Great comment ...thanks for sharing 👍

Good album

@Rowdy Jr Not that I remember. It was like a slap into reality. The first time feeling vulnerable as an adult

Iiiiiii....iiii wish I could flyyyyyyyyyy......

I did nearly the same thing. I remember the P.O.D album was released that day and I snagged a copy after leaving school early. Not sure if our mall ended up closing early, but it was strange seeing only a handful of people there.

This makes me happy 😊

@@vampirerobot It's real life!

It has a lot of interesting content, but to call this "one of the most important channels on KZfaq" is one hell of an overstatement.

@@sergeybrin6701 Giving a true look into the past is pretty important to a lot of people. That's my opinion at least.

@@MrAllen-fv9cj Wonderful. That really isn't a response to what I said though. But whatever.

That is an extremely creepy fact. You don't think it was still playing while the towers went down? 😮

@@85pphoenix It played up until the moment the South Tower went down. There are several videos of the music played in the Plaza and Mall shortly before the collapsed occurred, I'm part of a big search to find every song played.

I was in college getting ready to go to class and had the TV on. I saw the 2nd plane hit in real time and I’ll never forget the people that were jumping out of the building. I called my mother crying and scared. That day will be burned in my brain forever. Also, I went to class as usual and the professor carried on as nothing was happening and made us take our scheduled exam. I never respected her after that and thought that was cruel and disrespectful then and my opinion hasn’t changed.

@@WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunityHave they discovered what song was playing before “How Deep Is Your Love?”

@@ShadowLinkxMasterYes it’s WINDLESS, by Mike Strickland

It feels like there’s a chunk of the story missing between the greeter greeting you and that next part, I wanted to hear more

@@yy17782 The greeter said something like, “Welcome to Wal-Mart. Have a good day!” I couldn’t even imagine how to respond in that moment. There was no having “a nice day” for anyone that day. I didn’t want to be rude but I also couldn’t smile and say “thanks, you too!” In my memory, I turned my head slowly and looked at the greeter. I couldn’t fake a smile and similar greeting. I just looked at them, or more like stared through them. If you’ve ever experienced shock or see someone go through it, you can imagine what I mean. Also back then Walmarts always had tv monitors on. They would show Walmart ads as well as the news or sports or whatever. Every tv monitor showed the live, ongoing news. All the networks (network tv was still dominate back then) had 9/11 live coverage at least until the next day sometime. I feel like we went more than 24 hours with constant news coverage. Could have been more like 36 hours. That was a lot.

I saw the towers every day of my life from my livingroom window. They were so majestic. That Monday night l had stayed up till 5am drawing a picture of Goku (don't ask why lol), so when my alarm went off at 7am that Tuesday Sep 11th morning, l overslept. Next thing l know my mom wakes me up frantic around 850am. I assume she's mad about me being late for school, but obviously that wasn't it. She said a plane hit 1 of the towers. I immediately hopped out the bed and ran to the window, and saw 1 of the towers burning with a huge trail of smoke that seemed to stretch for miles. No one knew it was terrorism at the time, so my mom left for work and l actually went back to bed. I didn't realize what had fully happened until my sister came home from work early at 12pm and told me that we were under attack, and that the towers were gone. Both of them. I ran to the window again and sure enough all there were was a huge grey dust cloud 😢😢😢

Reminds me of that tragedy

It's a quiet day really quiet way too quiet

Such insensitivity and ignorance!

"What's in your wallet?" That's an interesting story. Glad your building wasn't targeted and that you made it through the capital one order. I never thought of credit cards being made in factories. It would be interesting to see how they're made.

@@SparkleSister7 Yep. They are made on huge printing presses and go through several different departments before finally being shipped out. Brinks comes to pick them up while local police supervise. What you'd be surprised about are all the hidden anti counterfeit features that are on the cards that no one knows about. The place was tighter than fort Knox. The security and rules we had to follow were insane. Anyways, it was a good job at the time but had a very high turn over rate and most of the management were awful people.

capitalist dystopia moment

Just remember: this happened b/c Bush stole the election from Gore in 2000 and they already had those wars and PATRIIOT act lined up. Wishing you well.

I was 5 and don’t remember it at all it’s weird cause other folks my age say they remember it vividly

The day america attacked america.

I had just turned 6 and I still remember things from that day like when my 1st grade teacher bringing the kids in early from recess and trying to read a book to us but she started to tear up when we heard the fighter jet roar by patrolling the area. I've thought of a couple of times these past couple anniversaries to go back and thank her for trying to take care of us that day but I don't know if she's still even at that school in Pasadena.

I was 11, and remember everyone was terrified. Since that day, our country has changed.

You wish ‘fahtah’

yep. i always say after 9/11 everything went to shit. i was 15 in high school when it happened but even before 9/11 happened i already started feeling something off that year. i got depressed . did bad in school , was hospitalized etc. then 9/11 happened and the world was never the same. think about pre 9/11 days very often. the 90s was a special time i wish I could go back to

Does this mall still exist? A lot of malls ended up closing down in the years after 9/11 or turned into ghost malls. I remember pre 9/11 times well. Things were prosperous but after the attack the country never recovered. It has just been one tragedy and disaster after another since then. I am convinced there is no future at all and world is headed for Armageddon soon.

Malls were already dying long before 9/11

@@NovusodHistory is cyclical and predictable. I think you are right to a point, and we are already in it. But I see hope for a rebirth of Americana and society. Not for some time still. I think the energy is there. It’s easy to be negative, hard to be positive. I get it. Im right there with you.

I was 5 and being 27 now in a lot of ways I’m grateful I was too young to really comprehend the severity of what had taken place at that time

It was one day before my 30th, here in Finland. I threw a small-scale party for a handful of friends that weekend but the mood was pretty somber and we talked quite a bit about the attacks in the US...

​@KDubb-ws9zc same here I was only 5 at the time but it's the years that proceeded into the 2000s with ground zero that made it all piece together. Something once symbolic gone to ashes...

​@@A.stallion27dumb young man

cornado base huh

I joined the Navy in ‘10 and the blokes who were enlisted on 9/11 told me they wear rushing to get every ship unmoored and out to sea as soon as possible. One guy told me his ship was ordered to cut the mooring lines if need be. Another was in Sydney and they had to leave port at about 1 in the morning.

That’s precisely what Chuck Klosterman said in his book from last year. “The nineties”

What's nevermind? I was born 90

@@thend4427nirvana.

@@thend4427 nvmd

​@@thend4427 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind

Kind of same for me. My dad woke me up that the towers had collapsed. I had no school that day so that's all I watched and that was all they showed that day

I was working for a small newspaper too, and we also had a deadline. We did send someone out to the shopping mall area to take pictures, though, because for some reason the shops there spontaneously had everybody go out into the parking lot and form a human chain, holding hands. I'm not sure why. What was VERY frustrating about that day was the we wanted to go home, be with our loved ones, and watch what was happening, but deadlines don't wait for anyone and we had to stay until the paper was put to bed.

Hope you're in a better job now

Yup, I was 12 and in school but I definitely agree with you about how most of our innocence died that morning and nothing would ever be the same.

Interesting information Richard 👍

Yeah I’m searching that bottom corner you mentioned for lots of green and a big American flag but I don’t see that poster at all?…

@@abbycareyyy7755 look a little to the left of the Pokémon crystal. You can barely see it since it’s in low quality but it has the PlayStation logo and the rejected cover art.

I used to get my hair cut at Great Expectations. Sears is now gone, replaced in area with a Dick's Sporting Goods. JC Penney is gone, replaced with a Costco.

Thanks to the fake media & obama among biden😡

What's wrong with going to the mall after the attacks? Maybe that's how some people cope with the anxiety trigged by the attacks? Or they may just feel like going to the mall. Let's say she knew what was happening. What should she have done instead? Stay home and sob?

That is disrespectful as fxck

I presume there were more important things to be worried about than a camcorder

The entire country was affected. #NeverForget911

Were you doing everything you could? Holding on to what you were?

The mall where I worked closed early. If I remember correctly, they wanted everyone out by 2 PM. It was a very start contrast between the people that knew what had happened and those that were insulated from the events of the day. Watching someone go from a normal day to confused to just flat out dead inside, all within seconds, is a haunting experience. Watching someone turning another person's known existence inside out immediately after, is even more so. Getting home was a relief to only be tortured by cable news.

I was 18 and a college student and happy to answer any ‘boring’ questions. (Really, they’re the best questions.) I can’t remember if my college cancelled classes that day, but it didn’t matter, nobody really went to class anyway. The few people that did mostly went because they didn’t know what else to do with themselves and just ended up sitting in class chatting with whoever else showed up. I was at breakfast with my roommate when the first plane hit. We didn’t know what was going on when we got back to our floor and a bunch of freshmen girls all had their TV’s on to the news and their doors open before 9am. That just didn’t happen. So we got to our room and turned the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit. A lot of that day is fuzzy because to a certain extent, we really didn’t do much of anything. We spent some time keeping a friend busy while he waited to hear from his dad (who worked in the Pentagon and was ultimately fine). It also happened to be my roommates birthday, so we did make a cake and have a ‘party’ of sorts that night. I have pictures from that evening and they’re weird. We’re all smiling, bc birthday, but we all look sort of exhausted and dazed. But otherwise, we watched the news and sort of wandered around the dorm lost. Again, can’t remember if classes were canceled or not that week, but we had a candle light vigil one night. They also postponed what should have been our first home football game because of fears of large crowds gathering and being targets. (We then played it the first weekend in December and froze our asses off in the stands.) Life went on that week, but it all felt off.

I was in Boston during 8th grade and the school district basically went into lockdown and then shut down at noon time and all students were sent home. Everyone was nervous. The DC sniper attack happened soon after and everyone thought it was terrorism.

@@icyhotmikeholy shit the sniper attack was horrifying. I lived in southern Maryland at the time.

Thanks for being curious about how people reacted and what people did that day as it went on I was only three during 9/11 so I was clueless.

No questions are boring. Your interest in history is commendable. Between phone calls to family members in other states making sure they were OK, to trying to reach two close friends who were flight attendants on major airlines (one with United) there was a weird quietness outside as I live in a flight path for two airports. No planes, not much traffic on the roads. Schools didn't get out early, but I remember meeting the school bus as I did every day and the "normalcy" of that was comforting. I grew up watching the WTC being built and couldn't fathom them no longer existing on the skyline. The loss of life was nearly incomprehensible. Citizens and first responders, people at their desks and passengers on planes. To this day it still feels raw. Never forget.

I'm from the UK as well and I was turning 16 the next day. There was nothing to celebrate on my birthday because how can you when something like this happened? Then we were worried something like this might happen in the UK. Then it did! 7/7 in 2005😢

Everybody in that mall knew exactly what had happened. Also the Internet was very much a thing in 2001.

Not true, almost everyone was surfing the net. Including me.

@@vampirerobot Yes, at home, on a desk. Not in your pocket.

Even in istanbul, Turkey I literally watched the second plane hit live on tv. It was widely covered in several news channels on TV and radio. Everyone was quickly informed about what happened. Many people throughout the city was talking about it afterwards.

Literally everyone who wasn't in a coma knew what was going on that day. You act like 2001 was the Dark Ages. We had TV's and radios, you know

It was none of these things. What caused a change was the warmongering terror state known as the United States launched a 20 year terrorist action in the Middle East, trading thousands of lives from across the globe to enrich a handful of elite rich US businessmen. Now, an entire generation has grown up living paycheque to paycheque with daily reports about financially destitute soldiers being exploded to make oil executives richer, while their countries throw money into brainwashing citizens into throwing their lives away securing Big Oil their Middle Eastern oil fields instead of doing literally anything about the home economy falling apart for anyone who isn’t in the top tax bracket and lining the politicians pockets- I mean, “donating to their campaigns.” 9/11 had nothing to do with. Y2K had nothing to do with. The War Mongers that are the US are the sole blame for the horrible state of the world today. Because why do anything for the people when you can wage a multi-trillion dollar war on some cavemen in a desert?

Literally right after the attack things were different. Complete attitude shift, and everyone conducted themselves differently.

Same but I went to school was on west coast

The content on this channel is B roll footage that news stations didn’t use.

In my city they closed all the government buildings (City Hall, County courthouse, all the Federal office buildings) and sent everyone home. I had a friend who worked as a UPS delivery driver and he said it the shortest workday he ever had. He said all the places he usually delivered, the government offices, law offices, brokerage firms and banks, closed early that day.

A lot of businesses and offices closed, as well as places where people congregated. Throughout most of that first day, nobody knew what ELSE was going to happen or where, so people were just taking precautions for any given surprise. I was in L.A. at the time and even the office at my apartment complex was closed. The Blockbuster Video in the neighborhood was open primarily because there was newsfeed on the big-screen TV in the store.

I get it. Although, the cameraman was there to film and just to film. He knew what was going on. Just waiting for reactions and interactions.

@@vampirerobot Are you the cameraman? Can you talk about your source of videos at all?

@@vampirerobot yes to above comment give us a backstory on these videos!!

I was thinking the same thing: "Mall cops are not permitted to discuss national security secrets sir." delusions of grandeur.

That is Cumberland, not Gwinnett Place .

@@willp.8120 forgive my ignorance, it’s been a while

I was thinking the same thing. "Mall cops are not permitted to discuss national security sir."

I was 15 in 9/11, now I'm 37. I'm really old.

Great comment! 👍Thx

Yeah and to think we were still a couple years away from Ruby and Sapphire.

And got to go home.

And those of us who were too young to understand that America was under attack were happy to go home early that day. I was in Kindergarten and the adults didn't tell us what was going on. The teacher greeted us with tears in her eyes that morning and we didn't know why. As the kids waited for their parents to come pick them up, patriotic music played over the elementary school speakers and we goofed around and pretended to wave lighters in the air like in the SpongeBob episode "Band Geeks" football stadium scene. When I got home and flipped through the news channels, in my innocent mind, I thought maybe some airshow planes accidentally crashed into the buildings and everyone inside the towers miraculously survived the impact and escaped to safety when the buildings collapsed. Just some insight on 9/11 from a 5 year old's perspective. I didn't learn the *whole* truth about 9/11 until 2007 on the 6th anniversary when my 6th Grade teacher brought in a Naudet Brothers home-recording on VHS for the class to watch. I've been obsessed with 9/11, the old WTC and conspiracy-talk ever since. And since then, I swore off flying on an airplane and I was paranoid that another t3€rr0r¡$t attack would happen around the 10th or 20th anniversary... Fortunately, it didn't happen. Instead, a pandemic was the next monumental catastrophe. I knew something big was bound to happen at the start of this decade, but I wasn't expecting a virus.

I turned 8 the day before.

@@alexlevingston oh wow.