Hey, I’ve been watching for a month or two now. I wonder have you seen all the videos of people coming to the aid of those in need after these last two hurricanes. I have found myself watching more and more videos on tik tok and what not about other countries like Canada sending aid in the form of linemen to the Carolina’s. The beauty of people coming together is something I find to be a light in the darkness that is currently all around. I don’t usually try to request or even tell people what to post but maybe a reaction video to videos of humanity coming together as it is right now to help those in need. I don’t know I just like the idea. Also I was very very small when 9/11 happened, but I can still remember that day as one of my first memories.
This is really hard to watch because my brother's friend was on Flight 175. I watched him die in real time on TV and did not know it that day. My brother was also locked down because he worked in a federal building. No one knew if he was ok until late that night. I was in the newsroom covering this whole thing for the local paper (I worked as a reporter to get my ass through high school). So much happened that day and it took me years to come to terms with it. These videos are so hard to watch. I remember that day when people were like "there's people in the upper stories" and I just knew.. they're dead. Even if they survived the impact, they're dead. The horror of that day needs to never be forgotten. I was the oldest student in the school t the time and while we watched that unfold on TV, I was helping the administration deal with kids, kind of like a trauma counselor and I helped them coordinate a plan of action. That night we watched the air force doing preparatory maneuvers over my house. The whole day was impossible to comprehend. Even now I get physically sick remembering everything that happened and SO MUCH happened I can't even begin to tell the whole story ina TH-cam comment section. Fuck terrorists of every stripe.
I can remember the day it happened I was in school elementary, in the middle class everyone stopped what they were doing turned on the news and watched everything the twin towers pentagon, camp David and everyone in disbelief of what we had just seen
Her name is Betty Ong and she was a flight attendant on flight 11, the plane crashed into the north tower. She was the first person on 9/11 to alert authorities on what was happening and spoke to them for 23 minutes, until the plane crashed.
Air traffic control knew those planes were hijacked almost immediately. They knew before anyone else. But they had no idea what they were going to do with them.
In those days they had white Air Phones (I think spelled AirFones) in certain locations on the plane. You swiped a credit card and could make a call. Flight Attendants Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney and it is believed passenger Daniel Lewin were the first on the front lines. The flight attendants relayed the seat numbers of the perpetrators. It’s believed that Daniel Lewin, an intelligence officer, stood up and tried to intervene. So brave. RIP. 😞
In September 11,2001 I think,not only 4 planes crashed,2 of them hit World Trade Centre north and south,1 hit next to Camp David,1 hit the Pentagon,over 3000 people died for it,I think over 100 or 200 of them were children
The phone call that's cut off at 4:54 is part of a longer 911 call the man made from one of the towers. I've heard the entire recording. The operator stays on the phone with him as it gets progressively hotter and smokier - he begins to realize he's not going to get out - and the last thing you hear is the roar of the building collapsing and the words "oh God-" abruptly cut off. Prayers to the 911 operator who stayed on the phone with him until his life ended. She had to live with that for the rest of her life.
When I heard that I sobbed for so long. Even if it was 23, 24 years ago, I, and every single person who heard that, heard the death of someone. Heard it at that moment. Someone real. With a family. A mom, and a dad, maybe siblings or a pet. Possibly a wife or husband, maybe children. Just devastating.
The sound of the bodies hitting the awning from those that jumped is absolutely horrifying. The calls home from passengers as they were going down is .. heartbreaking. I hate that the passengers of the flight that charged the cockpit and crashed the plane in Pennsylvania aren’t as recognized because they landed in a field with no deaths except those on the plane. Those people were exceptionally heroic. Everyone else was as well but they get recognized.
One of my customers invited me in to see the latest that day. I saw the people jumping from the upper floors. Made me physically ill as well. I also saw the towers fall in real time. Those images are forever etched in my brain. 😢
I saw a video about the guy who owns the property they crashed on. He dedicated many years to honoring them and helping the families. Absolutely amazing. I can't believe it took 23 years for me to hear about him.
I remember they were all hailed as heroes. They chose to sacrifice themselves so no more would be killed. That’s why their story isn’t as long as the other two planes, because they ended it before it could get worse. The Pentagon is what I remember being forgot a lot.
I cry every time. Every time I watch the plans hit the buildings and the towers collapsing I can't stop the scream that comes out, like I could somehow change the past. My heart breaks every time.
Thanks for caring. Nice to know that the world grieved that day like we all did here in the states. A girl I went to high school with was in united 93. The one that they revolted and the terrorists purposely crashed into the ground. We were not really that close but I can’t imagine how terrifying her final moments were. We just pray that she didn’t feel any pain. RIP Nicole Miller. 💙
Most older Americans you ask will be able to tell you exactly where they were when they first heard. I'm 39 and was 16 in my junior year of high school at the time and I still remember that day vividly. It sent a very deep ripple through the American psyche that we hadn't experienced since Pearl Harbour was hit in 1941. But to remark on Brits specifically was the outpouring of friendship that came across the water from you guys and it was so very much appreciated. The Queen even broke protocol and had the Royal Guard band play the American national anthem in a show of solidarity and sympathy. ❤
I had just gotten home from work and saw it pop up on the news... called a friend who i knew was home and asked him if he was seeing it.. Then told him that we (the usa as a whole) were about to turn someone's country into a parking-lot.
I was in school, 9th grade I believe? No classes went on, we all just turned on the tv; ppl crying in the hallways or w counselors bc they had family in NYC and didn't know what was going on or couldn't get thru to them. My dad came home from work (former marine) and it was the first time in my life I'd ever seen him cry. He snapped at me when I asked if he heard the news, but later apologized, he was just hurt, in shock, etc. Then later came all the conspiracies about that day. I still don't know what I believe as far as all that goes- all I know is that it shouldn't have happened, and my heart goes out to everyone involved or affected in any way.
I think she said something like "pain is the cost of love". I think most of the world was pretty shaken when those attacks happened, but they offered so much love and care from not just the Royal Family but the people as well, and that relationship we have between our nations is precious. We even lowered our flags half mast when the Queen passed away. They're some of the warmest folks I've known. God bless the Brits and God bless America 💕🫂
I'm from NYC and had just moved away. One of the most shocking things I saw that stay with me is all the firemen running into the burning building, then hearing loud thumps of bodies... people trapped on top of the building by the flames were jumping to their deaths. The people on flight 93 were absolute heroes. I cried for days when it happened, walking around in a fog... still cry seeing that footage.
Ill never forget, I was 15 and I'm from the Netherlands so nowhere close. But this was so impactful, and honestly the news coverage was so insane. Our high school even closed when the 2nd plane hit (we were listening to radio during art class), and I arrived home just to see the first tower collapse on tv... Among other horrible footage. I still watch the documentaries every year on 9/11 on Discovery channel, eventhough ive probably seem them all. I find it important to remember. But seeing it live, and having the news explain the sounds were infact bodies falling to the ground... I can't explain how that felt to witness. Also remember that you have no clue what's happening or what still might happen. The horror could just be starting for all we knew
Thank you for remembering. As an american it still hurts. But something I will never forget alongside that day was the love from all over the world that was shown to us. It helps to remember the outpouring of support and empathy we were shown while I watch my country seem to fall apart that we are all brothers and sisters on this planet and I appreciate everyone everywhere ❤️
I'm Canadian. I was at my doctor's office for my allergy shots, and everyone was in his back private office, they called me and my dad back to join them, and we watched news live as the plane hit the second tower. I was in college and had to get to class, but my dad needed the car, so he dropped me off and headed home. I remember making it to the cafe above the college's pub, where they had a massive group of tv's that acted as one big tv, all watching, and we saw the towers fall. It was so quiet. I was in nursing. We went to class and found out one of our classmates, who was away from her family, had family members who worked at the towers, who hadn't been heard from yet. We didn't do much classwork that day. Luckily, that girl's family was working from home that day, but with how full the phone systems were, no one heard from them until much later in the day. I was born in 1982. My generation has lived through too many "where were you when" at this point.
Born in 81 here and an American. I was on my way to college too at the time. Our classes ended up getting canceled that day. Ironically my first class was History and our professor only had a few words before letting us go. He said that today's events would probably end up in history books sadly. Confusion was definitely the word for that day since we had NO idea which place would get hit next after the Pentagon got hit. My parents and younger brothers were allowed to go home that day too. My mom called my cell (so glad I had one by that point, it was an HS graduation gift) and asked if I was coming home. I went to a community college in San Antonio, which is known for our Military bases (we're called Military Town USA because of that), so it was in the back of my mind they could be a target.
I was 23 at the time and I had just come back from a doctor's appointment. My only roommate that was home was parked in front of the TV. Just in shock. When it was time for me to go to bed, I turned the news on in my room and I slept with it on. I slept with it on for days. Eventually my roommates actively prevented me from watching the news for a month. Six months later I was diagnosed with PTSD. Every time I heard a siren I would instantly tense up, thinking there's another emergency that is going to hit home. Years later I decided to become an emergency dispatcher. I just wasn't police, fire, paramedic material. So I trained for this situation if it ever happened again.
I wasn’t alive but my Dad recalls my Mom calling him after the first tower was hit. My dad remembers her saying “Honey, we’re under attack.” Chilling and Tragic.
'83 here. I was a senior in high school and freshly 18. Hell of an event to watch unfold having just registered with selective services, even though there wasn't ever really a chance for a draft (hindsight being 20/20 and all). I know I will eventually get the questions from my 3 kids for a school report asking where I was on 9/11/01. Not nearly as fun as when I asked my mom where she was on 7/20/69. Why didn't our generation get any fun ones?
As a former flight attendant, calls that got serviced did get recorded but there is a device on every aircraft called a "black box" that records almost everything and is extremely difficult to destroy. It records audio, as I recall, and is oftentimes the way that we gain insight as to what happened during hijackings or crashes
I could only watch a few minutes of this. It brought back my PTSD pretty hard. I was an airline crew member airborne enroute to Philadelphia when it happened. Thank you for your reaction video to this...I just cannot. It's too raw. The horror these people and their families endured is so far, far beyond what happened to me, and yet...
"I'll see you when you get there" That broke me completely. In 2012, my uncle passed away (his was killed by his girlfriend) I was 7 years old and he cared a lot about me and my brothers so he was always doing something with us as much as he could when he was working on a dredge. From that day to his funeral I had a dream about him after he passed where he showed up to our house after he passed, and I ran up to hug him but he stopped me and said, "You can't hug me this time but you can give me a kiss on the cheek", I did as he said and he kissed my forehead and told me that he loves me. Then he went up to heaven. My mom (his sister) had 3 different dreams about him after he passed and one of them was my mom standing in his room in his house (which is where he was), and he walked into the room, and he said to her "I'm okay now and I don't want to come back. You'll understand why when you get here." In 2022, it was 10 years since he passed and I had the same dream I had in 2012. I also had a new dream about how he was (I had no knowledge of any details other than his girlfriend did it, she fled the state, she has never been held accountable). My mom had the same 3 dreams she had in 2012. Sorry for going way off topic, but it wouldn't have made sense without saying why those words broke me.
The gentleman on the phone with a New York dispatcher at 4:27 was named Kevin Cosgrove. He was trapped in an office filling with smoke well above where the plane hit his building and he couldn't get out.
This is the most chilling call in my opinion. A lot of people criticize the 911 operator, including the man, but they were trying to keep him calm and honestly there wasn't anything they could do. Everyone was aware the tower had been struck but there was no way to reach anyone
And the roar in the background before he yells, “oh god!” is the sound of the South Tower collapsing above him. All the last calls are poignant and horrific, but Kevin’s call is especially haunting
thankfully i wasn't born until 2004, so i didn't have to go through that, but every time i see footage or hear the phone calls i am truly horrified and shaken to my core. i just simply can't imagine, or even comprehend a fraction of what the people who were physically there and in that state had to go through. the victims, their families, the people that witnessed it, and just the sheer horror that must've filled their hearts. i appreciate you actually taking the time to not only (for lack of a better word) "react" and sort of empathize and feel some sort of impact is amazing. you just keep being you, and i not only applaud that, but i respect it too. love from West Virginia to you brother, keep your head up and keep being you.
Betty Ong was the first person to notify emergency services that the plane she was on was hijacked. She was a Californian airline stewardess and I believe her phone call has been recorded and is accessible to listen to. The world recognized death 1 as Father Mychal Judge as he died after tower 2 fell, but the first name on the records behind the scenes it was Betty that was the first identified victim of this day.
As a 13 year old girl my heart breaks every time I see or hear this. I cried when I heard that guys words from inside the tower. Those poor poor people…. all gone. Because. Of. One. Man. I may not have experienced it, but my parents did. They will tell you exactly when and where they were. I watched countless videos on this not understanding, not sympathetic, thinking it was all something that happened and not many people died… then I watched a last calls video. Then I knew how serious it was. This may not have affected me directly, but it affected my country, it affected my people, it affected EVERYONE. No matter if your loved ones died or not. No, I didn’t experience it, but I WILL REMEMBER! If your from America, if your not, if your a man or a woman, if your young or your old, we all need to remember. Not for me, not for my country, but for all those people who died. Half of you probably won’t read all of this, but if you did thank you. Remember 9/11, if not itself, the people. Thank you and god bless America 🇺🇸🫡
Beautiful comment. I was in elementary school, all classes paused and everyone had their eyes glued to the screens. We watched live as people jumped to escape the smoke and as the towers fell. I don’t remember the rest of that week but that day will forever be glued in my mind. These videos are horrific and definitely give you an idea of how we all felt that day.
@marydanielle7183 Same here. Im 34 now. I'll never forget that day. Or the weeks following and how everyone felt so united as Americans. Yoy could just feel it in the air. We were all family no matter who you were it didn't matter. We were all Americans. Sad considering where we are now.
@@USA_duh I believe a class should be set up and all high school kids should have to sit in a dark room and listen to the calls on surround sound as the tapes play… this should NEVER be forgotten or the victims… AMERICANS need to remember why we have laws, airport checks, borders and MORALS❤️
The people on flight 93 got together and agreed to rush the cabin. One of the guys said the Lord's prayer and then concluded with "Let's roll." edit: spelling
@@joshuawiedenbeck6944 the absolute courage of those on the flight is something I will never forget. I'm sure they would have preferred to land it after taking control back unfortunately it didn't work that way but they saved countless lives in their insanely brave act. In videos afterward of family and loved ones being interviewed hearing the audio of their loved ones during the fight to take back control from the hijackers its bittersweet they lost loved ones and at the same time anyone I've seen listening to the audio also smiles as they hear their loved ones voices and is proud of them too which in ways is comforting. I'm sure it's not easy and can't take away their pain but to see them smile and proud talking about their selfless act is a beautiful way to honor them and remind people they were not going down without a fight. That flight truly had a lot of determined people on it that weren't taking any bs, everyday heroes to the end
I’m from NYC and when I tell you felt weird and thick outside….there were no cops anywhere, you walked outside and people were shocked, stunned and everyone spoke and helped, people truly were grieving everywhere….the story many don’t hear is the merchant mariners who helped evacuate close to half a million people from lower Manhattan ALL DAY because no one could leave Manhattan, so they all came together with ferries, tugboats, even called on locals with personal boats to help, anyone near by with some form of water transport helped, it was truly amazing and devastating
We were actually watching this unfold live on tv as it was happening. No words can express what we witnessed live on tv that awful day. I had lost my mother on the 6th of Sept so we were already raw in our emotions.
We watched the dog for a family two weeks before this. When they picked her up, I got a picture of the family. I didn’t know the father worked in the towers, however he was in the 2nd tower. When we went to the funeral, I took the picture to give to the family. So sad, he was a wonderful man!
I was born 10 years and 3 days after 9/11. At my school this year, we did a thing where we ran laps up and down the stairs in remembering of 9/11, we only had to do 15 laps, and I did 85, and I dedicated each one to those brave men and women who died in those towers and in the pentagon. This brought tears to my eyes, and I almost never cry, thank you
Wow... It does feel like it just happened. I was in my 20's and my mom worked in a government building. I didn't really watch tv so all I remember is picking up the phone to my mom screaming, they are flying our planes into our own buildings! I've never heard my Mom scream like that. I can still here her. I know we're all crying together right now, this real footage is heartbreaking 💔 thank you so much for watching this with us.
I remember when they said the world had changed and no one would forget September 11th but the world is right back to its stupidity and the current generation doesn't care about what happened. In time it will be forgotten.
I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when these attacks happened. No one in my life was affected, but watching this footage brings it all back again. The tears, the absolute terror that it might happen again, the heartache and empathy for all who were lost, their families who are still trying to survive, the first responders - many of whom are still dealing with mental heath issues afterward. It was so senseless and horrific.
This was definitely our Gen's Pearl Harbor because people from my grandparents' generation knew exactly what they were doing and where they were when Pearl Harbor was attacked. My grandpa had just arrived in CA (he was going to play professional baseball), but instead of going to sign up for the baseball team, he ended up taking a flight right back home to Texas and signed up to be in the Army. Of course a similar thing happened in 9/11, I knew guys from my HS who joined the military ASAP (I was 19 at the time), this included one of my cousins who joined the Navy since his grandpa was in the Navy during WW2 (our grandpas were brothers). My grandpa was 1 of 6 brothers and all 6 signed up to be in the military, but only 4 were accepted. One had health complications and the other wasn't admit because he had too many children (didn't want to make widows of too many women so it didn't fall to them to take care of so many kids).
It's been 23 years and it still hurts just as much. Adam, thank you for this video. We, Americans and The World must never forget this day. Adam, I wasn't sure if I should include this in my comment, but it's something I feel I need to share. I've never spoken much about it. At the time I was working for another major US airline (not American or United) in reservations. I was off that day but like most people I watched everything in real time on tv. I was in such shock I don't even remember crying while watching. Even though I know that my experience was nothing like that of the victims' families and loved ones, it affected me like nothing else in my lifetime, before or since. We worked 12 hours shifts for weeks, taking calls from people from everywhere in the US. They were scared, confused, heartbroken and angry. It took a toll on all of us. Our company provided counselors on-site for us to take a break and let it all out so we could get back on the phone and do our jobs the best we could. Just like most everyone else, it changed me. Some for the better. Some not so much. It took everyone, our co-workers, our friends and families, and even our callers who were concerned about us, to get through it. And for all the horrible things that happened that day, I got to experience the best of humanity in the days to come. We were all in it together in our own ways. We were all Americans. But the emotional scars remain. And I don't think they will ever completely heal. Thank you for caring and listening. Peace.
What a lovely comment- it doesn't matter that you weren't directly involved, it still involved all of us that live in this wild, yet beautiful, country. Thank you for taking on that extra work and stress load, to put ppls minds at ease ❤
@@kristinwojtowich8902 Thank you so very much. You're exactly right. It took all of us working together to find our way through a seemingly hopeless situation. And I believe we can all do it again. 😊❤️🤝
@@DevicCypher It's not time for conspiracy theories. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. But we know what we know, and it's a very sensitive and tragic subject that should be treated with respect, and conspiracy theories are not respectful.
I was flying home from Denver with my mom. My brother’s birthday is 9/11 and we spent the weekend celebrating. His daughter was due any day, she was born on the 29th. The first image I saw was the Pentagon and I immediately thought of my uncle who worked there for his company. For whatever reason he was 45 minutes late to a meeting and it saved his life. He lost 3 co-workers, one of which was never identified. A few years later, his daughter from his first marriage went looking for her dad after being diagnosed with melanoma. I feel now God spared our family a loss that day knowing she would be searching for him, but wonder if she would’ve still tried to find her dad’s family. I know a WTC2 survivor from the 105th floor who left her office after seeing the first plane hit. I also know some one whose cousin was a first responder killed. I also have met a mom of a passenger from flight 93 who was 10 days younger than me. That day is always my brother’s birthday and now added losing our dog on the day in 2018. It’s a lot of emotions slammed into one day.
I remember walking into work early in the morning and seeing everybody huddled in a group and bawling. Out of the corner of my eye I saw “breaking news” flash across the TVs in the electronics department and I watched people jumping to their death moments before the second tower collapse and I couldn’t breathe. I collapsed to my knees with my coworkers and customers and cried, begging that that was a horrific nightmare! Then we prayed, even those of us who aren’t certain we believe in a higher power, we prayed. We prayed and we cried.
1:45 I think the guy said, "see you when we get there." Transcription is important. Because history. He could have still meant heaven. But it's more likely he meant his flight destination and he expected to land.
I’m practically living out of my Land Cruiser right now after Helene and Milton. I’ve seen this before, lived through it, and thank you for watching it because it’s a reminder that I’m good. I’ve seen and lived through worse. ❤
Adam, I could barely watch this with you. I am however grateful. It means so much to us here in the USA for you and others around the world who support and share your care and concern for us in the USA. We are so fortunate to have friends and allies like you and Great Britten along with so many others. Thank you. God bless you and may God watch over you and your country.
I was stationed in Germany (Army) when Sep. 11 happened. I watched it all unfold on TV, and it was so heartbreaking. I was sitting there in my BDUs at the time, completely lost as to what was going to happen next. All of the Army posts and military buildings were locked down, and basically everything came to a standstill as our nation tried to figure out what happened and what we do next. The next day, so many German citizens had put flowers and wreaths and all kinds of heartfelt tributes along the fence line of our facility, but mostly at the entrance gates. It was an absolute tragedy, but in that tragedy, we saw a nation and really the entire world set aside rather petty differences to come together in support of a nation whose civilians were slaughtered at the hands of terrorists. I vividly remember the unity in America, and the pride we had coming together as Americans. It's so sad that in just one generation's time passing, we've forgotten what it means to be a solidified group of people, and instead have devolved back into bickering over politics and hating because someone doesn't fall into your sphere of groupthink. Anyone old enough to remember the feeling of a unified America (and world, for the most part) laments where we are right now, and it's a sad thing to think that we need tragedy to bring us to that state of unity. We learned nothing.
I still remember being 8 years old when that happened. ...Even now I still remember that empty feeling as many lives were lost and the buildings falling. I still want to throw up at that free-fall....
2 of my kids were in 5th grade, and that day he was the one who was in charge of giving the absentee list to the principal's office. he said that, when he got there everyone was watching tv and he got to see the plane hit the south tower. not sure if they then brought a tv to their classrooms or not. this is all he ever told me, and his twin brother never talked about it. one thing I also remember was going to the store (maybe a day or so later?? don't recall the exact day). the windows were huge and were covered in pictures of the missing. was truly sad.
I was in 4th grade outside of Boston and I will never forget this. I remember seeing all my teachers start crying I got home and the whole neighborhood was glued to my parents TV
I can’t listen to phone calls from people in the towers who were trapped without tearing up. It’s absolutely heartbreaking and terrible. I hope they have peace in Heaven. RIP to all those who passed away from that day.
Yeah, that's a tough one for anyone with a shred of humanity to watch. I was getting ready to go to work when the first plane hit (lived 400 miles from New York). It was like the entire country came to a stop for several days. It's was beyond brutal emotionally for so many people... which is what terrorists count on.
I like how you put that, bc it's so true- everything just seemed to pause at a standstill for days and days. Worst thing since pearl harbor, and neither will ever be forgotten. ❤
My 2 cousins were in the towers and got out. They were boat lifted to New Jersey. They lost so many co-workers/friends that day. Living in NYC, this was such a scary time. I still get teary eyed when I see these videos. We could see the smoke from our houses and my workplace. The pit/ground zero burned so long. 😢
I was an adult on 9/11. It was not only sad, it was a bit terrifying. I was at work in a bldg that did government contracts and was a bit scared we might be attacked too. As each bit of horrifying news came out many of us thought we were being attacked by Russia or some other country and we were entering World War III. Other than my Mother and my brother dying I think it was the saddest day I remember. There was a pall over the country for a long time. I've watched 9/11 documentaries every year on 9/11 since then. I feel somehow I must bear witness to the suffering and sacrifice of my fellow Americans. 😢
I am from Poland and I will never forget that day. When I came back from school it was all over the news. When the second plane hit the WTC tower, the tragic plane crash turned into a terrorist attack. It was so surreal... It's hard to believe that someone could do something like that. That day changed everything.
The field one is wildest one because they passengers fought back and they're the ones that down the plane so would not hit a building. 1 of the people have a grave near my parents at Fort Snelling. There are harder ones to watch than this.
It would have been a very different story if flight 93 took off on time, turns out it was late to take off giving the passengers enough time to hear about what happened at the towers and the pentagon and were able to make the decision to fight back. Their heroism saved more lives and because of the lack of video content, very few know about it. Really the phone calls are what we are able to go with as well as the box in the cockpit.
@@kate2create738 And it would have been even worse if the 5th plane would have got off the ground. It could not take off because they grounded all planes while it was waiting in line to take off. No one really talks too much about it. There is a documentary that focuses on the 5th plane.
@@kristinwojtowich8902 PBS Did something on it in May 2011 after the Wilminton (Delaware) News Journal did a front page article on the First Officer of flight 23, the now General Carol Timmons. She recounted what happened with the 4 men and was found in their abandoned luggage. Then TMZ's Harvey Levin heard about it, investigated it and put the documentary together, I believe it came out in 2023. Google 9/11 the fifth plane. I believe you can watch on Hulu. I know that the pilot, first officer, and the cabin crew of United Flight flight 23 believes it was supposed to be the 5th plane. The pilot is the only person that was still working when TMZ looked into it. He stated that the flight crew all got out of flying because of what took place on their plane.
I was 2 years old and don’t remember a thing about it, but to this day that is still one of the hardest things to watch and listen to for me. Hearing the people call their loved ones to say goodbye is something I can not listen to with crying.
I was living in Portersvile PA when 911 happened. I was on the phone with my husband who was in Pittsburgh for work. By this time all flights were grounded but I told him I heard a plane. Not long after I heard and seen fighter jets fly over my home and found that flight 93 had gone down below Pittsburgh. I didn't know at the time that it was flight 93 I found out a few years later. Every channel was showing the world trade center for a week or so. I was glued to the TV the whole time hoping and praying that they would pull out more survivors. It was a terrifying and sad day for America and the world.
like almost EVERYONE else has said, i remember exactly where i was that day. 23 years later and im a man in my 30's wiping tears from my eyes hearing those phone calls.
Same... im not even from the states. But that day. The world wept with you. One of our towns in eastern Canada took in hundreds of flights and gave shelter to the passengers of grounded flights...
My teacher showed this exact video in class, I could barely even watch it. Hearing that one audio clip, of that man who’s building is falling beneath his feet made me start bawling harder
There was one phone call from 9/11 that has always stuck with me. It was a guy inside the tower, I think in the process of going down the stairs, leaving a message for his wife or something. The part I remember is how you could suddenly hear this repeated smashing, getting louder and faster before the call cuts off. Which was was the sound of each floor above him collapsing onto the one below it as the tower fell. Its a small glimpse into what those final moments were like inside.
I was on an airplane on 9/11 en route to Washington DC, when we were escorted to Chicago by an F-16 and put on the ground. The aircraft personnel were all crying and very upset, but wouldn’t tell us what was happening. After we were rushed off the plane, we saw a group of people watching a TV at a bar and stood there and saw the first tower fall. I was stuck in Chicago for 4 days and drove home. It has been very hard for me to get on a plane ever since that day.
we did something with 9/11 when i was in sixth grade.. we had to listen to those calls from people inside the tower and on the plane. it was so hard to listen to people say their last words and trying not to cry in class
Everyone was scared that day. We all wondered who would be next. I remember standing at the window at my work watching the sky and hoping I wouldn’t see a plane come at us. I was in Ohio and they were talking about one of the planes flying through Ohio. We had GE and thought maybe they were a target. No one understood what exactly was happening. The people jumping from the towers was unbearable to see and to hear. And hearing the phone calls was so heart wrenching. It’s a day that’s impossible to forget. I cry about it every year.
I was in 4th grade. I watched it live. My teacher had a niece who worked in the World Trade Center. Her scream as the towers fell still haunts me. We watched as people jumped. We watched as people ran. We watched and we watched. It never gets easier.
I watched that on TV as it happened. It was so unreal, that I felt like I was watching a movie, but it was real, and the day just kept getting worse. Devastating.
I can never listen to those last calls because if I was the receiver from that, I would never be able to listen to that I would be breaking down on the ground crying, listening to those people making their final calls is super sad but the most sad part is especially with young kids when they don’t even understand in all they know is that their parents/parent isn’t coming home ever Again.
if you watch more videos you can hear the consistent beeping. Those are emergency beacons for when emergency responders stop moving for a period of time. That was rough, but one of the easier to get through. Thanks for being respectful man. Lost many a friend fighting against this...
I spent my entire career in that part of NYC, I had worked at the WTC, we often held meetings catered by the restaurant at the top of Tower 1. I knew some of the waiters by sight. I have had PTSD since. The first responders are now dying bc of cancer from the toxicity of the place. The list of victims continues to grow.
Every year I watch the documentaries. My Uncle used to work in the South Tower. His first day was 9/11. He got to work the moment the plane hit the South Tower. He was at the base and got hit with debris
i remember i was in high school only 100 ish miles away from the towers and watching it on our classroom tv. everyone was crying and calling their parrents. i personally didn't cry but after i prosessed it i cried for hours and now everytime i watch something about it i cry again. i still do pray for those familys
When the towers were hit not just america stopped. So did all the other countries. They all were shocked and stuck in time once the news got out. Thats how big this was. The world stopped turning when this happened and it took everyone on this planet months to feel better
@@woebringer7884Even decades later no one is fully healed from it. The acts of terrorism or mass shootings could reopen the mental wound some people had from that day. And with the thirtieth anniversary in six years, it still shakes me and leave me empty.
I was in my 10th grade English class when we got the news. They huddled us all temporary into designated classrooms and we saw some of the footage until they dismissed us early from school. I went home and continued to watch the raw, live, unedited new coverage. It was horrifying to watch from the safety of my central Massachusetts home. I can't imagine what it was like at ground zero, the pentagon, Pennsylvania or any of those airliners. But to this day, any time I watch these videos, I get angry, sad, upset, I cry and move on with my day. The emotions that well up will never go away. I hope all or at least most of the families have been able to move on and find peace in their lives.
I was 48 years old when this happened. I was at work and we were listening to the radio when the news broke. Everything came to a standstill and I let my coworkers go home early because there were too many tears. Everyone was devastated.
I found out about 9/11 from a teacher whose husband was at the Pentagon. My mom was part of the response there and I didn't see her from the day after the attacks for a solid week. How the people in NYC coped I have no clue, it was horrific enough here.
No matter how many years pass this still effects me deeply.. The chills that happen are full force. Most you see is people cellphones and news recording the moment it all happened. More and more are coming out from everything that happened. These clips that are now being shared where likely locked away the 911 calls are heartbreaking.
0:54 yep thats the plane betty was on, American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the North Tower. 17 minutes later, United Airlines 175 hits the south tower. It gets worse. Esp when you find out that there was a passenger traveling with her child on Flight 11 on a vacation to California who also had her sister joining them on the same trip however, the sister wasnt able to get a ticket for flight 11 in time so as fate would have it she booked a ticket on United flight 175. Neither knew the others plane was hijacked and so they all died that day one after the other. You got no idea how many crazy 9/11 stories are out there. I was in 8th grade in JHS (my school also had an elementary school in it) & at the time of this event, my school pretty close to the WTC area, i mean my school was like 4 train stops away on the J train and I distinctly remember waking up this morning and having a feeling that i should not be in school today. That i should stay home, like i literally begged & fought my mom to allow me to stay home this day because i had already overslept that morning and id have to commute to school by train. Believe it or not, I arrived at my train stop at Delancey St-Essex St on the Jtrain line @ 8:40am, 6 minutes prior to the first plane hitting, the school was a 5 min walk away from the station. If anyone here is a NYer, theyd know that the twin towers were in clear view from the delancey st train station. Ill never forget walking up the stairs to the street level, turning around & seeing the towers intact one last time, just 5 minutes before the 1st impact, and thinking to myself, wow the towers look so beautiful on this warm tuesday morning. Im telling you none of us, esp those of us who were either preteens & teenagers in JHS. After all that happened on that day, we were honestly suprised Al Qaeda didnt crash a plane into empire state building.
I'm in Texas. I remember watching a morning American talk show and the view of New York was in the background. We saw the plane hit in real time in the background. I remember my feet just going out underneath me. Then watching as the second plane hit. I'll remember that feeling for the rest of my life. It broke America's heart, but it also brought us together as a country. Flying in America is a pain in the butt. However, watching the 9/11 videos you know it's so worth the hassle.
I remember where I was and what I was doing. I was at home suffering from a sinus infection, and I had just called in sick to work. My daughter had called me and told me to turn on the news. I watched the second plane hit. Then the Pentagon, and then Shanksville, PA. Every year on 9/11, I see those images I my head, and I think of all those who died that day.🥺
I appreciate that you are willing to learn and share about a moment that changed the lives of us who went through this. I will never forget that day. It was my first official day on the job as a flight attendant. I had completed my 5 weeks of training on Aug.29 and was at Chicago’s Midway airport reporting for work when this occurred. The Sears Tower was also a suspected target and both Chicago airports and downtown were evacuated. My fellow flight attendants and pilots gathered at a local bar on the south side and watched events unfold. We cried together and comforted each other. The local firefighters and police knew it was a bar flight crews frequented and joined us. To this day we all still have a special bond. Not long after this, all flight crews had to go through deep background checks by the FBI. They combed through 10 years of our history and laser fingerprinted everyone. You lost your job if you didn’t comply. We also had to take new training on how to handle hijackings. Everything we learned on how to manage them went out the window. It was very physically and mentally challenging, we were trained by air marshals. Thanks again for your genuine response.
I was in Kindergarden when it happened, it was nap time and the radio the Teacher had suddenly cut from soft music to the news. It was probably the only time our teacher sobbed while on the job and didn't yell at us for not being asleep during naptime
My dad and I were supposed to be in the Marriott next to trade center that day, but we had to move our vacation due to his work. I just remember getting up in the morning and walking into my brothers room to see my mom sobbing as she watched the tv. Which was really horrifying she doesn't cry. She just kept whispering that it could have been me and my dad there. School was the quietest I've ever heard it, I was 11 at the time. The teachers all just had the tvs on and were whispering to each other through the day. I can't remember if they sent us home early, just the numb feeling.
You should look for the video of the events of that day recorded by the Naudet Brothers. They were working with the NY Fire Department and one of the brothers actually recorded video in the lobby of one of the Towers while he was there with the Fire Chief. It is an incredible video to watch.
i can't bear imagining having to be one of the passengers on those planes having to tell their children and loved ones goodbye forever or being one of the people in the towers screaming and crying asking god for a second chance at life i feel so bad for the children at home having to find out like this or being pregnant in the towers. 😖😞
It was even harder living through it...I was at work just getting a bar and grill ready to open. I remember turning on the TV sets at the bar and seeing the first plane hit the towers. Then the second...4 planes full of passengers...
You must have been in New York City seeing it live because the first plane hitting Tower 1 was not televised.. How could they have known that it was going to be hit? TV networks did not begin televising it until after the first tower was hit.
I still remember that day. I was taking my husband to work and we heard it on the radio. I went into his work and watched it crying my eyes out and getting angry. I was many states away but it was nation wide and impacted all of us.
I remember the day after going to see the movie Artificial Intelligence(A.I) and in one part of the movie it showed the towers, every single person in the cinema was in tears and it wasn't from the brilliant movie. When the movie came out on dvd and blu-ray they deleted that section of the movie, I think all of us that watched that in cinemas will always remember everyone from those two towers.
Yeah, even watching older movies that show the New York skyline as it used to be or highlight the towers like Home Alone 2 still brings a hitch the chest.
When the first plane hit the first tower, we were all freaked out but it still could have been a freak accident or something. But as soon as the second plane hit the second tower ... we ALL knew everything would change. This was my first thought. I still define events around me and in my personal life as before 9/11 and after it. I bawled watching this. NEVER FORGET!
I generally think of myself as pretty desensitized to 9/11 coverage, I saw it all day of and all the anniversaries since. I didn't recall the deep dreadful wound that day left on my soul, but this reminded me. Thank you for choosing to do the hard video and honor these people's memories.
I live in SE PA (Philly Suburbs) which is 2 hours from NYC, 2 hours from DC and a few hours from Shanksville. It is still surreal remembering that day. No one knew what to do.
I wish I could articulate how much this affected me as a nine, going on ten year old boy at the time. It's something I'll never forget. I don't want any other child to have to live through something like that. It sometimes feels like those younger than myself treat it as nothing but a meme.
They don't have the memories, just like we don't have the memories of WWII and the concentration camps, so people deny they were real (which is why the general taking part in liberating the concentration camps insisted on them being filmed). Those of us who have memories of 9/11 etched into our souls will not forget, nor will we forgive.
@xo2quilt Even though it upsets me when it is made light of, I still pray to God that those who have forgotten or were not yet living never have to experience it's like. I have seen a lot of messed up things in my life, things from history that I learned of, and personal experience, atrocities comitted in my lifetime, but that moment at nine years old, just two days away from my birthday, watching people jump... It will always haunt, hurt, and anger me. Just thinking about it makes me feel sick.
@@LouisTheBassman Hurts my heart and makes me cry as well as reigniting my anger and hatred towards those who perpetrated and supported those who did it. It is our Day of Infamy, as Pearl Harbor was to my parent's generation.
I'm American but that's the first time I've heard those recordings from the people on the actual aircrafts. Any footage of that awful moment in our history is always so harrowing. The amount of innocent people who perished that day will forever darken our history books. Thank you for reacting and providing the respect and empathy these clips deserve. Hopefully people will give you something much happier to react to in the next one!
Everything you heard was real! I worked for American Airlines when this happened and management was all over the building with their walkie talkies! And that was just in a home reservation office at Dallas/Ft. Worth! NEVER FORGET!
I was 17, a senior in high school. about 18 months prior, I joined a volunteer fire station. I got all my pre-requisite trainings out of the way and began taking Firefighter I in February 2001. Class finished up in June 2001. I really loved what I was doing so I also signed up to take EMT class because I really wanted to work on our ambulance too. My first day of EMT class was September 10, 2001. It was a Monday. The next day- Tuesday, September 11, 2001- I had THREE months experience (still 17) when I watched 343 FDNY firefighters die live on TV. My EMT class was supposed to be every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Class was cancelled Wednesday and on that Friday, we gathered in that classroom so our instructors could tell us to pretend we didn't have class that previous day because everything they said was no longer valid. It was a new world.
I was skipping school on that day trying to catch up on some sleep and my phone was ringing and I decided not to answer it and just let it go to voicemail. Then it rings again. Again I let it go to voicemail. Then it rings again, this time I pick it up and it's my buddy. He tells me go downstairs and turn on the TV. So I say "what channel?" And he goes "it doesn't matter what channel!" So I go downstairs and I turn on the TV, and every channel is talking about the plane that is just accidentally struck a building. And then, after about 2 or 3 minutes of watching this they came on and said second plane has hit the second tower, and started showing all this footage of the plane flying into the building.
I was born 2 years and 7 days after the event, but my mom would tell me what happened since she worked at Radio Shack during that time. She recalled people flooding to the front doors before opening hours, just banging on the door and telling her to either turn on the TVs or let them in to use the phones to call loved ones who were in those areas. One of the women who came in was trying to get a hold of her husband who was in the Pentagon, but none of the phones had been working. Thankfully, she did manage to get in contact with him. He was on the opposite side of the Pentagon from where the plane crashed, and was unharmed from the impact. Even though I wasn't alive to see this happen first-hand, just seeing videos and hearing stories on it makes me cry.
I wasn't born when 9/11 happened but my dad was sent to war again because of it. He was lucky and made it out and is still alive but everytime he's asleep with a movie in the background that has gunshots he basically screams in his sleep. He doesn't remember saying anything or having any dreams but we make sure to turn the movie down or turn it off. Every year when I was in elementary we had to watch videos about 9/11 and I cried everytime. I learned a few years ago that there were some people burning alive when they jumped because it would be a quicker death than that pain. Even if you didn't see it as it happened, the effects will haunt people for a long time
That's bc it wasn't a Plane! It was a missile and this is where the conspiracies begin. Most believe it was a Plane bc the other planes hit the towers but that gas station video clearly shows a missile hitting the Pentagon. A single hole and no wings anywhere outside!
Losing a friend in the tower, even after nearly 25 yrs it's still traumatizing to watch. I'm in my early 50's and he'll forever be 28. We miss you Arnold, it's not fair you were taken from us. It was only a few yrs ago I was finally able to get myself to go visit the reflecting pool. As a lifelong NYer and hospital employee, there have been two significant events in my life...9/11 and the COVID pandemic. Both have taken a huge emotional toll on so many lives and I hope that future generations not only remember the tragedies, but the heroes behind these events that put their lives on the line to help save others.
Yeah gets me every time. I remember my teacher getting a phone call in class and just putting her hand over her mouth and gasping. She ran over and turned on the TV and let out a small scream. She had family who worked in 1 of the towers. I was only 7 but I can even still remember bits and pieces of the principle on the loud speaker calling for a moment of silence and letting us know schools were closing. Absolutely horrible
*reupload on this channel as my other channel got a strike & I didn’t want to lose the videos
Bro have you seen Zero Dark Thirty? If you haven’t you’ve got to watch it… maybe a reaction video?
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Hey, I’ve been watching for a month or two now. I wonder have you seen all the videos of people coming to the aid of those in need after these last two hurricanes. I have found myself watching more and more videos on tik tok and what not about other countries like Canada sending aid in the form of linemen to the Carolina’s. The beauty of people coming together is something I find to be a light in the darkness that is currently all around. I don’t usually try to request or even tell people what to post but maybe a reaction video to videos of humanity coming together as it is right now to help those in need. I don’t know I just like the idea.
Also I was very very small when 9/11 happened, but I can still remember that day as one of my first memories.
This is really hard to watch because my brother's friend was on Flight 175. I watched him die in real time on TV and did not know it that day. My brother was also locked down because he worked in a federal building. No one knew if he was ok until late that night. I was in the newsroom covering this whole thing for the local paper (I worked as a reporter to get my ass through high school). So much happened that day and it took me years to come to terms with it. These videos are so hard to watch. I remember that day when people were like "there's people in the upper stories" and I just knew.. they're dead. Even if they survived the impact, they're dead. The horror of that day needs to never be forgotten. I was the oldest student in the school t the time and while we watched that unfold on TV, I was helping the administration deal with kids, kind of like a trauma counselor and I helped them coordinate a plan of action. That night we watched the air force doing preparatory maneuvers over my house. The whole day was impossible to comprehend. Even now I get physically sick remembering everything that happened and SO MUCH happened I can't even begin to tell the whole story ina TH-cam comment section. Fuck terrorists of every stripe.
I can remember the day it happened I was in school elementary, in the middle class everyone stopped what they were doing turned on the news and watched everything the twin towers pentagon, camp David and everyone in disbelief of what we had just seen
Her name is Betty Ong and she was a flight attendant on flight 11, the plane crashed into the north tower. She was the first person on 9/11 to alert authorities on what was happening and spoke to them for 23 minutes, until the plane crashed.
Air traffic control knew those planes were hijacked almost immediately. They knew before anyone else. But they had no idea what they were going to do with them.
In those days they had white Air Phones (I think spelled AirFones) in certain locations on the plane. You swiped a credit card and could make a call.
Flight Attendants Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney and it is believed passenger Daniel Lewin were the first on the front lines. The flight attendants relayed the seat numbers of the perpetrators. It’s believed that Daniel Lewin, an intelligence officer, stood up and tried to intervene.
So brave.
RIP. 😞
no one asked you bozo
In September 11,2001 I think,not only 4 planes crashed,2 of them hit World Trade Centre north and south,1 hit next to Camp David,1 hit the Pentagon,over 3000 people died for it,I think over 100 or 200 of them were children
@@KaramarikaBecause nobody have ever used them as missiles before. Most hijackers typically just held it for ransom.
The phone call that's cut off at 4:54 is part of a longer 911 call the man made from one of the towers. I've heard the entire recording. The operator stays on the phone with him as it gets progressively hotter and smokier - he begins to realize he's not going to get out - and the last thing you hear is the roar of the building collapsing and the words "oh God-" abruptly cut off. Prayers to the 911 operator who stayed on the phone with him until his life ended. She had to live with that for the rest of her life.
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Easily the top of the "worst 911 calls" list.
I can't imagine what these 911 operators went through on this day. You can't do anything, but just try and comfort them until the call disconnects.
When I heard that I sobbed for so long. Even if it was 23, 24 years ago, I, and every single person who heard that, heard the death of someone. Heard it at that moment. Someone real. With a family. A mom, and a dad, maybe siblings or a pet. Possibly a wife or husband, maybe children. Just devastating.
The sound of the bodies hitting the awning from those that jumped is absolutely horrifying. The calls home from passengers as they were going down is .. heartbreaking. I hate that the passengers of the flight that charged the cockpit and crashed the plane in Pennsylvania aren’t as recognized because they landed in a field with no deaths except those on the plane. Those people were exceptionally heroic. Everyone else was as well but they get recognized.
They made a movie of the plane that crashed in PA. Flight 93 I believe.
One of my customers invited me in to see the latest that day. I saw the people jumping from the upper floors. Made me physically ill as well. I also saw the towers fall in real time. Those images are forever etched in my brain. 😢
@@chrisfrey9488It’s an excellent movie. There is also a poignant memorial near Shanksville, where the plane went down.
I saw a video about the guy who owns the property they crashed on. He dedicated many years to honoring them and helping the families. Absolutely amazing. I can't believe it took 23 years for me to hear about him.
I remember they were all hailed as heroes. They chose to sacrifice themselves so no more would be killed. That’s why their story isn’t as long as the other two planes, because they ended it before it could get worse.
The Pentagon is what I remember being forgot a lot.
Hearing that last “Betty?” Broke me
3:38 hearing her say Goodbye broke me more than
I seriously cant watch anything related to 9/11 without bawling my eyes out. Even as the years pass...it will never be easy for me to watch. 😭
It’s sad. It really is.
Same here
Those of us who remember will never ever forget. It is so deeply engraved into us that we will instinctively cry and mourn for that which happened.
Me, too. I can’t watch. I cry and cry and cry and cry………..
I cry every time. Every time I watch the plans hit the buildings and the towers collapsing I can't stop the scream that comes out, like I could somehow change the past. My heart breaks every time.
Thanks for caring. Nice to know that the world grieved that day like we all did here in the states. A girl I went to high school with was in united 93. The one that they revolted and the terrorists purposely crashed into the ground. We were not really that close but I can’t imagine how terrifying her final moments were. We just pray that she didn’t feel any pain. RIP Nicole Miller. 💙
Most older Americans you ask will be able to tell you exactly where they were when they first heard. I'm 39 and was 16 in my junior year of high school at the time and I still remember that day vividly. It sent a very deep ripple through the American psyche that we hadn't experienced since Pearl Harbour was hit in 1941.
But to remark on Brits specifically was the outpouring of friendship that came across the water from you guys and it was so very much appreciated. The Queen even broke protocol and had the Royal Guard band play the American national anthem in a show of solidarity and sympathy. ❤
I had just gotten home from work and saw it pop up on the news... called a friend who i knew was home and asked him if he was seeing it.. Then told him that we (the usa as a whole) were about to turn someone's country into a parking-lot.
I was in school, 9th grade I believe? No classes went on, we all just turned on the tv; ppl crying in the hallways or w counselors bc they had family in NYC and didn't know what was going on or couldn't get thru to them. My dad came home from work (former marine) and it was the first time in my life I'd ever seen him cry. He snapped at me when I asked if he heard the news, but later apologized, he was just hurt, in shock, etc. Then later came all the conspiracies about that day. I still don't know what I believe as far as all that goes- all I know is that it shouldn't have happened, and my heart goes out to everyone involved or affected in any way.
@Gwydion_Wolf and that we did- but not without more loss of American lives.
I think she said something like "pain is the cost of love". I think most of the world was pretty shaken when those attacks happened, but they offered so much love and care from not just the Royal Family but the people as well, and that relationship we have between our nations is precious. We even lowered our flags half mast when the Queen passed away. They're some of the warmest folks I've known. God bless the Brits and God bless America 💕🫂
I did not know about the Queen and anthem thing!
I'm from NYC and had just moved away. One of the most shocking things I saw that stay with me is all the firemen running into the burning building, then hearing loud thumps of bodies... people trapped on top of the building by the flames were jumping to their deaths. The people on flight 93 were absolute heroes. I cried for days when it happened, walking around in a fog... still cry seeing that footage.
People were jumping?? 😢
The last calls always get me, even all these years later. Hope you're okay after the hurricane. ❤
He posted a short today updating us that he was fine.
@@Plasmastorm73 I just went through it. I'm "fine" physically. It's stressful as hell, though, and I'm used to them. Milton was a beast.
I feel you man I'm in Florida too if was bad
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Hope all my southern/floridian friends are safe. ❤
Ill never forget, I was 15 and I'm from the Netherlands so nowhere close. But this was so impactful, and honestly the news coverage was so insane. Our high school even closed when the 2nd plane hit (we were listening to radio during art class), and I arrived home just to see the first tower collapse on tv... Among other horrible footage.
I still watch the documentaries every year on 9/11 on Discovery channel, eventhough ive probably seem them all.
I find it important to remember.
But seeing it live, and having the news explain the sounds were infact bodies falling to the ground... I can't explain how that felt to witness. Also remember that you have no clue what's happening or what still might happen. The horror could just be starting for all we knew
Thank you for remembering. As an american it still hurts. But something I will never forget alongside that day was the love from all over the world that was shown to us. It helps to remember the outpouring of support and empathy we were shown while I watch my country seem to fall apart that we are all brothers and sisters on this planet and I appreciate everyone everywhere ❤️
I'm Canadian. I was at my doctor's office for my allergy shots, and everyone was in his back private office, they called me and my dad back to join them, and we watched news live as the plane hit the second tower. I was in college and had to get to class, but my dad needed the car, so he dropped me off and headed home. I remember making it to the cafe above the college's pub, where they had a massive group of tv's that acted as one big tv, all watching, and we saw the towers fall. It was so quiet. I was in nursing. We went to class and found out one of our classmates, who was away from her family, had family members who worked at the towers, who hadn't been heard from yet. We didn't do much classwork that day. Luckily, that girl's family was working from home that day, but with how full the phone systems were, no one heard from them until much later in the day.
I was born in 1982. My generation has lived through too many "where were you when" at this point.
Born in 81 here and an American. I was on my way to college too at the time. Our classes ended up getting canceled that day. Ironically my first class was History and our professor only had a few words before letting us go. He said that today's events would probably end up in history books sadly. Confusion was definitely the word for that day since we had NO idea which place would get hit next after the Pentagon got hit. My parents and younger brothers were allowed to go home that day too. My mom called my cell (so glad I had one by that point, it was an HS graduation gift) and asked if I was coming home. I went to a community college in San Antonio, which is known for our Military bases (we're called Military Town USA because of that), so it was in the back of my mind they could be a target.
I was 23 at the time and I had just come back from a doctor's appointment. My only roommate that was home was parked in front of the TV. Just in shock. When it was time for me to go to bed, I turned the news on in my room and I slept with it on. I slept with it on for days. Eventually my roommates actively prevented me from watching the news for a month. Six months later I was diagnosed with PTSD. Every time I heard a siren I would instantly tense up, thinking there's another emergency that is going to hit home. Years later I decided to become an emergency dispatcher. I just wasn't police, fire, paramedic material. So I trained for this situation if it ever happened again.
I wasn’t alive but my Dad recalls my Mom calling him after the first tower was hit. My dad remembers her saying “Honey, we’re under attack.” Chilling and Tragic.
'83 here. I was a senior in high school and freshly 18. Hell of an event to watch unfold having just registered with selective services, even though there wasn't ever really a chance for a draft (hindsight being 20/20 and all). I know I will eventually get the questions from my 3 kids for a school report asking where I was on 9/11/01. Not nearly as fun as when I asked my mom where she was on 7/20/69. Why didn't our generation get any fun ones?
As a former flight attendant, calls that got serviced did get recorded but there is a device on every aircraft called a "black box" that records almost everything and is extremely difficult to destroy. It records audio, as I recall, and is oftentimes the way that we gain insight as to what happened during hijackings or crashes
not all the black boxes were recovered.
I could only watch a few minutes of this. It brought back my PTSD pretty hard. I was an airline crew member airborne enroute to Philadelphia when it happened. Thank you for your reaction video to this...I just cannot. It's too raw. The horror these people and their families endured is so far, far beyond what happened to me, and yet...
Hope your doing well. Stay strong✊️
I have PTSD as well, so I understand the battle can be hard. Hope you’re taking care of yourself, man 🙏
I'm so sorry. My SIL was a flight attendant on American and she quit right after 9/11.
My cousin's husband is from NYC. I have not ever had the courage to sit down and ask him about that day from his perspective.
Your feelings are valid. 🙌
"I'll see you when you get there"
That broke me completely. In 2012, my uncle passed away (his was killed by his girlfriend) I was 7 years old and he cared a lot about me and my brothers so he was always doing something with us as much as he could when he was working on a dredge. From that day to his funeral I had a dream about him after he passed where he showed up to our house after he passed, and I ran up to hug him but he stopped me and said, "You can't hug me this time but you can give me a kiss on the cheek", I did as he said and he kissed my forehead and told me that he loves me. Then he went up to heaven.
My mom (his sister) had 3 different dreams about him after he passed and one of them was my mom standing in his room in his house (which is where he was), and he walked into the room, and he said to her "I'm okay now and I don't want to come back. You'll understand why when you get here."
In 2022, it was 10 years since he passed and I had the same dream I had in 2012. I also had a new dream about how he was (I had no knowledge of any details other than his girlfriend did it, she fled the state, she has never been held accountable). My mom had the same 3 dreams she had in 2012.
Sorry for going way off topic, but it wouldn't have made sense without saying why those words broke me.
I'm so sorry for your loss. That's heartbreaking
The gentleman on the phone with a New York dispatcher at 4:27 was named Kevin Cosgrove. He was trapped in an office filling with smoke well above where the plane hit his building and he couldn't get out.
It was an inside job... Like President Kennedy.
This is the most chilling call in my opinion. A lot of people criticize the 911 operator, including the man, but they were trying to keep him calm and honestly there wasn't anything they could do. Everyone was aware the tower had been struck but there was no way to reach anyone
Kevin Cosgrove
And the roar in the background before he yells, “oh god!” is the sound of the South Tower collapsing above him.
All the last calls are poignant and horrific, but Kevin’s call is especially haunting
thankfully i wasn't born until 2004, so i didn't have to go through that, but every time i see footage or hear the phone calls i am truly horrified and shaken to my core. i just simply can't imagine, or even comprehend a fraction of what the people who were physically there and in that state had to go through. the victims, their families, the people that witnessed it, and just the sheer horror that must've filled their hearts. i appreciate you actually taking the time to not only (for lack of a better word) "react" and sort of empathize and feel some sort of impact is amazing. you just keep being you, and i not only applaud that, but i respect it too. love from West Virginia to you brother, keep your head up and keep being you.
Betty Ong was the first person to notify emergency services that the plane she was on was hijacked. She was a Californian airline stewardess and I believe her phone call has been recorded and is accessible to listen to. The world recognized death 1 as Father Mychal Judge as he died after tower 2 fell, but the first name on the records behind the scenes it was Betty that was the first identified victim of this day.
As a 13 year old girl my heart breaks every time I see or hear this. I cried when I heard that guys words from inside the tower. Those poor poor people…. all gone. Because. Of. One. Man. I may not have experienced it, but my parents did. They will tell you exactly when and where they were. I watched countless videos on this not understanding, not sympathetic, thinking it was all something that happened and not many people died… then I watched a last calls video. Then I knew how serious it was. This may not have affected me directly, but it affected my country, it affected my people, it affected EVERYONE. No matter if your loved ones died or not. No, I didn’t experience it, but I WILL REMEMBER! If your from America, if your not, if your a man or a woman, if your young or your old, we all need to remember. Not for me, not for my country, but for all those people who died. Half of you probably won’t read all of this, but if you did thank you. Remember 9/11, if not itself, the people. Thank you and god bless America 🇺🇸🫡
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Beautiful comment. I was in elementary school, all classes paused and everyone had their eyes glued to the screens. We watched live as people jumped to escape the smoke and as the towers fell. I don’t remember the rest of that week but that day will forever be glued in my mind. These videos are horrific and definitely give you an idea of how we all felt that day.
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@marydanielle7183 Same here. Im 34 now. I'll never forget that day. Or the weeks following and how everyone felt so united as Americans. Yoy could just feel it in the air. We were all family no matter who you were it didn't matter. We were all Americans. Sad considering where we are now.
@@USA_duh I believe a class should be set up and all high school kids should have to sit in a dark room and listen to the calls on surround sound as the tapes play… this should NEVER be forgotten or the victims… AMERICANS need to remember why we have laws, airport checks, borders and MORALS❤️
The people on flight 93 got together and agreed to rush the cabin. One of the guys said the Lord's prayer and then concluded with "Let's roll."
edit: spelling
Roll*
Yes its sad.. rest in peace all of them ♡
There's even a neil young song about it called Let's Roll
@@joshuawiedenbeck6944 the absolute courage of those on the flight is something I will never forget. I'm sure they would have preferred to land it after taking control back unfortunately it didn't work that way but they saved countless lives in their insanely brave act. In videos afterward of family and loved ones being interviewed hearing the audio of their loved ones during the fight to take back control from the hijackers its bittersweet they lost loved ones and at the same time anyone I've seen listening to the audio also smiles as they hear their loved ones voices and is proud of them too which in ways is comforting. I'm sure it's not easy and can't take away their pain but to see them smile and proud talking about their selfless act is a beautiful way to honor them and remind people they were not going down without a fight. That flight truly had a lot of determined people on it that weren't taking any bs, everyday heroes to the end
Todd Beamer, I think...
FYI: NO CELL PHONE COULD WORK ON THOSE FLIGHTS. IT’S TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
I’m from NYC and when I tell you felt weird and thick outside….there were no cops anywhere, you walked outside and people were shocked, stunned and everyone spoke and helped, people truly were grieving everywhere….the story many don’t hear is the merchant mariners who helped evacuate close to half a million people from lower Manhattan ALL DAY because no one could leave Manhattan, so they all came together with ferries, tugboats, even called on locals with personal boats to help, anyone near by with some form of water transport helped, it was truly amazing and devastating
Hearing the voicemails is heart breaking
We were actually watching this unfold live on tv as it was happening. No words can express what we witnessed live on tv that awful day.
I had lost my mother on the 6th of Sept so we were already raw in our emotions.
We watched the dog for a family two weeks before this. When they picked her up, I got a picture of the family. I didn’t know the father worked in the towers, however he was in the 2nd tower. When we went to the funeral, I took the picture to give to the family. So sad, he was a wonderful man!
I was born 10 years and 3 days after 9/11. At my school this year, we did a thing where we ran laps up and down the stairs in remembering of 9/11, we only had to do 15 laps, and I did 85, and I dedicated each one to those brave men and women who died in those towers and in the pentagon. This brought tears to my eyes, and I almost never cry, thank you
Bless you.
Wow... It does feel like it just happened. I was in my 20's and my mom worked in a government building. I didn't really watch tv so all I remember is picking up the phone to my mom screaming, they are flying our planes into our own buildings! I've never heard my Mom scream like that. I can still here her. I know we're all crying together right now, this real footage is heartbreaking 💔 thank you so much for watching this with us.
Is youre mom okay?😢
Oh I’m so sorry
I remember when they said the world had changed and no one would forget September 11th but the world is right back to its stupidity and the current generation doesn't care about what happened. In time it will be forgotten.
3:09 is worse when you realize that's screams from captain who's throat was cut
I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when these attacks happened. No one in my life was affected, but watching this footage brings it all back again. The tears, the absolute terror that it might happen again, the heartache and empathy for all who were lost, their families who are still trying to survive, the first responders - many of whom are still dealing with mental heath issues afterward. It was so senseless and horrific.
This was definitely our Gen's Pearl Harbor because people from my grandparents' generation knew exactly what they were doing and where they were when Pearl Harbor was attacked. My grandpa had just arrived in CA (he was going to play professional baseball), but instead of going to sign up for the baseball team, he ended up taking a flight right back home to Texas and signed up to be in the Army. Of course a similar thing happened in 9/11, I knew guys from my HS who joined the military ASAP (I was 19 at the time), this included one of my cousins who joined the Navy since his grandpa was in the Navy during WW2 (our grandpas were brothers). My grandpa was 1 of 6 brothers and all 6 signed up to be in the military, but only 4 were accepted. One had health complications and the other wasn't admit because he had too many children (didn't want to make widows of too many women so it didn't fall to them to take care of so many kids).
The one guy that screamed oh god and just cut out when tower fell almost made me cry
It's been 23 years and it still hurts just as much. Adam, thank you for this video. We, Americans and The World must never forget this day.
Adam, I wasn't sure if I should include this in my comment, but it's something I feel I need to share. I've never spoken much about it. At the time I was working for another major US airline (not American or United) in reservations. I was off that day but like most people I watched everything in real time on tv. I was in such shock I don't even remember crying while watching. Even though I know that my experience was nothing like that of the victims' families and loved ones, it affected me like nothing else in my lifetime, before or since. We worked 12 hours shifts for weeks, taking calls from people from everywhere in the US. They were scared, confused, heartbroken and angry. It took a toll on all of us. Our company provided counselors on-site for us to take a break and let it all out so we could get back on the phone and do our jobs the best we could. Just like most everyone else, it changed me. Some for the better. Some not so much. It took everyone, our co-workers, our friends and families, and even our callers who were concerned about us, to get through it. And for all the horrible things that happened that day, I got to experience the best of humanity in the days to come. We were all in it together in our own ways. We were all Americans. But the emotional scars remain. And I don't think they will ever completely heal. Thank you for caring and listening. Peace.
What a lovely comment- it doesn't matter that you weren't directly involved, it still involved all of us that live in this wild, yet beautiful, country. Thank you for taking on that extra work and stress load, to put ppls minds at ease ❤
@@kristinwojtowich8902 Thank you so very much. You're exactly right. It took all of us working together to find our way through a seemingly hopeless situation. And I believe we can all do it again. 😊❤️🤝
It’s a shame the us government did this to its own people.
@@DevicCypher It's not time for conspiracy theories. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. But we know what we know, and it's a very sensitive and tragic subject that should be treated with respect, and conspiracy theories are not respectful.
@@frogg523 it’s a fact. Not even a conspiracy little kid
I was flying home from Denver with my mom. My brother’s birthday is 9/11 and we spent the weekend celebrating. His daughter was due any day, she was born on the 29th. The first image I saw was the Pentagon and I immediately thought of my uncle who worked there for his company. For whatever reason he was 45 minutes late to a meeting and it saved his life. He lost 3 co-workers, one of which was never identified. A few years later, his daughter from his first marriage went looking for her dad after being diagnosed with melanoma. I feel now God spared our family a loss that day knowing she would be searching for him, but wonder if she would’ve still tried to find her dad’s family. I know a WTC2 survivor from the 105th floor who left her office after seeing the first plane hit. I also know some one whose cousin was a first responder killed. I also have met a mom of a passenger from flight 93 who was 10 days younger than me. That day is always my brother’s birthday and now added losing our dog on the day in 2018. It’s a lot of emotions slammed into one day.
I remember walking into work early in the morning and seeing everybody huddled in a group and bawling. Out of the corner of my eye I saw “breaking news” flash across the TVs in the electronics department and I watched people jumping to their death moments before the second tower collapse and I couldn’t breathe. I collapsed to my knees with my coworkers and customers and cried, begging that that was a horrific nightmare! Then we prayed, even those of us who aren’t certain we believe in a higher power, we prayed. We prayed and we cried.
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I think the guy said, "see you when we get there." Transcription is important. Because history.
He could have still meant heaven. But it's more likely he meant his flight destination and he expected to land.
Sounds much more like “you” than “we”
I’m practically living out of my Land Cruiser right now after Helene and Milton. I’ve seen this before, lived through it, and thank you for watching it because it’s a reminder that I’m good. I’ve seen and lived through worse. ❤
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Im so sorry for all your losses. So angry at FEMA and where is the Red Cross?
You are one of the best British people I have ever seen you cared so much about this even though it didn’t happen anywhere near you
Adam, I could barely watch this with you. I am however grateful. It means so much to us here in the USA for you and others around the world who support and share your care and concern for us in the USA. We are so fortunate to have friends and allies like you and Great Britten along with so many others. Thank you. God bless you and may God watch over you and your country.
I was stationed in Germany (Army) when Sep. 11 happened. I watched it all unfold on TV, and it was so heartbreaking. I was sitting there in my BDUs at the time, completely lost as to what was going to happen next. All of the Army posts and military buildings were locked down, and basically everything came to a standstill as our nation tried to figure out what happened and what we do next. The next day, so many German citizens had put flowers and wreaths and all kinds of heartfelt tributes along the fence line of our facility, but mostly at the entrance gates.
It was an absolute tragedy, but in that tragedy, we saw a nation and really the entire world set aside rather petty differences to come together in support of a nation whose civilians were slaughtered at the hands of terrorists. I vividly remember the unity in America, and the pride we had coming together as Americans. It's so sad that in just one generation's time passing, we've forgotten what it means to be a solidified group of people, and instead have devolved back into bickering over politics and hating because someone doesn't fall into your sphere of groupthink. Anyone old enough to remember the feeling of a unified America (and world, for the most part) laments where we are right now, and it's a sad thing to think that we need tragedy to bring us to that state of unity. We learned nothing.
Your own government did this. Mussad
See Christopher Bullyn
Amen sir. Amen.
I still remember being 8 years old when that happened. ...Even now I still remember that empty feeling as many lives were lost and the buildings falling. I still want to throw up at that free-fall....
2 of my kids were in 5th grade, and that day he was the one who was in charge of giving the absentee list to the principal's office. he said that, when he got there everyone was watching tv and he got to see the plane hit the south tower. not sure if they then brought a tv to their classrooms or not. this is all he ever told me, and his twin brother never talked about it.
one thing I also remember was going to the store (maybe a day or so later?? don't recall the exact day). the windows were huge and were covered in pictures of the missing. was truly sad.
I was in 4th grade outside of Boston and I will never forget this.
I remember seeing all my teachers start crying I got home and the whole neighborhood was glued to my parents TV
I think the part of this hits me the most is the phone call at the end where you can hear the explosion and the disconnect tone
I can’t listen to phone calls from people in the towers who were trapped without tearing up. It’s absolutely heartbreaking and terrible. I hope they have peace in Heaven. RIP to all those who passed away from that day.
Yeah, that's a tough one for anyone with a shred of humanity to watch. I was getting ready to go to work when the first plane hit (lived 400 miles from New York). It was like the entire country came to a stop for several days. It's was beyond brutal emotionally for so many people... which is what terrorists count on.
I like how you put that, bc it's so true- everything just seemed to pause at a standstill for days and days. Worst thing since pearl harbor, and neither will ever be forgotten. ❤
My 2 cousins were in the towers and got out. They were boat lifted to New Jersey. They lost so many co-workers/friends that day. Living in NYC, this was such a scary time. I still get teary eyed when I see these videos. We could see the smoke from our houses and my workplace. The pit/ground zero burned so long. 😢
I was an adult on 9/11. It was not only sad, it was a bit terrifying. I was at work in a bldg that did government contracts and was a bit scared we might be attacked too. As each bit of horrifying news came out many of us thought we were being attacked by Russia or some other country and we were entering World War III. Other than my Mother and my brother dying I think it was the saddest day I remember. There was a pall over the country for a long time. I've watched 9/11 documentaries every year on 9/11 since then. I feel somehow I must bear witness to the suffering and sacrifice of my fellow Americans. 😢
I feel the same way.
I know what you mean. Like, I wasn't there or involved, or directly affected...but it still rocked us as a whole. Bear witness- that's exactly it. ❤
I am from Poland and I will never forget that day. When I came back from school it was all over the news. When the second plane hit the WTC tower, the tragic plane crash turned into a terrorist attack. It was so surreal... It's hard to believe that someone could do something like that. That day changed everything.
The field one is wildest one because they passengers fought back and they're the ones that down the plane so would not hit a building. 1 of the people have a grave near my parents at Fort Snelling.
There are harder ones to watch than this.
It was, in fact, going to DC.
It would have been a very different story if flight 93 took off on time, turns out it was late to take off giving the passengers enough time to hear about what happened at the towers and the pentagon and were able to make the decision to fight back. Their heroism saved more lives and because of the lack of video content, very few know about it. Really the phone calls are what we are able to go with as well as the box in the cockpit.
@@kate2create738 And it would have been even worse if the 5th plane would have got off the ground. It could not take off because they grounded all planes while it was waiting in line to take off. No one really talks too much about it. There is a documentary that focuses on the 5th plane.
@Lisa_P73 what's that documentary called, if you don't mind sharing.
@@kristinwojtowich8902 PBS Did something on it in May 2011 after the Wilminton (Delaware) News Journal did a front page article on the First Officer of flight 23, the now General Carol Timmons. She recounted what happened with the 4 men and was found in their abandoned luggage. Then TMZ's Harvey Levin heard about it, investigated it and put the documentary together, I believe it came out in 2023. Google 9/11 the fifth plane. I believe you can watch on Hulu. I know that the pilot, first officer, and the cabin crew of United Flight flight 23 believes it was supposed to be the 5th plane. The pilot is the only person that was still working when TMZ looked into it. He stated that the flight crew all got out of flying because of what took place on their plane.
I was 2 years old and don’t remember a thing about it, but to this day that is still one of the hardest things to watch and listen to for me. Hearing the people call their loved ones to say goodbye is something I can not listen to with crying.
I was living in Portersvile PA when 911 happened. I was on the phone with my husband who was in Pittsburgh for work. By this time all flights were grounded but I told him I heard a plane. Not long after I heard and seen fighter jets fly over my home and found that flight 93 had gone down below Pittsburgh. I didn't know at the time that it was flight 93 I found out a few years later. Every channel was showing the world trade center for a week or so. I was glued to the TV the whole time hoping and praying that they would pull out more survivors. It was a terrifying and sad day for America and the world.
like almost EVERYONE else has said, i remember exactly where i was that day.
23 years later and im a man in my 30's wiping tears from my eyes hearing those phone calls.
Same... im not even from the states. But that day. The world wept with you. One of our towns in eastern Canada took in hundreds of flights and gave shelter to the passengers of grounded flights...
My teacher showed this exact video in class, I could barely even watch it. Hearing that one audio clip, of that man who’s building is falling beneath his feet made me start bawling harder
There was one phone call from 9/11 that has always stuck with me. It was a guy inside the tower, I think in the process of going down the stairs, leaving a message for his wife or something. The part I remember is how you could suddenly hear this repeated smashing, getting louder and faster before the call cuts off. Which was was the sound of each floor above him collapsing onto the one below it as the tower fell. Its a small glimpse into what those final moments were like inside.
I was on an airplane on 9/11 en route to Washington DC, when we were escorted to Chicago by an F-16 and put on the ground. The aircraft personnel were all crying and very upset, but wouldn’t tell us what was happening. After we were rushed off the plane, we saw a group of people watching a TV at a bar and stood there and saw the first tower fall. I was stuck in Chicago for 4 days and drove home. It has been very hard for me to get on a plane ever since that day.
You're right. found this hard to watch too. Holding back the tears
we did something with 9/11 when i was in sixth grade.. we had to listen to those calls from people inside the tower and on the plane. it was so hard to listen to people say their last words and trying not to cry in class
Everyone was scared that day. We all wondered who would be next. I remember standing at the window at my work watching the sky and hoping I wouldn’t see a plane come at us. I was in Ohio and they were talking about one of the planes flying through Ohio. We had GE and thought maybe they were a target. No one understood what exactly was happening.
The people jumping from the towers was unbearable to see and to hear. And hearing the phone calls was so heart wrenching. It’s a day that’s impossible to forget. I cry about it every year.
I was in 4th grade. I watched it live. My teacher had a niece who worked in the World Trade Center. Her scream as the towers fell still haunts me. We watched as people jumped. We watched as people ran. We watched and we watched. It never gets easier.
I watched that on TV as it happened. It was so unreal, that I felt like I was watching a movie, but it was real, and the day just kept getting worse. Devastating.
I can never listen to those last calls because if I was the receiver from that, I would never be able to listen to that I would be breaking down on the ground crying, listening to those people making their final calls is super sad but the most sad part is especially with young kids when they don’t even understand in all they know is that their parents/parent isn’t coming home ever Again.
if you watch more videos you can hear the consistent beeping. Those are emergency beacons for when emergency responders stop moving for a period of time. That was rough, but one of the easier to get through. Thanks for being respectful man. Lost many a friend fighting against this...
God, that's a horrifying realization. May your friends and coworkers rest easy and I hope you are healing well ❤
@@Paradox_Incognito it is...rough day for the world really...
I spent my entire career in that part of NYC, I had worked at the WTC, we often held meetings catered by the restaurant at the top of Tower 1. I knew some of the waiters by sight. I have had PTSD since.
The first responders are now dying bc of cancer from the toxicity of the place. The list of victims continues to grow.
Every year I watch the documentaries. My Uncle used to work in the South Tower. His first day was 9/11. He got to work the moment the plane hit the South Tower. He was at the base and got hit with debris
I'm so sorry ❤ Did he make it?
i remember i was in high school only 100 ish miles away from the towers and watching it on our classroom tv. everyone was crying and calling their parrents. i personally didn't cry but after i prosessed it i cried for hours and now everytime i watch something about it i cry again. i still do pray for those familys
When the towers were hit not just america stopped. So did all the other countries. They all were shocked and stuck in time once the news got out. Thats how big this was. The world stopped turning when this happened and it took everyone on this planet months to feel better
Decades
@@woebringer7884Even decades later no one is fully healed from it. The acts of terrorism or mass shootings could reopen the mental wound some people had from that day. And with the thirtieth anniversary in six years, it still shakes me and leave me empty.
I was in my 10th grade English class when we got the news. They huddled us all temporary into designated classrooms and we saw some of the footage until they dismissed us early from school. I went home and continued to watch the raw, live, unedited new coverage. It was horrifying to watch from the safety of my central Massachusetts home. I can't imagine what it was like at ground zero, the pentagon, Pennsylvania or any of those airliners. But to this day, any time I watch these videos, I get angry, sad, upset, I cry and move on with my day. The emotions that well up will never go away. I hope all or at least most of the families have been able to move on and find peace in their lives.
I was 48 years old when this happened. I was at work and we were listening to the radio when the news broke. Everything came to a standstill and I let my coworkers go home early because there were too many tears. Everyone was devastated.
I was 47. It was a sad and scary day that none of us will ever forget.
I found out about 9/11 from a teacher whose husband was at the Pentagon. My mom was part of the response there and I didn't see her from the day after the attacks for a solid week. How the people in NYC coped I have no clue, it was horrific enough here.
No matter how many years pass this still effects me deeply.. The chills that happen are full force. Most you see is people cellphones and news recording the moment it all happened. More and more are coming out from everything that happened. These clips that are now being shared where likely locked away the 911 calls are heartbreaking.
0:54 yep thats the plane betty was on, American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the North Tower. 17 minutes later, United Airlines 175 hits the south tower. It gets worse. Esp when you find out that there was a passenger traveling with her child on Flight 11 on a vacation to California who also had her sister joining them on the same trip however, the sister wasnt able to get a ticket for flight 11 in time so as fate would have it she booked a ticket on United flight 175. Neither knew the others plane was hijacked and so they all died that day one after the other. You got no idea how many crazy 9/11 stories are out there. I was in 8th grade in JHS (my school also had an elementary school in it) & at the time of this event, my school pretty close to the WTC area, i mean my school was like 4 train stops away on the J train and I distinctly remember waking up this morning and having a feeling that i should not be in school today. That i should stay home, like i literally begged & fought my mom to allow me to stay home this day because i had already overslept that morning and id have to commute to school by train. Believe it or not, I arrived at my train stop at Delancey St-Essex St on the Jtrain line @ 8:40am, 6 minutes prior to the first plane hitting, the school was a 5 min walk away from the station. If anyone here is a NYer, theyd know that the twin towers were in clear view from the delancey st train station. Ill never forget walking up the stairs to the street level, turning around & seeing the towers intact one last time, just 5 minutes before the 1st impact, and thinking to myself, wow the towers look so beautiful on this warm tuesday morning. Im telling you none of us, esp those of us who were either preteens & teenagers in JHS. After all that happened on that day, we were honestly suprised Al Qaeda didnt crash a plane into empire state building.
4:49 Victim Kevin Cosgrove Voice, After that it was victim Melissa Doi's voice. #neverforget
I'm in Texas. I remember watching a morning American talk show and the view of New York was in the background. We saw the plane hit in real time in the background. I remember my feet just going out underneath me. Then watching as the second plane hit. I'll remember that feeling for the rest of my life. It broke America's heart, but it also brought us together as a country. Flying in America is a pain in the butt. However, watching the 9/11 videos you know it's so worth the hassle.
I have never seen any footage of the first plane hitting aside from the Naudet brothers film. Where is this footage?
My son was 2 days old when this happened. I held him close to my heart and just cried. All of those innocent souls and the loved ones left behind.
I remember where I was and what I was doing. I was at home suffering from a sinus infection, and I had just called in sick to work. My daughter had called me and told me to turn on the news. I watched the second plane hit. Then the Pentagon, and then Shanksville, PA. Every year on 9/11, I see those images I my head, and I think of all those who died that day.🥺
I appreciate that you are willing to learn and share about a moment that changed the lives of us who went through this. I will never forget that day. It was my first official day on the job as a flight attendant. I had completed my 5 weeks of training on Aug.29 and was at Chicago’s Midway airport reporting for work when this occurred. The Sears Tower was also a suspected target and both Chicago airports and downtown were evacuated. My fellow flight attendants and pilots gathered at a local bar on the south side and watched events unfold. We cried together and comforted each other. The local firefighters and police knew it was a bar flight crews frequented and joined us. To this day we all still have a special bond.
Not long after this, all flight crews had to go through deep background checks by the FBI. They combed through 10 years of our history and laser fingerprinted everyone. You lost your job if you didn’t comply. We also had to take new training on how to handle hijackings. Everything we learned on how to manage them went out the window. It was very physically and mentally challenging, we were trained by air marshals. Thanks again for your genuine response.
I was in Kindergarden when it happened, it was nap time and the radio the Teacher had suddenly cut from soft music to the news. It was probably the only time our teacher sobbed while on the job and didn't yell at us for not being asleep during naptime
My dad and I were supposed to be in the Marriott next to trade center that day, but we had to move our vacation due to his work. I just remember getting up in the morning and walking into my brothers room to see my mom sobbing as she watched the tv. Which was really horrifying she doesn't cry. She just kept whispering that it could have been me and my dad there. School was the quietest I've ever heard it, I was 11 at the time. The teachers all just had the tvs on and were whispering to each other through the day. I can't remember if they sent us home early, just the numb feeling.
You should look for the video of the events of that day recorded by the Naudet Brothers. They were working with the NY Fire Department and one of the brothers actually recorded video in the lobby of one of the Towers while he was there with the Fire Chief. It is an incredible video to watch.
i can't bear imagining having to be one of the passengers on those planes having to tell their children and loved ones goodbye forever or being one of the people in the towers screaming and crying asking god for a second chance at life i feel so bad for the children at home having to find out like this or being pregnant in the towers. 😖😞
I'm sobbing. 😢
The final phone calls broke my heart, imagine having a good morning and you get a call like that..
Never Forget
It was even harder living through it...I was at work just getting a bar and grill ready to open. I remember turning on the TV sets at the bar and seeing the first plane hit the towers. Then the second...4 planes full of passengers...
You must have been in New York City seeing it live because the first plane hitting Tower 1 was not televised.. How could they have known that it was going to be hit? TV networks did not begin televising it until after the first tower was hit.
Was that bar and grill in NYC?
I still remember that day. I was taking my husband to work and we heard it on the radio. I went into his work and watched it crying my eyes out and getting angry. I was many states away but it was nation wide and impacted all of us.
I remember the day after going to see the movie Artificial Intelligence(A.I) and in one part of the movie it showed the towers, every single person in the cinema was in tears and it wasn't from the brilliant movie.
When the movie came out on dvd and blu-ray they deleted that section of the movie, I think all of us that watched that in cinemas will always remember everyone from those two towers.
Yeah, even watching older movies that show the New York skyline as it used to be or highlight the towers like Home Alone 2 still brings a hitch the chest.
@@InfantryWife85 absolutely HA2 still gets me to this day with it
Any old NY skyline with the towers is spooky to see now
When the first plane hit the first tower, we were all freaked out but it still could have been a freak accident or something. But as soon as the second plane hit the second tower ... we ALL knew everything would change. This was my first thought. I still define events around me and in my personal life as before 9/11 and after it. I bawled watching this. NEVER FORGET!
I generally think of myself as pretty desensitized to 9/11 coverage, I saw it all day of and all the anniversaries since. I didn't recall the deep dreadful wound that day left on my soul, but this reminded me. Thank you for choosing to do the hard video and honor these people's memories.
I live in SE PA (Philly Suburbs) which is 2 hours from NYC, 2 hours from DC and a few hours from Shanksville. It is still surreal remembering that day. No one knew what to do.
I wish I could articulate how much this affected me as a nine, going on ten year old boy at the time. It's something I'll never forget. I don't want any other child to have to live through something like that. It sometimes feels like those younger than myself treat it as nothing but a meme.
They don't have the memories, just like we don't have the memories of WWII and the concentration camps, so people deny they were real (which is why the general taking part in liberating the concentration camps insisted on them being filmed). Those of us who have memories of 9/11 etched into our souls will not forget, nor will we forgive.
@xo2quilt Even though it upsets me when it is made light of, I still pray to God that those who have forgotten or were not yet living never have to experience it's like. I have seen a lot of messed up things in my life, things from history that I learned of, and personal experience, atrocities comitted in my lifetime, but that moment at nine years old, just two days away from my birthday, watching people jump... It will always haunt, hurt, and anger me. Just thinking about it makes me feel sick.
@@LouisTheBassman Hurts my heart and makes me cry as well as reigniting my anger and hatred towards those who perpetrated and supported those who did it. It is our Day of Infamy, as Pearl Harbor was to my parent's generation.
@@xo2quilt well said.
I'm American but that's the first time I've heard those recordings from the people on the actual aircrafts. Any footage of that awful moment in our history is always so harrowing. The amount of innocent people who perished that day will forever darken our history books. Thank you for reacting and providing the respect and empathy these clips deserve. Hopefully people will give you something much happier to react to in the next one!
Everything you heard was real! I worked for American Airlines when this happened and management was all over the building with their walkie talkies! And that was just in a home reservation office at Dallas/Ft. Worth! NEVER FORGET!
I was 17, a senior in high school. about 18 months prior, I joined a volunteer fire station. I got all my pre-requisite trainings out of the way and began taking Firefighter I in February 2001. Class finished up in June 2001. I really loved what I was doing so I also signed up to take EMT class because I really wanted to work on our ambulance too. My first day of EMT class was September 10, 2001. It was a Monday. The next day- Tuesday, September 11, 2001- I had THREE months experience (still 17) when I watched 343 FDNY firefighters die live on TV. My EMT class was supposed to be every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Class was cancelled Wednesday and on that Friday, we gathered in that classroom so our instructors could tell us to pretend we didn't have class that previous day because everything they said was no longer valid. It was a new world.
I was skipping school on that day trying to catch up on some sleep and my phone was ringing and I decided not to answer it and just let it go to voicemail. Then it rings again. Again I let it go to voicemail. Then it rings again, this time I pick it up and it's my buddy. He tells me go downstairs and turn on the TV. So I say "what channel?" And he goes "it doesn't matter what channel!" So I go downstairs and I turn on the TV, and every channel is talking about the plane that is just accidentally struck a building. And then, after about 2 or 3 minutes of watching this they came on and said second plane has hit the second tower, and started showing all this footage of the plane flying into the building.
I was born 2 years and 7 days after the event, but my mom would tell me what happened since she worked at Radio Shack during that time. She recalled people flooding to the front doors before opening hours, just banging on the door and telling her to either turn on the TVs or let them in to use the phones to call loved ones who were in those areas. One of the women who came in was trying to get a hold of her husband who was in the Pentagon, but none of the phones had been working. Thankfully, she did manage to get in contact with him. He was on the opposite side of the Pentagon from where the plane crashed, and was unharmed from the impact.
Even though I wasn't alive to see this happen first-hand, just seeing videos and hearing stories on it makes me cry.
Tough topic. Thanks for covering it. Love you buddy
The flight attendant is actually Betty Ong who was actually talking to the lady on the airport building
I’ve always cried after watching this, I hope they’re all in heaven peacefully resting. Amen 🙏
I wasn't born when 9/11 happened but my dad was sent to war again because of it. He was lucky and made it out and is still alive but everytime he's asleep with a movie in the background that has gunshots he basically screams in his sleep. He doesn't remember saying anything or having any dreams but we make sure to turn the movie down or turn it off. Every year when I was in elementary we had to watch videos about 9/11 and I cried everytime. I learned a few years ago that there were some people burning alive when they jumped because it would be a quicker death than that pain. Even if you didn't see it as it happened, the effects will haunt people for a long time
2:50 there actually is footage of it, but theres no audio and all you see is an explosion, you cant see the plane
That's bc it wasn't a Plane! It was a missile and this is where the conspiracies begin. Most believe it was a Plane bc the other planes hit the towers but that gas station video clearly shows a missile hitting the Pentagon. A single hole and no wings anywhere outside!
Losing a friend in the tower, even after nearly 25 yrs it's still traumatizing to watch. I'm in my early 50's and he'll forever be 28. We miss you Arnold, it's not fair you were taken from us. It was only a few yrs ago I was finally able to get myself to go visit the reflecting pool. As a lifelong NYer and hospital employee, there have been two significant events in my life...9/11 and the COVID pandemic. Both have taken a huge emotional toll on so many lives and I hope that future generations not only remember the tragedies, but the heroes behind these events that put their lives on the line to help save others.
Some of that I’ve never heard before, or have seen.
Brutally heartwrenching.
I was in NYC and saw the last tower collapse. Can't get all the way through these videos without anxiety. Takes me right there again.
Yeah gets me every time. I remember my teacher getting a phone call in class and just putting her hand over her mouth and gasping. She ran over and turned on the TV and let out a small scream. She had family who worked in 1 of the towers. I was only 7 but I can even still remember bits and pieces of the principle on the loud speaker calling for a moment of silence and letting us know schools were closing. Absolutely horrible
A reaction video to this, just from any perspective, is still crazy.