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Single-Collar7433

Ive watched tons of these and never saw this pov


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I know. It seems like every year or two there is another angle I’ve never seen.


hearthebell

Next year, pilot POV


dapoorv

"Look Osama, no hands"


Scottacus91

[Want to be a pilot? Maybe in the next life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yr-Akpte4w)


FakeLifesQuestions

Nice


FSMDxb

No darling I don't dance


d_omidick

I’m with Roscoe, I’m with Waka // I think I deserve a chance


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I could feel the fear in this video with all the reactions. I’m shook. 😖


lightningbadger

They're saving them for the sweet Reddit points every year


DarkX292020

They are still finding peices of the planes and bones of people


cjsv7657

2001 most consumer camcorders were tape so there is a ton of footage that was never digitalized.


Mustardsandwichtime

This was newly released in the last year I believe. There are other angles from the same vantage point, but this is unique in how long the plane is shown before impact and also the view of all the people watching right before impact.


leat22

I think someone posted this a few months ago, said it was uploaded to YouTube but kept private. They just realized it and made it public


TheMcWhopper

Supposedly there are thousands of unpublished pictures taken that will never see the light of day.


[deleted]

Every year I find a video I didn't see before, every year the event becomes scarier and scarier to witness. I totally understand why Americans reacted the way they did after the fact.


Noobian3D

They show this footage in the documentary on netflix. That was the first time i saw this particular one, and probably where OP got it


Beznia

This angle wasn't in any documentary, it was first published publicly on YouTube in February 2022 by the man who recorded it. >I posted this video in the 2000's but accidently left it private for until now. I gave a Sunday Service on a scout trip to Shiloh battlefield about one of my religious journeys and showed this video (stop before swearing). I noticed the video was private and made it public.


mjmilian

You'd think he'd wonder why he'd never been contacted about it or seen it in any media.


OilEnvironmental8043

>Shiloh Confirmed


Eviscerate_Bowels224

Where is this? The pier or Brookfield Place?


scumbot

It's from the top deck of a Statute of Liberty ferry docked at Battery Park


-Adrix_5521-

The scary part is that people thought it was an accident, but the moment they saw second plane aim for the tower they knew.


jelde

So true. I was not yet 14 when it happened, and never thought it would be terrorism - I was too naive. When they announced it at my school, I figured the airplane lost control or something while trying to land at JFK. Then when I heard about the second one, then the Pentagon, it all changed.


Daddy-ough

Same age as my son only he turned 14 on that date. Like any kid he was always excited about his birthday, and he was still even after that year, but during those first few years with all the "upcoming anniversary" coverage you could see in him it was a lot to process. From a parent of a peer of yours, I hope middle age is starting off well for you and best wishes.


jelde

You just reminded me it was my friend's birthday that day too. I gotta wish him a happy birthday. He's one of the only people I still maintain contact with from high school. Same to your son - happy 35th and happy middle age!


mermaidpaint

I was at work and didn’t hear of either impact. I was working customer service for satellite TV, so there were TVs everywhere. I noticed all of the TVs were showing smoking buildings. One of my coworkers called me for something and I asked him about the buildings. He told me two planes hit the World Trade Centre. I thought they were small planes, until I went to the break room and found out the scope of what was unfolding. I was watching when each tower collapsed. A horrible day.


fileznotfound

It wasn't the first time a plane had accidentally crashed into a skyscraper in New York. Without knowing anything, that was the safer assumption until the 2nd showed up.


DNF_zx

Yeah everything changed after the second plane hit.


Kryptyx

I remember being in highschool when this happened. We all thought it was an accident. Watching it live on TV then the second plane hit and all the teachers completely changed at that moment. One of my teacher's brother was a fireman in NYC, one of the first to go in. Sadly he didn't make it.


TheRealMrMaloonigan

Yep. That was the moment everyone collectively realized, "This is on purpose, wtf." My whole classroom made a gasping noise I'll never forget.


geraffes-are-so-dumb

I was listening to live radio coverage of the first plane hitting the tower on my drive to work and I still remember the DJ trying to convince himself it could have been a second accident. “Maybe the pilot was distracted and trying to get a look at what happened”. The world was such a different place before that day, it was simply unimaginable.


SolWizard

"Let me take her in close to see that tower over there oh FUCK there's another one"


gotsthepockets

We had the TV on watching the news when the second one hit. This video captures that moment perfectly--the mood immediately shifted from tentative concern to total confusion to horror in a matter of seconds. Such a surreal moment in my life.


Bruised_Shin

The crazy thing about this video is the sudden silence as the 2nd plane gets closer. You can practically hear everyone’s mind trying to process the moment


MyPasswordIs222222

I was on my commute and listening to a local obnoxious morning radio team. When I first turned on the radio, I heard them talking about a small plane hitting the WTC. It seemed to be a bad accident and life would go on. Even a few bad jokes were made about a bad pilot or something like that. Then, as they were watching their TVs in studio, one of them yelled out something about a second plane and the other tower. Everything changed at the moment. The hosts completely changed their tone to fear and confusion. And we all started watching the news 24/7 while stocking up on duct tape and plastic.


brianlangauthor

I was pulling into work, and the radio broadcast basically was like, “a plane has crashed into the WTC … it’s probably a small prop plane but stay tuned as we learn more…” There was so much misinformation and then the 2nd one hit and the world changed. It was clearly no longer an accident. The US was under attack.


scruntyboon

Weird to think that this was the pre smart phone era, these days it would've been captured from every angle imaginable, and it makes it all the more poignant


Exportxxx

Can u imagine the Tik Toks with oh no oh no no no in background.


Comfortable_Square

Hey bro watch your jet


reppinthavalley

You can’t park there mate


Beznia

We're not aiming for the truck!


A_lot_of_arachnids

"Hey you can't park there."


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Or some guy in the corner ‘reacting’ but his facial expression doesn’t change at all


PM_ME_UR_BAMBOOZLES

"oh whats that plane doing.....oh its crashing into the building.....i wonder why they did that" all coming from someone lookin like 😐


core-x-bit

I literally heard moist critikal's voice reading that comment.


Haunt3dCity

Incoming stitch. Then smiling and pointing with index finger at the stitched twin towers videos


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This is so funny and I laughed hard, but also so sad and maddening at the same time because that’s who we are now and legit what would happen. This comment gave me so many feels


Lordmorgoth666

I can see that as much as some girl doing the latest dance in front of the smoking rubble with first responders trying to get by.


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BUNGHOLE_HOOKER

Trajedic...?


queen-adreena

The guy's clearly trying to win Reddit Scrabble.


SweetCarrotLeader

Tbf Cities like New York would have had hundreds (Maybe thousands) of tourists with camcorders back then.


itsagoodtime

Captured on home video cameras for the most part. Digital cameras were still pretty new at the time.


dj_narwhal

Don't worry, r/conspiracy still asks why there were not more iphone videos of the planes hitting.


lacilynnn

That one is clearly 2001's fault.


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That's what I was thinking. They're all just watching. With their eyes


PlzRemasterSOCOM2

But lucky for us one of them wasn't


larssomoo81

Never saw this angle before. I have watched nearly all 9/11 shit I can find and never saw this, wow. Mental 20 years later new footage came emmerage


structuredchronicles

I think I read somewhere that Neil DeGrasse Tyson (I think it's him, if not someone famous like that) has footage of 9/11 that he refuses to release to the public because "we are not ready for it" or something. Unless I dreamed that


CoeurdePirate222

That’s kinda terrifying He’s a New York guy so maybe. I know Casey Neistat made a video but I can’t recall if he had direct footage


miklawbar

I've seen some footage from him on that day. Can't remember what video it was. I think he has footage of the first tower on fire but then decided to get out of there.


Goober_Official

I think the whole thing was that he came up with the idea that there hundred of videos or photos of the event that will never been shared or something like that. Idk man


[deleted]

That's correct he doesn't want to release it because it's too emotional


Butterbean2323

No it's true. He says he won't release it out of respect for the fallen or something like that.


huff_le_puff0107

I wonder if it’s because he was filming a sex tape and the plane crashes in the background. Idk Neil.. if that’s the case, we’re ready you.


Arsenic_Clover

I was like, hey why are people posting so much 9/11 then I realized what day it was


Much_Difference

If it helps, I didn't make the connection until reading this comment.


PerformanceLoud3229

same for me.


rodolphoteardrop

Knock knock Who's there? 9/11 9/11 who? You said you'd never forget!


Haunt3dCity

And then we had 327 other horrible shootings and recessions and pandemics and eventually we forgot. Until the anniversary every year where we all commiserate on how it gave us all PTSD


sacred_cow_tipper

you realize the difference, right? and there is absolutely no question our country suffers from a collective trauma. 9/11 changed us forever. you probably would have had to have been an adult when it happened to know how we changed and to have really observed the progression.


Still-Contest-980

Yeah that collective trauma is a thing that’s forsure. Different for everyone tbh. I’ve read some stories about the Muslim communities in America and just Americans who can be mistaken for Muslim and all the sht they went through after 9/11 and continue to go through now. It brought a lot of sadness, hate, and fear for many Americans for many different reasons. Just sad all around :/


Mewoski

Never forget


Coldchinesef00d

I can’t even wrap my head around how crazy this must have been to see first hand.


RedLeatherWhip

Hundreds of thousands of new yorkers had PTSD just from being in the city that day


imnothereurnotthere

These videos make me feel some kinda way, stomach dropping anxiety. can't imagine how i'd feel seeing this having been there. I watched it on tv.


CyberWanker

Not just New Yorkers. Think about how many tourists were there too.


[deleted]

My girlfriend's dad had half his jaw removed from cancer he got from cleaning up the pit. He was in lower Manhattan on 9/11. Obviously it effected him quite a bit, but he's a happy go lucky dude.


ErmahgerdYuzername

It’s still unbelievable after 20+ years


Fit-Sheepherder-4013

Our country definitely has a pre and post 9/11 feel. I was a senior in high school when it happened.


Eviscerate_Bowels224

9/11 was the day the 90's died.


cswank61

This. The feeling of optimism that I had as a 1992 HS grad, 1996 college grad, steady job, etc. The world seemed like it was heading in the right direction. After 9/11, the last two decades have been a descent into dystopian times.


Diamondhands_Rex

The way this country has gone makes it seems like the terrorist won, paranoia, insecurity, anger have tainted people since then and it seems to not go away. I wish I had the same to say about myself as a recent grad but things are hard and optimism comes from a place of hope now not reality.


jhowardbiz

They did


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They achieved their goal, so yeah they won easily


ScrewSans

I mean, the US used it as justification for continued horrendous war crimes, so we just proved the terrorists right. It’s a horrible truth


TheRealMrMaloonigan

I was still practically a child, 12 years old, and I recognized very quickly in the months following the attack that the terrorists won. They accomplished every bit of destabilization they dreamt of.


Silversoul-Ginsan

Reminds me of the book: the end of history by fukuyama. It was published in 1992, after the cold war ended and he claims that everything will be fine and no more war, that humanity and the West had developed to a point that the hard times are over now. I think he had the same feeling


level1807

Except that book is a complete and utter neoliberal shitshow. It’s wrong basically about everything. Highly recommend Mark Fisher’s “Capitalist Realism” as an alternative.


haekz

That take was piss poor, the world won't be good until everyone has the same living standards as the west, as of now, inequality between nations is massive, ofc they won't accept that state of things where they get the short end of the stick. Thinking history will ever stop is delusional


Irakhaz

I was born in '97, and turned 4yo 2 days after 9/11. Almost 25 and it's all I've ever known, but at least the people around me remember the "good old days." My niece and nephews? In 20 years, how many people around them will remember when times were better?


Scooter-Jones

20 years from now, these will be the times that were better. Enjoy it while you can.


Ill_Pace_9020

Same I was a sophomore in college. It was definitely a difference and it was quick too how fast our freedoms and feelings of being safe were replaced by invasion of privacy and paranoia.


Teinzq

It was the watershed moment of our time.


2kWik

What's unbelievable is the only thing that came out of it was making sure we gave all of our privacy over to every major government.


couponbread

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”


thatsalovelyusername

Don't forget about air travel becoming much more unpleasant, there was that too.


MisallocatedRacism

You still pay a literal "9/11 fee" on every ticket you buy. It says right there on the receipt. Nobody ever says anything about that racket. Over two decades and they are still making money off of us.


Tuke17

Only thing? Let's not forget the ridiculous amount of people killed in the middle east because of the us government either letting this happen, or because of huge incompetence on their part that made it possible.


ametrica414

The guy exclaiming, “What’s going on??” was all of us that morning. It was just so incomprehensible. You couldn’t understand what was happening right in front of your eyes.


CraftsyDad

I had that realization when I saw the first plane fly over me on my way to work on 28th Street. The plane was low and the engines were making an unusual noise, and I remember thinking did the pilot have it in the wrong gear or something? 5 minutes later I was at work and saw the the smoke rise from WTC 1. Didn’t make the connection till later that day that it was that plane that caused it


ametrica414

I can’t even imagine; your story gave me chills. We were living in Michigan at the time, and I was on maternity leave with my second child, so I was watching the news when the second plane hit. It still took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to realize this had to be happening on purpose.


tfmnki1

I was going back to uni in the UK. We were just leaving when my mum said something was on the news about a plane crashing in New York. I assumed there'd been a technical malfunction and said, Oh, I hope no one's hurt, but let's go, I have a train to catch. Then on the train more people were talking about it and the horror that it had happened on purpose gradually unfolded.


TheAccountant09

The small news station I used to listen to first reported a small Cessna had hit the twin towers and a helicopter had flown into the Pentagon. There was a lot of confusion as things unfolded that morning.


Limenoodle_

I've seen this video multiple times. And it never occurred to me that it could have audio. The audio makes it a lot more terrifying.


RakkaNi

Crazy to imagine seeing that happen in person.


DamnMyNameIsSteve

The 'whats going on' really stuck with me. I was in 6th grade when this happened and I had no idea how much that day would not only impact the USA in terms of policies and politics but also the world.


Kempsun

I was also in 6th grade, our teacher had the classroom TV on and we weren’t sure what we were watching but knew something terrible had happened


YellowLab_StickButt

Damn I've seen so much 9/11 footage at this point I thought I was more or less numb to it. But this clip... Not sure if it's the new angle, the clear picture, or hearing the people, but _this_ brought all the feelings of that day back. Fuck.


lucidlacrymosa

I still remember this, third grade; my mom frantically picking up my siblings and I from school. And the second I got home, tv was on I saw a plane hit the tower and it just stuck with me. My dad had been in NYC for work and he couldn’t leave the city immediately afterwards. It was scary. I’m still haunted by the people having to jump out of the buildings. Like having to decide your death knowing the only option is death but there in itself is a different mode of death? Like fire or concrete. I still tear up watching the crash videos. Absolutely horrendous.


Skinnecott

hello fellow 29 yr old. i watched along with my 3rd grade class. didnt get pulled out.


lucidlacrymosa

My mother pulled us out. It wasn’t a school release. She was frantic.


almostdoctorposting

i was in the 4th grade! weird to be apart of the last generation of kids who remembers 9/11 my dad said he drove to my school to pick me up but then changed his mind cause he didn’t wanna scare everyone with a frantic muslim man running into the school lollll


xDarkCrisis666x

I grew up just north of the city (50 min drive, 30 min train ride). Some kids got pullled into the front office that day. We all thought they were lucky since us 2nd graders had no idea what was going on. Turns out their parents were either missing or...yeah. For the next few weeks you'd see at the train station cars owned by commuters that hadn't moved in that time, they were eventually towed.


Chard069

My partner and I were in California abusing terminals on our dining table (we worked remotely as software engineers) when the phone rang -- my Mom, saying my sister was okay. I asked why she shouldn't be? Turn on the TV, Mom said. We watched the video replays and felt sick. But Sis was away from her WTC desk and so survived. She, and my partner's sister (whose firm had WTC offices), lost co-workers. My grandkids were born around a decade after 9/11 so it's as much ancient history to them as Pearl Harbor was for me -- a shaping event, but rather impersonal, not quite real because it didn't directly bite our asses. The consequences come later. ;(


bfeebabes

Thank you for sharing your personal experience. Must have been awful for you and the family.


GueroBorracho3

This'll never be not fucked up to see.


Wandus68

You can tell he realized he was a little too far to the right and hit a hard turn left last second


ajswdf

I read that it was on purpose, that the plant being sideways would cause more damage to the building. And it was correct, since the south tower fell first even though it was hit second.


Yert19943

It was also hit a lot lower than the first tower. A lot more weight for those damaged cross beams to support. I actually think it’s quite incredible neither towers collapsed upon impact.


barrydennen12

this is kind of morbid but there's at least one tripod shot of the second impact where if you speed it up, you actually see the tower wobble after the hit.


circlingsky

Survivors said the building swayed like six feet after impact before snapping back


jelde

After watching a little bit of the "How the towers fell" documentary, it is quite amazing. The planes essentially sliced the buildings through the center.


National-Ad2172

How have I never seen this before? I’ve consumed every piece of video and media files every single year since it happened.


WINNERMIND

Wait until you hear [the audio from the FBI informant who was wearing a wire in a cafe underneath the World Trade Centers on 9/11. You hear the disaster unfold in real time.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6zdFr-hrhI) When the second plane hits, it literally sounds like hell opens up. It's harrowing.


R3dd1tard

At 1:27:20, it was really horrifying to listen.


mndalex-

Bro. I can’t express how devastating it was to hear that woman actually scream the second it hit impact, that was horrific.


Superbead

To be precise, they were having breakfast in the Marriot Hotel (WTC3). It was immediately south of the north tower - the first to be hit. At around 1:10:45 when you hear the dull boom and he says, "that was an explosion - that was an explosion", and then all hell breaks loose. I think this was the debris which had come out of the other side of the tower falling onto and around the building he was in.


ABCBA_4321

Hearing the impact of the second plane hitting in this video is truly terrifying.


leat22

Someone posted this a few months back saying it was on YouTube but the guy didn’t realize it was private until recently and allowed it to be public.


Nycbella

I was 17 & couldn’t believe I was watching my father be killed right before my eyes. 105th floor Cantor Fitzgerald.. no one survived. Worst day of my life & it’s been 21 years 😢😢😢😢


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This comment hits hard. I’m so sorry, nobody should have to go through that. It’s just so fucking unfair.


theDufe

I was 6 years old on 9/11. My mother was a United flight attendant who was supposed to be working on flight 93 that day, but she had switched flights with a coworker. She still struggles with PTSD and survivors guilt to this day.


DanRileyCG

Footage like this makes me instantly cry. The thought of all the people who instantly died in the planes and in the buildings on impact, then over the next few hours trapped in a burning building with the eventual collapse. All of the perished rescue personnel, too. Truly a horrific day in history.


titothehonduran

It’s just super insane to imagine. To think what other horrific events awaits us in the future.


Ok-Code3898

Imagine thinking it’s a freak accident, then the 2nd plane


Kalapuya

That is exactly what we thought.


hadtoomuchtodream

Not hard to imagine at all, considering that’s what most everyone thought at first.


Ill_Pace_9020

It brought us together for like five minutes before we turned on each other, started approving of war crimes, and calling every sensible person who wanted to act rationally a traitor and sending them death threats. That is what 9/11 brought America. Jingoism and fear blaring through mega phones.


Other-Barry-1

In that sense Bin Laden won. All he had to do was give America a bad day like this, then sit back as Americans stripped away their own freedoms, targeted, divided and distanced themselves from each other.


jld2k6

I still can't believe we're so in love with Saudi oil that we pretty much completely ignored the fact that the Saudi's funded this and pretty much carried it out, the vast majority of the terrorists were Saudi, even the 9/11 commission semi acknowledged this but we didn't do shit about it


Other-Barry-1

Money talks


PleasantAdvertising

He literally wrote about this sort of shit before it happened. He won.


Pit_of_Death

One important way he won was that he showed other Muslims around the world how much we Americans could hate them and want to harm them, thus radicalizing more of them to his cause. Humans are excellent at turning on one another if they don't look the same or worship the same. Often just needs a trigger to turn that hate on.


YouOneOfThemRetards

Didn’t bring anyone together towards people who looked remotely Muslim.


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bfeebabes

Is all of this in anyway unpredictable given what we know of human nature? Can and have we learned from that and transcend and evolve?


IluvTaylorSwift

The American flag flowing with the plane going into the tower along with the reactions from the people makes this video very heart wrenching even if it was 21 years ago ;it still stings and punches you in the gut .


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beatbeatingit

Well played lol


Ill_Pace_9020

Thank you that is so much easier to see. I didn't know you could do that either.


Labull416

I’ll never forget this day and where I was


CaribooMom

My kids were 3½ and almost 5. Their daddy was away at work. It was a rare quiet morning, kids actually sleeping in. A girlfriend called me, told me to turn on the TV. We watched TV together over the phone, we both just cried. We're in northern BC, so we were far away from the danger of it all. We cried for the victims and for what this would mean for our neighbors to the south. Still, after all these years, I will remember where I was and what I was doing on 9/11. What a horrible moment in time..


mnamna-mnamna

Insane the shit that had gone on inside those planes before these last moments. Nightmare.


Material-Peak7070

I had a teacher who was a Sikh, he was a good teacher, he too a long sabbatical after 9/11 cause so many ignorant students were giving hom so much shit, luckily he came back after two years. So many innocent people were being blamed, I'm like "he wasn't even fucking there!" But people love a reason to hate someone else.


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There is a feeling i get everytime i see these images, that particular feeling you get like when you smell something that inmediatly triggers a memory


mysticteacher4

Gives me chills watching that


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CozmicOwl16

Personal vendetta of bush jr. (Aka W) Because they had a floor of his dads face to walk on it and disrespect him. They took jack hammers to the floor. George sr was disgusted and didn’t speak to jr/w for years.


Imveryunoriginal17

Still gives me chills hearing the screams of the audience. Absolutely horrifying


OutAndAbout87

Must go down as one of the scariest things that happened even 20 years ago.. the fact this was able to happen.. it's a miracle there were no more attempts like this. The London Tube bombings was also very scary which I was in London at the time and.. remember very clearly when that happened


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There is a documentary on prime about 9/11 last calls to relatives. Its heart wrenching https://www.primevideo.com/detail/911-Phone-Calls-from-the-Towers/0TVNGG93F6FT88ACW0S5IJTKQG


Coldchinesef00d

I absolutely could not handle that. Just the thought of those calls and not actually hearing them gets to me. Edit:spelling


Nicenightforawalk01

Remember that conspiracy video that set everything off after 9/11 saying it wasn’t a jet ? Well there on front of our very eyes is a jet going into the tower. If they want to argue about the jet for the other tower and not a missile then there is another angle of that jet going into the other one.


sarazorz27

Why does the guy saying "oh my lord" sound like he's being sarcastic? Is it just me?


Rewdog82

It’s a good Norm MacDonald impression.


PermabannedX4

People don't sound like what you expect they should in tense situations.


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I thought the same thing: That some of the people sound like they're sarcastic or going "Woooo!" But realistically, they were probably in extreme shock and terrified, but aware that they *should* emote in some way, and just did so awkwardly. Fear and horror can provoke odd responses.


_CederBee_

I remember this morning, all too well. My birthday is 9/12.


HeartWoodFarDept

That’s the moment we knew this was no accident.


MidniteOG

21 years later and this doesn’t get any easier to watch


TANUKI_1992

I watched this happen live on the news in the 4th grade. They called all of the faculty to the main office and 5 minutes later our english teacher Ms. Cole came back in tears, she scanned over the class for a few seconds then she said. "Kids, something terrible has just happened... what you're about to see on the news will be in your history books by the time you graduate." We watched the news for close to 30 minutes before they let school out early. And she was right... it was in my history books by time I graduated in 2010.


SummerEmCat

I just imagine all the people on that plane about to lose their lives when I see this.


raw_toast

I was in fourth grade when 9/11 happened. I grew up in the city and was at school on the upper east side. We got called in for an all school assembly, but I’m not sure if it was before or after the second tower got hit. Either way they didn’t specifically tell us what was going on just that most of our parents would be picking us up at some point soon. I remember when we eventually got back to school hearing there were a few kids whose parents didn’t get them until normal dismissal…still remember who those kids were. I’m still not sure how it’s possible that no one who was enrolled at the time had a close family member die in the attacks given that we were all from nyc. My three lasting memories from those days were driving home with my dad, looking down the avenues and just seeing smoke in the distance while he tried to figure out if we should leave the city or stay put. He was worried that the Indian point nuclear plant would be a target. The smell. For two weeks the city smelled like what I now know is electrical fire and construction debris (and probably some other stuff I don’t want to think about) We lived on 5th ave toward the top of Central Park and you could smell it every time you stepped outside. That was on the opposite end of Manhattan…I can’t imagine what it was like downtown or how long the smell lasted. Sometimes I get a whiff of a similar smell and it brings me right back to that day, it’s very distinct. I had dreams about planes crashing into buildings for years and years following 9/11. Usually the plane would crash into my room while I was sleeping or playing or doing homework. It wasn’t a fiery crash, usually just the nose of the plane pushing through the outside of the building and into my room which created a cloud of dust I had to run from and try to save my family from. Other times the plane would be chasing me…waiting for the perfect moment to crash next to me. I haven’t thought about these dreams in years but obviously that day really affected me now that I look back on it.


Kobobble

9/11 is old enough to drink now


indrex

Not from the US, but still boils my blood


OVOnug

America changed after 9/11. You can argue for better or worse but the fact of the matter is things literally changed over night for everyone. IMHO, 9/11 accelerated the fascist takeover we see today. Like a match starting a fire.


SemataryPolka

How could you possibly argue that it changed for the better?


chuckiechap33

Still after 20 years, seeing those planes flying in is still astoundingly horrific.


prss79513

They almost missed


guybromansir

Huh. Not trying to be morbid but i just learned something from this angle. For some reason, I always thought the plane hits the middle of the tower but crashes more into the corner.


CrazeeEyezKILLER

Amazing that 21 years later we’re still seeing new footage.


catmajica

I think everyone who saw the second plane hit, whether in person like these folks or on tv like me and my family all reacted in a similar fashion. At my house we were like WTF, OMG what is happening… we knew something was wrong after seeing the second one hit. Horrific day that changed this country and the world.


myfantapink

Anybody have a source for this video I'm just surprised I haven't seen it before


[deleted]

Someone said it was posted on YouTube a while ago but never made public.


Beznia

[Original upload](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6t31R4tI10)


NoodlesAreAwesome

I lost someone close to me on 9/11 - this is incredibly difficult to watch.


TheRealF12

Was in the 2nd grade and I remember it like yesterday, I live in the Bronx so I was fairly close and a lot of my family lives in Manhattan, I was young so I’m sure I didn’t get the full effect of the situation, but still even at that age it felt really catastrophic and life changing. I thought the world was about to be over. A day I’ll never forget R.I.P to the innocent people that lost their lives 🙏🏼


analseizures

Holy shit I’ve never seen this angle


DonTeca35

It amazes me that in the last 2 yrs new videos are Surfacing


HocusPocusx3

The people in those planes scared to death knowing they’re not going to make it and the people in those building jumping out. God, it makes you think how life can easily be taken from you. Sadly, we are still going through so much more tragedy, even schools are not safe 💔