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Anyone else watching this? It's all video footage, most of which I've never seen before, strung together to make an almost real time documentary of events as they happened.

It's hard to describe. I feel exhausted just watching it.
 
Im watching it did you see the prog last night it was the telephone and mobile conversations I remember watching it live, couldnt believe it
 
Did you know that a flight number from one of the planes that hit one of the two towers was Q33NY. (not sure it was though think it was an internet Hoax)

In MS Word, type in that flight number, Q33NY. Enlarge the font size to 26 Change the font to Wingdings 1. this is what you get, and 911 is the emergency number in US, I have seen longer Wingdings 1, I cant find it but its even more crazy,(but dont believe it

q33ny.gif
 
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Has anyone watched loose change on you tube ?
 
Where where you on 9/11

I was in work in Skelmersdale carrying out an Audit when the news came on the radio a day no-one will forget
 
For me it was, and still is, the most chilling moment in modern history.
The misery inflicted on normal joes in a non combat zone is a cowardly, despicable act.

I was watching sky news when the 1st pictures came on. I thought, as many did, it was a spoof movie trailer.
 
sjmcdonnell said:
Where where you on 9/11

I was in work in Skelmersdale carrying out an Audit when the news came on the radio a day no-one will forget
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Was sat in a Maccy D's in Nottingham, came over on the radio and the whole place went silent.
 
was away to play golf in Orlando and was due to fly home that day.. a week later,we were the 1st plane back into this country
 
I was at work when it happened. There were a few late trains that day. Got home jst before the first tower came down. Scary stuff.
Anyone ever see the doc made by the two french brotheres who were shadowing a team of firefighters? It was one of them that got the shot of the first plane hitting. Easily the most dramatic Doc I have ever seen.
 
chameleon said:
Anyone ever see the doc made by the two french brotheres who were shadowing a team of firefighters? It was one of them that got the shot of the first plane hitting.
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yes i remember watching that

i was at work when news started filtering through, me and a few others thought so what some little aircraft flew into a tower.....then it gradually unfolded, i remember coming home and saying to wife whats this about the twin towers, she knew nothing, turned telly on sky news first image i got was one big dust cloud over new york, then the footage of what happened....needless to say i was gobsmacked
 
I had just finished a service call at the co-op distribution centre in Oxford, when the site manager came running out and asked me to come back inside as there was something i should see, that was just as the first footage of the aftermath of the first plane had hit the tower, I stopped there about 2 hours watching it on Sky News.

The manager altered my time sheet for the extra hours and i drove to Home to Walton on Thames listening to the radio.

I dont think i will ever forget that.
 
Channel 5 are doing a series of these documentries... they make you think don't they... poor buggers! God bless them all :)

I was at work in Leeds rebuilding a Server when a load of people went screaming by the server room... I followed the crowd and like mho above sat clued to the Sky coverage.... the last day I had like this was when Lady Di was killed!

Makes you think what next eh?
 
Its hard to believe that is is almost 8 years ago we all sat in utter horror as the events of 9/11 unfolded between our eyes
 
He didn't know what to do! That's the craziest thing about it. The leader of the free world didn't know what to do.

I don't think the documentary could have been presented in any other way and still deliver the same effect.

I was in India when it happened. I was meant to be in NYC working at an inner city camp for disadvantaged kids but opted to go to India instead. We got sent back early by the British Embassy because we had to fly over Afghanistan. A day or two after we touched down in Heathrow the missiles started flying. There were tanks and soldiers on the streets of Delhi and every other major city in India, was crazy. I don't think anyone will forget that, it's probably the biggest world changing thing most of us will ever live through.
 
I think a lot of its impact is due to the fact that people were watching it 'live' on the TV as it unfolded, I cant think of anything else where that is the case.

Yesterdays program was certainly draining.
 
KayJay said:
He didn't know what to do! That's the craziest thing about it. The leader of the free world didn't know what to do.
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I'm no fan of George Bush however I doubt any other 'leader' would know what to do in that situation either.

The program gave a really good insight into the lives/real-time response of the public in the time of an unprecedented event. Powerful stuff. :|
 
sdb123 said:
I'm no fan of George Bush however I doubt any other 'leader' would know what to do in that situation either.
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You might have a point, but people look to you to make the calls when something like that happens.
 
The 'thing' to do would have been to say: "Sorry folks, something's come up and I have to go...Leader of the Free World Stuff, y'know?"
 
I was checking the weather on Sky news active when the first news flash came on. I was glued to the news all day after that. I remember sobbing when the second plane hit and ringing everyone I could think of to tell them to put the news on.

Is this programme online anywhere? I wouldn't mind watching it.
 
Very good and worthwhile TV I thought. The one the night before about the last calls didn't attract me in the slightest, much to personal and upsetting. The one last night was, as KayJay said, just the facts.

I remember on the day listening to it on the radio at work and then getting home and feeling physically sick at the pictures. I've since tried to work out why it was and still is so effecting. I now think it's because the people killed where just like me in every way, apart from the city they did their job in. And, of course, the visceral quality and quantity of the visual imagery. I.E. on the day they showed people falling from the buildings etc...
 
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On the day, the first reports said that it was a light aircraft. I was listening to Radio 5 then switched on the TV shortly after 2pm, thinking that if it was serious enough the BBC would provide rolling coverage. Even with the live pictures, the "anchors" carried on saying it was a light aircraft for some time.

I must've got annoyed with the TV people and carried on listening to Radio 5, because I recall Steve Evans filing reports by phone. Then he went quiet and it was days before he resurfaced. IIRC, he'd taken cover in a phonebox. He was the nearest to a personal connection to the event: one of Auntie Beeb's trusted voices. Later I heard that a writer for Frasier was on one of the planes.

A friend told me he was videoconferencing with colleagues in Italy, who must've had a TV alongside their monitor and suddenly got very agitated.

The Police presence was noticeable on a visit to my local small town.

A couple of months later I was on a rail journey, trying to snatch bits of info from my Walkman's radio when there was the Airbus crash over Queens.
 
I thought someone at work was taking the micky when they came in and said a plane had crashed. I insantly thought a little Cessna or something but I couldn't believe the carnage. I remember the boss ushering everyone into his office to crowd round this little 14' TV. Probably the maddest ting I've witnessed so far in my life and something that I still feel totally compelled to find more out about.
 
Cruel as it may sound one of my first thoughts was "now they know what it's like"

IRA donations from NY dried up almost over night.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Cruel as it may sound one of my first thoughts was "now they know what it's like"

IRA donations from NY dried up almost over night.
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I so badly want to comment, but .... :schtum:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Cruel as it may sound one of my first thoughts was "now they know what it's like"

IRA donations from NY dried up almost over night.
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TBH I felt the same thing - and the general feeling around our Headquarters was the same...

...plus a sense of 'things have changed'...and with the US, when the gloves come off, they come all the way off...

I visited NYC in Spring the following year and it was the first time anyone could remember that a Sinn Fein member hadn't led-off the Easter Parade - the FDNY and NYPD - both organisations with large 'Irish' membership - told them they were no longer welcome...

As a cop at the Parade told me when I asked him his thoughts on the matter: "Now we know what you've been dealing with for the last 25 years..."
 
Was at work. In the background, a phone rang and another manager told his American-born assistant that a plane had just gone into one of the towers. She passed the news onto us and we all logged onto various news websites (BBC in the first instance) to see what had happened. That's when we realised it was a "big" plane and not a tiny single-seater which had made a big mistake.

The afternoon kind-of unfolded in horror after that - were our colleagues in New York okay? Where was my boss - he was in New York? Major attempts were made to make contact and eventually we all accounted for our Oxford-office staff.

We saw the 2nd plane crash... the following day we found out that 2 of our New York colleagues were on that second plane! My friend Debbie fared worse. She was holding a telephone conference in her office and there was a huge bang. One of the attendees said "You'll never believe this - a plane has just flown into the other tower. Can we call you back?". That was the last she ever heard from them - 20 minutes later, another plane (the plane carrying my two colleagues) hit their tower and killed 30 of her friends!

A few days later we met up at a mutual friend's house in Gloucester. A local DJ was present and, for some reason, started cracking loads of extremely tastless jokes about it. He shut up after Debbie and I confronted him with everybody else attending this party listening in as we told him basically where to shove his jokes.
 
I was in the middle of packing the case for a flight to visit to my son in Japan when he rang to ask if I had the television on, he would not say why, just told me to switch it on immediately!!, what a shock that was, not knowing what to expect. We were still talking on the phone when the second tower was hit an even bigger shock in a way, then the shock was even greater when the buildings finally collapsed.

I must admit I was a little nervous on the flight over the next day!.
 
I was working for one of the US banks in the City of London when it happened.
We turned on the big screens just before the 2nd tower was hit.

All I can remember, was our bosses asking us if we would work late and all of us thinking 'we want to go home now'. Spent the rest of the afternoon with one eye on the window.
 
i was in 6th form, and i got home just after the 2nd plane had hit. Similar reaction to everyone else, thinking it was an accident and maybe the planes had malfunctioned somehow.

I feel sick to my stomach every time I remember how many people died and how they died. Especially those that jumped to their deaths, what went through minds before they jumped and the 10 seconds or so on the way down. Also the firefighters who ran up the stairways to fight the fire. But it does make me think about the numerous innocent civilians killed around the world by the US on almost a daily basis. Neither is justified, its just a stick twisted world we live in.
 
I was working in a London city dealing room as I used to do.

We all just stood in shock at stared at the screens, nobody said a word as we all realised what had happened and how many friends we had just all just lost.

I lost a lot of good friends that day, I changed after that day and am a completely different person today.
 
Arkady said:
TBH I felt the same thing - and the general feeling around our Headquarters was the same...

...plus a sense of 'things have changed'...and with the US, when the gloves come off, they come all the way off...

I visited NYC in Spring the following year and it was the first time anyone could remember that a Sinn Fein member hadn't led-off the Easter Parade - the FDNY and NYPD - both organisations with large 'Irish' membership - told them they were no longer welcome...

As a cop at the Parade told me when I asked him his thoughts on the matter: "Now we know what you've been dealing with for the last 25 years..."
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What you have to wonder is, if the same number of people had died in, say Lebanon, as a result of a US air strike, would it have received the same coverage, for so long?

On a similar note, the "fallout" from the destruction of Pan-AM 103 has rumbled on for over 20 years, yet not one person was ever imprisoned for the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes with the loss of all 290 souls onboard -including 66 children, only 5 months earlier, considered by many as the true catalyst for the Lockerbie bombing.

I'm not condoning any of these attrocities and the loss of innocent human life on 9/11 was horrendous, but sometimes it only seems to be newsworthy if those who die are white Americans....
 
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