born yet. I’ve stood under those towers. Never thought anything about them until they fell. Time goes by so fast. There will rapidly be the day that no one living ever saw those towers with their own eyes. And there’s something so tragic about that.
@jencrecelius3565
Жыл бұрын
NJ resident, live an hour and a half from the city. I was listening to that clip of Howard Stern in the car (4:34), just dropped my daughter off at preschool. Shocking and heartbreaking...
@citisoccer
Жыл бұрын
I'd say every American over the age of 10 on 9/11 will always remember exactly where they were when they heard the news, and exactly how they felt. 4 planes....WTC1, WTC2, Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania plane was Flight 93 which was supposedly headed for the White House or the Capital building. The passengers heard what was happening, and they fought back. They lost their lives, but they prevented another tragedy. A plane of heroes. And what caused them to collapse? Extreme heat melted support structures and a massive weight of floors started falling aka pancaking down. The weight gathered momentum and just slammed the entire buildings down.
@palexa188
Жыл бұрын
I remember when this happened. I was at school during recess and some of my friends came running to me and pulled me by the arm to the bar (we had a TV there) while they told me what happened in a panic. The school bar was full of mostly teachers and bar employees all looking at the TV and we arrived just in time to see the second tower get hit. It was a complete shock and I started panicking because I had family in NY working close to WTC at the time, and I spent the whole day stressed until I got home and found out that the family was ok that they had been on a business trip to California. It was a pretty stressful time.
@RealBelisariusCawl
Жыл бұрын
As someone who spent part of his youth in the commonwealth (NZ) but grew up in the US and lived through 9/11, one of the biggest things that this missed was the unity that happened here after the attacks. For this brief time, even though something horrible had happened and everyone was scared, everyone came together for each other. Everyone was scared, but they weren’t scared of their neighbours, they were scared of the uncertainty. They found COMFORT in each other. Left, right, black, white, none of it mattered. I don’t miss the fear. I do miss that SPIRIT.
@8paige8
Жыл бұрын
I was 8 when this happened. And I remember coming home after school and it being all over the news and my mom just crying. My heart still breaks for all those that lost loved ones that day. After this horrific act everyone in the United States was United. That is the America I want to live in. There is too much division. Why can’t we agree to disagree. We should fight for each other & not against each other. Prayers for brighter days in the U.S.A. We don’t need another tragedy to bring us together.
@lychan1529
Жыл бұрын
my babysitter was in the twin towers. she wasn’t a jumper, she was in the fire and couldn’t retrieve her body. i was only 2 when this event happened but she was a close friend of my mom’s. such a sad day it was
@Planesarecool737
Жыл бұрын
Proof?
@edwardcorey1071
Жыл бұрын
@@Planesarecool737 oh shut up
@lychan1529
Жыл бұрын
@@Planesarecool737 how the heck would i give you proof? i was a 2 year old and my mother knew her in high school when my grandma barely even took pictures in 1999. i don’t need to prove to you anything.
@Yardiegirl
Жыл бұрын
You should watch “Inside the twin towers” documentary. Absolutely heartbreaking and very well done. I lived an hour away from NYC when this happened. I worked at an hotel, and for DAYS we were booked solid because no one could enter New York or get on a plane.
@timreno72
Жыл бұрын
I'll never forget on 911 I just so happened to call in sick that day from my city public works job. Because I felt like crap I decided to take a hot bath while listening to the Howard Stern radio show that's on a 3hr delay from NY to here in Reno, NV. So what I heard was a delayed live broadcast as it happened blocks from the radio station. The next morning work day our whole crew was still in a bit of silent shock.
@VorchaKali
Жыл бұрын
What i found the most shocking are the videos of the people stuck in the top floors of the towers that couldn't be saved. The fires were so intense that people started jumping out of the windows. And the sounds that you heard when their bodies hit the ground was so loud, sickening, and horrifying.
@brooke_reiverrose2949
Жыл бұрын
I remember the footage of the firemen in the lobby on the ground floor hearing the loud noises and realizing what it was
Пікірлер: 1,2 М.