Good idea. I thought the location was in the description. Sorry.

Thats wild, how you find this video?

I've actually never seen till now what people in other parts of the nation were doing during 9/11, I do remember my late father telling me that at his job (as a tv repair man) they saw it all unfold live just like everyone else, and since they couldn’t focus on anything work related, everyone went home early. I was 14 and at home from school, sick. Mom barged into my room to tell me to put my tv on the news. I think it was soon after the second plane struck. At first I had no idea what I was seeing, I knew nothing about the WTC towers or just how big they are. I would normally never watch the news for anything cause I was just a kid that was hooked on the PS2 and watching MTV, but the replays of the jets impacting the towers, and then watching them collapse live is when the horror started to set in. And like most other Americans, I was seeing red.

How did you go about choosing which TV to watch? Biggest? Most expensive?

Wow that is you! 22 years older! Time flies… 🕰️

I know right?

Sad.

So many things that cannot be spoken and hidden..

Operation Enduring Freedom was one thing, Operation Iraqi Freeeom was another... Still looking for those WMDs...

Can confirm. I was 22 then, life was much better before 9-11

Oooof, that SO scary...so dystopian. It's kind of like that film Bushwick where there is this 'out of nowhere' attack that turns your world utterly upside down.

I remember the air traffic control coms chatter about 30 minutes after the 2nd plane hit (I didn't get to my station until then). They (both civilian and government) were not playing around.. everyone was forced down to the nearest landing strip that could land their aircraft. They were not polite about it.

God bless you.

@@Grisbane that’s super interesting, are those recorded anywhere? I’d love to hear that.

@@Grisbane I once heard a story about an elderly GA pilot in a Cessna 150, flying near Sarasota, FL, where the President was at the time. Old timer didn’t fully understand how serious the order to land was until greeted by an F-16 on his wing.

"....that we were under attack." Yet nothing more after this happened. That's what I didn't like the day of this event, all of the ignorant speculation and then xenophobia that was expressed everywhere before anyone knew details of this horrific event.

You don't seem old enough to be getting married that long ago. If so, you're very pretty for an old lady.

@@CoopyKat Oh my gosh, grow up.

Yeah, typical woman makes a tragic event all about her.

Congrats to you both. I can't fathom the mixed emotions you must have been experiencing that day.

Couldn't agree more, but I would add that 9/11 was the end of hope for a better future. I remember reading in 1999 articles how the new millennium was going to be different from the 20th century, a brand new start for mankind in an era of peace, prosperity, worldwide democracy and equality for everyone. War was a thing of the past, we had grown past that stage of our human evolution, and never would we senselessly kill each other again. The future was here and everyone was excited. Even into the year 2000 everyone seemed excited for the new millennium, and what positive things the future might hold for us all if we worked together. All that ended on 9/11, and it's been downhill ever since. The rise of social media certainly didn't help either. And now 23 years later it looks like the 21st century is shaping up to be even more violent and divisive than the 20th, and it's still got 77 years left. 😢

Couldn’t have been said any better 🙌🏽

@@VitZ9"the end history" they called it

Between that, constant war, terrorism, the pandemic, and the decline of our economy and civilization... All feels so very dystopian.

@@MasterJediDudethat’s a bit over dramatic tbh

I worked there in 1992. Actually it was one of their subsidiary stores called Impulse. Not sure if you remember it. They were only in malls.

Bought my Walkman anit skip there for Christmas 😭 when I was 14 in 2002

LOL

and CompUSA!

And Babbage's!@@CEWIII9873

I know the same here I cry every year in the beginning of September 💔😢 so heart breaking

And we were stuck with the absolute worst president ever to "lead" us.

Exactly those feelings. And not being able to turn off the radio/ tv reports!

No, we're dealing with the absolute worst President ever right now.

Yes, it's unimaginable that our own government will murder its citizens as a justification to start a new war.

Was just thinking that, it's like someone out of time filming this. Incredible presence of mind

It wasn't an either/or. Filmed both, like most videografers. This is just a small clip.

Absolutely, brilliant alternative reportage.

I can't imagine. As children we didn't fully comprehend but we sat and watched. We later talked about our shock and inability to understand it. We sat in silence after our principal gave us a message about it. When I went home I immediately wanted to record the news so we'd have it. My family didn't want to have anything to remember it but I did. I remember months later putting up poster of the towers, American flag and all instead of the other stuff I had up. I became more interested in purposeful shows & politics. Saying the pledge felt different. Soon after the student body stretched out across the school and we joined hands with flags in our hands and sang the national anthem. Eventually I took that stuff down because I guess I wanted to move on with life but I still had some type of American flag or something to remember. I still remember that day but not because the tragedy but because the unity that came after even if it was temporary. We need that unity again but people just keep trying to keep us divided because they don't like the flag, the unity or America in general. Eventually we'll need that unity whether we want to or not. We can't let tragedy the only thing that unites us.

@@JohnDoe003 Very nicely said JohnDoe003 - - PS - - Did you ever see the Frank Capra movie _"Meet John Doe"?_ Black & white film from the 1950's - - same director who made _"Its a Wonderful Life."_ Have a feeling you'd like this movie 🙂

@@_Breakdown I have not. I haven't even watched It's a wonderful life all the way through either. I am interested in old films because it seems those movies were for everyone or generally more thoughtful. It took me a long time to even see Wizard of Oz. Although it's okay, I don't exactly understand the fanfare over it. People seem to impose their own "culture" or views on it. I'll have to check that out I guess. Thanks.

@@JohnDoe003 i think you will like it bc of what you were saying about the need for national unity - - it gives you that kind of spirit at the end (which I won't ruin) 🙂

@@JohnDoe003 damn bro you just had me remember something. I don't say the pledge (for obvious reasons) and around this time I was in Kindergarten not saying or standing for the pledge. I couldn't understand how people (adults) could be so upset with me for that. They called my mom and everything... 😵😵 9/11 🤦🏿‍♂️

What was the mood like in the prison when this happened?

If I was in prison seeing that it would make me feel better about where I was. Least I wasn't trapped in the towers! 😄

@ObscureStuff420 It was quieter than usual,, we watched the news until lickdown at 10 PM and there was no argument from anyone wanting to watch anything else. Inmates were stunned and saddened just like everyone else.

Prison lol. Bad boy

I'm afraid I could never go there (to the 9/11 Memorial) I get some weird, uncomfortable vibes if I go someplace where something really bad has happened. I thought it was just the 'power of suggestion' until it happened once when I didn't know ahead of time why I felt that way, and a tour guide noticed and filled me in on what HAD happened.

So dramatic. Nobody said words for days? Lmao

​​@@user-vi4xy1jw7e yeah I don't remember it being that way. I remember my teacher saying that bush would have the guard out to defend the coasts (?) And the radio stations playing stuff like Enrique Iglesias "hero," u2, and "god bless the USA". And everyone bought a flag.

@@user-vi4xy1jw7eActually, I was working in Manhattan at the time. If I tell you, it seemed like no one cracked a smile for two weeks on the streets. It was just so shocking and I guess we found it difficult to laugh, at least in public. It was bizarre. YMMV

I was in Los Angeles and I 100% agree with you. Just stunned silence.

@@user-vi4xy1jw7e That's the way I remember it.

10th like

I was in 3rd grade that year I remember

Me too I was actually 8 years old but I remember that day like it was yesterday. I even remember what I ate for breakfast that morning which was ego waffles. It was just like any other day. They didn't send us home early from school that day so I found out what happened when I got home from school. I was to young to understand exactly what was going on. I just knew that it was bad. My parents were also very sad.

I was 12 and I believe I was in 6th grade 🤔 I lived on a Canadian Military Base CFB Borden And I can remember the state of shock all the teachers were at my school everyone was just getting settled in when the intercom came on getting the classes to pay attention for a important announcement in the as the teachers pulled out the rolling TV Carts and hooking the cable wire to the back of the TVs and we watched footage caught by news reporters and then the presidential speech later that night I can remember being glued that the television for weeks as I herd more and more information on that dreadful day as the first responders and volunteers worked hard to save anyone they possibly could.... The world changed that day the 90s were gone and a new era began 😔

I was 10 year's old in 5th grade at that time I remember my class was in the library when all of a sudden my teacher turned on the tv and we all saw what was happening so yeah if you're in my age group that day changed everything our childhoods kinda got ruined by that day we really got a wake up call from the real world at an early age on that day as a millennial I can honestly say the GEN Z kids have know idea what it was like to live in a pre 9/11 world and just how different it was.

I remember that silence.

Kind of like whenever an Ikea opens for the first time?

Everyone remember Oslo as well because it was all over the news too but the fact that the United States are the first power in the western world makes it more memorable for all of us ..

Worked at a storage facility outside the city of Trondheim, north of Oslo. Someone came to my truck and told me there was a bomb, then i thougth it was jihadists. When i heard there was also a shooting, and that the shooter had surrendered to the police, i knew it wasnt jihadists (as they would rather take suicide) but probably an extreme right-winger, and i was correct. The next day we had a minute of silence at work, then the day went on as usual, but of course you were always listening to the news on the radio.

I would be the only one working and having fun. Nothing effects me as long as it doesn't touch me. I have no emotions.

Yeah, it is.

Worse than before then. How quickly people forgot.

Technology ramped up so fast mid-2000s, it really is a window into the past.

Turned off the television, went about our day. That’s our story.

@@mr.butterworth4216😐

lol Bud, there are millions of people out there who've never even heard of the event at all - let alone actually care. Relativity...y'know?

@@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid he means in the country. should go without saying

@@fermiparadox6787 no, actually it was in the city. What I mean is, there are people out there who had life things to deal with before and after 9/11. Personally, I was homeless at the time technically, so had that situation to work through. Dwelling on sone national tragedy was not part of that effort.

Except people across the Middle East right? Because they've been going through its for the last 5 decades and Americans don't give a shit.

I was 6 when this happened and although my memories are vague I stick remember feeling a sense of unease

​@RB01.10 I was 6 as well. I don't remember the day of, but I remember the aftermath. I'm from Rhode Island.

The anger of who did this and why.

yeah I was on the west coast but it still felt like a punch in the gut

The Pentagon is in Virginia granted in the DC metro area part of the state, but still, just for clarification sake it should be brought up.

Abu Grhaib victims were also victims of the 911 tragedy.

9/11 happened specifically because of our actions abroad, death to america

@@stephenholloway6893 If you were from the area you'd know Arlington is lumped in with "D.C."

Thanks for sharing bf0189. Yes there was the anthrax and the crazy snipers. Do you remember if they let you out of school?

I was also in 6th grade when it happened

i remember the anthrax attacks attacks that flowed i remember Halloween that year nobody was trick or treating because they feared of candy being tainted with that i remember

I was also a member of the class of 2008, and I remember FREAKING OUT in class I had to leave to calm down. You didn’t know what was gonna happen next.

@@vampirerobot since I was in Florida only if the parents opted out I'd imagine it would be different if I was in the NYC metro area! Sorry for the late reply !

worse than: "Don't taze me, bro!"

Over dramatic

@@hynkie Yeah, let's be sure not to lose ourselves in overly sentimental expressions while we ponder nine FUCKING eleven you dunce

Review your understanding of the word "dystopian". 👍

I couldn’t escape from those images because my mom had the tv turned on the news the whole time instead of cartoons.

No smartphones yet to watch it unfold, but you had a TV in your home, or somewhere to watch 9/11.

Wow...what a story. That was also kind of you to donate.

I was at the blood bank too that day. There were so many people.

Oh my God. I'm sorry to hear that story. None of us will ever forget or get over any of it. I didn't even attempt to walk over the bridge or anything like that, I was working in midtown that day at Museum of Television and Radio, they closed up the museum by 10 a.m. or so, let us all go. Instead, I talked to coworkers, then hung out near MoMA for an hour listening to a jewelry dealer's radio like a bunch of us in the crowd there, then he turned it off to go back to work, then I ended up hiking alone all the way downtown to 20s East, first, had a snack, saw what was going on on TV there in some restaurant, then I later hiked over and down to 5th Ave. and 15th St. to see a good friend of mine who was still at work, thought most had left already, and also later that late afternoon I had dinner with an old friend of mine S. T. Joshi who lived right at 15th St. and 5th and 6th Aves., at the time, he's a famous horror/weird fiction author and editor, etc. and i"ve known him since 1983 or so. Later he got married and left NYC for upstate, and then Seattle, WA later on. I didn't think of walking home because the idea didn't seem like a great one to me, given what was going on. The trains didn't start up again till I think, 5:30 p.m. or so that evening. I didn't get home until 7:30 p.m. or so, and I recall it being twilight as I walked home from Queens Blvd. in Rego Park, to my apt., the skies were silent minus fighter jets or copters. you could hear a pin drop all over the city, and the R train wasn't even crowded, almost nobody on it going home. One weird thing is, the year or two before this, I worked at a major printing co. in LIC and we did tons of stationery for Marsh and McLennan and other major WTC financial companies, and i personally proofread and QC'd tons of business cards etc. for Marsh employees. I wonder how many even survived that I did their stationery and personal documents for. I know Marsh lost a lot of people that day. At one point that day I walked near a huge manhole that was blowing smoke and dust and stuff that smelled horrendous on Lex. or Park Ave., at 18th St., and I ran west as fast as I could, to get away from it, because, I knew it was total bad news to stay near that!

How did she die in something which never happened?

@@CEWIII9873people talk about you when you’re not around. They wonder what’s wrong with you

You're not real so it doesn't matter.@@CEWIII9873

Your last sentence hits hard. I've heard the stories of all the nearby hospitals getting prepared for a mass casualty event, and blood donation centers going into crisis mode, only to not even need any of that.

Thinking it might happen again, that's when security was so tough in the United States.

Back when video cameras existed and camera phones didn't exist yet in 2001.

I was fine, fatty

Changed for the worst

Yes it did @montanaminck2226

So sad 😢

yeah it's all been downhill since that day

@@shaunsteele6926yup extreme religion has gotten much worse

Maybe he's a time traveler

Very eloquent, Jayce. 😢

How do three enormous Boeing aircraft manage to disappear completely after allegedly ramming reinforced structures?

I remember being a kid and running for dear life every time I saw an airplane. Afraid to go outside for weeks.

almost as bad as when Bed Bath & Beyond went out of business?

@@CEWIII9873 either you are out of meds or you are a bot

I had that feeling on January 6

@@ge3412 neither I just have been restless since your m0m stopped turning tricks for pocket change.

Did he really?

I was a freshman in college. Went straight to the recruiter on 9/11. Signed up for active duty infantry. Ended up serving in Iraq which was a bullshit war, but I’d do it all over again if I had to.

@@scottsword3066 why not Egypt or Saudi Arabia?

@@CEWIII9873 Why, indeed.

@@scottsword3066 Wow. That's several tiers of stupidity captioned in just four sentences. Outstanding efficiency! lol

This happened right after my 19th birthday. You are right, they played it over and over. Non stop.

Wall to wall nonstop. I remember this as well along with the threat ticker at the bottom of all the news channels. Interesting that you listened to the live Stern broadcast...famous indeed. Thanks for sharing Flute Basket

I was 20 and I also heard it. I'll never forget the racial shit that they said over the radio that day. Shit like how Japan was brazen to attack us and now Jackie Chan dances to entertain America even though the guy is fucking Chinese! 🤣

I was also 18 at the time.

I was on the West Coast as well. Stern started at 6:00 here, 3 hours after the show really began. I remember listening to the show knowing that it was about to happen which was wierd.

@@SallyBalls-22 Yeah, the station I listened to started the broadcast a 3am, then repeated the first three hours at 6. They didn't play the repeat that day which is kinda the only reason I knew something was going on

That’s weird. I didn’t even care 🤷‍♂️

@@reginaldforthright805 me too...

😭. Native here too

I hope that you have beaten the cancer. People with a powerful sense of empathy can feel passion as of out were their own. You didn't have to be at the site of the attack to suffer lifelong grief and PTSD. I'm so sorry all of this happened to you. Wishing you good health, peace of mind, and strength.

I have beaten it twice! I love NY and even though I don't live there anymore, I still will always identify. As for 911, it happened to us all, but I just felt it as if I were standing there. I wish peace to those who were involved and to their families. Thank you for the lovely and kind thoughts. Peace and health be with you!@@MrsPicklesIsHome

were people lined up at the recruiting station in the days after?

@@starmaster191 we received a tremendous increase in people trying to join about a week later but people called to join the next day. I think people were still grasping at the significance of the events on the East Coast but I'd say for about a year people were trying to join as quickly as possible. But Army and Marines had people joining right away.

Ah, that makes me sick. Are you from the US?

(X) Doubt

​@@psychedeliccarrie5921It's literally recorded on video, anyone can watch it.

Look up the dancing israeli's, there were a group of Israel spies who were seen dancing after 9/11 in NYC. 9/11 was orchestrated by the U.S. military industrial complex and Mossad to justify invading the middle east, it had nothing to do with Osama. IDF and Mossad = largest terrorist organization in the world, they are committing genocide on unarmed women and children.

A sick people.

I think the first months of the pandemic are comparable in being life-changing.

Until Donald Trump came along and sided with the terrorists. He's in business with them and his son in law got 2 billion dollars from them. America will never see a bigger traitor. 91 criminal indictments to boot.

I miss toys R us, circuit city, Sears and other stores from the early 2000s.

🙏♥️

I am from Springfield, Ma and yes you are right that the first two planes that hit the towers took a left right over Springfield Chicopee area. I remember about half an hour before the first plane hit the tower I was getting in my car in Springfield and I did see a passenger plane in the air that appeared to be American Airlines. I could tell because of the double A logo. Maybe that plane was one of the two that hit the towers, I'm not sure. But either way it's an eerie thought that has stayed with me all of this time and will be for life. The world definitely changed in an instant due to 9/11. We can always as a nation continue to hopefully learn from our tragedies to only strengthen us better in the future.

I had just turned 30 and living in So Cal. I feel your pain in a unique way, being of the same age especially.

Something I fear as someone who was born in the post 9/11 era(5 years later) is that inevitably there will be another generation altering event that will occur. Right now America stands more divided than we have ever been since the civil war, and I fear that the only thing that will bring us back together will be tragedy. It should not be that the only way to bring our country together is through violence or another attack on our freedom. It’s sad that our Nation’s leaders are doing nothing to put an end to this divide.

what went down harder: the Twin Towers, or your ex on BBC?

@@CEWIII9873 Your mom then we made you.

More older televisors where huge but had tiny screens, it's DuMont who made the first large tubes. In 2001 the early flat pannels were not really good, but a few years later they were better and were eveywhere. Very last CRT i shops were sold around 2009, but it's still possible to oder new ones from China nowadays.

Damn you're 58 now

@@unsavedprogress1419 Time flies, just wait and see. I was 14 at the time. 37 now.

@@unsavedprogress1419 maths??

the fat TVs 😂

It’s called crt analog tv

flatscreens weren't really a thing in 2001

@@shaunsteele6926exactly that person was just being ignorant

@@mrquenyait’s not that serious

It did change. Don't forget the global war on terror (approved by the UN council) that started as a result of 9/11 and the displacement of people following that. Terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists happened in many countries following 9/11. Security changed too, and laws, I'm from the UK, and following 9/11 our laws changed as a result. There's a whole range of things that changed as a result of 9/11 that you probably wouldn't even think of because they were gradual or subtle.

@@OrganMusicYT You just proved their point. Learned nothing.

@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Not sure how learning nothing disproves the idea that the world changed after 9/11.

@@CaseyLaarkamp The world would’ve changed without 9/11 too. The point is with all the changes, it’s essence remains pretty constant. That is why Shakespeare could write about human nature so long ago and it still holds true today.

@@petersattler22 The surveillance state as it stands today is directly rooted in the events of 9/11 occurring, as well as US Immigration policy and general security protocols. Department of Homeland Security and ICE were both created in the wake of that day. Additionally, the executive powers of the Oval Office were greatly expanded just days after the attack, and those powers are still in place. One could certainly argue that the expansion of the surveillance state was inevitable (I wouldn’t disagree with this) just because of the advancement of technology, but I don’t think the creation of DHS or ICE were inevitable even in the absence of a 9/11 like event. I am, however, open to hearing those arguments - but even as true as they maybe, there’s absolutely no denying 9/11 expedited all of those things, arguably by at least a decade. Just because the changes weren’t positive, doesn’t mean the world didn’t change after that day.

I was just a kid and didn’t fully understand what was going on. I got home from school and my mom wasn’t there. I felt like I was in danger. I was listening to music on my walkman when the ground started to shake and an engine roared into range. I absolutely panicked thinking there must be another plane crash happening (even though I live in a suburb half an hour from a city). It was a schoolbus. The same schoolbus I heard every afternoon. That afternoon I just didn’t recognize it though. I was too scared and confused

I was 8 but I felt safe because my mom was with me.

A lot of them are the ones who like to make memes about it now. Either that or snarky Europeans.

wow K-Mart and Circuit City The true "Twin Towers"

@@CEWIII9873 I'd say K Mart and Radio Shack, But yeah, I guess yours is valid since we have no 9/11 footage shot in a Radio Shack on here.

@@CEWIII9873 I think Eddie Lampert is working with terrorists.

I miss K-mart, and newspapers too. I tried to find a Thanksgiving paper with a good amount of black friday ads in my town today and couldn't find a single one. I hate how physical stores and products are disappearing.

@@Luke-zx4nx 👍😥👍 Right?

I was a senior in high school and part of the split op program (Army Reserves). less than a year later I was called to active duty.