Wow...Couldn't look at anymore pictures and certainly didn't watch the video. Almost threw up to be honest. Just please never forget the radical Islamofacists who did this. Sad if what I say upsets some shmucks on here.
The last 10 seconds of that video I literally put my hand over my mouth. That gave me chills, in a very bad way.
Knew it was coming and still almost lost it. Also, holy fuck...never thought about this stuff for the survivors: But it's the smell that haunts me. Talk to anyone who was within ten blocks of it and they'll tell you that. I had vaporized people packed up my nose, in my mouth and ears. At the NYU health center, the doctors said, "Yeah, your eyes are scratched to shit." They put drops in them, but they needed more sophisticated equipment to see what was going on. I wound up having 147 fiberglass splinters taken out of my eyes. Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/ESQ0102-JAN_WTC_rev#ixzz26DCATvJt
The stories from inside the towers and the days that followed are incredible. I've avoided them for all these years, but my God... I can't think of a more frantic and incredible (for mostly all of the wrong reasons) in our history.
It's crazy to think that a lot of the kids serving in Afghanistan right now weren't even old enough to comprehend and remember 9/11
There's a documentary or maybe it was a TV special on the 10th anniversary last year where they actually identify this guy... a waiter at Windows of the World.
Question: in one of the pictures they show a stage. Was there a concert scheduled or something? I had never heard of that being there in any of the other stories.
The pictures of the people in the offices above the crash sites get me good. I cannot even imagine that feeling.
Just sad. A friend of mine was exiting one of the towers when he heard a very loud water balloon hit the ground. Turns out it was one of the jumpers. He and others just threw up and lost it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/26WTC.html?pagewanted=1 Apologies for posting on 09/12, but that's a ten page article from 2002 recounting much of what went on inside the towers. Unbelievable really.
Just listened to this. While reading this and other stories. Now I'm going to watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ZmMtXQ3gM
not to be all stupid but i'm guessing that the human body just evaporates or something in some of those pics? i've always wondered what happens when dropped from such heights
The internet and various chan websites have me desensitized to the gore, but that video of the call. When I heard him scream and saw the building fall, my stomach turned over.
Yeah, that was awful in such a different way than the other internet gore. Sadness, empathy, with a touch of fear.
I hadn't read that before. It was quite powerful and amazingly detailed. I just can't fathom the sheer terror and confusion these people felt. Bless them all.
Was substituting today and my buddy who's class i was in left the movie "9/11" for the kids to finish watching. The scene where they left off was the scene where the firemen were all in the lobby coming up with a plan to get more people out and they all jump at this sound. Then they here the sound again and again like something hitting the room or the ground outside.. And then we figure out it's bodies... I have watched the footage of the smoking buildings and read the stories and shit but it never really hit me until i saw this movie. That was some powerful shit. Live footage of the firemen running out of the lobby when the building collapsed and then them climbing out of the debris to find one of their brothers dead....
Here are the 12 images: http://histheoriculture.wordpress.c...review-context-within-the-falling-man-series/ http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN?hootPostID=2214333d9a889d536920612e1caee29a 2012 update: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/the-falling-man-10-years-later-6406030 They never identified the "falling man" from that famous photo, but they estimate that 200 people jumped. More about the photos here: http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/richard-drew/
Went to the 9/11 memorial museum last week. What an incredibly powerful, sad, and sobering experience. Would recommend to anyone who visits nyc
going to the church across the street that they used as a command post and seeing all the missing photos peoples loved ones put up was rough to see
never been to the actual memorial but it honestly gets much quieter and calm when you get down to that area if it makes sense
The hardest part for me was walking along the original tower support bases and reading the informational tabs and coming across the one that says... "1200 feet above this spot at 8:46am on September 11th, 2001 American Airlines flight 11 struck the North Tower" That took my breath away and gave me such a weird feeling.