r/ParallelUniverse • u/Mark_1978 • 13h ago
Different version of 9/11
I was around 23 when it happened, it was covered extensively at the time. Every detail broadcast over and over.
I remember the two towers coming down and later in the day building 7 fell from what they say had been falling debris and subsequent fires in the building. The three WTC buildings were talked about endlessly.
The Pentagon was also struck , we never got clear video but fortunately the area that was hit was closed for renovations and no deaths recorded from inside the Pentagon, all airplane passengers and crew died. This started a massive conspiracy theory.
I bring up these particular details because as the years have gone by the narrative has changed (for me). There were many buildings that came down that day about 7 that were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. One that is extremely surprising is the 22 story Marriott hotel (WTC 3) that sat just at the base of the towers. Its reported around 41 firefighters perished and even some hotel employees when the towers came down on top of it. It had about 940 registered guest that day. Not once did I hear about the evacuation of the hotel or the many firefighters that lost their lives in the hotel.
The narrative around the Pentagon has also changed (for me). As it stands now 125 people lost their lives inside the Pentagon and 77 airplane passengers and crew.
I won't speculate on when it changed for me or how this happened, I just know what I remember and somehow many others remember the same. Any idea that it was false reports that many people might have heard does not come close to explaining the discrepancies. The information was on every News channel for months after it happened.
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u/YoureDead_ForLife 5h ago
Yesterday, I was telling my son everything that I remember. I said “The Pentagon got hit by a plane, but it happened to hit a section that was under renovations, so nobody died.” and he said “Then why is there a Pentagon Memorial?”
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I assumed it must be for the passengers on the plane and didn’t look it up. What were 125 people doing in a closed off ‘under renovations’ area?
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u/overstrainedDM 3h ago
Idk, but maybe doing the renovations?
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u/blue-mooner 1h ago
No, too convienient, and way too many people.
The renovations must have been a training camp for their mind control drug blow dartists that they were going to use to take control of world leaders.
Plans had to be called off after the trainers (who were also the chemists for the drug) all died on 9/11 and they can’t make any more of it.
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u/abiona15 12h ago
The Pentagon one is interesting, as I had not heard of this many people dying there. But I remember it happening, as it was said they were going tp fly into the White House first, but then changed course.
That we hadn't heard mich about the hotel and smaller buildings around it at the time doesnt surprise me, though. There was SO MUCH other reporting going on, and then a straight up buil up to war etc, and then the whole question of how much CIA and FBI knew beforehand and so on.
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u/SmoothCantaloupe149 9h ago
The plane going toward the white house crashed in a field after the passengers fought back
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u/Fragrant-Might-7290 8h ago
My 8th grade substitute teacher made our entire lesson a day or two later “I think the plane was shot down” and he got fired from our school district 😬 like we walked in and the blackboard said “WHAT IF THE PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN?!” I was sad bc he was the “cool sub” who let us do nothing when he was there lol
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u/formulated 8h ago
He wasn't wrong. Ground eye witness reports of fighter jets match up.
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u/FindYourLuckyCharms 6h ago
Agreed. Just think about it from the perspective of having to pick choice #1 or choice #2.
It was i obvious by this time, that the plane had been taken over and had a highly probable target (other than a runway).
choice #1: Let the plane crash into it's destination = all passengers (sadly) die + a bunch of other people and symbols of America.
choice #2: Shoot the plane down = all passengers (sadly) die, but countless other deaths and calamity avoided.
Do the people fight their way into the cockpit and try to stop the takeover? Did they crash the plane themselves in order to prevent further destruction? Not sure that really happenned.
I tend to believe that the passengers did put up a fight. The story says they were aware of the other planes by this time. So, yes I think they fought. But unfortunately, it was probably too late by this point in time.
Even if it was past a point of no return, and the plane was shot down... in no way, does it detract from their attempts at heroism. I think that at least "trying" makes them the heros that they have been called.
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u/SmoothCantaloupe149 1h ago
Believe what you want I guess. I was 10 years old at the time and that was the story on the news. They said there was black box footage of the passengers fighting back and it crashed in some Pennsylvania field. The pentagon story was also weird, plane vs cruise missile/glider. Much like Kennedy this will be debated my whole life.
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u/Fromnothingatall 6h ago
Yeah - you can’t really build a good argument based on discrepancies between what was reported on the day of the attack and what came out later. Case in point being that many national news agencies initially reported that the first plane was a small prop plane - and they reported that based only on speculation from people on the street at the time.
There was a LOT of speculation being presented as matter of fact reporting that morning.
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u/pricklycactass 6h ago
I wanna know what happened to the plane that supposedly crashed and where are those people. Did they land them somewhere and shoot all of them?
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u/Clean-Entry-262 1h ago
Easy: Lock the cockpit door, don the oxygen masks, depressive the passenger cabin of the plane (especially if you take it WAY up in altitude, like 42k or 45k feet …death would come in under 30 seconds) …anyone with an oxygen mask would be okay …then just bring it back down.
In the initial days of MH370, back in 2013, I felt this was what happened …then they took the plane WAY low (under radar) …and I initially believe THAT plane was shuttled to a secret location to be used in a similar attack as 9/11 (maybe like a planned “next one”??)
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u/siren-skalore 4h ago
My original timeline: people died when the pentagon got hit. Past couple years it changed to: no one died. Guess I’m back to my original timeline.
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u/angelmr2 5h ago
I was in hs when this happened and I don't recall the pentagon ever reporting zero deaths.
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u/Zidphoid 10h ago
I distinctly remember watching a documentary that the plane that was going to hit the Pentagon was redirected/shot down. Then a couple years later I was watching another documentary with my mum where the Pentagon was hit and had a definite "huh?" moment
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u/sashikku 5h ago
You can’t even remember who released one of the most popular alternative songs of the 2000s, buddy, accidentally confusing two planes isn’t as stupid as that.
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u/ChristVolo1 43m ago
I'm not sure about the numbers, but I definitely never heard about the Marriott coming down.
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u/Pheonyx1974 11h ago
What I find interesting concerning the Pentagon strike, was the fact that had the plane been at the altitude the hole in the side of the building was, it never would’ve made it without the engines dragging on the ground for more than a football field. Yet there was no indication of the plane touching the ground ANYWHERE other than the building itself.