9/11 Explained

[@iammrbeat]

Making this video was a bit cathartic for me. I teared up several times looking at and editing old footage. I am probably more proud of how this one turned out than any other video I have ever made. Hopefully you get something out of it. Also, this video has been perhaps unsurprisingly demonetized. I actually am not a fan of ads being played in front of my videos anyway, nor am I a fan of doing sponsorships. However, that's a big reason why I'm able to make these. Really though, I'd rather folks just donate so I don't ever have to worry about ads or sponsorships. In a perfect world, viewers like you would be the only "sponsors." Right now, there are two ways you can donate. You can donate on Paypal at www.paypal.me/mrbeat or Patreon at www.patreon.com/iammrbeat. Thank you for considering to donate.

[@revolutionaryape7568]

Nice video Mr Beat, I also feel emotional when I see innocent people dying just because of religion. It's very sensitive issue. We hope this international terrorism should be defeated soon. Peace, Unity, Freedom, Liberty and Democracy are the solutions.

[@bluelivesmurder5696]

When black people talk about their past traumas, they are told to get over it and it's in the past. So this has my same sentiments.

[@revolutionaryape7568]

@@bluelivesmurder5696 We should respect sentiments of every people.

[@bluelivesmurder5696]

@@revolutionaryape7568 But the sentiments of black people are often not respected as we are routinely told to "get over it".

[@revolutionaryape7568]

@@bluelivesmurder5696 Yeah......

[@AngelsGuardian555]

My parents met because of 9/11 actually. It’s my favorite story from them. My dad’s a pilot and was half way through a trip that day. He had a morning flight so when he got up his coworkers told him “Rich. We’re not finishing this trip.” And when he asked why they told him to look at the TV. My dad told me he had so many emotions going through him that he just froze and cried a little. He was from New Jersey and knew people through his friends and family so it was a lot for him to process, especially since he started to watch the TV a minute or two before the second plane hit. My mom was also on a trip, but she was working for the FAA. She lived in DC so she was terrified when the pentagon was hit. Not to mention, because she was part of the FAA, she was overwhelmed by how hectic it got so quickly. When the airports opened and flights we’re happening again, both my parents were rushing through the airport to catch a plane to DC (it was one stop to get back to NJ for my dad). I love my parents story so much because they *literally* ran into each other. My mom dropped some notes on the floor and my dad helped pick them up. My dad thought my mom was cute so he helped her carry her things to their gate. When they realized they were on the same flight, they sat together while waiting and on the flight. My mom gave my dad her number after they landed, and now they’ve been married for almost 20 years. Its my favorite story, because, to me, it’s a perfect example that even the worst things can cause a little good.

[@AngelsGuardian555]

Also direct quotes about their first impression after, quite literally, running into each other (because I think it’s amazing) Dad: “I thought she looked pretty cool for a government worker with her red hair. Plus that beautiful smile just had me in awe.” (My mom for a long time had borderline bright red hair) Mom: “I thought he looked hot in his uniform, and he was such a dork it was cute, so I gave him my number!”

[@justisolated5621]

​@@Alivirgo8.24 I was picturing the same thing, that would actually be a success

[@dasteezyust4717]

Sounds made up

[@quinntang3315]

@@dasteezyust4717 God of our Savior in heaven, please change the past so that My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be reborn back in June 20th, 1993 and I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid IEP Meetings and Summer School by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old in 1999, spend more times with my sister, my aunt, my uncle, my mom, my dad, my mom and dad’s friends, my cousins and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old in 2009 and a 15 year old in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old in 2007 as a second chance and change timeline history back in 2001 so the US Government can create a diversion by calling the Airport Security to defeat Osama Bin Laden and the 9/11 terrorists to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania.

[@quinntang3315]

@@justisolated5621 God of our Savior in heaven, please change the past so that My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be reborn back in June 20th, 1993 and I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid IEP Meetings and Summer School by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old in 1999, spend more times with my sister, my aunt, my uncle, my mom, my dad, my mom and dad’s friends, my cousins and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old in 2009 and a 15 year old in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old in 2007 as a second chance and change timeline history back in 2001 so the US Government can create a diversion by calling the Airport Security to defeat Osama Bin Laden and the 9/11 terrorists to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania.

[@DevilFrog61]

With my uncle at the 9/11 museum in NYC …he was a firefighter 20yrs of service, who responded to the towers, there’s a wall of pictures of all the Firemen who died and he was just standing there telling me stories and memories with each one ..he knew like 90% of that wall personally. So surreal.

[@Heavens-Humanaterian-Army]

It will be devastating for him to learn that there was no terror attack and the only enemy is your own government...they did this.

[@padmagarbhadasa3388]

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[@cake_9510]

And because of greedy politicians like Mitch McConnell, those people had to wait years to get compensated for what they did that day. It's revolting that firefighters and EMS workers who died or were permanently traumatized trying to fight our safety trying to save the victims were just tossed aside.

[@Spider-Nalgas]

@@cake_9510. American citizens get the short end of the stick, it seems.

[@TDBurrow]

@@Spider-Nalgasseems like they do, mate! We’re lucky here 👍🏻 🇬🇧

[@mclovinlife4018]

The fact that United 93 was at 20% capacity and they fought back to take the plane back is amazing. They’re heroes

[@mikeklassic78]

Lol.....

[@0Logan05]

All Staged… Clearly Staged… Highest Tree-Son possible!.

[@AlphamaleAO]

@@mikeklassic78 lol they are sheep

[@virginiagrant5234]

​@@mikeklassic78what's funny?

[@TVilleLegend229]

The fact that nobody on any of the other planes did anything is even more mind-blowing to me! There is no way all those people could not have fought back! Story just doesn't make sense to me! Never will!!!

[@escoddy8706]

The phone calls always break my heart, no innocent person should have to suffer such a dreadful harrowing fate, knowing they were doomed.

[@fukyutube2279]

They were made on the ground. You probably weren't even born then but you couldn't make cell phone calls from planes at that altitude and that speed in 2001. Go and learn something. Watch The New Pearl Harbour. If you can find it. KZbin loves to hide it. And I bet you still think Building 7 just collapsed from "normal office fires" too? 😂

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Well this brought back a lot of memories and feelings. I was 9, almost 10. It was a regular school day, none of our teachers mentioned anything about what had happened. In retrospect I'm shocked they were able to contain their grief. I hopped off of the bus that afternoon to see my parents waiting for me in the driveway. At first I thought I was in trouble. They explained that men from the Middle East had flown planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They may as well have told me that a UFO had landed on the White House lawn. My family went to New York for a long-planned vacation about a month later. We walked around Ground Zero, along that chain link fence you mentioned. There was still a fine mist in the air (I don't want to know what we breathed in that day) and the whole neighborhood smelled like how pennies taste. Great video, Mr. Beat.

[@narglefargle]

"The whole neighborhood smelled like how pennies taste." I've never been to New York, but that line alone put me right there at that time.

[@iammrbeat]

Dang, that was poetic. My colleague said that smell was in the air for months.

[@oscarbelmare_22]

It is awful that your school didn’t tell you

[@QueenCityHornets]

I was 8 or 9 myself. Had just started 3rd grade in Raleigh, North Carolina. Everyone had just gotten to school which started at I believe 9am. My mom drove me to school and we heard something about an accidental plane crash in NY on the radio. Didn't think much of it then. By like 930am or 10am our teacher had turned the TV on. All of us 3rd graders were watching in disbelief. Our teacher kept making and taking phone calls on the class phone I remember. Then all of a sudden the first building collapsed. Some of my classmates started screaming and more started crying. The teacher had just noticed what has happened and quickly ran over and turned the TV off. It wasn't long after that that the principal made the announcement that school was canceled for the day and we would all be going home shortly. My mom left work and picked me up. I remember asking a lot of questions on the way home and with each question I could see now remembering it that my mom was trying to hold back tears. We went home and met my brother and dad there. We watched the news. All day. Everywhere you went, the news was playing. Gas stations, restaurants, everywhere that had a TV: it was on a news channel. So many places had closed down. Everyone looked like they had just seen a ghost for the next few days. Anyways, so we went to church that night. Something we didn't do very often anymore after we left our original Baptist church in like 1999ish because of the way they fired the pastor. The Mehtodist church we went to was completely full. There were at least 50+ people standing in the back and out the door into the lobby. So many tears. So much togetherness it felt like. I've never experienced that before like that and never sense. It just felt like: THIS.. this is what the founding fathers Invisioned one day (albeit probably just all the white people): every American together putting their differences aside to defend our country and Constitution in a time it was tested.

[@zola__]

Yeah, I remember my teacher (who's birthday was on 9/11) had told me when she was at the school (since she was an older teacher at my school) that briefly before they had started teaching, another teacher called a few ppl over, which I believe was the librarian at the time and watched it happen live on television, she told us she did cry, and never expected something so tragic to happen on her own birthday.

[@ninesalive]

The phone call from the woman on the plane almost made me cry. I can't imagine being in a situation so hopeless as she was in.

[@MohamedMagdi790]

I literally took off my earphones, I couldn't listen to it

[@PRE69]

I almost cried thinking that my dad was rushing into the north tower just 20 or so minutes before that

[@lonemaus562]

@Thomas Rogue shut up loser

[@toooydoeur]

​@Thomas Rogue grow up

[@marquirasheed]

@He Who Knows facts lol. I used to feel sad for the woman on the plane until I realized there were never any passengers

[@Timas-lt1le]

The lady on the phone call was sooo calm for such a situation..

[@fightingwarrior5893]

I was 7 years old coming home after school. My father told me this was happening and we watched it on the news. As you get older and learn more about it over the years it’s very heartbreaking. God bless all of those poor souls that day.

[@UsefulCharts]

My memories: My firstborn son had just been born (the one who now hosts the KZbin gaming channel "Moses B"). He was a preemie so was still in the hospital. I remember watching the footage on a hospital TV and thinking, "What kind of world will my son live in?" Then, being Canadian, I can remember a steady stream of big airplanes landing one after another at our small city airport nearby (planes were not allowed to land in the US that day).

[@iammrbeat]

Wow, "what kind of world will my son live in?" It's been a crazy world, indeed. I am often nostalgic for the Before Times not only of COVID but of the Before Times of 9/11.

[@alexd6393]

@@iammrbeat My first born was to come 2 month later and for a while I felt the same than usefulchart (thanks for your work by the way). As history lover, I also felt the same then you Mr Beat, as I would love to better understand how people were living (and how not accurate are our analysis)… But that’s just feeling… Rationally our time is the most secure than it as ever been. (Not talking about the future…). You have around 40+, before the 20th century you will be over the life expectancy, in the 20th century between 2 world wars and the Cold War… So, I understand these feelings, but I think there are far too many people who think wrongly “it was better in the past”, and I hope you good have a more realistic view of the past time as you have a good knowledge of them. Thanks for your fantastic work.

[@JupiterKnight]

;-;

[@JohnAxelAbel]

As a 7 yr old watching that day in my 2nd grade classroom live, my innocent mind wondered “where is the plane that just entered the building?”

[@alexd6393]

@@JohnAxelAbel and now, I guess you know that a plane who crash full speed let very small remains? It is very different then a plane trying to land but crashing, where you can see full part of the plane.

[@ShivamSharma-zd8lw]

Can you imagine being a first responder on that day and having the guts to run into those burning, smoke-filled buildings to pull the wounded out. Respect.

[@slashismyhommie8182]

Can you also imagine that the Clinton's orchestrated it to make Bush look bad in front of a bunch of 2nd graders in at the time a totally woke state of Florida???

[@ninethetwotailedfox]

Frl..

[@DROGOC0P]

imagine seeing the planes hit the buildings, and instead of running away, you run towards them. balls of steel

[@liamweaver2944]

You can get a taste of what that was like. An FDNY firefighter named James Hanlon, and his friends, French brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet made what is arguably the rawest documentary ever made. Initially, they set out to make a film about a probationary (meaning rookie) firefighter (also known in the fire department as probie), and in Gédéon's words "show how a boy can become a man in 9 months", which is their probationary period. On September 11th at 8:30 AM, the unit they were shooting with, Engine 7 Ladder 1, received a call for an odor of gas in the street. Jules went with them. Arriving a few minutes later, they checked the area for any signs of gas, and everything seemed normal. Until 8:46 AM. The firefighters and Jules heard the roar of jet engines as he looked up just in time to see Flight 11 hit the North Tower, filming 1 of only 2 videos of the North Tower being hit. Immediately, the firefighter of Engine 7 Ladder 1 dropped everything, jumped on the rigs, and headed for the World Trade Center. And the rest is history. The documentary is posted on KZbin, right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZayqJRmqdeBe7M This documentary is an absolute must watch.

[@padmagarbhadasa3388]

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[@davidaltizer]

Here we are… another anniversary. Thank you for making this very thoughtful, well researched video to reference with modern findings and updated information. I remember being in my middle school classroom when it happened. TV was on in all the classrooms. No work was done. Then I remember going to my church and we had a prayer day for the victims. We all shared stories and information. All the neighbors talked on the street. There really was wild patriotism. Horrible loss. I pray the victims continue to feel peace and comfort this year and every year that passes by. We will never forget

[@zendoargos4988]

I had a similar experience to Mr. Beat. I was in college at Illinois State University and I was living in Whitten Hall, a dormitory that has since been demolished. I only had one afternoon class that day so I wasn't up super early. I turned on the TV just a few minutes before the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. I watched the rest of the day's events unfold glued to my TV until it was time for my late afternoon class. The Professor for that class (a brilliant and narcissistic man) said that it wasn't happening on our campus so there was no reason to cancel the class and actually gave us a pop quiz just to dock points from the students who hadn't shown up for class that day. The following weeks were very interesting in my classes because I was a Physics major so we did a lot of analysis of the collapses of the two towers. That horrific tragedy and terrorist attack turned into a valuable teaching moment for future Physicists and Engineers in terms of how close structures like the World Trade Center are to collapse during their entire lifetime and how little (comparitively speaking) it takes to bring them down.

[@lenglain]

As a New Yorker the events were shocking as hell and I'll never forget them as they changed me profoundly. But what still haunts me are all the "Missing" posters plastered all around the city in the weeks after the attacks. Thousands and thousands of faces lining the walls of subways, covering phone booths...just everywhere all these smiling faces. Gone. I didn't lose anyone in the attacks but it was still torture.

[@EE-ie9gm]

Still feels like 9/11 was a scene from a movie

[@BMarie774]

This is a bit long, sorry, only read if you feel like it. I wasn’t in New York, but was in Maryland, very VERY close to the White House and pentagon. But the most traumatic thing about 9/11 for me wasn’t the scary lockdown at our school or having my mom come get us, pulling us out into the bright beautiful day as stony faced officers swarmed our school with massive guns and vans (I’ve heard it was a staging area, and I’ve also heard they had reports of schools being targets or feared schools being targets, thus why they were there. I’m not sure which is true). The most traumatic thing for me was when I was a first grader when this happened, and I made a comment about the incessant, none stop beeping in all the news footage, as it was playing on the tv at the bar part of my moms work. I thought they were smoke detectors. A firefighter family friend who was bluntly honest asked me if I’d ever seen firefighters wiggling their hips when they all stand around. I had, in fact, at our local Oktoberfest firefighter demonstration. I said yes, not knowing where it was going and then he informs me of PASS devices and that firefighters do that because if they stand still too long, their PASS device will start beeping, this way if they lose consciousness or need aid in a fire there’s a audible beacon to lead to them. And those beeps in all the 9/11 footage…were the PASS devices of over 300 dead firemen. As a first grade kid that number, over 300 was unfathomable and that was just the firemen. And they were all dead. And each of those beeps signaled the lack of movement from them. Which lead me to laying in bed at night thinking about what it must’ve been like to be in the towers, as a firefighter, or on the plane. I became riddled with anxiety and we lived near two airports, and I just.. couldn’t handle it. If a plane flew over I’d have to run and hide. For YEARS. And those late night revelations also led me to realize I was foolish for thinking someone had caught all the people I saw jumping on the news footage. I assumed the fire department would have ways of catching them. And I wasn’t even in New York, so I can’t even imagine what it must’ve been like to have what happened there invade literally all your senses. The smell of the rubble, the sound of the PASS devices or rescue crews, the feeling both physical and emotional, the sight of the missing posters and the cars still in the parking lots and the distinct lack of buildings and the rubble. I wasn’t even there and it traumatized the shit out of me, so truly… I cant fathom it, and I’m so sorry to everyone who was there and had to witness it. I can’t imagine the fear of just “what’s going to happen next?” “Are we all under attack?”. I can’t imagine..

[@LebronJames-sb2cj]

ur from india wym

[@lenglain]

@@LebronJames-sb2cj how am I from India?

[@desertman3326]

@@EE-ie9gm if u pay attention to some of the movies in the 90s they was showing predictive programming hinting st what was to come the satanic lucifarian in the government help with this attack

[@plushman3685]

I was a senior in high school, was laid up in bed with a broken back from a car crash the day before. My dad was a 30 year Dallas firefighter; I remember him crying when the buildings came down saying over and over, “all my brothers are dying in there, they’re all dying”

[@anna-gt2mu]

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[@Skipper-rn2ji]

why were so many people injured and watched 911 from their bed on the tv?

[@LebronJames-sb2cj]

shut up

[@truebloodish]

On the 22nd anniversary, I remember coming home from kindergarten. Getting off the bus with my older brother, we entered the house to both my parents glued to the TV. My mother was sobbing and my father was consoling her. I didn't realize how much of an impact these events had until years later. But even now I am still so fascinated by everything. I appreciate that you coved this some years ago.

[@LWsquidward]

What is “the 22nd anniversary” exactly? If it means the 22nd anniversary of 9/11 then why is this all in past tense?

[@tiffprendergast]

@@LWsquidward9/11/22

[@LWsquidward]

@@tiffprendergast well thats the 21st anniversary

[@LWsquidward]

@@tiffprendergast also that means that this person is in 2nd grade and i just plain dont believe that

[@surpasubliminal]

Best video I've seen that managed to casually slide a few puns while still being respectful. Bravo.

[@ThunderHOWL16]

hearing that call from united 93 made me cry… what a fucking tragedy

[@iammrbeat]

Yeah it made me tear up quite a bit.

[@thisisAB]

@spence What is the purpose of you being a 9/11 denier? Real actual people received phone calls from people aboard planes on before, and after September 11th.. What a strange thing to comment, sounds like you're fairly young and haven't connected with generations older than you much

[@neiana]

@spence Seems you are either a child or someone who's never been in a plane. I remember my father, aunt & grandfather all making phone calls from airplanes while I sat next to them. Some planes actually had phones in the seatbacks so you could pay to use them.

[@robonick3607]

@@thisisAB he didn’t deny 9/11 lmao he denied the existence of the phone call

[@ussliberty4631]

Mr. Beat was celebrating on a jersey rooftop when it happened

[@osberswgaming]

Seriously, I don’t know how Mr Beat does it. He’s a teacher, which obviously takes a ton of work and is one of the most stressful jobs the the country, and STILL is able to get a 10 mins+ long video every Friday, this one being over half an hour. This guy has either serious time-management skill, or has sleep deficiency. What a guy

[@iammrbeat]

Mainly sleep deficiency. Thanks for the kind words.

[@osberswgaming]

Meanwhile me who is stressed about getting my 30 sec shorts video out before midnight lol

[@morecheaper]

They say when you do what you love, you never work a day.. it's apparent that Mr. Beat has a special talent for storytelling, with his relatable, down to earth approach makes him a huge success in my opinion.

[@williamwhitten7820]

"Seriously, I don’t know how Mr Beat does it," -- I do, he avoids the real questions of how and why 9/11 actually occurred.

[@mysryuza]

He’s a better and engaging teacher than most of what I had

[@jdangelo47]

You did a great job on this. Keep it up September on September 11, 2001 I was in middle school and I was in the principals office in trouble and the TV was on and I couldn’t even tell anybody because I thought I was watching a movie. It was so unreal it stays with me till this day because watching, those planes go into those building and watching those building crumble and I know that there were thousands of people in there no human being can take that kind of pain and pray for the families and their sanity,loss.

[@ICEPEAYT]

Being a 2007 kid, I’ve always been used to living in a post 9/11 world. I’ve always used to ask why the airports were so secured and restrictive of what people were allowed to bring onboard, etc. It wasn’t until I was around 10 that I started to realize how big of an impact that this tragic event had on not just NYC, but our country as a whole. My heart goes out to all of those people who were both in the towers/planes, and those who sacrificed their lives to save others. I can’t imagine what it must have felt like to expect to see your everyday weather news, only to tune into what is in my opinion, the most important event in our countries history. My grandfather was supposed to be in the North Tower that very day, fortunately he was running late to the meeting. So that lallygagging actually saved his life.

[@bibus2282]

It impacted the whole world honestly, the world will never be the same

[@ICEPEAYT]

@@bibus2282 That I can sadly agree with.

[@Epic_C]

Unfortunately with all of the open borders today, I have a feeling something this big will happen again soon. These hijackers were here legally with visas although they were already on the feds radar. Just think about who is coming over without the need for visas now...

[@eddyv6731]

Yup on top of tsa, surveillance got kicked up all around with the patriot acr

[@LWsquidward]

I think seth macfarlene and michael jackson were also late to getting on one of those planes too

[@EforEvery]

Even for the best of historians, it’s difficult to add a human feel or touch when talking about events of the past, especially with something as monumental and overbearing as a topic like this. Of anything you have made so far, this video had one of the finest balances of imagery, emotion, narration, and analysis. I really appreciated your retelling of your own personal experience as well. Great job Mr. Beat!

[@iammrbeat]

Wow, what kind words...thank you so much buddy. I do feel like I poured so much into this that I was worried I wouldn't find that balance. Your comment means so much that I apparently shouldn't worry. 🙂

[@daysseasons6537]

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[@TheJudoJoker]

I was only 7 at the time of the attacks, but my dad and I took a vacation to NYC in July 2001, one week after the meeting where it's believed the attackers agreed on the targets. My dad and I both went to the World Trade Center, went to the top, then ate at Windows on the World. Not many people my age can say they've even seen the WTC, much less been inside. But it's especially haunting to know that I met people who died on September 11th, and that I was there in the final stages of the planning, in which the attackers had already picked the twin towers as a target.

[@iammrbeat]

😳 Wow. Thanks for sharing that.

[@ObaidFaisal]

nice so your 25-26 right am 12 your mich older i wasnt alive

[@kazakhdude]

I was -6 when this happened

[@NWA744]

I was also the same age as you. I have very faint memories from my fourth birthday in the late 90s when my family took a trip to New York City; it was a beautiful, cloudless day in June. As a small child, I was mostly enamored by the Statue of Liberty, but I do remember seeing the towers on the Manhattan skyline from the Liberty Island ferry. My father was back in New York that October on a cloudy day, and snapped a photo of a US flag at half mast with the Twin Towers as a backdrop. We randomly stumbled upon that photo again after looking through old albums a few years after 9/11, and that photo hit rather hard.

[@TaeSunWoo]

‘93-er here, in my family I’m the “cutoff” since all my cousins older than me got to visit. We were supposed to go to NYC in ‘02 for Christmas but switched back to the usual Disney for unfortunate reasons

[@daveherring6847]

This video was well done, you stayed objective on a very subjective topic. On 9/11, I was an Army recruiter in San Diego. Because of the time difference most people (like I did) watched it on the morning news as they were getting ready for work. The morning news “speculated” that more attacks could happen to us on the West Coast. Since everyone watched it before they left for work, a lot of people chose to stay home. So that morning there was little to no traffic, except for the police, which it seemed like every cop was called in for duty. On that day I had to take some applicants to MEPS first thing in the morning, so the night before I had driven home what we called the “G-Jet” which was just our government vehicle (a sedan with government license plates). When I went into work to report for duty, I honestly drove over 100 mph, past several cops who caught up but when they saw me in uniform and my U.S. Gov plates, they just gave me a salute and went on their way… so that morning we all used I5 as a raceway driving our “G-Jets” with the Cops leaving us alone….. looking back it was a stupid thing to do but, at the time we did have a bit of fun….

[@ReuHR]

This video was taken down for a phew weeks because I was looking for now it’s finally back this is my favourite mr beat video

[@emilianozamora399]

Being born after 9/11 I've only ever heard stories and seen the footage, but growing up it was such a common discussion and engrained into second graders minds. I didn't even understand why it was so tragic until a few years ago when it suddenly hit me how terrifying the prospect of 9/11 actually is

[@TheLily97232]

Especially when you know about all the other attacks that happened

[@cookiechaser126]

I live in Toronto Canada. It was scary for us too. I can tell you that girls were in the hallways of my school crying and we were all let go for the day, after tye buildings fell. It was one of scariest and historically transforming days. Life became, before 911 and after 911. Like two different worlds. People jumping 100 floors to their death to avoid being burned alive or inhaling smoke. Sad and scary.

[@Heavens-Humanaterian-Army]

It was fake...don't belive this bs...it was holograms flying in to a controlled demolition done by the government witch runs the fake media.

[@tonypadilla4906]

Must be strange being born post-9/11. Even if your aren't from the US

[@NewNormalWorldOrder]

What’s ACTUALLY terrifying about the event… is that most people still believe the beyond-insane, obvious fairytale of an official fiction…

[@stevencaruso825]

I was born in late '97 and that makes me a Gen Z. Specifically because I'm among the first to learn about 9/11 from a History Class instead of from a News Broadcast.

[@iammrbeat]

That's a quick and easy way to define "Gen Z"

[@alphabettical1]

@@iammrbeat and it's used a lot! I think remembering Covid (if it ever goes away enough) will become the next generation's signifier. It's a particularly interesting comparison when I think of how travel has changed after them both.

[@user-tq9vs6fc9u]

You learned about it from a history class? We just learned about it every anniversary.

[@squal6216]

I was born in 98 and remember watching it on tv live. I lived in NJ and remember my mom calling friends who worked nearby

[@user-tq9vs6fc9u]

@@squal6216 same year, but I have zero memories of this. Apparently I was in the living room as my parents watched it.

[@mjgasiecki]

I’ve suffered multiple concussions that have pretty much wiped the hard drive of any memories before age 17…unfortunately, this day is still vivid to me, even at age 33

[@seancrockett896]

I LOVE that you're from my area. Love the KU dorm backdrop. What a day that was. We will never forget.

[@CynicalHistorian]

I was in the 8th grade when this happened. Found out about it in my first period math class, then was watching live when the second plane hit during the next period (geography). A decade later, I'd fight in Afghanistan and even turned 21-years-old there. Joined the military to pay for college, and began studying the history of American violence because of my time in the Army, so given my profession I'm still deeply affected by all of this. Oddly enough, I was born the same month as Al Qaeda formed. My entire life has been defined by this one event all the way on the other side of the continent

[@cryptan1779]

And you secured not a single life, no hate, but you basically helped US stay in Afghanistan and suck opium.

[@Ruby_V_]

@@cryptan1779 We all understand here that the war on terrorism has been almost nothing but problematic. Don't be a dick about it.

[@JupiterKnight]

sad

[@CynicalHistorian]

@@cryptan1779 "no hate" - proceeds with bigotry

[@adamingi]

@@CynicalHistorian strange guy

[@LegoPostPresidency]

My mother and her friends originally were gonna go to New York for a vacation on the week of the attacks, but two weeks earlier, my grandfather had gotten into a car accident and he fractured his back, so my mother (a nurse) and her friends decided to postpone their trip to New York so she could take care of my grandfather. The day of the attacks, my mother was at my grandparents house taking care of my grandfather and she had left him alone in the living room for about two minutes to get his medication when news coverage of the attacks was playing on the television. My grandfather was in tears while watching that, when my mother came back to the living room and saw my grandfather crying about what he saw on the television and thought she had left a horror film playing on the television on accident and then changed the channel. She found out later in the day it was all but a horror film, it was an attack on our country.

[@joemcmurtrey1]

Great documentary, or history lesson you could say. I remember that day like yesterday. Working on the ranch in Nebraska, we heard a plane hit. Turned the news on and watched it unfold. Anger, fear, sadness, I couldn't help but cry. I spent 21 years in the military after that, spending time in Afghanistan. You cover the topic well, I appreciate that very much.

[@just_dom144]

I remember getting ready for school, third grade, and my mom called me into her room and told me I had to watch this with her. We just sat on her bed, in silence, watching the news as the second plane hit. To this day, I’m so grateful she allowed me to watch with her instead of shielding it from me.

[@padmagarbhadasa3388]

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[@damonculbert5853]

When it’s something so important, such as what happened on 9/11, it should not be censored or shielded away from people it still needs to be taught, and the men and women who gave their lives to save the innocent need to be remembered.

[@TaeSunWoo]

Same vibes of 7 year old me sitting in my granny’s lap eating toasted raisin bread. I remember her part praying/part on the phone with one of my billion aunts/part hoping that I wouldn’t ask about the people falling

[@gocubs1815]

The largest rescue mission in the history of the fire service. They evacuated something like 15,000+ people from both towers before they came down.

[@iammrbeat]

Heroes

[@gocubs1815]

@@iammrbeat and not to mention that radio traffic from the FDNY indicates that some firefighters DID make it all the way to the upper floors before the collapse

[@lob1523]

God Bless them all

[@lauraw353]

This… doesn’t sound right. Source?

[@gocubs1815]

@@lauraw353 "The National Institute of Standards and Technology estimated that approximately 17,400 civilians were in the World Trade Center complex at the time of the attacks." Minus the ~3000 who died

[@BobZombie8806]

Randomly found your channel. Good stuff bro

[@leonecm215]

I was at a funeral. It was my junior year of HS...I had a friend od and I remember waiting in the line and being told what happened then listening on the radio on the way to the burial. I will never forget walking home that day it was so quiet all you could hear was peoples tv all listening to the news! It was a beautiful day so everyone had windows open and all. The next few days and weeks was actually beautiful the way everyone came together i woll never forget that feeling!

[@imaginewt9616]

As a veteran of the War on Terror, I can personally say that not only was the entire thing just overwhelming in it's mental brutality, but even just walking through a small village in Afghanistan gave you the feeling that hundreds of thousands of other villages are around the continent like this, devastated, war torn and nearly abandoned.

[@1minuteofgaming596]

Whats your opinion on war on terror. You guys found the Iraqi weapon of mass destruction yet?

[@imaginewt9616]

@@1minuteofgaming596 I was Canadian Ground forces, so I wasn't present in Iraq at the time. My opinion is that the US was attacked, and responded how they felt necessary, and we helped them as their allies. My opinion on the WoT extended edition, going after Iraq, Libya and other countries was a bit much, but Afghanistan was a measured one.

[@1minuteofgaming596]

@@imaginewt9616 Sad. Afghanistan always tried to hand over laden to US in one condition- US must stop bombing Afghanistan. Bushy rejected the offer. Laden was Afghanistan's trump card to force US to stop its madness. Afghans were very much willing to play that card. They are not Houthis or ISIS or US govt that they would just attack other countries. They were looking for peace. And people outside west have severe dislike of how US responds when it feels threatened. They cant to crap to Russia and China yet they invade innocent Muslim countries. If the Muslim countries feel threatened and react in a similar way, US brands them as terrorists. They fail to understand that laden attaked US coz he felt threatened by the US.

[@imaginewt9616]

@@1minuteofgaming596 That's horrendously untrue. The dominating faction at the time of 9/11 was the Taliban. Bush said directly to the Talibs, "Hand over Bin-Laden, or we will smash your illegal regime to bits". After driving the Taliban out, SEAL Team Six went after Laden in Northern Pakistan, to then he was killed. Notice that the US always supported the Northern Alliance, the people fighting the Taliban because of their stupidly arbitrary Sharia Law? Also Bin Laden wasn't scared by the US whatsoever. He was constantly and relentlessly bombing US Embassies across the middle east, speaking against America's existence, and threatening them extensively. The US wasn't even in Afghanistan before 9/11, which renders literally everything you just said wrong. Technically speaking, they've never invaded a country for being Muslim. Muslim countries historically have issues with radical islamic terrorism, instability and authoritarian regimes. Going after Libya? stupid idea. Iraq? same thing. But Afghanistan was completely and utterly fine.

[@1minuteofgaming596]

@@imaginewt9616 Ah. I see you are heavily reliant on your ever color changing media for informations! Take a look up about the Taleebans wanting to give up Uhsama to Us. US was in Afghanistan before nein eleven. US actively deterred Russian forces in Afghanistan. US just couldn’t have Afghanistan to fall in Russia's hands could they? But then what did US do? The set up a pupet govt that the Afghans Didn't like. So Taleeban fought back! Simple. And Uhsama was angry by the US presence in Saudi Arabia and sanction on Iraq coz guesd what- OIL. Saddam wanted to sell his countries oil in Euro. Gaddafi wanted to sell his oil in gold coins. But bullee US wouldn’t have that since it would skrew up their warderful economy! They must have a trillion dollars sitting in their banks just in case they wanna invade a country and fail miserably after 20 years. Dont believe your media. Look up how Iraqis and Libyans feel about their beloved leader. Look up why US ousted Imran Khan, the rightful PM of Pakistan, and then tried to keel him? Why US sold Bangladesh to rendia? You are blind, just like every other western soldires who think they are "serving" their country by invading other countries.

[@jtgd]

I was too young to remember the attacks, but my family members were sick as a result if it. My grandmother and mother worked less than 5 blocks from the towers. My grandmother got caught in the debris cloud from the south tower and didn’t return home until almost midnight. She had ptsd ever since and refused to return to lower manhattan after she retired

[@iammrbeat]

Wow. Thank you for sharing that.

[@youssifkhairy5720]

Woah

[@nkosinathinkosi9807]

You are incredibly gifted. Awsome video!

[@jcolterh]

I'll never forget that day. I woke up and watched the news just after the first plane hit. I was 16 years old and was doing homeschool. I stayed glued to the TV for 16 hours. I was in shock. I knew that after that day everything would change. Two years later I got paperwork notifying me that I had to register in case of the need to enact a draft. I was terrified thinking that I might be sent over seas. I also watched Loose Change shortly after it was released.

[@heimlershistory]

Dang man, I wasn’t expecting to feel so many feels watching this. I was a first year college student too, so I reckon that makes us of similar vintage.

[@iammrbeat]

Lots of feels to feel while making this as well. Elder millennials unite!

[@osberswgaming]

@@iammrbeat aren’t you young gen x?

[@dawngracelaroza9129]

Me too, first year uni in Toronto. It was a Canadian Politics class too - and I had an 8am class

[@scottoz7891]

@@iammrbeat I was 33 when this happened. As you can see EVERY year around this time I get on the 9/11 video watch for the next few weeks...God bless. Be well...🙌💪💯

[@daysseasons6537]

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[@ahuyx]

I’ve grown up in a post 9/11 world. I couldn’t even imagine life before this tragic event. It’s an extremely sad event but also very pivotal period in our history

[@sunnex474]

People say that 9/11 was the day the 90s died which just makes me think what the world would be like if it never happened

[@SWLinPHX]

9/11 was the day life as we knew it (carefree, fun, simpler, even friendlier) died. The 20th and 21st Century don't just feel like two different times (I've spent around half my life in each) -- they feel like two different Earths. If you never lived in (or don't remember) a time before the 21st Century then you don't know a whole different world that is so different from today, the one that everyone else lived in for centuries (or even millennia).

[@BLUE_OCTOBER-TRIX]

we had a lot more freedoms pre 911

[@marklanfier8287]

The day america freedom died.

[@seannagel8718]

@@marklanfier8287 BINGO. Patriot act. False flag remote airliners. TOO WAR

[@jessicapultorak7734]

I was 11 and in school in Massachusetts. Teachers didnt mention anything. We didnt know anything was wrong until we get home. I got off the bus to my grandparents glued to the TV. I didn't fully understand, but seeing all if this again brings alot of new emotions. I cried thinking about the innocent people on the planes, in the buildings, and first responders who lost their lives. One of the most truly terrifying events. Thank you for this video. Very well done.

[@Docwiz2]

The very best video of 9/11 that there is online! Thanks to you Mr. Beat! Great job, thank you for enhancing all of our lives. That was the worst day since the financial disaster of 2007/2008. Thank you for doing all this work and I do understand it was a lot of work you put in.

[@mazda9624]

I think one of the hardest things to contextualize is just how massive these buildings really were. It's just insane to imagine such enormous structures were reduced to rubble in such a short period of time. My father and I took a trip to New York back when I was a junior in college for his aunt's birthday party in upstate NY. We had an entirely free day between the day of the party and the the day of our flight back home. I had always wanted to go to the World Trade Center for as long as I could remember, so I convinced my father to come with me to NYC on our free day. I was born on the East coast and used to take road trips to Brooklyn, NY all the time as a kid, so I'd seen the towers before in passing, but this time was different. I'll never forget standing at the base of 1 WTC and just looking straight up at a tower that felt almost too big to fathom. The top of the building was so far in the distance that it was almost dizzying. We had also visited the observation deck as well. Those towers were seriously *massive.* I can't imagine what it must've been like to be at or near ground zero on 9/11 and witnessing such horrors on such a grand scale like that. Truly insane. This video is so well constructed that I find myself returning to it from time to time. Genuinely powerful.

[@r.b4889]

Your own government did that. Planes cannot come down from a plane attack. Sounds like you dont care to learn about the truth and want to live in the america is great bubble

[@thomasoaxaca3379]

It is not that difficult to bring those buildings down when military grade thermite was planted in strategic locations throughout the structures.

[@dritemolawzbks8574]

The entire complex was large, but the footprints of the twin towers were relatively small; i.e., compared to the lot size of a Walmart Supercenter. I visited ground zero, and later the completed 9/11 Memorial. The television images make it appear much larger than it actually was. The North and South Towers could fit within the average Walmart parking lot with plenty of space left over.

[@gregv79]

I worked on the 86th floor of the then named Sears tower. I still marvel at its massiveness every time I walk by it.

[@weaverjoshuab]

@@thomasoaxaca3379 yes. Molten steel for weeks after collapse. They said the steel didn’t melt

[@mistermister5577]

As someone born after 9/11, I remember it being taught more seriously in middle school. In high school however it started to become more like pearl harbor. Some teachers still talk about the day on its anniversary, but most people don't think much about it and just see it as another historical event that happened before them. Must feel really weird for people who lived through it that there already are adults who were born after 9/11.

[@tomwalling5796]

I guess it’s different when you live through it because it hasn’t unfolded yet. The uncertainty makes it real. Your fears are right there all the time. If it’s all over and you’re just reading it in a book or something you already know the end of the story. The weird thing for me was finding out kids were fighting in Afghanistan who were born AFTER 9-11. I was just like wtf are we still doing there?

[@justinedse3314]

@@tomwalling5796 To witness it real time there is the uncertainty. There was a want, a need to help but you couldn't do anything about it but sit in your seat. It was very shocking when the towers fell as well since nobody knew that was going to happen. Then they were all gone. People couldn't even organize their thoughts for what they wanted to say or talk about. I remember being 13 and you know, when you're that young and there's a problem you look to adults for an answer to see what's happening. It was so sad. 😔

[@dimtool]

that sucks because it wasn't long ago. I was in 9th grade and I seriously cried seeing the old footage.

[@userequaltoNull]

I just graduated, and my school made a pretty big deal of it. One of our most respected teachers (former Navy senior staff NCO) had a close relative who was one of the FDNY "forgotten victims", due to 9/11 related disease. We even had a sculpture made from part of the rubble in the hallway. I think a lot of other staff had connections to the attacks.

[@callanbailey8008]

@@tomwalling5796 ik🙄

[@its_lemon_19]

It's so strange to me that I know so many people that were alive that day and remember it so well and yet I didn't even exist and was born 6 years and a few months after it happened. I'm 16 now and the thought of that sounds absolutely terrifying. I can't imagine that it sounds so horrific.

[@sunkist1309]

I always “enjoy” if you can say that about a story like this but I always enjoy listening to peoples recollections of September 11. I just left my parents house and heard their side of the story for the hundredth time but it never gets old. My mom was at work for the leaven news paper in Kansas working hard to make the deadline when she heard about the first plane, hitting the world trade center she thought it was a simple, one-man plane and a confused pilot got twisted up and accidentally crashed. It was only when the second plane hit that she realized it was an attack. She said the whole day people were looking at each other like a zombies in shock. No one knew if more attacks were going to come, and there were many conflicting reports about other planes being missing such a scary time in our history. Sorry if there’s bad grammar, I’m typing this from voice memo.

[@potorokusmc13]

I was in 6th grade. My grandfather died Sept. 10th. We lived in Puerto Rico and my grandmother was flying through AA from JFK to SJU for his funeral. Her flight landed in San Juan at 930 am and like you said this was before cell phones were prominent. All I remember is my mom picking me up from school and literally having a nervous breakdown from not knowing if my grandmother was on one of those AA flights.

[@jerkifer924]

Lots of details from your 6th grade self.

[@potorokusmc13]

@@jerkifer924 well, when I said “all I remember” I meant it. Everything before that was just pieces together from adult family members.

[@TrenchReynolds]

I was 32 at the time, living in Charlotte, NC. I broke down crying on my commute home from work. I remember sitting on my porch that night, feeling eerie about how there were no planes in the night sky. Excellent video, Mr. Beat.

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks for sharing

[@grippercrapper]

Yes, I was 23 at the time 9/11 happened and the most striking thing about the weeks after 9/11 was the absence of all air traffic in the sky.

[@iam135camXD]

bro I lived in charlotte nc a year ago

[@jacob8725]

this guy gives more details than a text book.

[@ambarbagee5282]

Why is there drill music in the background

[@thomaskennedy7512]

I think it’s interesting seeing the country come to the steady realization this isn’t an event burned into every Americans life anymore. It’s something that has to be taught to the younger generations who didn’t know it or it’s aftermath. Thank you for holding a plank in that process.

[@iammrbeat]

Yep, I came to that steady realization! And thank YOU.

[@bluelivesmurder5696]

Yep and critical race theory

[@NoahgotLEGO]

Definitely I was born, 2 months before 9/11 so I don’t remember anything about the event obviously. I’ve just been told about it and learned about it in school, online, etc.

[@MeesterTweester]

I was almost 2 so I don't remember it, it's only been recounted to me

[@kylenielsen5083]

Few weeks shy of a year old. In high school I met a guy in high school and when I told him when I was born, he said I was born after the event, then realized I was born before it, then asked if I remember people screaming. I walked away and then he became my friend freshman year.

[@joeyk107]

I'm glad to see you're making a video of this. Probably the most shocking thing I've heard about 9/11 wasn't the event itself, but just how many people in my school have no idea what happened that day. I hope this video will help people become more informed and keep making the great content!

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks Joey. That is crazy how many people don't know about 9/11. It frankly boggles my mind.

[@thomaskennedy7512]

@@iammrbeat Im in the Marines and just asked a classroom of new guys about 9/11. The lack of knowledge on it was pretty surprising, some not even knowing the year it happened despite being born in it.

[@mikeweizer3149]

@@thomaskennedy7512 But yet this generation has to have the latest Ipods or whatever electronic device this generation just has to have.And even when these kids today are being so called educated it's more like indoctrinated towards hating your country, If your a Christian man , Hating your faith, and even questioning your own sexuality!!!.No wonder kids today are lacking in critical thinking skills!!!!.Some of it has to do with the destruction of the family.

[@niallbuckley22]

Swiss Guards RCSI NATO EAPC WHO UN built the Structure like a piece of the Mousetrap Game...? Abdul Karim UCLG an act of treason and the same team that worked on the Chernobyl Project with Steve 🤡🤡🤡 Job and Next ? WHO is Abdul Karim?

[@joeyk107]

@Thomas Rogue care to elaborate?

[@adrigranadosss]

I was only three years old when it happened so I don't remember anything, but I can not even begin to imagine being old enough to comprehend this terrorist attack. God bless everyone affected ❤

[@rh4402]

You are awesome! That you tell us about going down a rabbit hole and eventually coming out the other side shows us all that continuing to question what we are fed is necessary!

[@JohnSmith-iv8zm]

I was also a college freshman. It felt like we were under attack and at one point no one knew how many planes there were and where they might strike next. I had friends from New York and they felt immeasurably worse. It was a shared trauma we’ll never forget.

[@Heavens-Humanaterian-Army]

Sence the usa government were the ones who failed a terror attack and did controlled demolition the only ones you need to fear is your own government

[@padmagarbhadasa3388]

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[@amjadmuhammad3073]

Also your country did that. 9/11 was an inside job

[@karmatologist]

I was 12 years old at the time. I woke up and went to eat breakfast before school and my brother was watching CNN. I wasn’t even aware of the world trade center until that day. Even at school, we watched some of the news coverage. On the way back home on the school bus, a random kid yelled at me “ we’re going to bomb your country”. I’m actually Indian although raised in the US. Comments like this became the norm afterwards. This is where I first started to think about race and why it matters. I had never seen myself as an outsider until then. These events ultimately sparked my interest in history, politics and world affairs. Anyway, great job. This is one of your best videos.

[@iammrbeat]

I'm so sorry you had to go through that.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Typical of America because you look like a certain group of people or similar even tho you have nothing to do with it or affiliated with them their was Islamic church set to be build near by for the Muslim community but after 9/11 it was cancelled not it Asian hate because of China for some irrational fears and red scare by some America

[@vadimberenstein7704]

That is too bad so many feeble minded people believe these lies about 911 but someday the truth is going to come out about United States and israhels Zionist Who murdered 3000 Americans. Shame on you, mr beat,for spreading this bullshit video.

[@knuxboy04]

This was probably the most hardest and saddest Mr Beat video to watch

[@fancygirl2369]

As a young person who is currently in school, I can say that we learn about this every year. Every time 9/11 anniversary comes around each year, we have at least 1-2 days in Social Studies/History where we just talk about it and learn about the people/heroes who’s lives we’re involved. All of us weren’t born, of course, but it’s just interesting to even try to capture how horrific it must’ve been. My parents always tell me how horrible it was and where they were. It’s just weird to think about

[@mikero6225]

I'm quite a bit older than you. Growing up, there was no historical event that was taught to like that. Even major events like JFK and pearl harbor were covered once or twice, then nothing. It speaks to the unprecedented impact 9/11 had on our society. Even almost a quarter century later, it is still given so much weight and attention on its anniversary

[@Matt-pt6rl]

Classic Fake comment and reply from same guy who does this everywhere everyday. Bizarre!

[@StateoftheWorld]

I appreciate you making a video on it, I know it may be hard as a person who experienced the terror on that day, but it’s really important that people like me who were born after learn the impact and magnitude of it. My old teacher used to say “There’s two things that every human has a story about, Cancer and 9/11”

[@iammrbeat]

Your old teacher seems wise!

[@gasc0ny]

Same here, 9/11 has affected our lives in more ways then we can count, and it’s important to know what happened.

[@tomney4460]

@@gasc0ny it was also a remarkably influential event considering only 3000 people died.

[@jozepedro27]

And now, three things, with covid.

[@GeneaVlogger]

I was in 7th grade at the time and in an art class where our most recent project was to draw a portrait of the Twin Towers. I remember one of my classmates saying "I guess this means we might be drafted in a few years if this leads to war" and I later heard he enlisted in High School. I spent a few years helping volunteer for the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers charity which is done in the memory of Stephen Siller, a firefighter who died on 9/11 after running from the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the Twin Towers.

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks for sharing that, Jarrett. I still have so much respect for firefighters, and much of that goes back to the heroes of 9/11

[@kentcrawford7080]

Well done on your video very well explained it good job

[@anitrahooper5031]

I was a young adult working for an airport on the west coast. I remember being woken up to the news & being disoriented about the World Trade Center & Twin towers as we had versions of them in the area, but miles apart. I went to work & the grounding of planes was a big deal. The usual rumblings of planes taking off & landing that I had grown up with was gone. Its like the roar of the ocean going silent. There were so many changes that happened over the next few years at work as the evolving protocols & security measures were implemented.. - The closing off of post security areas to non travelers (you used to be able to take people to the gates & meet them there). -The liquid rule change on a Friday at noon, while passengers were on their way to the airport. The amount of waste, the lines, the missed flights... The electronics out of bags rule that was almost as bad as the liquids. It amazes me how people don't/didn't realize how many items they were traveling with that had batteries, a power supply, or cord. I won't even go onto the changes in capital improvement & construction projects that got scrapped, had to be redesigned, or delayed...

[@lisacole2755]

I was in the 8th grade. As a child I knew it was bad and everyone was afraid. But as an adult revisiting this years later, I appreciate the tragedy of it all so much more. It affects me much more deeply now.

[@Pupusaycurtido]

@Thomas Rogue shut up.

[@Trancymind]

When this happened, I seriously thought we were going to start a world war 3 and the beginning of a potential nuclear holocaust. I was 21 years old when I barely started my day shift job when the first plane hit the tower.

[@jairamrprabhu5696]

Im from India, Nothing specific was taught to me at school. I learnt them from encyclopedias, books and journals. I have also watched Looming Tower, Done a course on Coursera and read the 9/11 commission report. Your video was nice and comprehensive, Love from India.

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks for sharing and the kind words

[@catrojana3694]

9/11 commission was a total white wash and they'll will be dealt with if USA can shakes off the military industrial complex's control. Many traitorous Murricans with more than one passports were and still are bringing down Murrica as per playbook.

[@Weirdoonabench]

I’m so sorry you had to live through this I am sorry for everyone that had to be through this

[@krisstarring]

I remember exactly where I was when 9/11 happened. Middle school, 8th grade here in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. Though, my dad traveled for work. The day was really connected to me because my father worked in downtown Manhattan just a few blocks north of the World Trade Center and commuted through there every morning, riding the PATH train from his apartment in New Jersey. He walked through the WTC just a few hours before the first planes hit. Thankfully, he survived, but he had a LOT of PTSD from the attacks and watching the towers collapse while trying to escape the area. My mother and I were just there during the 4th of July holiday two months earlier and stayed with my father and got to go to the top of the World Trade Center. I got a pennant of the WTC from the gift shop at the observation deck that I still have on my wall to this day. It's sad to think that possibly many of those same pennants were in that gift shop the day the towers fell and were lost in the rubble. I'm glad you did a video on 9/11 and did a history lesson on one of our nation's darkest days in recent history. 9/11 was the deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor and the the worst on continental U.S. soil since the 1814 British invasion during the so-called "War of 1812." It is a day that shall not be forgot.

[@trentsteffes8927]

I remember being at a friend’s house eating breakfast watching cartoons before school and his mother getting a phone call and quickly switching the channel from Scooby Doo to the news. As a second-grader it’s perhaps understandable my only memory of the day is cartoon-related… but thank you Mr. Beat for putting this together. Such a powerful and unbiased review of a day which I lived through yet never fully understood.

[@vinch8430]

Wouldn’t it be breaking news? Not just on a channel? No hate in anyway

[@Man-of-Steel674]

That women speaking from air plane teared me up. Man that must have shooked the nation. I am neither american nor was alive at that time but I can feel you guys.

[@dennisservaes]

Whenever the fake media tells you something it is either a lie or a half truth. Two half truths still don't make a truth; it is two lies. When stories change continuously were they lieing before or are they lieing now? Why do their stories keep changing? Does the evidence change or is it false naratives that change? Learn to ask questions and you will have to learn to think if you want the truth.

[@ashcheeks1]

Wenamechainsama

[@EdsboOfficial]

@@ashcheeks1 Not funny In this situation.

[@catrojana3694]

You've been had. No phones on planes then but everyone just forgot that.

[@wenmoonson]

@@catrojana3694 You are absolutely wrong. I flew with a cell phone before and shortly after 9/11/01. Nice spouting off though.

[@dippydurian]

I love rewatching your videos, but man…. This video is hard to get through

[@user-lt6gh7eL27]

I clicked because I thought it said Mr. Beast

[@iammrbeat]

Me too.

[@addictionsucks8848]

I remember my mom telling me how no one wanted to leave the restaurant on that day. It was full all day from the regulars because no one left unless they had to. Everyone was scared. It rocks me to the core even today, and I wasn't even there. The older I get the more I understand and the more horrific it becomes.

[@CameronZ28]

For your questions at the end, when I went to school they actually really didn't teach us anything. Just acknowledged that it happened and talked about the firefighters rescuing people from the rubble. Nothing about why it happened and what happened afterwards. This video was more informative than everything they taught us in school about 9/11.

[@pokepowerz4]

I'm 19 years old. In the early years of school we weren't really taught what had happened on 9/11, just that it was a day of memoriam. It wasn't really until about middle school where on 9/11 history teachers would give a brief lesson on 9/11 and that it was a terrorist attack. We were never really taught the deeper politics other then 'Osama Bin Laden did it and he was the bad guy'. School never taught me about the war on terror, the US occupation in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Qatar ect., the mass islamophobia that followed the attacks, or any of the modern day repercussions of any of those.

[@Mayoo22334]

This man is a liar. He’s most likely a cia infiltrator. As he spread lies and via propaganda. Don’t trust him.

[@ajakakakak]

Osama Bin Laden was bad tho

[@timshea4279]

@@Mayoo22334 Name the lies he told.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Birds aren't real

[@colinsoder]

Great video! The offbeat tone was a little jarring at first, but you obviously take the subject seriously to put together such a detailed video

[@PsykoGabe]

I was born in 2009 and even though I wasn't alive when it happened, just thinking about it puts a hole in my stomach. My heart goes out to everyone who was even alive that day.

[@melxdan]

You’re fortunate to have not lived through this, but also unlucky for entering a world afterward that changed by this one Tuesday morning. There was an entirely different world before 9/11 and god damn it was so much different.

[@sppamm]

@@melxdan We are born in a twisted and unjust world no matter the time we are born. Horrible atrocities are unavoidable to be expected in the future, for example Las Vegas shooting. All I can say is if there is no God then in the end there is no solution to evil.

[@annczarnetzki5067]

It was the most traumatic event for me as an of my life and it was surreal and real at he same time somehow . I felt so much pain and empathy for the people in the windows and terrpr they had to have been in knowing there was no way that anyone or anything could be done to save them and when they began to jump and were so very plain to see and I knew their loved ones would most likely be able to know them and watch the eternity it seemed to take for them to hit and how long that they had to contemplate how they were heading to their certain death on a sumny Tuesday morning that should have been a normal workday without ever really knowing why the people the only other thing that has affected Ted

[@that_oneguy00]

Same man. I was born in 2009 and I feel the same.

[@orionthatman9390]

Surely that must make you four years old right?

[@nishapurohit5185]

Great video.in depth content Thank you

[@Surprised_Chicken]

I was in kindergarten, and I remembered going home to my grandma house early from school for some reason and turning on the TV and seeing the endless video loops of the planes smashing into the Towers.

[@dawonthecreator]

My grandmother and grandfather (traveling from Maine to catch a flight to Kansas City) were both in Boston’s airport at the same time as the terrorists who hijacked the first plane. They had sat next to one of the terrorists while waiting to board their plane. Their plane was not hijacked and they were forced to land in Detroit. Rest in Peace to all of those fallen during the September 11th Attacks.

[@chompchompchangbin]

That happened to my grandparents too, except they didn't sit by anyone associated.

[@rc3357]

How did they know? Did he do something memorable?

[@codykolis7577]

Thank you to the brave people who were willing to retake the plane knowing likely that Flight 93 would likely be their last flight. Rest in peace.

[@Heavens-Humanaterian-Army]

There was no plane...just holograms and a controlled demolition.

[@Kloppin4H0rses]

I don't understand why they would let the terrorists take it in the first place. Men armed with knives are not exactly a huge threat to a 6 dozen civilians

[@MrPathorn]

@@Kloppin4H0rsesBecause everybody is strangers to each other. Noone would coordinate until its too late.

[@padmagarbhadasa3388]

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[@Nagisa12345]

@@Kloppin4H0rses because of bomb treat and they say they gonna fly back the plane to airport

[@fandommennis1348]

I still remember that day like it was yesterday. My little sister woke me up and told me I had to see the TV. "You are missing history" She said. When I saw the TV broadcast, I sat down on the floor and just stared in disbelief, shaking my head as a visual sign. Then, a tower fell, and I remember saying "no way that just happened!" Then the other. I still think of the unfortunate souls that were Injured or lost their lives in this horrific event. My heart will forever go out to those people

[@methheadtrucker4124]

Excellent video.

[@lincolngaffney9785]

This is probably one of the hardest videos you will ever make

[@iammrbeat]

I poured my heart and soul into it.

[@jessebakken3649]

I'm 25 now, and I still remember my mom telling me about it that day when it happened when I was 5. I was rather troubled. I just couldn't believe something like it would happen. Being a kid at that age, of course I would still carry on with the day and focus on just being a kid, but it still hits me to this day knowing about this happening in my life time.

[@HARDworkerz23]

I was also 5 when this happened. I was in school and only remember seeing the buildings in smoke. I also just remember that my mom picked me up early from school that day. Its also crazy to think that this happened in my lifetime. I dont think ill ever forget it.

[@iammrbeat]

Dang, that was one of your earliest memories.

[@jessebakken3649]

@@iammrbeat Fortunately, not my first ever memory. That’s for sure. Great video, by the way. Most detailed yet.

[@Higamers2007]

Was was like -6 and I was idk where are u when u don’t exist yet

[@Higamers2007]

I can only imagine how it was to witness

[@MrMatthewScarborough]

You asked us to share where we were. I was in middle school at the time. Jackson Middle School, 8th grade. I cannot recall which class I heard it in first but I think Mr. Johnson’s class. He said he voted for Gore but if he knew this was going to happen he would have voted for Bush. I think PE must have been last period because I remember talking to Coach Rice about it. We received a letter in Ms. Barnes’ class and the letter was so frightening. It mentioned bombs overhead and days of World War II. I was really frightened over this. I really thought we were all going to be dead before the end of the day. It wasn’t until I got home and turned on the tv to Dan Rather and CBS that I really understood what all had happened and was happening. I popped in a VHS, like I normally would, and hit record. I still have that tape. Hours of 9/11 coverage. I flipped through all the channels. It was everywhere. The only place where it wasn’t was The History Channel. They were airing a documentary on Houdini. If I recall correctly we were supposed to have choir practice that night at church and I really cannot recall if we had it or not. I think I would remember it if we did. Much like your class, it’s hard to forget such memories shared with people during a time such as that.

[@scar-a7]

My mom was in 7th grade art at the time it happened

[@allegoryofdissonance]

I was in 2nd grade, and I lived in Harrison, NJ (very close to NYC). I remember being evacuated from school, then walking home with some other families to find my mom bawling her eyes out. When I saw what was happening on TV, I remember feeling scared and worried, even though I didnt competely understand what was happening. Lot of feelings of confusion and fear from those memories. My dad was driving back from NY to NJ, and he watched it all happen from across the Hudson River.

[@grmpEqweer]

Story time: Some years, over a decade or so, after 9/11, I was sitting at an oil change shop, getting the folks to change my car's oil. A guy walked up to the counter and asked, "Hey, is Sam here?" The guy says, "No way, dude, it's Friday. _Osama_ is at the mosque." ...I slowly looked up and said, "Seriously???" They all busted out laughing. The counter guy said, "It was his grandfather's name. A good family name!" "He was 8 when 9/11 happened, and he was watching the news. He kept saying, 'MOM, WHY ARE THEY SAYING MY NAME?!?! MOM! MOM!'" ...Anyway, I hope ***Sam*** is doing well for himself, wherever he is.

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

Rest In Peace to all the poor souls who died in the September 11th, 2001 Attacks. They were NOT just numbers...They were someone's son...Someone's husband...Someone's dad...Someone's Sister...Someone's brother...

[@alwagner9722]

One in particular, is Bob McIlvaine. He lost his son. Fortunately, they found his body. NYC medical examiner determined he died from an explosion from the lobby of WTC 1. Bob joined up with AE (Architects and Engineers) for 9/11 Truth, to fight for a new independent investigation into the attacks. The 9/11 Commission was nothing but a cover up. Why do you think they appointed Phillip Zelikow as Executive Director? Because he's a self proclaimed expert on the creation and maintaining of public myths.... .."The US government made a decision not to tell the truth about what happened." ..."What the government and military officials told Congress, the media and the public about who knew what when- was almost entirely and inexplicably, untrue." - John Farmer, Senior Counsel, 9/11 Commission Curious? Have yourself a closer look. Start with WTC 7 free fall collapse and Google/ KZbin AE for 9/11 truth. This video here is nothing but propaganda, promoting the "official" story.

[@HOTD108_]

Why are you saying "Rest In Peace" to the people who lost loved ones? They didn't die in 9/11.

[@padmagarbhadasa3388]

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[@MrPorko2c]

Hey Mr Beast, gotta say this old content of yours is way better than your recent video destroying a Lamborghini.

[@kirbykirbykirbykirbykirby]

mr breast give me money

[@Equinox0709]

He isn't mr beast but your pfp is based.

[@triplej755]

I almost cried watching this. Thank you Mr. Beat for teaching this in an interesting but respectful manner. I hope you got a good look at your dorm building before it’s gone!

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks James!

[@dimtool]

shit, i did cry

[@lolsoina]

@@dimtool shhh

[@Cameron_the_Robot]

My Grandpa was downtown near this when it happened. He was a taxi driver, he got out of car when things started happening and went into a near hobby shop for cover. 2 bodies and a chunk of debris fell on his taxi, he said the image of those two bodies impaled into his taxi haunted him almost every night until his passing. Terrible and strange event.

[@user-bo8yn4je5f]

Thanks for clear explanation!

[@karlblast5038]

Great coverage … rip all victims

[@opwith6608]

I was 4 during 9/11 but I have a few memories. The biggest one being it was the first time I had seen adults scared and crying in my life. I remember being very nervous and upset. Also I used to go to the local airport with my grandpa and take pictures with the planes but they locked the gates after that and I was really confused and upset when that happened.

[@haileeraestout5567]

I Was Also 4 And I Was Watching The Lion King And I Criiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeddddddd Because I Felt Something Awful Happened And What I Saw Hurt Me And It Still Hurts To This Day

[@haileeraestout5567]

And When The Remake Came Out And That Scene Was Approaching It Took Me Back To Age 4

[@Austin7298]

I was in the third grade on 9/11. I remember pretty much all of that morning, but strangely none of the rest of the day. One thing that always stuck out in my mind was how calm my teacher was while explaining to us what was going on… and I know for a fact that she was absolutely heartbroken by what she was seeing.

[@proteg3881]

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[@kkandsims4612]

I was in 3ed grade to I had no clue really what was going on just that the adults where taking it hard . So I knew it was bad and serious and not good.

[@Ryan-es9xg]

Second grade here. Teachers of young students were absolutely fantastic on 9/11. Having to walk us through a tragedy while wanting to call family and friends.

[@andrewdumi2939]

Yea I was in 3rd grade too

[@joeyburch6626]

“As well as it’s weird construction” sounds legit

[@ColeFaunce]

Born in 06 we are taught little about the events mainly just the twin towers maybe only one or two years were the other flights brought up and I have learned 100 times more from this 30 minute video than all those classes combined. Thank you.

[@MeikaiX]

I wasn't alive back then, I was born in 2003. Rest in peace to people who passed away during this day.

[@Trappinaintdead641]

Same

[@prestigedidiot1295]

The amount of mindnumbingly stupid people who dont understand how airfones work... Or how phones on planes work in general, this isnt a grand conspiracy. Its a tragedy. Stop bringing shame to those who died.