that was what got me the most it was weird sitting on a bench in the courtyard and just thinking what it woulda been like to be there on that day.
I have spent years looking for every bit of info about 9/11 I could find, just my way of trying to understand and cope, but I can't bring myself to look at the pictures in the OP. I'm glad they are still out there though, so we can all be reminded of the horror and carnage of the day and what it felt like to be in that moment. Also, thought I had seen and read pretty much everything but I hadn't seen the NYU video or read the HuffPo and Esquire articles. Thanks to everyone for their contributions ITT.
Was there last Saturday. Small world. Seeing things like people's shoes or glasses that were found in the rubble got to me. Seeing a picture of a little girl victim got me choked up. On the other hand - that museum is set up really weird and it's difficult to see everything with so many people in there. It doesn't handle large crowds well.
I should retract my earlier statement. The room with every victims picture and the interactive videos/stories of every one of them was unreal
I'm not so quick to blame cave dwelling Muslims for such a well orchestrated catastrophe. Rest in peace to all the innocent lives lost, some people really cashed out on this event and the on going war on a emotion, fear, terrorism. Without getting religious maybe you'll start to understand the devil a little more. Zeitgeist touched on a little what I'm talking about. Want to see the pics to anywhere to find them?
can you please stop being you for once it's been 5 years just stop this pathetic online schtick of yours man
I feel sorry for someone like you who believes everything the media tells you. Like their isn't a constant war on our consciousness everyday. People like you are the reason why our country is getting raped and pillaged by politicians with dual citizenship to Israel.
Nope. No videos load for me on Firefox/Droid anymore. I have to search in youtube app. Been like thag since the crash on here.
Loses 100 pounds. Goes and plays soccer with black kids. Still a raging look at me faggot. I admire the consistency
Went to the 9/11 memorial in November. The area that recounts the day minute by minute was pretty intense.
Unfortunately the hosting site I was using shut down a while ago and I lost them all. This was before my Dropbox account as well. I was able to find a few though. NSFW Blood and Gore Spoiler
Aside from the loss of all the guys, the hardest thing for me was the family members wandering around looking for those who were lost. The guys from my house would drive down the west side highway before dawn each morning to get to the site and relieve the other group of guys who worked over night. The military had checkpoints set up all along the route leading up to the site and you had to stop at each one to show everyone's ID. There were 6-8 of us on the back of a stake body pick up truck and every time we stopped a handful of family members would step into the street and try to hand us copies of their relative's photo and beg us to find them. The looks of desperation and the pleading voices were overwhelming. It got so bad that we would jockey for the 2 spots to sit just behind the cab of the truck (with your back against the rear of the cab.) You couldn't hang your feet off the side of the truck and it would get uncomfortable, but the relatives couldn't get to you either. When I got stuck riding in one of the positions along the edge of the truck I would lean forward on my hands and pretend to be asleep and hope they'd pick someone else. Once the heavy debris removal was over and it got down to very fine raking and sifting for remains, the city had erected an "observation platform" for people who wanted to see down into the site. You could see many of the same faces of relatives there every day for months. The worst part was at that point in the operation they couldn't stand there in peace, they had to listen to the assembled conspiracy jerkoffs scream in their faces all day about Bush and the Jews.
I had never seen that clip before, but not long before that was filmed that camera crew from channel 7 filmed several companies heading into the South Tower for a period of time just before it collapsed. They captured a short clip of my company heading in and were good enough to research which companies they filmed and provide footage to those firehouses. All of the companies they filmed in that time period were wiped out by the collapse and none of the surviving members had any idea what had happened to them. In the clip we got you can see our guys looking up as they hustled into the building (like you're taught to do in probie school) and staying under the overhang to avoid the bodies and debris as they approached the lobby entrance. One of our guys noticed the camera filming them and appeared to smile and wink before walking into the building. The media takes a lot of heat these days, but I will always appreciate the fact that they took the time and effort to deliver a priceless gift to our house.
I can remember how somber my 4th grade classroom was. It seemed like after we heard the news of the initial plane strike we took a moment, held hands and each student took a turn praying. When our teacher, Mrs. Hill, told us that another plane had hit again sadness went to fear with some students worried a plane was going to fly into our little classroom. We again prayed and tuned into the radio to listen to it unfolding. Super Vegeta may remember it this well too, we were in the same class. I'll always remember seeing the laminated news paper from New York that was kept on the wall that entire year. When I got home that afternoon, I was sitting with my mother holding my sister and me. Watching that TV the only question I could ask her was 'Am I going to be alive to see us go to war?' Both my grandfathers and my uncles all served in the Army or Navy and had told me countless stories of their times and pride in their country, my grandad told me all about the Cold War and Desert Storm and how he hoped that afterwards there wouldn't be anymore. I'm still surprised at how vividly I remember these thoughts going through my head on that day. I feel like I have never absorbed anything else to my memory in such detail as I was able to that day. When I watch documentaries or videos taken during that day I still feel my heart break.
I was taking an American History test from about 9:15 to 10:00am that morning. I think our class was one of the last to hear about it but we watched the news in every class the entire rest of the day. Only time football practice was ever totally cancelled. I hope I don't ever have to try to fall asleep with a feeling like that again.
Not sure if this will be as strange to you guys but I thought of it when you were talking about the "missing photos" and posters families put up all around the city in the days after the collapse. Last spring there was a train crash in PA and a father from MD was missing for a period of time after the crash. His family was on the news holding this poster up for the camera: . Even 14 or 15 years after the WTC collapse, I immediately had a physical reaction when this came on the screen. The human body is amazing in its sensory reactions after long periods of time. I probably hadn't thought of the 9/11 missing posters a handful of times since it happened, but immediately reacted to this poster. I instantly remembered an old lady being helped by a young lady to hold up a similar poster of her son and daughter-in-law who were missing. One of the guys on my truck jumped off, ran over to her and took a copy of her poster, and promised to look for them. I'm sure that helped her a little, even when you consider how impossible it would be to find two people in all that. Reminds me of a crazy story about finding someone that actually happened, but I'm getting long winded. A guy I knew from probie school had a brother in a different company who was missing. The guy I knew left home on the morning of the 11th after the collapse after promising his mother he would "go get Tommy and bring him home." Ultimately he was feet away when his brother was located and, even though he was burned and mangled, was able to identify him from the plate in his leg from a motorcycle accident. Incredible.
I was worried about that guy several years ago when I saw that video lol. Then there's footage of him later also running from the second tower collapsing. Like Jesus dude. Either he had balls of steel or he's not too bright
I arrived after the first collapse and saw all kinds of dust covered firemen go right back to work doing searches right after they survived the collapse. Once the second collapse happened, I realized the kind of guts it took to survive one collapse and go right back to with the other tower burning over your head. For a civilian to do it to get pictures is crazy.
This one is brutal, you can see one of the jumpers punch through the tarp roof over the stage below, then you see all the other holes in it...