9/11: 102 minutes that changed the world

[standfree93]

Anyone watching this at the moment?
Channel 4. From 19.00, on till 21.00

Very interesting program.
Very very sad though, I remember this day, getting home to see this on the tv.

Edited by standfree93 on Saturday 4th September 20:05

[samrr]

Very very sad.

(Well worth watching though)

[Animal]

Me too. I remember being sat at my desk and having a colleague's wife call and tell him the news, then getting told not to go to Lloyd's just in case.

Got sent home early and spent the rest of the day glued to the news.

[Strangely Brown]

Even though it all happened nine years ago, it is one of those pieces of film making that quite literally leaves you speechless and stunned.

I remember sitting at my desk when the news of the first plane came through. Everyone started watching the coverage online and discussion generally followed the, "what sort of dhead pilot does that?" route. Then the second plane hit and it all changed...

Edited by Strangely Brown on Saturday 4th September 20:22

[andyjo1982]

Seen it before and some quite incredible footage of some very brave people. I also have a dvd which is just called 9/11, its by 2 French brothers who were filming a documentry about one of the Ladder crews and by accident happened to film a lot of event as it unfolded. Well worth a watch too, i'm sure it will be on one of the channel 4 channels this week.

ETA this what the dvd looks like, well worth a watch if you can. Cant see it listed on the radio times as being on this week though.

Edited by andyjo1982 on Saturday 4th September 20:31

[samrr]

I was talking to someone last week whilst on a holiday in NYC, Apparently the hospitals got geared up as the first plane hit - spare beds, blood, extra doctors etc...

Not one operation was performed that morning. People were either alive and just treated to smoke / dust in the lungs or they didn't make it.

Edited by samrr on Saturday 4th September 20:26

[XG332]

Very sobering. Very moving.
RIP

[GTIR]

Just like last time it was on i realised I couldn't watch it.

Too upsetting.

[standfree93]

That was a very interesting program.

So so sad, something that will be in my memory all my life.

I was just 8 at the time.

[cazzer]

I was sat at home (I had stuck my hand in a model aeroplane propeller the day before...dont ask).
My mate rang and said "Put sky news on an plane has just hit the WTC".
I was watchin when the second plane hit.
I watched it all unfold.


I'll never forget watchin that or the circumstances, its the November 22 1963 of our generation.

Edited by cazzer on Saturday 4th September 22:19

[williamp]

I was at work, and remember the internet going into meltdown as everyone tried going online at once...

...then the news filtered through. Then the other news: canary wharf has been evacuated, the square mile shut down.


I alreays remember the news showing a woman in glasses weraring a veil (forgive me, I dont know the difference, but it showed all of her face) making the "a-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la" noise, and the press saying this was all over the middle east...

By evening they had edited this "library clip" out of the news

[slipstream 1985]

i was the only person who had gone home at lunch from 6th year (highest secondary year 16-17yr old for you english schools) i actually asked my mum what film she was watching! then she told me and i shouted through er theres another one......

[XG332]

9 years on and I cannot believe it still.
I remember coming home to a rather upset mother worried about her brother who worked in building 7.
Lucky he was working out of NY that day. But he so nearly didn't.
On a similar note I have a squished and stamped penny from the top of the WTC that my dad gave to after a trip in 98.

[MudasarKhan]

I was in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan at the time of the attacks.

At first I didnt know what all the fuss was about but heard a lot of car horns going off in the far far distance. A lot of screaming and shouting in joy coming from all directions. I heard an english news channel in the other room so i went over, and seen everything on CNN.

Seeing the Pentagon being hit, I'm ashamed to admit that a lot of Pakistani's were jubilant. But when they realised that the Twin Towers were hit aswell, it was mood changing. When the first tower collapsed the horns stopped, and by the time the second tower collapsed my family was upset and so were a lot of the middle-class neighbours.

I've not seen the documentry but have seen an awful lot of other documentries on 9/11 ranging from conspiracy to stories of loved ones lost. I do hope I get to see this one too. I must say that the 8hr flight on 13/09/2001 back home to the UK was the scariest time of my life, and I prayed all the way.

R.I.P to all the innocent lives lost that day.

Edited by MudasarKhan on Sunday 5th September 04:26

[XG332]

FDNY Engine 6 sits on display at the NY State museum in Albany. The truck was one of the first on the scene, and was destroyed when the towers collapsed. Four of the five firefighters assigned to the truck that day died. The truck was recovered from the debris, and put on dislay as part of the museum's 9-11 exhibit.

[CarbonM5]

Remember hearing the first news breaks on the radio and as they described a plane hitting the WTC I imagined a Cessna or some other small prop.I got home turned the tv on and was proved very wrong.

[Coco H]

I worked for an American firm at the time. I sat next to a secondee from our NY office who happened to be on the phomne to some client in NY at the time. She couldn't understand why the connection cut.

[cs174]

I watched this last night too. Very moving.

Is it just me that thinks it's an absolute travesty that Osama Bin Laden has not been brought to justice?

[essexplumber]

I will never forget that day, I was fishing on Regents canal in hackney with a friend and we overheard a couple talking about how terrible something was. Then my mates mum phoned him and as he put the phone down he said "Ant what is the worst thing that could've happend?" I reply'd "dunno, nuclear war?" He then told me two huge skyscrapers in the US had fallen down!

I remeber thinking how the fk could that have happend? Then I got home and Litteraly sat in a chair watching the news with my mouth wide open.

I sometimes have dreams about being in skyscrapers that are on fire or another is a plane will fly above in obvious trouble and crash, but there is no noise or light! I also remember reading about those poor people who had a choice between burning to death or falling 100 or so floors to their deaths, I don't mind saying it made me cry.

What a sad day 9/11 was for mankind although those pictures of firefighters scaling endless stairs made me immensely proud of the bravery and selflessness we can sometimes show.

[sassthathoopie]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/12/19/usa...

Some interesting facts and statistics about the evacuations