This report is spellbinding and beyond grim.
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I agree. Thankful there was no smartphones back then because people are so stupid, careless, media obsessed these days, they would film all the dead & wounded people just to get attention and a few likes on facebook. I can’t understand why everyone has to film everything these days. Literally they take pointless pics & videos of their dinner, cleaning, new clothes, groceries & upload it to social media. If people are getting bullied or hurt, fools be standing there recording it instead of helping. Surely I am not the only one who finds it all creepy, pointless, embarrassing & boring
There was a man who popped into the opticians to pick up his glasses on the way to work meaning was running slightly later than usual. It saved his life because he worked in the restaurant at the top of the North Tower and all of his colleagues were killed. He was featured in ‘The Falling Man’ documentary because he believed who knew him and worked with him.
If anyone is interested there is a book called ‘102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers. It’s an excellent but harrowing read. I didn’t know until I read it that people survived at the impact zone in the South Tower because the plane hit at an angle. I won’t write what they saw and experienced but as I’m sure you can imagine it’s the kind of stuff you’d never get over seeing. God knows how they live with it.
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I was 30 and working for the head office of a hotel group in Winchester and when I first heard the news on Radio 2 from Steve Wright we went straight to an unoccupied bedroom to watch it unfolding on the TV. Speaking to my sister too on the phone each time something terrible happened.
9 months later I was newly married and with my husband NYC was the first stop on our honeymoon - the time after 9/11 we didn't even know if our honeymoon would happen as we were flying with United Airlines. Visiting Ground Zero so soon after was very emotional and seeing all the missing posters around the church railings. We saw the "cross" that had been formed in situ which is now in the Memorial Museum. We then flew to Vegas and the exterior of New York New York hotel had been turned into a shrine with Fire Department and Police Department t-shirts pinned to the railing surrounding the "lake" containing the Statue of Liberty.
We have since returned to NYC many times over the years and have watched Ground Zero change over those 20 years. I have a friend who lives in Brooklyn and he lost his best friend who was a Fireman. He has never been able to visit to see his friend's name on the memorial as it is just too painful for him especially as my friend's birthday is 9/11.
9 months later I was newly married and with my husband NYC was the first stop on our honeymoon - the time after 9/11 we didn't even know if our honeymoon would happen as we were flying with United Airlines. Visiting Ground Zero so soon after was very emotional and seeing all the missing posters around the church railings. We saw the "cross" that had been formed in situ which is now in the Memorial Museum. We then flew to Vegas and the exterior of New York New York hotel had been turned into a shrine with Fire Department and Police Department t-shirts pinned to the railing surrounding the "lake" containing the Statue of Liberty.
We have since returned to NYC many times over the years and have watched Ground Zero change over those 20 years. I have a friend who lives in Brooklyn and he lost his best friend who was a Fireman. He has never been able to visit to see his friend's name on the memorial as it is just too painful for him especially as my friend's birthday is 9/11.
Is the only documentary I've seen that showed what it was like for people in New York who weren't directly involved, and those sitting watching from their apartments or on their way to work. It was interesting to see their reactions as it unfolded. I hadn't thought that there would be people living nearby who would end up being evacuated for example.I think that’s one of the reasons we all have such vivid memories of it. We normally see the news after it’s happened but there we were watching it all unfold in real time, the plane hitting the second tower, then we saw people jumping to their death and the towers collapsing. Then the news of the other hijacked places. It was just unbelievable.
I often wonder how it was for people who were there in New York seeing it with their own eyes rather than on TV. I dread to think of the long lasting impact on people, PTSD, anxiety etc
I’ve seen other documentaries too but I agree that one actually left me reeling. Lots of footage I’d never seen before.
I was 9 when it happened and had no idea what had gone on until i came home from school, went to put CBBC on like i always did and the news was on instead. I think the towers had probably just collapsed as i remember there just being clouds of smoke and being really confused. I remember being absolutely terrified and thinking bombs were going to start being dropped everywhere.
Since then i've had a huge morbid fascination with the twin towers. I'm not sure why, maybe because of how much it terrified me and I just need to understand it all? have watched so many documentaries over the years. I would really recommend 102 Minutes That Changed America, also if you can find it it's really worth watching '9/11' the documentary made by the french brothers who happened to be filming the firefighters before the events of 9/11 and ended up capturing the whole day in incredible detail.
I visited the 9/11 memorial in New York a few years ago and it's a beautiful memorial, I actually went on a walking tour taken by a man who had worked in the towers. It was really interesting seeing things such as the church that somehow remained standing even though everything else around it had collapsed. The museum itself is really well done. It was sad but incredibly interesting.
I think the thing I struggle to get my head around when watching documentaries about it is that you have absolutely no idea what is going on in those towers, hearing the phone calls and seeing people at the windows is the only way we know the absolute hell that was going on in there. If that happened today you'd have people in the buildings on facetime/twitter/instagram livestreaming their deaths i suppose. The information you'd have instantly would be overwhelming.
Since then i've had a huge morbid fascination with the twin towers. I'm not sure why, maybe because of how much it terrified me and I just need to understand it all? have watched so many documentaries over the years. I would really recommend 102 Minutes That Changed America, also if you can find it it's really worth watching '9/11' the documentary made by the french brothers who happened to be filming the firefighters before the events of 9/11 and ended up capturing the whole day in incredible detail.
I visited the 9/11 memorial in New York a few years ago and it's a beautiful memorial, I actually went on a walking tour taken by a man who had worked in the towers. It was really interesting seeing things such as the church that somehow remained standing even though everything else around it had collapsed. The museum itself is really well done. It was sad but incredibly interesting.
I think the thing I struggle to get my head around when watching documentaries about it is that you have absolutely no idea what is going on in those towers, hearing the phone calls and seeing people at the windows is the only way we know the absolute hell that was going on in there. If that happened today you'd have people in the buildings on facetime/twitter/instagram livestreaming their deaths i suppose. The information you'd have instantly would be overwhelming.
When I went to the 9/11 museum I bought this book, 102 minutes. It’s brilliant (strange word to use considering what it’s about but), follows loads of different people in the towers (those who got out and those who didn’t). I would really recommend it, read it a few times now and it still really pulls at the heart strings x
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I was the same, looking to watch citv and everything was replaced with rolling coverage from New York. I was 10 and although our headteacher had come in to the classroom and told us what had happened I don't think I quite understood the scale of it until I was home watching that footage on the TV.
The musical Come From Away tells the story of the people who were stranded in Gander in Canada when the US airspace closed and their planes had to divert. It's so moving. I saw it in London in 2019 but a filming of the Broadway production just premiered on Apple TV today and I definitely recommend watching it.
A British survivor, Janine Brooks was on Good Morning Britain this morning. It was so emotional hearing her recount the day, she was on the 84th (I think) floor of the South Tower.
The father of Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson was killed, he was a Fire Fighter.
www.firehero.org
The father of Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson was killed, he was a Fire Fighter.
Scott Matthew Davidson - National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Scott Davidson was a man of many talents-firefighter‚ athlete‚ teacher‚ coach‚ and bartender just to name a few. He gave of himself to his community in many
www.firehero.org
I have got to 2hours 16mins and still no mention, will report back after my next stint.
I think it might have been scrubbed from the internet, I've found links to old videos that have been taken down. She must have said it seeing as she's been quoted so much!
"If you're just joining us, the entire eastern seaboard of the United States has been decimated by a terrorist attack."
I really feel for all the folks in the area who were maybe just walking through that now have lung problems or cancer from the debris. Think of all the asbestos in that building plus the chemicals from the jet fuel etc. I read some of those people were hit hard by covid as their lungs were already damaged.
A lot of the original footage seems to have vanished from YouTube. At one time you could find the BBC, Sky and all the American rolling news coverage, hours of it, but most of it has gone now.
I was seventeen.
I heard about the first plane hitting the WTC online. I turned on the news and saw the second plane hit the towers in real time.
I remember phoning my mum when she was at work and we talked about it but were in shock like everyone. And not long after it happened we went to London for the day and seeing armed police everywhere was so creepy.
I will always remember that day and the aftermath so vividly even though I wasn't directly affected. The images of people jumping from the towers wil never not threaten to bring tears to my eyes when I'm reminded of it. I can't watch any documentaries or footage even twenty years later, it's too harrowing.
I heard about the first plane hitting the WTC online. I turned on the news and saw the second plane hit the towers in real time.
I remember phoning my mum when she was at work and we talked about it but were in shock like everyone. And not long after it happened we went to London for the day and seeing armed police everywhere was so creepy.
I will always remember that day and the aftermath so vividly even though I wasn't directly affected. The images of people jumping from the towers wil never not threaten to bring tears to my eyes when I'm reminded of it. I can't watch any documentaries or footage even twenty years later, it's too harrowing.
I wonder if they are worried about it being used to radicalise people? No other reason for deleting so much content makes sense.
It was literally the only reason I can think of. It can't be purely down to copyright because most material on Youtube is copyrighted and stays up for years at a time.
Although it could just be Youtube being powermad because they can, they do that a lot now.
I had been watching Neighbours too (I remember it quite vividly too. I was 17 and watching the end of Neighbours (lunchtime ep), when the credits cut to the image of the second plane heading for the south tower, I saw it hit live, unbelievable!
I honestly thought they’d mistakenly put a disaster film on! It was so surreal!
) and was probably waiting to watch Murder She Wrote or Diagnosis Murder but the news came on instead and me and my Mum just watched in disbelief it as it happened.I was 18, so it was a pivotal time for me - finished college that June and had just started working full-time hours at the beginning of September (night shifts, hence me being at home in afternoon!). I just remember thinking nothing would ever be the same, I can't describe it very well...I suppose it was the first time I had watched* a major tragedy as it unfolded albeit via a television screen.
I think the first plane had already struck before the BBC broadcast began, but they were live when the second plane hit? Then the realisation that shapes falling were the people jumping, then the buildings collapsing....wow (in a bad way).
I went to work that evening and everyone - colleagues, customers - were all like, "did that actually happen?". A weird air.
The newspapers the next day...so many images that have stayed in my head, like the people just COATED in dust, and esp. the firefighter looking straight in the camera as he was going up the stairs as everyone else went down. I can't remember if he survived or not.
I know I wasn't there physically (not even in the same country). But I believe watching it as it happened has had a lasting effect on me. The world seemed more scary, more serious.
I always take a moment on the anniversary to remember all the people who lost their lives that day. I cannot believe it's been 20 years.
*the only other major event that had happened in my lifetime was Princess Diana's death but that didn't affect me half as much. And it wasn't a live broadcast.
(Coincidentally I was also at home on my day off when the London bombings happened, so watched that as it happened too
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She was on a documentary called A Tale of Two Towers back in 2002, which is very good and worth a watch:A British survivor, Janine Brooks was on Good Morning Britain this morning. It was so emotional hearing her recount the day, she was on the 84th (I think) floor of the South Tower.
The father of Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson was killed, he was a Fire Fighter.
Scott Matthew Davidson - National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Scott Davidson was a man of many talents-firefighter‚ athlete‚ teacher‚ coach‚ and bartender just to name a few. He gave of himself to his community in many
I've said before that I think 9/11 was the first "social media" event, looking at it in hindsight.
I was 12 and I remember coming home from one of my first days back in school after the summer holidays - I walked into the house and my mum was watching the news which was unusual. I asked her what it was and in my memory we actually saw the second tower get hit? However I may have embellished that memory because I don’t think the timing is right. I remember seeing pictures of Osama Bin Laden and hearing the word “taliban” which I thought was weird because at school we were reading Shakespeare’s the Tempest and there was a character called Calliban. I’d also never really heard of a terrorist attack before, after that day it’s all I heard in school. I was terrified there would be a nuclear war. I don’t think the magnitude of what happened really sunk in, I was too young to feel grief about something so unconnected to me.