So sorry for your loss. She seems like a really sweet person.

Sorry for loosing your mom, I lost mine in 14 and it still sucks. My mom got a local hotel to say welcome back after 9/11 as I deployed a lot then. Still have the pictures.

WOAH THAT IS YOUR MOM REALLY? THIS IS HISTORY

She was my favorite person to be interviewed here. Something about her just felt so kind and pleasant.❤

Really sweet God Bless her ❤️🙏🏻

My dad's girlfriend was here in Seattle visiting him from Florida and was supposed to fly back home on 9-11. She called me to ask me for a ride to the airport and I had to tell her she wasn't flying home that day or anytime soon. My husband had really hesitated to wake me for what was going on because he wanted to shield me from it but I got up and was, like pretty much every other non-muslim American, horrified. Over 20 years later, it's actually been over 20 years now since it happened, the wound is still fresh and raw among many. I lost a friend when the towers collapsed. She was trapped beneath the North Tower. Another survived simply because of a snafu on the subway that caused her train to be late.

Awww, your sweet husband 😢

Awww, your sweet husband 😢

I was in school that day at Oak Hill Academy just a few miles from DFW airport on September 11th, 2001. I went to class that day and they had the principal walk in and tell us what was happening in New York City and then they wheeled in a TV that we used to watch documentaries for science class on. All we did that day was watch the disaster unfold. I can still remember watching people jump from the burning building over and over again. I think we were all just mystified and horrified all at the same time.

I’m in Iowa. The only thing I saw here were the long lines for gas and the sudden gas price hikes. I drove out to the farms and saw farmers working in their fields and thought “We’ll be okay,”

“I’m not frightened, I’m concerned.” is the comment I was going to leave. You got it tho

@donnathomas2297 should see your comment about her mother

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Shock most likely. When I saw the Pentagon had been hit, I said to my mom to call my aunt…knowing my uncle was there for meetings periodically..along with his son (my cousin). I to this day have no idea why I felt like she needed to call…my uncle was 45 minutes late to a meeting that day and because of it, he survived. He would’ve been killed (3 co-workers who were at the meeting died…one was never identified) as the office of the meeting was where the plane impacted. Only one person survived from the first level. A few years later, his daughter came in search of him and his side of the family…it’s like God knew he was meant to miss that meeting. That being said, I know some one whose daughter was on Flight 93 who took the earlier flight.

'JFK To 9/11 - Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick'. Documentary, KZfaq.

6:13?

I mean, countless people who had absolutely no ties to NY cried that day

No ​@@mogadon7

It changed me and I was not in NY on that day. I was home to take my child to see the doctor. It scarred me permanently, I was never the same. Our CEO lost his best friend & we did not hear from him for two months. It changed him as he said on the conference call. He changed so much he followed in his friends footsteps & is still Chairman I believe but he passed the torch to his nephew. He relinquished CEO to become a Financial Manger, what a great man. I was so lucky to have known a great man as this. So many heroes. This tragedy killed my soul.

Its so important that you guys who werent born yet watch these videos. Watching the footage though doesnt even remotely compare to the horror that was watching it unfold in real time on live tv. I was a freshman in high school. I vividly remember every moment of that day like it was yesterday. We were watching when the second plane hit. Im from NH and two of the planes were from Boston, i also had family in NYC not far from WTC and it was just the most sickening sinking feeling not knowing if anyone i knew was gone and of course our communities did lose many. About lunch time, eastern time, i was watching the tv in our high school library with tons of other people. It was silent, everyone just glued to the tv, stunned. One girl said i dont think i want to watch this anymore and my principal who was in the front of the room in front of everybody turned to her and said you need to watch, this is your Pearl Harbor. A few short years later i was in the Marines and of course deployed. Ill just never forget it. Love each other, love your neighbors. Life, and the world, can change in an instant.

Feel sorry for young people today who will never experience the sense of innocence, naivety, and safety before 9/11. Now it’s all about terrorism and war.

my god I'm so sorry he experienced that so close up. I can't even imagine having to process what was happening. My heart goes out to him and I'm so glad he made it through the ptsd

I was 5 years old when this happened and I remember exactly where I was when I found out and most of the day afterwards. I remember hearing it happen over the radios my preschool teachers used to communicate. "The second tower has been hit."

Seriously. If this happened today there would be people rioting in the terminals over missing their flights. Empathy's rare these days.

Yea.... the country was actually united for a week or two, then went right back to shit.

I never felt that in the U.S. Growing up it was a brutal cruel society. Glad I left.

@@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428 where did you move to?

There are and were airport TVs tuned to news.

most knew in the aiport with tv's some airlines even told people what happened at bagge claim glad nobody bicthed at the airlines after imgaine now people woulld have bicthed there flights were canclled

@@smadaf The lady at 9:35 says the coverage was turned off, which I thought was really interesting. Maybe the staff felt that people would panic if they saw live shots of the towers? But of course people had cell phones or used pay phones, so everyone must have known to a certain extent.

The worst attack on U.S. soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and all you can think about is you, eh? Unreal.

I know right and then realizing it could have been them on those planes

Wow. Must’ve felt surreal to be in the air just a day before. Must’ve felt lucky.

My coworker was in WTC the day before. She and her family flew home the afternoon of 9/10.

✊

Amen!

I was the same age as you and I remember America for being super patriotic

Are you aware of what happened to all the people on the planes that were grounded in Gander, NL? If not, you should look it up. What they (the community) did for complete strangers, is the very best example of what humanity is capable of.

That truce between Republicans and democrats went right out the window the instant President Bush started talking about invading Iraq. It was certainly a beautiful thing, though, while it lasted.

What you said about people not knowing what happened always makes me think that most of the casualties of that day had no idea they were part of what we now call 9/11. Like the people on the plane have no idea how big this was and probably just thought it was a random highjacking, not a planned attack on the USA.

Being from Buffalo I have gone to Canada 100s of times. Over the Peace Bridge from my home 15 minutes...right into FT. Erie, Ontario. What Canada did that day landing all those flights from overseas was simply extraordinary!

I'm german, and here it was exactly the same. It was early afternoon local time when the first plane hit and my then-gf and a friend and me just watched the whole thing live on TV and couldn't believe it, it was so terrifying and tragic and nobody thought this was even possible to happen. Probably most of the world felt the same way. I know it's no consolation, but we kind of were all americans on that sad day and we all got attacked, at least all western democratic countries. It still hurts me deeply to think about all these poor innocent victims and about all the heroes who lost their lives while helping others. It's gut-wrenching, almost beyond words. R.I.P.

It was an attack on the sanity of civil human life and gut wrenched us all to know this could happen no matter where you were at the time. I’m still deeply scarred by it all. I ask for all the caring thoughts for all the lost souls and their loved ones left behind.

You said it so eloquently! Living in Los Angeles on that fateful morning, its a day I will never forget too, especially once everything was closed nationwide was the scary moment, along with the uncertainty of what would happen next. Sad times.

It's a really tired response and a lot of people use it as a scapegoat for completely unrelated things, but I really do think smartphones and social media did a lot of damage to the way people communicate with and care for one another. Almost every person interviewed in this video actively listens to the question and takes a moment to think before answering. Most people aren't thinking of themselves and are only thinking of what others are going through on that day. I'd imagine if this happened today there would be a lot less empathy on display.

@@agibitableAgreed, well said. Social media without a doubt dulls attention spans and patience. Previously there were voids of "boredom" with nothing occurring that could be made up for by interacting with people, contemplating, or quietly meditating on the scenery. We had to conjure up entertainment from whole cloth, and now our impatience is fed with a spoon and a bib.

BC there was a better generation around, the generation before the Baby Boomers - My Grandparents. They were kind souled people for the most part - patriotism was also more alive and well.

It’s June 2024 as I write this. The last time I flew which was a couple of years ago, I purposefully kept my phone in my purse so I could strike up a conversation with other passengers in the airport. I sat there watching everyone single person on their cell phones. I felt sad.

​@@mikemoyercellnonsense

Yeah; I remember going to the gates to see loved ones off pre-9/11. We used to be able to hug and kiss goodbye just when the boarding call was called. That was something to cherish, but now no more.

You come across like an old person who tells kids to ‘GET OFF THE LAWN’

This is a snapshot of life at the airport before the Transportation Security Act that created the Administration (TSA) was created a month later. Back when you AND your family could go through security and say goodbye at the gate rather than before you go through the security checkpoint.

I noticed people did dress more conservatively back then.

@@93seronica things were more normal back then

Had the same thought .. this America was calm, rational, sober, kind, normal .. my oh my ..

@@InvisibleWarrior279only for the days, weeks, and months later, got far worse. Wrong mistakes, assumptions, and attitudes that have crippled the nation from that point forth to the present day.

People were fake back then. Always. The U.S. is full of ridiculous people.

Time before social media was amazing.

​@@darlingdeb7010 Yes, Smartphones were the turning point and Social media was the final nail in the coffin

Alot of the camcorders were alot smaller by then compared to the on the shoulder 80's VHS models so more people had them.

Handhelds, about the size of a paperback book. The first phone video came out around 2004 and was limited to 30 seconds of recording.

I bought my first digital camera that year. 2mp Canon Powershot ($560!). The mediums were there.

Smartphones certainly have made taking videos more prevalent. But it wasn't all that hard to record a video in 2001. There were video cameras that fit in the palm of your hand. You just weren't in the habit of carrying them everywhere because they weren't pocket-sized either. You carried them only when you knew you wanted to record something.

It's 2001, not 1901

It did basically. Nothing has been the same ever since, for the worse.

Exactly

It's started when they assassinated JFK MLK and RFK back in the 60s ,had JFK lived 911 probably never happens ,JFK MLK and RFK men of peace ✌️

And now look at us. We're a laughing stock because of what Joe Biden has done to this country.

​@@starwindamada5313 so true

And then we went to war with the wrong country over weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. The administration at the time used the sympathy of the American people in shock and grief to engage and expand the military industrial complex.

Not terrifying for girls only boys are forced to die in wars, girls don't have to do anything.

I was 14 also, andy sister was 17. I remember we watched Bush address the nation and for the first time confirm they were terrorist attacks. I'll never forget how she said "You don't understand. This means war." I think I grew up a little in that moment.

I was 6 also. Just started 1st grade. Met my best friend around that time and remain friends with him to this day. My sister and I were about to go to school and right as we stepped out the door is when the second plane hit.

I was in 5th grade so I would have been 10. Crazy how you never forget.

@@mikemoyercell there are many things we as humanity should never forget besides 9/11, like the Holocaust, srebenica, Armenian genocide, Chernobyl, Native American genocide and many more

I was eight years old. Matter of fact, I turned eight Sep 10, 2001. My only memory was coming home from school early and seeing the towers on fire. That's it.

I was 14

I saw what the mission control people were doing they did interviews with them and It blew my mind what their experiences were like. The evacuated Chicago due to the plane going there and then did a turn and went back. They didn't know what that plane was going to do but they knew it was going to go down. They hijacked different planes at different times to avoid suspensions. In the youtube video one of the hijackers pushed the button on accident and let the mission control hear what they were saying. It was interesting and scary. I was in high school in physics class when it happened and saw it on live tv. We also got dismissed early that day since they didn't know if anymore planes was hijacked. PLUS I lived in a big city so it could happen anywhere. I think they wanted to be prepared and keep people safe.

Aww 😢 I lived in Chicago too but I was a freshman in high school I saw how the high schooler were acting but always wanted to know how the kids saw and felt that day. ❤

I was in 5th grade up in Wisconsin that day..... I'm rather envious of you in a way.... I was home sick that day.. You got to experience it with your fellow 5th graders....... It was a sunny day up here...I bet it was clear skies across the entire country...... the clearest skies America has known in a century....all so we could watch two towers burn...

You’re probably about my age. I remember being in school (I’m from NY) and they weren’t allowed to tell us anything. But it was a warm sunny day and recess was cancelled and we didn’t know why. We didn’t go home early, but we were kept inside. Some kids had after care and it was still open.

I remember the confusion too, I was 8 when it happened. The adults around me were speculating on where the terrorists could’ve come from and if they would target Disney World next (we lived close to there).

Cops in the U.S. do not carry machine guns. They never have.

Well, true, but in places like Israel or even in the UK, that's pretty day to day security standards. We'd just NEVER seen anything like that here in the U.S. until AFTER 9/11 occurred. It took 9/11 for us to actually take security SERIOUSLY.

Also, in 2002 when the TSA came on to the scene, these TSA jerks kept harassing innocent passengers and asking them stupid security questions. I'm glad that now in 2023, the TSA made some changes.

​@@benschaeffer8102 sad that people think what happens at airports today is real security. It's the same thing that was before they just added a lot of charade song and dance. They fixed the cockpit doors which is the only real and proper security measure to matter

@@AntiMasonic93 yeah ... they got worse

It’s also interesting when she was asked if she feared for her safety and her reaction and body language said heck yes I’m scared! But she was already doing what President Bush pushed: Do not live in fear, and she proudly said “no, I’ll be fine.” and then you really do see the flood of emotions for the people lost.

11 Sept, same, plus remembering a beloved coworker. But 9 Nov was completely different in San Diego, a major military town, at least in the urban part where we lived. I remember my dad and I in front of the TV on 9 Nov, and he asked “Who do we fight now?” My dad wasn’t in the military, wasn’t a hawk, but that’s what he knew all his life - war, Cold and otherwise. That was always part of the background noise in San Diego. My dad died shortly after 11 Sept but when the war drums starting beating after the terrorist attacks, I thought about Dad’s question after 9 Nov. After bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, then who?

Same was happening here in Cleveland OH

November 9 1989 was Berlin Wall fall? I’m 20 so do you mind going in detail abt that day? I don’t think I fully grasp what a huge deal it was. 9/11 I get don’t worry, I watch as many things i have access to bc I’m an American and part of this world so I do binge to try to educate myself. I’ll have to look at nov 9 videos

Since you lived in Denver, CO at the time. Is 4/20/99 a date you will never forget as well? That is when the Columbine Massacre took place. Just asking!

@@gravechallice1782 Yes, go watch some videos of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 22 at the time and, it was surreal and exciting to see people going over the wall as well as people in West Germany taking turns with a sledgehammer to the wall to create openings for East Berliners to come through. I'm sure there's enough footage to get a sense of what it was like. I'm pretty there are some videos on the events/timelime that led up to the fall.

Couldn’t stop noticing 😂

This was a time before social media and people in general were expected to carry themselves in formal manner

@@Yarmoxsocial media has dumbed people down.

Before woke ruined the country. I remember it well

@@YarmoxI get that not everything was better back then, but man… a lot definitely WAS before social media

Exactly what I thought. I was in 5th grade at the time.

It’s always like that in the beginning of a new decade, the bleed over is so fascinating to look back on cause you don’t see it at the time. If you look at ‘91, it still looked like the late 80s, ‘81 still liked like the 70s and so on and so forth Things don’t start to change until about the 3rd year into a new decade

@@DreamyTee123as my high school teacher once said when she showed her class 1992 yearbook, a student ask what kind of clothes they wore and she responded “We wore 80s clothes still”

But it wasn't the 90s anymore. Millennials' perfect 90s childhoods ended a couple hours earlier when the 2nd plane hit the Twin Tower.

This was the last day of the 90s

Can't imagine the stress

I was working for AA in DFW then. The reservations office is about 5 miles from the airport, right across the street from an FAA campus. I took those phone calls for 4 hours that morning. The fear from thousands of people trying to find out which planes were gone and where their loved ones were has stuck with me forever.

​@@Harloween74Did you encounter anybody that had lost somebody?

Very true, the human brain is literally wired differently due to the smartphone..and not for the better as proven by this and many other videos

I was 8 when 9/11 and in Florida. I don’t remember anyone freaking out. Everyone around me was calm.

I noticed that as well. Everyone interviewed is articulate, well-spoken, sympathetic, reasonable with their comments. We don’t see as much of that these days

I was struck by how calm the people were too. Nowadays I feel like there would be mass panic, everyone screaming, etc. Like when Covid hit in March 2020.

The date should be read as 11/9/01 this event happened in September not November. Americans really need to learn how to write a date properly you know, day, month year not month, day and then year.

@@deborahwhitney9427that’s just the way different cultures are homie. welcome 2 the real world

most people write it that way @@deborahwhitney9427

my uncle was at chicago coming home from a business trip and everyone was pissed at first then once they put the news on the tvs in the airport everyone was nice to each other even got rental cars home i feel like we need to go back to thse days

@@deborahwhitney9427just because that’s how you do it wherever you’re from doesn’t mean it’s the only right way.

That’s sad, poor lady 😞 do you remember her name?

@@dclxvi.tattoo I'd have to go back and be sure, but I think her first name was Marie or Mary.

@@deniseeulert2503 ahhh if you ever do go back and remember to check, then please tell! But rest in peace Marie/Mary, she deserves to not be forgotten ❤️

In many ways, 9/11 caused a rubber band effect. We were unified and trusted our government. But much of the distrust started with 9/11 conspiracy theories and that has only grown.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. The fact is that people didn't much trust government back then either. But when a real crisis happens, what choice do you have? Too bad it was such a mis-placed faith. Having spent time in Iraq during the war that followed this, the tragedy is almost more than I can bear. It was one tragedy piled on top of another.

That’s ironic considering that their government did 9/11

People didn’t trust the government much then. They just trust them far less now

Look where trusting the government got us. Pointless wars, whole generations of American soldiers dead or permanently maimed, loss of freedom, government surveillance, hatred and bigotry, etc, etc.

Flight 93 was extraordinary, May they rest in glory. But I always feel somewhere between sad and angry that Flight 93 gets glossed over in the narrative. Even the Pentagon gets short shrift and that gets me especially because my employer and we lost a wonderful employee there. But it was always about the towers. Don’t get me wrong-that was horrific, terrifying, massive and just so gut-wrenching that I’ll never forget. But the hyper-focus on NYC took the focus off others who also lost their lives, some who fought so bravely until the end. Part of that was the media, who have a definite NYC bias, and I put it down to that until I started having adult students in 2021 writing basic research reports about 9-11 that barely mentioned the Pentagon, and never mentioned Flight 93. I looked at their sources as I was grading and yup, mostly about the towers. So I told them about the other two planes and what happened. They were shocked that the scale of the attack was even bigger than the towers. I don’t think that they read beyond the towers. At the time of the attack I think most of them were in elementary school, so that would be the most vivid memory. I added on an extra question to the assignment, and gave them two words: “Let’s roll.” I said I’d pass anyone who could add the answer to that quote to their paper. To their credit, they all found the right answer. But it was a good lesson about not just accepting one narrative of a major event, actually, of any event. Watching the people navigating that day in Dallas also gave me a completely new window into what happened in real-time on 9-11 because we never hear those stories. God bless all the airline and airport employees who kept things moving in the midst of their own shock and grief.

The attack started in NY, Majority of people died in NY, NYwas the most horrific event that day, half of Manhattan was affected..Of course NY the narrative of 9/11-2001@@celticsanster

Yes it is sad that the other incidents get lost. I don’t think it’s only the bias of being based in nyc though, I think it’s mostly because 2,753 people died at the towers alone, vs 184 in DC and 40 in shanksville. You can imagine with the significantly higher number of lives lost, there would be more coverage and particularly more family/survivor/witness interviews. Also, the buildings were iconic. The Pentagon was not nearly as much of a well known landmark despite its importance. The towers could be seen miles away, and were in countless movies and tv shows. Even those who hadn’t ever set foot in NYC felt a connection to those buildings. (And as you mentioned, the sheer magnitude of giant skyscrapers falling is more attention grabbing and horrifying, not to mention the people jumping out) I have no doubt though that if the White House had also been hit, we’d be hearing more about it due to its symbolism and recognizable face. I remember teens in my calculus class (so pretty intelligent kids) asking what the pentagon was as we watched the news. Anyways, just my two cents! I agree I wish everything got equal coverage because more people WOULD care then, but I also understand why it didn’t. They were all innocent people just doing their jobs or living their lives no matter where they were when they died that day 😢

@@EastmanEditingAmen ! I always think also if the Statue of Liberty was Attacked !? Or just Any other Landmark/State as it was really only the East Coast

I was also 8 and my mom picked me up early from school too. We both watched news coverage of the attacks together. I remember watching people running for the lives from the towers covered in dust.

I was 9. Although I'm Norwegian I had a postcard of the towers on my bedroom wall and always wanted to go there.

I hear a lot of laughing in the background. America, eh?

@poppyrowland1385 tragedy unfortunately brings people together.

Good thing it's still legal to leave, eh?​@@poppyrowland1385

@@stephaniepantalonie I don't think it would now, though.

@MsMollah I completely agree unfortunately

And this is what scares me now.

@@beccas.7762right?! Gives me the chills

@@beccas.7762good would be for the better of us lol let’s go back in time

It’s crazy that people will have aged and or died in over 20 years passing by?

Aged out of what?

life

And in due time, you will age out.

My mom at 8:03 mark has been dead for ten years and I’m now her age

It’s sad how the American government responded and killed millions of innocent lives in war after 9/11. It changed everything.

Yes; I never thought a bunch of traitors would try to overthrow the government

Marxist communists infiltrated the democratic party and are trying to destroy this country from within.

@@thenightporteroh please.

​@@thenightporterI know, bunch of "Americans" storming the capitol to entirely throw off the democratic process. Heinous.

Is that what the lady at the 7:40 she calls it a phone card. Was that something that the airport gave out for people to use in the payphones?

@@nickoftime40 lol no idea like I said I was only like 7 years old on 9/11/01 and cell phones became normal pretty soon after

​@@nickoftime40the way pay phones usually worked is that you could dial certain numbers for free. So a phone card would have you dial a free 1-800 number, enter your passcode, then you could dial the actual number you were trying to reach. The airlines likely had these stored to give away whenever their customers needed to make a call.

i was in 1st grade and i remember feeling a big shift in life. for the worse. everyone around me adults and even other kids seemed meaner and more tense. the feeling of being a carefree fun child was gone.

I was in 2nd grade as well. The school year was barely more than a week old at that point. It was a summer where I almost lost my mother, to the horror of a post 9/11 world. I remember my teach being called out of the room; Her 2nd week on the job. She came back in, called us to sit on the rug... and then struggled to explain what a going on. Because my school told all the parents not to pick up their children, the gravity of the whole situation didn't hit me at all until I went home.

Hey, fellow Bay Area resident (650). I was recovering from my 19th birthday party the night before, and my first class at Cañada College was at 10am, so I was sleeping in a little. My friend called my cell phone at around 7:15am, but I thought it was just a "happy birthday" call. Then, about 10 mins later, my dad is pounding on my bedroom door, yelling that something terrible had happened. I thought that a loved one had died in a fiery car wreck at first, but then I saw what was happening on the news, I couldn't believe it at first. It was so insanely surreal.

I was just sharing with coworkers, as being about the same age, 9/11 is the first clear memory I still have.

I was 3 too and I don’t remember anything lollll

What's your world? Most people had cell phones in 2001...

Ya a lot of people had a Nokia 3310

I was born in 2000 so I might be wrong but it seemed like mostly only adults had cell phones. Preteens/teens having their own cell phones wasn’t the norm back then.

@@thepopsliceI remember having a Nokia and then a flip phone. Did anyone else pay for minutes on their phone?

​@@Jeff-sp7bgsome had cellphones that only had numbers to dial, no smartphones yet in 2001.

Ever try using your cell phone at the Superbowl, or at a concert? Too many people trying to use the network and only so many lines available at any given time. You'll be waiting to get a connection in a crisis of this magnitude.

Lmao I was born in 2003 and let me tell you Missouri was the last to get a lot of things so we had pay-phones and at times when we had baseball games it would be full 😂

Oh yeah, for sure. And people with phones recording tiktok videos trying to get views

I live near the Houston airport, near the landing flight plan actually, from all over the world. It was dead quiet for a week. I could actually hear the deer walking thru the neighborhood for the first time since 1969.

What planet do you live on? DFW Airport is the Delta headquarters. All of the planes were Delta planes. And you think this moment is "not relevant"???? Just another day at the airport???? Just a random reporter decided to interview people about how their day is going???? Thank about how ignorant you appear regarding one of the most horrific events in America's history!!

Please, if you don't know Jesus, ask Him to save you today.

I share this conviction as well. I think the odds are geopolitics catch up to civilization before cancer or heart disease catch up to me. All you can do is try not to think about it too much.

​@christalone0188 yet I subscribe to a pluralistic view of religions

You got that right. Of course this wasn't the 20th century anymore.

Yea you are right: communism, two world wars that killed almost 100 million people, famine, genocide. The 20th century was great...

​@@casmatoriI like late century 20 myself but yeah, it wasn't without issues of its own of course

Agree 100%

Tell that to people dying of cholera and polio and fighting in the world wars that they had it better than people in the 2020s

I was the same age as you were when this happened and will never forget it. I think it made my perception of safety change.

I was 8 and I remember not taking 9/11 seriously because I didn’t understand the full gravity of what was happening and I had no idea so many people had died.

We were. We had more respect for eachother and more social interaction experience.

I agree. These days it's like "every man for himself" which is so depressing.

Probably to reduce panic.

this was 22 years ago pretty sure most of these people are still alive

@@RaptorMocha I was referring to some of the older people in this video. Some of the individuals in this video reminded me about how life used to be, with the greatest generation still in their prime retirement years & traveling.

I got what you were trying to relay. I agree

The world was not simpler and more innocent back then. People like you really need to snap out of that delusion.

depends there is 70's year olds in this video they would be allmost 100 now @@RaptorMocha

I was 20…remember being so confused by the terms they were using. My grandparents, 3 were still alive at the time, talked about Pearl Harbor and this both. It was one time I heard my dad’s mom talk about it. My other grandma lost her cousin in the attack on Pearl Harbor and mentioned it one time…that was it.

for the people who didn't make it out alive.

This person had his camcorder to video these people interviewing about 9/11.

No we were not. 🇬🇧

Maybe you were living under a rock at the time.@@andrewdaley5480

​@@andrewdaley5480 There may have "only" been 52 people who died that day in July 2005 but many were injured, including life-changing injuries, lost limbs etc, so your comment was unnecessary and lacking empathy.

Yes we were.

If you look up on KZfaq “9/11: The Voices of the Aircraft Dispatchers” they actually tell a story of how United grounding their entire fleet stopped a 5th plane from being hijacked.

After a while, the CRT monitors suffered the screen burn-in and had to be replaced often.

bfd

@@dreamcore Your mom is a bfd.

Spot on! The United States is a place where people came here from other nations to get away from oppression, only to have that same thing today with the current government we are considered subjects to. It's sad, but the true beauty of this is that we can stop the erosion of our freedoms at one box, but unfortunately most people don't want to.

That's not all because of 9/11

@@matts.6904exactly but It’s definitely where most of it comes from

@@matts.6904 true....Obama finished us off forever.

@@KB-ke3fi😂 y’all will blame Obama for everything typical

Was thinking that, it wasn't even the same administration that did it

Well, it was the morning of the thing.

@@KB-ke3fi By the time this was filmed both towers had collapsed and two others planes already crashed. 9/11’s immediate events wrapped up rather quickly. I know because I lived it.

That’s my mom! Wilona Thomas.

​@@donnathomas2297awww she seems like such a nice lady! I hope she is doing well..😊

@@thenightportershes passed away

@@donnathomas2297 oh wow 😮 thanks for verifying that to me! Hope she’s doing well?

@@FastGuy1 troll.

It was normal back then using a pay phone. They were not bad at all, they were reliable and cheap. Cell phones battery dying and bad reception can be way more nerve wrecking in those situations