Everyone was confused cause there was no social media back then so they would not have any real time info of what's happening. I like it better that way cause there's no panic.
@@ytzpilot Yeah but with so much misinformation and fake news happening, this would be better. They all would get their sources of news from one reputable source instead of hundreds.
From a witness account I saw in another video apparently there was some panic as people feared the parks would be hit next and back then the only way to know was if someone called you. Living in California I guess we were lucky as Disneyland probably never opened that day since when we found out it was about 6am western time zone. I was just getting up for school. The only people at the parks at that hour would have been the staff. One of the rare times the parks stayed closed. None the less, I'm glad that back then they closed early for safety reasons. I feel bad for all the families who spent money to go, but it could have been much worse. I do think if it happened today it would be a chaotic scene.
My wife and I were there that morning, we were on the train that goes around the park. We knew nothing about what happened, just that the park was closing, it’s sad to think how innocent we were back then that we never even worried about why they were closing. We actually were going to get on the monorail to go to Epcot, but of course that was also closed. When we got to our hotel, Wilderness Lodge , we were greeted by a cast member welcoming us home. We were told by a couple we were riding with in the elevator, but they thought that a bomb had gone off in New York. We were definitely not prepared for the images we saw on TV. RIP, to all who lost their lives that day, and prayers to the survivors and family members.
The fallout from that day was and still is flabbergasting. Lots of survivors including First Responders came up with Cancer due to the toxic chemicals from the plastic and fuel.
I always wonder about 9/11 perspectives and vantage points. How some people were either vacationing, performing brain surgery, or sleeping. Only to be hit with horror hours later and just trying to process it all. Just thinking, is this a dream? This is some kind of sick joke. I just remember being in 9th grade watching the event live on TV thinking, “Wait a second, we’re the United States. Nobody messes with us.” Talk about a shattered world view. Thanks for sharing.
Obviously a very hard time to be alive during all of that. I just wanted to say that, as a guy in my 20’s, I do envy you for having lived your adult life during a time with no tech and social media. Back during a time where people actually interacted with each other and were just more…. Human. Obviously life wasn’t perfect, but I remember it being very very different (in a good way). Obviously 9/11 was a horrible tragedy, and I’m obviously not including that during the “good old days” rant lol. Hope that goes without saying.
I was in 8th grade social studies at that moment. The principal came over the intercom and said "all teaches turn on your TV I repeat all teachers turn on your tv." Life changed from there.
I was teaching in an elementary school. A couple kids came to school saying something happened in New York. Our kids went to specials first thing so my teaching team watched the news after they left and saw the towers fall. Our principal told us not to say anything. He made an announcement later in the day about the terrorist attack. I don’t remember what he said, but I remember trying to explain how large the twin towers were to my 5th graders.
2:19 “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, due to unforeseen circumstances, the Magic Kingdom is now closed. Please follow the directions of a Magic Kingdom host or hostess. Plan A”
They need a better alerting system. Like, they need to install Federal Signal Modulators around the theme park areas, ESPN, and Disney Springs; and 2001s around the general resort areas, including the hotels.
@@user-bf1rj2cz3v The parks actually reopened in July of 2020 with COVID-19 measures and reduced availability of experiences and entertainment (for instance there were no fireworks until a year later)
Plan A is full MK evac out the main gate. Plan B is partial evac of an area of the park. Plan C is rapid evac of the full park, everyone is dropped into the tunnel system, and it's used if a tornado is approaching. I'm not aware of any other MK evac plans.
9/11/2001--------------The day our future was robbed from us. The day the timeline was skewed into this dark reality/timeline we all know now and hate. If you lived in the time before this day, you know how optimistic, hopeful, and achievable things were.
@gregsouls2666 social media existed fine for decades before the television News media decided that a collection of random people's opinions could count as a news story for them to push hate with.
I was working at the Magic Kingdom that morning. We all knew what happened but didn’t say a word about it to anybody. We just closed all the queues and got the park cleared rather quickly after we closed around 11:30 am. Park was cleared an hour later.
As you should have done in that manner. Tons of respect for yourself and all those working that day, for keeping things orderly and calm, especially during such a tragic period in our nation.
Thanks for sharing. I was there with my 4-year old daughter. Lots of photos, but no video. We were having breakfast in Cinderella's castle when my mother called to tell me about the first airplane hitting the towers. I normally would not have had my phone with me in those days, but my father's health was not good and I wanted to be assessable. She called shortly afterwards to tell me about the second plane, and it was clear something was up. I wasn't surprised when the park closed. The video here captures effectively how all of the "sound" in the park was turned off.... no music, etc. Having worked at the parks myself in the late 80s, I recognized the instructions given to the cast members. I thought Disney handled the exit very well. We were staying in a Disney hotel and stuck around for almost another week. Hurricane Gabriel, which hit Florida just a couple of days later, really finished clearing people out, and it felt as if we had the parks to ourselves. The 11th at the Magic Kingdom, however, was truly an unusual and unforgettable day.
I was 12 and I noticed parents all of sudden picking up kids and knew something was happening. Later learned at home and my brain couldn’t really comprehend or understand the full weight. I can only imagine what it must have been like for adults going into the happiest place on earth and leaving to a new dark crueler world.
I was at work. My boss at the time was a Vietnam veteran. He was actually in special ops in Vietnam for two years and was medically evacuated. When that came up he started to had flash backs. He would say things “I’ve been there and smelled it, I cannot believe this is happening again and now this close, we need to get cover…”
I worked in a hospital in the UK and someone told me that the World Trade Centre had been hit. We put the television's on and the BBC were broadcasting all day. We never did any work except look at all the news reports. 😢
I was working in UGC. I saw the reports on a TV in the staff room when I got to work. I had work regardless, but I didn't want to. I was very quiet for the rest of the day.
@@TerryTheNewsGirl The event was considered to be isolated to NYC until 9:37 with the Pentagon, and the news probably didn’t reach Disney’s decision makers until a bit after that due to the infancy of the internet, and then they had to decide whether to evacuate, which evac plan to use, and then communicate those instructions to thousands of employees (via beepers), who then had to actually implement the evacuation of tens of thousands of people
It's crazy to think about I was born October 23, 2000, because I was only a baby. Just like the baby in this video. I was so small, innocent and unaware with what was happening in our world. Both my parent's are military vets. And my father had to run multiple missions in the navy, before, during and especially after 9/11. There six of us kids in the family. My twin sister and I are the youngest. My older siblings still remember everything that happened that day, just like everyone else. My family remember what they wore, where they were and how they felt. This tragedy hits me so hard and deeply. I've been watching all videos based on 9/11. From real time footage, to survivor stories, News alerts, the family and friends who lost loved ones that day. As well as watched the Howard Stern Radio Show when 9/11 happened on the air. It such a horrific event, that not only changed America, but countries all around us. May those who perished in 9/11 rest in peace. What a sad and unforgiving day in American History.
I was born on October 14th 2000 so I don't remember it at all as well until school taught me about it. I'm sure all of my family was upset that day. It's truly a tragic event
Thank you for sharing this! My husband and I were also in MK with our (then) 4 children who were aged 18 mos. thru 13 at the time. It was my 40th birthday! I had been sitting and waiting with the little ones while my husband took the older kids on Big Thunder Mtn. Railroad. Then when they got off the ride I went to get in line for my turn, but the Cast Member at the ride entrance told us that they were closing "due to unforseen circumstances beyond our control" and that we had to leave the park. I asked her what was going on and she just said her obviously scripted line, "go back to your hotel and turn on the national news". We had NO idea what was going on! We were making our way with the crowd out to the parking lot to get our car and I heard a guy talking on his cell phone (not everyone had them then) and I heard him tell his wife that planes had crashed into the twin towers and they had both collapsed. We went back to our hotel (Villas at the Disney Institute - gone now, Saratoga Springs is there now) and then that evening we had a dinner reservation at a restaurant in the Dolphin hotel. Thankfully even though the parks were closed, the restaurants in the hotels were still open, but I'll never forget how eerily quiet and empty the hotel and restaurant were.
Thanks for sharing. It's good to hear other people's experience of the Magic Kingdom that day. It was a perfect weather day for the park unfortunately the hurricane coming in (as well as the national tragedy) made the whole week a very disappointing vacation.
@@serifgroup Oh yes! I remember the hurricane as well - Gabriella was her name I believe! We went back to MK that morning despite all the rain and wind. My umbrella turned inside-out from the wind when we got out of the car and we wrapped the stroller with rain ponchos, lol. That morning, we were in the Tomorrowland area and they called for a minute of silence over the intercom. We stood there in the rain and everyone was totally silent. I remember thinking I could've thrown a rock in Tomorrowland and not hit anyone, it was so empty. Very somber, and absolutely the lowest crowd Disney vacation I've ever had by far.
Thanks for sharing your story. I was living overseas at the time and have never wondered or heard about what happened at WDW that day. I am wondering if Disney provided refunds?
...Meanwhile in New York City, Washington DC, and Philadelphia 😢 I remember being in high school and just hearing the bell ring for all us students just to get up and watch the events unfold in the next classroom that had a TV while we and all the faculty watched in horror
I was in high school, but on the west coast, so the towers had already been hit when we got to school. The whole day was spent going from class to class and just watching the news in silence.
@@nurse0857 yes absolutely the same thing I experienced in my high school! I'm in the central side of the states and remember getting out of my 1st period class (which was gym and had no TV in the room) so around 8:30ish (which was 9:30ish NY time) I had a friend come up to me immediately in passing period asking me "did you see what happened to the World Trade Center?..." Second period started and we started watching a video in a US history class instead of watching what was actually happening to US in the moment--- That's when a teacher opened our door and said "the Pentagon has been hit" and we all went in panic mode as the teacher finally went back to the live footage
I was on my honeymoon in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Got married September 8. So pretty close to New York As soon as we saw the news, the place just emptied out. I live about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Not that far from Shanksville, PA, where the plane went down in the field. My husband and I spent most of that day in front of the tv,until we forced ourselves to leave the room and go do a few things. Awful day.
I heard that two little girls who were onboard United 175 with their parents on that tragic day were going to Los Angeles & were going to go to Disneyland, but these poor kids never had the chance, the plane they were on hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. I feel sorry for these kids & their parents, & I also feel sorry for Mickey & all his friends at Disneyland who will never have the chance to meet these kids.
@@tonkgottagame Some of the victims' families provided some background on who they were and where they were going. Some of the children on the planes were on their way to Disneyland (as one of the planes was supposed to be heading for LA), including Christine Lee Hanson and Juliana McCourt, likely the two little girls he's referencing.
@@RaychAgent4EVaThe story of Juliana McCourt's family is tragically amazing. Her mother, Ruth, and Ruth's best friend, Paige, were going to a seminar in LA together, and the trip would end in a visit to Disney for Juliana's enjoyment. Ruth & her daughter boarded United 175, while Paige boarded American 11, both bound for LA. Meanwhile, Ruth's brother (her other best friend), Ron Clifford, got up and dressed for a big-deal meeting that day. He put on a suit with a yellow tie and matching pocket handkerchief, meant to stand out, according to Ruth's recommendations. He planned to come home early to celebrate his daughter's birthday. He soon got a call asking to switch the meeting's location from the Mariott to the World Trade Center. He said yes. He walked into the building, marveling at the architecture with a professional eye, and shortly after, an explosion shook the building. Unbeknownst to him, a plane carrying his sister's best friend (with whom he spent every New Year's) had just crashed above him. He also did not know that his sister and niece were on another plane -- he believed them to be in LA already. As others evacuated, he stayed in the lobby to tend to a badly burned woman. Overhead, the rumble of a jet engine shook the building again. United 175, carrying Ruth & Juliana, crashed into the other tower. Ron got the woman to her feet and they fled. He got her to paramedics, and went to call his wife and sister to let them know he was okay. Ruth did not answer. Ron returned home and soon got a call from his brother-in-law, who had driven all 3 to the airport that morning, asking if Ron had heard from them. This was his first realization that they may have been on the planes. When the passenger lists were released, it was confirmed. Ron went to visit Jennianne, the burned woman he had tried to save, who was unlikely to make it. He left his now-stained yellow tie as a token of their ordeal. He learned while listening to the radio that she passed a few months later. Needless to say, he suffered a massive ordeal and struggled to cope with everything. However, with time and therapy his condition did improve, and he founded a non-profit called the Juliana Fund, which promotes tolerance and understanding in children. --- Source: Book excerpt from IrishCentral website, article titled "Irish Brother & Sister Torn Apart in Tragedy of (..)" Also interviews with Ron Clifford in National Geographic documentaries. --- _(Redacted the article title as YT keeps auto-hiding innocent comments about some subjects.)_
I’m surprised they were still allowing people to ride at 9:33am. Both towers had been hit by then, and the pentagon had been hit. What a day to choose to go! Who knew what was to happen.
I was at work when we heard about the plane hitting the first tower. We all thought it was a terrible accident. Then we heard about the second tower and there was some confusion. We didn’t have TVs at work, so we really didn’t know what they meant. A second plane? Then the Pentagon was hit. I turned to my friend and said, “Wow. It’s like we’re being attacked.” That’s how innocent we all were. We thought we were safe in this country. Like all the world’s chaos couldn’t touch us at home. The towers collapsing were like watching our innocence as a country come crashing down.
10:32 am was 4 minutes after the WTC North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am, 33 minutes after the WTC South Tower collapsed at 9:59am, and 29 minutes after UA93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 am, and 55 minutes after AA77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 am.
It was warm that day. Outside, by a cousin's house. His wife call us in to check out the news report on what had just happened. We then saw the second plane hit. Driving home, we saw loads of firetrucks coming from Long Island, heading to Manhattan. Had to go to post office, while outside talking to the manager, we saw the first building come down. The manager broke into tears. Once home, my cousin called and told me that it had been another cousin's second day at work. This at the Trade Center. I'd forgotten his mother telling me, the Thursday before, how excited the kid ("kid" - a year younger than me) was to start working there that upcoming week. It turned out that he was in the second Tower hit, the first to collapse. But, other than being totally shell-shocked he was physically OK. Very quiet that day too, in this NYC suburb. Very odd seeing fighter jets overhead - we're not far from JFK airport. The phone never stopped ringing. My cousin's new job didn't have his phone #, and the only name in the phone book, same as his, was mine. My then girlfriend's father was a retired on disability FDNY member, living in Florida. He came up and stood with us for three weeks. He spent almost all that time going to funerals/memorial services for his fellow firemen. Sad days.
This is difficult to imagine, you and your family are at the happiest place in the world having the time of your life and you probably don't hear about the attack until end of day. Sets a dark tone to what was suppose to be a great vacation
Just because it was before people had relationships with hand held devices doesn't mean there was no media. The resorts had live t.v., Radio & phones!!
We saw the second plane on tv from our hotel room at the Grand Floridian, so we were aware. You could hear our hotel neighbors on both sides yelling oh my god! Through the walls of the room. I can remember it like it was yesterday.
Crazy to think how we were all so scared of the attacks, and most people didn't even live in the USA. I was born a few years after 9/11, but from what I've heard of my parents, they were both watching the news when they heard the story and watched it on TV. It sent all of southern Ontario (Canada) into panic, Toronto was essentially shutdown in worries they may fly a plane there, the parliament building was evacuated, all jobs let people go early, it was literally chaos and we were across the border. It's scary how the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks literally shut down the entire world.
My kids were at Disneyland with their grandparents... took forever to get home with the airlines all grounded, and no more car rentals. My uncle was headed to NYC for a business meeting, flight was rerouted to Canada. Saddest day for America in my lifetime.
So weird to think that while it was the best day for these people who were having fun, it was a terrible one for people several states above them and the last for hundreds of other.
I remember walking over to our church from work and the priest having a mass for the dead. They were thinking there could be as many as 30,000 dead, because as many as 80,000 people were in the towers on any given day. I was 36 years old, and dug my teddy bear out of my cedar chest and curled up with Merry Bear like a child and cried for all of the people who were never going to get to go home. It would have been so weird to be at Disney on that terrible day.
I remember I went to Disney World just over 1 ½ months before 9/11. I was 6 years old and I remember my dad's former coworker and his family went to Disney World on the week of 9/11 and they were scheduled to leave the day of 9/12. I also remember feeling extremely jealous that my dad's coworkers' family got to spend more time at Disney World. They did NOT, I learned much later they were stuck at Orlando International Airport for two days; then they could finally come home. The kids in there were traumatized but didn't know why until much later. I'm 29 now and 9/11 is a day you will never forget and I remember it as it were yesterday. Even as a Canadian, (I don't live near Gander but it still upsets me a great deal that George D. Bush's speech writers never thanked us because they "forgot".) I'm still very thankful for Obama thanking Gander and I hope to see Come From Away eventually 🍁
I was working in a call center (help desk for internet and computers). I came in after the first plane hit. "Wow!" I said, then went to work taking a few calls. Suddenly the calls stopped except for a few calls. It was dead slow at work, so we tried to get on the news websites to see what was happening. The websites were so slammed that they did Denial of Service which shut down the servers of the news websites. They were not ready for such a large volume of viewers. The only updates the call center got were from customers calling in for help. All we could do was play video games. The next day jets were flying so close to the ground that I could see the pilots.
I started working there 9 years later - can’t imagine how scary it must have been to execute a park evac like that, knowing you’re potentially a target but holding it together for the guests
I was a character greeter (College Program cast member) at the Grand Floridian that night when the characters were sent to the resorts to entertain the guests. That'd be wild if I was in any of your families' pictures with the characters.
@@jesnickstafford6104 I will look through and see if we have any character photos. I can remember tearing up when the characters came, because it was the first comforting thing we had seen all day. I don’t know if you remember, but a hurricane was also moving in to the area, and we had horrible rain and wind. We were stuck at Disney for 7 extra days, because we couldn’t get a rental car.
I was born and raised in Cuba. On that day, I was released early from school, I was in 3rd grade. I went home and the communist media was playing the images on tv. My grandma who lived in New Jersey called us and told us more. That day changed every corner of the world.
Back before every person was connected via cell phone ... in the days when you didn't know information until you got to a place with a TV or radio ... back before the whole world changed
The TV news did a bang-up job at it. At the coffee shop, everyone kept asking if we had a TV because they said an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Later we heard the Pentagon was on fire and also a car bomb had exploded, and that all air planes were grounded but still there was a plane in the air that nobody knew it's whereabouts.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 I was at work, no TV or radio, I finally got a short phone call from a family member (not allowed personal calls), but I got few details. I had to wait until I got home from work to get a full picture of it.
I was in Alphabet city when I heard the first plane outside my window September 11, 2001 8:46am. Had to get ready for work at Macy's Herald Square. Now I'm 50 miles west of Disneyworld on i4 exit 32.
2:12 That’s when the announcement came on saying due to unforeseen circumstances which means there’s been a terror attack at New York Washington and Pennsylvania So therefore you must leave immediately as a precaution
TH-cam is definitely good for archiving footage like this. It’s like that one video of the people who just happened to be filming their get together when the news broke that Princess Diana died.
I'm a Brit and that was the day this world not only changed forever but got Darker, a terrible stain on the history of Humanity. The first step on the road that has led us to planet earth 2024....
Only being 15 years old I don’t know what life was like before that horrific day, all I know is fear spreading across the country and war starting. It’s horrible how life changed on that day, all I know is no one can bring up 9/11 in front of my aunt without seeing her cry, she always cries when something reminds her of that day. Rest in loving peace to all who lost their lives on that horrible day ❤️💐🫡
It’s just so eerie how the world was forever changing and people were totally unaware, excitedly waiting in line for Splash Mountain or Space Mountain. A time before the Internet became available at our fingertips 24/7. Yes people had cellular phones but not everybody but that’s definitely how word spread throughout the park that morning. I definitely would’ve been very upset/confused if we had to suddenly leave and we didn’t know what the fuck was happening. We were just there a few weeks ago.
I was just scrolling along thinking how little people understand now if they didn't live through it that news just did not go lightning fast around the world... If you wanted someone to see something on the television, on the news, right now, you needed to call them and make sure that they were seeing it because they probably weren't unless they were sitting in front of the TV already. I remember the phone calls back and forth as we sat in front of the television that morning... it gives me the strangest feeling. nostalgia for the Before times, even when this instance of it is terrible.
I must be one of the few who didn’t find out till the afternoon. I was so busy didn’t look at the news all day . A passing person told me a plane has crashed and bout 50 people had died .. I went home turned on the tv and was in total shock .
Me too. I worked in a loud factory and an announcement was made over the intercom, but of course, I couldn't hear much. Got in my car to pick up some lunch and heard on the radio that a plane had "crashed" in NY, but was still not comprehending the magnitude. It wasn't until I got home that afternoon and turned on the TV that I really figured it out. I stayed glued to that TV for days.
I remember listening to a podcast several months ago and the host made a point in general that before smartphones, people would complete disconnect from the rest of the world when they went to WDW. I feel like this is a perfect example of that.
I can remember on that faithful day when I came home from nursery and was about to watch chucklevision and then all of a sudden my mother called me down and he showed me the terrible news and it was the terror attack Which I was shocked in disbelief and I can’t believe those terriosts would do such a horrible thing to those poor souls onboard the 4 planes that got hijacked And I was 3 and a half years old on that month turning 4 a month later on that year And now I’m 27 and I can still remember everything going on in the news
9:33 am was 1/2 an hour after the WTC South Tower was hit by UA175 at 9:03 am, and 4 minutes before AA77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37am. 9:33 am was also 1/2 an hour before UA93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03am.
im 25 now and i would have been about 2 to 3 years old when 911 happened my cousin who was born the same day as me but just in 2001 in june would have been 2 and a half months old
I was in high school when this happened. It didn't occur to me until now that they would have to close down the Disney Parks and evacuate, because they weren't sure if the parks would be targeted or not. That is such a sad thought.
Thank you for sharing this video. Sadly, I went down a rabbit-hole on 9/11 yesterday, and now this video came up in my feed. I was wondering; On that day, how did Disney announce to the people in the parks, that they were shutting down for the day? Did you guys KNOW what had happened in New York, when escorted out of the park? I'm just having a hard time believing, that Disney would ever announce over giant speakers; "Due to a horrific TERRORISM-act in New York, Magic Kingdom is closing for today. Bye, bye now"...?
If I remember correctly… and for some reason it’s still quite vivid… the announcement repeated every 30 or so seconds “due to unforeseen circumstances, the Magic Kingdom is now closed. Please make your way to the exits. Plan A” followed by some sort of emergency sound. On the way into the park, we had heard some sort of radio thing about a plane in New York but since we were trying to tune out, we decided to turn it off. My father was trying to stay connected at work, and spoke with someone who had told him about the planes. Smart phones weren’t a big thing then so information was limited to who we could talk to. It’s kind of strange being far from home when all the airports are shut down, and that very same week a hurricane was coming in over Orlando.
I would also say that Disney park employees were extremely professional and well trained. Many characters were near the exits trying to cheer people up.
@@serifgroup Thank you for that answer :-) And yes, I can only imagine how weird that all must’ve been for you guys as well. May everyone who lost their lives that day rest in peace. Thanks again for your reply, and video! Surreal to see, even for someone like me, who wasn’t even there in DW on that day.
It was my first time working the day shift and opening early morning at the new hotel in the neighboring county. When I arrived, the Reservation Manager was settling into her office when I turned on the television. Shock engulfed me as live coverage showed smoke billowing and a burning hole in the first building of the Twin Towers. My initial thought was that it must have been intentional due to the direct center of the damage. Then, as I watched in horror, another airplane flew into the second tower. Without hesitation, I picked up the phone and called the franchise owner of the hotel. They were already aware of the situation. It was a day etched into my memory forever.
I was three going on four the next month and have no recollection of what happened that day. All I was told was that I got picked up from school early since nobody knew what was really going on and who were the next targets. My mom was on the phone with my nana for a while watching it all transpire on T.V. We were living in Port St. Lucie, Florida during that time and actually vacationed to Disney not too long after this in early 2002. We rented a plum colored Chrysler PT Cruiser to drive there. My very first trip to Disney. I don't remember what the parks' capacity was at the time but I'm sure it was light considering 9/11 was a fresh wound and still on everyone's mind still.
I was flying that morning. Now 20 something years later I still fly… damn I must be insane! Too young to retire, too poor to quit, too fat to strip so I keep on keeping on.
Disney didn't tell anyone in the parks what was going on. An older lady working at Animal Kingdom felt sorry for us and let us watch her tv. It was terrifying. They evacuated AK first. Been back once. It was very creepy. Will never go back.
I never heard any announcement, so much noise and reverberating echo. I was waiting for a PA announcement. Everyone that flew into Orlando to go to the park wasn’t going to get a flight out for a week.
The year was only half over but it felt like there was a hard divide before and after it happened like everything before it was a different year. The tragedy caused a major shift in US cultural and political focus.
@@BonaparteBardithion I don't know about "cultural" but definitely political. The tragedy caused a minor shift in culture and a major shift in politics. Personally, I don't care for 9/11! I hate it! It's annoyingly overhyped and is largely irrelevant now, anyway. It was in the past! 1993 and 2003 were almost identical when compared to now. I am not talking about the two years in terms of politics, science, economics, and most conspicuously technology. But that's beside the point. Viewing pre-9/11 as a utopia is ridiculous nonsense. But to give you the benefit of the doubt, the closest to 9/11 causing a "cultural shift" is, for example, the removal of the twin towers in post-9/11 media, especially that of a fictional nature. That little change could been seen as making a big difference. I don't see that as particularly meaningful. I'll also grant you that there WAS a fear of terrorism, understandably, but the worst of it only lasted at least six months right after 9/11 happened. So, I suppose to that extent, sure, 9/11 caused a "major shift in culture and caused such a hard divide between pre-9/11 and post-9/11". But in all honesty, not really.
@@jacobzeier Absolutely no one will say the US was a utopia prior to September of 2001. But I think you're downplaying just how much cultural impact the War on Terror had. The fear and paranoia of being attacked again lasted way more than 6 months, and it had as much impact on travel and events as post-lockdown Covid restrictions except that we still haven't pulled back on the changes. And though we'd had military action in the Middle East during the 90s, the Iraq War led to much more discrimination of people of Middle Eastern descent and fear of Islam in general. It went from not being on most people's radars to being an enormous boogeyman. Commie accusations carried over from the Cold War were swiftly replaced with Terrorist suspicions and pop culture fully swapped stock villains in turn. Some of this was certainly the result of politicians drumming up fears and trying to keep the momentum of anger going, but what people are afraid of can and did become entrenched in the culture of the day.
@@BonaparteBardithion You're overestimating the legacy of 9/11 with such paranoia. What you're talking about is largely, although certainly not solely, political anyway, which I agree that 9/11 was a political issue, though not completely so, that ended an era. It is clear that your definition of "cultural" is incompatible with mine. But I don't give a damn about 9/11. It is old news that is not relevant anymore! You need to get over this fear over some crap that happened a long time ago and go away!
With that size of a crowd, it's good that they were able to get everybody out safely and quietly. I can only imagine the panic that would have ensued if everyone knew what had happened. Unusual day. Where I was the only planes we saw in the sky were a couple of fighters escorting Air Force One on the way to another safe location.
My parents had just gotten married not even two weeks before this happened, they were in a very small trashy trailer park in hot springs when they found out about the attacks and watched them live my dad’s family is from NY and Connecticut aswell so it was especially scary, but luckily his family was fine
At 9:33 that morning I was working on a roof in longwood about 30 minutes from Disney World where these people are taking a video thinking they're going to have a great day with they're baby Soon after this video starts my buddy I worked with got in his truck, turned on his radio & yelled to me something in a million years I never would have guessed (they knocked over the twin towers & the Pentagon is on fire).I went home & then found out they did it with jets & there was a 4th one that crashed in a field. I thought how many more are out there? Probably like a million other people did.
@@UrLocalEarthling222dude I know that, I meant the video starts at around 9:30, both towers were hit by that point. I thought disney had already began to close the parks. The video shows them leaving at around noon of that day.
People still didn’t have all the details right after the World Trade Center Attacks, it wasn’t until after the attack on Pentagon when people began to realize the attacks could be happening in different parts of the country.,
I was living in LA at the time and I remember getting ready for elementary school and my grandma and dad started yelling to have me come to the tv. Watching everything unfold was crazy. I was scared to go to school and my parents were worried about going to work. We barely got anything done in school that day. We were in too much shock.
I just wonder what was really going through all the minds of the Disney cast and staff when they saw what they saw what was going on in NYC and DC. I cannot imagine what was going through their minds, perhaps if they had loved ones who were working either at WTC or the Pentagon, or even on one of the hijacked planes. May all the victims RIP. ❤❤❤
I was there that week. Had a promotional rate of only $49 per night at Disneys all star music resort. Food and tickets were not cheap but nothing compared to today. It was definitely much more affordable.
Disney parks refunded our tickets for the day, as well as the food we ordered and paid for-but didn't get to eat after they asked us to leave. I would say that day was tough, but Disney did the best a company could do-despite the circumstances.
We went at that time because most kids were in school and thought it would be a good time to go. Unfortunately hurricane Gordon came through that same week.
I still remember where I was that day. I had gotten off work several hours before so I was in bed with my gf at the time. I remember hearing the phone ring, her answering it and it was her dad. I remember him saying “turn on the TV, something bad happened,”. So we did. I had a bad feeling this wasn’t an accident, and roughly 5 to 10 minutes later, the second plane came in and hit the other tower.
I was sitting at Des Moines airport on 9/11 when SHTF....my mom and I waiting for our flight home after visiting w/ my grandpa ...it was a horrible thing watching it all happen, the worst was the jumpers....they finally cleared the concourse and it was complete chaos ...
I was working in daycare at my kids school in Europe. A mother came in early - her face all white with huge eyes: "The World Trade Center has been hit by a plane!". We couldn't believe it. We lived in the radio shadow of the local hills and don't have TV. I called my parents who had radio reception to find out more. We have a large Muslim community in our city and within three days they were treated like they were all terrorists themselves. As a reaction they started to dress traditionally. It was like a gap opened in the middle of our neighborhoods. Later we had a program "sit with me" in public transport. I just couldn't get myself to sit beside men clearly recognizable as religious Muslims. I was too scared myself since apparently a Muslim religious school in our city had secretly educated Muslim boys and male teens to become fanatics (it was later closed). But whenever a Muslim woman would sit alone in public transport I would ask her if I could sit beside her. That way we managed several times to keep nationalist from harassing religiously dressed Muslim women. It was a very scary and terribly sad time.
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imagine how different and chaotic that evacuation would’ve looked if this happened in a day with social media and modern cellphones.
If that happened today half the crowd would be trans and the other half would be nazis
People were calling each other.
@@kristinesharp6286 That's true, but they might've meant people would've been tweeting, snapping, posting on Instagram about it etc.
cell phones were just modernizing then social network just came few years afterwards
@@sreyasdesai4865 people were using them to call everyone and their mother. It’s a phone before it’s a computer.
Crazy to think that the baby in the video is around 24-25 years old now
Edit: 23-24 years old, I think I learned my lesson people 🤣
23 or 24. My daughter was born in 1/01. She is 23.
@@heatherhays7613 Oh, I thought the baby might have been a little older than a year old. I could be wrong though.
Crazy to think that baby is 1-2 years older than me now. 😭
This year he would be 24.
23. He’s 23
Everyone was confused cause there was no social media back then so they would not have any real time info of what's happening. I like it better that way cause there's no panic.
Real time information is better, especially for us that live in an earthquake, tsunami and volcano region in the Pacific
@@ytzpilot Yeah but with so much misinformation and fake news happening, this would be better. They all would get their sources of news from one reputable source instead of hundreds.
Yeah, I miss the days before people had relationships with their devices too!
From a witness account I saw in another video apparently there was some panic as people feared the parks would be hit next and back then the only way to know was if someone called you. Living in California I guess we were lucky as Disneyland probably never opened that day since when we found out it was about 6am western time zone. I was just getting up for school. The only people at the parks at that hour would have been the staff. One of the rare times the parks stayed closed.
None the less, I'm glad that back then they closed early for safety reasons. I feel bad for all the families who spent money to go, but it could have been much worse. I do think if it happened today it would be a chaotic scene.
People in WV panicked on 9/11 idk where you were
Look how polite everyone is. No one screaming about their rights as Americans to stay at the park.
Yes, people were more dignified just 23 years ago
Of course, this was pre-trumpism
Pre-Trump, pre-social media, and in this clip the last few hours of pre-9/11 Americans. Before any of that eroded our sense of empathy.
My wife and I were there that morning, we were on the train that goes around the park. We knew nothing about what happened, just that the park was closing, it’s sad to think how innocent we were back then that we never even worried about why they were closing. We actually were going to get on the monorail to go to Epcot, but of course that was also closed. When we got to our hotel, Wilderness Lodge , we were greeted by a cast member welcoming us home. We were told by a couple we were riding with in the elevator, but they thought that a bomb had gone off in New York. We were definitely not prepared for the images we saw on TV. RIP, to all who lost their lives that day, and prayers to the survivors and family members.
The fallout from that day was and still is flabbergasting. Lots of survivors including First Responders came up with Cancer due to the toxic chemicals from the plastic and fuel.
I always wonder about 9/11 perspectives and vantage points. How some people were either vacationing, performing brain surgery, or sleeping. Only to be hit with horror hours later and just trying to process it all. Just thinking, is this a dream? This is some kind of sick joke. I just remember being in 9th grade watching the event live on TV thinking, “Wait a second, we’re the United States. Nobody messes with us.” Talk about a shattered world view.
Thanks for sharing.
In today’s world of iPhones and social media EVERYONE would have been aware of WTC bombing!
Out of curiosity, did Disney reimburse you for your park tickets since they had to evacuate?
Obviously a very hard time to be alive during all of that. I just wanted to say that, as a guy in my 20’s, I do envy you for having lived your adult life during a time with no tech and social media. Back during a time where people actually interacted with each other and were just more…. Human. Obviously life wasn’t perfect, but I remember it being very very different (in a good way). Obviously 9/11 was a horrible tragedy, and I’m obviously not including that during the “good old days” rant lol. Hope that goes without saying.
I was in 8th grade social studies at that moment. The principal came over the intercom and said "all teaches turn on your TV I repeat all teachers turn on your tv." Life changed from there.
Nice
We’re people excited?..
I was in 5th grade Social Studies when the Vice Principal came in and turned on the TV in a rush. He was going classroom to classroom to do this.
Sounds like a terrible principle
I was teaching in an elementary school. A couple kids came to school saying something happened in New York. Our kids went to specials first thing so my teaching team watched the news after they left and saw the towers fall. Our principal told us not to say anything. He made an announcement later in the day about the terrorist attack. I don’t remember what he said, but I remember trying to explain how large the twin towers were to my 5th graders.
2:19 “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, due to unforeseen circumstances, the Magic Kingdom is now closed. Please follow the directions of a Magic Kingdom host or hostess. Plan A”
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Magic Kingdom was closed for about 12 months.
They need a better alerting system. Like, they need to install Federal Signal Modulators around the theme park areas, ESPN, and Disney Springs; and 2001s around the general resort areas, including the hotels.
@@user-bf1rj2cz3v The parks actually reopened in July of 2020 with COVID-19 measures and reduced availability of experiences and entertainment (for instance there were no fireworks until a year later)
Plan A is full MK evac out the main gate. Plan B is partial evac of an area of the park. Plan C is rapid evac of the full park, everyone is dropped into the tunnel system, and it's used if a tornado is approaching. I'm not aware of any other MK evac plans.
@@mzaf300 if i'm not mistaken Disneyland had to do something like a plan B from the Fantasmic fire
9/11/2001--------------The day our future was robbed from us. The day the timeline was skewed into this dark reality/timeline we all know now and hate. If you lived in the time before this day, you know how optimistic, hopeful, and achievable things were.
Why does this comment hurt so much? It can only be because it’s so true.
So true 😢
2012 and social media had more of a negative impact than this.
@gregsouls2666 social media existed fine for decades before the television News media decided that a collection of random people's opinions could count as a news story for them to push hate with.
100% truth
I was working at the Magic Kingdom that morning. We all knew what happened but didn’t say a word about it to anybody. We just closed all the queues and got the park cleared rather quickly after we closed around 11:30 am. Park was cleared an hour later.
As you should have done in that manner. Tons of respect for yourself and all those working that day, for keeping things orderly and calm, especially during such a tragic period in our nation.
Thanks for sharing. I was there with my 4-year old daughter. Lots of photos, but no video. We were having breakfast in Cinderella's castle when my mother called to tell me about the first airplane hitting the towers. I normally would not have had my phone with me in those days, but my father's health was not good and I wanted to be assessable. She called shortly afterwards to tell me about the second plane, and it was clear something was up. I wasn't surprised when the park closed. The video here captures effectively how all of the "sound" in the park was turned off.... no music, etc. Having worked at the parks myself in the late 80s, I recognized the instructions given to the cast members. I thought Disney handled the exit very well. We were staying in a Disney hotel and stuck around for almost another week. Hurricane Gabriel, which hit Florida just a couple of days later, really finished clearing people out, and it felt as if we had the parks to ourselves. The 11th at the Magic Kingdom, however, was truly an unusual and unforgettable day.
We had just rode the Dumbo ride and went to eat lunch nearby when we were told to leave after paying for our food, but not ever getting our food.
Your comment seems familiar have you commented your story on other similar videos?
@@edgarh252 Yes :)
Thank you for sharing
@@serifgroupdid you get your money back for the park admission?
2:14 Guys shirt is eerie here
Wow eerie is right
@@rsmith8434maybe a shooting?
Very interesting
@@rsmith8434I think its those killed in Libya under Obama's watch.
@@rsmith8434That's what I want to know, the camera panned by it too quickly to make anything out
It is so eerie to think that just four minutes after this video opened up, the Pentagon got hit
The Pentagon was hit by AA77 at 9:37 am. Not 9:33 am.
@@jlbraswell5961 That's exactly what he said, 4 mins after the start of the video is 9:37
@@jlbraswell5961crazy how you don’t pay attention
You guys realize California is 3 hours behind the east coast right?
@@kennethstegall1075 this is the magic kingdom, orlando fl. not disneyland ca
I was 12 and I noticed parents all of sudden picking up kids and knew something was happening. Later learned at home and my brain couldn’t really comprehend or understand the full weight. I can only imagine what it must have been like for adults going into the happiest place on earth and leaving to a new dark crueler world.
I was at work. My boss at the time was a Vietnam veteran. He was actually in special ops in Vietnam for two years and was medically evacuated. When that came up he started to had flash backs. He would say things “I’ve been there and smelled it, I cannot believe this is happening again and now this close, we need to get cover…”
I worked in a hospital in the UK and someone told me that the World Trade Centre had been hit. We put the television's on and the BBC were broadcasting all day. We never did any work except look at all the news reports. 😢
I was working in UGC. I saw the reports on a TV in the staff room when I got to work. I had work regardless, but I didn't want to. I was very quiet for the rest of the day.
Such a dark day. These people are acting reasonably to the emptying of Disney.
It happened at around 9am, so how come it took them untill midday to empty the park?
@@TerryTheNewsGirlProbably because there were so many people and they didn’t want to cause a panic.
@@TerryTheNewsGirl The event was considered to be isolated to NYC until 9:37 with the Pentagon, and the news probably didn’t reach Disney’s decision makers until a bit after that due to the infancy of the internet, and then they had to decide whether to evacuate, which evac plan to use, and then communicate those instructions to thousands of employees (via beepers), who then had to actually implement the evacuation of tens of thousands of people
@@TerryTheNewsGirl This looks like the park in Anaheim, CA. which is two hours behind New York.
It's crazy to think about I was born October 23, 2000, because I was only a baby. Just like the baby in this video.
I was so small, innocent and unaware with what was happening in our world.
Both my parent's are military vets. And my father had to run multiple missions in the navy, before, during and especially after 9/11.
There six of us kids in the family. My twin sister and I are the youngest. My older siblings still remember everything that happened that day, just like everyone else. My family remember what they wore, where they were and how they felt.
This tragedy hits me so hard and deeply. I've been watching all videos based on 9/11. From real time footage, to survivor stories, News alerts, the family and friends who lost loved ones that day. As well as watched the Howard Stern Radio Show when 9/11 happened on the air. It such a horrific event, that not only changed America, but countries all around us.
May those who perished in 9/11 rest in peace. What a sad and unforgiving day in American History.
I was born on October 14th 2000 so I don't remember it at all as well until school taught me about it. I'm sure all of my family was upset that day. It's truly a tragic event
Thank you for sharing this! My husband and I were also in MK with our (then) 4 children who were aged 18 mos. thru 13 at the time. It was my 40th birthday! I had been sitting and waiting with the little ones while my husband took the older kids on Big Thunder Mtn. Railroad. Then when they got off the ride I went to get in line for my turn, but the Cast Member at the ride entrance told us that they were closing "due to unforseen circumstances beyond our control" and that we had to leave the park. I asked her what was going on and she just said her obviously scripted line, "go back to your hotel and turn on the national news". We had NO idea what was going on! We were making our way with the crowd out to the parking lot to get our car and I heard a guy talking on his cell phone (not everyone had them then) and I heard him tell his wife that planes had crashed into the twin towers and they had both collapsed. We went back to our hotel (Villas at the Disney Institute - gone now, Saratoga Springs is there now) and then that evening we had a dinner reservation at a restaurant in the Dolphin hotel. Thankfully even though the parks were closed, the restaurants in the hotels were still open, but I'll never forget how eerily quiet and empty the hotel and restaurant were.
Thanks for sharing. It's good to hear other people's experience of the Magic Kingdom that day. It was a perfect weather day for the park unfortunately the hurricane coming in (as well as the national tragedy) made the whole week a very disappointing vacation.
@@serifgroup Oh yes! I remember the hurricane as well - Gabriella was her name I believe! We went back to MK that morning despite all the rain and wind. My umbrella turned inside-out from the wind when we got out of the car and we wrapped the stroller with rain ponchos, lol. That morning, we were in the Tomorrowland area and they called for a minute of silence over the intercom. We stood there in the rain and everyone was totally silent. I remember thinking I could've thrown a rock in Tomorrowland and not hit anyone, it was so empty. Very somber, and absolutely the lowest crowd Disney vacation I've ever had by far.
Thanks for sharing your story. I was living overseas at the time and have never wondered or heard about what happened at WDW that day. I am wondering if Disney provided refunds?
Do you remember what you had for dinner at the restaurant?
...Meanwhile in New York City, Washington DC, and Philadelphia 😢 I remember being in high school and just hearing the bell ring for all us students just to get up and watch the events unfold in the next classroom that had a TV while we and all the faculty watched in horror
I was in high school, but on the west coast, so the towers had already been hit when we got to school. The whole day was spent going from class to class and just watching the news in silence.
@@nurse0857 yes absolutely the same thing I experienced in my high school! I'm in the central side of the states and remember getting out of my 1st period class (which was gym and had no TV in the room) so around 8:30ish (which was 9:30ish NY time) I had a friend come up to me immediately in passing period asking me "did you see what happened to the World Trade Center?..." Second period started and we started watching a video in a US history class instead of watching what was actually happening to US in the moment--- That's when a teacher opened our door and said "the Pentagon has been hit" and we all went in panic mode as the teacher finally went back to the live footage
I was on my honeymoon in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Got married September 8. So pretty close to New York As soon as we saw the news, the place just emptied out. I live about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Not that far from Shanksville, PA, where the plane went down in the field. My husband and I spent most of that day in front of the tv,until we forced ourselves to leave the room and go do a few things. Awful day.
I heard that two little girls who were onboard United 175 with their parents on that tragic day were going to Los Angeles & were going to go to Disneyland, but these poor kids never had the chance, the plane they were on hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. I feel sorry for these kids & their parents, & I also feel sorry for Mickey & all his friends at Disneyland who will never have the chance to meet these kids.
How would you know?
@@tonkgottagame Some of the victims' families provided some background on who they were and where they were going. Some of the children on the planes were on their way to Disneyland (as one of the planes was supposed to be heading for LA), including Christine Lee Hanson and Juliana McCourt, likely the two little girls he's referencing.
@@tonkgottagame😢😮😮😅
@@RaychAgent4EVaThe story of Juliana McCourt's family is tragically amazing.
Her mother, Ruth, and Ruth's best friend, Paige, were going to a seminar in LA together, and the trip would end in a visit to Disney for Juliana's enjoyment. Ruth & her daughter boarded United 175, while Paige boarded American 11, both bound for LA.
Meanwhile, Ruth's brother (her other best friend), Ron Clifford, got up and dressed for a big-deal meeting that day. He put on a suit with a yellow tie and matching pocket handkerchief, meant to stand out, according to Ruth's recommendations. He planned to come home early to celebrate his daughter's birthday. He soon got a call asking to switch the meeting's location from the Mariott to the World Trade Center. He said yes.
He walked into the building, marveling at the architecture with a professional eye, and shortly after, an explosion shook the building. Unbeknownst to him, a plane carrying his sister's best friend (with whom he spent every New Year's) had just crashed above him. He also did not know that his sister and niece were on another plane -- he believed them to be in LA already.
As others evacuated, he stayed in the lobby to tend to a badly burned woman. Overhead, the rumble of a jet engine shook the building again. United 175, carrying Ruth & Juliana, crashed into the other tower.
Ron got the woman to her feet and they fled. He got her to paramedics, and went to call his wife and sister to let them know he was okay. Ruth did not answer.
Ron returned home and soon got a call from his brother-in-law, who had driven all 3 to the airport that morning, asking if Ron had heard from them. This was his first realization that they may have been on the planes. When the passenger lists were released, it was confirmed.
Ron went to visit Jennianne, the burned woman he had tried to save, who was unlikely to make it. He left his now-stained yellow tie as a token of their ordeal. He learned while listening to the radio that she passed a few months later.
Needless to say, he suffered a massive ordeal and struggled to cope with everything. However, with time and therapy his condition did improve, and he founded a non-profit called the Juliana Fund, which promotes tolerance and understanding in children.
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Source: Book excerpt from IrishCentral website, article titled "Irish Brother & Sister Torn Apart in Tragedy of (..)"
Also interviews with Ron Clifford in National Geographic documentaries.
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Disneyland sucks anyway.
I’m surprised they were still allowing people to ride at 9:33am. Both towers had been hit by then, and the pentagon had been hit. What a day to choose to go! Who knew what was to happen.
the pentagon was hit at 9:37 so there was still 4 minutes
@@simplyxaxby2732 Oh you’re right!
All the babies in this video are in their mid 20s now.
My son (the one in the video) is 23.
And the ones in their 20s are grey now!
I was at work when we heard about the plane hitting the first tower. We all thought it was a terrible accident. Then we heard about the second tower and there was some confusion. We didn’t have TVs at work, so we really didn’t know what they meant. A second plane? Then the Pentagon was hit. I turned to my friend and said, “Wow. It’s like we’re being attacked.” That’s how innocent we all were. We thought we were safe in this country. Like all the world’s chaos couldn’t touch us at home. The towers collapsing were like watching our innocence as a country come crashing down.
10:32 am was 4 minutes after the WTC North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am, 33 minutes after the WTC South Tower collapsed at 9:59am, and 29 minutes after UA93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 am, and 55 minutes after AA77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 am.
My daughter’s birth dad was on UA93
It was warm that day. Outside, by a cousin's house. His wife call us in to check out the news report on what had just happened. We then saw the second plane hit. Driving home, we saw loads of firetrucks coming from Long Island, heading to Manhattan. Had to go to post office, while outside talking to the manager, we saw the first building come down. The manager broke into tears. Once home, my cousin called and told me that it had been another cousin's second day at work. This at the Trade Center. I'd forgotten his mother telling me, the Thursday before, how excited the kid ("kid" - a year younger than me) was to start working there that upcoming week. It turned out that he was in the second Tower hit, the first to collapse. But, other than being totally shell-shocked he was physically OK. Very quiet that day too, in this NYC suburb. Very odd seeing fighter jets overhead - we're not far from JFK airport. The phone never stopped ringing. My cousin's new job didn't have his phone #, and the only name in the phone book, same as his, was mine. My then girlfriend's father was a retired on disability FDNY member, living in Florida. He came up and stood with us for three weeks. He spent almost all that time going to funerals/memorial services for his fellow firemen. Sad days.
This is difficult to imagine, you and your family are at the happiest place in the world having the time of your life and you probably don't hear about the attack until end of day. Sets a dark tone to what was suppose to be a great vacation
Just because it was before people had relationships with hand held devices doesn't mean there was no media. The resorts had live t.v., Radio & phones!!
We saw the second plane on tv from our hotel room at the Grand Floridian, so we were aware. You could hear our hotel neighbors on both sides yelling oh my god! Through the walls of the room. I can remember it like it was yesterday.
@@apfelbasketthey're acting like it was the early 1900s 😅
Crazy to think how we were all so scared of the attacks, and most people didn't even live in the USA. I was born a few years after 9/11, but from what I've heard of my parents, they were both watching the news when they heard the story and watched it on TV. It sent all of southern Ontario (Canada) into panic, Toronto was essentially shutdown in worries they may fly a plane there, the parliament building was evacuated, all jobs let people go early, it was literally chaos and we were across the border. It's scary how the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks literally shut down the entire world.
My kids were at Disneyland with their grandparents... took forever to get home with the airlines all grounded, and no more car rentals. My uncle was headed to NYC for a business meeting, flight was rerouted to Canada. Saddest day for America in my lifetime.
What year where you born?
So weird to think that while it was the best day for these people who were having fun, it was a terrible one for people several states above them and the last for hundreds of other.
Thousands of others*
I remember walking over to our church from work and the priest having a mass for the dead. They were thinking there could be as many as 30,000 dead, because as many as 80,000 people were in the towers on any given day. I was 36 years old, and dug my teddy bear out of my cedar chest and curled up with Merry Bear like a child and cried for all of the people who were never going to get to go home. It would have been so weird to be at Disney on that terrible day.
I remember I went to Disney World just over 1 ½ months before 9/11. I was 6 years old and I remember my dad's former coworker and his family went to Disney World on the week of 9/11 and they were scheduled to leave the day of 9/12.
I also remember feeling extremely jealous that my dad's coworkers' family got to spend more time at Disney World.
They did NOT, I learned much later they were stuck at Orlando International Airport for two days; then they could finally come home.
The kids in there were traumatized but didn't know why until much later.
I'm 29 now and 9/11 is a day you will never forget and I remember it as it were yesterday.
Even as a Canadian, (I don't live near Gander but it still upsets me a great deal that George D. Bush's speech writers never thanked us because they "forgot".)
I'm still very thankful for Obama thanking Gander and I hope to see Come From Away eventually 🍁
I was working in a call center (help desk for internet and computers). I came in after the first plane hit. "Wow!" I said, then went to work taking a few calls. Suddenly the calls stopped except for a few calls. It was dead slow at work, so we tried to get on the news websites to see what was happening. The websites were so slammed that they did Denial of Service which shut down the servers of the news websites. They were not ready for such a large volume of viewers. The only updates the call center got were from customers calling in for help. All we could do was play video games. The next day jets were flying so close to the ground that I could see the pilots.
I started working there 9 years later - can’t imagine how scary it must have been to execute a park evac like that, knowing you’re potentially a target but holding it together for the guests
Thank you for sharing my whole family was there at the Grand Floridian. It was a scary time.
I was a character greeter (College Program cast member) at the Grand Floridian that night when the characters were sent to the resorts to entertain the guests. That'd be wild if I was in any of your families' pictures with the characters.
@@jesnickstafford6104 I will look through and see if we have any character photos. I can remember tearing up when the characters came, because it was the first comforting thing we had seen all day. I don’t know if you remember, but a hurricane was also moving in to the area, and we had horrible rain and wind. We were stuck at Disney for 7 extra days, because we couldn’t get a rental car.
I sure remember where I was on that horrible day
I was born and raised in Cuba. On that day, I was released early from school, I was in 3rd grade. I went home and the communist media was playing the images on tv. My grandma who lived in New Jersey called us and told us more. That day changed every corner of the world.
U stilll live in cuba?
Well, the footage was shown everywhere. We don't really say that "the capitalist media" played footage of anything, it's just the media
Back before every person was connected via cell phone ... in the days when you didn't know information until you got to a place with a TV or radio ... back before the whole world changed
The TV news did a bang-up job at it. At the coffee shop, everyone kept asking if we had a TV because they said an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Later we heard the Pentagon was on fire and also a car bomb had exploded, and that all air planes were grounded but still there was a plane in the air that nobody knew it's whereabouts.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 I was at work, no TV or radio, I finally got a short phone call from a family member (not allowed personal calls), but I got few details. I had to wait until I got home from work to get a full picture of it.
9/11 affected everybody in some way! That's why we can never let anything like that happen again! 🇺🇸 God bless America!
I was in Alphabet city when I heard the first plane outside my window September 11, 2001 8:46am. Had to get ready for work at Macy's Herald Square. Now I'm 50 miles west of Disneyworld on i4 exit 32.
Lakeland?
@@April_ONeil Bingo you're geographically sound.
@@user-er3ri6sc3j My parents have a place in that area as well.
I was surprised that day to see all the stores on Broadway were open and business as usual.
2:12 That’s when the announcement came on saying due to unforeseen circumstances which means there’s been a terror attack at New York Washington and Pennsylvania
So therefore you must leave immediately as a precaution
TH-cam is definitely good for archiving footage like this. It’s like that one video of the people who just happened to be filming their get together when the news broke that Princess Diana died.
I'm a Brit and that was the day this world not only changed forever but got Darker, a terrible stain on the history of Humanity. The first step on the road that has led us to planet earth 2024....
My daughter was only 7 months old. I remember being so frightened for her! Thanks for sharing 😢
Only being 15 years old I don’t know what life was like before that horrific day, all I know is fear spreading across the country and war starting. It’s horrible how life changed on that day, all I know is no one can bring up 9/11 in front of my aunt without seeing her cry, she always cries when something reminds her of that day. Rest in loving peace to all who lost their lives on that horrible day ❤️💐🫡
It’s just so eerie how the world was forever changing and people were totally unaware, excitedly waiting in line for Splash Mountain or Space Mountain. A time before the Internet became available at our fingertips 24/7. Yes people had cellular phones but not everybody but that’s definitely how word spread throughout the park that morning. I definitely would’ve been very upset/confused if we had to suddenly leave and we didn’t know what the fuck was happening. We were just there a few weeks ago.
I was just scrolling along thinking how little people understand now if they didn't live through it that news just did not go lightning fast around the world... If you wanted someone to see something on the television, on the news, right now, you needed to call them and make sure that they were seeing it because they probably weren't unless they were sitting in front of the TV already. I remember the phone calls back and forth as we sat in front of the television that morning...
it gives me the strangest feeling. nostalgia for the Before times, even when this instance of it is terrible.
I must be one of the few who didn’t find out till the afternoon. I was so busy didn’t look at the news all day . A passing person told me a plane has crashed and bout 50 people had died .. I went home turned on the tv and was in total shock .
Me too. I worked in a loud factory and an announcement was made over the intercom, but of course, I couldn't hear much. Got in my car to pick up some lunch and heard on the radio that a plane had "crashed" in NY, but was still not comprehending the magnitude. It wasn't until I got home that afternoon and turned on the TV that I really figured it out. I stayed glued to that TV for days.
@@nika4843 yeah very shocking - I feel like it changed the world as we know it for basically forever ..
I remember listening to a podcast several months ago and the host made a point in general that before smartphones, people would complete disconnect from the rest of the world when they went to WDW. I feel like this is a perfect example of that.
I can remember on that faithful day when I came home from nursery and was about to watch chucklevision and then all of a sudden my mother called me down and he showed me the terrible news and it was the terror attack
Which I was shocked in disbelief and I can’t believe those terriosts would do such a horrible thing to those poor souls onboard the 4 planes that got hijacked
And I was 3 and a half years old on that month turning 4 a month later on that year
And now I’m 27 and I can still remember everything going on in the news
9:33 am was 1/2 an hour after the WTC South Tower was hit by UA175 at 9:03 am, and 4 minutes before AA77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37am. 9:33 am was also 1/2 an hour before UA93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03am.
When this video started President Bush had just addressed the nation in Sarasota, about 100 miles away from WDW.
im 25 now and i would have been about 2 to 3 years old when 911 happened my cousin who was born the same day as me but just in 2001 in june would have been 2 and a half months old
I was in high school when this happened. It didn't occur to me until now that they would have to close down the Disney Parks and evacuate, because they weren't sure if the parks would be targeted or not. That is such a sad thought.
Thank you for sharing this video. Sadly, I went down a rabbit-hole on 9/11 yesterday, and now this video came up in my feed. I was wondering; On that day, how did Disney announce to the people in the parks, that they were shutting down for the day? Did you guys KNOW what had happened in New York, when escorted out of the park? I'm just having a hard time believing, that Disney would ever announce over giant speakers; "Due to a horrific TERRORISM-act in New York, Magic Kingdom is closing for today. Bye, bye now"...?
If I remember correctly… and for some reason it’s still quite vivid… the announcement repeated every 30 or so seconds “due to unforeseen circumstances, the Magic Kingdom is now closed. Please make your way to the exits. Plan A” followed by some sort of emergency sound.
On the way into the park, we had heard some sort of radio thing about a plane in New York but since we were trying to tune out, we decided to turn it off. My father was trying to stay connected at work, and spoke with someone who had told him about the planes. Smart phones weren’t a big thing then so information was limited to who we could talk to.
It’s kind of strange being far from home when all the airports are shut down, and that very same week a hurricane was coming in over Orlando.
I would also say that Disney park employees were extremely professional and well trained. Many characters were near the exits trying to cheer people up.
@@serifgroup Thank you for that answer :-) And yes, I can only imagine how weird that all must’ve been for you guys as well.
May everyone who lost their lives that day rest in peace.
Thanks again for your reply, and video! Surreal to see, even for someone like me, who wasn’t even there in DW on that day.
@@serifgroupyou can actually hear that at the end of the video when y’all were walking oit
@@randomguy7624yeah you can! 2:25 is when you hear it!
It was my first time working the day shift and opening early morning at the new hotel in the neighboring county. When I arrived, the Reservation Manager was settling into her office when I turned on the television. Shock engulfed me as live coverage showed smoke billowing and a burning hole in the first building of the Twin Towers. My initial thought was that it must have been intentional due to the direct center of the damage. Then, as I watched in horror, another airplane flew into the second tower. Without hesitation, I picked up the phone and called the franchise owner of the hotel. They were already aware of the situation. It was a day etched into my memory forever.
This is really incredible footage
And nothing was the same ever again. 😢
Before the obvious....it was so nice to see everyone present and interacting with each other. No devices really in sigh
That’s why everyone looks bored I guess
I was three going on four the next month and have no recollection of what happened that day. All I was told was that I got picked up from school early since nobody knew what was really going on and who were the next targets. My mom was on the phone with my nana for a while watching it all transpire on T.V. We were living in Port St. Lucie, Florida during that time and actually vacationed to Disney not too long after this in early 2002. We rented a plum colored Chrysler PT Cruiser to drive there. My very first trip to Disney. I don't remember what the parks' capacity was at the time but I'm sure it was light considering 9/11 was a fresh wound and still on everyone's mind still.
I was flying that morning. Now 20 something years later I still fly… damn I must be insane! Too young to retire, too poor to quit, too fat to strip so I keep on keeping on.
Disney didn't tell anyone in the parks what was going on. An older lady working at Animal Kingdom felt sorry for us and let us watch her tv. It was terrifying. They evacuated AK first. Been back once. It was very creepy. Will never go back.
I never heard any announcement, so much noise and reverberating echo. I was waiting for a PA announcement.
Everyone that flew into Orlando to go to the park wasn’t going to get a flight out for a week.
I went to the Magic Kingdom for the first time during the summer of 2001, just months before this.
2:15 that guys shirt! 😱
I never noticed that. I wonder what shirt that is looks like maybe some friends that got lost in a fire?
crazy foreshadowing
Maybe the Challenger incident? Or firemen? 😢
They May Be Gone But Not Forgotten.
WOW.
This is sad. 9/11 ended 2001 on a tragic note.
The year was only half over but it felt like there was a hard divide before and after it happened like everything before it was a different year. The tragedy caused a major shift in US cultural and political focus.
@@BonaparteBardithion I don't know about "cultural" but definitely political. The tragedy caused a minor shift in culture and a major shift in politics. Personally, I don't care for 9/11! I hate it! It's annoyingly overhyped and is largely irrelevant now, anyway. It was in the past! 1993 and 2003 were almost identical when compared to now. I am not talking about the two years in terms of politics, science, economics, and most conspicuously technology. But that's beside the point. Viewing pre-9/11 as a utopia is ridiculous nonsense. But to give you the benefit of the doubt, the closest to 9/11 causing a "cultural shift" is, for example, the removal of the twin towers in post-9/11 media, especially that of a fictional nature. That little change could been seen as making a big difference. I don't see that as particularly meaningful. I'll also grant you that there WAS a fear of terrorism, understandably, but the worst of it only lasted at least six months right after 9/11 happened. So, I suppose to that extent, sure, 9/11 caused a "major shift in culture and caused such a hard divide between pre-9/11 and post-9/11". But in all honesty, not really.
@@jacobzeier
Absolutely no one will say the US was a utopia prior to September of 2001. But I think you're downplaying just how much cultural impact the War on Terror had. The fear and paranoia of being attacked again lasted way more than 6 months, and it had as much impact on travel and events as post-lockdown Covid restrictions except that we still haven't pulled back on the changes.
And though we'd had military action in the Middle East during the 90s, the Iraq War led to much more discrimination of people of Middle Eastern descent and fear of Islam in general. It went from not being on most people's radars to being an enormous boogeyman.
Commie accusations carried over from the Cold War were swiftly replaced with Terrorist suspicions and pop culture fully swapped stock villains in turn.
Some of this was certainly the result of politicians drumming up fears and trying to keep the momentum of anger going, but what people are afraid of can and did become entrenched in the culture of the day.
@@BonaparteBardithion You're overestimating the legacy of 9/11 with such paranoia. What you're talking about is largely, although certainly not solely, political anyway, which I agree that 9/11 was a political issue, though not completely so, that ended an era. It is clear that your definition of "cultural" is incompatible with mine. But I don't give a damn about 9/11. It is old news that is not relevant anymore! You need to get over this fear over some crap that happened a long time ago and go away!
People at Disneyland : 😄
People in New york and Washington : ☠️
A world before smartphones. Unbelievable. Everyone would've known immediately today
I was at 3 year old at AK that day. This is so surreal to see.
One of the scariest things I ever witness it was on TV for days and years and it's in the back of my head forever 911 who can forget that😢
That baby was me! I still have that onesie
BS
I'll never forget where I was that day. The US changed forever that day.
I had my 3rd child(2nd son) on 9/24/01. That baby in the video is an adult now! :)
He is, (that’s) my son will be 24 in December
We went to Disney a little over a month after 9-11. Not busy and easy to get on rides.
With that size of a crowd, it's good that they were able to get everybody out safely and quietly. I can only imagine the panic that would have ensued if everyone knew what had happened.
Unusual day. Where I was the only planes we saw in the sky were a couple of fighters escorting Air Force One on the way to another safe location.
We were there June July that year. Wow!
My parents had just gotten married not even two weeks before this happened, they were in a very small trashy trailer park in hot springs when they found out about the attacks and watched them live my dad’s family is from NY and Connecticut aswell so it was especially scary, but luckily his family was fine
At 9:33 that morning I was working on a roof in longwood about 30 minutes from Disney World where these people are taking a video thinking they're going to have a great day with they're baby Soon after this video starts my buddy I worked with got in his truck, turned on his radio & yelled to me something in a million years I never would have guessed (they knocked over the twin towers & the Pentagon is on fire).I went home & then found out they did it with jets & there was a 4th one that crashed in a field. I thought how many more are out there? Probably like a million other people did.
And today we all know Disney is the real terrorizer
Why was the park evacuated?
Was it just a precaution because of the attacks?
I was starting freshman year in highschool. Like first week of class. Hearing about this in my class with the old school box TVs in classroom.
Im confused, I thought the parks closed after the both towers got hit. How did you guys go to the magic kingdom after this?
Check the date in the video
@@iloveowls90it was made in 2001, was posted in 2021
@@UrLocalEarthling222dude I know that, I meant the video starts at around 9:30, both towers were hit by that point. I thought disney had already began to close the parks. The video shows them leaving at around noon of that day.
People still didn’t have all the details right after the World Trade Center Attacks, it wasn’t until after the attack on Pentagon when people began to realize the attacks could be happening in different parts of the country.,
@@randomguy7624 I wasn’t responding to you, I was responding to the person I tagged in my comment
At the start it’s so much what the Disney land park is today
Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth. Walt Disney World is the most magical place on Earth
I've never been to Disneyland, but I'm the happiest at Walt Disney World!!
@@apfelbasket you'll be happier at Disneyland. You don't know what you're missing until you go to Disneyland
@@gabrieldally6044These days, bearded princesses.
@@gabrieldally6044 Been to both. Disney World is so much better. Way more to see.
@@pdeXlol it's okay to lie sometimes 😊
I was living in LA at the time and I remember getting ready for elementary school and my grandma and dad started yelling to have me come to the tv. Watching everything unfold was crazy. I was scared to go to school and my parents were worried about going to work. We barely got anything done in school that day. We were in too much shock.
I was on Disney property about six months earlier.
Back when the entry fee was affordable
The reason why is less crowds less demand
Higher the crowds the higher the demand
Did they announce what happened? Or did they just say we need to close?
Just an announcement about closing. I’m sure many people were unaware. I remember telling some folks on the way out.
Happiest place on earth during the saddest time on earth
I just wonder what was really going through all the minds of the Disney cast and staff when they saw what they saw what was going on in NYC and DC. I cannot imagine what was going through their minds, perhaps if they had loved ones who were working either at WTC or the Pentagon, or even on one of the hijacked planes. May all the victims RIP. ❤❤❤
I wonder how different it was a Disney World back then. I wonder if it was still pricey?
I was there that week. Had a promotional rate of only $49 per night at Disneys all star music resort. Food and tickets were not cheap but nothing compared to today. It was definitely much more affordable.
Disney parks refunded our tickets for the day, as well as the food we ordered and paid for-but didn't get to eat after they asked us to leave. I would say that day was tough, but Disney did the best a company could do-despite the circumstances.
In 1996/97, an annual Florida resident year pass was $289, I seem to remember...
@@TheFloridaTraveler$578 in 2024 dollars. Pretty close to the same price.
@xocomaox for a comparable annual pass (back then there were no block outs), they are $1,299 +tax
I remember the day well. I've lived and worked in the Central Florida area my entire life.
We were there a few weeks later. The first week they reopened
thank you for your sacrifice
We were there in November of 2001 and it was like a ghost town. Very few guests.
Isn't September usually a slower period at WDW?
Best time to go. Ride lines are so much shorter and the weather is nice and cool
maybe if you have small kids that don't have school, but they won't even remember the trip@@philliesphan9364
We went at that time because most kids were in school and thought it would be a good time to go. Unfortunately hurricane Gordon came through that same week.
@@serifgroup Hurricane Gordon was 2000, you might be thinking of Gabrielle.
@@philliesphan9364the weather is not nice and cool then. It is very hot still and humid.
Our world changed forever in minutes.
Amazing what cell phones did post 911.
I remember that day. I was 12 and home sick from school.
I still remember where I was that day. I had gotten off work several hours before so I was in bed with my gf at the time. I remember hearing the phone ring, her answering it and it was her dad. I remember him saying “turn on the TV, something bad happened,”. So we did. I had a bad feeling this wasn’t an accident, and roughly 5 to 10 minutes later, the second plane came in and hit the other tower.
I was sitting at Des Moines airport on 9/11 when SHTF....my mom and I waiting for our flight home after visiting w/ my grandpa ...it was a horrible thing watching it all happen, the worst was the jumpers....they finally cleared the concourse and it was complete chaos ...
I was working in daycare at my kids school in Europe. A mother came in early - her face all white with huge eyes: "The World Trade Center has been hit by a plane!". We couldn't believe it.
We lived in the radio shadow of the local hills and don't have TV. I called my parents who had radio reception to find out more.
We have a large Muslim community in our city and within three days they were treated like they were all terrorists themselves. As a reaction they started to dress traditionally. It was like a gap opened in the middle of our neighborhoods.
Later we had a program "sit with me" in public transport.
I just couldn't get myself to sit beside men clearly recognizable as religious Muslims. I was too scared myself since apparently a Muslim religious school in our city had secretly educated Muslim boys and male teens to become fanatics (it was later closed).
But whenever a Muslim woman would sit alone in public transport I would ask her if I could sit beside her. That way we managed several times to keep nationalist from harassing religiously dressed Muslim women.
It was a very scary and terribly sad time.