343 firefighters and 72 police officers died that day, they risked their lives to rescue people they are the definition of HEROES 🇺🇸

MOH recipient Dakota Meyer said on the Joe Rogan podcast, “I would never wish for another 9/11 but I’d give anything for another 9/12”. It’s such a beautiful statement because it’s the one day we all felt United as one

@shawnjohnson21

3 жыл бұрын

I had wondered if Covid would have done that when it started last year, but - nope.

@anonnnymousthegreat

3 жыл бұрын

9/12 is actually my birthday. I turned 12yo that year. But i hate how when people remember my birthday it becomes synonymous with a horrible tragedy. I always get people saying, “oh yeah I remember your birthday, it’s the day after 9/11”. Like my birthday is 9/12, not a day to remember that came after a huge tragedy. 😐

@erindizmo

2 жыл бұрын

@@anonnnymousthegreat My younger brother's birthday is also 9/12. He turned 18 that year. Talk about a sharp dividing line between childhood and adulthood.

@aauwhatitdo1582

2 жыл бұрын

definitely. It was a day that effected a lot of people positively. I remember 9/12 as vividly as 9/11. I remember the long drive I took to find a Marine recruiter, I stopped at a small town restaurant in the town's main square. There were random people praying together, embracing each other, and it is what when I knew that the world was still a good place, and one worth defending. Wish we could have another 9/12 every once in a while.

@wheredidthetimego8087

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I just thought that the other day.

So on 9/12 a lot of us on the west coast were looking for American flags to purchase and hang from our front porches. Talking with our neighbors, taking food and things too our local fire departments, And sleeping because most of us had been up for the past 24hrs watching the news trying to find out who just sucker punched us.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds incredibly surreal, a day few will ever forget

@sukioki6983

3 жыл бұрын

Very true. Im in California and you could definitely feel the sadness... 09/12 was my daughter's 1st birthday. Definitely didn't feel like celebrating... Just didn't feel right.

@kenmahoney5255

3 жыл бұрын

@@sukioki6983 up here in Portland I lived about 3 miles from the airport and to walk out on the front porch and not see the planes come over the west hills on their final approach and the quite of the neighborhood was and is a memory that will be with me for the rest of my days.

@polarisnorth

3 жыл бұрын

I lived in Washington State at the time and we were on very high alert because of Boeing and all of the military bases in the area. I was 11 and had been watching the Today Show live when the second plane hit. Being on the other side of the country from NYC and the Pentagon, I think the speculation was even more rampant because we knew so little and it was so hard to contact friends and family out east with the phone lines completely overwhelmed. With fewer people directly connected to force the issue, our school was very hush-hush on 9/11 and didn't tell us much. (This varied wildly from school to school but that's how mine handled it.) That only made the rumor mill worse.

@emmef7970

Жыл бұрын

I'm in a major west coast city. Went to work the next day, 45 minute commute, rush hour traffic, straight freeway. I have never seen anything like it before or after, seemed like thousands of cars & trucks flying flags of all sizes. It was amazing and those flags were flown for months. I have to assume the same thing happened across the country.

The fallen buildings were smoldering for several months after, some reports have it lasting up to 100 days before the smoldering conmpletely stopped, that would be the cause of the smoke. I would expect the checkpoints were to try and keep people who did not live in the immediate area from entering what could have some safety concerns or just control of people not overcrowding so soon after.

@tedsmith1224

3 жыл бұрын

At that time, I was a government contractor and it was my job to get the offices up and running again. This allowed me access to lower manhattan. The "fog" you see is dust from the rubble, smoke from small fires and steam and asbestos dust from ruptured steam pipes. The checkpoints were set up to keep the curious from interfering with rescue workers, who were still looking for survivors. Also the air in the area was still toxic. I find it ironic that 20 years ago that I had to wear a filter mask to stay safe in the area, and the same is true today.

I lived 3 blocks from the towers when this happened. We couldn’t go back to our apartment for 3 weeks. The check points was there to prevent people from going to ground zero because the authorities were investigating and searching for survivors etc. There was at least 3 inches of ash debris on the ground. We stayed in a hotel lobby that night and then we walked to canal street with my 5 yr old and 3 yr old to catch a taxi to find a hotel to stay for however long we were going to be out of our apartment. We were allowed to go back 3 weeks later. I was surprised weeks later when Red Cross called me a survivor. I really don’t consider myself one. It was hard to stay there so we decided to go back to California to my moms until January. We decided to move across the Hudson to Hoboken NJ after that. Sorry for boring you.

@honorsilverthorne7227

Жыл бұрын

This isn't boring.

@chrishourahan4207

Жыл бұрын

Not boring whatsoever. Thanks for sharing this story.

@chyrlwillis9422

Жыл бұрын

Not boring. This event was traumatic to everyone nearby and even watching it on the news. To have lived that close must have been especially disturbing.

@metalparasite

Жыл бұрын

Same. I lived a little further away from you. I was on the Lower East Side. We didn't have to evacuate but we needed ID to get below 14th Street. The bodegas and markets weren't receiving goods the day after so my father and I walked up to a newspaper stand on 1st Avenue and I wanna say somewhere on 18th Street and bought every newspaper we could carry as we knew in that moment, we were eyewitnesses to history. We did need to show ID to get back down below 14th Street and then again at East Houston Street.

The days and weeks after 9/11 were surreal. There were no planes in the air so it was eerily quite. You would see military helicopters occasionally fly over (at least on the east coast) as they were doing patrols. Many of our skyscrapers thought the US were shut down for days after due to the fear they would also be targeted. It was nearly impossible to make calls to NYC or DC (cell and landline). We were in so much shock, scared and vulnerable. Those memories and feelings will forever be with me.

@robbyrob0723

2 жыл бұрын

The blacked out helicopters with no lights flew around Los Angeles for about a month. I worked downtown and stumbled across military styled men with no agency or insignia of any type. They had brand new everything. Brand new military vehicles that were black as well in a tunnel beneath where I worked. I always wondered who they were. Probably some sort of contingency of government plan. Scary!!!

@TKDragon75

2 жыл бұрын

@@robbyrob0723 CIA or NSA probably. My Great Grandpa was NSA, even when the nobody knew the NSA existed.

@robbyrob0723

2 жыл бұрын

@@TKDragon75 maybe....it was bizarre though. Kind of reassuring and kind of scary at the same time.

@TheLadyDraconus

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up next to an airport and I can attest to the eerie quiet from no planes in the air. It was very surreal.

@nancyjanzen5676

Жыл бұрын

Except 4 days later the coast guard was flying a jet over my small city on the Texas coast. A barge hit a causeway and 280 feet of it collapsed at about 2:30 am. 8 people coming home from nightclubs died. And an Island town was cutoff from the mainland. For about 6 weeks our towns were using charter fishing boats to get across the bay and as a school bus. We had large numbers of rich Mexican tourists on Island as 9/16 is a holiday they celebrate and no car ferry to get their cars off Island.

The city (Manhattan) was shut down for a couple of days following the attacks. If you didn't live there, you couldn't get in. My friend worked for NY Sanitation and his job was to sit in a dump truck outside the Mid-town Tunnel and if necessary, block access to the tunnels in case of a vehicle based attack. The towers smoldered for days so that haze you saw was the dust from the towers coming down. I was at work and saw the fireball from the second plane hit and was on the last subway train that stopped at my station getting home to Queens. When I got on the train, both towers were still up but by the time I got off the train, people were talking about how one of the towers had collapsed. To me that was unfathomable as those buildings had been there my entire life and I would actually use them as landmarks to get my bearings when getting out of the subway.

@SliceofBread123

3 жыл бұрын

That's fucking crazy...

@CNep99

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't just a couple days of burning. It was exactly 100 days that the rubble burned

@fubar1217

3 жыл бұрын

@@CNep99 Damn, was it that long? I honestly wasn't anywhere near downtown for probably a year after the attacks.

I watched it live on tv. I was 20 years old. I’ll never forget it. I’ll also always remember how our ally England supported us after this horrible event. I’ll also always remember that Queen Elizabeth II had our national anthem played at the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace on 9/12 for the first time other than an official state visit. It meant a lot to us Yanks. We may bicker and squabble…but it’s nice to know that we have each other’s backs. Cheers from across the pond Kabir!!! 🔥🔥💯💯🍻🍻🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧❤️❤️

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely bro, allies forever and always 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@catherinelw9365

3 жыл бұрын

The Queen is pure class.

@anonnnymousthegreat

3 жыл бұрын

My birthday is 9/12, and i was about to turn 12yo. I was 11yo in my 6th gradd class and my teacher rolled in the tv and showed it to my class and i. We saw it live as well. I was too young to understand what was happening. So i thought it was a movie she was showing us. I didn’t think it was real life. I didn’t know it was real life until i saw the newspaper on my birthday. Let’s just say it felt bizarre for me to be happy for a day that mark another year of survival for me after so many lost their lives and loved ones. It was like i felt guilty for trying to be happy on my birthday.

@WinnerWinnnerChickenDinner1

2 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Did you react to 9/11 itself. Like when it happened. Or only after?

@JasonCarney.

2 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Yes, Kabir, that was ash fallout from the Twin Towers, not fog. I know it's been a while since you posted this, but I didn't see anyone answer your question.

9/11 has to be one of the scariest and saddest days of the past 30 years

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely. That day changed the world

9/11- This day is seared into my memory. The entire morning I can remember with such clarity. You can't describe the emotions unless you were old enough to have lived through it. I hope no one ever forgets this tragic day.

@heididietrich9800

2 жыл бұрын

It started out as a beautiful day, didn't it? The sky was so blue.

That day was the end of life as we knew it here in NY - the loss of so many colleagues and my job . . .I'd been home on 9/11 watching it unfold in stunned disbelief and then spent days on the phone trying to find people. 20 years later it's still painful to remember - every year they read the names of those lost and you're transported back again.

@reneehomen2226

2 жыл бұрын

Though we are all Americans, You were hit hardest with many lives lost. The rest of us felt for you. Ready for a fight. God bless you ❤ As well as the other places that were hit..The whole nation mourned with you.

I was working as a contractor for a naval base on the west coast when this happened. The morning of the attack, we had a potluck. When we watched it, I remember no one ate. All the food just sat there and we had to throw a lot away. The next morning, it was amazing, the transition to war time. The gate had security guards holding rifles, guard dogs sniffing every vehicle, all military personnel had sidearms, and we had to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for over a month until the national guard arrived to help. It was a terrible thing, as I knew someone who was killed that day at the WTC. What was heartbreaking was the thousands of photos of missing loved ones, posted on walls, billboards, asking if anyone had seen them. I couldn't sleep much for 2 weeks.

the passengers that took flight 93 the last thing heard by them was lets roll i used to have that shirt

My mother died on September 16th 2001. The whole week was a whirlwind. I was so devastated with the events that I experienced first hand because I'd taken off work to be with mom. While I was there watching here give up the ghost, I was simultaneously consumed with the 911 events. Even now I'm confused. The world changed on 911 and my world changed on 916. Such a terrible place in time.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry for your loss brother ❤️

I had pre-arranged a trip to NYC for 9/19. The air was still ashy, the roads and sidewalks barren. The establishments that were open were virtually empty. The worst was the smell of smoke, ash and decaying ... Very emotional.

I live in northern NY, so many of our local first responder volunteers went to the city to help with the rescue and quickly understood it would be recovery not rescue. As a 17 year old at the time I can distinctively feel the moment life changed here. 9/11 rocketed us into adulthood. My kids will never fully understand how much changed due to that day. The days after there was a numbness but also need to do something, gather supplies to send to the volunteers, raise money for the families, talk to a recruiter, try not to fight with your siblings. Just something. School for us wasn't canceled but we spent the rest of the week just having very blunt and honest conversations with our teachers. Suddenly we saw them in a different light. They were as confused, angry, afraid and upset as us

I was a senior in high school on 9/11 I was in the principal’s office and our school security guard burst in and yell we have to evacuate the school. My high school was about 25 minutes from D.C. but there was another plane that was supposed to hit Baltimore. They let us all out of school without anyway from 3000 students to get home. They just wanted us out of the school. Everyone was just happy to be out our school we didn’t understand the magnitude of what was happening. We went to go drink at my boy’s house and were watching live as the second tower collapsed. We were all just excited but remember we were 17 we thought it was the end of the world and drinkin… it wasn’t until the next day that we realized the horrors that took place we thought it was like an action movie until we realized how serious it was. This was the first time I ever felt depression. We drove up to NY in my friend’s car trying to go and help. We missed school for 2 weeks. Stayed at my boy’s uncle’s house in Brooklyn and would go to the city to volunteer to help. It was truly an unforgettable time. Will never forget how empty all the stores were and gut wrenching it all was. We were truly unified for a brief time afterward. No one had the energy to fight or argue about anything. It was the same when the D.C. sniper was out. That was another horrific time.

I love that you pointed out that they’re all 20 years older. I watched it live in disbelief and horror once I realized what was happening. It seems like just yesterday.

Hi Kabir, forsure one of the most tragic days in history, but you need to do a little research on a small town in Newfoundland Canada on what happened on that day. Gander NL, is a town of about 10,000 people, and has an airport that is historically significant. It played a very important role in WWII , but an even more important one on 9-11. You need to see about the story of how a town of 10,000 help 6,800 air travellers on that day and for the days following when the US closed its airspace. Astounding! Thank you for this one, and again, outstanding.

@polarisnorth

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, and if you ever get the chance to see the play "Come From Away" (about Gander and 9/11), I 100% recommend it. It's not depressing but it's still very affecting.

I was only 10 and my parents never watched the news around me because they thought I’d get scared (even though I was always off watching cartoons) but after 9/11 the news was on 24/7. I don’t have any family in New York but the moment that really made everything real was when my dad looked at the TV and bluntly said, “I was over there six months ago at (company name). I bet they’re all dead.” That’s always stuck with me.

@Blackdog06019

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda similar for me as well, but a couple years later. I had a gf in hs who's dad was supposed to be in Tower 1 that morning but had forgotten something at home and had to turn around.

@216pink

3 жыл бұрын

Same with me. I went there on a school trip when I was in 5th grade that was six months before and we stayed at the hotel between the towers. When I realized that. My heart just couldn’t take it

I'm one who clings to music as an expression of feelings... "Where Were You When The World Stop Turning" by Alan Jackson is a beautiful song that captured how everyone watching felt that day. But the song "Have You Forgotten" by Darryl Worley did a great job explaining the anger and pain that followed as we went to war. Both songs still serve as a chilling reminder of these truly tragic moments in time.

@ericavance5014

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite has always been Kristy Jackson " Little did she know ( she'd kissed a hero ).

@veronicah2225

Жыл бұрын

I always say Where Were You absolutely captured that day. For me, anyway.

What always stayed with me was the thought of people who left home going to work that day and they never came home.You saw your family for the last time and didnt even know it.

Twenty years, and I still have a very hard time watching that footage of that attack. I was at work at a restaurant when it happened. I came of the kitchen to wait on a customer when I looked at the television and saw the first tower burning. The first thing to come to mind was the time, about 100 years ago, when a man flew a plane into the side of the Empire State Building. Then the second plane came into frame and I was shocked. It could only be there for one reason.

Usually when there is a disaster or crisis in heavy populated areas , especially where people have to evacuate. There usually a security presence aka check points to make sure that proper people are in those areas and to prevent looting or more chaos

I was in my office on the 49th floor of One Liberty Plaza (across the street from the World Trade Center) when the first plane struck the North Tower. Debris started raining outside my office windows. Looking toward where the debris was coming from revealed the massive hole in the side of the tower around the 90th floor. Instructions came over the public address (PA) system to not evacuate but stay away from the windows. So I and a few other office mates went to our conference room, which had a view of both towers and a TV where we could listen to news. After watching for about 20 minutes we then saw the second plane approaching the South Tower. When it hit, a fireball erupted from the side of the building and came directly toward us. We all dropped to the floor. It dissipated before reaching us and the PA system then instructed everyone to evacuate. We could not use the elevators so we had to walk 49 flights down to the street. It took about 20 minutes because the pace slowed as more people filled the stairwell from lower floors. When we reached the street there were a good 10,000 other people who had also evacuated from their buildings. I lived in Greenwich Village, which is about 2 miles away, so I started walking home. I was about half way there when the first tower came down. I watched the 2nd tower fall just as I reached my home. That was the most surreal day of my life. The police checkpoints were to control access near the towers because the investigation was still ongoing and there was concern that some surrounding buildings may have taken enough damage to fall themselves.

15 years old and it felt like the world was ending.

Then like seven days later someone was sending anthrax in the mail, it was a stressful weeks for the US

I was in California woke up hoping I had a nightmare, couldn't stop watching the news, hoping they would find someone alive. I still cry!!!

This day just like pearl harbor lit a fire in the hearts of many young american men. I remember the guys slightly older then me signing up for the Army and Marines a week later. People were ready for a fight. By the time I was of age we had already started to see the the bullshit attached to "the war on terror" so my age group was enthusiastic.

@adirondackmama7724

3 жыл бұрын

And young women. Suddenly we had girls in our class who had never shown intrest in the millitary wanting to talk and find out how we could help. It definitely changed the paths of so many of my classmates. We went from applying for collages to talking to recruiters. within months our older siblings were being deployed leaving with the "joke" "save some for me!" Then when our town welcomed home our first fallen it reignited that anger.

The haze are the Towers smoldering and dust that still hadn’t settled. I live in Texas. That night we went to church and then the next day we donated blood. There was a very long line to donate blood.

9/11 was so unreal I know I will never forget when I heard what happened I was 24 at the time and working at a school close to a military base and right away they had us calling parents to come and pick kids up because they shut down everything around that base.. I remember driving home seeing so many people out buying flags to hang outside the house. I remember wanting to get every child I had to their parent as fast as I could so I could pick up my 1 year old daughter. Then siting by the tv for hours watching the news to find out what was going on. One thing I remember the most though is how quiet things were I lived near a military base and an airport actually the planes would fly over my house to land and not hearing or seeing one was the strangest thing to me. I remember how the whole country was so together about finding the people responsible. Now it makes me sad to see how far this country has gone so far the other way.

I remember 9/11 vividly. I lived in upstate/central New York back then, I was in middle school (8th grade). I remember being in chorus class.. and that’s when we started just watching the news coverage and forgot about school. No teachers were teaching, they didn’t allow us to change classes. Then we got sent home around 11am because they were afraid that schools were a target. It was insane looking back on it… all the confusion, the devastation. At that age it was hard from me to understand the scale, as I had never been to NYC before. But I went to NYC years later, and it really hits home the scale of it all when you visit the 9/11 memorials where the towers stood. But man, I tell u our country has never been more bonded together than it was following 9/11. We all were family to each other, didnt matter who it was, where you lived. Americans were never closer

I was watching the morning news and ended up watching TV for hours that morning and part of the afternoon. I told my husband I had to quit watching before I lost it. A trip to the store was surreal. No music on the radio, only news. No airplanes so it was eerily quiet outside (we live close to the airport). The store had the news over the speakers and no one was talking. I had to pick my 5 year old up from school and you could tell when he got in the car he had no idea what had taken place but the look his teacher and I exchanged as she put him in the car is something I will always remember. That eerie feeling went on for a long time and it's something I will never forget. I live on the east coast but not near NY. For the first time New York seemed extremely close.

Sorry but I still can’t watch this. After all these years the pain is too raw. I’m tearing up just typing this.

@noneofurbizness5838

3 жыл бұрын

Amen, or whatever prayers, wishes of good will to all who have suffered after that day. Needless lives lost everywhere.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Sending love your way Cheryl ❤️

@sukioki6983

3 жыл бұрын

Same! Every year when TV airs documentaries on 09/11 i still tear up and cry. So heart wrenching.

@rukus9585

2 жыл бұрын

Much love cheryl. I completely understand. Don't worry, because for every one that feels your sadness, there's still thousands of us on any given day that still only feel anger, and desire more revenge.

You're videos are great, Kabir. I only subscribed to your channel a couple of weeks ago, but your positive attitude & inquisitive outlook had me watching all the videos. I'm American and when Covid hit last year I got obsessed with British culture during lockdown, so it's cool to see you learning the same of the U.S. Keep those videos coming, man. 🇺🇸🙂🇬🇧

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words mate :) they’re honestly really appreciated!

Im an active duty U.S. army soldier..and its tragic its the fact the some one planned for years to target and kill as Many random civilians as they could...what ever cause you believe in that will have you do this to a people not bothering you..is absolutely evil..

@coolhorselover234

3 жыл бұрын

God bless you. My dad was called back into active duty right after 9/11, and we went to the airport to say goodbye on 9/24. I was 3 (turning 4 in 2002) at the time, and what I remember of late 2001 to Christmas 2002 was a nightmare. My mom cried daily, sometimes wailing nonstop for hours, and I prayed fervently every night and day. We had a ton of things going on that made that year stressful. I did my best to support my mom, my sister, and my newborn brother (born in mid 2002).

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Pure evil my friend. Crazy to think people like that walk among us without us knowing

@SJstackinbodys

3 жыл бұрын

@@coolhorselover234 i hope your dad made it home safely 🙏

@SJstackinbodys

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders and the scary part is..some parts of the world are full of them

@coolhorselover234

3 жыл бұрын

@@SJstackinbodys My prayers were answered, and he came home safe. There were a few close calls, and he ended up developing a skin disorder (apparently very common among those returning from military service during that time. It can be treated). Thank god I have him here.

A big thing that doesn't get covered enough is the resulting cancers. The towers were full of asbestos insulation that hadn't gotten a chance to be removed, and hence a lot of the dust you see people and places covered in after the towers fell was asbestos. Consequentially, there's been a huge spike in mesothelioma numbers in the last few years :(

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Reading that made me sad :( Even if the families were able to receive settlements, it won’t bring their loved ones back

Manhattan was really the only place was really messed up. I only remember how it was in Brooklyn. You could tell that something had gone horrifically wrong whenever a fire truck passed: they weren't FDNY trucks. There were rigs from Long Island, Yonkers, and Westchester. You'd occasionally hear an engine roaring in the sky only to look up and see two fighter jets side by side. That was the weirdest and most annoying change. And then all hell broke loose again when Flight 587 crashed in Queens in late November. Everybody was afraid that it was another terrorist attack. The city didn't go back to normal for months. For the longest time you'd have to walk through a phalanx of armed soldiers and military dogs just to get on the damn train. You had to have ID just to pass 34th Street into Lower Manhattan. And if you didn't have cable TV you were basically fucked for months.

I visited Ground Zero in late November (Thanksgiving) 2001 and the debris was still smoldering. I grew up in New York but moved out in 1991. Still had a lot of family and friends there and wanted to go pay my respects.

I had a very early college class and went down to the cafeteria for breakfast. There was a small circle of people staring at the TV, which was really unusual for that hour. I sat down across the cafeteria and wondered what action or drama film they were watching. Just a minute or so later, the second plane hit. It's once I saw the group's reactions that I realized they weren't watching a movie, but that it was really happening. The rest of the week was pretty surreal. We were on the other side of the country, but California and New York feel connected in a way that's closer than with other states. There was also concern for those of us in LA County that we'd be the next target.

❤️🇺🇸 NEVER FORGET!

I can't believe that in just over a month it will already have been 20 years....I still remember being in 11th grade sitting in history class when the alert came on the intercom....

I was 3 years old when this happened. I don’t remember too much about this, but I do know how massive it was to the US.

@Walkinjoy

2 жыл бұрын

I was around 3-4 as well, living in Boston at the time (where the planes flew from). I think I was at preschool . I don’t recall cause I was so young but I try to keep the memory by watching videos and honoring the fallen heroes. It’s important that the next generation keeps the memory alive and well.

It was interesting to hear that people outside of the United States felt our pain of that horrible day. It is incredible to know that the young people who are graduating from college were newborns on 9/11. This is why it is important to have footage so that day is not ever forgotten but if you didn't go through it you can't imagine the true feeling of that day 20 years ago.

Also on 9/12 just up north from ground zero 38 jumbo jets sat at an airport in gander Newfoundland feeding sheltering clothing and just being the best of what humanity is. Those planes held 7000 Americans as well as people from around the world when all the plans were grounded and could not make it back to the States. The people in gander are the best!

After 9/11 after so much intense emotion most people felt numb. How do you feel joy or purpose? There were so many emotions to process. I know many artists who turned their feelings into art.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

That day really changed the world forever. Everything became more serious, the carefreeness of the 90s was truly gone

@Obelov

Жыл бұрын

I was 17. I just remember the silence outside for days. Everyone had there flag ups and yet you couldn't hear music or people talking. No planes. No cars. Everyone just thinking alone trying to process everything...

Checkpoints are for security Worried about a secondary attack on rescue workers

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh I see

I went to Vegas a month after, and although we were told not to profile, every Arabic appearing individual was viewed skeptically. One year later made the same trip. At the casino/hotel New York, New York, there were thousands of T-shirts and uniform shirts from various police and military units from around the world hung on the wrought iron fence in front. My best friend and I were in awe at the massive show of support from around the world, one year later. Then behind me, I heard a young woman with a decidedly French accent say, 'It's no wonder these people have never been defeated". I unabashedly cried, and am tearing up as I type this.

That "fog" was at least partially dust from the Towers collapse.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

I suspected so, so much debris everywhere

@africa2303

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders that’s what happens when a bunch of towers collapse 🤷‍♀️

@robertkramer41

3 жыл бұрын

Concrete dust n toxins. Lots of folk are dead from that cloud, first responders etc.

@AddisonLawton230

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders Also Kabir 7 world Train Center also collapsed around 5pm on 9/11. There were fires still going on in the rubble from the towers too.

@catmancatplan4933

3 жыл бұрын

@@kabirconsiders The comedian Jon Stewart really cared for the first responders kzread.info/dash/bejne/kamN0qZ8Y7a4oLA.html

This is still so much in my memory. I live in upper NY state and remember on that day a large group of army helicopters flying over my home as I watched what was happening in the city. My heart stopped. They were on their way either to Washington or NY.

It still hurts, but what hurts the most is how much we've changed since.

Love your videos 💪💪💪 To put this in perspective, all the High School grads today were not yet born when 9/11 happened. Also, lets not forget 9/11 wasn't just an attack at the twin towers... Pentagon was hit that day BUT Most importantly check out Flight 93 Americans fighting back the hijackers and crashing the plane in Pennsylvania landfill. Will never forget! 😔

I lived across the country and knew no one directly affected by the attack. However, the morning of 9/11 was still extremely surreal for me. I woke up to radio news after both towers had been hit, but were still standing. I'd just started college and had class later that day but spent the morning after waking up glued to the TV. When I got to class, my teacher who'd been off of media so far that day had no idea what had happened and I was the first to tell her.

I was 11 years old, literally getting ready for school and watching the news when the first plane hit. I get to school that morning to learn it wasn't a freak accident, it was an attack on the country. Every period the teachers were watching the news, and I saw people jumping to their deaths rather than die of smoke inhalation. Live.

I don’t know if there are any good YT videos for you to react to about this, but maybe someone here knows of a few: There was an incredible response of people rushing to NYC from all over the country. Not only faraway police and firemen to aid in the recovery efforts, but just people getting in their cars and driving thousands of miles to the city to help in any way they could. It was America at its greatest. The boat lift operation you reacted to was an example of that, but that was just one tiny example.

@Rob-vy6zx

3 жыл бұрын

You see a bit of the same spirit of that in in the video here with the theater offering free screenings. Similarly a lot of people pitched in however they could, for example in the picture linked below. People were trying to help people. www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/member-of-the-national-guard-gets-a-massage-on-a-stretcher-news-photo/51719709

@Ira88881

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rob-vy6zx $500 for that photo? Are they fucking kidding? It doesn’t even look real…it looks staged…and it’s NOT a very good example of what went on during the days after.

To quote my dad on that day, “I’m as nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs”. On top of the shock and grief was the vulnerability of not knowing what was next, if there’d be another wave. You literally wanted to just hide under the covers. It was like a bad dream, but you knew it was real. It’s very difficult to put into words all of the memories and emotions surrounding those days, there’s just too much. A happy one was from church the following Sunday. All 200+ held hands in a big circle as the pastor prayed. After some ugly days, that small thing was such a comfort, feeling someone you might not even know just grip your hand. It was them saying, “I’m here, I know, we’ll get thru it, you’re NOT alone”. Meant more than I can say.

This is breaking my heart. I'd lived in New York, back in '95, spent the summer there working & doing my best to get by. It turned out to be too expensive for me to remain, so I came home - back to KC. But, part of me is still a New Yorker. I'd done the touristy things there at the time, including visiting the World Trade Centre, which was quite famous. In 2001, I was dating a woman who lived in New York, & we were desperately trying to contact her, but couldn't - all the phone lines end up jammed when something like this happens. We finally did get ahold of her a few days later, more or less safe & sound. She'd been uptown that day, at an audition, & after that all traffic was stopped, & she had to walk all the way back down to her flat - something like 5-6 miles, & she was an old woman (70s). I'm still in shock, & still grieve for the senseless loss of life.

Fun fact: 3 buildings fell in NYC on 9/11. WTC 1 & 2 in the AM, then The Solomon Bros building (WTC9) at around 5:25 PM. If you’re good at “Internet”, you can find the BBC clip of them announcing WTC9 has fallen, as it stands in the skyline behind him (it fell about 15 mins later). Then watch the building fall. Then start asking questions.

That fog was from the debris. It hung around for a long time and even though we were told the air was safe to breathe, it wasn’t. Many of the first responders have died from illnesses attributed to breathing toxic air. My mom’s breast cancer was attributed to it. She worked 8 blocks away at a bank. They reopened10 days later but the air was still unhealthy. The police were there to keep the peace, to let their presence be known and because we didn’t know if there were more attacks to come. It’s unreal to me that we’re coming up on 20 years. Today was the final cutoff date for filing for damages due to health conditions caused by the toxic air.

I was only 3 when this happened, when I was about 13 my dad finally told me where he was that day. We live in Alabama and I just assumed he was home but he worked out of town when I was a kid doing welding and pipe fitting bc it was good money. That day he was at Pennsylvania at an energy plant not too far from where that plane crashed. He remembers being on lock down inside the plant and thinking “if they hit us this whole place is going to blow and millions will loose power” I know he was very far removed but he says after that he quit traveling for trade work.

Thank you for doing this, Kabir... As an American, I appreciate seeing anything that involves this topic from foreign points of view.

I wasn’t born yet I was born in 2004 and I love skyscrapers but trust me it was 4 attacks, 4 planes were hijacked and there was no missile. The planes denigrated when they hit the twin towers, and the pentagon, the fourth one was supposed to hit DC but the people in the plane taught back, sadly they sacrificed themselves so it doesn’t hit DC

@FirstNameLastName-wt5to

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the official story. It’s unfortunate your generation believes that’s the truth.

@kristinewenrich2779

3 жыл бұрын

Funny, Im from a older generation, and that's what I - saw-. Too bad so many people believe conspiracy theories.

@FirstNameLastName-wt5to

3 жыл бұрын

@@kristinewenrich2779 I’m willing to bet you did not view the pentagon footage.

We also need to remember the plane that crashed into the Pentagon n flight 93?? That those brave people took over the plane n terrorists that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, They believed that plane was headed to the Capital or Whitr House

My dad was firefighter who helped clean people off after the buildings collapsed

The check points. I was farming in Florida at the time and had a crop duster (airplane) spraying a corn crop. When he got back to his airstrip the F.B.I. was waiting. They grounded everything that could fly.

Yeah, it's smoke and dust. Those streets are usually busy af. It's all cut off as we had a massive security fuckup mate! All aircraft were shutdown, ppl needed anything homey. We just got butfucked and went to war for... still. Yes it was massive. I was 22 and stared at my TV all day.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds so surreal man, the atmosphere around the city and the entire country must’ve been so tense

The rubble from the Twin Towers smoldered for days and weeks after the attack, as the rescue workers that survived, as well as volunteers from across the country, tried desperately to find anyone who may have lived through the attack, and subsequent collapse of the towers. That's where the smokey atmosphere was coming from. The sign on the movie theater said United "Artists", not United States. It's not a big deal, you just misread it, but you kind of asked which theater it was. It was "United Artists Union Square 14", just like the sign said. I was 21 on 9/11. I was at work while everything was happening, and listened to the news coverage on the radio all day. I didn't get to see any images or video of it, until I got home. It was absolutely unbelievable. I can't believe it's been 20 years...

On 9-11 I was teaching 2nd grade in Houston Texas. The code for lockdown was always this: they would get on the intercom and say “the time is now 9:11.” This was always the code phrase even before 9-11 to tell teachers to go into lockdown- we used code so as not to frighten the kids. I was new to teaching and had forgotten this. I looked at my watch and said, “I think they got their time wrong. What’s this about?” Another teacher came and told me to lockdown and said someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center. It was just a weird situation and hard to process at the time.

Man, the anger i felt that day!!! 🇺🇸 You can never break this country!

Oh sorry. I forgot to answer your question about the security. The video you showing was not of the views Below into the 15 block area. It was an easy to define area. 1 to 2 incs of thick white Ash and debris from the towers. Those of us who had to pass two check points of the two perimeters of security. First outside perimeters was NYC PD. The inner very secure area for workers only and family's who lived in that area, the security was Military Marines and Army all with high power weapons, The city police inside that same zone also were very heavily fortified with high power weapons and swatt type gear. I was at work the next day helping to get our communications equipment up and running. Microwave transceivers were put up on our roof pointed at our sister home office in New Jersey. Telecom companies from all over the United States and Canada came to Manhattan to help secure vital communications and power. Remember that next to the world triad center was a 1 city block Power substation that feed power to the WTC, and all of lower wall street buildings. Portable cell sites were set up on street corners. tied to a Microwave link. within day's we were back up. We being the people of NYC. Amazing how people tie together to help. Thousands of Volunteers came to the site with search and rescue dogs, Thousands of people came to help Feed the hundreds of workers at that site 24/7 rain or shine. just amazing. Every building in the zone in the Downtown area had Big tractor trailer flatbed trucks fitted with massive high power Diesel Generators screaming day and night so that everyone could get the infrastructure backup and running.

I was in DC on 9/11 in school and it is my birthday and saw the smoke from the pentagon. The next day, it was quiet and tons of national guard and humvees roamed the streets. It was like marshal law atmosphere, really eerie, but a real sense of wake up and go to work or school we need to keep moving

I could not go downtown to visit that area for a very long time. I lost a lot of coworkers and friends, and a lot of my Fire Fighter buddies have passed away do to them not getting the treatment from the promised company's. I will not go into that bull crap. I quit working in that area after spending half my life working on wall street. I left my job at AIG 2006, my first time downtown was March of this year. The emotions were enormous. Most of the firms are gone over to New Jersey, AIG is still there. When I walked up out the subway at the very same exit September 11, 2001, everything is not what I used to know. it has all changed. I grew up walking to work with my dad on day's school was out to his work place, the New York Telephone company where he and My mom found each other. That same building across the street from what was WTC. All gone

Its such haunting footage seeing what would be wall to wall people, but almost no one there. Its nice to see the dogs happy. I dont know if you know, but they had a lot of rescue dogs trying to find survivors in the rumble. However, after like 2 months they were getting so depressed because all they were finding were dead bodies, so the firefighters would hide in the rumble so they could find them and make them feel better that they found someone still alive.

None of us will ever forget that day. I live in South Texas and was 24 at the time of the attacks. I remember not being able to get through to anyone on a phone- busy signals all day. Our city is “military city USA” and there was complete silence- very eerie. Thank you for caring enough to do these videos. Love from Texas.

@nancyjanzen5676

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Port Isabel and the only planes that flew over my house were those staging for the air show in Harlingen. If I heard a plane I expected to look up and see a Japanese zero not the Coast Guard jet that was circling town 9/15.

Thanks Kabir, For letting me remember wanted happen.

That was the best silent documentary I've ever seen. Good share Kabir. 👍

Hi Kabir, I can't remember if you've said how old you are now or were on 9/11. But I was 11 at the time and so I remember the 90s a bit, and I can't overstate how the world shifted after this. In the 90s, there was a sense of peace, and the conflicts in the Middle East didn't touch us much as children. I remember having a lot of hope for the future and imagining us exploring space and saving the environment. After 9/11, there was never that optimism again.

The checkpoints were to control the traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian. They had to keep people out of the destruction zone because there were still fires, building about to collapse and they were still searching for survivors.

I was in the city of Boston on 9/11 where 2 of the hijacked planes took off from. I had my 4 mo old grandson and my daughter with me. We were at Childrens Hospital which had closed circuit TV. At about 8:50AM we left the appt and stepped out into mayhem. People were crying. Helicopters were taking off of the roofs of the hospitals. I picked up my cell to call home and some lady ran up and yelled in my face "They said no cell phones". Then ran away. We thought it was a movie set. We got to the main street just in time to see the second plane hit (tv in window of pizza shop) Suddenly about 3 minutes later as we were waiting for trolley, police and national guard showed up and evacuated us a mile walk to another stop. It was a different line so I told the cop I didn't know which train to take. He said it didn't matter. They were all going one way, out of the city. It was terrifying. The next day Boston was crawling with police presence. Logan Airport of course locked down. It was all so surreal. 😎

Being humbled, is a great teacher for bettering yourself. And always praise our Lord Jesus Christ 🙏💛🙏

It reminds me of the Mura building in. OKC, Oklahoma the day after it was blown up. I still remember hearing the explosion 20 miles away it shook the crap out of the building I worked in, 2 of the saddest times that I can remember. You should do a video on the the Mura devastation as well. I will never forget either one of these events nor will I forgive either.

I’ve seen this before and the gentleman at 3:35 always stuck in my mind. The look on his face is so haunting and fills me with sadness. My guess is that he had a loved one that is either missing or was killed during the attacks. I hope things are better now for him and everyone else who was affected by the horror of 9/11. A day I’ll never forget

I was 20 when this happened and it's a day I'll never forget. Remember being glued to the TV sobbing. At the horror that unfolded in America 🇺🇸. Definitely broke us down, but ironically brought Americans together. I'll never forget. My heart goes out to the people who died and the families who lost loved ones 💔 😢

Every time bodies were brought out from the ruble people wanted to see if it was the loved ones they were looking for and Also Security Was Increased Searching for Any and All Terrorist Who May or May Not Be in the Area Still

I was in pre-school in a chicago suburb we got sent home early by grade levels youngest to oldest everyone’s parents parked ran up to their kid/kids and grabbed them and just hugged for a few seconds then everyone who had their kid was asked to move on unless they are waiting for another you could feel everyone was being weird but not understand it

It'll be 23 years ago this September... Everytime I watch any video about "9/11" the feeling still exists... Raw pain knowing people did this to people. Sadness beyond description for _every_ _single_ _innocent_ (non-hijacker) _person_ affected by those four hijacked planes. Rest In Peace.

I remember the day too. We were trying to find out were each member of my family were for the entire day. After we were sent home from school I went to look for 3 of my siblings at my HS so we could head home together. Once home I found my younger siblings safe and my mom was țp trying to locate my dad who was working at the UN at the time. I had to get materials for a school project due a few days later so I asked my uncle to drive me to Jamaica Ave. All of the streets in Queens were empty and I could sense the fear and utter disbelief at what happened in the faces of the few people I saw on the sidewalk. I was în a short of daze, and as new immigrants my family and friends were fearful of retribution.

No, it's not all smoke - it's ash, & fine debris from the materials that made up the buildings.

I was in Boston, at the airport from which the hijacked planes took off, at the moment the planes struck the towers and Pentagon. The moment it was obvious it was not an accident, all departing flights were canceled, and everyone dashed for the rental car counter. I got one of the last vehicles available, which was fortunately, a minivan. I picked up colleagues in Cleveland, Chicago, and Minneapolis on the way home. They had all been stranded in those cities with no access to transportation. It was easily the most surreal experience of my life.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Goodness me. The sense of panic and urgency in the air must’ve been huge. My parents were glued to the news all evening, that’s pretty much all I can remember

I was not in New York but my husband right when we realized what happened. He being a firefighter went to help all the firefighters who were lost. It shows the mourning of our nation.All places that were hit. NEW York. The Pentagon and the passengers on the United flight that saved many by crashing into that Pennsylvania field. As a nation we mourned with you all!

The fog in the air is smoke and dust from when the towers fell. i didnt live through 9/11 but people have told me that the dust and fog lasted for a long time like at least a week.

There was massive police presence because we didn’t know if there was still a threat and certain areas had restricted access .

It’s really hard to overstate the impact this day had on, not just the US, but the world. Life changed after that day. The way we travel, security postures, entire new bureaucracies like the dept of homeland security..if you were over the age of 5, in this country, you have a where we’re you story. I was in college, and I know people that left school to enlist the next day. They couldn’t sit in a lecture hall.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I was only a kid when a kid when this happened and I remember everything had a more serious tone moving forward and security was heightened everywhere

Being so young at the time, I only remember the massive lines of cars to get gasoline. I mean literally miles and miles of cars lined up to buy as much fuel as possible. It was so different they sent everyone home from school. We thought America was about to explode in conflict.

Ok I got out of the Army December 12, 1994, after Desert Storm, and tours in South America doing drug interdiction... On 9/12 2001 I told the wife I was going to reenlist, she said no, she had served her time as a Army wife and if I wanted to see her or our kids again I better reconsider.... And I did... Sometimes family needs to come first, but it has worn on my soul for 20yrs that my skills could have helped

I'm 32 now, about to be 33, I was 12 that day, all of a sudden I see everyone running inside from recess, so I follow to see what's going on. Everyone's in the classroom, barely any words spoken. It just hit, our hearts, there's nothing that really could be said. I was so young, it hit me but I didn't know what was going to happen. I also live in NC, have my whole life, so it didn't really affect me or my family. Well I don't know how it affected my parents. This video brings me to tears, I doubt I cried on the day, but it is a day I will never forget.

On 9/11 I was working in a small shop. We had no TV and no Internet for the shop's computer. In 2001 my cellphone was obviously not a smartphone. All we had was the radio. One of my vivid memories of that day was the several hours at work when I could only imagine what it all looked like.

@kabirconsiders

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a day you’ll never forget. I pray the horrors of that day are never repeated!

9/11 was crazy. I was sleeping at home in Wisconsin when the first plane hit. For some reason my alarm clock woke me up 3 hours early. I went downstairs and turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit the towers from the live broadcast. To this day I don't know why my alarm go off. It was too old to have the electronics in it to start itself because of a national emergency. Even all the way over in Wisconsin everything just stopped. I worked at a pizza place that night and it was the slowest night I had ever seen. Business just died. That pizza place and a lot of other businesses just died in the months after 9/11.

I must have been 8 or 9 at the time, in one of the suburbs close outside NYC. It was an honestly surreal experience. Like for you, you could instantly tell that all the adults were worried. We were all sent home early from school. Some kids had family who worked in the city, parents who didn't come home. Most local TV and radio was broadcast off of the WTC, so if you didn't have cable it was really hard to get info the few weeks after 9/11. I remember being pissed that I missed my cartoons, the sort of silly shit kids get on about when they don't really understand what's happened. The atmosphere in the air afterwards was strange; the country unified around a need for vengeance instantly. You had huge amounts of love and hate in the air simultaneously. It was definitely a loss of innocence for a 90s kid in the USA. You learned about the kinds of things humanity is really capable of. It's one of those lines in your mind between the carefree period of childhood and the time in your life when you begin to really worry about the world you live in.

It is a mixture of smoke, ash, rubble dust from buildings. It blanketed a large area for a very long time. Check out one of the memorial/anniversary videos. The time it took to organize the search and rescue, companies to get medical, industrial, construction, cleanup was insane