The Queen ordered the band at Buckingham Palace to play the US anthem - many Americans living in or visiting London had gathered at the palace gates. To this day we love and respect her for doing that.❤️🥰

@hannabertrand4460

Ай бұрын

In footage of it, you can see all the people standing at the gates holding American flags and crying while they play it. She broke a tradition almost as old as our country to do that. She was all class. God rest her soul.

@KathyAnne28

Ай бұрын

100%. We not only "remember" the horror and tragedy of that day, but also the support and love shown around the world.

@user-ye4ft2fl5w

Ай бұрын

I didn't know this. That's such an act of class that we all can live by now here in 2024. I'm an American, and also an Army Vet. I served in Afghanistan and I believe 911 had an impact on my decision to join later on. People say I'm a hero for being a soldier and serving my country. I thank people for saying that...but I feel like first responders don't get enough credit. They are heroes just as well. I'd also like to give a shout out to KZreadrs like Kabir here who like other foreigners take interest or give the US a nod now and then. Lol I know we can be annoying sometimes but then again most families are dysfunctional after all. Kabir keep up the awesome voodoo that you do sir!

@trulyjupiter

Ай бұрын

I watched that and was deeply moved. It meant a lot to me and others.

@deborahdanhauer8525

Ай бұрын

Of all the tributes that happened on 9/11, none touched me more than this one. I just put my head down and sobbed watching them play our anthem.😞❤️

All the legitimate news channels agreed never to show the pictures of people jumping ever again. I watched it live and it was horrifying.

@ithilnin123

Ай бұрын

Yes. I was so sick to my stomach when I realized what was happening. It was so horrifying and surreal.

@l.p.864

Ай бұрын

We saw it live in our 8th grade classes. Every single tv in our school was pulled into various classrooms. We did zero work that day. Instead, we watched these terrible events unfold. The classrooms that didn't get a tv listened to the nearby tvs in other classrooms.

@SacredWaves

Ай бұрын

Yep. Imagine the fire fighters that stood in the glass tunnel between the buildings. They had to see it first hand when the people hit the glass.

@GrumpyKay

Ай бұрын

​@SacredWaves one jumper fell on a fire fighter and of course, both died from the impact. I can't fathom having to see that.

@tiaelina1090

Ай бұрын

Same here and it still is horrifying to think about.😢

My Dad was in Canada visiting family & had to remain there until the border reopened. He would park his car (which had NJ plates) & when he returned there would be flowers, notes & sympathy cards under the wipers. He still has those items all these years later.

I am a 73yo retired nurse who lived 35 min outside the city. I was part of a specialized IV team and we had called the Red Cross to see if we could help. They sent a New York City Fire Dept speedboat to pick us up from a marina near us. We sped down the Hudson River under the empty bridges as no traffic was allowed, no other boats were on the river and no planes except fighter jets in the sky. We were dropped off on the West Side where a military hospital was being put together. And there we sat all day doing nothing. There were so few survivors that the local hospitals handled them. In my 44 year career I have never felt so useless. Kudos to you for wanting to learn more and keeping the memory alive. 💗

@msdarby515

Ай бұрын

At the time I was an EMT in Westchester (I'm a nurse, now). That evening we jumped on a train (one was still running into the city every few hours) and went to the Chelsea Piers where we got everything set up. There was an an area for each specialty of volunteers; medical, construction, etc. Unfortunately, the only people they came to collect were the mental health professionals and the heavy equipment operators. 😢In the triage area we cleaned eyes, mostly firemen, cleaned & bandage minor injuries. A couple of stitches were needed. That's it. I can never explain to people how my heart ached for more work, as it equaled more life. The next day we moved everything over from the Chelsea Piers to the Javits Center. So after 24 hours of heartbreak, I headed home. As I approached Penn Station I happened to glance up and see that the Empire State Building was dark. I burst into tears, sat on the library steps and cried. 😢

@bethm5791

Ай бұрын

Thank you for doing all you could to help ❤❤

@nyteshayde1197

24 күн бұрын

Even being across the country and being an ER nurse, I felt helpless. I can't imagine being right there and watching this all happen. I'm so sorry you had to live that nightmare.

@TwiggyKeely

8 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for your service, that must have been incredibly overwhelming!

You should look into what happened with Flight 93, so many heros that died to save others. God Bless their souls. ❤

@max410bery

Ай бұрын

I second this!! I found not many people know about Flight 93 outside the USA. Their story should be told all together.

@Pharmerlynda

Ай бұрын

And I believe a movie too!!!!

@projectdelta50

Ай бұрын

Should just watch the movie United 93

@annaquar

Ай бұрын

I recently saw a documentary about a guy that basically surfed his way down the building on a stairwell landing and survived.

@coolyoutubename16

Ай бұрын

Lol you people actually believe this bs 😂😂

The highjackers had trained in the US to become pilots. They were armed and took control of the planes. No American pilot flew into any buildings on that day.

@craigboesen649

Ай бұрын

They had box cutters..

@Liamshavingfun

Ай бұрын

This changed everything...In terms of flights and privacy for Americans. The war on terrorism was unleashed!

@johnwray393

Ай бұрын

​@@Liamshavingfunit also gave the government a excuse to do several things it already had planned, like the Patriot Act and Iraq, Syria, Yemen. Many many people across the globe were killed because of this attack.

@LexyThomas134

Ай бұрын

Your government trained them and paid off their families for their sacrifice to cover up the 2 trillion dollars that they stole. Guess who was investigating that money that came up missing? Just saying. That's not a coincidence

@Inaflap

Ай бұрын

Great you know that. Did you know they were Saudi and Egyptian too? Did you know Iraq was attacked in response?

As an American I can tell you we were all pissed more than any other emotion. Sadness came later.

Kabir, I will never (nor will any other American old enough to remember) forget that day as long as I live! It changed this country in so many ways, all of them bad.

@ThatOneGirl0790

22 күн бұрын

I think it helped us all re - realize how strong we are, and how amazing it is, this country we call America, this country so many of us call home! The greatest nation on the planet and we will forever continue to fight the good fight no matter how many evils get thrown at us...no matter how many evils we endure. We're the United States Of America, and our Flag, will ALWAYS be there! 🇺🇲❤️🎆🇺🇲

@Lyndiloo

17 күн бұрын

I feel like the weeks after the attack showed me what true patriotism and community is. It's sad that such a thing was necessary for us to come together as a country, even sadder that we've since lost that togetherness.

@IvysMom330

16 күн бұрын

I must disagree. For a time people in the US no longer judged others, the color of ones skin, where they lived, job or not. Everyone treated each other with Love and respect if only for a moment in time. We were ALL AMERICANS and proud to show it, willing to fight. And what a beautiful thing it was to see. With the current events going on in the World today.....Pray, that we are not destined to learn this lesson again.🙏

@evtv304

3 күн бұрын

@@IvysMom330 ...except for all of the innocent arab americans who were harassed and attacked for the actions of ppl living on the other side of the world that they had zero connection to. ppl like to gloss over and forget the insane amount of islamophobia that happened post 9/11. it wasn't all love and camaraderie for all americans

First responders from 9/11 are still dying to this day from illnesses directly related to that day. Many have died of cancer and respiratory illnesses. Sadly they’ve had to work incredibly hard to get compensation for this

@janeathome6643

Ай бұрын

There were so many heavy metals in that dust, and then the ones who worked on the pile; the fires in the pit burned for six months. People who lived and worked in the area became ill as well. Even some kids at Stuyvesant High School got some of the rare cancers that a lot of firefighters did.

@pollypocket3508

Ай бұрын

​@@janeathome6643 there's another channel that I watch, the lady was/is a nurse of some kind, and she was there at the time helping take care of people, and she now has respiratory issues.

@pattheriot3963

Ай бұрын

And you know how many of the same politicians who would've stood side-by-side with those first responders on that day (at least for the PR) would come back 10-20 years later voting down bills to offer that additional compensation out of a pithy, self-serving desire to cut down on money spent on government.

@DigitalIslandboy

Ай бұрын

Anybody who breathed in the after-dust.

@thamertanner5448

Ай бұрын

Yes, I was going to say we still don't know the full death toll of 9/11 because people are still dying. We wont have a final count for many decades to come.

It was surreal. If you were an adult then, you will never forget it. It changed the country forever.

@sopcannon

Ай бұрын

I watched it in Canada, I called my wife to see it on the tv, she asked "what movie is this?", i replied " its not a movie". Then silence.

@_gr1nchh

Ай бұрын

I was 8 when it happened and I remember it vividly. My mom was playing scrabble online with a woman in one of the WTC towers when they were hit. I was out of school that day and got woken up to it. That and what followed, I'm not sure we'll ever see America that closely knit ever again. Now any time tragedy strikes, it's just pointing fingers.

@jehhhGames

Ай бұрын

It changed the world. Nothing has been the same for anyone since. I'm Canadian, was in grade7 at the time. Nothing has been the same since.

@andrewzeedyk3095

Ай бұрын

I was in 8th grade. My grandma always woke me up for school. Had the news on and would have a smoke together. My grandmother didn't have the news on that day.

@LexyThomas134

Ай бұрын

I was in 6th grade and still remember it like it was yesterday, everyone's parents showed up at the school to get their kids

I remember I was in kindergarten. My mom came and pulled me out and I remember sitting in the back seat of the pickup truck, flying down the road towards my pawpaws because that was the safest place my mom could think to take us. We literally got air over some hills.

My daughter was 2 blocks from the White House and was put into lockdown. At that time, cell phones were still a luxury so not everyone had one. I still bless the person who passed their cell phone around so that everyone could call home to say they were safe. ❤

Jumping from the buildings is a sight that will always be burned into my mind and will never be forgotten. Those who jumped were choosing to end their lives their way on their terms rather than waiting to die when the buildings collapsed. There were so many people trapped above the impact sights its absolutely gut wrenching to think that they were in a position to have to make that decision, jump or wait for the inevitable.

@reneevaz7848

22 күн бұрын

Interesting your take on why they jumped. I’ve always theorized that the towers did not have windows that opened and they were filled with toxic smoke and couldn’t breathe or flames were coming straight at them. I think I would jump before I would be burned alive.

@romancenovelfreak

22 күн бұрын

There’s a book called “The Lives They Saved” about the first responders and mariners who helped treat survivors and evacuate Lower Manhattan. One of the testimonies talks about how they saw the remains of a jumper and their hand was completely black. They had chosen to jump instead of being burned alive. It’s a hard read, but full of first hand testimonies

@TQV_4013

21 күн бұрын

I watched it live on TV from Costa Rca. We were two hours behind NY time so we were having breakfast. When the second plane hit there was no doubt that it was an attack. Seeing those people jumping off the building, some holding hands, is something I think about to this day. Watching those immense towers collapse was hard to believe.

@shariann2723

21 күн бұрын

@@TQV_4013 there are so many images from that day that will never fade from my memory no matter what I do. I was supposed to fly out of Boston that morning but didn't I canceled my trip after having numerous dreams nightly of dying in a plane crash and my intuition and dreams have never been wrong so when I couldn't shake that feeling and the dreams got more frequent I listened. To this day it's still hard to process it all and daily I keep those who lost family and loved ones in my thoughts, heart and prayers those voids created in so many lives will never heal and are likely just as if not more haunting and hard to process such an awful thing that didn't need to happen and created devastating loss. The first tower getting hit created a media firestorm that was shocking and breaking news the coverage was unreal and news traveled fast. The tower being hit the way it was I think in the back of people's minds was the thought of it being intentional but no one wanted to say it and held onto hope it was accidental. After the first tower was hit and news coverage was covering it very heavily, families of those on other hijacked flights were receiving calls from their loved ones who were unaware of the full nightmare unfolding and asking their families if they could find out anything about the hijackings. Of course those on the ground scrambled to find answers and turned their TVs on only to see the full scope and how bad it was. In those calls of final goodbyes knowing the outcome was not going to be good families who had gathered around their TVs helplessly watching it all unfold were beyond devastated when calls dropped as tower 2 was hit and that confirmed which flight it was. The day was full of devastation watching so many terrible things unfold and people who were stuck making decisions they never thought they would have to make it was a dark day and I hope it's never forgotten and above all i hope that the people and their families are not forgotten either they deserve to be remembered and have their stories told

2,977 people died including 343 NYC firefighters. There are still over 1,000 people who's remains have never been found. Over 5,000 people have died since from illnesses from the serch and clean up and even just being there that day and living in the area after.

I was in school in Florida where my homeroom teacher was getting attendance when another teacher wrenched the door open to say a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. We turned on the TV and watched with open-mouthed terror as we saw plumes of smoke billow out. We screamed and cried as we watched the second plane hit the other tower followed by their collapse. This attack solidified my decision to continue my family tradition of enlisting into the military after graduating high school.

My Dad is an Engineer and when he saw the planes go in he called my brother to tell him to turn on the news. My Dad immediately said the buildings will not be able to withstand the impact and jet fuel fires. I was living in Florence, Italy (College Study Abroad) and everything shut down in the city and classes cancelled. Back then we had internet cafe's to check email, and the Italian people were wonderful and gave us free internet time for reading the news. I overheard one girl in the Internet cafe speak about how her best friend's father was an airline pilot and she found out that he was one of the ones killed on one of the planes. The day after the attacks, on our way to class the next morning in every shop window was a white piece of paper in English that said 'Our deepest sympathy goes out to all our American friend'.

Years ago I watched a video of the "jumpers" of the world trade centre. I remember there were fire fighters inside of the lobby in one of the buildings and the sounds of bodies hitting the ground was horrendous; the fire fighters would get more and more upset and desperate every time the heard the sound.

@ShortStuffMegs21

4 күн бұрын

I can see his eyes in my mind. The fear, stress, hope, despair to anger in seconds.

the terrorists killed the pilots and took over the planes all 4 planes had people on them sadly my cousin Diana was one of the ones who passed that day she was in the north tower when the first plane hit she died on impact

@mysteryelysian

Ай бұрын

My Condolences, I am so sorry for you and your family's loss.

@gdhaney136

Ай бұрын

Sorry for your loss. My student of four years lost his little sister on the plane that hit the Pentagon. My other friend worked in the north tower but was late that day. After a few funerals, he had to hospitalize himself.

@debneuweiler9867

Ай бұрын

I am so sorry..it was something that can’t be imagined.really I am so sorry..I pray for your loss

@debneuweiler9867

Ай бұрын

The building were designed to collapse they were erected in the early 1970s and that was put into a faction…if a commercial airline had an accident it would go down and not topple

@deborahdanhauer8525

Ай бұрын

So very sorry for your loss❤️

I was in 8th grade when it happened. The teachers told us: "There's no homework tonight. Go home, and watch the news with your families. Today, the world has changed forever."

There's a documentary that was released a few years after this called 102 minutes that changed America (I think) that has so much home video footage from the area on this day. It's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.

@cyberwolf_1013

5 күн бұрын

I've seen that documentary. It's full of home video and reactions from people on the street in NYC. I'd recommend it to anyone whose curious about what the average person was doing that day.

I just met a woman whose son survived the attack. He was on the 88th floor of the South Tower and everyone was asked to stay put by firefighters who had reached them. Her son said that he had a newborn son at home and there was no way he was staying. I cried listening to her story. It was a miracle.

@ec1032am

Ай бұрын

You must be mistaken about which tower or how high up he was because the south tower was hit between the floors 77-82. The highest floor reached by firefighters is thought to be 78, and I severely doubt if they ran across firefighters they would be told to not move. If he was in the south tower above the hit zone he was truly lucky, less than 20 people made it out alive.

@BlackGirlLovesAnime6

Ай бұрын

@@ec1032ameveryone was told to stay in place and the ones who came down anyway were told to go back up, that everything was fine. Some people stayed because they remembered the bombs in 93 and thought it was safer to wait. There was either an automated message or a live message that told everyone over the speakers to basically shelter in place and wait for help. Sadly the ones who listened didn’t make it. It’s even worse for the ones who trusted their instinct at first but ultimately trusted their higher management and port authority to stay in the buildings. Remember that they did not kno what was going on outside of the buildings initially unless they were in the impact zone. This was all said in many documentaries from the survivors

@ec1032am

Ай бұрын

@@BlackGirlLovesAnime6 When the North tower was hit at 8:46 its emergency PA system was broken. Three minutes before the impact on the South Tower the PA system broadcast to stay and wait for further information as they had no idea what would happen next. Two minutes later they sent out another broadcast stating people could evacuate if they wanted to, but that was only one minute from impact. There was definitely a lot of miscommunication and confusion that was going on that day.

@arvi8843

25 күн бұрын

​@@ec1032am Right. I think that was understandable because no one knows if there'll be ground attacks that follows after that incident. I remember watching a video of some people running that day because they thought there were terrorists on the streets of NY too that day.

Although the attacks happened in America, many countries around the world were affected. We all lost innocent citizens that day.

@xoxxobob61

Ай бұрын

Somewhere around 80 Nations had their own Citizens die on September 11th.

@teressareeves5856

Ай бұрын

As I told my dad when explaining why I felt like celebrating when word came that Osama bin Laden had been killed..."he murdered our children".

@iamaloafofbread8926

Ай бұрын

​@teressareeves5856 In war, the citizens always lose

@lynncantrell2782

Ай бұрын

@@teressareeves5856I didn’t feel like celebrating. I was just relieved. I don’t get a high for someone else’s death, even that man. I thought about his daughter who is a us citizen. How that had to have affected his family. And the only reason I was relieved, is because he couldn’t hurt anyone else.

@eileencritchley4630

Ай бұрын

Correct as the Twin Towers had many people from all over the world in them. My friend was supposed to be one of them that day she used to fly over to conduct business in the Twin towers from the UK. I knew she was there that day but she wasn't in either tower as she had to stop off at another place first and was on her way their and got stuck in traffic. So she had business friends who all died that day Americans and non Americans alike.

I'm 61. I first saw it on the news as I was clocking into work and we were all standing around the time clock in shock. I still cannot get the images of those who jumped out of my head. Thank you for this BBC coverage reaction. They did a great job expressing real emotion and concern.

I'm 67 years old and will never forget this day. I was living in Florida, but this affected all of us in America. I still can't watch these tapes without tearing up.

@sarahpagett9191

Ай бұрын

Me too and I'm British I was getting ready for work and getting my kids ready for school and I was just staring at the tv crying I couldn't get it seeing people falling I saw one man it was horrible

I've never seen the British coverage of the 9/11 attacks; thanks for reacting to this!

The thought of the people jumping has always stuck with me - the hell that they must have been in inside the building was surely beyond imagination to even think that jumping was a good alternative. And the terrorists hijacked the planes. They had all taken flying lessons prior to 9/11. They actually flew the planes themselves, they didn't force the pilots to do it. There are many people, including first responders, who've died of lung/respiratory issues since.

@Ernwaldo

Ай бұрын

There was a pair of brothers, film makers, doing a documentary on the New York fire department at the time of the attacks. They just happened to catch the first plane screeching overhead and as it struck the first tower. Only footage of that, I believe. One of them and his crew were with the first responders on the ground floor of the towers. The sounds of the jumpers’ bodies hitting the awning over the entrance was caught in film. Absolutely haunting. PBS broadcast the resulting film a couple of times.

@hahatoldyouso

Ай бұрын

The 911 phone calls from inside up the point of collapse are horrific

People are STILL dying from breathing in that horrible dust from the collapsing towers! Cancers and respiratory problems galore.

Kabir, if you havent seen it already, watch the boat lift of that day. It really shows the American Spirit. Each time I view it I break down in tears.

This still brings tears and heartache! Our country has never been the same! I will never forget! It is just evil not religion!

@eshiestrik2756

Ай бұрын

In this case, it was both! A religion that does not respect life and lives to destroy and brings no peace, has no thought for the pain of others, only their own ideology! Beware! We need to wake up to the evil in our midst! We are once again in the incidious those throes of the same ideology that was put into action on that fateful 11 September day! The difference is that the take over is coming by stealth, from within! Every time a protest or attack is allowed to happen, that opposes our western culture, another step is taken towards what was attempted to be achieved on that fateful September day. 😢😢😢 May we see what is happening before it is too late, or may God save us all, and I mean that sincerely! 🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺

The morning of September 12th I received an e-mail from an acquaintance in Mombasa, Kenya - expressing their condolences. The world was appalled that day.

I was unemployed at the time. My wife called me from work and told me planes had crashed into the World Trade Center buildings. Turned on the television and that was all that was on the major networks. Sat for hours astonished at what had happened. I live near a major International airport, constantly hearing planes fly over. When all aircraft were grounded, I stepped outside for a smoke and it was eerie, not hearing or seeing any planes in the sky. That day will never be forgotten.

@tookitogo

Ай бұрын

I lived near Baltimore when it happened, which is within the greater DC airspace, and I remember the fighter jets patrolling overhead all day, instead of passenger planes.

I was in it, from everything I saw that day I suffered PTSD, it took me 10 years to heal from the trauma, it was surreal an horrific and I witnessed both towers falling. I had many friends who died that day. Still hard for me to watch any videos. I had flashbacks for years. This is something no one should ever have to go through, but it’s something we must not forget ever. I won’t!

The plane that crashed in Pittsburgh was Flight 93, the one that the hijackers planned to crash into the White House. They hijacked 4 planes that were all supposed to take off at the same time, but Flight 93 was delayed, giving the passengers time to find out about the attack on the World Trade Center. Once they figured out what was going on, they broke down the doors to the cockpit, forcing the hijackers to crash the plane into a field. 60 Minutes did an interview with the fighter pilots that the Air Force scrambled to intercept the plane (you should watch it). They didn't have enough time to load any missiles, but the pilots decided to take off anyway. If the crew hadn't stormed the cockpit, the fighter pilots were planning to crash into the plane to bring it down.

@Allaiya.

Ай бұрын

I have heard since it was determined the Capitol that was likely the intended targeted. And also, based on the timeline presented at the flight 93 memorial, the fighter jets still wouldn’t have made it in time to intercept it before its intended target. Thankfully the passengers fought back.

@williamlambert

Ай бұрын

it was actually near Shanksville, PA not Pittsburgh

@ghstdnsr

Ай бұрын

Flight 93 is so overlooked in these stories.

@reformedwheat5648

Ай бұрын

⁠@@williamlambert My husband’s 3x great grandfather, Christian Shank, settled that area. My mother in law saw this plane fly over her home that day and knew something was wrong due to the low altitude 😞

@hermunkulus

Ай бұрын

@@ghstdnsr Yeah. You'd think it would get more attention due to the efforts of the passengers, but the significance of the towers dwarfed that and the one that crashed into the Pentagon. Paul Greengrass made a movie on it (United 93) which netted him two Oscar nominations, yet it still gets overlooked.

In the years since 9/11, more people - fireman, police, residents - have died of various cancers and lung diseases than were killed that day and it continues to this day. I live here. I was down there. The government assured everyone the air was safe. It was anything but.

I remember going outside about noon. People walked around yet no one spoke. There was an eerie silence similar to a scene from the film "Ladybug, Ladybug" (1963). In which the children of a rural school were quietly sent home due to an imminent nuclear attack warning.

I can tell you exactly how it felt that day here. I was 17 and already a volunteer firefighter (I finished the class, written, and practical exams only 3 months prior) and was in day #3 of my Emergency Medical Technician course. It was the beginning of my final year in high school. I lived only about 65 minutes from the Pentagon, 90 minutes or so from Shanksville, and about 3 hours from Manhattan. Two other firefighters I knew had family members (a brother, and a cousin) in the FDNY, both died in the first tower when it fell. Only 2 years prior, one of my family members had finally retired... he worked in the Pentagon and where he would have been, he would have been killed. With such close proximity to all 3 sites, even a few of my high school peers lost mothers and fathers. It still gives me chills when I hear the Scott SCBA alarms going off at ground zero. the high-pitched alarms start ringing after 30 seconds of no movement once activated. That's why when you watch older fire videos, you'll see them hopping up and down every few seconds. Most of the time they were false alarms but in the case of 9/11, most of them were from killed firefighters. It's a haunting noise. Not a single person I saw that day didn't cry. And I spent that whole day around school, then my fire station. Bullies. Nerds. Jocks. Stoners. Paramedics. Firefighters. Police officers. Teachers. Students. Priests. Drug dealers. Prostitutes. Black. White. Christian. Jewish. Latino. Lawyers. Doctors. Nurses. On September 11, 2001, all those people I just listed... were just adjectives to everyone. We as a nation didn't classify each other that day... we were just 'people.' Nothing really mattered that day because police officers and drug dealers were hugging, and comforting each other. Doctors stood and watched the towers collapse in rooms with their patients. Crying. Hugging. Helping the other understand. Lawyers and judges, corrections officers and prisoners... nothing mattered that day. I stood in a classroom and watched people decide that falling 80 stories to their immediate death was a better idea than slowly dying from smoke inhalation or burning. When a body falls that far, there isn't much left when it hits the ground. A couple firefighters were killed when bodies landed on them. Some people who witnessed the bodies first-hand have spoken about it. They said it looked like what you'd expect to see at a slaughterhouse, but instead of cow's heads, there were fingers, hands, human brains and entrails scattered all over. Human blood looked like someone sprayed the area with a barrel full of blood, almost like a Halloween haunted house room. But this was real. It was real and it felt HORRIBLE. Sad. Hurt. Scared something else would happen. And for the next 2 days, every person in the USA wanted to help. And we did. We all did everything we could to help. People stood in lines measured in DAYS WAIT time to donate blood. We knew people were still alive under the rubble and maybe we couldn't all help dig them out, but goddamnit, we could make DAMN SURE not a single person who may need a pint or two of blood was going to die for a lack of blood! Some people waited days. Others took food to first responders, planted flags in their yards as a symbol of solidarity. Many enlisted in the military to fight. Others donated money to charities, people began volunteering again. Some of the homeless in my town had so much food to eat they had to actually turn it down. That day was incredibly painful and I still cry even when I think back about it, but then... I remember how unified we were and how, for only a few weeks, individuals weren't just titles they earned: cop; doctor; lawyer (solicitor, I think you folks across the pond call them); white guy; black girl; felon..... we were just people. Then we were just Americans.

The hijackers did this with box cutters, not guns. They killed the pilots. The hijackers had trained enough to be able to fly the planes into the towers. The planes were full of innocents. The one plane that crashed in Pennsylvania did so bc the airplane passengers were able to fight and retake the plane from the hijackers, but with no living pilots the best they could do was crash the plane or prevent it from hitting anything else. All died.

@galiantus1354

Ай бұрын

The passengers did not properly retake flight 93. They rushed the cockpit, and the hijackers responded by putting the plane nose-down. The plane impacted the ground at high speed, almost vertically. Going by the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder, the passengers may have broke into the cockpit about 90 seconds before impact, and were likely struggling for control about 60 seconds before. The actual audio isn't available to the public, so a lot remains ambiguous. But if the passengers did win, it was almost certainly too late to make a difference.

@Row_dog

Ай бұрын

​@@galiantus1354so your one of the people who have nothing better to do then belittle the achievements of other people.

@galiantus1354

Ай бұрын

@@Row_dog I'm not belittling anyone by stating facts. Check your attitude.

@xbatx69

Ай бұрын

@@galiantus1354 thanks for clarifying the facts, I would have done so myself. I do not see how that can be belittling of the achievements won by those on the plane.

@xheralt

Ай бұрын

Guns weren't needed. Because every prior hijacking in recorded history had been benign -- highjackers wanted to escape and get out alive, and airlines expected to get their equipment back -- airline policy was to simply allow hijackers to do what they wanted...which was usually "fly to Cuba, land, pay me two million dollars and let me go, and you can have the plane & passengers back". S==cidal martyrs were not on anybody's radar

They attacked a financial institution, a military institution and many believe that the third plane was going to take out either the White House or the Capitol building before the passengers intervened and the plane crashed. They weren't just crashing into random buildings but chose those particular buildings to send a message.

@LexyThomas134

Ай бұрын

Well duh, you have to find a way to take people's minds off the 2 trillion dollars they (your government) took the day before 9/11

We appreciate your country’s support in our need of mourning and supporting us when everything was so bleak for us

@myroselle6987

Ай бұрын

And when Queen Elizabeth ll defied tradition and had our National Anthem played at Buckingham Palace. That was lovely and so emotional.🇬🇧🇺🇸

@intello8953

Ай бұрын

What do you mean “supporting” and “bleak”? You literally invaded Iraq that had literally nothing to do with 9/11 and Afghanistan is a whole different kettle of fish 🤦🏾‍♂️

My father was in the area at the time. We don’t talk about his experience but the one thing he did say was that the sound of the bodies hitting the concrete still haunts him to this day

I remember this like it was yesterday. I could not move away from the TV, stunned, crying, every motion you could imagine

I remember watching this in the UK and it was a very sombre day. The atmosphere is hard to describe but people were going about their daily business as usual but we were just numb with shock for our US cousins and I saw lots of people in tears that day including my brother who worked in insurance and when he came home the first thing he said was "I've just sent the usual mail to a place that isn't there anymore". He had friends and colleagues in the towers and it affected him for a while. Us Brits really felt for America that day. None more so than our dearly departed Queen who ordered the royal guard to play the Star Spangled Banner outside Buckingham Palace the next morning. RIP to all🇬🇧🇺🇸

@Timbothruster-fh3cw

Ай бұрын

From across the pond, thank you!❤️✊💯🇺🇸🇬🇧

@deborahdanhauer8525

Ай бұрын

What Queen Elizabeth did that day touched me more than I can say. I have always been grateful to her and the people of Great Britain for that.❤️

@catw6998

Ай бұрын

Even as I r3ad this now, some tears flowing. Your Queen was quite the classy woman. Let’s hope none of us have to ever go through this again.

@coolyoutubename16

Ай бұрын

​@@catw6998she was a nazi

@aliasme-cc2qb

Ай бұрын

@@deborahdanhauer8525Yes, HM The Queen touched many Americans that day. But,when JFK was murdered, she also ordered the bells to toll at Westminster Abbey.

My son was in the Marines at the time and was a member of Presidential security team at Camp David on 9/11. My son was able to call just for a minute and it was pretty much, "I love you, Mom! It's crazy up here and we're heading underground to bunkers!!!!!" I don't EVER want to feel that kind of fear again!!!!!!!

We will never forget 💔

7:57 Because of the way it was constructed. The WTC was one of the first buildings to use "central core framed tube" architecture, which relied on a very strong central core that was the anchor for external frames via floor spars, hence making a vertical "tube". The benefit of this was that the floors were very open, without the traditional pillars needed in common skyscrapers to the distribute the load. It was revolutionary at the time, but the biggest weakness was that if the spars between the core and the external frame failed, the external frame had nothing else to bear the load. THAT is why the towers fell, because the spars between the core and frame were not properly clad in fireproofing, and were thus able to be superheated by the fires and started to buckle downwards, which put tremendous strain on the weaker of the two parts, the external frame. When enough spars buckled, it pulled the external framing inwards (you can see it happening at 8:30 at the lowest floor with the smoke pouring out when the second tower fell, the whole thing seems to suck inwards moment before the tower starts to collapse), and when the weight of the building above that floor was suddenly accelerated downwards, you had a "pancake collapse" in that the weight kept driving downwards faster and faster, collapsing the structure.

@jamesmarciel5237

Ай бұрын

The spars between the core and the external walls were initially properly clad in fire protection. The weakening of the spars came because the initial explosion and shock and shockwave from the airliners hitting the buildings actually blew the fire protection cladding off the spars, leaving the spars vulnerable to the heat from the fires. These fires were extremely intense due to the large amount of fuel needed to fly the planes to their original destinations, as you mentioned.

@ghoffmann821

Ай бұрын

@@jamesmarciel5237 There's also a fair amount of evidence (i.e. video from a building dept. inspection) showing that the fire foam on steel structural members wasn't in the best of shape by the late 90s, and some areas were clearly not properly protected from the start.

@coolyoutubename16

Ай бұрын

You are talking out of your backside. The towers were destroyed using exotic weaponry. You're trying to argue those tiny floor trusses pulled down the HUGE columns that were holding them up. Not thd other way around. Wake up!!!

@jimmymcjimmy9743

Ай бұрын

@@coolyoutubename16 Oh Dear - Violent language but you are almost correct..!! actually destroyed by pre-planted Nano Thermite explosive which literally pulverised the concrete slabs and literally cut the massive steel beams and columns in a controlled sequence.. absolutely vertically - straight down onto their own footprints. Classic controlled Demolition . ... .. Molten steel was found in the basement areas 3 months later.. Jet fuel could not have melted all those Tons of Steel Columns and Beams.. Bomb sniffer dogs taken Off Duty a few weeks BEFORE.. - what a coincidence !!!!! and Why did building 7 collapse only a few hours later in exactly the same way . ?? .. because it was already " wired " and Silverstein said " Pull It " and raked in Trillions of dollars in compensation.. an Inside Job if ever I saw one.....No Arabs anywhere near ..

@kriscynical

Ай бұрын

​@@coolyoutubename16 Don't you have chem trails or lizard people to scream about? 🙄

Your so right!. It is sickening, people killing each other for religion!

@rafetizer

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure Bin Ladin was motivated by civillian casualties from US drone strikes in middle eastern countries. It doesnt justify his actions, but that is something that tends to draw the ire of people in other countries.

@miked.7245

Ай бұрын

Do you still think bin Laden did it?

@ej62133

Ай бұрын

Who DID do it ​@miked.7245?

@miked.7245

Ай бұрын

@@ej62133 the people who benefitted from it obviously. You don’t commit the crime of the century if it doesn’t benefit you in someway.

@ej62133

Ай бұрын

@miked.7245 who got the benefit, if not UBL? 🤔

I was 14 when that happened and had stayed home from school because I was sick. Every awful moment of watching that happen live and trying to comprehend what we were seeing is burned into my memory. It was a horrific moment in history.

September 11, 2001 was a global historical punctuation point. It was a pivotal event that changed the world. It marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new one - especially for air travel.

As a New Yorker who was in the city that day, here's something I've noticed that bugs me. Reporters often use the term "chaos" to describe the event. There wasn't chaos, except for the moments the buildings were collapsing. People were worried, but there was no widespread panic. Everyone did what they had to do. One thing I'll never forget is my friend who worked across the street from one of the towers was not heard from all day. Later that night, he showed up at a friend's house. He'd walked all the way downtown from Ground Zero to the 59th Street Bridge. Buses were being used to take firefighters to the scene, but once things settled a bit, some of those buses started picking up people who were walking home. That's how my friend got home that night.

@cmfdrama2

Ай бұрын

For those of us outside of the city, I’m sure it seemed like chaos was happening based on all the footage we were seeing. I’m guessing for those who were in the city, the atmosphere was more like one of disbelief and feeling numb. And much sorrow as well. The technology/social media of today was not around back then so it made things even more worrisome for people who couldn’t get in touch with their friends and loved ones right away. It’s hard to believe how much time has passed since it happened. Doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago.

@conpop6924

Ай бұрын

i wasn't alive that day, but thats how it always seemed to me. more just a bunch of people stunned and in disbelief at what they were seeing

@Jerseybytes2

Ай бұрын

@@conpop6924 my first thought when I heard it was, "what kind of schmuck can't see the towers on such a clear day when we can clearly see them from Jersey", then I figured the pilot had had a heart attack and felt bad for calling him a schmuck. Another thing that doesn't get mentioned a lot is all the posters of the missing. My local supermarket's doors and windows was covered in them. was really heart breaking to see them and realize most if not all of those people were dead :( What I don't recall is if my kids, who were in grammar school at the time, went to school the next day. I asked one of them recently, he doesn't remember either. He does know that his teacher asked him to run an errand to the principal's office and they had the tv on in her office so he saw the second plane hit the south tower. youngest was 4 so I doubt he remembers anything. tho I could be wrong. I mean at the time we were all in shock, and after that we never really talked about it.

This was the 6pm news bulletin, about 4 hours after the attacks. I was just settling down with a cup of tea at about 2pm (UK time) to watch some mindless TV before going to collect my daughter from school. They interrupted programming and switched to live coverage. The talking heads in the studio didn't even know what thy were watching at first. They were still speculating about some terrible accident with a light private plane, and then when the second plane hit, and was shown on their live feed, they didn't know what was going on. Then the pictures shifted without warning to the Pentagon, and the presenters were like "Hang on- that's not NY? That's Washington!" It all unfolded quickly from there. Those live images have stuck with me all those years. We lived a few miles from Stansted airport, and watching the regular large FeDEx plane come in much lower than nornmal over the town was really scary......because no-one knew if it was worldwide at that point.

@Lin1702

Ай бұрын

This is how I remember it too. My husband had gone to pick up our daughter from school. He arrived home to find me in tears watching the live feed. I remember the confusion and horror.

I’ll always remember that guy dancing in the street, laughing, saying “Candy from Bin Laden!”

I was 3yo, my mom was studying for college with the news on mute, i started crashing my toy planes i got from my grandpa, in military, into her leg, and pointed at the tv.. my mom then quickly called my dad, and he was already on his way to pick up my older brother from school

Brother, I was in 7th grade 1800 miles away in Louisiana, and I promise it was terrifying for everyone. We witnessed that second plane hit the tower on the TV and school stopped. They literally made us all leave class and go out to the baseball fields in the countryside of Louisiana because no one understood what was happening.

@ObserverAmanda

Ай бұрын

I was in 8th grade in Tennessee. They had us do this almost sorta "duck and cover" situations in classrooms for about 20 minutes that day because we have some chemical plants in the area that someone in the school system thought could be a target. (Even at the time, I thought it was a dumb thing to make us do because there were thousands and thousands of better places to attack in the US than the tiny towns in my area.) I had different classes each period. Some teachers just continued on like it was a normal day, but other teachers realized that we were too distracted to do any learning that day and many of them just let us watch the news on TV instead.

@stevedickson5853

Ай бұрын

Everyone thought ww3 was about to start

I lived an hour from New York City. I had a friend from high school who died in the South tower. It was absolutely surreal.

@mysteryelysian

Ай бұрын

I am sorry for your loss, my Condolences 😢

@reneedennis2011

Ай бұрын

I am so sorry 😞.

I'm in Australia. The coverage started late at night. The first news flash, I thought "This is a new way to promote a movie". When the second tower was hit, it was "Oh sh*t, it's real!" I knew Americans in my community who had connections via work etc to people who died.

Even though it's been over 20 years since this happened, I still find myself crying when I watch the footage.

On September 11, 2001, 343 firefighters and paramedics from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Most of them died when the towers collapsed. The firefighters came from 75 firehouses across the city.

@chanaselwyn9265

Ай бұрын

And that was more firefighters lost in one day, than they'd lost up until that day

It took about a decade of sifting through conveyer belts of debris to find identifying evidence of victims.

@kabirconsiders

Ай бұрын

Such a long time

@thamertanner5448

Ай бұрын

They are still working on identifying remains to this day and the department in charge of the identifications has sworn they will never stop until every bit of remains they have are identified. There are a few documentaries on it that get in to the DNA technology and science behind it.

@rpmexre1003

Ай бұрын

@@kabirconsiders I don’t know if you will read this but fun piece of evidence that i don’t know if you know. These buildings were 63x63 meters wide each and each around 415meters tall without the antenna. I know you said it is so surreal watching them collapse in one of your videos like if you were seeing Big Ben come down, something you just couldn’t believe you’re witnessing. I know this wasn’t your point but i just wanted to say Big Ben is still only 96meters tall and 12x12 meters wide. So despite how big and magnificent it is i just wanted to try and illustrate how small it really is compared to these buildings. They are just absolutely gargantuan and i had the same feeling as you even after watching all the angles of collapse videos it is absolutely unreal to imagine what the people there must have felt when they saw these buildings coming down and the horror.

Happened just before 9:00 am. I live in Brooklyn NY The air smelled of burning flesh for days. Was very scary no phones or TV worked properly.

I was on my way to work when the first plane hit. Once I was in the office, I vividly remember radio after radio being turned on to listen to what was happening. Once I heard about the Pentagon, I remarked that 'we are under to attack and our world will never be the same.'

The towers fell because the intense heat weakened the steel infrastructure. Remember that they hijacked planes that were headed to the west coast because they would have the greatest amount of fuel on board.

@djentyman4002

Ай бұрын

Absolutely spot on. It really isn’t a hard concept to grasp. It collapsed like a pancake because the steel weakened causing it to buckle under the thousands/millions of tons of building on top of it. No where else for the building to go but straight down. I hate the conspiracy theories saying otherwise

@topherd1011

Ай бұрын

Right. Because jet fuel burns sooo hot. 🤦‍♂️🙄 you do realize jet fuel is most similar to kerosene?? It isn’t some type of unobtainable fuel… it doesn’t burn anywhere near hot enough to melt steel and it also burns up on impact. Try again though!!! Oh and PLEASE do explain how the third building fell in completely on itself and it wasn’t even hit by a plane or this super special jet fuel.?.?.? How did the BBC know this building collapsed 20 minutes before it actually did?

@mmkm-tp7wx

Ай бұрын

@@djentyman4002 .. and the buildings were designed to fall straight down so they wouldn't and on other buildings , in that the architect succeeded remember the fallen honor the living USA !

@damien7157

Ай бұрын

@@topherd1011 It didn't melt the steel it heated it to the point that it became malleable(1/3 the temperature needed to melt steel) which caused it to bend and be unable to support the weight above it. Jet fuel also doesn't completely burn up on impact it burns fairly quickly though until there is no more fuel but it also sets everything around it on fire too. Normal fires left alone long enough would also cause a collapse all the jet fuel did was speed things up. Then when you add the gaping hole left by the impact that left part of the building more vulnerable to the fire and to collapse. This idea that steel needs to melt which means essentially become a liquid before it loses its strength is absurd. As for 7 WTC there are 2 conflicting reports one being 7+ hrs of fires( official report) and a global structure failure.(Unofficial). I would love for you to point to so actual real tangible evidence proving otherwise.

@georgea5991

Ай бұрын

@@topherd1011 "Try again though!!!" Don't need to; studied the attack...and report, in school. Saying that alone isn't enough to get people to believe it was an inside job. You know why? Third tier evidence (hearsay, speculation) at best 🤷🏻‍♂

At 14:25 he said that the attack on the 2 buildings was 8 minutes apart - it was 17 minutes…the 1st plane crashed into the building 1 at Eight Forty-six and the 2nd was three minutes after 9

Many people don't know that 500,000 people were evacuated by boats. Manhattan is an island. The coast guard saw how people wanted to get out of NYC and went over the radio and called for any boats that wanted to help. 130 to 150 boats all went down to lower Manhattan and loaded as many people as they could. It took 9 hours but they did it. True heros as many workers commute and don't live there.

This was before cockpits were heavily secured and flight attendants could freely access it during the flight, so once the hijackers overcame the flight attendants, it was easy to break into the cockpit and take over control of the plane if you knew how to fly. When I used to take roadtrips with my mom as a kid in Florida, we’d drive past a certain interstate exit in Venice, Florida and she’d always tell me that that exit contained a flight school where the 9/11 hijackers took private flying lessons to train and prepare for their attack. The unlucky owner of the flight school has lived with pretty significant regret and fear for his life due to unknowingly helping the hijackers in a way he didn’t foresee.

@77marioland

Ай бұрын

The planes also were always fully fueled for a cross-country trip, the fire from them was likely said to be the reason for the collapse of the towers and the extensive damage to the Pentagon.

@coolyoutubename16

Ай бұрын

Being a terrible cessna pilot doesn't prepare you to fly a 767/ 757 and make maneuvers that professional pilots couldn't do

@77marioland

Ай бұрын

@@coolyoutubename16 The trick is taking off and landing... if you don't have to worry about either of those then you could fly a jet from what you learn in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

I was working at Boston College that day. My first- job out of High School. A female student came into the bookstore *I think* around 9AM in the McElroy Building) and started wailin--g un-controllably and she dropped to the floor at the entrance to the bookstore where a TV was brought out. still remember her shriek in terror. She yells: "My dad was on that plane--! My mom and I just dropped my dad off at (Boston) Logan Airport this morning- at 6AM. O-M-G! My dad was on that plane!" Mr. St. Martin who managed the store came out to talk to her and interject reason. "Are you sure?", "Maybe it was a different flight number.", "Are you sure?". Other students tried the same. "Maybe he didn't get on." Maybe his flight got switched", etc. She just says back "no no no. He-- Was on-- that-- plane!" The chaplains at the school came down to whisk her away, and to council her. I'll never forget the pain and just sorrow in her voice. My heart broke for her. She'd be prob. about 40 years old today? I hope she's doing better whomever she was. The only other thing I remember about that day. I got a ride-home with a co-worker I didn't know, because everything was shut down. All the streets were deserted. I remember just thinking. The whole way home that evening I only saw 3 cars driving on the streets in Boston. Everyone was waiting on what would come next.

@DeRockMedia

Ай бұрын

Omg, that's so sad, poor girl and poor father. I hate to hear sad stories, but a part of me thinks that keeping the memories alive is better than not hearing then at all, I never know really what's better in the end 😢

@user-rq9cx7qg4o

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

I'm sure someone has already explained--the planes were loaded with fuel. When the planes hit the buildings, they pretty much went in and released that fuel. All that burning fuel down those buildings destroyed the buildings from the inside out.

It was the first time I had ever seen my dad cry. He's from the Bronx. His uncle and two cousins were killed in the first tower. 💜

7:05 The terrorists killed the pilots and threatened to blow the plane up if anyone tried to rebel (they had fake explosives). Back then, the idea of a suicide terrorist hijack was not foremost in people's minds. Usually, people hijacked planes in order to get something else they wanted, and they usually landed at the airport.

@Bleeglesplotch

Ай бұрын

That is so untrue. The United States was warned SEVERAL times in advance of this. Not to mention, people from CAVES are not going to overpower everyone on a plane, get to the cockpit, and EXPERTLY manuever planes to execute such an attack. Use your critical thinking skills here.

The jumpers chose how they died. I don't think thought they were saving themselves. RIP. Edit. I realize not all the jumpers actually jumped but fell or slipped while trying to get air. Just want to clarify that before anyone else comes to correct me.

@ryanc9888

Ай бұрын

They didn’t choose, they were forced out of the windows by the extreme heat, flames and toxic smoke. They inched closer and closer desperate for escape and air and eventually they basically fell out of the windows.

@Tateorsomething

Ай бұрын

@@ryanc9888 oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know there were eye witnesses.

@amberfuchscia709

Ай бұрын

​@@Tateorsomething...I was awaiting another surgery to fix a broken back. I was heavily drugged and so relied on my then husband for information. He turned the tv in my room on just in time to see extreme close-ups of people standing in the shattered remains of the upper parts of the buildings. We saw, on live tv, people falling , jumping and being blown out of the towers. Some were on fire. It was horrific. It was also played over and over for the next couple of days. The horror of it became seared into my brain. It changed our world. Everyone in the world now has to deal with the consequences of 19 terrorists hijacking 4 planes on that terrible day.

@girrl88

Ай бұрын

@@ryanc9888 Some of them may have fallen but there were plenty of jumpers as well

@DeRockMedia

Ай бұрын

It's so horrifying, and to think ppl were celebrating the death of innocent ppl dying, I try not to be blind of the evil around us but it's sad that it's out there. I live in CA and shed tears for what happened that horrible day. I hope if God exists, that those innocent people got taken care of.

I watched this live. I'm English, it's a day i will never forget, just so very very shocked. The dust from the collapse of the trade towers covered our cars, here in England a few weeks later.

I went to Washington DC the summer after 9/11 for my 8th grade trip and we went to see the Pentagon, it still had a gaping hole in it! You really didn't get the scale of the destruction from the news, seeing it in person was really overwhelming especiallly for a group of 14 year olds. I'm glad we got to go with our History teachers, it was a humbling trip for sure. I'm pretty sure I still have the photos, I keep meaning to dig them out because that's a unique documentation of history that I have in storage somewhere!

FTR, Flight 93 didn't crash in Pittsburgh. It crashed in south-western Pennsylvania, near Indian Lake and Schenksville. They wanted to take it to Washington, DC and crash it there, but pasengers intervened in a big way. Edit: There is a memorial in the field in which they crashed.

@impasse0124

Ай бұрын

I just drove past the memorial the other day and wanted to stop but didn’t get a chance. I’ve never seen that one or ground zero in New York. May all the fallen rest in peace 🙏🏻☦️

The movie United 93 shows how it transpired

@reneedennis2011

Ай бұрын

Yup. I've seen that movie.

Did you see BBC say the third tower fell 30 minutes before It fell. Im impressed I didn't know BBC had a pyschic.

@ahmadfaisal6267

Ай бұрын

💯... most of the comments written in this video blog are so clueless...

@SonicsGamingHub_YT

Ай бұрын

I’m sure you mean the 7th building, the one that collapsed at 5pm correct?

@no1arab502

Ай бұрын

Also those videos of the Palestinians dancing in the streets were from years earlier nothing to do with 9/11

I'm 21 now, so I wasn't around when this happened, but I remember first seeing footage of all of this in second grade. I remember crying my eyes out as it broke my heart. I've always had a soft heart, and I still get emotional thinking about it.

I was in school. My first hour teacher always had the news on for discussion later, so we all (11-12 year olds) saw the second plane hit live, back when everyone thought the first one was an accident. It really was traumatizing. By third hour every teacher was listening/watching the news and so were we. Kind of funny, my city has a skyscraper built by the same architect as the Towers, and my dad worked there. They evacuated it that day because they just didn't know what would happen next, so he was home when I got home from school, which was usually not the case.

Hi Kabir! The Saudis who flew the planes into the World Trade Center had gone to airline pilots training school in the U.S.. That's how they were able to fly into the building. The one that crashed in Pennsylvania did so because the passengers fought back. It was also heading to Washington, probably to hit the White House. I remember that morning because I had to go back home from work because I forgot something. When I walked in the house, my wife told me that a plane had hit a building in New York. As I watched, the 2nd plane hit. I knew right then that it was no accident! It was weird that evening as I sat on my deck how empty the sky was. Normally I don't pay attention to planes and helicopters, but the absence of them was very noticeable.

I was not far from the towers in lower Manhattan, but far enough I didn't need to run. It's was beyond devastating watching the towers burn and fall before my eyes.

I was in the hospital in Burbank, California on 9/11/2001. My son was born the day before. I wondered what world he was coming into. And yes some people celebrated...

People been dying from that toxic dust for years after the emergency workers and civilians

I saw this as an adult. I was in Michigan at the time but a week prior to the attack I was living in northern Virginia about 20 minutes from the Pentagon. I was shocked and horrified by the attack and thankful that I moved away before it happened. There are recordings of texts and phone calls from the passengers of flight 93 to their loved ones once they realized they had been hijacked. It's painful to hear knowing it was their last words to loved ones. I remember at first they showed the people jumping out of the building on the news but it was so upsetting that they stopped showing it. Those attacks unified the US in a very real way. We have our issues but if another attack happens we will once again come together. I don't think other countries realize that we aren't as divided as it appears.

I remember the fire engines one after another racing from Long Island with horns blaring towards Manhattan. Two of my cousins worked near Wall Street and the family didn't know where they were and a third cousin watched from the roof of his building people jumping out of the Twin Towers to escape the fire. All three cousins came home safely. There were 343 firemen who perished inside and outside of the buildings trying to save people.

My husband a police officer was there and I had to wait to hear from him.

Aww Kabir I, alongside my family watched as the second tower was hit,via the news 😔. The fear and devastation is unimaginable. My whole country was affected 😭.

I remember this all too well. I lived in Connecticut and was at work when this happened. I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the tower. Everyone in the office gathered around a small portable TV and watched in horror. My company had trucks just outside the city in New Jersey. All the bridges around New York were closed. He had no way home for a couple days. But at least he was alive. There were people stranded everywhere when all planes landed wherever the closest airport was. I was also pregnant at the time and i cried for days for my unborn child in fear for the world i was bringing then into. The trauma was real. I still cry and get that dread in the pit of my stomach when i see videos of the planes.

I’m an Australian and the first plane hit the tower around 10pm our time. Hubby and I were up watching the late night news when they suddenly interrupted the current story to report that a plane had hit the towers. I don’t think the news went off air at all that night and my husband and I rang family to wake them up and told them to turn the TV on and then sat up all night watching. When the second plane hit was when my stomach dropped to the floor. We were far away geographically but it still scared the heck out of me.

You're not displaying ego when you say that we should be beyond all of this madness, you're very much correct. Just like we should be beyond racism and hate of others just because they're different.

It was a devastating day. Most people remember where they were when they heard or saw the news. But Kabir im surprised, you as a kid in a different country, actually remembered it. Shows that you are a very compassionate person. RIP to everyone involved.

Thousands of people past from that smoke. Years later. It was around 5 thousand in total

Working for a 1st responders unit, I can still recall all the beepers going off. Usually it’s just one or two.

I’ll never forget. When I went to work that day and the day after and the day after that it’s like the world held it’s breath. We all thought more was to come. I live in California and I don’t think anyone exhaled for 3 weeks, it’s like the world paused and we were all heartbroken

In the months before the attack, the FBI had been tracking the *Saudi* hijackers as they trained at a flight school (I believe it was in Florida.) In their notes, they highlighted that the men were proficient at flying but having difficulty learning how to land.

@everypitchcounts4875

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Operation Able Danger

The heat from the jet fuel fire melted the steel and once it began to melt nothing was going hold up those buildings. Nothing built today would survive either.

@stmn346

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BS You’re apparently too young. Do some research.

@ESUSAMEX

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@@stmn346 I am most likely older than you. I am over 50 and I lost a family member in south tower when it collapsed. I am also an aviation geek who gave some serious thought to becoming a pilot. I have many hours of ground school and I have flown in over 220 flights in my life. Instead of giving people your BS statements and moronic facts, read below. Here is some facts: All the hijacked planes were chosen because they were transcontinental flights full of jet fuel. They were fully loaded and primed to burn very hot. Moreover, the planes were flown into the buildings to damage the core structure and trap people inside the towers. Once the planes exploded the jet fuel burned red hot for over an hour and this led to the metal weakening and collapsing the towers.

@xheralt

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Didn't _melt_ the steel. Even burning jet fuel isn't hot enough for that. The fire _softened_ the steel, which was enough to cause the structural failure. Same end result, but not exactly the means. Maybe you _should_ actually do research before jumping down someone's throat. Even when someone on the internet is being a pedantic ass. Don't take MY word for it, see it demonstrated in a practical fashion /watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA

@xheralt

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@@ESUSAMEX It's NOT BS. The only fault here is that OP specified "melting". We can agree that jet fuel fire alone isn't hot enough to melt (liquify) steel. Liquification isn't necessary; the fire _softened_ the steel, which was enough to cause the structural failure. Same end result. Don't take MY word for it, see it demonstrated in a practical fashion /watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA

@coolyoutubename16

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤡🤡

My husband worked at the airport the terrorists flew out of, in Portland, Maine. He smiled at them, scanned them and said they were very polite. All they had were their coats. Hours later, the attacks were happening and the FBI descended upon the airport, searching the terrorists rental car and belongings left behind. It was horrific. People were terrified.

Watching this made me feel sick all over again. I was sitting in class in highschool when this came on our tv in the classroom. It was dead silent everywhere and lots of silent tears. Life hasn’t been the same since then.

I was 23 years old and living in Austin, TX. It's so hard to explain the feeling that day. It felt like I was stuck frozen or trudging through wet cement...head spinning.

@KimberlyCaldwell-xb2if

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Explain to me how you remember this or even knew much about this. While In Texas at 2 yrs old? 🤨

@feivel069

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I had just turned 21 a couple weeks prior in Phx. Just remember not leaving my couch and being glued to the news for hours. I had never even heard of the WTC before that day.

@girrl88

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@@KimberlyCaldwell-xb2if lol what?

I remember being at work and hearing everyone yelling in the break room. The TV was so loud that people were crying out what happened. I thought, to myself, these people need to get back to work and stop fooling around because surely no one would attempt to attack the United States. Tears and chills still come over my body when I hear the national anthem. I hope we'll never forget that day. Rest assured that it we can never feel safe again.😢😢😢❤❤❤

I was 17, in 10th grade, 2nd period, ironically enough called US History class. I specifically remember it was 9:36am when another teacher came in and whispered it to her. We did nothing the next couple of days but transfer from class to class, watching the news.

Kabir, I am an American that has lived in Kentucky all of my 46 years and it still causes me to cry when I see things about 9/11. It hurts my heart and soul so deeply to think about all the people that lost their lives that day, not to mention their loved ones. Then there are the people that survived that day only to die later of illnesses caused by that day.

I was always curious to other countries POV of that day, thank you for doing this video! ❤❤