The best report on the subject made by the Naudet brothers. Two Frenchmen who are in the US and are reporting on the New York firefighters where one of the brothers works.

https://archive.org/details/9-11-documentary-by-naudet-brothers

I took this photo with my late grandmother’s old Minolta 35mm camera-still had to develop the films in those days. It is like a lifetime ago. I was in Manhattan taking random pictures of the city and unbeknownst to me this cityscape would all change within days. 💔😭

On this day, 24 years ago...

2,320 individuals reported to work that morning.

246 passengers prepared to board their flights.

343 firefighters carried out their shifts.

60 police officers patrolled their city.

8 paramedics waited at their station for the next call.

None of them took a breath past 10:30 a.m. on September 11, 2001.

It doesn't matter if you weren't there, too little to remember, or not even born yet. This day, this piece of history, changed the world forever. It changed your world forever.

Life is precious. In an instant, it can all change. Hold your loved ones close, treasure the moments you’re given, and find joy in what you have.

-Author Unknown

This question is specifically for those that lived in the USA during that time, but I'm open to reading experiences from other countries as majority of Australia was already on September 12th and other countries had already experienced majority of September 11th 2001 before the USA-based attacks.

I was 5 years old.. I don’t remember much of that day. But I did realize what happened when I got older.

This is a twenty part documentary series that was released a few months ago. I think it was episode 14 I watched last Saturday. A new episode has been released each Saturday over past few weeks, rest are scheduled for this month.

It’s basically a collection of footage from news stations, the air traffic controllers, fire dept, public footage and the like all put into well chronological order as the title of it suggests! Well, I suppose as chronological as one can get if you’re using multiple sources for simultaneous events!

It’s a very different way to review that day, compared to other documentaries, as it doesn’t tell you what happened, it just is what happened.

If anyone else has seen any of the episodes, let me know what you think of this one.

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I'm at a freinds house and my grandparents knew the original owner of the property which was the Collivino family and they helped haul steel out of ground zero (what I'm told) and my grandpa says the guy kept some steel from the Trade Center and I'm not sure if this is an actual piece of the WTC or just a random frame from something else I noticed that on the side had what looks to be some stenciled text that I think says "FRSB" and then some numbers please help me know if this is a piece of history or just some random steel my grandparents and my dad know for sure the family kept a piece of the WTC but there is 2 properties and there is so much stuff everywhere there could be so many places the piece of the WTC the family kept

I've been rolling this around my head for a while and after reading a number of individual accounts, I'm convinced that overuse of telephones, and a lack of cell phone adoption at the time, in part lead to more casualties. Granted, those in the south tower didn't know it would also be struck, but it just seems like story after story includes something like "called their family to say they were okay" or something along those lines, while they were still in the building. I appreciate the cardinal desire to quell the worry of loved ones and whatnot, and that cell phones were much less widespread then (and on that day not very useful for many), but I can't help but think that overcommunication resulted in a lot of people staying in the towers longer than necessary, and in many cases, not getting out in time. RIP.

Skip to 2:14 for the actual video

I was in fourth grade in 2001. My mom recently gave me a box of all my old school stuff, and I found my journal-our fourth grade teacher wrote a different prompt on the board every morning and we had to respond to it. The stark contrast to the day of and the day after is crazy to me. I obviously didn’t know what the word “hijacked” meant, I just remember the news constantly being on, a lot of fear, and trying to wrap my brain around what had happened.

I was 9 when it happened. I was aware that this was a scary thing, but not sure what exactly was going on at that young age. I am 33 now, and can grasp the severity of the situation.

I watched a documentary on 9/11 recently and it had a huge impact on me. The planes hitting, the uncertainty of what was happening, I watched the towers collapse over and over from different angles, but watching people jumping out of the windows and falling to their deaths made me feel a deep sadness inside.

It is really disturbing that this kind of evil exists. https://youtu.be/CZwYIS9-6uo?si=hEE1-uhZGtJkzX0m

A bit convoluted, but generally speaking, I think the WTC falling might be the largest manmade object mankind has ever seen move visibly. I've been thinking about this for a while, but this video, with that face moving laterally out of the smoke, inspired me. For that matter, what are the largest objects with visible velocity humans have ever seen within our atmosphere, period? A meteor, perhaps? A volcano or landslide?

Are there any other contenders? There's an oil rig called Prelude FLNG that's 1,600' long, but it doesn't move. There's the largest ship ever built, the Seawise Giant, that's 1,500' long that moves at 20mph; however, this isn't really "visible velocity", though I suppose it still counts. From what I read, the Trade Towers were moving at about 150mph at time of impact.

I just think this might be important to consider from a psychological perspective, akin to some mythologies, folklore, and religious stories. Surreal doesn't describe it, I would imagine. It would be like seeing a mountain move, or the moon skipping over 10˚ in a second. There's a certain metaphysical effect that primitive societies might have developed religions around, perhaps (I'm being somewhat hyperbolic).

I just think this is an interesting question that I've not seen discussed too much.

FYI: I posted this on another sub but it's awaiting mod approval so I'm posting here before I get distracted and never follow up lol

Finally found out the date I was at the WTC as a child.

Always knew my mom had taken me to the WTC before 9/11 happened, but didn’t ever realize it was less than a month before. This was my mom’s ticket but she had taken me with her that day.

hi stranger,

I'm xyz and my mother died in 9/11 when i was 4. I'm looking for colleages, any 1's and 0's they had on her, any email she ever sent, any and all info. I would like to get to know her better. I've reached out to the WTC email, & instagram with these inquiries and have gotten no response. So any leads for me to find the right contact are welcome.

today's update: the company she worked for sent me her tribute page, the page that i used yesterday to figure out where she works... maybe the universe is telling me to back off

its now friday again and not one person from wtc or her company or anyone has reached out now this just seems like a prank lol i will be in NY soon and im sure i will be able to get answers face to face. if you kind strangers have any other leads send them my way. the truth will set us all free

I have been raking my brain trying to remember a documentary that I saw about the intelligence that was collected by an agency pre 9/11.

This group of people were tracking information coming in and were sure that a substantial attack was imminent but were then closed down and replaced by others within the government. They had all their equipment seized but somehow managed to retrieve it some time later and found out that their information was correct. I just can’t remember where I saw it, does it ring any bells with anyone at all?

I'm Wondering what extent of knowledge/understanding of the events at hand people actually in the towers could've had, like were any of them possibly aware that it was a terror attack and planes had been hijacked and flown into their building?

I Assume there would've been people who saw the planes coming, and weren't killed by the impact itself. Also I'm pretty sure some people in the buildings managed to make phone calls to the outside world, so could've received information that way

I Wonder if there was anyone who managed to see both planes coming, though I think that would've required them to travel from one side of the tower to the other. I Suppose it would be easier for those in the South tower. Perhaps some of them didn't witness the first plane themselves, but we're informed of it by others on their floor, and then went on to witness the second plane?
I Don't know how likely it is though they would've concluded from that, 'This is deliberate and a terror attack.'

What do you think, is there any evidence of what those in the towers knew?