I remember being online and seeing the second plane hit live. I knew that a friend worked in one of the towers. They didn’t find his remains for almost two months.
I don’t mean to short change or ignore the other two plates. But I saw the first plane hit come up in my feed I guess seconds after it happened.
And I couldn’t click thru to the story. I tried a search and still couldn’t.
All the servers seems to have frozen.
I was listening to then Howard Sterm show on the radio.
They were talking about Pakels Anderson of course.
They don’t even know yet
I saw just a headline that the some plane had hit one of the towers
I thought it must be a Cessna and maybe it was a pilot that had a heart attack or something because how could that happen accidentally
I guess like many I was just totally naïve about the level of threat and cleverness
And then somebody like within a minute came into the Stern show which I had on headphones and told the studio everybody that a plane had hit the World Trade Center
I was where there wasn’t a TV
But they turned on TV in the studio and watched and described it and then people in the building started talking about it and nobody knew anything
At least the people watching television could see it and it didn’t look like it had been a Cessna
And of course, the Stern show immediately went to talking about that and nothing else and people were calling to say there was some huge problem in lower Manhattan
And somebody said, I think it was one of the collars that maybe there had been an airplane maybe even a passenger jet
And after a couple of minutes of that, the second plane hit and then everybody knew, of course
And so I’m focusing on images of the two towers because they are so iconic and were so instantly New York
And because I lived in Manhattan for more than half a decade and loved every minute of it, it was back when you can live in Manhattan and not be a zillionaire
And so I loved those towers because to me they always looked light and Aries somehow
And I loved going up to windows on the world just to visit the gigantic geodes and see through the windows
And after that I felt I had to get out out of where I was and just go for a drive and let my head try to absorb this
So I got into my vehicle and just hit the freeway and headed out of town to the west
All this time I was listening to the Stern show and they were describing everything they saw on the television. The Stern show was in Midtown so not an immediate danger.
And the Stern show usually was on the air from 6 AM until about 11 AM
But this day they killed all the commercials, I think, and just took calls from people who witnessed something or other or sometimes they took calls from people with crazy theories
And within a very short time, all traffic in Manhattan was grounded and I think most of the traffic around New York City. I don’t know what they did with the inbound planes to Kennedy and LaGuardia and the New Jersey airports.
But the sky started filling up with military aircraft, and some of the military aircraft experts called and identified what they were doing and which aircraft and how many they could see from their rooftop or something
And people were calling in as they walked uptown out of Wall Street area and some of them we’re walking uptown from the basement of the World Trade Center even
This was a good while before the towers collapsed
And I wondered why they left the show on the air until something like two or 3 PM by which time the entire show crew were exhausted
They had to sneak off to the bathroom, one by one while the caller was on the air
I later found out that the reason they left the show on the air was because they’re listening numbers were completely insanely high
Because the people on the Stern show could see it either out certain windows of the building they worked in or on their local televisions and they were giving human reactions
So what a lot of places we’re doing was running one of the news feeds from the networks on the TV and then playing the Stern show on a radio in the background so they could have both the sober but uninformative newsfeeds but they also got the pictures and so they knew as much as anyone
But they also had the human reactions that were so personal coming from the Stern show people and from all their colors
And that’s kind of how the first half hour went for me after the impacts
I remember thinking it was gonna create a different United States and a different world and not necessarily would either be better
I remember getting to school and our principal coming into my math class to have our teacher turn on the news just in time to watch the second plane hit the south tower. I was in 9th grade and it was first period. We did nothing in school that day except watch the news. The silence that fell over our class when the towers fell, well, I had not understood was stifling silence was until then. Walking home was surreal. The sky was so blue and empty.
I was working and a coworker heard about the first plane crash on the radio and told everyone. He continued listening and then turned it up for everyone when it became apparent that it was not a horrible accident. At the time, I worked at my desk for a while then outside. The first collapse happened before I left the office. The day was weirdly quiet with little to no traffic. I asked everyone I saw what was happening because I did not have any access for information back then. I had a spiffy flip phone for emergencies.
After work I watched the news channels and just did not seem real. I still can’t imagine the horror of being there. Or worse losing family and friends. The TV footage is still haunting.
I was born in Iraq and was under 10 and lived there during that time and some other unfortunate events after. I remember I was watching i think Pokémon or something with my brother and then the show stopped so I got upset but it was the news an airplane hit the tower. My parents instantly came in and I remember being so scared looking at my worried parents faces and we were worried asking things like what is happening? Is America being attack and why? Its some if my earliest memories and boy was I in for another scare a couple years later but let’s not get into that. I find it funny how people often think that we, call me what u want (an arab or iraqi or muslim) thought of it like a good thing or some how reacted differently. I remember in high-school in the US people would always come up to me during that time asking if I am celebrating today… sad times all of it. Just thought I’d share my part
@heymannn I have a problem with people who can’t see a person beyond the color of their skin or other traits. There are jerks made in all colors.
I remember there were people targeted after 9/11 because it was assumed they were from that region. It seems like it still is going on without as much news coverage now.
My kid had arrived here from Cambodia 2 years prior. She had been born in a refugee camp that had been shelled on a regular basis (the refugee camps had only been closed Dec 1993) and the Khmer Rouge had only surrendered in 1996; they were very active where she lived and that part of Cambodia had the highest concentration of buried landmines in the world. She saw dead bodies left lying on the ground on a regular basis. Her father lost his leg due to stepping on a land mine (and later died of tetanus - a preventable death in most of the world).
She came home from school that day and wanted to know where we could run to hide (we lived in OK at the time). I tried to explain to her that this was far away and there was nothing here that those people who did that would want. That didn’t cut it. No matter what I suggested to try to help her feel safe she pointed out a problem with that. I finally said to her that they crashed their planes so that they’d have to walk here and it would take months to walk 1400 miles. I told her that was further than how long it took to get to her grandparents’ house (fortunately it didn’t occur to her that we drove two days to get there in a car so “they” could use cars). I told her that would give us plenty of warning to leave so they’d never catch up with us as they’d be stealing things from the houses they passed so they could have money. Fortunately she accepted that.
Brings an entire different perspective to terrorism.
I don’t remember how or why I knew. Didn’t have a phone. We may have just had a tv on in another classroom. Or maybe I was doing IT stuff as a student assistant. I just vaguely remember tearing around the few highschool classrooms telling the teachers to turn on the TVs and watching…
Should not have happened.
Better decisions certainly could have been made in the aftermath but hindsight is a bitch
I’m still pissed at how Congress treated the survivors and responders. You have to have John Stewart shame you to do your job…
Was at work, one of my coworkers went home and got. Ann. Old school tv with rabbit ears. Her ex husband worked at the pentagon and her daughter who was a young adult was terrified…
I remember being online and seeing the second plane hit live. I knew that a friend worked in one of the towers. They didn’t find his remains for almost two months.
I don’t mean to short change or ignore the other two plates. But I saw the first plane hit come up in my feed I guess seconds after it happened.
And I couldn’t click thru to the story. I tried a search and still couldn’t.
All the servers seems to have frozen.
I was listening to then Howard Sterm show on the radio.
They were talking about Pakels Anderson of course.
They don’t even know yet
I saw just a headline that the some plane had hit one of the towers
I thought it must be a Cessna and maybe it was a pilot that had a heart attack or something because how could that happen accidentally
I guess like many I was just totally naïve about the level of threat and cleverness
And then somebody like within a minute came into the Stern show which I had on headphones and told the studio everybody that a plane had hit the World Trade Center
I was where there wasn’t a TV
But they turned on TV in the studio and watched and described it and then people in the building started talking about it and nobody knew anything
At least the people watching television could see it and it didn’t look like it had been a Cessna
And of course, the Stern show immediately went to talking about that and nothing else and people were calling to say there was some huge problem in lower Manhattan
And somebody said, I think it was one of the collars that maybe there had been an airplane maybe even a passenger jet
And after a couple of minutes of that, the second plane hit and then everybody knew, of course
And so I’m focusing on images of the two towers because they are so iconic and were so instantly New York
And because I lived in Manhattan for more than half a decade and loved every minute of it, it was back when you can live in Manhattan and not be a zillionaire
And so I loved those towers because to me they always looked light and Aries somehow
And I loved going up to windows on the world just to visit the gigantic geodes and see through the windows
And after that I felt I had to get out out of where I was and just go for a drive and let my head try to absorb this
So I got into my vehicle and just hit the freeway and headed out of town to the west
All this time I was listening to the Stern show and they were describing everything they saw on the television. The Stern show was in Midtown so not an immediate danger.
And the Stern show usually was on the air from 6 AM until about 11 AM
But this day they killed all the commercials, I think, and just took calls from people who witnessed something or other or sometimes they took calls from people with crazy theories
And within a very short time, all traffic in Manhattan was grounded and I think most of the traffic around New York City. I don’t know what they did with the inbound planes to Kennedy and LaGuardia and the New Jersey airports.
But the sky started filling up with military aircraft, and some of the military aircraft experts called and identified what they were doing and which aircraft and how many they could see from their rooftop or something
And people were calling in as they walked uptown out of Wall Street area and some of them we’re walking uptown from the basement of the World Trade Center even
This was a good while before the towers collapsed
And I wondered why they left the show on the air until something like two or 3 PM by which time the entire show crew were exhausted
They had to sneak off to the bathroom, one by one while the caller was on the air
I later found out that the reason they left the show on the air was because they’re listening numbers were completely insanely high
Because the people on the Stern show could see it either out certain windows of the building they worked in or on their local televisions and they were giving human reactions
So what a lot of places we’re doing was running one of the news feeds from the networks on the TV and then playing the Stern show on a radio in the background so they could have both the sober but uninformative newsfeeds but they also got the pictures and so they knew as much as anyone
But they also had the human reactions that were so personal coming from the Stern show people and from all their colors
And that’s kind of how the first half hour went for me after the impacts
I remember thinking it was gonna create a different United States and a different world and not necessarily would either be better
Moon over Manhattan
I remember getting to school and our principal coming into my math class to have our teacher turn on the news just in time to watch the second plane hit the south tower. I was in 9th grade and it was first period. We did nothing in school that day except watch the news. The silence that fell over our class when the towers fell, well, I had not understood was stifling silence was until then. Walking home was surreal. The sky was so blue and empty.
Moon over Manhattan
@f00l
This photo has a great history. I think was taken in 1078 or 1979.
They had to change out the tall antenna on the north tower, and they took a photo journalist who worked heights with them
The photo journalist was also a bit crazy. He had started life with a agoraphobia.
I kinda guess he got past that
Of course the workers should do that sort of stuff are nuts, either halfway or all the way.
I’ve heard that they didn’t have harnesses or wired harnesses as much of the time
But the full story is in articles I’ve yet to read, but I’m gonna link to them because it’s pretty fascinating about these crazy workers
Incidentally, some sleuths, of photography claim that workers didn’t actually moon Manhattan
Although the moon they created was over Manhattan, (which is the title of the photo)
They actually according to some mooned New Jersey
for people with a New York attitude that sounds about right
About that photo
https://www.notesonnewyork.net/2019/04/21/passings-peter-b-kaplan/
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=595305650983713&id=InMemoriamSept11&hpir=1
(can only be read with a FB account.)
@f00l
More astounding photos of the crazy workers are in this article.
https://www.vintag.es/2020/10/construction-workers-on-top-of-wtc.html?m=1
@f00l
Here is the original articleabout that worker photo.
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/photo-construction-worker-moons-nyc-atop-world-trade-center-in-1970s
At The Gothamist Mag
you have to give them your email address to read it
I’m not completely certain the article is still online even after that
If somebody gives their address or a fake one and read the article and it’s there, let us know
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/photo-construction-worker-moons-nyc-atop-world-trade-center-in-1970s
I was working and a coworker heard about the first plane crash on the radio and told everyone. He continued listening and then turned it up for everyone when it became apparent that it was not a horrible accident. At the time, I worked at my desk for a while then outside. The first collapse happened before I left the office. The day was weirdly quiet with little to no traffic. I asked everyone I saw what was happening because I did not have any access for information back then. I had a spiffy flip phone for emergencies.
After work I watched the news channels and just did not seem real. I still can’t imagine the horror of being there. Or worse losing family and friends. The TV footage is still haunting.
Philippe Petit
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George Willig
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I was born in Iraq and was under 10 and lived there during that time and some other unfortunate events after. I remember I was watching i think Pokémon or something with my brother and then the show stopped so I got upset but it was the news an airplane hit the tower. My parents instantly came in and I remember being so scared looking at my worried parents faces and we were worried asking things like what is happening? Is America being attack and why? Its some if my earliest memories and boy was I in for another scare a couple years later but let’s not get into that. I find it funny how people often think that we, call me what u want (an arab or iraqi or muslim) thought of it like a good thing or some how reacted differently. I remember in high-school in the US people would always come up to me during that time asking if I am celebrating today… sad times all of it. Just thought I’d share my part
@heymannn I have a problem with people who can’t see a person beyond the color of their skin or other traits. There are jerks made in all colors.
I remember there were people targeted after 9/11 because it was assumed they were from that region. It seems like it still is going on without as much news coverage now.
My kid had arrived here from Cambodia 2 years prior. She had been born in a refugee camp that had been shelled on a regular basis (the refugee camps had only been closed Dec 1993) and the Khmer Rouge had only surrendered in 1996; they were very active where she lived and that part of Cambodia had the highest concentration of buried landmines in the world. She saw dead bodies left lying on the ground on a regular basis. Her father lost his leg due to stepping on a land mine (and later died of tetanus - a preventable death in most of the world).
She came home from school that day and wanted to know where we could run to hide (we lived in OK at the time). I tried to explain to her that this was far away and there was nothing here that those people who did that would want. That didn’t cut it. No matter what I suggested to try to help her feel safe she pointed out a problem with that. I finally said to her that they crashed their planes so that they’d have to walk here and it would take months to walk 1400 miles. I told her that was further than how long it took to get to her grandparents’ house (fortunately it didn’t occur to her that we drove two days to get there in a car so “they” could use cars). I told her that would give us plenty of warning to leave so they’d never catch up with us as they’d be stealing things from the houses they passed so they could have money. Fortunately she accepted that.
Brings an entire different perspective to terrorism.
The one photo the sticks out is the sad one of the person that jumped from one of the upper floors, falling head first.
@mycya4me The Falling Man. He jumped from the North Tower.
I don’t remember how or why I knew. Didn’t have a phone. We may have just had a tv on in another classroom. Or maybe I was doing IT stuff as a student assistant. I just vaguely remember tearing around the few highschool classrooms telling the teachers to turn on the TVs and watching…
Should not have happened.
Better decisions certainly could have been made in the aftermath but hindsight is a bitch
I’m still pissed at how Congress treated the survivors and responders. You have to have John Stewart shame you to do your job…
Was at work, one of my coworkers went home and got. Ann. Old school tv with rabbit ears. Her ex husband worked at the pentagon and her daughter who was a young adult was terrified…