KELLY RIPA: WHAT HAPPENED to me on 9/11 - EXCLUSIVE!

[@richardsiciliano7117]

Very interesting that Regis knew what was happening IMMEDIATELY. He was an old-school guy, he knew what was up.

[@Savage.-_.Gamer1]

He was a reporter initially, so he would know the telltale signs of an attack.

[@helenks724]

He probably remembered that this unfortunately was not the first time a World Trade building had been attacked by terrorists 🥲

[@aprilgeneric8027]

1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex every one with a brain that was over the age of 16 knew, the parking garage van bombs were a massive deal that was in the news for YEARS until the oklahoma city bombing @April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m.

[@DP-ih6nt]

I think us older individuals have seen enough evil in our lifetimes that we just know. Younger people have not had enough time on earth to recognize it when it happens.

[@rogerhuston8287]

Yes and Regis just wanted to get on with the show, he kept trying to move on.

[@danielhurley2894]

What a nice, decent, normal, honest, sincere person. It was riveting for me to hear all 12+ minutes of what she had to say. Thank you, Kelly. I'm viewing this on 9/11/2023.

[@seanmelhuish3898]

Me too, I just watched the clip from the show and you can see the shock in Kelly’s face. I’m from England and it was beyond belief

[@Dixon193]

not a Kelly fan but I agree.

[@HouseWashingRick]

My mom used to work on that show and a few other shows in that same building. Kelly is so phony she is the meanest person to be around. She acts like she is better than everyone else around her. I remember family day when employees could bring us in the studio. I was 26 years old at the time she started working there and she was very friendly then when Mr Regis retired she turned on everyone. If it wasn’t for that show she wouldn’t have a job. No matter who you are always be really nice to people no matter who you are or where you are

[@michellelaviolette574]

Same! I didn’t know much about her. Watched Regis and Kathy Lee in the 90s but I was working the Kelly years. What a down to earth lovely woman she seems to be. Genuine for sure.

[@billtmarchi4320]

Riveting??? A ditzy clueless person.

[@debbiestromain5024]

I watched yesterday that it was Regis that got her through that broadcast. She was completely traumatized and wide eyed and I thought any second she would burst out crying. She was so young and you could see fear in her eyes. Regis was visibly upset but in control.

[@dm2836]

Well and her daughter was ONLY three months old at that time so her hormones were still raw and her protective instincts in high gear. Her little boy had just been dropped off at preschool so I’m sure she was terrified for him and just wanted him with her too, she was really going through it and trying to stay professional on live TV…

[@LSSYLondon]

Regis had started out as a news reporter doing serious reporting for years before becoming an entertainer. That sort of training stays with you.

[@leftofpunk]

I watched it today and he was a boss.

[@TheRed02151]

too bad Kelly is a total bitch, selfish, and chose not to attend Regis's funeral. Their "chemistry" is all a facade

[@dsoule4902]

You cannot imagine the shock. The numbing, almost paralyzing shock. Then for weeks afterward, a name mentioned here, there... and now look.

[@nurserock77]

I had a much different 9/11 experience than most. When the events happened, I was in the operating room, assisting an orthopedic surgeon (my boss) with a bilateral total knee arthroplasty. Every so often, we would have a patient who preferred to have both knees replaced simultaneously....and the morning of 9/11 was one of those rare occasions. We were in the OR, scrubbed in and our patient had just gone under anesthesia when talk of a small plane hitting the trade center went around. It was discussed, but as a team we were focused on other matters. In the time period after the initial news, the first incision was made and the procedure was well underway.. Focused on our task, we were interrupted by the screams of staff members outside of the OR in the surrounding corridors. There was a sense of utter panic outside of the OR suite, which of course triggers a concern for one's immediate safety. In my decades of work and to this very day, it was the ONLY time panic had ever occurred in such a way. Inevitably, the door to our suite was thrown open by a circulating RN and I'll never forget her screaming, "Oh my God, Terrorists just flew a huge passenger jet into the trade center on live TV...it's horrible...people are jumping." The next interruption was a panicked, "Now they got the White House!" The wise, curmudgeonly surgeon I worked with did exactly what was needed. At the top of his lungs, he ordered HIS OR doors to be closed, sealed and ALL personnel uninvolved with the procedure were to be immediately removed. I'll never forget him saying, "By God, I don't care if it's the second coming itself. I don't care WHAT is happening, those of us in this room are NOT to be interrupted again...for anything....now get the hell out of my OR." Doc gave us a minute to collect ourselves, asked if anyone had family in NY and needed to go. Everybody agreed to proceed and we finished our 2 knees, ate sandwiches for lunch & moved onto our other surgeries. Doctor and I agreed it was best we ate lunch together & "quarantined" ourselves to the OR area as to remain focused on our duties throughout the day. Other than hearing whispers of the towers "falling down", a statement I couldn't grasp or picture in my head, the Dr. & I stayed oblivious until we took our leave of work for the day. I always had great respect for the doctor I worked side by side with and never more than I did on 9/11. I heard radio reports on the way home, but I didn't fully grasp EVERYTHING until I got home to my family & saw it for myself... For me, each event was immediate and required immediate acceptance, as did the sudden realization of an collective innocence lost. God Bless those innocent victims, the brave first responders... So much to say... We did what was best for our patients that day....any fear, curiosity or grief would have to wait. God Bless You Doc and may you rest in peace.

[@StevoE7]

A very unwise interruption by the people outside the OR. They really should have known better. Your doctor was right.

[@marialisa6478]

He sounds like he was an amazing doctor! I would trust him with my life, as well as my family's lives.

[@deborahmurphy8807]

No words...🥀 only tears and gratitude. God Bless you both, you, and your wise, compassionate mentor Dr. You both define your professions... Yes, may he Rest in Peace. Godspeed. 🛐🕊❤

[@tubetrace]

Try paragraphs

[@ilikeyoutube836]

@@tubetrace Try not being an ass

[@Astro95Media]

Really have to commend Kelly here. In an age where journalists often celebrate themselves and try to make themselves the story, she spends her time commending her colleagues for the work they did and how it helped her, while honoring those who were directly affected by the attacks. Love her humility while sharing her own story. It was a privilege to hear this side of it.

[@trentaccid2177]

Then why dont people want to work with her.

[@TrumptonMayor]

​@@trentaccid2177Jealous of her great hair maybe?

[@mmmfloorpie]

Yes I agree. Have you watched Tony Danza's 9/11 story? First 30 seconds are about 9/11 and the rest is him talking about hosting the Miss America pagent the week after. Just all self promotion. I'm shocked at Kelly's reaction. You can tell she was genuinely affected by 9/11 and not the same person she was before it happened. I'm the same way.

[@Constantlystealing]

Kelly is not a journalist. She’s an actress turned host/interviewer. Journalism is something else entirely.

[@waltervega8730]

She's always been great! She's definitely a genuine person

[@FinallyFulfilled]

The day that changed my perspective about pretty much everything. I was there inside (subway level) when the first plane hit. I remember the sound. I remember the person next to me asking me “Oh wow what was that? A car accident?” We both wondered. See, it didn’t make sense to think it was anything else but a car. We were below street level so that’s what we imagined it was. It was the loudest bang I’ve ever heard. I lived in New York City from 1996-2005. Shortly after my 27th birthday, 9/11 happened. I lived to tell the story of that day while so many didn’t. I remember what New York City was like before this attack and what it was like for years to come. There are moments in our lives that will always be etched in our spirit. There are days we will always pause and remember. Since then, I promised myself to live with more gusto. I knew that we all have this thing called “death” lurking in the shadows and we never know when it’s our time. I miss the old NYC skyline. I miss the innocence of my early 20’s before this life experience shook me. To those that weren’t so lucky, I think of that every year on this day. I specially remember “the donut man.” Once I got out of the building, he was there yelling “that is my office!” (Repeatedly). He is alive because he went to get donuts for his office. I remember the fireman on the subway level that told me to “please get out of the building” as I hesitated because he was ruining my commute. I think about that fireman. Did he make it? This nameless person saved my life. I will always remember. 🙏🏼

[@Fritha71]

💜

[@jjouney]

This is quite a tale, glad you made it to safety. Thank you for sharing your story. It's interesting to learn how others experienced that awful day.

[@rokanrollannie1]

I'm so sorry you went through this but so happy you lived to share your story.

[@raineyj560]

🫶🏾

[@Thrillnow]

Thank you for this.

[@brooklynShap]

I just watched the clip of Kelly and Regis on 9/11. The look of horror on her face embodied what everyone felt in the moment. I was just 5 years old but as a New Yorker it’s very ingrained in me because our parents had to come get us from school.

[@lewisner]

I'm British and I was checking tickets on a train at Durham. An old guy who was travelling asked if I heard about the planes which had crashed into the Twin Towers. I thought he had lost his mind but when I got home I watched it on TV and my jaw just dropped.

[@peachygal4153]

@@lewisner I live in Georgia USA, and I felt the same way when I first heard. I couldn't believe it as true when I first heard a little after 9 am our time. My daughter had a Docter's appointment that afternoon and she was afraid for us to leave the house. I called the doctor's office, and they kindly allowed me to cancel. I was told most people were canceling their appointments.

[@tiffanysouza7054]

I was also 5 years old when it happened and I lived near an Air Force base about 3 hrs away. So hearing planes flying over the school was normal. But that morning I remember hearing jets (not normal) and the principal telling the teachers to keep the tvs off and parents would be arriving soon to pick us up. It wasn’t until getting home with my siblings that all of our confusion stopped. My parents had the news on and I just remember feeling so terrified watching everything unfold. 9/11 is one of the earliest, major events that I remember. Kelly summed up everything perfectly.

[@madisonclark9177]

We felt it in Canada too... they took us all, elementary school, after the first plane hit to watch live … obviously they had no idea what they were actual letting children watch. I think the second plane everyone was in shock and still didn't have an idea. Our brains then could not comprehend this scale of an attack.

[@Dr-Weird]

I was in college just barely getting up for class. The guys across the hall told us to turn on the TV and we were lost once we saw it. We had just missed the second plane. Classes were canceled for the day, there was a rush for gas at the gas stations( small town community college so maybe 5 total). The student liason took everyone bowling for those on campus that wanted. So we just bowled until dinner then I called my parents and broke down. That was the only quiet night on a campus notorious for drinking and being loud in small groups. It was insane.

[@gingermaynor495]

Regis went into professional mode immediately at that broadcast. Even before the show aired, Regis knew the plane crash was a deliberate attack. Regis relied on prior training to bring the facts only while trying to keep emotions and speculation out of it. Kelly it seems was operating from a naivete most of us had. It is so relatable. You were afraid to be inside, but afraid to be outside too. No place felt safe. Anyone born after the 90's has no idea what life was like before that day.

[@faylinameir]

He was also in the Navy so he knew more than most

[@ktgbw]

​@@faylinameir Not to mention he was about 10 years old when Pearl Harbor happened.

[@PurpleSkie]

​@@ktgbwYou're right! I had never thought about that before you mentioned it.

[@MrHoward263]

@@ktgbw Very true. Regis experience two attacks against America.

[@jena.alexia]

Agree completely. We were so naive. I was like Kelly. It has to be a mistake, a malfunction, pilot had a medical episode. No one could have conceived people would deliberately fly passenger planes into a building. Everything that has transpired since has proven that it is very possible and the terrorists continue their nonsense to this day. The Bali bombings in 2002 came so soon after the anniversary of 9/11. Driving cars into crowds of people was the next "trend" I didn't expect but after 9/11, yeah, I accepted it straightaway that it was deliberate. I didn't try to rationalise it. The world had changed forever and not for the better.

[@MCMNasty2]

She makes such a great point about the sanitization of the coverage since the tragedy. What we saw in real time isn’t really the imagery we see today.

[@ashleyregina]

I remember seeing people on fire jumping out of the towers. Absolutely terrifying.

[@Savage.-_.Gamer1]

@@ashleyreginaWtf, 9/11/2001 was horrific, I’ve heard thuds on video recordings and knew just then what it was… disturbing. 🤢

[@thamertanner5448]

You can still find it, the original footage, but I'm glad she mentioned it cuz I had started to think I was crazy. The jumpers became taboo immediately after. No one talked about them. One of the biggest 9/11 conspiracy theories is that the jumpers weren't real, they didn't exist, it was just falling debris. I'm glad now that the footage is more widely available and you can see them in nearly every documentary. I remember that after it happened a lot of families were in shock and denial, some because of their religious beliefs, stating that there was no way their loved one would have jumped. To this day I'm not aware of any of the jumpers being positively identified and I think this is why. At one point someone tried to ID The Falling Man but the family got extremely upset and offended and they maintained that it wasn't him. Unfortunately the camera quality also just wasn't good enough back then, there are no clear photos of the jumpers, their identities will never be known. It is believed that more than 200 people jumped on 9/11. Remember them.

[@jennl93]

The USA does an impeccable job to make even the most horrific parts of its history seem shiny and triumphant. Never mind the thousands that died.

[@JonnyBMitchell]

I was saying this same thing!

[@QS-si3cq]

I haave never heard someone, in the 22 years since, so acccurately describe the feeling and the gravity and the atmosphere of exactly what 9/11 felt like. I mean, she nailed every salient point and emotion here. I was taken back to that day in just listening to her, and having just watched the first 10 minutes of theit show from that day.

[@BenWinder108]

Same

[@XoFashiondivaXo]

Same

[@jltaco85]

Not same.

[@The_Banshee724]

Same

[@aaron-damonkassner4715]

It’s one of those things that you never forget

[@precognation]

It was the worst day. The worst. I feel like there’s a big gap between us who went through this and the youger generations. They’ll never really understand what it was like. No one who lived through that time will forget those images. We were all traumatized. The whole nation. 😢

[@AGAM1911]

Yup! Us that went through it have a trauma bond for sure. 😢

[@noble604]

Agree. And for me, September 11th is my birthday. Going through this on your birthday ....and for following years on your birthday... surreal

[@LetsEatNowYall]

@@noble604 I recall telling a friend of mine that I was sorry that it happened on her birthday. 🙏🙏🙏

[@MrMrfreedom1]

@precognation It was horrible.

[@TheUrbanOrganism]

@@precognation agree, and they have no memory of the America that died that day - one that was self assured and right with the world, ‘Home Alone’ America. Self-loathing wasn’t mainstream. Once the towers fell it was permanent, there was no patching up or going back.

[@slideshowgurl]

I was 8, almost 9. I remember it vividly. My auntie is a flight attendant for American Airlines… she called out sick that day and the flight she was suppose to be on went into the North tower of the World Trade Center. Her name was released on the manifest as one of the crew members who had perished. Her phone didn’t stop for days. She miraculously had called out sick that morning!! I remember being picked up from school and being told what had happened. I didn’t understand the gravity. We went straight to her house, my mom told me my aunt had a very hard day and I needed to give her a hug. It’s the first time I ever saw adults cry like that…that’s when I started to understand what had happened was a big deal. My older cousins told me about people jumping and I cried every night to my mom about it. The thought that the conditions of what was happening in the buildings was so horrendous people chose to jump was too much for my little brain to comprehend. It upset me so much. What a tragedy. It’s crazy so much time has passed that a whole generation wasn’t alive to witness it. We must always remember and pass these stories on. 🙏

[@RedHotMessResell]

I bet your aunt never mistrusted her intuition again. That's when you know fate stepped in to keep you around on this planet.

[@light_and_sound]

Yes. Never Forget. My son wasn't born yet then, but I've made sure he knows exactly what happened. I send him videos each year and talk about it with him and always tell him to Never Forget.

[@evanliveshere]

"my daughter who was 3 months old" "my daughter" "my daughter was 3 months old, she was with me" Honestly as a new mother - it must have been uniquely terrifying for her. i can't even imagine how vulnerable she would have felt - on live television to boot.

[@evanliveshere]

@@day-nuh9773 and?? have you ever had a three month old? stfu

[@lostcontrol1981]

My son was 2 months old when 9/11 happened. I’d had a very bad pregnancy and birth, and had come close to dying. I had gotten the news on Sept 10th that I was going to be ok - all my blood tests came back good. We had celebrated that day - and the next day I was looking at my tiny baby wondering what kind of world I had brought him into.

[@sandyguthrie342]

My son was only about a month old and I just held him, crying that day. My other son was only 3.

[@georgialee6755]

Nothing compared to what the victims went through

[@queenshipwomen8039]

Same. My daughter was 4 1/2 months old. I too was horrified and hopelessly watching.

[@melvingeloneck3344]

I like Kelly Ripa. Always have. She shows here that she is articulate and caring.

[@A·c·h·i·l·l·l·e·s·Last·Stand]

Her recount of the event is so spot-on and immaculately expressed, you can tell she's visualising the memories playing out infront of her as shes speaking

[@LadyGnomeofthewoods]

I remember how traumatized I felt that day. I can't imagine being in NYC, not being able to leave with such a young family to protect. Well done, Kelly!

[@versansky75]

I was working at a Saturn dealership near New Orleans when this tragedy happened. We were all working when a page came over the speakers. It said, "All available employees to the showroom right away". We all got there just as the second plane hit. To this day, I don't recall anybody talking over the TV. I can honestly say it was one of only a very few times that I was genuinely frozen in fear for total strangers. In fact, I think everybody was frozen in fear.

[@AxiomApe]

They say that everyone remembers where they were that day. It’s true. None of us will ever forget that feeling of frozen terror and helplessness. I was in 7th grade. I remember walking away from my classmates didn’t want anyone to see me tearing up, because I thought we were at war. Fear, sadness, chaos and anger. I’ll never forget. I’ll never forget seeing American flags everywhere and the unity we all felt. No one looked at color. We KNEW we were Americans, together. And that we had a fight ahead of us. Thanks for sharing. Your story gave me chills. ✌️ 💪

[@versansky75]

@@AxiomApe Thank you for sharing your story. Hearing something from someone who was a student at the time hits differently. We were all not just Americans that day, but New Yorkers, Washington DC natives, and Pennsylvania natives on that day. I remember some things in my life..... even some things that happened in the history books, but 9/11 got burned in my head obviously for different reasons.

[@00st307-m]

Well imagine - outside of Pearl Harbor - we had never had a foreign attack like that on US soil - let alone NYC. And we really haven’t had one since! I had always felt like the US was invincible before that. And after - it felt like some sort of protective shield had vanished.

[@00st307-m]

@@AxiomApeI agree 99% but not about the fact that “no one looked at color”. My Indian friend got constantly harassed after 9/11 and she’s not even Muslim / middle eastern 🤦🏻‍♀️ Let’s not erase the racism that happened against anyone that remotely brown / middle eastern. I remember Black and Hispanic comedians joke about it - “we’re finally not the most hated group” 😭

[@light_and_sound]

​@@00st307-m Exactly. I remember that. It was like people were suddenly ok with being openly rascist towards middle eastern people. I remember hearing they were fearful of attacks. I saw a video clip of an Indian cap driver in NY taping a big American flag to the hood of his cab while saying, I am Indian. India has always been a friend to America. I love America. The rascism and middle eastern hatred was strong after that.

[@pamjarrett-s9s]

Kelly is completely correct when she said they don’t show the original images that we saw live that day. I watch every September 11th, and it is nothing like the horrific scenes we saw happening on that day. Which is probably a good thing, because it absolutely traumatized most of us.

[@taraskye80]

@santaraporter3623 because it's important to remember. You're here too, aren't you?

[@balthasardenner5216]

@@pamjarrett-s9s Pretty much all of the live news broadcasts are available on youtube?

[@nillyk5671]

Huh? But it's on yotube 🤨

[@lauralannister3399]

She is absolutely correct, you didn't want to sit tight inside BUT you didn't want to be outside because of the chaos and uncertainty. It was so intense and sad and all of the horrible descriptive words.

[@thk929]

“The thought that human beings can do this to one another”…has been more than a thought since time immemorial.

[@susanmacrae4639]

True - human beings do this to each other every single day we are alive? This is on a grand scale for Americans to see but maybe that was the point

[@user-uh6lm5wv6n]

She obviously hasnt read much history. The reason this event is so horrific for people is because the tools involved, 2 massive airliners striking 2 massive buildings is a surreal site, almost incomprehensible to us, and therefore adds to the scale of the horror, but strip those components from it and its just people killing people. Jeffrey Dahmer is actually worse

[@leighbotts9694]

I still remember that day like it was yesterday. It was my first year of college and I didn’t feel like going to class that day. I asked my dad if I could stay home? And he told me I was in college now, I could do what I wanted. So I got back in bed and turned on the tv expecting to fall back asleep eventually. Little did I know id be glued to the tv in horror for hours. Such a tragic day. I’m almost 40 now and even now I get that same feeling in my stomach watching as I did that day.

[@mountainheather]

Same here, first week of college! I was living on campus in Rochester. I remember classes were never cancelled because the president said if we cancelled classes, the terrorists would've won. 🥴

[@Hateires]

I was also a freshman in college. My dorm was called “twin towers”. We were told to go to classes as normal but nothing was normal that day.

[@georgialee6755]

leighbotts9694 How lazy. And it was only mid September

[@leighbotts9694]

@@georgialee6755 I was 17. We weren’t all as motivated as you at that age. 🙄

[@jenniferbrumley2746]

My first semester of college too.

[@nybsfp7486]

I remember flying from Boston to NY not long after the airports opened again. It was the quietest, most tense flight I’ve ever been on.

[@RobinPM86]

As horrible as that day was, the days and weeks that followed were almost beautiful. Our citizens came together like I never saw before or since. It's sad now to see how low we've fallen from that time.

[@TheONLYgoinnutz]

@@RobinPM86 I miss our country being so united. As horrific as 9/11 was, we came together and were kinder and REALLY grasped how life should be.

[@kateg7298]

I was in a crowd of people watching a single TV at work in a break room. I'll never forget when the second plane struck the building. Everyone made the same sound at the same moment - a groan of unspeakable horror and shock that hundreds of lives were gone in a second. Then people - including myself quietly starting sobbing and saying no, no, no, as if were some sort of collective nightmare and we could make ourselves wake up from it. But, there was no waking up. Everyone in America's life had changed. We were targets and we had been infiltrated by evil.

[@keetahbrough]

were you infiltrated by evil? Or is the evil committed first by all the rich taxpayers in america and canada, paying their government to commit war atrocities all across the earth. You society has a grip on world domination, so anything that happens to your country by a poor country, is self defence. Which is not evil. You economic policies are evil tho.. poverty is a human engineered system of which all rich people get their prosperity out of. Now THAT'S evil asf. xo

[@kateg7298]

@@keetahbrough It was an accident and has nothing to do with atrocities. I don't know what you're on about.

[@ramencurry6672]

I was driving near my house listening to the Howard Stern radio show and he mentioned on air that the building was hit. It appeared to be serious. I quickly drove home and saw the mess unfold on TV.

[@JoeBuck207]

I felt the same way when Biden got elected president.

[@SlayerGirl18]

@tonymontana4284 how are you going to compare this awful & devastating attack to a freaking election?? Somethings seriously wrong with you.

[@1886JB]

What a fantastic person. Loved listening to this compassionate woman describing these awful events

[@EchoJ]

I watched the clip of the intro to that episode of _Live with Regis & Kelly_ and the look on her face as they realize on air what's happening was chilling. Kelly's eyes (and how she kept moving to the side) clearly said, "I gotta get out of here." Hearing her talk about it here so candidly really confirms the authenticity of those moments from 2001.

[@mikebland4935]

What a great interview. Kelly, the morning of the attacks was so emotional and shook. I knew, there would be no way that show could go on and I felt how her and Regis were struggling with what to do. We see them as stars, but they are really only humans. God bless them for doing their part in reporting this tragedy.

[@cloudsn]

I fully agree that the re-broadcasts got "cleaned up" as she says. Because I was on the west coast getting ready for school, riding the bus, and in a classroom where the teacher kept the tv off. So I did not see any live videos except for right in the beginning, I saw images of the first tower on fire. I saw nothing else until later that day. I can tell you, the stations were not showing the extent of the horror. It wasn't until recently that I saw how many people were in the windows, trapped, jumping. I had seen a picture here and there, like the Falling Man. But not the sheer amount of people looking out, helpless. Honestly, even though it feels dumb to say all these years later, I'm a little shook.

[@susanborkenhagen58]

I was an1st grade teacher who lived in CA but I had gone to college in NYC and it was my 2nd home for years. I was so mad that schools weren't canceled and I had to go to work and ACT NORMALLY!?!?! That is screwed up! I had to keep the classroom TV turned away from the kids and on MUTE so I could get information for myself. Everyone I knew was sent home or told not to come to work. Teachers were expected to be ignorant, emotionless robots and are treated terribly!

[@gracebryant1817]

Agree. Being in SoCal my kids were in school like a normal day. Sad 😢

[@mlkj13]

It was beyond belief. I remember watching when the first tower fell, the absolute horror and disbelief. Never ever did I think the towers would fall. Kelly is perfectly describing what so many of us felt.

[@carrotstick1970]

This is a powerful perspective, having been living, working, and raising a family in NYC. I held my 2-week-old infant as the events unfolded and thought also that it was a single-engine airplane, pilot error, or suicide. When the 2nd plane hit, our perspective was flipped so joltingly with the second plane hitting, and the immediate logical conclusion that this was an organized attack.

[@carolsdarksarcasm4223]

This is what I remember as well. Rumor was a small aircraft. That second plane hitting changed our world forever.

[@shelbymanners6729]

All of us who were old enough to remember that day also remember where we were and how we felt. Tragic day in American history. This brought me right back to that day. My thoughts and prayers are always with the families of those who were lost.

[@berryhij1]

Yes, it’s so difficult to explain that feeling but it comes back every year like it just happened. I try to explain what it was like to my daughters, one who was born a year after the attacks, and I can’t put it into words.

[@reginabeasley872]

I saw the second plane hit the tower live from my balcony in Newark NJ where I lived ill never forget that image

[@kerryrobinson9947]

Watching that live was living PTSD. Everything was live - even hearing the thud of humans hitting metal awning.

[@blueizumi]

I am so sorry.

[@smooth_ops2942]

Those thuds make me stare off into space at random times throughout the years when something reminds me of that sound.... The things those people went through before making that decision. Two choices and they both end the same.

[@tibbysue7341]

Omg. I wish you so much peace. I cannot even begin to imagine.

[@lilyperez578]

Yes, sometimes I feel ridiculous being so affected by as if I was close by. Buy watching it live made it feel that way

[@MaryB_TN]

Kelly has the sweetest, most genuine voice. It was mesmerizing to listen to her recount that horrible day. She's adorable, and I loved her on All My Children and Hope and Faith. She found her true calling in the talk show genre. Absolutely gorgeous, plus brains and personality. Hope she's in the business as long as Barbara Walters was.

[@jasmynelliott]

I was a sixth grader at the time. It was picture day and my class was among the first group to go, so I went to the auditorium as instructed. The hush that came over the room when the TV turned on to show the North Tower ablaze still gives me chills. Not even ten seconds later we watched the second plane hit the South Tower. My mom scooped my brother and I up shortly thereafter. My dad was in Philly and my aunt was visiting us in Miami. Their flights were scheduled for that morning. The wave of relief that came with hugging my aunt and hearing my dad’s voice letting me know he was safe was immense, but it was followed by a sadness knowing even at that age that so many others didn’t get that same feeling because their loved ones perished in a senseless attack. To this day, I get jumpy when I hear a jet flying overhead.

[@tomtom6319]

Kelly seems to have become more real to me after hearing her on this interview as she realizes that she is an entertainer but somehow needs to actually help people with the platform she is on, must have been tough.

[@masilomorake2876]

I can't imagine the PTSD of everyone, thevictims, their family and friends, those who witnessed the horror, and the heroes. God bless America.

[@danielle228512]

I remember I was in 10th grade and they announced that a plane hit the World Trade Center. I was so oblivious to what was going on and it really wasn’t until I watched it all going on live and watching the second plane hit and then seeing people jumping out of the windows that I really started to feel the gravity of the situation. 😢. My goodness still feels like yesterday

[@PraveenSrJ01]

I was a freshman in community college at Wake Tech in my pre calculus algebra class when I heard the bad news 🗞️ from a classmate.

[@FlyingDaddy721]

I was also a sophomore in high school and felt exactly as you did. We spent the entire day watching the news in every class. Tv Carts were wheeled into most classrooms. Such a terrible experience

[@0mcmhs8]

Same. I was a sophomore and I didn’t even know what the World Trade Centers were. I went home during lunch and I remember turning on the tv. I immediately collapsed to my knees crying.

[@MSIequalsTRUTH]

​@@0mcmhs8Ditto. I was a sophomore on the West coast then and didn't find out what had happened until I got to homeroom. I also didn't know what the twin towers were. We spent most of the day just watching the news in class.

[@jgweems]

I just saw the 5 or so minutes of Live with Regis and Kelly from that morning. It was chilling watching them, and the audience, experience and realize what was happening. You should watch it.

[@Sue-In-Oregon]

It's chilling to hear what she & Mark saw. That day was a horror; this video and her recounting what it was like for her is excellent and stunningly sad.😭

[@axelgrind]

Watching the clip, they found out about the first plane hit before they got on, but they heard about the 2nd plane hit while on air.

[@Richie8a8y]

Kelly was on air with Regis at 9:00. They were briefed before going on of the first plane. They witnessed the second explosion/plane live on air. They eventually left and went home Kelly said they didn’t want to go in because they lived in a high rise and were afraid of another plain.

[@hayleyam28]

@@boofert.washington2499 i believe that SueFromDenmark is referring to the later collapse of the towers.

[@ahollowfairytale]

Realizing she had her 3 month old there with her, as a new mom, I empathize. How terrifying that day must have been for everyone, but wondering about your son in nursery school, about your studio possibly getting bombed, afraid to even return home. Like I can't imagine how just overall horrifying that must have been from her POV. It was truly a terrible, horrific day for so many

[@davewanamaker3690]

I think she really understood and expressed herself well about the events of the entire day! Well done. After listening to what she said I am beginning to understand those events and I have been wrestling with it since day one. The show on 9-11 I think she and Regis handled very well in their own ways on that show on Sept. 11 as it happened: Regis trying to remain professional and Kelly's expression of shock. She was allowed to express shock because this terrorist act was so devastating. They handled it extremely well. They deserve thanks.

[@ToriMayTarot]

When Americans were breaking down and needed a dad that day, we had REGIS😭 He seriously was the ONLY PERSON on air that day…that offered humility and sincerity in such a chaotic situation. He was the father we ALL NEEDED THAT DAY. I was 5 years old, and I remember watching Regis feeling he was the ONLY PRESENCE IN ALL THAT CHAOS that offered a safe space. No adults made any sense that day I remember, but he did. And because of that I felt safe enough to sit there and strong enough as a child, to accept the situation and WANT to UNDERSTAND it. I sat frozen, yet felt present again when he kept speaking so calmly. He got the message out, brought us to present moment and feelings, and GAVE US ALL PERMISSION.

[@kathyrobbins2249]

@@ToriMayTarot I guess that as an adult, I saw things very differently. I don’t recall hearing Regis’s voice that day or on any day that followed. To me, the heroes were the first responders who rushed into those buildings with no thought about their own safety. Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice of their very lives that day. But I can see how a child who was watching and listening that day might need a father figure on what had to have been the most traumatic experience of their little lives.

[@jacoblott1617]

​@@kathyrobbins2249 I was 11, and just weeks from having experienced the first truly close painful loss of my life (my aunt passed from an aneurysm, and she was to our whole extended family as mortar was to bricks, we slowly drifted apart in the couple decades since.. most of the old except my mom has passed now). When this happened I was sitting in middle school, saw it on the cart tv that got turned on just in time for the second plane. First time I felt fear like that, fear for others, for the plethora of people on scene... That repeated news footage really got to my mom, who said Everytime she looked at those buildings it was like she was seeing her recently lost sister (my aunt I mentioned earlier) in the flames. The impact of her loss on my fam felt equable to the impact of 911 on the country, and my mom cried all day... Daily... And cried... And cried. Not for days or weeks, but pretty much a solid month most waking moments.. a solid year it was daily... Really ingrained a depression in me I still carry. So I come watch the footage sometimes and really wish I could give Aunt Jackie a hug. Since 2001, it's timed out to a major death every year, sometimes two.. so I am also missing my Dad. And my Granny and Grand Papa. And my two uncles and several close cousins and friends. It's like going back to the banks of a Rubicon that was crossed. Like the collective hopped from a timeline that was headed for peace and good vibe and onto the parallel that turns into the fun house mirror version of reality today can feel like. I have faith that good will vanquish and convert evil eventually, at what costs, lengths and time, I could not guess... Look up the Welsh word hiraeth All that said, what made me start typing was the thought that occured to me reading your comment; it would have been nice if she would have landed on Regis and Kelly a few times during those weeks and months after when the news was just wearing the footage out

[@momof4804]

It was truly the scariest day. I was working in Toronto in the financial district and I remember being horrified but also really afraid. No one knew if they would target anywhere else. Places like the cn tower seemed like they could be a target. I was so glad to leave and get home to the suburbs. You could feel the shift of how the world felt before and after. How everyone lost a little part of their innocence and hope for humanity that day.

[@jonleibow3604]

I was living in Winnipeg, and the feeling of unity and support toward the US was amazing. I remember seeing US flags flying everywhere and "United We Stand" billboards in the weeks and months afterward.

[@larry4111]

My best friend lives in Toronto. I live in Florida but was living in Philly at the time of the attacks. In 2019 we both went to the memorial at Ground Zero together, both for the first time. Neither of us really wanted to go - and yet we knew we had to, since we happened to be in New York. I was surprised how much it affected her, a Torontonian. Both of us were holding each other, trembling. As much as it affected me, having been so close to it, she was beyond consolation. I was amazed and heartened and saddened all at once by how much she carried it with her, even though she was from another country. We still talk about visiting the site that day.

[@mizzchuz.6413]

Same. I wondered if Bay Street would be hit. It was terrifying. Had just been in NYC 2 months earlier, never would've thought ....

[@ED80s]

I also worked in Toronto in the financial district but I was on maternity leave and I felt sick with worry about my coworkers safety because I was worried our building/area could be a target as well. I was relieved to find out they evacuated our building.

[@marianneb9929]

I worked in the TD Centre in Toronto. We closed our office at 10:30 am. I took the GO train home to the suburbs. Union Station was jam packed. I'll never forget that day. It was a beautiful September day with clear blue skies in Toronto too.

[@bluter-rd1zx]

I have been watching this entire series and I'm a little surprised at how egocentric some of the celebrities are but not Kelly Ripa. She's clearly caring, thoughtful and anything but an egomaniac. Very sweet, down to earth and clearly cares about others and about the tragedy's impact on people other than herself.

[@nancytuck5041]

It was a horrific day and time in history and I never felt so helpless. Because we didn’t know what, who, why and what else. I have never forgotten it and never will. 😩😭

[@cassandrav4358]

Kelly has such a sweet soul. I love that she truly has empathy and compassion for others.

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@cassandrav4358 Very True. 😢♥🙏🌹

[@myopinion4567]

Seeing this…reliving this through her words, just made me cry. Again.

[@sherimann6144]

Kelly is such an Elequent Speaker!!

[@StevenNicolai-w5q]

Thank you Regis and Kelly for reading all this and taking the time to understand my direction of the message

[@algomaone121]

I watched everything happen from just after the second tower was hit. I lived in NW PA at the time, and little did my parents and I know, but while we were watching flight 93 was flying DIRECTLY overhead and in the middle of their hijacking.

[@MissArtisticSasnuhy]

I lived in Los Angeles and let me tell you those rumors also applied to us and it was such a terrifying time to live in. All day every day you'd hear "LA IS NEXXT LA IS NEXT YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR BACKS" and everywhere you went security was top notch I felt like our realities had shifted 180! Nobody knew what could happen next and we were all on our toes. Tragic days we lived.

[@hera7884]

I hear it everywhere. “No one thought that way.” “We didn’t see that coming” “No one flies planes into buildings.” “Your mind doesn’t think that way.” Those terrorists did things we were not capable of imagining. They shocked us and horrified us. Made us live the rest of our days in fear of it happening again. Those terrorists won and its heart breaking. Personally, I think about it every time I step foot on a plane, every time I see one. I hate planes because of 9/11.

[@melD0217c]

She is being so authentic and naturally beautiful in this clip.

[@petlover9696]

How so?

[@Jeff_H_the_Guitarist]

She’s a sweet soul. And so hilarious on the show. A real gem.

[@valeriereed8508]

Miss Regis so much! He was a class act and large than life. ❤

[@d.b.2997]

She describes that day so well and sincerely. It was an awful day. On Labor Day that year, my grandfather was rushed to the hospital, having suffered an abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture. By the time 9/11 came, my family had been sitting in the hospital CVRU waiting room for 9 days praying that my grandfather would pull through. On the morning of 9/11, we were all sitting in that waiting room watching the TV as all of this happened. We were going through our own very personal traumatic family experience and then we saw all this happen on TV, and I honestly felt like the world was ending. It was the most surreal, painful time. My grandfather passed away the next morning on 9/12/2001. I was 24 at the time, and I remember knowing that the world as we knew it was gone.

[@disan930]

Well expressed Kelly, my feelings, thoughts and memory of that horrible day😢

[@TheoSmith249]

What a difference the passage of time, and the revelation of details has brought to this event in history. The raw exposure of the fragility of our world was introduced to everyone on the planet.

[@eddietheguy12]

It was my first day of kindergarten. I was dismissed before lunch. I remember the horror on the faces of every adult I saw that day.

[@deborahbarry8458]

I was in Grade One when JFK was killed. Here in Canada they sent us home. I entered into the kitchen and found my mother sobbing in a way I’ve never experienced before or since.

[@susanborkenhagen58]

Try being a 1st grade teacher...that was my job and I was not allowed to dismiss my class and had to go on teaching like nothing happened. The WORST day ever!!! I had the TV in the classroom turned on but on "mute" so I could read the news at the bottom of the screen. I told the kids that Disneyland and Sea World were closed and that is when they knew something bad happened.

[@dod2304]

@@susanborkenhagen58 I was in second grade I believe. We were told the President had been shot and the Principal asked us all to silently pray. Even then, I realized what a huge thing had just happened. I went to a public school, not a Catholic or religious school.

[@dogsratsfishcats]

Kelly did an excellent job of describing the feel of that day. At first it was shock, then such deep sadness. My mother and I were watching the coverage at the same time while on the phone. We had just lost my father earlier that year and were already grieving, then the immense loss of those poor souls struck our hearts like nothing we’d ever imagined. When the pentagon was hit, I vividly remember the fear and shock I felt. At 30 years old, I had never considered our country could ever be under attack on our own soil. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. I’m very glad that I wasn’t under the pressure of watching it unfold in front of a national audience like Kelly was. Not sure I could keep my composure as well as they did. I think many of us cried the whole day, as well as having our perspective forever changed. What a horrible, tragic day 😔

[@denisemakarius3963]

It’s was a bad day for me and change my life forever because my husband was there he was a responder in my life has not been the same since I have PTSD from it I’m afraid to go into a building because I think that it’s gonna fall to go over my life. Such sad please never forget keep this in your heart forever 🥲

[@NotYoung3592]

She effectively described the stun that affected us all when it happened, disbelief, where to go, where not to be, what the hell has happened, back and forth, incomprehensible.

[@tibbysue7341]

I am almost 70 years old. In 2001, I was working, and someone called me to come down to watch (there were televisions in other parts of the building). I was truly devastated. We were all sent home, with assurances that all employees traveling internationally were accounted for. I was working for a company that employed a number of foreign nationals, including a man with whom I was working with on a project. Long story short - I think every single adult person living in the United States that day was impacted. 22 years later, I still cry every time I think about it. It was such a loss for all of us.

[@toddvergith9485]

My Dad's national guard unit was sent to ground zero for clean up. He came home a different person. To this day he won't talk about it.

[@donkinghan1]

I'm from Northern Ireland and remember being in college in Belfast and going to the small shop in the college for a coffee with a classmate and on the TV there was the images of the towers on fire and we asked the assistant what the movie was and she said it was the news not a movie and when she said it was the twin towers we couldn't believe it. When we passed the news on to others we really weren't sure if we should as it was so unreal we couldn't really believe or accept it was real. Such a horrendous day for all those affected and caught up in it. 🙏

[@lindagarner1320]

With your comment it reminded me of hearing about "War of the Worlds" and the panic that followed. I wished I wasn't seeing what I was seeing. I will never forget. 🇨🇦

[@localman12]

I was working in my office and had the tv on without the sound, I looked up and saw the first tower burning and thought it must be a special effect for a movie. Then the next time I looked I saw the second plane hit and turned up the sound. I was in total shock, could believe what was happening.

[@xragdoll5662]

So the bombings between catholics and Protestants and constant burning of Irish flags and Irish presidents/Taoiseachs don’t bother you at all? Okay. Nice to know you care about America and that the hate within Ulster isn’t even on your radar. (To other commenters, Northern Ireland isn’t part of Ireland and they hate the Irish and terrorise them when they go up north, there’s constant bombings there)

[@katherinemurphy2762]

I remember the first live footage I saw at school that morning was of a man totally covered in dust. The news teams were "on the ground" trying to interview New Yorkers who had just fled for their lives. This was my introduction to the worst day of my lived American History. Then I learned what was really going on.

[@katief7047]

I was 5 years old when this happened. I was in kindergarten, and I remember them playing it on the small box tv in the corner ceiling of the room. Even at 5, it was horrific to watch. I will never forget it

[@greyk610]

Same, 5 years old in kindergarten. But I don't remember anything, how's 26/27 treating ya?

[@Sj430]

I was 14 years old when 9/11 happened.

[@chrislewis2653]

I was teaching kindergarten on 9/11. The television in my classroom was broken, so my kids weren’t watching it that day. Honestly, I wouldn’t have let them anyway. I didn’t want to be the one to expose their little minds to those horrible images. I just let the kids whose parents didn’t take them home have play time all day. 9/12 was harder as a kindergarten teacher. The kids knew what happened, and they were scared. I did my best to comfort and reassure them that we were far away and perfectly safe. But I often wonder how safe we really are…evil is all around us. 😢

[@yourstrulyanshika]

its amazing to think about how the entire world remembers where they were, what they were doing, and how they felt on September 11th, 2001.

[@ReviewsChannel-e4r]

Her humanity is so endearing. You could tell when she was reliving it. Some events are indelible.

[@Paulzpc]

Every year they show these images and videos I saw live, and it still makes me sick inside and I think about all the people who had no option other than to jump from a building 80 stories to the strreet below, knowing they would never survive that fall, My God.....saying it was horrific is seriously understating it.

[@cocomunga]

Imagine starting your work day and then suddenly you have to make the decision to burn alive or jump. Truly horrific.

[@annah8380]

This brings back so many memories and feelings about 9/11. Kelly really did express the gamut of those feelings. I didn’t see the show that day but I’m sure she and Regis helped people cope. 💗

[@TheasChristmasVillages]

On that terrible day I was actually watching Regis and Kelly as I was pulling on my trainers to go for my morning run. My husband was at work, the kids were in school and I had planned to can a bushel of pears. Needless to say I didn't run that day, I didn't can anything all week, and I could not get over the idea that many families were shattered that day. I was stuck watching tv for days, in absolute shock. I had to physically prevent myself later that week from turning on the tv. What a horror it was.

[@pirateylass]

I was 21, and on the west coast, seeing everything unfold as I was getting ready for work. It’s as if the entire country watching stopped and couldn’t break away from the awful images on the television. Nothing was the same after that devastating day. I remember not being able to stop crying for days from the loss of life and the trauma of it all.

[@gracebryant1817]

I was in Burbank Ca. I grieved for at least a year. My neighbor was panicking thinking planes would bomb Ca. I can’t imagine being in NY what folks endured witnessing and experiencing this horrendous tragedy

[@revheavygandpinto]

I remember i was working at the Hollywood bowl as a green room chef, we had sold out concert that evening so me and my crew were busy in the kitchen when Hollywood bowl security started evacuating us! i remember they didn't even let us clean the kitchen we left it dirty i just remember dumping food in the walk in refrigerators and running out of that place asap!! the Drive home that morning was extremely weird and scary!! i remember driving trough downtown Los Angeles and seeing hundreds of people on the streets trying to make their way back home! it was Chaos!!! not seeing any airplanes was the weirdest part!! i live under a flight path and im so use to hearing airplanes all day everyday so that silence was absolutely frightening !!

[@LuckyFerals]

I lived three blocks away from the studio where they filmed Live With Regis And Kelly. She described that day exactly how I remember it. Literally a city of walking zombies. Trapped with the bridges and tunnels all closed. No idea what was going to be attacked next. Horrific.

[@AndySaenz]

I vividly remember where I was on 9/11 like it was yesterday. I’ll never forget it. It was one of the worst days in American history. I can’t even imagine how horrifying it must have been to be in NYC when this tragedy happened.

[@BenWinder108]

Shes very good at explaining her expieience. Brings you right back there.

[@learning2live_brokeninchro157]

I’m writing this on 9/12/23, it’s so odd out of all of the 9/11 footage I’ve digested over the years since…yesterday was the first time that I saw the footage from, “The Regis & Kelly Show”. I wish I had seen it sooner. I grew up with a grandmother that religiously watched Regis, starting when it was “Regis & Kathie Lee”. Together we’d sit together at the kitchen island, watching Regis, eating Grape Nuts, and working on word finds or crosswords. Pretty sure my grandmother started to teach me to be an, “little old lady” when I was 4 years old. I’m probably one of very few kids in the world, that actually enjoyed Grape Nuts (I still do). So in a way, I grew up with Regis. He was like a grandfatherly figure to me, or what I imagined a grandfatherly figure to be like. I cried when I heard of his death in 2020. When I watched their footage from that horrific day, he was a ever the professional journalist/ television host. He walked out holding Kelly’s hand. He remained calm and put together. Ever the grandfather, trying to protect his family. Careful not to panic anyone. He like many journalist that morning carried a heavy burden. Kelly did well to, especially with the fact that this was within her first or second year on the job. Also, now knowing that her young baby was in the studio. I don’t know how she kept it together. I definitely realized how much I missed them and their show. It’s interesting how people from a television show can become connected to a core memory. It’s them almost feel like family. ✨💜✨

[@ac.7724]

My father ate Grape Nuts Flakes every morning 😊

[@Inkironnrum]

9/11 is my mom’s birthday. On the day of this tragedy, I called my mom to wish her a happy birthday. She immediately informed me of what had happened. With the thought of quitting my job for weeks, I decided to make quitting a reality on this day. Went home and watched the news unfold with my wife.

[@donkey3187]

That so sucks...to have your bday associated with 9/11.

[@Fritha71]

Mine is 9/12 so tomorrow. I turned thirty the day after the attacks. Tomorrow I'll be 52... Always felt relieved that there is that one day of difference at least but still, every year since 2001 I celebrate my birthday in the shadow of these events, they are interconnected forever. Life. And death. @@donkey3187

[@salbro5985]

@@donkey3187 My daughter-in-law's birthday is on 9/11. Rather unfortunate, but we always remember when it is.

[@donkey3187]

@@salbro5985 It's very unfortunate.

[@Secretagent71114]

My 2 great uncles (twins) have their birthday that day too. The one, his daughter lived in Manhattan at the time, not far from the World Trade Center. He spent his entire birthday trying to call her to make sure she was alright. People forget about the overload of the phone network in the area and how difficult it was to get through to their loved ones that day. It took until late into the night to verify my cousin was safe, but she was. She couldn't stay at her apartment, it was damaged from debris/dust and she ended up moving to LA immediately after the attacks. She just didn't feel comfortable staying in NYC after. I'll never forget my uncle saying he got his birthday wish when he finally got through to my cousin.

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

Thank you for putting this up. It was one of those before/after moments that changes everything.

[@fire12731]

I had on Regis and Kelly when this horrific situation happened. God bless America. Just awful 🙏😰😰😰😰

[@jeperstone]

I don't know who Regis is because I'm British but I've seen the footage and he was slick. Calm and professional. Old school. A man

[@vickyburton2434]

I lived in New Jersey at this time. It was one of the saddest things I have ever lived through. It still feels like yesterday.

[@mikewhite4560]

One of? Thoughts and Prayers...

[@peachygal4153]

I had a friend whose daughter lived in a Highrise in Chicago. Her little 5-year-old granddaughter was afraid to go to sleep at night after seeing those photos on TV before they were cleaned up. Many people were traumatized but it was the little children who should be innocent of such sinister things is what bothered me most. Of course, like everyone else I was traumatized myself, but I was an adult I could better deal with it than a little kid.

[@bpaige925]

I was a child in school on 9/11, in New York. I’ll never forget what I saw, we watched from school. Before they realized how bad it was. Upon dismissal my dad picked me up and promptly turned the news on when we got home (I lived about 2 minutes from school). We watched the towers fall in real time. I’ll never forget the look on his face. I searched for a reaction and I can still see that reaction in my head to this day. I think that memory will stay with me my entire life. You rly nailed it, the impact those images and the collective fear had on our young delicate psyches was immense. Unhealthy. Those early days and weeks had so many graphic photos/videos. Charred remains, ppl falling. All the vigils. And the smell. The missing posters. The constant, horrifying, tragic coverage. The smoke that remained for weeks. It just made it that much more impactful. We watched the world change suddenly, out of fear and necessity. Security protocols were adapted, suddenly there was a higher police presence. More screening measures. It felt like the risk was continuous.. imminent. Not immediately, but months? Maybe a year or two after the events my parents realized they could not watch the news if I was in the room. I don’t mean 9/11 coverage. Regular daily news. The weather. It made me panic, it made me so anxious. It made me inexplicably sad and paranoid that the next segment would be a tragic one.. or a developing attack. I remember writing “Osama Bin Laden” on my softball during my first year of little league. I wanted to hit him, I was so angry at a man whose name had become synonymous with terror. I believe that was 2001. Might’ve been 2002. While I knew ppl who lost loved ones, I didn’t. So I did not understand for dozens of years why myself and so many of my peers were so heavily impacted. But I get it now. There is something validating about seeing ppl from all over the nation and world, even those without direct connections, share the impact 9/11 had on them.

[@supergirl857dooms5]

Can I ask what was the photos that traumatized people so badly? They say things are so censored now so I’m just curious.

[@Secretagent71114]

​@supergirl857dooms5 Many people jumping from the towers. People trapped on upper floors waving out windows but we knew no one was getting above the fires to get them out and they weren't going to get below. Injured people. Droves of people walking away from the towers, the ones that made it out, but filrthy and bloody sometimes, in shock. And then the emergency crews digging through the debris trying to find people and remains of people. I watched the footage live for days and remember it like it was yesterday. I know there were many who jumped but I don't have any images of bodies falling even though they were. I do specfically remember papers floating in the air that came from the towers and taking note of that. And I remember there were solid masses that were falling constantly around the towers before they fell. My 13 year old brain thought it was lije people's paperweights and stuff like that from their desk, but if they were large enough to see falling next to the building on camera, then they were pretty large. I didn't register them as people at the time, but a lot of them were. We think mostly about the thousands that died, those never found. But there were many injured too. Smoke inhalation. There people dying to this day from illness from the debris dust they inhaled.

[@bpaige925]

@@supergirl857dooms5 People falling from the building, in their final moments of life, charred, severed human remains. I remember a burnt hand that was crushed. Ppl who had hit the pavement after falling from the top of the tower. People crushed/flattened.. almost exploded from the pressure. A severed leg sticking out from the rubble. Ppl split half with their organs spilling out. Ppl waving desperately to be saved from the gaping holes over a thousand feet in the sky. People so burnt unrecognizably burnt up with only pieces of them intact. Like a torso with arms but no hands. No legs. Missing head. Horrible, horrible stuff. It was especially impactful watching in real time. Living in New York as a little kid, you could smell and see the smoke for weeks. Literally. Fires burned 70 feet underground for months after the event. The smell of bodies. All the missing posters for thousands and thousands of people. The phone call audio of people’s final words. Many suffering/choking/burning and panicking. I think those images and the media that followed impacted ppl so greatly not only because they were extremely sad and graphic. But because it was happening in our home city / nation in real time. All around us. Couldn’t escape it. The vigils, the constant news coverage. It was 24/7 for weeks and then multiple times daily from every news outlet and radio station imaginable. You couldn’t NOT think about it. Additionally, the amount of graphic media being shown to the public was unprecedented at any time in history. Now, that’s much more common to see. But really columbine then 9/11 were the first two tragedies to be that heavily documented. Prior to that, even a photo from an intentional war was unusual and scandalous. Nobody was used to that type of coverage. So it was a combination of all those things. Nobody alive at the time grew up with modern internet. You didn’t see images like that almost ever. It was a big step from never ever seeing tragedy so well documented or distributed to having it plastered everywhere from every single. People experiencing tragic loss. Parent less children. Windows and widowers. Suddenly there were thousands being shown from every angle for years on end.

[@anonymouslyloudpodcast]

Wow 😮 I just watched that episode. She was so heartbroken. And Regis was on top of it. That was a sad day in America.

[@drewintampa]

I was a flight attendant for American Airlines and was based in NY. My very first training flight where I was evaluated was American 11 out of Boston. Kelly is correct. The fact that human beings with souls could do this to other human beings with souls is too hard to swallow. ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD, they said. Flying was never that same after that day.

[@susieterry9099]

I remember seeing that 2nd plane hit and that's when everyone knew there was no accident. Then I went to work and I remember someone asking me "what's wrong, are you okay?" She had been watching the news, she knew what was happening and it was as if it had no effect on her - I'll never forget it. She was the only person that I have ever known or known of that reacted that way, although I'm sure there are others.

[@rileighherman9424]

I was in college, running late that day. I turned on the radio as they were talking about the first one, and the second plane hit a few minutes before I got to school. I was so embarrassed about being late that I quietly slipped into my desk when I got there. Moments later, someone opened the classroom door and said something brief about the World Trade Center, clearly realizing the impact. Since I had heard more details than she gave, I filled the classroom in on what I knew. My teacher responded with something like, "and you didn't think to tell us?!?" I responded, "I was late. I didn't want to interrupt any more than I already did".... I was 19yrs old, but I had NO clue how big of a deal it was. I had no idea what the World Trade Center was, and I certainly had no idea how big it was. Maybe that lady was like me. It's not that I didn't care. I just didn't know.

[@JuliaGulia310]

I had a friend who had bipolar and some other mental issues. She was always a constant talker. The first time I spoke with her after that day, I said, "what did you think of what happened? It's crazy!" And she answered, "I know. Wasn't that awful?" And she kept talking about herself like I had just mentioned a football team losing a game or something. It was strange but that's how she was. It wasn't like she never had empathy, because she showed it at other times.

[@MissArtisticSasnuhy]

@@rileighherman9424 i was 12, turning 13 and tbh i had no idea what the WTC was either! I had never heard of it or even understood what it was for the US….

[@rileighherman9424]

@JuliaGulia310 I am sure I wasn't alone in not immediately realizing the impact it had on our country. How was I supposed to know if I didn't know anything about these buildings. I grew up on the other side of the country & I'd never been to NYC. I mean, at that point, I had only heard the story on the radio, so the pictures in my head were just of regular skyscraper buildings. Obviously tragic, but I didn't know it was "bust in the classroom & interrupt your class" news. 🤷‍♀️

[@JuliaGulia310]

@@rileighherman9424 I understand. I don't like calling attention to myself and I probably would have done the same thing in your place. I think your teacher was kind of rude.

[@2oqp577]

Regis, KLG and Kelly came into our home every morning and became virtual friends. It must have been a bit comforting to go through these moments with them also.

[@homebody66]

Regis brought comfort to many viewers.

[@deec411]

Total class she and Regis. God Bless the lost and their loved ones 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@juliejules7780]

I was living in a broke down van in a Walmart parking lot in South Carolina with no Internet or tv or cell phone. I had no idea what happened and lived in oblivion. A cashier at the Walmart told me when i went to buy snacks. It didn't hit me that hard cuz i was living in a cave. I kinda like the feeling of being disconnected. I'm pretty much addicted to my phone now unfortunately. Everyone has to be connected and share every thought and be validated. I wanna go back to being disconnected.

[@jazzlover9050]

22 years later and still I cried like a baby yesterday, that is my hometown, I remember being 7-8 yrs old and my parents taking us to staten island when the north tower or maybe south cannot remember still had like 3 more floors to be done, and I can see the brown on top, so when they went down and I saw on TV on sept 11 2001, was just too much, but most importantly of course was I cried and did yesterday for those souls that were losing their lives--- just still so heartbreaking

[@PraveenSrJ01]

I was 17 years old and I was crying like a baby on that day 22 years 2 days ago

[@lindaardis9361]

I flew home.on.Sept 11 2001.Took a red eye from Vegas I was one of the last flights to arrive by the time I got home I had heard about the tragedy arriving at Logan Airport. The pilot John Ogonowski is from my town I have never forgotten that day.

[@woolvesv]

I just watched the clip of that broadcast. Had me in tears. I was 11 when it happened and I'd just come back from school (I'm British so was on UK time) and it was being reported on every channel. I didn't quite understand the enormity of the situation at the time. Such a horrific event.

[@tibbysue7341]

I’m almost 70 years old, and this is the most horrific thing to happen in my lifetime. I was alive during the assignations of JFK, MLK, and Bobby Kennedy, What is so, so hard is that so many totally innocent people died.

[@Reikiandblueprint]

I was driving to my job out on Long Island and heard on the news. My brother worked in the WTC so I called my mom and told her what was going on and asked about my brother. He was ok because he went in to work late because he took his son to the first day of school. Two of his coworkers passed away. 😢

[@deborahbarry8458]

The goodness he was late. Those who were late missed being inside

[@stephaniepantalonie]

Good your brother was okay ♡

[@katherinemurphy2762]

My father-in-law was a corporate banker, and though he didn't have an office in the World Trade Center, nor was he there that fateful day, he knew many people who died, as their offices were above the areas where the planes hit. 😢

[@JECLib]

I remember being at work , seeing the 1st plane hit in the waiting area. Then my boss came in and told us there was a 2nd plane and it was an attack. We were shocked. Later that afternoon , my boss’s boss called to tell us the pentagon had been attacked also. After the shock, it was like, we have to help them! I live 1/2 across the U.S. from NYC, never stepped foot in that city. I was ready to go help. Of course all we could do was pray and send good vibes to the rescue workers. Worst day ever.

[@MissHolly60]

Thank u for sharing the view.

[@desratlinda8639]

Wow..I was in tears listening to her 😢😥

[@burtonryan50]

I can understand completely how she felt taking in the reality of what happened that day. I was still asleep that day, but had to go into work later into the afternoon. I can hear my mom screaming down the hallway in our home, and of course being not completely awake yet at that point, I wondered what the hell was going on. Then I saw the TV and I was just completely shocked by what I saw. I lived near St. Louis at the time, and as I was driving into work trying to deal with the shock of what happened my first thought was if a plane was gonna strike down the Gateway Arch, but thank God they told EVERY plane to get on the ground. I just had to tough out that fear that whole day. Of course I did manage to take a plane ride to Ireland for vacation 2 years later, but I admit I still had the fear that something bad might happen. Yet my mother had the best matter of fact wisdom to live by. That if I don't wanna go where I want in a plane or not...then the terrorists would win.

[@vickiemouse2359]

A dear friend is a flight attendant for American Airlines and was supposed to be on one of those planes, but they had a change up! Her father was a pilot on The PSA flight 182 in September of 1978! It his so hard seeing these tragedies!

[@media4011]

So interesting that another poster here says that her aunt was supposed to be on crew but changed at last minute. there seems to be a lot of that going around. makes you wonder.