I like listening to the normal everyday people tell their stories. In the 2000's most of the stories that were reported on were first responders stories and the focus was on the firefighters who lost their lives. But I think the stories of people just going to work paints a more realistic picture of what everyone's attitudes and thoughts where while it was happening.
Is it just me or did everyone of these comments totally miss your point? Hahaha i took it as every survivor when telling their story they start off with "it was a clear day just like today"??? Which i have noticed too haha
He's right when he says you can remember exactly where you were when it happened. I was in downtown Pittsburgh and had just turned on the TV when the second plane hit and I remember yelling out loud and waking up my fiance. Soon after that the plane crashed outside of Pittsbugh in Shanksville. Everything in the city shut down fir days because no one knew if there were more attacks coming, or if they would happen in different cities too. A good friend of ours was in New York studying at NYC and was just a short distance from the WTC reading a book and drinking a cup of coffee on a park bench when she heard the 1st plane. After that she saw EVERYTHING, but what really messed with her head was seeing people jumping from the towers. She was so rattled she ended up having to taken time off from doing her doctorate to get lots of therapy for PTSD. I'm sure she wasn't the only one. That day created so many victims, both living and dead. I won't forget it for as long as I live.
I was sitting in class in kindergarden when my grandmother came and picked me up then took me to her house she then sat me down in front of the tv and said u need to watch this bc it's going to be very important
I was sitting in my first grade classroom, teacher was reading us a book when she got the call it had happened. We actually all were watching it on tv eventually we did a moment of silence, teacher cried. Kids got picked up. I stayed at school because single dad was working. The whole day we jus kinda took it slow. I’m grateful our teacher turned on the news even though we were young it was a part of history I always want to remember because it’s important to remember and respect the lives lost
I was 9 years old i remember i saw it on every tv chanel back then i was a little kid but they told us about it on school the other days i thought it was just a movie cuz i i alittle kid
I was born September 9th 2003 so 2 years later... idk why but I’m very fascinated by people’s stories because I was just born 2 years later. It’s cool to see how the U.S. was before and after 9/11
Oddly, I still have the alarm clock radio that woke me up with the news. I was 22, still a little older than you are now, living about 6 hours drive from NYC. I was not anywhere near it but I did go to New York a few months later and remember seeing ground zero first hand -- still very much a mangled hole in the ground. There were memorials set up in front of every fire station and people were still walking around in a bit of a daze. There were missing person photos posted up all over the place, everyone just hoping that maybe a person they loved would be found wondering the streets with amnesia. If you were to look those up and see the frantic wring on some, it really starts to hit home because I'm sure by now you can imagine if one of them was your mother, father, brother, sister, best friend, etc. In my opinion, a lot of very bad decisions were made as a result of what happened on 9/11 but the pre-9/11 world wasn't an innocent time either. As we go though what I stack up to an even greater challenge now with the pandemic, I think it's easy to lose sight of the good and to realize that there was no golden age, just the time we have right now.
I was born and raised in Virginia and always will be here. Anyways I had quite a few family members and close family friends at the Pentagon. Thankfully none of them were killed. Two of them were injured pretty badly. I will never forget September 11, 2001. I was in 9th grade drama class. I remember our school was put on lock down and the TVs in every classroom were put on. I also remember how beautiful that day was and how quiet the classroom was, how quiet the whole school was actually and I looked out the window and looked up at sky and I just felt helpless, confused, worried, every terrible emotion imaginable. I thought of the 16 people I loved and cared about at the Pentagon and all I could do was wait and hope that everyone was okay! Being from Virginia 75% of us at my high school had family and friends at the Pentagon but yet it was silent. Mostly I think we were all in shock and it seemed unreal. 9/11/2001 changed America forever and I personally will never forget that day! Such a sad day! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was living in Virginia and just started my freshman year in Indian river high school I remember you could hear a pin drop throughout my school and we also if I remember right, we also went on lockdown I will never forget that day
Thank you for sharing this. I am working on my fall semester passion project lesson plans and this is great for my research! Thank you thank you thank you
The audience is so unappreciative. I would’ve been so amazed and alert!!! I was one year old at the time of 9/11 and I’m still in shock from the event at the age of 20.
Based Core not everyone shows emotion by sitting straight up some of them could definitely be listening but just trying to act tough because they’re teens. Chill out and take your negativity somewhere else:)
My dad went to the viewing deck at the top of one of the towers 3 days before the attacks. He went back to the UK the next day and 1 day later in the UK he heard about the buildings being hit by planes and watched the second plane hit the tower he was in.
I was at a hospital appointment when 9/11 happened. I was in my living room looking at the news mid morning when I realised the enormity of what had happened
I was only four, almost 5 on 9/11/01. It is my first vivid memory. The whole family was in the living room glued to the TV, which wasn’t unusual but this time they were crying and screaming in horror. I had never heard my dad scream so loud. He said “Oh my God, please help these people!!” I know everyone in the world probably hasn’t felt as helpless as they did that day ever again. Watching these big tall buildings fall, everyone just in complete horror. Everything is fuzzy after that. I could’ve never comprehended the seriousness at that time of course. I just knew something really bad was going on. America has done an incredible job of never forgetting. May all those people in the towers, flights, EMTS, firefighters etc who lost their lives that day rest peacefully.
I often think of how things were by comparison when I was 4 years old! When I was 4, almost 5, it was 1969 and my first TV memory was watching men set foot on the moon! Everyone around me was so exhilarated and uplifted, and there was so much hope and expectation for the future. What a different experience! Every year I reflect on this and ask my friends to be sure to help a young person to have a positive experience around this age that gives them hope and joy. It made a difference in my life and outlook, and I can only imagine that being so young at 9/11 definitely made a lasting impression on you as I can see from what you say.
Travel Bridges wow what a beautiful story!! I bet that was amazing to see, even being so young. I hope we get back to being hopeful, I don’t want to bring a child into this world the way it is. Thank you for your story ❤️
I remember something very similar. I had almost turned six years old and I just remember seeing these tall buildings on fire with this black smoke and my mom pacing back and forth silently. She kept yelling at me to leave the room because she thought that I might get scared watching it. I hid along the side of our couch to watch the TV anyways. They were then filming people jumping and filming them as they were falling and that's when my mom barred the room. I do remember her gasping really loudly when the towers fell. I didn't realize the enormity of those moments. I thought they were like a movie or something. I was just too young to understand.
It is crazy these kids weren't even born yet. I was 11 when it happened and it is probably top 3 most memorable moments in my life even just watching it on television, it was like the whole world changed in an instant. It was like I was watching the start of new world war and I remember being scared that this would mean world war, it kinda did start a new type of world war, the war on terrorism.
It's great that younger generations know about this tragic day in the history of this beautiful country. The whole world mourned that day 😭🇺🇸💞 It was a beautiful reflection from every one being grateful to live here and have what we have. We all should feel blessed 🙏
this guy got lucky because of that cop on the bike who told him that the towers were gonna fall i don't see how that cop knew that though because nobody else thought that they was gonna fall
@@jefffuehr366 the police scanner was on a different channel than the firefighters and a structural engineer did say they thought the buildings would fall before it happened. Unfortunately in all the commotion nobody told that to the second channel so the firefighters could get put of there.
@Daniel Mulloy a sad thought I have every now and again when I think about 9/11 is that the reason some of the people jumped from rooms where there wasn't fire, (apparently someone jumped from the 20 something floor) is because they thought the towers would collapse and they would have died in the debris. I know it sounds dumb but it's just a thought I've had
T.D.L it may have been that they were near the affected elevator shafts. I suspect that many people in those offices closest to the elevator on every level, particularly the floors closest to the ground, experienced the effects of the aviation fuel & debris inferno. 😞
It’s amazing how it’s already been About 20 years since then. I was just an infant when it happened, but hearing all these stories really gives you some perspective on what happened that day and what people experienced and the trauma they have to deal with every day since then. After seeing clips of the planes crashing into the buildings, the people Jumping out of the top floor windows and falling to their deaths, seeing the Towers collapse and fall Really shows how brutal humans can be towards each other, I mean this was just one example of all the horrible things humans have done, it will just keep getting worse.
I was in 1st grade and we had just finished raising the flag, reciting the pledge and did our 10 jumping jacks haha. Proceeded to walk in the main part of the school into the reception desk. There was a tv in the corner of the lobby and we all watched what unfolded. Got picked up by my dad later on that day and tried his best to explain what had happened to my sister and I.
I will always remember where I was on 9/11 I couldn’t believe it was happening. I was in my grandparents house and we were all stuck to the tv. I was 16 RIP to all those lost in the twin towers and love to the families 🙏🇺🇸
A really good talk for the young people. I love that girl in the pony tail on the right side who has such nice manners as she coughs, always covering her mouth. Amazing you move to a very tall building in Chicago. I loved the Twin Towers. I thought they were so pretty! Minoru Yamasaki was amazing in my opinion. You tell them how big the complex was of the Twin Towers; I've read it had its own zip code. WOW! Thank you for the upload.
I was getting ready for school when this happened. We went to school but we were dismissed early at noon. The government buildings including Sandia National Laboratories were closed because that's where my dad worked and he came home early as well.
That one girl in the front row.. so disrespectful. Someone’s talking about 9/11 and you act like you’re too tired to sit respectfully for just an hr? Typical.
@@terryhaircastle5702 its inner city chicago lmao they dont care about their community let alone a city thousands miles away and an event they were too young to remember.
@@TheSlashSlingingSlasher what a gross assumption to make. They are kids and kids won't always sit up and nod along diligently. Doesn't mean they're not listening, or interested, and there's every chance this kind of information may indeed take a few days to filter through. Especially given life's complications at their stage of life. Please leave out your sweeping and judgemental assumptions. Not the place for it.
I was 5, in england, and i remember. I was in school. We had some kids tv show and a teacher changed it to the news. It was just before the second plane hit the tower. It quickly got turned off once it hit and they realised what was happening.
I don't get how people remember this stuff. Like WW2 vets telling their stories 70 years later. Like i went to a Yankees playoff game 1 year ago and a day later i couldn't even remember how loud it was and all of the great moments that happened during the game and im only 15
It’s called trauma. Your brain stores those memories in files. It’s never about how interesting an event might be in general in your mind but when your brain feels threatened to change how it thinks about a person a place or a thing it will remember the events that got it to give that person place or thing different definite meaning.
I’m an Australian and so was living in Australia. I remember my dad waking me up really early to tell me America is under attack and to come and watch the TV. I was 17. I still remember the fear and sadness in my dads voice when he woke me up, despite how early it was I got up to watch the TV, I was is disbelief and shocked at what I saw. The falling people were so upsetting.
Dion Hopkins he did hear it but he said he wasn’t looking when it hit, keep in mind there wasn’t really terrorism back then so no one would think a plane would hit a building on purpose.
I don’t get why it’s never been made mandatory for buildings like WTC where people are so high not to be given emergency parachutes to have at their desks. Those 200+ people who jumped and who knows how many more could have been spared if they’d had parachutes.
Because all three WTC buildings were dropped by controlled demolition, they especially knew WTC 7 (which housed offices of CIA FBI DEA and Securities & Trade Commission and their evidence against Goldman Sachs for banking violations) was coming down after lease holder Larry Silverstein told them to “pull it”. BBC announced that WTC 7 fell at 5PM it did not fall until 5:20PM look it up!
Thomas Daniels demolition a 100% i ain’t gonna call you a moron but you sir are in denial and so as most Americans who think it’s a terrorist attack, I’ve been to us 6 times before that and airport security is so strict I’ve had my buttcrack searched 4 times
@@rosiesingleton6480 true definitely, but I'm just wondering like how much of a relief and satisfaction that must have felt to know the man that tried to kill you and 3,000 other Americans got murdered justifiably.. I think he was the most hated man in the world who had the most amount of people wanting him dead at one time in the world history... I would even say more than Hitler TBH
The NYPD helicopters in the air could see the buildings swaying and called it down to the other officers on the frequency. That is from a detective who was sent to the scene to manage the crime scene
Building was engulfed in flames...any person knew that there was structural damage and now you have a fire burining the rest of the supports....all it took was 1 floor to collapse from the damage and then it just turns into a domino effect.
He didn't know. He may have had a gut feeling based on the amount of structural damage and the intense fire, or he may just have been saying that to get pedestrians away from the scene and out of the way of first responders. Had the building not fallen, no one would have remembered his statement. It's the way confirmation bias works.
I lived outside of boston along a flight path and I have memory burned into my head about that. After we knew all planes had been grounded (except those hijacked) and seeing hours of news- it was genuinely scary and chaotic, things were still unclear and events were happening so fast... we didn't know what would happen or if there were still planes going to hit somewhere. I suddenly heard the roar of an aircraft overhead. My parents and I ran out the front door, and after seeing a military jet and being relieved, I turned around and *every single* neighbor was doing the same thing. That really hit me- this feels like being at war. People ran from their nice little houses, onto a quiet suburban street, in fear for their lives. In the US. Like damn. As a kid it was like holy shit, the adults are as scared as I am? THIS IS REAL. So yeah sorry for the long comment, but there were military jets all over the place. I know because one of them scared the shit out of me lol
Pat Stokes a colossal building that just got hit, and then explosions going off from the crash It’s safe to assume it’s probably not going to stand or at least not to risk it lmao
There were other people who thought it would as well- even a news channel (I'm sorry, I don't remember which one but it is on youtube) mentioned that the tower was leaning slightly. An FBI agent under the towers told EMT's arriving that they should leave because, quoted directly, "we are all going to die here"- From a female police officers story. In a completely different account of a firefighter, that same FBI agent jumped on top of him and another man as the first building came down while they were crouched between some pillars under a mezzanine. All three survived- but from those seperate accounts, presumably the agent had a good idea of what was going to happen. (All stuff mentioned available on youtube).
You can also listen to FDNY dispatch from that day and hear the Port Authority saying that the elevators are going to collapse, plus maybe the cop or some one they knew probably knew that the skin of the WTC was it’s main support structure.
really amazing story except for the manifest destiny part at the end. Those sort of beliefs are what led to 9/11 in the first place. Everyone thinks their god puts their country on a pedestal
I enjoyed listening to his experience but, I can not believe that kid didn’t know what Patriotic meant as an American!!! What is our country turning into...
This is the first time I’ve ever came across this person and his story. Though I appreciate every single persons story from that day, and I don’t mean to be disrespectful towards him or his experience, something about this guy is rubbing me the wrong way. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I believe you may be right. It may not have anything to do with his story or what he is saying, but maybe more of who he actually is as a person. His vibes are off or something is off or not genuine.
xXIndependanceDayXx He said he worked on the 10th floor of the world financial center, which is a different building. That said, I suppose you can count many close-by eye witnesses as survivors given the proximity to the danger zone
There were plenty of people who weren’t in the towers themselves who died from falling rubble or air-quality related diseases as a result of the collapses. Are you really going to start gate-keeping the legitimacy of people’s survival stories?! Shut up and mind your privilege.
nuttypeanuts2012 he IS lucky to be alive. He was downtown Manhattan and witnessed everything. His story is just as important as anyone else’s to these kids who weren’t alive when it happened.
Me neither what are the chances a cop told him the towers were goona fall what where the chances he didn't know about the planes hitting what where the chances his girlfriend dumped him the night before? To many coincidences in a story.
It's ironic that he was on the 100th floor in the 93 attack, but was in the basement on 9/11. Lucky doesn't describe this guy.
I like listening to the normal everyday people tell their stories. In the 2000's most of the stories that were reported on were first responders stories and the focus was on the firefighters who lost their lives. But I think the stories of people just going to work paints a more realistic picture of what everyone's attitudes and thoughts where while it was happening.
All of the survivor stories I’ve heard are told on a clear sky day
They might remember it as a perfect weather day maybe because it was end of summer and a little bit less heat
I remember. It was a gorgeous day. The first taste of fall for that year after a really hot humid summer.
Not a cloud in the sky that morning/day
Is it just me or did everyone of these comments totally miss your point? Hahaha i took it as every survivor when telling their story they start off with "it was a clear day just like today"??? Which i have noticed too haha
Who was alive on 9/11/01?
He's right when he says you can remember exactly where you were when it happened. I was in downtown Pittsburgh and had just turned on the TV when the second plane hit and I remember yelling out loud and waking up my fiance. Soon after that the plane crashed outside of Pittsbugh in Shanksville. Everything in the city shut down fir days because no one knew if there were more attacks coming, or if they would happen in different cities too.
A good friend of ours was in New York studying at NYC and was just a short distance from the WTC reading a book and drinking a cup of coffee on a park bench when she heard the 1st plane. After that she saw EVERYTHING, but what really messed with her head was seeing people jumping from the towers. She was so rattled she ended up having to taken time off from doing her doctorate to get lots of therapy for PTSD. I'm sure she wasn't the only one. That day created so many victims, both living and dead. I won't forget it for as long as I live.
I was in Pittsburgh too. The day the world went to shit
My brother did rescue and recovery for 9/11...he's retired now.
I was sitting in class in kindergarden when my grandmother came and picked me up then took me to her house she then sat me down in front of the tv and said u need to watch this bc it's going to be very important
I was 2 years old so I don't remember shit
The radio was reporting it when I woke for work I took a tv to work we watched it all day I'm Canadian but one boss was American twas a very heavy day
I was sitting in my first grade classroom, teacher was reading us a book when she got the call it had happened. We actually all were watching it on tv eventually we did a moment of silence, teacher cried. Kids got picked up. I stayed at school because single dad was working. The whole day we jus kinda took it slow. I’m grateful our teacher turned on the news even though we were young it was a part of history I always want to remember because it’s important to remember and respect the lives lost
Your story is so similar to mine! I was in 3rd grade and also had a single dad.
ive always wondered how it affected you youngins, I was 23 at the time.
I was 9 years old i remember i saw it on every tv chanel back then i was a little kid but they told us about it on school the other days i thought it was just a movie cuz i i alittle kid
I was born September 9th 2003 so 2 years later... idk why but I’m very fascinated by people’s stories because I was just born 2 years later. It’s cool to see how the U.S. was before and after 9/11
Oddly, I still have the alarm clock radio that woke me up with the news. I was 22, still a little older than you are now, living about 6 hours drive from NYC. I was not anywhere near it but I did go to New York a few months later and remember seeing ground zero first hand -- still very much a mangled hole in the ground. There were memorials set up in front of every fire station and people were still walking around in a bit of a daze. There were missing person photos posted up all over the place, everyone just hoping that maybe a person they loved would be found wondering the streets with amnesia. If you were to look those up and see the frantic wring on some, it really starts to hit home because I'm sure by now you can imagine if one of them was your mother, father, brother, sister, best friend, etc. In my opinion, a lot of very bad decisions were made as a result of what happened on 9/11 but the pre-9/11 world wasn't an innocent time either. As we go though what I stack up to an even greater challenge now with the pandemic, I think it's easy to lose sight of the good and to realize that there was no golden age, just the time we have right now.
I was born and raised in Virginia and always will be here. Anyways I had quite a few family members and close family friends at the Pentagon. Thankfully none of them were killed. Two of them were injured pretty badly. I will never forget September 11, 2001. I was in 9th grade drama class. I remember our school was put on lock down and the TVs in every classroom were put on. I also remember how beautiful that day was and how quiet the classroom was, how quiet the whole school was actually and I looked out the window and looked up at sky and I just felt helpless, confused, worried, every terrible emotion imaginable. I thought of the 16 people I loved and cared about at the Pentagon and all I could do was wait and hope that everyone was okay! Being from Virginia 75% of us at my high school had family and friends at the Pentagon but yet it was silent. Mostly I think we were all in shock and it seemed unreal.
9/11/2001 changed America forever and I personally will never forget that day! Such a sad day!
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I got family in VA as well. I was in middle school in NC when 9/11 happened.
I was living in Virginia and just started my freshman year in Indian river high school I remember you could hear a pin drop throughout my school and we also if I remember right, we also went on lockdown I will never forget that day
Thank you for sharing this. I am working on my fall semester passion project lesson plans and this is great for my research! Thank you thank you thank you
The audience is so unappreciative. I would’ve been so amazed and alert!!! I was one year old at the time of 9/11 and I’m still in shock from the event at the age of 20.
They are being very polite and attentive.
Based Core I’m not getting what you’re saying? But i hope it’s not what I think.
Based Core not everyone shows emotion by sitting straight up some of them could definitely be listening but just trying to act tough because they’re teens. Chill out and take your negativity somewhere else:)
@Based Core well the one sleeping sure but i dont see anything disrespectful the rest of them are sitting looking at him and clearly listening.
@@ЦветозарЦветков-е5о she isnt sleeping. She is leaning over and at times you can see her touching her hair
There’s always one girl that needs a blanket and is going to fall asleep
She must of had a hard night.
She's listening carefully!!
Pretty damn rude of her.
EPMD_ a total lack of respect.
Same type of student who asks; "will this be on the test?"
everybodys stories are so different. i saw that story about that guy who was on the 40th story of the north tower
I saw the one when this guy was on the 80th floor .
Its insane. What they dont know is that they were all near each other.
i saw one who was on story 106 and was able to escape. Basically when the first plane hit he went lower
dianela alvarez and this person survived?? holy cow. This day was unimaginable. God bless all them, living or angels.
I heard the story of the dude who had to walk 100 flights if stairs
I was 1 when it happened, it really feels like I will never know a world pre 9/11. It’s good to learn from these people and their experiences
My dad went to the viewing deck at the top of one of the towers 3 days before the attacks. He went back to the UK the next day and 1 day later in the UK he heard about the buildings being hit by planes and watched the second plane hit the tower he was in.
I was going on 9 on 9/11. I was so petrified! Rest in Peace to the lives lost.
I was at a hospital appointment when 9/11 happened. I was in my living room looking at the news mid morning when I realised the enormity of what had happened
I was only four, almost 5 on 9/11/01. It is my first vivid memory. The whole family was in the living room glued to the TV, which wasn’t unusual but this time they were crying and screaming in horror. I had never heard my dad scream so loud. He said “Oh my God, please help these people!!” I know everyone in the world probably hasn’t felt as helpless as they did that day ever again. Watching these big tall buildings fall, everyone just in complete horror. Everything is fuzzy after that. I could’ve never comprehended the seriousness at that time of course. I just knew something really bad was going on. America has done an incredible job of never forgetting. May all those people in the towers, flights, EMTS, firefighters etc who lost their lives that day rest peacefully.
I often think of how things were by comparison when I was 4 years old! When I was 4, almost 5, it was 1969 and my first TV memory was watching men set foot on the moon! Everyone around me was so exhilarated and uplifted, and there was so much hope and expectation for the future. What a different experience! Every year I reflect on this and ask my friends to be sure to help a young person to have a positive experience around this age that gives them hope and joy. It made a difference in my life and outlook, and I can only imagine that being so young at 9/11 definitely made a lasting impression on you as I can see from what you say.
Travel Bridges wow what a beautiful story!! I bet that was amazing to see, even being so young. I hope we get back to being hopeful, I don’t want to bring a child into this world the way it is. Thank you for your story ❤️
I was about that age when JFK was shot. I watched and remember his funeral. We had black and white TV then, and 3 channels.
I remember something very similar. I had almost turned six years old and I just remember seeing these tall buildings on fire with this black smoke and my mom pacing back and forth silently. She kept yelling at me to leave the room because she thought that I might get scared watching it. I hid along the side of our couch to watch the TV anyways. They were then filming people jumping and filming them as they were falling and that's when my mom barred the room. I do remember her gasping really loudly when the towers fell. I didn't realize the enormity of those moments. I thought they were like a movie or something. I was just too young to understand.
It is crazy these kids weren't even born yet. I was 11 when it happened and it is probably top 3 most memorable moments in my life even just watching it on television, it was like the whole world changed in an instant. It was like I was watching the start of new world war and I remember being scared that this would mean world war, it kinda did start a new type of world war, the war on terrorism.
It's great that younger generations know about this tragic day in the history of this beautiful country. The whole world mourned that day 😭🇺🇸💞
It was a beautiful reflection from every one being grateful to live here and have what we have. We all should feel blessed 🙏
this guy got lucky
because of that cop on the bike who told him that the towers were gonna fall
i don't see how that cop knew that though
because nobody else thought that they was gonna fall
@@jefffuehr366 the police scanner was on a different channel than the firefighters and a structural engineer did say they thought the buildings would fall before it happened. Unfortunately in all the commotion nobody told that to the second channel so the firefighters could get put of there.
@Daniel Mulloy a sad thought I have every now and again when I think about 9/11 is that the reason some of the people jumped from rooms where there wasn't fire, (apparently someone jumped from the 20 something floor) is because they thought the towers would collapse and they would have died in the debris.
I know it sounds dumb but it's just a thought I've had
T.D.L it may have been that they were near the affected elevator shafts. I suspect that many people in those offices closest to the elevator on every level, particularly the floors closest to the ground, experienced the effects of the aviation fuel & debris inferno. 😞
It’s amazing how it’s already been About 20 years since then. I was just an infant when it happened, but hearing all these stories really gives you some perspective on what happened that day and what people experienced and the trauma they have to deal with every day since then. After seeing clips of the planes crashing into the buildings, the people Jumping out of the top floor windows and falling to their deaths, seeing the Towers collapse and fall Really shows how brutal humans can be towards each other, I mean this was just one example of all the horrible things humans have done, it will just keep getting worse.
even worse when it's your own gov doing it to you
@@AMC2283 that’s false!
I was in 1st grade and we had just finished raising the flag, reciting the pledge and did our 10 jumping jacks haha. Proceeded to walk in the main part of the school into the reception desk. There was a tv in the corner of the lobby and we all watched what unfolded. Got picked up by my dad later on that day and tried his best to explain what had happened to my sister and I.
I will always remember where I was on 9/11 I couldn’t believe it was happening. I was in my grandparents house and we were all stuck to the tv. I was 16
RIP to all those lost in the twin towers and love to the families 🙏🇺🇸
I was 14. 9th grade and seeing the live overage in world geography
Love this video, super super informative
A really good talk for the young people. I love that girl in the pony tail on the right side who has such nice manners as she coughs, always covering her mouth. Amazing you move to a very tall building in Chicago. I loved the Twin Towers. I thought they were so pretty! Minoru Yamasaki was amazing in my opinion. You tell them how big the complex was of the Twin Towers; I've read it had its own zip code. WOW! Thank you for the upload.
The young lady slumped over in the chair needs to wake up that's so disrespectful
jameka robinson; Who says she’s asleep
@@i.pezzotti853 the way she's sitting makes me think she's bored of the story she's got her covers slouched over in her chair so rude
Maybe she has scoliosis or is just chilled out and relaxed. Does it really matter?
@@Sarah-ft8jr lol Wishful thinking
Seriously!
Thank you for this vid
I was getting ready for school when this happened. We went to school but we were dismissed early at noon. The government buildings including Sandia National Laboratories were closed because that's where my dad worked and he came home early as well.
I was 7 but I also remember that day
I was 4 and oddly enough i remember the mailman sitting on the curb at are mailbox outside are house crying his heart out btw I'm from Colorado
Great teacher great exemples 👏👏👏
That one girl in the front row.. so disrespectful. Someone’s talking about 9/11 and you act like you’re too tired to sit respectfully for just an hr? Typical.
J Gonz it makes me absolutely sick. Such a disgraceful lack of respect.
@Based Core meaning?
@@terryhaircastle5702 its inner city chicago lmao they dont care about their community let alone a city thousands miles away and an event they were too young to remember.
M W I'm from north Chicago lol I care and am interested. Very true tho
@@TheSlashSlingingSlasher what a gross assumption to make. They are kids and kids won't always sit up and nod along diligently. Doesn't mean they're not listening, or interested, and there's every chance this kind of information may indeed take a few days to filter through. Especially given life's complications at their stage of life. Please leave out your sweeping and judgemental assumptions. Not the place for it.
God had more plans for this man's life.
Finance guy who didn’t keep in touch with anyone who helped him out on 9/11? I’m shocked.
You are disgusting
Laces out!!!
It blows my mind that he somehow managed to survive I mean what happened was unthinkable no way could it have been possible some actually survived
I was 5, in england, and i remember. I was in school. We had some kids tv show and a teacher changed it to the news. It was just before the second plane hit the tower. It quickly got turned off once it hit and they realised what was happening.
Curtis Dolan Wouldn’t school have ended an hour before the towers were even hit as you were five? You end at 1pm. 2nd plane hit at around 2pm
Lee’s Aviation my 5 year old finishes school at 3.15pm uk time.
I don't get how people remember this stuff. Like WW2 vets telling their stories 70 years later. Like i went to a Yankees playoff game 1 year ago and a day later i couldn't even remember how loud it was and all of the great moments that happened during the game and im only 15
@@MikeTyson913 true
It’s called trauma. Your brain stores those memories in files. It’s never about how interesting an event might be in general in your mind but when your brain feels threatened to change how it thinks about a person a place or a thing it will remember the events that got it to give that person place or thing different definite meaning.
I’m an Australian and so was living in Australia. I remember my dad waking me up really early to tell me America is under attack and to come and watch the TV. I was 17. I still remember the fear and sadness in my dads voice when he woke me up, despite how early it was I got up to watch the TV, I was is disbelief and shocked at what I saw. The falling people were so upsetting.
@@tanyaleyson2467 i have family in Australia too, what part are you from? My family is from Melbourne area
Con Pop im also in Melbourne now. I grew up in South Australia though. :)
It's strange that he didn't know about the planes until 6 hours later.
How did he not hear the second plane before it hit?
Dion Hopkins he did hear it but he said he wasn’t looking when it hit, keep in mind there wasn’t really terrorism back then so no one would think a plane would hit a building on purpose.
I was 11 and had watched too much history channel documentary’s already and yeah I basically knew how horrible it was.
I don’t get why it’s never been made mandatory for buildings like WTC where people are so high not to be given emergency parachutes to have at their desks. Those 200+ people who jumped and who knows how many more could have been spared if they’d had parachutes.
Its just not possible. They need lots of maintenance and training. Plus they cost somewhere around 3k dollars.
not a bad idea. maybe not at every desk but its definately a good idea.
must be a good reason not to though. surely someones tried that.
my appendix bursted on 11th of september. was a painful day for me ( that didnt happen in 2001 )
I was at the dentist when it happened 😬😢.
Minnesota
I was getting ready for school. I was barely starting 6th grade when this happened. And we left at 12 because of what happened.
10th grade, lived in Pennsylvania. 1 hour from the Flight 93 site.
I woNder how did the cop know it was going to fall considering no one at that time thought the trade center would ever fall.
Because all three WTC buildings were dropped by controlled demolition, they especially knew WTC 7 (which housed offices of CIA FBI DEA and Securities & Trade Commission and their evidence against Goldman Sachs for banking violations) was coming down after lease holder Larry Silverstein told them to “pull it”. BBC announced that WTC 7 fell at 5PM it did not fall until 5:20PM look it up!
@@paulrevere2928 you're an idiot. I'm a survivor I was there that day and it wasn't controlled demolition you moron
There was still glasses and stuff falling from the tower, evacuation!
Thomas Daniels demolition a 100% i ain’t gonna call you a moron but you sir are in denial and so as most Americans who think it’s a terrorist attack, I’ve been to us 6 times before that and airport security is so strict I’ve had my buttcrack searched 4 times
@@ahmadwhocos you've got maggots for brains, bro
Totally off topic but I would ask them how he felt when Osama bin laden got killed
Oh happy day ! 👍🏻👊🏻👏🏻💃
@@rosiesingleton6480 true definitely, but I'm just wondering like how much of a relief and satisfaction that must have felt to know the man that tried to kill you and 3,000 other Americans got murdered justifiably.. I think he was the most hated man in the world who had the most amount of people wanting him dead at one time in the world history... I would even say more than Hitler TBH
Not me yelling at the girl to put a mask on because she was coughing
This was posted a year ago 🙄
Nice virtue signaling
How the hell did the cop know the building was gonna fall??? 🤔🤔
Experience. Idiot
The NYPD helicopters in the air could see the buildings swaying and called it down to the other officers on the frequency.
That is from a detective who was sent to the scene to manage the crime scene
Julie Why so rude?
Building was engulfed in flames...any person knew that there was structural damage and now you have a fire burining the rest of the supports....all it took was 1 floor to collapse from the damage and then it just turns into a domino effect.
He didn't know. He may have had a gut feeling based on the amount of structural damage and the intense fire, or he may just have been saying that to get pedestrians away from the scene and out of the way of first responders. Had the building not fallen, no one would have remembered his statement. It's the way confirmation bias works.
Dam I Wana ask him some questions
BriSlay Henry Same ! 💕👍🏻💕
Jets? That’s crazy! Not even one news said there was jets patrolling Manhattan
I lived in NJ, there were F15's in the air that afternoon and evening.
why would the media divulge that information that day?
I lived outside of boston along a flight path and I have memory burned into my head about that.
After we knew all planes had been grounded (except those hijacked) and seeing hours of news- it was genuinely scary and chaotic, things were still unclear and events were happening so fast... we didn't know what would happen or if there were still planes going to hit somewhere.
I suddenly heard the roar of an aircraft overhead. My parents and I ran out the front door, and after seeing a military jet and being relieved, I turned around and *every single* neighbor was doing the same thing. That really hit me- this feels like being at war. People ran from their nice little houses, onto a quiet suburban street, in fear for their lives.
In the US. Like damn.
As a kid it was like holy shit, the adults are as scared as I am? THIS IS REAL.
So yeah sorry for the long comment, but there were military jets all over the place. I know because one of them scared the shit out of me lol
There were 100% jets flying overhead. I lived in Queens and watched/heard them the entire day
There are plenty of news footage of the fighter jets.
I don't know how to say this but this guy sounds really...
Boring, unfortunately.
How would that cop on the bike, know the building was going to fall? There is no why of knowing that.
Pat Stokes a colossal building that just got hit, and then explosions going off from the crash
It’s safe to assume it’s probably not going to stand or at least not to risk it lmao
There were other people who thought it would as well- even a news channel (I'm sorry, I don't remember which one but it is on youtube) mentioned that the tower was leaning slightly. An FBI agent under the towers told EMT's arriving that they should leave because, quoted directly, "we are all going to die here"- From a female police officers story. In a completely different account of a firefighter, that same FBI agent jumped on top of him and another man as the first building came down while they were crouched between some pillars under a mezzanine. All three survived- but from those seperate accounts, presumably the agent had a good idea of what was going to happen.
(All stuff mentioned available on youtube).
people said they saw it leaning and presumed it would tip
You can also listen to FDNY dispatch from that day and hear the Port Authority saying that the elevators are going to collapse, plus maybe the cop or some one they knew probably knew that the skin of the WTC was it’s main support structure.
really amazing story except for the manifest destiny part at the end. Those sort of beliefs are what led to 9/11 in the first place. Everyone thinks their god puts their country on a pedestal
It's easy to criticize what others believe and figure their beliefs are what cause all the world problems.
Yeah. The world financial center consists of the pyramidal and dome buildings plus two more buildings.
we thought it was a missile. great wording. i still think that to this day.
Bear in mind where the hijackers were from
and they were not from Iraq...
I like Brian Clark's story better. Very well explained chronologically and very smooth.
This guy isn't a good story teller.
give him some credit man, this is for a younger audience compared to the high schoolers he told it to.
Don’t get me wrong Brian Clark’s story was amazing I loved it but this guy is still super chill and I don’t mind it.
I enjoyed listening to his experience but, I can not believe that kid didn’t know what Patriotic meant as an American!!! What is our country turning into...
well our government doing this didn't help
@amc The government did what?
@amc oh ok, I saw ur reply in notifications but, it’s been deleted On the thread.
Jessica Smith I guess someone doesn’t want to hear it
@amc you’re untitled to your opinions like everyone else, I am sick of the censorship going on throughout social media!
thinking this guy is kinda of embellishing
Well he is.
This is the first time I’ve ever came across this person and his story. Though I appreciate every single persons story from that day, and I don’t mean to be disrespectful towards him or his experience, something about this guy is rubbing me the wrong way. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I believe you may be right. It may not have anything to do with his story or what he is saying, but maybe more of who he actually is as a person. His vibes are off or something is off or not genuine.
i dont see how he is a Survivor of 9/11 its not like he was in the towers at the time.
He was...? He literally said he was on the 10th floor... 3:50
xXIndependanceDayXx He said he worked on the 10th floor of the world financial center, which is a different building. That said, I suppose you can count many close-by eye witnesses as survivors given the proximity to the danger zone
There were plenty of people who weren’t in the towers themselves who died from falling rubble or air-quality related diseases as a result of the collapses. Are you really going to start gate-keeping the legitimacy of people’s survival stories?!
Shut up and mind your privilege.
destination_orcas the way he speaks is he’s lucky to be alive when he was clear and safe
nuttypeanuts2012 he IS lucky to be alive. He was downtown Manhattan and witnessed everything. His story is just as important as anyone else’s to these kids who weren’t alive when it happened.
I don't buy this story. Sorry...
Me neither what are the chances a cop told him the towers were goona fall what where the chances he didn't know about the planes hitting what where the chances his girlfriend dumped him the night before? To many coincidences in a story.
there are a lot of africans in that class :-)
It’s not a class, and who cares?
no shit Sherlock
No, they're probably American.