9/11

Liljagare

Liljagare

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Just a thought and prayers for this event.

So many heroes lost and lives lost, and still in the shadow of it, humans can come together.

Asbestos.. :\

National Geographic has a really decent documentary series out that is new, and interesting.

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Mr Moose said:
I remember watching it on the news as it was happening, didn't seem real. Such a horrific event.
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I was 11 years old at the time. Even today, I remember vividly what I was doing when I heard the news, how I felt and reacted, what the time was. I remember my teacher, who was an old geezer at the time, telling us this was an event we'd remember clearly for the rest of our lives. He likened it to how the JFK assassination and Pear Harbor affected his generation. I didn't think about it much at the time but in hindsight he was right.
 
Honoring a hero from 9/11:

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Richard Cyril Rescorla (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private sector, where he worked in corporate security.

As the director of security for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center,[3] Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures that were credited with saving thousands of lives.[4] He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, going back to help evacuate more people in the South Tower after he had organized the evacuation of the Morgan Stanley offices.

September 11, 2001
Main article: September 11 attacks

Rick Rescorla Memorial in Hayle, Cornwall
At 8:46 A.M. on the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC 1).[20][21] Rescorla heard the explosion and saw the tower burning from his office window in the 44th floor of the South Tower (WTC 2). When a Port Authority announcement came over the P.A. system urging people to stay at their desks, and before United Airlines Flight 175 would strike the South Tower at 9:03 A.M.,[22] Rescorla ignored the announcement, grabbed his bullhorn, walkie-talkie and cell phone, and began systematically to order the roughly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees in the South Tower to evacuate, in addition to the employees in WTC 5, numbering around 1,000. While watching the news coverage, in a phone call to his best friend, Dan Hill, Rescorla said, "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate," and, "They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people the fuck out of here."[4] He directed people down a stairwell from a bottleneck on the 44th floor, keeping people away from elevators while telling them to remain calm.[23]

Rescorla had boosted morale among his men in Vietnam by singing Cornish songs from his youth, and now he did the same in the stairwell, singing songs such as one based on the Welsh song "Men of Harlech":

Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming;
Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming?
See their warriors' pennants streaming
To this battlefield.
Men of Cornwall stand ye steady;
It cannot be ever said ye
for the battle were not ready;
Stand and never yield![4]

Between songs, Rescorla called his wife, telling her, "Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life," and Susan replied, "You made my life, too" before the phone went dead.[24] After successfully evacuating almost all of Morgan Stanley's 2,700 employees, he went back into the building.[4][25][26] When one of his colleagues told him he too had to evacuate the World Trade Center, Rescorla replied, "As soon as I make sure everyone else is out."[27] He was last seen on the 10th floor of the South Tower, heading upward, shortly before its collapse at 9:59 A.M., 56 minutes after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175. A total of 13 Morgan Stanley employees died in the September 11 attacks,[28] including Rescorla, his deputies Wesley Mercer and Jorge Velazquez, and security guard Godwin Forde, who had collectively stayed behind to help others.[29][30] Rescorla was declared dead three weeks after the attacks.[4] Although medical examiners continued to identify victims of the attacks from recovered remains as late as September 2021, as of that date[31] none have been identified as those of Rescorla.[18][25][26]
 
Watched it from my school's roof, I was in tech school in Brooklyn at the time. Years later I did the estimate, and ultimately ran the work, for the carpentry and drywall work in the 911 memorial museum.
 
it happened while I was playing in the backyard of my grandpa with my brother. it was in the afternoon in Germany.
my grandpa and grandma were watching TV inside, my uncle came over (he lived literally next door, just came home from work I think), walked in, and instantly said "ach du scheisse", at which point I came inside looking what's up.
that was before the towers fell down I think.

next day at school we didn't have normal classes either. the new school year just started 2 days earlier. all we did was gather at the center hallways and hold a minute of silence, after that people were allowed to go home if they wanted, and those who stayed were basically just playing board games with the teachers or eachother for a few hours, some talking about the event.
 
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I was stationed in Mannheim, Germany at the time. We were on our way to the movies when we got called back to base. It was surreal with the entire unit crammed into our offices watching the news while the leadership were conferring and deciding what needed to be done for immediate security measures. Over the next few days/weeks local Germans brought lots of flowers, wreaths, etc and left them near the entry gates as hardly any would be allowed on.
 
I was 21 and had been out partying the night before. I was still living with my parents. I slept late and woke up around 11 to see my parents glued to the TV.

My strongest memory is my Dad had to go to work. As he was leaving, Fox News was showing some clip of a kid (maybe 11?) in the middle east somewhere cheering and throwing his fist in the air in celebration. My Dad, who is normally a chill, class clown kind of guy started yelling at the TV "You're dead! You're all dead!"

I remember standing there surprised as he stormed out of the house and slammed the door.
 
Nowadays the thing that sticks with me the most is all the footage shot, but one longer video in particular by the journalist while he's in the deserted plaza with debris falling from the towers. First of all it's crazy how apocalyptic the surrounding area on the ground looked before the towers even fell. Debris everywhere, burnt out cars, papers strewn everywhere. Then he cuts to a different shot, you can hear things hitting the ground like pieces of metal and obviously the bodies of jumpers from the building, there's a even a seat from one of the planes. This is all while the Muzak version of Billy Joel's "She's Always a Woman" is still playing in the background. Then he's with some random New Yorker and they capture footage of an office worker trying to scale down the side of the building on a rope, fires raging above him, and then he slips and tumbles all the way down. In the background it's the Bee Gee's "How Deep is Your Love" playing. Then the next scene is some footage of firemen, security personnel, and very briefly one of his friends all outside and then going into the tower and then a few moments later the first tower collapses and they all died.

It really only recently occured to me just how devastating the damage and destruction was. As people say, two structures of such magnitude and size crashing to ground had never happened before in the history of humanity.
 
I was playing Final Fantasy VIII because I had a late start Tuesdays + Thursdays that semester. Turned it off to go get ready and my roommate went to put on SportsCenter like usual. Then I hear him from the bathroom "a plane crashed into the Pentagon" I went to go look and shortly after they cut back to NYC, it was after the first tower fell but not the second. Such a fucked up day that is burned into my memory.

My dad is a (now retired) firefighter, he traveled with a bunch of others to NYC shortly thereafter. Mainly for moral support + to do honor guard for some of the many firefighter funerals. He's got some amazing pictures from ground zero and some of the firehouses he visited.
 
Was living in Poland, my dad picked me up from collage. I remember exactly where we were driving when the news came up on the car radio.
 
I was awake and watching when the second plane hit. Which is highly unusual as at that point in my life I was never up before noon because I was typically still drunk from the night before.

It was kind of amazing to watch America galvanize in the wake of the attacks. For the first, and only, time in my life everybody was united.

Fast forward to the anniversary today where the country is tearing itself apart in the wake of a cowardly political assassination.

Humanity really needs to figure its shit out. It's just us, alone on this planet in the black void of infinity. At the current tech level we could live in a utopian society, but we'd rather kill each other over what gods we worship, our skin color, our ideological differences.

Arnie nailed it in T2, "It is in your nature to destroy yourselves."
 
I was at work and when i heard the news it hit differently because i visited these towers like a year before the fact, it was surreal to be that high and almost touch some clouds.
 
I came home from collage and it was on tv I was also playing red alert 2 at the time which as an attack on new york as one of the levels it all felt so surreal
 
I remember coming home from school in Sweden as an 11-year old and my dad sitting by the TV watching the news and telling me there's a war in USA. The magnitude of the event only hit me in my teens when I watched videos from different angles, especially the one which is filmed by a private person in her apartment. I remember being horrified when I learned that people jumped out to escape the flames and that they were visible in photos.

Edit: It might have been this one:
 
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What an utterly mad day that was, one that changed the world that became engulfed by paranoia and has been ever since. I remember leaving work in London having watched the events unfold - central London was emptied in fear of similar attacks, so Picadilly Circus was like a scene from 28 days later. I can't imagine whay NY must have been like, no doubt the surrealist and most horrifying day imagineable.
 
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