GEN Z KID Reacts To ‘EVENTS DURING 911’ For The FIRST TIME EVER!

[@realPenrodPooch]

The most disturbing footage is of people leaping out of the windows to their certain deaths in order to avoid getting burned alive. That truly was the most heartbreaking footage for me.

[@patrickevans9604]

The footage from the firefighter crew that had the documentary crew following them was horrifying. Seeing the initial reaction to knowing the first tower had gotten hit, to them in the lobby trying to coordinate all the people there, then hearing the banging from outside that turned out to be the people that had jumped or fallen out of windows to escape the fire, and finally the horrified faces on the men that barely made it out when the towers collapsed.

[@athens_1psvr31]

I can still see the guy trying to climb down Tower 1 and then slipping.😔😢

[@kennethcook9406]

The people jumping from the buildings. . . Really, when your options are "death by massive physical trauma" and "death by fire" you ask "what's faster?"

[@BriannaClark-dr5wd]

Saw a video of some retired firefighters from NY, talking about the stories from that day that still haunts them today. Saying that some of the people that jumped, were still alive, but were dying from the impact of hitting the ground. Saying that there was nothing that they could do for them, but have someone there to just talk to them, during their last moments.

[@johankaewberg8162]

Gravity or fire? I, like them choose gravity.

[@Mikerochip1]

Every American who was living that day remembers exactly where they were when the planes hit the towers. It is a memory that will never go away.

[@cathysmith2941]

I was only my way to work when I heard when I got to my job my boss told me to not clock in until I call my family who lives in ny to make sure they were OK my boss knew I had family that lived in Manhattan, my dad was supposed to do security in tower 2 but his boss called him like 30 mins before the first plane hit tower 1 and told him he was going to let the new guy do security in tower 2 and he had my dad do security at another location to this day my dad still feels guilt about this he still says it should have been him in that tower that day.. it hits him still to this day...

[@13hickory]

I would say worldwide people remember

[@mytmousemalibu]

A memory that will never go away but I don't want it to. Never forget...

[@MegumiMoo]

I was in homeroom my senior year of high school

[@recoveringbaptist2749]

Walked into my lab and turned on my computer to CNN that morning. They were reporting that a small airplane had hit the WTC. I saw the picture they were showing and said to my co-worker, that wasn't a small plane. We spent the entire rest of the day watching the news coverage in total shock. RIP to all of the souls lost on that horrible, day. We will never forget.

[@BlindBombshell]

I have a friend that was working in the World Trade Center that day. He is totally blind and his service dog Roselle, safely guided Michael and many many others to safety. Roselle’s name has been retired at Guide Dogs for the blind to honor her for everything she did for so many people that day.

[@eviesunshine9256]

God bless Michael, Roselle and all the people she saved.

[@sheemonstah]

I heard a podcast with this guy telling his story (if it's the same guy, but probably so)!

[@SarafinaSummers]

I’m visually impaired, and a service dog handler myself. I have heard stories that he actually unhooked her harness and leash, giving her a chance to run, but she didn’t. Is any of that true, or is that just a rumor circulating in the blind community? I grew up hearing that story, and always thought there was something off about it. I’m not asking you to ask him, and bring up any traumatic memories, but, from your knowledge, is that true? I doubt it, but I just wanna hear from someone who might know. Thank you for any knowledge or information you can provide, and I hope you have a fantastic day. Please take care of yourself, you are worth it and deserve it.

[@TwiggyKeely]

I love Roselle's story!!! She was such a good girl!❤

[@margaretstutts4362]

That dog saved him and the other people who went down with him. She knew exactly how to get out. It was an awesome story of survival. She was a true hero.

[@LeslieRoth-rl7zr]

I realized how much the world cared when Queen Elizabeth had the national anthem played during the changing of the guard even though it was technically not allowed. Her humanity and class and empathy meant a lot to us in the U.S. ❤

[@adamplentl5588]

The amount of bodies that comprise the foundations of the British Empire can never be counted. Britain has inflicted thousands of 9/11s all over the world. Where's national anthem for any of the cultures they destroyed at the changing of the guard? Performative BS. Time to grow up.

[@NagemYelmul]

The Masai tribe in Africa sent 14 cows as well and many Canadians opened their homes up for people who were on flights that were grounded due to the hijackings. We were all watching in horror as it happened.

[@davewarrender2056]

Remember the first remberance service at ally pally , they all stood and clapped representatives of the fire departments involved in the rescues.❤

[@seguajardo1]

As I recall, I think that was something that had never been done until that day. When I heard that Her Majesty did that, I cried. She was such a special woman and leader.

[@adamplentl5588]

@seguajardo1 did you cry when you found out what the British Empire did to the rest of world?

[@deannacrownover3]

There were four planes hijacked. Two hit the Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon and the brave passengers on the last flight, flight 93, understood that they were going to die one way or the other so they fought the hijackers and forced the plane into the ground before it could hit its target.

[@BAD46660]

Their target was the white house

[@caseyhazelman2390]

Sandy Bradshaw, flight attendant was from my town. It hit us hard. ✌🏼❤️🎶

[@lunacouer]

@@billclay9489 Part you're missing is all the phone calls the passengers made to their loved ones and how a few told their family what they were about to do. Sure, both could be true at the same time - the passengers went to stop the hijackers and it got shot down anyway - but I'm pretty sure people would've seen it being shot down. You don't exactly forget that, nor could you mistake hearing it.

[@shawngross5420]

That last plane story gets me every time.

[@joancurrie6748]

Flight 93 is often overlooked. Those people had no choice, but they made a choice to fight. I think of them every time I hear 'let's roll'.

[@DaughterofDarkness]

Mr. Rogers came out of retirement to tape a statement of comfort for the children trying to cope with the attacks.

[@shotgunbettygaming]

Because he's the MOST Rockstar of any Rockstar that ever lived. The world lost when he left.

[@humanebeing6230]

When we are afraid, when things are scary: “Look for the helpers.” Thank goodness for that man.

[@coroixiwa]

I remember my first grade teacher having taped it at home and having us watch it when we were able to go back to school. My school was shut down for a couple months and I remember being in the classroom when our school secretary came sprinting down the hall to talk to the teacher in the hall, they mostly didn’t say anything about what was going on but because they couldn’t leave any of us we had two classes gathered per room on the first floor and those big heavy TVs going set to watch the news. We didn’t really know what was going on but we were told our parents and guardians were being called and to just keep our backpacks with us and ready to leave the moment they confirmed they arrived. We had to wait for each adult to come to the classes rooms guided by the janitors and to check with each class’s teacher to confirm they were someone we knew; my mom was an emergency call nurse so she wasn’t able to get home as soon as she wanted so she called my grandmother to get us since she lived right across from the school. Mom had to worry about me and my little brother in school but also my older brother who was in the military then, she seemed so calm back then but I know NOW she only barely kept up that act for us as to not scare me and my little brother. To this day she still gets shaky with the sound of beepers going off; she left the medical field a few years after that and nowadays works with me at our hometown library. I never forgot how quiet and tense the adults were back then and how scared a LOT of parents looked when they came to pick us up, my grandmother tried her best to keep us calm too and my mom got cleared to go but she had to be back for that night. They didn’t know what would happen or if anyone would be needed for emergencies, many nurses had to stay and they basically had to decide among themselves who could leave to check on family, my mom’s floor picked her and one other because both had small children. What really made people on edge was when it was reported that a plane went down in PA, and THAT I heard over my grandfather’s scanner he had on the table into the kitchen. It’s all still burned into my head even the smell of the lawn at my grandparents’ place and the taste of the ice tea my grandmother gave me. I actually can’t stand the taste of that specific peach ice tea anymore because of that; makes my stomach twist.

[@heatherschmidt7625]

I didn't know that! It makes me love Mr. Rogers even more.

[@sabrinaestrada3590]

Oh wow. I didn't know that.

[@danic9304]

This barely scratches the surface of the horror of that day. The people trapped and waving from windows, then hanging out of the windows as the fire spread. I was watching from over here in the UK and I still feel haunted by it.

[@kramermccabe8601]

I turned on the news after getting home dropping off my sister at Logan to fly home. The first thing I saw was the bodies falling and the reporter saying there was still hundreds of unaccounted airplanes out there. I was so relieved when I finally talked to her

[@marySunnyJC2482]

Hundreds of people jumped to their deaths. I have been haunted by them having to choose between burning to death and jumping from the building. There was a picture taken of two jumpers ,a man and a woman holding hands as they fell. RIP🙏

[@shieh.4743]

Nations traumatized. I am truly still traumatized by this.

[@wendymacraild5204]

​@@marySunnyJC2482I saw that too & still haunts me to this day!!!

[@racheldavis6581]

The people falling/jumping out of windows.

[@tofersiefken]

I just don't understand all the haters in the comments complaining that he didn't know any of the details about an event that happened in another country before he was even born. He's curious and seeking knowledge now! That should be enough. He wants to learn about and understand the world in a larger context and is seeking information about historical events, cultural phenomena and the like. I applaud the effort. And for all the Americans in the comments, I challenge you to provide detailed information about events of world history beyond your own interests and conflicts. Can anyone provide details about the March 11, 2004 Madrid subway bombings? They were Spain's version of the 9/11 attack.

[@Wheeeeeeeeee-e2i]

💯 I applaud this guy and I appreciate him wanting to learn about the things us old folks experienced.

[@jessicamagri8211]

That’s a very good point. I actually did hear about the Madrid bombings, but only recently. It appeared on one of the documentary series I was watching.

[@valeriecharboneau308]

When you said “this is a hard watch”, all I could think was that you should’ve seen it in real time. 💔

[@lexvee8527]

That part

[@tguest490]

I'm watching this sobbing, having witnessed it in real time. It truly "changed the world" for those Americans that witnessed it, as I did. There was the world before 9/11 and the world after.

[@a-cvs1403]

Not only Americans. I (German) was a young teen at the time. I came home from school and wanted to watch anime. I did until there was a break in the middle of the episode. I thought I was watching an unusually long advertisement for a new movie. Independence day 2 or something. It took me about 10 minutes and zipping through channels to realise what was going on. Btw 10 am new York time is 4 pm Berlin time. I was watching this live for the rest of the day. I've seen the towers fall live as much as is possible in international media

[@nutcase0001]

So glad it was recorded with the impact for later generations.

[@mediachristiantv7472]

Exactly…I was 32 at the time, lived in East El Segundo, not far from where the runway crosses over Sepulveda…I had no wall clock, I couldn’t find my floor clock, there was no iphone yet…so i looked to the one place i knew would have the time - the morning shows. This was on every channel. Then i saw the second plane hit and i was in shock. I also noticed how quiet it was at the airport…VP had grounded all air traffic. 23 years later and I still remember all of it.

[@veralindsay]

The documentary 102 Minutes That Changed America should be shown in all history classes. It's one of the best documentaries on 911. I cry every single time I see this. A day all of us who were old enough will never forget.

[@richardcasados]

I think they should show the 6 part series: One Day In America.

[@TheDevastator619]

Watch this every year on the date as a reminder. Couldn’t agree more. It should be shown for sure.

[@deborahwilliams2416]

The one thing removed from all the videos is the sound of broken glass. That sounds was actually the sound of the bodies hitting the ground when people jumped from the higher floors. I will never forget that sound.

[@pdxgrl1]

Absolutely recommend this documentary. I'll never forget.

[@marytramp5678]

my favorite video is from the naudet brothers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXraXmSYhLaBf6Msi=uVG7ohb6026aN2t8 they started out making a documentary about a rookie firemen. and ended up catcing everything. as they ended up getting split up. one outside and one inside at the control station. so you actually hear the bodies falling, you see, the first tower hit/ second tower to fall around them from the inside. while you get to see what is happening from the view from the outside as well. However, i have 52 9/11 videos saved to my playlist and every year on 9/11 i watch them all. while our country/society may want to forget and sweep it under the rug, like it never happened. i Want to remember it. I want to be praying for the souls who died that day, in the war that happened afterwards, and for those that are still dyng today.I don' want those people to think we have forgotten or their family and friends to think we have forgotten them. they deserve better from us.

[@jonathanwiliams4993]

I'm a 9/11 survivor. Seeing this footage, some of which I've never seen brought back all the memories of the day. Never forget... Survivor Tower 2 50th floor

[@maryjoyspohrer256]

I'm so happy that you are still with us luv.

[@jennraine]

So glad you were able to get out. I will never forget that day.

[@jonathanwiliams4993]

@maryjoyspohrer256 Thank you so much. My kids are now 20 and 14. I tell them often that they almost weren't here. Had I not moved fast enough, that would have been it. But honestly, everyone from my company in the South Tower got out, but we did have some in the North Tower. They didn't make it.

[@jonathanwiliams4993]

@jennraine Thank you so much. Yes, it's a day seered in our memories.

[@jennraine]

​@@jonathanwiliams4993 I cannot imagine the fear you must of have felt. From what other survivors have said is they didn't realize the magnitude until they got out. Inside the buildings there was a lot of uncertainty. I hope you are doing ok overall. PTSD is a real thing.🫂

[@FinallyBeingMyself]

I got mad respect for you wanting to learn about this. The documentaries “102 Minutes” and “9/11 As It Happened” are the best ways to learn about everything as it actually happened. I was 11 and there were three 11yr olds on the plane that went into the Pentagon. Rodney, Bernard, and Asia. I watch videos every year to honor them, the other children that were on the planes, and the orange cat that was with his owner on the Pentagon flight who is left out of literally everything. As long as people keep watching all this, no one from that day will be forgotten.

[@eviesunshine9256]

The video you watched was a very lightweight introduction to the horrific events of that day. I was in high school in class when it happened. We were all in shock. The horror didn’t stop there, it continued for the whole week. Weeks after were terrible too because we started seeing and hearing stories of those who made last phone calls and goodbyes to their loved ones. The death toll was rising understanding there would be little to no survivors. I’ll never forget those poor people that jumped from the Trade Center because they couldn’t stand the incinerator like heat that was fuming inside the building. Saw many jump to their death. Horrifying.

[@jentommyontheroad8089]

I taught first grade and had to go to school and try to comfort a class of six year olds who asked questions I couldn’t answer.

[@alsoniagaming]

@@jentommyontheroad8089 I was in 4th grade and the school allowed Students to call home and leave for the day if necessary. Classes rest of rhe day were cancelled and we talked through how we were feeling.

[@peterkorman9368]

I am from Slovakia, and that day i remember that i was returning from school, and my sister lived with her husband in our house, they had television in theri room and when i returned from shool i barely said hello to my mom and sister and my brother in law when i saw in TV that WTC is burning, a saw live when second tower fell. mostly i dont remember that year much only this...i was in second grade in elementary.

[@Mrskorba]

And this is why it’s so important to never forget our history and make sure our children learn it.

[@teridoster5840]

💯 absolutely. Forgotten history is doomed to be repeated

[@LunaJo67WDHTMJ]

I am amazed this kid doesn't know!!

[@onettaviator5396]

​@@LunaJo67WDHTMJ I'm not too surprised. I grew up in NYC (2003) & we actually don't even get taught about it here that much; you just learn from family. The schools out here do more tributes for it than anything else. Let alone the U.K.

[@Whiteruffels]

Only 14 states in our country teach about 911,why? Are they not teaching this? Do they just pretend that it didn’t happen.

[@viktorluvbikskog9389]

Real.

[@sputnikalgrim]

You should know that the Queen had the guard play the national anthem of the United States and an English reporter commented that “if anthems were lullabies this is a mother singing to her injured child”. That statement and gesture by the crown brought me to tears, it was the first time I felt something other than anger during the entire event

[@Fairlight53]

I was deeply touched by the Queen's gesture.

[@Shrasha]

Queen Elizabeth broke royal protocol for that gesture too.

[@SMACKu2b]

Empty and pointless. The elite don't give a shit.

[@GreebleClown]

That, and the Maasai village that gave the US 14 cows. That was deeply moving and brought me to tears that people we didn’t know from across the sea would be that moved by this tragedy they would offer us such an honorable gift and well-wishes.

[@ryanbuckley5529]

That was very moving❤ I remember that🙏

[@Daisuke-Koujiya]

The entirety of this event is a literal definition of ‘ the world stopped that day’;; I would also take a listen to the recording’s/voicemail’s left on families phones of those who were trapped in the towers and unable to escape. The sobering experience of those hearing those voices is one of the most profound and soul crushing moments you’ll experience in your life while learning about the history of that war. Mr Ballen has an incredible video on the impact of the people who fell from the towers on that day also; I really recommend taking a little while to clear your head and watch it at least once.

[@bjtight98]

Honestly, u were spared the most horrifying footage.....seeing ppl jump from the towers and seeing ppl hanging out windows because they were trapped right b4 the towers collapsed.

[@silverink1824]

I remember that I remember very clearly, but I wasn't directly there to witness it myself. I definitely knew people who knew family that was in the city that witnessed it. I don't think they forgot the sound of that event and when those people jumped they knew they were dead either way. So at least they chose which way it was going to be. It doesn't make that thought any better even 20 years later

[@marianclough8577]

I watched live on TV at home as those people jumped . I saw the second plane but not the first So darn sad. I cried and cried.

[@theresashaw7850]

😱😭😭😭 that was major scary to see

[@anonymousm5362]

I was on the phone with my colleague who was working at the pentagon at the time on the crash. We could not make out going calls. They shut our base down and it literally took hours to get off the base.

[@cuddelicious]

I remember the documentary after. You could hear the thumps and it was people jumping. I saw some of it that day but hearing and knowing that was someone just choosing to die that way its just heartbreaking

[@Phoenix_DarkMoon]

"I didn't know it happened twice." My guy, there were 4 planes that day.

[@9ito1]

4 planes and WTC 7 collapsed as well.

[@dudeusmaximus6793]

And fortunately they made the precipitous decision to ground all the others, because there were many in other cities trying to board to do the same thing.

[@Austin-y2o8c]

He's a Brit what else do you expect they apparently don't teach jack

[@Radiatron18]

@@Austin-y2o8cit’s not that he’s British, I’m British and know what happened I was 10 when it happened and at the time I had no concept of what happened but since then I was fully educated by the time I was a teenager on what happened so it’s not that we don’t get educated on such things at all I genuinely think the new generations are idiots in this video alone it clearly showed the 4 planes and he kept thinking it was just the two

[@daemonisedone4256]

@@Austin-y2o8c he is young its not his fault he probably wasnt alive or way too young at the time.

[@opalviking]

I’m so scared that something so huge that happened 23 years ago is essentially unknown today. The collective memory is rebooting too often. No wonder we are where we are

[@andromedaspark2241]

It doesn't take long, does it? Makes me wonder what else we've forgotten. I started learning about the 1920s recently. Humanity seems doomed to repeat the same mistakes and relearn the same lessons, over and over. There are so many parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s. It's too bad people aren't more interested in history; maybe they'd reevaluate their positions seeing how the same attitudes resulted in problems. If we're in for an echo of events in the last 20's, buckle up, it's going to get bumpy.

[@Wonderbread91]

It’s a little more sad, scary, or hopeful depending on who you ask when you start looking back hundreds or even thousands of years just how many times we repeat the same mistakes.

[@DaxtonKnight]

I was in elementary school. I remember the exact day, where I was and who my school teacher was. My mom told me in the car and I could tell something was wrong when she said "I need to tell you something that happened and it it's not good baby." I was a kid (7) years old and just said "what!!" After she told me I said "oh". I didn't say anything else. I knew nothing was the same again .

[@ripbones6631]

Why are you surprised? People don't talk about Pearl Harbor or the D-day invasion of Normandy, where 3000 Americans died.

[@MrJest2]

It has been said that in this age of the internet... we are actually _losing_ information faster than at any time in previous history.

[@caitlinmcclain9944]

I got home from school that day and saw the news for the first time - the school had kept it from us to keep school running as normal that day. My mom was glued to the TV, and no one could believe that it'd happened. While it was just barely mentioned in this video, the plane downed in Pennsylvania was, personally, the most poignant story from that day - how the passengers sucessfully fought the hijackers instead of letting them do what they wanted. In the end the plane still crashed, but those passengers prevented the death of everyone at the plane's intended target, wherever that was. Some people managed to call home from the plane and say goodbye, so we at least know what happened.

[@izirawksart]

This is actually very little of what actually happened. It was Hours of trauma for the world, watching live. I still get emotional over it. They don't show you the people jumping it's too horrific. This is the catalyst for the way the world is today. This event changed the world.

[@DaxianPreston]

My mom woke me up one morning. She said OMG look at the news a plane hit one of the twin towers. I watched it all happen after that. I was stunned, sad and very excited. The news that day speculated that it was possible that 50,000 people may have died. Remember that the year 2000 had made everyone think the apocalypse was just around the corner. Everyone thought WW3 was beginning. This day reminded me that the end is not in fact near at all. 24 years later and we are relatively just fine.

[@tintinismybelgian]

I remember family members staying glued to the news for days.

[@kellyopondue]

I was in high school and I remember being glued to the tv all day in school and just being scared and waiting... waiting for what would happen next

[@rachelanne2560]

Yep. I was just 9. But I remember that was the only time I saw my dad get so distraught and actually cry. It really felt like it was the end of the world. When was it going to end?

[@Devils_Advocate423]

FYI...the only reason we have footage of the first plane is because a guy was out there filming a documentary with NYC firefighters and the plane was so low that it caught his attention.

[@lesaahrenstein6360]

And that firefighter Died. His parents were in gander So there is footage of them As they found out about it and what was going on.

[@krazycatz]

Correction they were making a documentary about what it was like to become a firefighter in NYC and they were following a rookie firefighter. The firefighter whose parents were in Gander was not a rookie and had been a firefighter for many years. He was just one of many firefighters who were killed on that day when the buildings collapsed. Unfortunately more firefighters have since died from breathing in that toxic dust than those who were killed when the buildings collapse.

[@Mau13-m7q]

I have that documentary and watch it every year.

[@jacd751]

The Naudet brothers are French filmmakers who were doing that documentary. Jules Naudet was the one who was with the firefighters on a call for a possible gas leak just up the street from the towers when it happened & caught the 1st plane hitting the tower. He was with Chief Phieffer & went with him into the lobby of the 1st tower to film the response. He filmed everything - including the sounds of the jumpers hitting the ground outside the building, when the second tower was hit & when it fell from that lobby. After the tower fell they evacuated before the one they were in fell. It's an incredible film to watch & is available here on KZbin. It's a little over an hour long. Just search "Naudet Brothers 9/11 documentary".

[@rrrbrn]

That is not the only footage of the first plane!

[@bigsixxraven]

I wasn't going to comment, but I worked in 1 WTC, 69N. My building was hit first and the 2nd one to collapse. I couldn't even watch your video,but you showed more compassion than most. Thank you.

[@easybeautybybrandycolorstr2463]

I couldn't even imagine your terror and sense of loss. This never should have happened

[@kellyelliott8979]

This day was the pearl harbor of our generation.

[@Nile528]

Anyone that was alive during this remembers rhat entire day like it was yesterday. Im 35yo now, and that was the day where the entire world changed

[@threeminuteshate]

This can’t be stressed enough. _Everything_ changed.

[@reginaspringerfox6366]

I'm 55 now. On that day I was at home caring for my children and talking to one of my best friends on the phone. She had her tv on, I did not. She said "Oh my God! Turn on CNN! A plane just ran into the World Trade Center in NY. I turned it on and a few minutes later the second plane hit. My friend and I were crying as we watched the buildings burn, people jumping out of them to their deaths, and then their collapse. My middle daughter was only a month and one week old. Her birthday always reminds me. The days after the attack were terrifying too because we all, the whole of the USA, expected another attack. We didn't feel safe. Now again I don't feel safe because of the boarder being wide open for the past 4 years. We have to be vigilant again and watch for anything unusual just as we did then. Just look at what happened in New Orleans and the truck in L.A. It's possible to happen again!

[@Whooachannel]

this is so true. I am the same age as you and I will never forget. That day will be forever burned into my memory

[@Optimegatrongodzilla]

@Nile528 I don't. Granted, I was in kindergarten and I didn't know anything about what happened until a later point in time.

[@Nile528]

@Optimegatrongodzilla yea, thats understandable

[@fvizzo]

I was 20yrs old getting ready for work, my dad worked on the 86th floor. He’s former military, always punctual, that morning he was late, got stuck on the subway, and never made it to work. We had no contact with him for the whole day fearing the worse. When he came walking home from manhattan to Brooklyn that night at around 8:30pm, you couldn’t tear my family away from him… things happen for a reason…

[@dawnsherratt2317]

Sometimes... other times we just get lucky. Your dad got lucky.

[@terriowens4662]

Heart breaking to see ppl jumping out windows to avoid burning to death. I was in bed when my girlfriend came out of her room to tell me what was going on! I lived in SE TX so it was happening around 7:30 am our time.

[@melissaporter4386]

They say a lot of people that usually were there at that time were not because it was also the 1st day of school in NYC. Yes, everything does happen for a reason, whether good or bad. It's not always in our mental grasp of why or how, but we just have to continue to be thankful for what we do have.

[@SairWithTheHair]

There are many cases where people were late going to the office, or they had gone back down to the lobby from their desk to meet a visitor and so were below the impact zone. And while they somehow escaped with their life through sheer chance and coincidence, they still lost friends that day. Their lives were forever changed even though they survived.

[@maybib_]

​@@BlackavarWD He was late for a reason! Omg read!!!

[@MaryM-xz5fs]

I'm glad you had the fortitude and curiosity to LEARN what happened! Too many people think if you don't talk about it, it never happened!! Keep learning! 👍 History is enlightening as hell!

[@kagirion]

........That "evil brown people did it", or corrupt elements of the u.s government?

[@williamh4172]

Depending on who is the telling history. Nothing went down exactly the ways it is written in the history books. Definitely not 911.

[@CatInWonderlands]

Well this gets into what happened to Osama bin Laden, and why we were in Afghanistan for so long. The connections are there if you really study history.

[@adrianr1338]

This video completely omits the collapse of WTC tower 7 which fell about 5 hours after the collapse of the second tower.

[@normie2716]

Well this video completely omits quite a lot of information as it's just a brief synopsis of the event in whole.

[@instigatorartworks]

You should also watch OPERATION BOAT LIFT it will restore some of your feelings towards humanity. OPERATION BOAT LIFT is about how random strangers came together to evacuate the island of NY.

[@ruthlafler5622]

Or Come From Away about the planes diverted to Gander.

[@kittylynnlpn]

I was thinking the same thing! I remember watching it live and my best friend's husband being in the pentagon that day in DC. And one of my best friends flying the day before. Still brings me to tears today. I still remember watching people jump from the building so they wouldn't burn to death. But definitely watch about the boat left because it will help restore and show you how Americans and us as humans always come together in times of tragedy! The boat lift was an amazing event that occurred on 9/11 as well! People were trapped on Manhattan because Manhattan is an island. The only way some people could get off of the island was a boat because after the twin towers which I had actually been to the top of and that 1990s and saw the beautiful New York City skyline from the top of.! I have no more words...

[@MysticalSparr0w]

Yes! He should watch this I bawled my eyes out.

[@seattan]

Definitely should watch Operation Boatlift. On this day of horrific tragedy it's a story of hope, humanity, and heroes.

[@T.Gorrell]

YES! You must.

[@LeonaVanderkruk]

I’m in Australia and it’s one of those times you’ll always remember where you were and what you were doing when the news came through. The horror of seeing people jumping to their deaths rather than be burned alive, body parts raining down…it was all there on the telly until someone stopped all the visuals. My heart was broken for family members looking for their loved ones, knowing they were in the buildings, but never finding their bodies. Mobile phone services down, public transport down, people walking for hours to get home. Even from so far away, we could feel the horror of it but I don’t think we could ever fully understand what those people went through. A living nightmare

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Aussie here, sadly I remember it well. Saw it flashed to our tv, it was, as u know, night time here. Total shock.

[@ellaeadig263]

Aussie too, it was about 10pm AEST when it all started and a lot of people were watching TV about to go to bed, but instead we stayed up all night watching the coverage. My grandfather called me and said "World War 3 is starting". Utterly terrifying.

[@daemonisedone4256]

same here when it clicked after watching the news and getting the advertiser twice that day and talking with others in my town no matter where you were in the world it changed us all for good or bad...

[@Julieroo28]

My cousin was in one of the towers, and thankfully made it out safely. She spent all day and into the evening walking home to Brooklyn. I’m 2 hours behind in Colorado so I saw it happening on TV as I was getting dressed for work. I had to spend the day not knowing if she made it out alive. Every 9/11 she makes sure to keep the TV off and stays away from social media.

[@carolinewhiteside3631]

I was asleep. I woke up to the news.

[@markjz2011]

Extremely difficult to rewatch this again from so many years ago. I tear up every time I see those people jump out of the towers. Those were people like your brother, sister, mother, father, son, daughter, friend. Always keep all of these people in your prayers. 👇🏼

[@kathleenbrooks6677]

Agreed. It really is hard to watch that day over. Espically when ppl sacrifice their own lives to not be burt alive 😢

[@CatInWonderlands]

I just looked at the comments and listened. Didn't actually watch the footage. Still can't after all these years.

[@Justin-st9kn]

I was stationed in Germany with the US Army when 9/11 happened. Everything changed that day and nothing was ever the same again.

[@avikolo]

Imagine watching this live on the news as a young teen sitting in school. They didn't even send us home, we all just disassociated in shock. That day was so scary. Traumatized an entire generation.

[@enviousgaming3250]

i believe it i was in kindergarten that day and as it happened school was canceled i dont remember much of that day at all. its all a blur and those 6 months after are all a blue to me feeling more like a dream than reality. as a 6 year old i saw the live coverage but even though i view the event more as history since i couldn't grasp or comprehend the situation and what i was seeing i did still deal with trauma in some ways mostly from smoke as i still have snippets of memories where id see smoke from a forest fire in the distance, or smoke in a picture/depiction of something or even super puffy clouds in the sky i thought "are there bad people around here coming to hurt me and other people?" because at the time i couldn't comprehend true evil, terrorists, war and religion. when i thought of "bad guys" i only conceived the idea of super villains like lex luthor or the villains in scooby doo. people that were evil yes, but not evil to actually harm or kill innocent people. back then the only "bad people" i comprehended was the classic mustache twirling villain from a kids show

[@avikolo]

@enviousgaming3250 i was in 8th grade. The memories are a haze, as I truly believe i completely disassociated at some point after they turned on the TV. I was in science class, and the teacher told us we weren't going to be learning any science so we could watch the news or study or whatever. There was a girl sobbing quietly a few desks away from me. At lunch we went outside and just stared at the empty sky. We knew we weren't in danger in our small rural iowa town but we were all scared and you could feel the tension in the air. 4 years later I went on my 1st plane, (actually 5 flights in 8 days) for a school sponsored trip to Mexico. Its gotten better since then but I was absolutely terrified.

[@ordinarynocturne]

​@@avikolo I was in 9th grade. My grandfather has just died ten days earlier and I was still reeling from that. My grade had a short field trip that morning and we got back just in time to see the second tower fall. I've never heard my school be that quiet. And then next thing I know is that the school board or whoever gave the order to just... carry on. Don't talk about it. Pretend it's a regular day. I realize that they were probably trying to keep us from panicking -- particularly since where we were in PA is only about an hour away from where Flight 93 went down -- and had no more information than anyone, but it honestly had the opposite effect. Kids were freaking out or were like me; I was in a dissociative haze that entire day afterwards. I don't remember anything until I was home. I can't even remember if we were dismissed early or not. It's not even a blur, just a void.

[@farawaydawn]

I was in highschool, we'd turned on the tv in study hall purely cuz we were bored and the teacher said it was fine as long as it was the news, they had cut to a report on the fire department's jobs and duties around the city and we saw the first plane hit live during that. I still remember my classmate looking me right in the eye and saying 'we just got attacked'

[@DaughterofYahuah85]

Same here. I was in 9th grade soc. St. An they brought the TV in an we watched till bell rang at 224

[@James-rg2wd]

I often have to remind myself when dealing with younger people that they were not around for 9/11, because, although it has been over 20 years, it does not seem like it was that long ago.

[@zeus6793]

Frankly, it seems like yesterday, and at the same time, decades ago. It was a whole different world before 911.

[@newdaydiscoveries1828]

I am nearly 30 and I barely remember 9/11. I was 6 at the time and just remember all of us being taken to the cafeteria randomly and all the teachers looking worried. We went back to class and that was it. I didn't understand what had happened, but I remember the adults all being uneasy for a while. I'd imagine that most people under the age of 35 today don't remember or fully understood the gravity of it, just the general feeling of unease or were sheltered from the news.

[@migrose6547]

My life is defined as before 911, after 911. Also now to some extent, before covid after covid. There was a shift in consciousness.

[@Wrathlon]

@@newdaydiscoveries1828 Im 40, I was 16 when it happened so old enough to remember and understand how bad it was. Everyone was terrified there was more to come.

[@RealBelisariusCawl]

It’s just a matter of perspective IMO. For people around my age, (30s) we’ve scarcely known a world where anyone didn’t know more about 9/11 than they wanted to. It’s just kind of alien to see another adult who didn’t grow up with that paradigm.

[@steveford8999]

One of the things I will never forget is the silence. There were NO planes in the air. And I've lived near Philly International my whole life. It was eerie.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

I lived near JFKs flight pattern. It was erie not hearing planes taking off and landing, but hearing fighter jets every now and then.

[@jrovel07]

I remember that eerie silence as well. They grounded all flights in the country for days and you don't realize that you have become so accustomed to the sound of planes flying overhead until there are none and the silence every day from the skies was a constant reminder even when you were out and about.

[@therealninjess]

The first plane I heard afterwards sounded so loud, I looked up quickly, thinking it was in trouble. It was just a tiny speck far overhead.

[@kelsijodryer6348]

Yasss. I worked next to the airport. It was SO eerie

[@angelabromley3712]

Not seeing those white streaks in the sky or the lights at night.

[@mikeadair3341]

Saw this all live on tv from Florida. It was suppose to be my 1st day on a new job and I was there for orientation with 6 other people. We went into a meeting room and the tv was on. We were suppose to be watching a training video. Instead we watched. Then we saw the first tower collapse. I said. We just saw thousands of people die. It was a horrible day. Then you start hearing of the heroic acts that happened during that day. That's when hope starts to come in. Every school should show this to kids 6th grade and up. We need to teach history great or horrific.

[@skhoury920]

I was getting ready for work that morning, and watching people jump out the windows because they knew they couldn't escape, was devastating . It still makes me cry over 20 years later.

[@Rikrik1138]

The fact that it makes you cry after all this time means that you still have your humanity.

[@kellyfitz852]

Me too. It was devastating.

[@mtmadigan82]

I remember watching the first one and went from upset to blind rage. Luckily I was a Marine then, so knew we'd have an outlet for that very soon 🤬

[@vanessarussell7048]

Even watching this makes me cry again.

[@paullyrenee]

I was getting ready for work too and was watching the morning news. I hit my knees when we watched that second plane hit.

[@Saintly2]

9/11 OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON tells the story of how Canada 🇨🇦 stepped in to help all the inbound planes ✈️ to the USA 🇺🇸 that day. Incredible story few Americans are aware of. 🥰

[@seattan]

Yeah those people up there are true heroes that don't get as much recognition as they deserve.

[@jenniferlenfestey5335]

“9/11: Cleared for Chaos” on KZbin is a great story of what Nav Canada the ATC in Gander went through. From sorting planes to destinations across North America to parking over 200 planes on mostly small town runways across Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and other Maritime Provinces.

[@cmfdrama2]

Thank you for sharing this info. I just finished watching the documentary. Amazing story.

[@christinamann3640]

Also see Gander’s Ripple Effect: How a Small Town’s Kindness Opened on Broadway

[@wordforger]

Canada is always there when we need them, no matter the crisis. Best friends, neighbors, and family anyone could ask for.

[@bluewingedchaoscat]

I will never forget the images, the most shocking to me were the people just jumping out of the window. Seeing someone going down like that, it was unreal to me. It took a while before it registered that there was no other way out for them.

[@kitgracey]

The falling man was the New York Times cover of year that year.

[@realPenrodPooch]

That was the most disturbing footage for me.

[@wendymacraild5204]

@bluewingedchaoscat: I agree! Those devastating images are burned in my brain and haunt me.

[@elizabethtrask3790]

Almost 24 years later and those images in my brain are still as clear as the day I saw them. I will never forget them for as long as I live.

[@virginiahackney648]

Seeing this again only 😢 😢 . People were jumping out of the windows trying to get out of the burning buildings it was so sad it makes me cry just remembering it and saying it again breaks my heart those poor people 😢😢

[@eisaacs7759]

Over 23 years later, and I am still in tears watching this. The news truly could not capture the utter horror of this day.

[@nola281]

I'm going to NYC for a concert in July next year and my daughter is going too. Aside from the show there are only four other guaranteed stops, st Patrick's cathedral, the statue of Liberty because when I went in 2003 it was closed, the Greek Orthodox Church on the wtc grounds and the memorial. When I was there at 17, they had just removed the last beams. I've told her that there are no phones or photos at the memorial and to treat it as what it is, a cemetery. She was born in 2012 so she has no concept of what that day was, I was 15 and know all too well. My brother shipped out a week later and came back physically but mentally gone.

[@frosty711]

Same. Then days following hearing more and more horror stories, footage, and recordings. I remember hearing a recorded 911 call of a man stuck in one the towers begging for help. You can hear him scream "Oh my god!" right before the phone line cut out as the towers fell.

[@LawNerdDebbi]

Same 😢

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

same horror usa gave the middle east for a decade in the 90s

[@anastasiapapadatos5223]

Same. My heart still races when a jet goes overhead here in NYC.😢

[@ProtusMose]

"Why's he in the school?" He was on the other side of country visiting a school. They already knew about the first plane but everyone thought it was a mistake/accident. The person that leaned into him whispered, "Mr. President, a second plane just hit the second tower." You're watching the President of the United States try to process what's happening and not jump up screaming and freak out a bunch of eight year olds.

[@user-ix1pg3nw6v]

Many believe he knew about it all before hand

[@Stargaze_17]

President Bush was in Florida at the school promoting some school education thing.

[@LordLOC]

@@user-ix1pg3nw6v If you believe it was an inside job, sure. But it wasn't an inside job and he didn't know about it before hand.

[@lesleymclaughlin8213]

Yeah with the book upside-down lol

[@MS-zv4bf]

There's not a damn thing funny about any of this. He tried to stay calm in front of the children and left was soon as possible. And here you are with your juvenile lol. ​@@lesleymclaughlin8213

[@cindyv1401]

You are good to show this Jay We in America need to view this occasionally lest we forget 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@Locke99GS]

Never forget.

[@Dark_Harmony]

We can't forget.

[@kagirion]

But.....forget what exactly? Cos I'm pretty sure the usa just keeps going to bloody and disgusting wars.... Which I of course hope DOES end....but...hmmmm.

[@deathsaidhello]

We won't forget.

[@gravytrain416]

Thank you for sharing your reaction to this video. It pains me to a great extent that your generation hasn't been taught about what happened on 9/11. It was a terrible day for our country, but for a short time afterwards, we were all Americans, all brothers and sisters, despite race or creed. It's a shame that it took something like this to make that happen, and yet another shame that it didn't remain that way.

[@kookiekris]

All the phone calls from the people on the planes to their loved ones were heart breaking!

[@blackzero786]

They just sat like cowards while terrorists attacked their country.

[@kookiekris]

@blackzero786 Shame on you!

[@stevebrice2279]

@@blackzero786you’re bang out of order you muppet

[@ghunter182003]

And the ones from the Towers as well (Melissa Doi & Kevin Cosgrove, for sure)

[@tigerfanfrv]

i was in tears listening to a recording at the flgiht 93 memorial. a woman called her sister.

[@MrThankman360]

As an American who remembers this day, this still makes me equal parts angry and heartbroken.

[@latrice2688]

Seeing this again broke my heart all over again. I was this young mans age who is reviewing the video when this tragedy happened.

[@cloud09gaming]

Same here as the both of you. It always brings back painful memories of that day. It's a feeling that you can never forget, much less so for the souls involved in all that directly or connected to someone there. It was so long ago, but I think for many that were alive, it feels very recent at the same time too.

[@missg.5940]

To revive your faith in humanity find the story of the planes and 2000 passengers that were diverted to Gander Newfoundland. A small city but everyone, every last passenger and crew was welcomed, fed, clothed and entertained until air space was opened again. The musical Cone From Away is about that. I have never been prouder of my country🤗🇨🇦

[@caiterlandson7473]

So damn angry.

[@ibrstellar1080]

It was an inside job and those dancing Israeli's are a clue.

[@Randomdude21-e]

This made securitychecks at airports like they are to day, it was way more relaxed before this

[@Jordynfire]

Yes TSA was created.

[@enviousgaming3250]

back then you could just trade airplane tickets/seats with people. or just give out a purchased ticket to someone who needed to cancel their trip or get somewhere else for an emergency like in home alone 1

[@HEOOfficial001]

This made a change in the hijacking rule, now in no means a pilot will give up the cockpit

[@ibrstellar1080]

All part of the plan.

[@handyman1016]

Never forget Building 7, that was never hit by a plane.

[@rui1863]

Yet it fell in complete free fall after they reporting they were going to pull the building.

[@_shamayah]

And vacant

[@guruboy5]

And had CIA and secret service offices

[@LogsMaggot]

You’ve missed the pictures of the damages it had undertaken from the debris coming from the other buildings. And it fell after over 7 hours of being completely engulfed by the raging flames, how’s that surprising?

[@rui1863]

@@LogsMaggot In complete free fall; a perfect implosion.

[@michaeldouglas8214]

A lot of people jumped to their death to escape the fires. Some videos you can see bodies falling and hear them hitting the roofs from inside the buildings. this is still very emotional to watch.

[@overreality7279]

I remember my dad crying about the images of people holding hands when they jumped. It was such a horrifying day

[@Theresamarie-y8b]

People, not bodies.

[@DXTRIPLEHBK]

​@@Theresamarie-y8bIt's so horrifying to think about how one second they were alive and terrified as they fell for so long, then the next they were just gone. It You're right. It wasn't just bodies falling. It was human beings in their last moments.

[@YouCant27]

Here’s the thing-this can happen to any country or from within any country. Look back on the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing (the Murrah Building) in the US. When those towers collapsed, please remember that the ‘enormous dust’ that descended on people also contained pulverized glass and anything and everything that was once inside the buildings, as well as the materials used for the construction of these. All the people and the first responders inhaled this. There were those that died that day as well as the deaths that resulted over the years as a result of inhalation and exposure. 9/11 was a horrible event in US history.

[@ashleydixon4613]

Yep-worst case of domestic terrorism in US history. I remember it well. I was in college here in Central Arkansas, so of course we were paying close attention to what was going on with our neighbor to the west. Especially since there were quite a few students from the OKC area.

[@patrickevans9604]

Yea. More people died as a result of the towers being hit than the total number of soldiers that died in all of our years fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands died that day, and many many more died from health issues that came from inhaling the dust thrown out after the towers went down

[@HBC423]

The OKC was the Clintons, not who they said did it. Research it.

[@kristinahammer2757]

I started watching the live coverage right before the 2nd plane hit. I can honestly say that seeing that and realizing that it wasn't an accident was the most terrifying experience of my life.

[@burtiebees]

Same. I was a dumb young teen and it went from morbid fascination to abject terror in an instant. I can still remember my stomach dropping as the realization hit. It honestly might be the strongest memory of my childhood. Just feeling the whole world change in a single second.

[@larhonda4131]

Same here. right when I turned on the TV the second plan hit. Will never forget it

[@maryjack08]

That's exactly what I was going to say. We were all confused and upset when the first plane hit. Seeing the second plane hit was bone-chilling. Reporters didn't allow themselves to speculate but it was obvious how highly unlikely it was to have two "accidents"

[@chadUCSD]

Same..I was at home and that tv soap Neighbours was still shown at 130 on BBC1 each afternoon n they shut it off n put the news on just a min or 2 b4 the 2nd plane hit. Ret of the day was just that on TV, then pentagon got hit and one 'crashed' in pensylvania

[@erinkimberly4926]

This is what traumatized everyone watching.

[@NewYorkCityKopp]

Thank you for sharing this footage. It was one of the worst days of our lives as Americans and New Yorkers. I cry every time I watch footage of that terrible day. We must never forget 💔

[@angeliarossett5934]

It happened 4 times. The two towers and the pentagon. The plane that crashed in the field was going for the White House but the passengers took it down.

[@nrXic]

So which plane was supposed to hit building 7?

[@mistabook]

​@nrXic Building 7 was a minor part of the complex. Nobody cared about it until the conspiracy theorists started yammering about it. Certainly the terrorists didn't

[@jesses5463]

@@nrXic A Boeing 737.

[@GraveDigger35]

​@@nrXicNone, that got pelted by debris from Tower 1 when that fell that caused critical damage and the debris started fires in the lower floors that went on to burn uncontrolled for several hours causing even more damage, first guys that went in to fight it reported that the damage done to it made it too dangerous to go in a put out the fires

[@zareeper5933]

Not the Pentagon but im open to seeing proof. Footage from before the roof collapsed would be best but the original video i saw of that disappeared. Conveniently id say. 😊

[@emydonavan6254]

I was 21. I was supposed to fly to New York that day from the West Coast. We woke up to this, and I still remember every second of that day. They shut down all the airports and all the skyscrapers in all the other cities. It was an utter terror. A few years later, I started working in Insurance. One of my colleagues was in the tower that day, and ran down 80 flights of stairs with a co-worker who was in a wheelchair on his back.

[@fubar1217]

That colleague didn't happen to work for Blue Cross Blue Shield did he? My mother worked for them and they had only recently moved into Tower 2 (I think). When I saw the first building on fire from my office, I turned to call her but remembered she was in China with my sister.

[@lindadianesmith6013]

I was visiting Britain with my Mother. We decided to take a ferry to Calais for the day. One of the stewards asked us to follow him into an office. He gave us tea and told us what had happened. I couldn’t understand so he took me to the staff lunch and watched the news coverage from there. They were so kind. We stayed in England another 2 weeks. The British response was amazing from the Queen standing for our national anthem to Epping firefighters trying to get to New York to help!

[@Hi_Doctor_Nick]

​@@lindadianesmith6013 It was the Queen who broke protocol and had Star Spangled Banner played at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and St Paul's cathedral. She said it's a day we all can never forget. They also played it on the 20th anniversary. I think that's the only time it's been played. I was 21 when it happened, I was at work (uk) In late 2002 I was in NY with my girlfriend. Had a look at ground zero and the memorial globe. Stood there looking through the metal fence at this empty pit. It's hard to believe 2 massive towers occupied that space. The world changed that fateful day.

[@start2fly1126]

I was in 6th grade when this happened. We were in history class and started watching after the first tower had been hit. We thought it was a terrible accident and then we saw the 2nd tower being hit followed by the Pentagon. That was truly a day that marks the end of the innocence of youth for so many in my generation. We will never forget where we were, what we were doing and how everything changed that day. You asked “why am I watching this?” during your reaction. It’s so important that people see this and remember and learn what happened. Such unspeakable tragedy but so many moments of courage, hope and amazing human spirit too. I encourage you to watch the short video on the boat rescues of that day and learn more about flight 93, the one that landed in Pennsylvania. That flight was meant to hit the White House and the people on board fought back and took control of the plane from the hijackers and brought it down in an empty field where no one else could be killed but them. Thank you for taking the time to watch this.

[@mikek0135]

Regarding flight 93; it's been speculated that it was supposed to hit the White House, and there's evidence to support the theory, but we don't know. And, the passengers did fight back, but they weren't able to take control of the plane. The hijackers knew they were going to lose control of the plane, so they flew it into the ground.

[@danburns4003]

How did you see the pentagon get hit?

[@rosalynntrahan6659]

I was a senior in high school when this happened. It was terrifying and heart aching. Videos like this brings all those feeling right back, it's like I am sitting in class all over again

[@lorenzovonmatterhorn4756]

I was in 7th grade and yup our youth was stolen that day. Last year for Halloween. Anthrax in mail and candy reports. That day sucked.

[@latishabuckner8231]

I was in First grade. I remember it being a quiet day for us after the news broke. Our teacher didn't turn on the news but she gave us coloring sheets and kept running in and out of the classroom. It wasn't until I got home that I knew something terrible happened. My dad was ex military and he had no problem telling me and my 10 year old sister what he thought happened and what he thought the military was going to do about it.

[@Felda86]

I was 10 and in the 5th grade when it happened. My class had 32 kids, by the end of the school day, only 7 of us were left in class. My dad was on one of the bridges into the city with a front row seat. The moment the first plane hit. He called my mom. The one tower had the main cellphone tower on top and he had the unfortunate experience of watching people jump from the building. His last words on the phone was "oh shit its coming down." Then the phone went dead. Mom was so panicked she forgot my sister and I were at school and went we got home, she was in the recliner bawling. It took dad until the next morning to be able to call us to let us know he was alright. He has ptsd from it but I'm so happy my daddy was okay and my heart still hurts for everyone that lost their loved ones.

[@AngHemenway]

I worked for a company at the time and we had several hundred people who worked in tower 5. After the first plane hit everyone was evacuating, and people came over the intercom telling everyone to go back to their desks. Our head guy made our company evacuate still. He stayed to make sure everyone got out. He was one of only 4 people we lost from our company that day. I still can't believe they told people to return to work after a plane hit the building.

[@nola281]

Bless that man, he saved everyone but couldn't get out himself, a true hero.

[@typoking]

Because the corporate elite don't care about our lives. #EATTHERICH

[@erine3185]

I often wonder how many people died because they were told get back to work

[@AngHemenway]

@@erine3185 Same, it's unfathomable to me that they told people to go back to work.

[@user-du4zv4mc4w]

Sounds like it might’ve been Rick Rescorla. If so, he went back inside to help more people out.

[@xxMelaniexx]

I'll never forget hearing the phone calls people made from planes and from those buildings

[@ejtappan1802]

The worst one for me is the man who was mid-sentance when his building collapsed. Absolutely haunting.

[@SRGots]

@@ejtappan1802 Kevin Cosgrove. So sad.

[@Anaj-us4eo]

The whole entire flight of passengers that stopped the plane from crashing into the pentagon…they all knew they were going to die, and called their loved ones to say goodbye….

[@sterling557]

​@@Anaj-us4eo And "AirFone" was a thing that existed to make calls from planes. (I am mentioning this before some maroon says "How did they make calls from the air - no cell service" and thinks the calls were faked)

[@fnaffoxy1987]

@@Anaj-us4eo The Pentagon got hit. Flight 93 was going for the Capitol building or the White House.

[@ginaheller333]

That was a gorgeous Tuesday, September morning before hell paid a visit. I still cry every time I see the first responders lined up to go into that hell! My dear Jay... it's still affecting the whole world as we speak. The world hasn't been the same since that day. Early Gen X, I was at work when this happened. Next door office was the local news station. I watched the towers fall at that news station. The very best of humanity was shown, after the worst of humanity tried to destroy everything.

[@IndianaBones]

Last of the GenX and i was close enough to see it happen with my own eyes. My heart is still broken and you are right it changed my life too

[@ginaheller333]

@IndianaBones Bless you fellow Gen X!

[@andreadeamon6419]

Gen x also and at work. Driving forklift and the mechanic had his radio on outside. I kept listening to keep my line up to date. We seen the plane that turned around in Ohio as where we were the plane that crashed in pa went over our heads. I said to him wth are with these planes - shouldn't they be landed somewhere? Went back in and next time I came out is when the news broke of the last plane going down. We just looked at each other as I had tears just flowing. When I got home and finally seen footage - cried so hard I could barely open my eyes for days. It was horrible. The day that bon jovi sang in front of the fire station - my dad started crying and he had to go home. It was the only time I have seen him cry. I heard Cleveland sent the big lights that they used for where the towers stood

[@ginaheller333]

@@andreadeamon6419 Bless you!

[@shannon_w.]

Proud Gen X here, and it was a gorgeous morning! I had just gotten my daughter off to school, and my son was with my MIL. I was driving to work and my Dad called me from Florida (I am in Southern NJ) to tell me what was going on and at first I didn't believe him because my Dad was one to tell far fetched stories jokingly but I could tell he was serious that day. I got to work and told everyone what was happening. I worked in a boating and Marina supply store and we had little TVs that you used on boats and could only get in a Spanish speaking station and although we couldn't understand what they were saying, we understood everything that was going on! It was crazy to go into the grocery stores and other places that day it was so eerily silent in the stores and everyone was so friendly towards each other. We lived near an airforce base and could hear the roar of the fighter jets going off all night long for weeks and weeks after. Only people who were around our age and older can understand how much the world and society as a whole changed that day. I long for the easier more innocent times before 9/11 and wish so bad that I could just go back. But we can never go back. Love to all my fellow Gen Xers ❤

[@deathsicon]

the weekend before 9/11 i had the privilege of helping to train the first unit of search and rescue dogs from outside the city that went to help, absolutely amazing animals, a family friend of ours was FDNY and had traded shifts to get a longer weekend with his family (his wife worked in Philadelphia so they lived halfway between and he would stay at the station for 2 or 3 days at a time for work), not a single person from his station made it out of the towers, seriously messed him up because it was supposed to be his shift, fortunately he held on but cancer from all the stuff in the air got him last year

[@TrixRN]

I’m so sorry for your loss. May your friend rest in peace.😔🙏❤️

[@elkevera]

Respect that you touch on these subjects. - I lived on the West Coast at the time and will never forget this day when an entire country held its breath and it felt as if the world stopped turning. Nothing was the same, nothing. - Thank you !

[@BayBaeAngel]

“Look for the helpers” -Mr. Fred Rogers 😢

[@carolyndaniels9045]

I use that quote in my day to day life.

[@ibrstellar1080]

MOSSAD?

[@mrsd1095]

I'll never forget that day. Thank you for learning about this terrible day, young man. This ensures those that died will never be forgotten. Please look into the documentaries that have been made. This video shows you very little of what happened.

[@dajtoad1]

Why are you encouraging him? He's learning in a way that enables him to make money out of it.

[@mrsd1095]

@dajtoad1 At least he's learning. At least he wants to learn. If you don't agree with it, why come to his page?

[@dajtoad1]

@@mrsd1095 If he genuinely wanted to learn, he could just learn. He would not want to profit off a tragedy. He's not doing any investigative work himself or putting in any effort. He's just sitting in front of a computer screen.

[@mrsd1095]

@@dajtoad1 By doing these videos, he's not only ensuring he learns, but others do as well. You have no idea what he has or hasn't researched away from these videos. These videos could have been the start of his research journey. So stop ASSuming. Again, if you don't like the videos, why are you here?

[@dajtoad1]

@ I am here because, as I have already said, he is doing this to make money. Why else would he need to "react" to it? Do you film yourself in class as the teacher informs you about political history or geography?

[@adamkaige]

One of the planes that was hijacked that day never reached its target due to the bravery of the passengers who gave their lives to stop the hijackers and crash the plane somewhere safer. The film is called United 93 after the name of the plane.

[@KaseyAldridge-ez7jt]

All the phone messages left, all the pets that died because no one ever came home. All the children that weren’t picked up from daycare or school. Then watching all the loved ones putting up flyers trying to find their loved ones. So many details. I still remember.

[@DGillian6406]

Not to mention the 20+ years of war to follow! An entire generation, programmed to fight terror (an enemy that is impossible to get rid of) and the amount of money spent and the elites who got rich from war (ie. Haliburton)

[@Ninjanimegamer]

I remember how the city literally shut down. No phones, no communication and the worrying if the people we knew were still coming home. People worked in the city but lived in our area. Friends and family gathered together and were all just waiting. It was the longest 24-72 hours.

[@AussieDi_678]

Hey Jay. I'm 57 and had given birth in January of that year. I was up early with the baby feeding her, when a banner came across my cable TV to turn onto Multi media for an emergency announcement. I turned it on, started crying and woke up my ex. He took over the baby as I slumped to the floor, crying. I didn't stop for a year. The thought of the first plane was enough, but the second that much later meant they were targeting Emergency forces trying to take them out with the second plane and that made me worse. I'm crying again for all of America. I'm in Melbourne Australia and it hit me that hard. #flexer ❤️

[@hollyopperman5580]

I was 13 and in home room. The teacher got a call and just started crying. We sat and watched the news until they could release us. We didn't know how bad it would get, but that day, an entire nation sat aside differences and just cried and comforted each other.

[@maplemack]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this. Many people aren't learning about it anymore. I was born 6 months after 9/11, my dad a fireman, on duty for 20+ years before retiring early last year. He had just started working on the department a year or two beforehand. Even though I wasn't born, 9/11 was a day my dad NEVER let me forget. We live states away, 9+ hours from NYC and his squad was ready to jump in their trucks and leave to help with anything, whether the attack was still going or clean up. His crew didn't go, but he always made sure to talk about the firemen and what they did for the city that day. I think about them and their families. And I think about the families shouting for their loved ones to be remembered. 2,996 people had their lives taken from them. Thousands of families entire lives changed. 4 planes, two towers, the pentagon and a field. It would've been more if the passengers on Flight 93 hadn't heard of the attacks and tried to storm the cockpit. The terrorists later said they planned to hit the Capital building in DC, but chose to nose dive into a field before the hostages on Flight 93 got into the cockpit. Those on that flight are heroes and prevented more casualties, probably what could've been hundreds more victims, at the cost of their own lives. This story should be told every year, worldwide. Thank you for continuing the education on this terrible event, and honoring those who lost their lives and the families that lost a piece of them due to these horrifying acts of terrorism.

[@ladykatza]

I held my six week old son knowing that he would never get to experience the world as I lived in it. Even now the impact it had on our governance is being felt.

[@emilysmith259]

😢

[@JRush374]

Millions of people were needlessly murdered in response to this

[@dth2brny121]

Simply put, the world we all knew got flipped upside down that day, and 23 years later we still haven't recovered, it seems. To me, the way things are going downward as we speak and continue to do so, all started with the day that was September 11, 2001. Just plain WRETCHED.

[@tiffanymims8691]

I was 6 months pregnant and a veteran still on inactive reserves. I held my 3 year old tightly and my belly knowing that if things got really bad I would be called back for service 6 weeks after delivering my baby. I was scared for quite a while because there is always things happening that the news does not report on or that people just assume are nothing but mean different things to military members because we know how little is really reported on by the news for national security purposes.

[@ibrstellar1080]

@@JRush374 An Islam had nothing to do with the event.

[@SKIP-yj3xp]

I was living in Lower Manhattan when this happened. Soot covered survivors were walking uptown pass my building, to get away from Lower Manhattan. I could see the Towers from my window. I started feeling stressed and traumatized two days later. My neighborhood was closed to traffic for quite a while, the smell of burning electrical wiring was in the air for months. This video brought back things I never wanted to remember.

[@kierdalt]

The photo captioned "The Grey Lady" has died from 9/11 related cancer. She was caked in soot in the pic.

[@JadusMoltriel]

Nobody can understand what it was like to live through that and experience the terror of the moment of the attacks, and then the horrifying existential terror of the aftermath. When the soot and smoke and dust filled the air and covered lower Manhattan, the survivors covered in soot who were struggling to walk through/ out of the area, looked like demons or undead horrors coming out of the smoke. It was LITERALLY a hellscape; it felt like hell itself had engulfed the city. All your senses were overwhelmed by the most negative sensory inputs. The blurry visuals were a horror show, the sounds of screaming and moaning and crying and dusty winds and metal screaching/ melting, the smells.... the smells of disaster, metallic, smokey, burning rubber, burning plastic, burning metal, burning.... flesh, the smells of chemicals, and the metaphysical smell of fear as traumatized people covered in blood, sweat, and filth ran by you. Your sense of touch was overwhelmed by the polluted air, where it felt like you were swimming through smoke due to how thick the particles were in the air. The feel of extreme heat, which was there, but distant, but also not so distant. Like a powerful oven was somewhere nearby, and you couldn't tell if it was getting closer or not, or hotter or not, but it was scary. The feel of the energy and force as the debris blew past you, as so many humans charged and scrambled by you and all over, the blast of the buildings as they collpased, and that force hitting you full on with all the other senses I've described all hitting you at once in full effect. The feel of the very ground SHAKING and trembling. The taste of all that in the air, as you tried to breathe, and all you breathed was chemical firey smoke. The metaphysical sense of the collective consciousness of everyone around you in the city. You could FEEL and sense the fear, the trauma, the pain, the death, the suffering, the anguish. The extreme fear of WHAT WAS NEXT? Nobody knew when it would end, where the next attack would occur. NOBODY felt safe, anywhere in the city, and everyone feared their building or location was next. But yea, nobody can understand what it was like inside that smoke on the ground as you saw everyone's shadow/ shillowhetes/ debris-covered forms struggling through it to escape. It was like a zombie-apocalypse and demons all at once, except they were fellow humans, survivors, not monsters. But that's how they LOOKED, and that's how it felt. It's so hard to explain. The trauma and terror was incomprehensible. And that's just what it was like on the ground/ street around the buildings; imagine how much worse all that was for those INSIDE the buildings. Nobody can understand how horrific that day was. No movie or video game can compare to the real-life reality of that.

[@JoyceRay-k9m]

It was horrific. Beyond words to express it. Many of us we meant it, we will never forget. We can't forget.

[@ibrstellar1080]

It was a Luciferian ritual and the towers were built for the purpose of blood ritual.

[@suzanner8360]

President Bush was reading to elementary school students when it happened, that’s why he was in a school

[@starlaryer4165]

This is why we Americans will NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!

[@paulsexton1780]

Australians are right there with you brother.

[@zeyv4551]

Well, Americans who were alive and at an age that can comprehend the event. Most young Americans who were born after dismis it as a simple trajedy or don't even know about it, which is really sad. When you forget the past, it will happen again.

[@Briansgate]

nice words, but ask any American under the age of 30 when Pearl Harbor Day is.

[@tamminorthington5432]

​​@Briansgate Their response would be, "What is Pearl Harbor"?

[@kagirion]

@@paulsexton1780 You mean continuing needless, insecure, selfish and bloody wars against innocent civilians and countries to steal their resources for billionaires who don't give a shit about us? ...Yeah....sadly, we are right there with them doing that. :(

[@paulafowler5099]

I remember that morning, I had the news playing while I was getting ready for work. It was surreal.

[@mildredpierce4506]

That was exactly how I experienced it. I was getting ready for work and had the TV on like I normally do. When I first saw the news, only one tower had been hit and I had no idea what was going on. I thought it was a high-rise fire. But as I was watching the second plane hit and it was like I was in the twilight zone and couldn’t understand what I was seeing.

[@paulafowler5099]

@@mildredpierce4506 Yes, mine was like that too.

[@christinamann3640]

I don’t listen to anything in the morning, so I sat down in college where the shell shocked instructor said, “I guess we’d all rather be watching the news,” and I was like, “what?” I was home that afternoon for the cable guy to hook up our cable, and we were watching the news. Anywhere there was a tv it was on the news, even if it usually showed information on the convention centre.

[@noblelement]

One of my internet friends was an emergency services dispatcher in New York City on this day. Their silence every time this topic came up was absolutely deafening.

[@keithrogers2004]

Every SINGLE TIME I watch these videos of 9/11...I start crying...I was 19 at the time that this happened

[@keithrogers2004]

I also want to add the EXTREME RAGE and sadness that US citizens felt after that day....was not a good time

[@Marcus_1001]

There are NO words to describe the horror and chaos of that terrible day. Every single American had their sense of security and safety utterly obliterated. These kind of atrocities happened overseas and was something we only saw on the news or read about in the paper. We were safe within our borders. Horrific attacks like this did not occur on American soil. On September 11, 2001 that illusion was completely shattered. I will NEVER forget the fear I felt that day or the sickening images broadcast on live TV. The clips that are shown now have been edited and/or censored, but on September 11, 2001 the live coverage showed things that were too shocking and horrifying to comprehend.

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

decade since avoiding cold war Armageddon and then gutting the military because it would never be needed again. that is too much a " sense of security and safety " before the wall fell you still knew you'd be a white shadow if it popped off living so close to all these military bases. ten years to that just shows how quickly we forget

[@ThirdEyeEclipse]

Hi Marcus, I immediately recognized our Soo tribe flag in your avatar. I used to use the same one on my old twitter acct before they yanked it three years ago for using the wrong hashtags or something. On 911, I heard about the plane hitting the first tower on the radio driving to work at MSU in East Lansing. We had a TV on the 2nd floor which we were glued to all day long in shock and horrified anger. I had to keep tearing myself away from the coverage to get some of my unavoidable work done on the 1st floor, then I would run back upstairs. Not much work got done that day, everywhere. Everything in life changed that day.

[@Marcus_1001]

@ Hi there. Happy New Year. I was working nights at AT&T at that time. I typically didn’t get home until well after midnight, so I was still sleeping when all the events unfolded. I was awakened by a phone call from my sister telling me what had happened. I ran to the TV and turned on the news, and I could not believe what I was seeing. It was utterly surreal. Within about 15 minutes of me, turning on the TV, the first tower collapsed. I was in complete shock and disbelief. I spent the next 15 hours glued to the coverage. Those live and uncensored images are seared into my memory for all time. I will never, ever forget them.

[@whirlwindjourney]

That day alone is why I will forever take our immigration policies seriously. The ones who committed such devastation that day should have never been allowed to be here. We can't just open the borders and let people in from wherever for whatever reason who do not share our values or beliefs.

[@bobbin9558]

During this time there was no race. No division. We Americans came together as people. We helped eachother. We need to remember this every day.

[@Briansgate]

yeah, your color didn't matter. Everyone was covered in Ash that day.

[@martinlatour9311]

And then Obama came in and took the country decades back on race relations.

[@MrKurtykurt]

Well, the American-Muslims had a tough go at it for awhile but aside from them we were all the same color…AMERICAN (or Middle Eastern but again, they were the exception not the rule) 🎶Imagine all the people Living life in peace Youuuuuuuu🎶

[@sabrinaestrada3590]

I miss that

[@ben2741]

Fortunately, the establishment made sure we got back there once things stopped being profitable

[@SilentThundersnow]

❤ United Flight 93. The plane that went down in Pennsylvania was crashed by the people on board. They had cell phones and found out what was happening, and then their plane got taken over by terrorists in the sky. They were kept in the back of the plane, and they decided they weren't going to let the terrorists hit the Whitehouse, they figured that's where they were going. So they all rushed the cockpit and crashed the plane in a field. Truer heroes there never was. There's phone calls from those people calling to say goodbye to loved ones before they attacked the terrorists.

[@MissDebbieSue123]

That is the story that breaks my heart more than any other. I recognize the rest of it was horrible but United 93 has always gotten to me the most. "They all went down like heroes, in that Pennsylvania field.."- Darryl Worley, "Have You Forgotten"..Great song. There's no better words than the final words of Todd Beamer, speaking on an airplane phone. " Let's Roll"

[@maryannbombardier4674]

I'm so glad you decided to watch this! None of us, especially in NYC, Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and Pennsylvania will ever forget that day. My sister worked near the Pentagon and felt the impact . One of my friends had been married for only 6 weeks- his wife died in the twin towers. I see others have already commented about the people jumping out of the towers to escape the fires. It's difficult to watch, but we must so that no one ever forgets how horrible this was. Be sure to look up the story about flight 93. Highjackers were trying to take it to DC to hit either the White House or Capitol. But the passengers on that plane had been talking to loved ones on the phone who told them what was going on. As a result, those passengers heroically fought back, leading to the crash in Pennsylvania. As a final note, right after these tragedies, the Queen's Royal band at Buckingham Palace played the US National Anthem publicly for the first time ever. Oh yeah; first responders had set up near the Twin Towers for mass casualties, but almost no one lived. Also, there was a fifth plane that was to take off from Boston. Those highjackers were presumably to get that plane to DC to hit the White House or the Capitol. But the news was already reporting on the other planes, so they panicked and scattered.

[@mikeskis7887]

My dad never cries. He fought many wars and left a first sgt and a hardened veteran. This was a day I saw my dad cry.

[@murahsingleton3105]

They didn't show the people JUMPING out of the building. I believe it was 100+. When they hit the ground it sounded like a car crash every...single...time.

[@Rikrik1138]

That sound still haunts me to this day.

[@dawncapps5172]

I will never forget this. Especially people jumping out of the windows. It’s forever ingrained in my mind. I watched it as it was happening and it still hurts to this day. My condolences to everyone affected by this horrific act. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@jray5907]

It was horrifying seeing that live on TV. Our teacher had to turn it off when that started happening.

[@DORRO299]

Subscribed, I love your concept. I was in sixth grade in Florida when this happened one of my classmates. Dad was on one of the first planes. My mom worked in the office at the school and the news was always on in there and since she worked there, I had to hang out before school every day , the second plane hit right before school started. It was a crazy day. I remember it well the ensuing war was all through our middle in high school. The fallout was crazy. I have a handful of Middle Eastern friends who are grossly mistreated in the years to come by the general public. You covered this gracefully good stuff, man.

[@PDXdevil]

Thank you for showing this to your followers. Many your age don’t realize how much this impacted the world at the time. I was only in 5th grade at the time but it was on literally every channel.

[@Makyui]

This happened almost twenty-five years ago, over half a lifetime ago for me. We had just started the school day when we heard about it, and the entire school day was spent watching the live news footage. You'd think after so long, the scars would heal, but seeing the footage again now still shakes me to my core.

[@RedKnight.]

my class was the same i was in 8th grade

[@enviousgaming3250]

same here i was in kindergarten at the time and remember my principal made an announcement about a lockdown first ever lockdown for me some students were afraid of a shooter or something (something I was naive to at the time) but it was because of the attacks and the principal wanted kids parents to pick them up and take them home eventually my mom came and took me home and i remember being in the living room watching the second plane hit. as soon as it did i ran into me and my brothers ahred bedroom because he had been home sick that day and sleeping so i woke him up to come out with our parents i dont remember much else of my life for about 6 months of that time after the attacks and i do have a reclaimed memory thanks to my mom in November i went into the doctors to get a shot for the flu or something and i saw a hand drawing of a train with smoke billowing out. i asked my mom "why did bad people blow up the train." and being a young kid just barely concieving basic things in life and not knowing why people were bad or fully understanding that the towers were destroyed, my mom burst into tears. i didnt remember that for years until a few years ago when we discussed it it actually brought back a lot of other memories from that time frame i had forgotten about and my parents and i think it is why i have always had a small fear of smoke ever since seeing the smoke come out of the towers that day scarred me. and i didn't realize that for so long because as a kid whenever i saw smoke i backed away and felt like i was suffocating whether it was from a campfire or a candle or something else. even depictions of it and clouds that looked big like smoke billowing up horrified me as a kid

[@ScottGenX74]

My wife and I had just moved to Florida and we were in our 20s. I remember making the phone call to her to turn the television on. That day became so surreal and for weeks after the news footage was just a steady stream of updates and you could almost lose the seriousness of it because it was all you heard about. Seeing this video today was quite jarring for me. I was out working that morning and listening to radio stations talking about it. So horrifying and life-changing.

[@fluttergirl75]

It changed everything for most of us. There were no large gatherings in public places for awhile. Whenever a plane flew over, I'd duck. I'm in Canada and it affected us big time as well. I can't watch it again Jay, but thank you for learning about it. We should never forget.

[@kagirion]

Yeah...."a bit of a cough" is MUCH more effective, eh?

[@PhenChare]

Thank you for taking the time to educate yourself. We of Gen X appreciate it :)

[@g-urts5518]

I was in 8th grade. I'm Canadian, about 2 hrs from the US border with NY. After the first plane hit, our classroom was one of the few at the time that had one of those tvs on the stands with wheels (some of you are too young to remember lol, they were the 'big' tvs 😂). They turned the tv on. I remember 8 or 9 other teachers were standing in the back of the classroom as we watched the second plane hit. I can't remember exactly how long it was after that, maybe 20 or 30 mins, but they closed all the schools and sent us home. Will never forget sitting at home watching this all unfold on TV. Just an insane day. If you ever want a more feel good story about this day. I'd recommend watching the story about Gander, Newfoundland. Through all this chaos and mess, it may be one of the moments that makes me most proud to be Canadian.

[@JonniPants]

As an American who served and knows this story, thank you Gander (and Canada!)! 💜

[@lyttlephetus5241]

I was a Freshman in high school in New Jersey when it happened, In our schools we had TVs on stands attached to the wall but they deff still had TVs on carts lol

[@MAB_Canada]

Newfoundland CBC created a documentary on the ripple effect of Gander Newfoundland after 911 kzbin.info/www/bejne/goWxdYWsitaJh6Msi=HdyxjJTZxKxvkvNO

[@kathleenhayes9320]

Yes watch gander excellent

[@popcornhistory8344]

I was a Junior. Not all our classrooms had a tv, so the art teacher let us run across the hall to a room that had one. We had just gone back to the art room when we heard the second plane had hit. We didn't bother going back to our regular class after that. My art teacher's son lived in Midtown so she was trying to reach him. The band teacher let us use his office phone to call our families because everyone just needed to call their moms. My grandma worked on Pennsylvania Ave, an uncle was a firefighter at the Pentagon, and I remember just begging my mom to try to call grandma because everyone thought the White House would be hit next.

[@jensan6977]

This is important. Please share this personally with friends. This event has had far reaching consequences up til now

[@threeminuteshate]

I highly recommend the Frontline documentary “America After 9/11” here on KZbin. It tracks those consequences from then until now (it was made in 2021.) Excellent analysis. And yes, we’re still being affected today.

[@armyveteran101st]

I was in my mid 30's, on Army active duty and stationed in Germany that day. To me it still feels like yesterday, but I had not stopped to think that it is a somewhat remote event in the history books for kids born in 2000, or even in the mid 90's. I am glad you are reviewing the events of that day, and I think all young people should.

[@CarAmeL624]

I pray no one in any country ever has to experience something like this again. It was horrific. I am a Canadian in the Toronto area and will never forget this day. I was in elementary school when this happened. We are only a 40-45 min flight away from New York City so even we were scared as kids, not understanding what was happening.

[@Over50PR]

Thank you for treating this with such respect. I've lost friends and family members that day. That is a scar that will never heal. All those dead went to work in a normal day and never came back. Many called their families and loved ones minutes before their death. They knew it was the end for them. And many that survived and got exposed to the dust are dying of cancer. Again thanks for your respectful way.

[@argonunya8751]

Please check out the documentary 9/11 by the Naduet brothers (2 French brothers following a NYFD probational fireman). Their accidental documentary film really puts you there. My brother was in that firehouse & documentary. I was sure my brother was dead. The best knock on the door I've ever had came at 3 PM. I was in NYC that day, 9 mi away as the crow flies from the WTC w/ a clear view of the towers. I can still hear the planes crashing in & remember the complete chaos. The loud crashes of bodies hitting the ground really effects you.

[@ginaheller333]

Bless you!

[@ejtappan1802]

Oh wow. I have watched that documentary and every other scrap of footage, survivor interviews, and anniversary programs I could get my hands on, plus read a few books. (I cope with stressful things by seeking information.) Still, I was several states away and cannot really imagine what friends, family members and New Yorkers in general must have felt that day. I'm thankful your brother made it out.

[@argonunya8751]

I worked in midtown & on my way to work 2 days later, I got off near the WTC site to see. I got 2 blocks away from "the pile". It was dead silent- very eerie. I saw the vertical architectural panels, scattered about & jagged. I turned around, got back on the subway & have never been back.

[@ginaheller333]

@argonunya8751 your comment made me shiver!

[@singemfrc]

One of the most amazing (and I mean amazing in the literal sense of the word) moments in that film is halfway through when the last guy makes it back and they realize every single man in that firehouse survived. I doubt any of the other houses were so lucky, so many were lost.

[@jjkehrley]

I was 16 when this happened. I remember sitting in social studies watching this all unfold, and it's a feeling I'll never forget. ❤

[@TheBusySimmer]

12, science class.

[@tabytastick]

I was 18 and at the high school Sr homecoming pep rally. The pep left real quick.

[@JACpotatos]

Was a little kid that got pulled out of class for it.... Didn't understand what was going on that day, but i remember everything I saw

[@ArobeeTV]

To think we watched this happen live as children. I was in 7th grade, the school day had just started, and suddenly the French immersion 7th grade class all came into our classroom, followed by the principal with a TV on a cart. They got the TV on just before the second plane hit. Horrific.

[@silverbullet3699]

Kevin Cosgrove was on the 105th in tower 2 a floor not far above where the plane hit. In his phone call with 911 dispatch you can hear him scream due the building collapsing below him. Its such a haunting realization of what his last few moments were like.😔

[@jamesb4700]

I was actually in NYC that day. I knew people who worked in the tower who were there that day. They thankfully left before the 2nd plane hit. Actually, one of my church members who survived left, although he was told to stay. All of his coworkers that stayed were killed. The 2nd plane hit his floor. He was one of the last to get out before the 1st tower collapsed. He carried someone down who had broken her leg after the plane impacted the building. The literally exited within 10 minutes of the collapse. I'll never forget a kid a class under, who's mother died on the 108th floor. She was picked up by her grandparents. I never saw her again after that day. What made it so painful was her bawling. The news continued replaying the impact, knowing her mother was on that floor of tower 1. I was supposed to be there. Our school had a class trip to visit the rotating restaurant and observation deck around 12 that afternoon. Had the attacks happened later, or we went earlier, i wouldn't be here. Manhattan was a ghost town after the towers fell. Also, what you may not know is that during that time, when the 2nd tower collapsed all cell service was knocked out. Radio and tv stations were also knocked out, so getting information was tremendously difficult. Panic was rampant. They shut down all bridges and tunnels. I lived in Jersey and what ordinarily would've taken 25 minutes to get home from school, i didn't get home until almost 12am. My mom was frantic because she thought we were on the towers. What this video doesn't show are the jumpers, the phone calls, and the misinformation that was being spread about other planes coming to hit NYC. Finally, what will forever be seared into my mind are the towers. I crossed the GWB that morning, 7:45am and i remember how clear and perfectly sunny that day was. I'll forever remember the sunlight beaming off of the two towers and admiring it's beauty. Not realizing that 20 minutes later the world would change. NYC was NEVER EVER the same since

[@elizabethtrask3790]

My high school had a senior trip planned to the WTC for the 11th of October, and I always think if this had happened a month later, I would have been in the towers, but you having plans for that same day is WILD! Weirdly, another close call my family has is my uncle was sitting on the plane at the gate next to the one that was hijacked and crashed in Pennsylvania. His flight was grounded shortly after takeoff.

[@jamesb4700]

@elizabethtrask3790 Yeah... it's certainly strange to think about. It's a weird honor because I'll forever be connected in an intimate way. Yet my experience dwarfs those, like my church members who were actually in the towers. Wow... now that is eerie! For a very long time, i had survivor's guilt. I had a dream about 9/11 the week prior, and my brother and I strangely drew the wtc on fire the day before. I was severely depressed for a while. Although illogical, I thought it was my fault that more people weren't saved. I reasoned that I should've warned them. But who would've believed a random 7th grade kid? It took years for me to come to terms that it was nothing i could've done. For months, I searched for that drawing. Never found it, but I do have the very 1st TIME newspaper issued on 9/11 after the attack.

[@elizabethtrask3790]

@jamesb4700 I'm so sorry it effected you so strongly for so long but I'm happy to hear you understand now there was nothing you could have done and were not to blame. A horrible tragedy for so many and survivors guilt is a very hard thing to overcome. Just know the world was meant to have you in it for this period of time and to enjoy every moment of it you can friend 🧡

[@michaelm6471]

Hi Jay, I was 35 years old at the time saw it all live on CNN. Living in Ohio at the time. Our factory was closed down for 2 days. This video is so emotional especially for us who lived through it. The uncertainty of what was going on. Thank you for reacting to this video. I love your channel as a gen x person. Keep up the great work. We shall never forget.

[@M11969]

I'm in Ohio too, we didn't know if GE Aircraft was also a target and that's here in Cincinnati where I am. That day was just terrible. No one knew what was going on, everyone was calling anyone to get info on relatives possibly affected. We will never forget.

[@Priest_Of_Zebak]

There were 15k-17k people in those towers on that day. Kinda crazy to think.