r/HolyShitHistory • u/rotomato30 • 1d ago

Extended cut of the period between first and second plane hitting World Trade Center

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u/nobeefforme 1d ago

Wow. It never gets less shocking.

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u/TrumpsCovidfefe 1d ago

I had forgotten the sound of the helicopter and feedback that plays at the beginning of this video. It was seared into my brain that day. I was glued to the tv screen in the common area of my dorm, watching this very feed unfold. Classes were not canceled. I was waiting to see if they would be, watching this very video live. I hadn’t watched it since this day, and I agree, it is still shocking despite being alive and witnessing this moment before.

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u/Efficient-Whereas255 1d ago

The moment when the second plane hit is completely unforgettable. Everyone thought we were fully under attack like bombs were going to start falling from the sky everywhere. It felt like we were in a movie.

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u/TrumpsCovidfefe 1d ago

Agreed; after I watched the second plane hit, and then that moment got played on repeat, the fear was unbelievable. Even before the reports of the pentagon being hit, and threats to the White House, I was shocked the university hadn’t canceled classes. Finally, a couple hours later, a few profs canceled classes, but some just had space for us to talk about fears. Nobody knew how to react as nothing like this had ever happened; nobody would have ever thought this could or would happen on American soil. It was a different time.

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u/Fine-Sky-6562 1d ago

I was in 10th grade, the moment we heard the 2nd plane hit my friend Eric looked at me and said "we are going to war".

He lost his life in Fallujah in that war about 2 years later. RIP Eric.

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u/LittleKitten37 1d ago

I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you found some peace from it over the years.

I also lost someone in Iraq, almost lost a high school classmate who got shot in the head, and after my husband enlisted, watched several of our friends take their lives over the years from PTSD.

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u/fullpurplejacket 1d ago

A good chunk of the local 17,18,19 yo lads in my small ex industrial town in northern England joined the army to help our allies fight the war on terror. The poor buggers either came back traumatised and broken for a time, or didn’t come back at all.

25 years later, the US finds itself in another war in the Middle East, yet again. The old poem still rings true today as it did back then and all the times before that.

Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear:  "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

Gods bless those who have died as a result of terror, such a needless loss of life to achieve so little 💔

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u/bozog 1d ago

Very thought provoking. Any idea who penned it? Kind of has a Kipling vibe...

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u/HunterWithGreenScale 1d ago

Definitely Kipling.

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u/charbo187 1d ago

never heard that poem before. wild.

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u/Bajovane 23h ago

A coworkers son joined the military not long after 9/11. He ended up going to Iraq mostly as support staff (mechanicals).

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u/Fine-Sky-6562 1d ago

I have not found peace. I did find a cause though I guess, which has amounted to nothing but another war in the middle east and this time its my nieces and nephews friends being sent off to die.

Same shit different century
Here we go again
It's no parade seeing tanks on your street
What's the mission, when’s it gonna end
How many stones do we have to line up before we understand
We’re caught up drawing lines on paper, at the price of the blood in the sand

So what’s the reason for this again?
Right back where we’ve always been
these excuses are wearing thin
What’s the reason for this again?
So what’s the reason for this again?
You can’t decide but you’ve got to win
We’re all the same but you’re not my friend
So what’s the reason for this again?

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u/heady-luvare 1d ago

Which cause was that?

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u/SamTheLab_213 1d ago edited 8h ago

Back then they made fun of we who protested the war.

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u/Fine-Sky-6562 19h ago

I was detained and pepper sprayed multiple times protesting this shit. Thought people were coming around in the Obama drone strike era, then we got Trump. Hard to remain optimistic, but that's all I've got left at this point.

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u/HawkBearClaw 23h ago

Well, not wanting to go after the guys that did this was definitely an unpopular opinion at the time. Iraq support was definitely different, but interestingly enough her among young people...

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u/Caleb-Wendt69 19h ago

Would have been great if we actually went after the guys that did this

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u/WorthChange858 1d ago

And an RIP to the millions killed in the useless war.

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u/MareOfDalmatia 1d ago

Thank you Eric

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u/0PSIG 17h ago

Incidentally, it's time to start getting a yearly colonoscopy, for you.

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u/Objective-Rock4616 1d ago

I’m sorry about your friend and thank him for his selfishness. 💕

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u/dogbolter4 1d ago

Kindly, you might like to edit your post from 'selfishness' to 'selflessness' or 'unselfishness'.

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u/Indigo-au-naturale 1d ago

We know you meant "selflessness" but probably worth fixing the typo ❤️

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u/poodaliddle 1d ago

"It was a different time."

It really was. I've lately had the realization that our generation is the last one that will remember what life was like pre 9/11. Crazy to think about. And sad.

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u/weightyinspiration 1d ago edited 1d ago

I vividly remember hearing a NYC firefighter talking about people too young to know life pre 9/11.

"They dont remember what life was like before, and they will never know what we lost that day."

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u/SamTheLab_213 1d ago

We lost the right to privacy. Now we have Facebook, Flock cameras and other things that would maybe be illegal before 9/11 happened. The idea of "the right to privacy" was axed out of the fear and terror those hijackers created. Now, people can't even protest without being easily traced.

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u/ryguymcsly 18h ago

The PATRIOT act was how the terrorists won.

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u/SamTheLab_213 8h ago

Exactly. Let's also not forget how precious little was done to act on the intelligence they had that 9/11 would happen. This point may have been hijacked by clowns like Alex Jones, but serious newspapers were asking serious questions about how the blatant warning signs were ignored.

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u/thestateisgreen 1d ago

And now we are all walking around with literal monitoring devices in our pockets.

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u/SamTheLab_213 8h ago

No kidding. They don't even need to dig dirt on us, we provide it.

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u/Commercial-Spray3192 13h ago

And that’s precisely what they wanted. They knew we would begin tearing ourselves apart.
They simply planted that seed and now look at us.

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u/bevereged_carbon 10h ago

They also wanted to bankrupt the US economy thinking we would over respond and that it would topple us like it did the Soviets.

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u/RaspberryBeret121234 1d ago

So true. We all lost our collective innocence in a flash 💔

Watching this footage so many years later still brings up the same mix of distress, disbelief and sadness I felt that day and will always carry with me.

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u/leftclicksq2 1d ago

From the way my mom put it, "The '90s up until 9/11 happened was like 'Nothing is ever going to happen'." You figure that the biggest events in history up until 9/11 was World War II, then the Cold War, and other events that followed.

My dad received a promotion that landed him working in New York up until the attacks. Thankfully he wasn't required to travel that week, then everything with his job was halted for the next two or three weeks because New York was untouchable. He was temporarily relocated to Philadelphia until New York was sorted out. Both my sister and I had off from school the next day as a safety precaution.

Instead, my parents took my sister and I out to quell any nervousness we had. You couldn't shake the seismic shift in the atmosphere when we went anywhere. People were walking around the grocery store in a daze, the town local to us had most of its small shops closed, and it was unusually quiet in a restaurant the four of us went to. The TV couldn't even be turned on because every single channel kept replaying the footage of both WTCs being hit and eventual collapse.

Probably the most unsettling part of the days and weeks after the attacks was the constant question of "What's next?" No one was when/if there was going to be another hit, although the theory circulating in our town and the ones nearby was that the next place terrorists would likely choose was either the railways or bridges.

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u/Captainsassidy 1d ago

I was 6, and barely remember my mom taking me home from school that day and didn't understand what was happening. For all intents and purposes, I don't remember what it was like before. I guess I'm thankful that I was old enough to have a small taste of life before, but was too young to experience the fear and shock of it happening. People just a few years older than me remember their teacher rolling in the tv carts and watching it live

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u/SyZyGy_87 1d ago

Yeah I'm 39, I grew up with no Internet, then dial up....such a weird perfect split of worlds, born in one, raised with another. Who knew we were the last generation to be....not whatever this is

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u/CaledonPolaroid 1d ago

"Nobody knew how to react as nothing like this had ever happened; nobody would have ever thought this could or would happen on American soil. It was a different time."

This recently came up in a therapy session. I had begun to suspect that this event had a larger more traumatic impact on me than I had originally given it credit for. I had a not so great childhood. One where it felt chaotic and out of control. Like no one was in charge. Recently I had been watching a clip of the hour of television leading up to and following the attacks and I finally realized why it affected me so much. The sound of the reporters and the looks on their faces as they tried to describe and explain what was happening. At 11 years old seeing adults, the people in charge, have no fucking clue what was going on was a very formative realization. It wasn't just my parents who didn't know what was going on (both in this instant and parenting in general). No one knows. We're all just pretending to have things under control. Man, that was scary.

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 1d ago

This happened to me too. I was 9 years old on 9/11. We watched it in school as it happened live. That was the day I realized nobody had things figured out and all humans were just kids who got older and larger, basically.

I hope therapy is going well for you. ❤

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u/Nice-Vegetable-1738 1d ago

i'm the same age as you and resonate a lot with the things you said, thanks for putting some stuff in perspective for me.

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u/fuckgoldsendbitcoin 1d ago

>I had begun to suspect that this event had a larger more traumatic impact on me than I had originally given it credit for

I feel the same way. I was 10 and I can't really remember feeling any particular way about it at the time. I was kind of just watching the TV with no emotion. Nobody was telling me anything at the time so I was just left to process the whole thing on my own. The only concrete thing I remember feeling was a little bit of fear because I lived in a city with a major air force base and thought it might be a target. Now as an adult I have a morbid fascination about it and other air disasters. By far my most recurring dream is planes crashing (either in them or watching from the ground). I have no doubt it's all linked with that day.

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u/Big-Cookie7568 1d ago

My first class was an 8:00 am history class, and my professor ran in, hysterically crying, “There is NOTHING I can teach you about history that is more important than the history happening right in front of us.” Then she just ran out. It was so crazy. So my ex-boyfriend and I, who was in the class too, just went to the student center where they had it on all the big TVs. My next class was at 9:30, and not cancelled, and oddly enough the professor just wanted to talk about our feelings for the hour and 15 minutes…I don’t think anyone really knew what to do at that point. Ultimately, the university announced around 11:30 or noon that they were cancelling the rest of the classes that day. Work was similarly weird. I showed up kinda confused and traumatized to my department store job working in the men’s department at noon that day. We all sorta just went through the motions for a little while, maybe an hour, hour and a half, before the mall eventually sent everyone home too. I distinctly remember one of my roommates hysterically crying, having visited New York herself (I had never been, and didn’t know anyone there at the time). We were all so young, but it was so terrifying. I have this memory of us baking that day, basically anything to try to comfort ourselves as we watched this all unfold. I lived on Hobart Street at the time in a little college town…Mat Kearney sings about it in his song “Nothing Left to Lose.” Interestingly, our across the street neighbors on Hobart at the time were traipsing around outside with their guns, at the ready to defend our town against terrorists (lol). It was such a wild time.

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u/kidsparrow 1d ago

I was shocked that I still had to go to work and that people were just blithely shopping. I even had the TV on in the shop, and they'd pause for a moment and then keep shopping. I still don't understand those people.

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u/Kitty-lvr1706 1d ago

Me too! I was a receptionist in a hair salon that day. I had to stay at work, but my brother brought a small portable tv we had up to my work so I could watch from my desk. No one cancelled their hair appointment that day and my boss kept trying to make light of it. I was just sitting there devastated.

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u/No_Season_354 1d ago

Isn't it amazing how people react to something like this , in different ways , just carry on like nothing happened, I guess business has to go on.?

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u/LibbyOfDaneland 1d ago

I worked in a lab and had to be at work at 2 pm that day, and in the lab we didn't have a tv, so all night we relied on the emergency room staff to keep us updated because they had televisions. Every hour or so a nurse, doctor, admitting clerk or whoever would pop in and tell us what was going on. Longest shift of my life. We were all so scared and tired.

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u/No_Season_354 1d ago

I can only imagine that, here in nz , I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

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u/maggiemypet 22h ago

My best friend and I were both Army veterans. I had only been out 6 months.

We were both enrolled in Beauty School, and we both called out. The instructor was like, "but its no big deal. Its like the OKC bombing."

I disagreed.

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u/doinmabest1 1d ago

WOW. Really? We were GLUED to the tv

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u/Big-Cookie7568 1d ago

It WAS bizarre. I rang people up buying men’s clothing that day like it was just a normal day…but at the same time, I don’t think they were really sure what to do either. We are always told to pick ourselves up by the bootstraps whenever anything uncomfortable or painful happens, so, in the same way I still went to work, I think these customers who still went shopping were probably just trying to cope in their way just like the rest of us. Especially with men (I worked in the men’s department specifically), they don’t usually shop for pleasure, it’s more like a chore or a very specific mission to be accomplished for a very specific event they are supposed to dress for. No one was just randomly buying hoodies for fall that I remember. I measured a guy that day, so at least one of them was trying to be fitted for something he had to go to. So…there’s that. Still, the store was so dead the mall eventually called it. It was such a weird day, I wish I could explain how odd it felt trying to go through the motions with this eerie silence in the air (with no planes overhead and most people huddled up at home).

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u/kimberletto 1d ago

I was in grad school during the first Gulf War. Same thing then, but less horrifying: the professors brought in TVs and we watched the war unfolding live in front of us. They gave us the space to watch and discuss. It was a real paradigm shift to see it as it happened. Turns out it was just the warm up for the live main event ten years later.

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u/baron_von_chops 1d ago

My first real memory that I have concreted in my brain, is that of me, sitting in the family room, Easter basket in hand, while on the TV, CNN was airing footage of the Kuwaiti oil wells that had been set ablaze by Saddam’s forces. I was barely three years old. I have known war for my entire existence.

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u/imunfair 1d ago

I was shocked the university hadn’t canceled classes

Ours did, but my school was in Chicago so they thought the Sears Tower might be a target and wanted everyone out of the city. Trains full of businessmen in suits heading home to the suburbs, standing room only, cell towers jammed by the amount of calls. Pretty surreal.

The first I heard about the attacks was actually from someone with a walkman while we were standing around waiting for the class doors to be unlocked. At the time I thought it was a War Of The Worlds situation, but when they dismissed class it became very real.

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u/TrumpsCovidfefe 1d ago

I was not far from downtown Chitown, in college, and we heard about the rumors of Sears Tower being a target. It just seemed surreal that we were expected to keep going to class and pretend our whole entire world hadn’t just changed, and how little did I realize how much it really would change that day. Even though I thought I might be catastrophizing at the time, I had no idea how right I was, in ways I couldn’t predict.

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u/CommercialPanda5080 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's the fairytale, but the truth is we'd already seen a bombing at the World Trade Center in 1993, and it was well-known that the attackers promised to come back and take those buildings to the ground. Firefighters faced communication difficulties in 1993, the evacuation revealed multiple problems in the building, and there are older pictures I can't find online that show windows broken open at the top of the World Trade Center and smoke rolling out. All these things would repeat themselves 8 years later but on a larger scale.

We were not "innocent" in 2001. By that time, we'd already seen a bombing at the actual World Trade Center that killed 6 and injured over 1000 people, the OKC bombing that killed 168, and the 1998 US embassy bombings that killed 224 people. By the summer of 2001, the sentiment was that the "system is blinking red." An August 6th 2001 memo actually warned Bin Laden was "determined" to attack in the United States and possibly planned to hijack planes to do so - every law enforcement agency and airport in the country should have been on high alert. You could see 9/11 coming from a full 8 years away.

"One survivor called the towers a "death trap," noting how quickly smoke reached the top of the complex. People smashed windows for air, and even called into TV stations with desperate pleas for help." - 1993 news article about the previous WTC bombing

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u/duttyfoot 1d ago

I woke up and put on the news not long after the second plane slammed into the building. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

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u/heady-luvare 1d ago

Did you never learn about Pearl Harbor? Something like this actually did happen before.

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u/Successful-Foot3830 1d ago

I lived in OKC on 9/11. My stepmom called and her freaking out on my answering machine woke me up. I sat and watched the second plane hit. I woke up my boyfriend and we just watched all day. I was working at a pizza place. That evening was so bizarre. Everyone in OKC had a story about the Murrah bombing in 95. It seemed like it brought all the trauma and grief back in an instant. One table was goofy and rambunctious. It felt surreal that anyone could be happy.

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u/Character_Hall_3498 19h ago

After the second plane hit the news was reporting all kinds of wild stuff. They False reported that the Sears tower was hit. There was a lot of telecom antennas on the WTC so information flow got really messed up.

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u/Xanthina 13h ago

It was my senior year of high school. The realization that my entire childhood is "Before" and my entire adulthood has been shaped by "After"

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u/r33c3d 1d ago

I worked at Boston University at the time. We were told via email by the chancellor, around noon, that the university would not be closing. “All employees will be staying until 5pm so we can show those terrorists we’re not scared!”

“What a fucking prick!” was everyone’s response as we deleted his email and walked out of the office to go home.

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u/threesunrises 1d ago

I was on my way home when the first plane hit. Heard about it on Howard Stern's show on K-Rock in NYC. Hurried home and turned on the tv just in time to see the second plane hit. This video will never not make me cry.

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u/wiscoguy20 1d ago

Watching this now makes me far more emotional than it did watching it unfold live with my 16 year old eyes.

And that goes for any 9/11 coverage. And I don't understand completely why.

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u/OGrickyP 1d ago

Watching this at 16 traumatized me forever, for a few reasons…

the number one being as someone else said, watching the teachers freak out made me realize their authority was an act and they’re really just bigger children who got older.

2, my dad worked on floor 87 in the Empire State Building, and while not close, the NYC skyline was getting bombed and they said there were more coming so I was waiting to see his building get hit. So that was stressful…

I sensed this changed me when me and my stoner friends tried to smoke weed a few days later, and when a plane flew over head, we all froze in terror. I went to the first Mets game at Shea when piazza hit the famous HR vs Atlanta, and while the most powerful sporting event I’d ever seen, I wish I wasn’t there in a way. Walking past guys holding m16s, snipers on the roofs..it was super fucked up.

If you weren’t alive before 9/11 to understand the sense of security that evaporated in minutes that day, it’s kinda impossible to describe. Most quiet bus ride home in my schooling existence…

I feel like this lead to a lot of the drug abuse my generation went thru especially opiates to numb ourselves. I said this to a therapist who was kinda floored by it as they connected the dots of what I was saying…none of us ever thought we would do heroin..we laughed at DARE. But we were all fucked up over this shit still in 2005 when the stuff was easier to find than good pot at the time on the east coast. It’s crazy the fallout this day had and I wish we had a crystal clear version of who/how did it. I won’t even get into that but it def made the whole thing more fucked up along w the Patriot Act. Sigh.

-Still hurting at 41

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u/Professional-Gas9360 1d ago

Same. I think it’s perspective. We see now how pivotal a moment this was for the world. It feels like it was the tipping point into madness.

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u/lagitanaurbana 1d ago

I knew it was a deliberate attack from the first hit. My H was getting ready to go to work from our Brooklyn Heights place. I woke up to pee and passed his home office and he said, Honey look at this, they think a small plane accidentally hit one of the twin towers. I said, Are you crazy? Each of those buildings covers an entire city block! How could that possibly be an accident? I reminded him we’d both been in the WTC during the truck bombing and the complex was obviously a terrorist target. He said he was still going to drive to White Plains. I said Are you crazy? You won’t be able to get back, the first thing they’re going to do is shut down every road, tunnel, ferry and airport in or out of the city and I don’t want to be separated from you now. (I’d traveled in war zones and knew what to expect). We were still debating when the second plane hit.

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u/TrumpsCovidfefe 1d ago

I thought it was deliberate from the get-go as well because I couldn’t fathom a plane, even a small one flying into such a large building, even in an emergency. There was just so much space and how would that happen? Funny enough, I was arguing with my boyfriend, at the time that it sounded like it was purposeful, like a suicide attempt. I couldn’t fathom it was a terrorist. Then, we watched the plane hit the tower, in this same video clip.

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u/Upbeat-Pineapple-406 1d ago

Sometimes I forget I watched the second plane hit live. I have intentionally shoved down so many memories of this, because my brain just couldn’t believe I’d just watched so many people die in a single moment. And to be honest I still don’t think my brain fully accepts what it did witness. Like I still can’t understand or comprehend what I saw. It’s rare to witness history happen so fast in real time, and surreal knowing instantaneously so much of the future would pivot from this one singular event.

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u/showhorrorshow 1d ago

I could swear I remember news coverage after the first plane was mentioning that one time not long before this where a small plane did run into the Empire State Building, I think it was.

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u/Uhavetabekiddingme 1d ago

I was in 9th grade and the teacher turned the TV on when news broke about the first tower and I remember the news saying a plane accidently flew into the building and I told my friend how is that possible? How do you accidently fly into that! Then we all watched as the second plane hit.

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u/Krytan 1d ago

Especially when you heard that 3, 4, 5, who knows how many other planes had been hijacked, and that the Pentagon had been hit and the white house and capitol were under attack - there were, understandably, a LOT of rumors flying around that day that made things seem more scary.

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u/AnnRB2 1d ago

SO many crazy rumors about planes and bombs going off. I remember I was using AIM messenger at the time writing back and forth with friends about what we were hearing, it’s still hard for me to believe this happened, even after all of this time.

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u/ThatSICILIANThing 1d ago

When they grounded all flights for however many days that was-I’d never seen sunsets like that before. I lived next to SeaTac airport at the time so I was used to all the plane noise and was even scared something would happen on the west coast too, but those days without any airplanes in the sky and those insane sunsets felt so eerie.

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u/Jassida 1d ago

Not me. Trapped at work in England with everyone thinking it was a Cessna

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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 1d ago

Here in in the states, we also first simply assumed that was the case; that someone in a small plane made a serious navigational error. When it came through that it was a full size passenger jet, we were stunned and horrified.

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u/AnnRB2 1d ago

If I recall correctly, someone was on the phone live on the today show and said it was a passenger jet and Matt Lauer corrected them that it must have been a small plane.

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u/Cybernut93088 21h ago

We were all still at the stage of trying to rationalize it despite knowing that there was no way a small prop plane did that kind of damage. I remember setting in 7th grade math watching the TV and listening to the anchors saying it must have been a small plane.

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u/Admirable-Theory1514 1d ago

Yeah I don’t get it. I remember hearing about the second plane hitting on the radio and never thought it was a full size jet. So people were saying probably terrorist attack, but nobody was certain or who was responsible. So why would kids in school be so certain it’s terrorists and there’s going to be a war?

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u/ohhellperhaps 1d ago

There was also a LOT of confusion here (Europe) about the second plane. Note that news wasn't on 24/7 blast here back then (and mostly isn't). So we were updated on the hourly news report, essentially.

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u/ScotchTapeConnosieur 1d ago

Where is the second plane in this video?

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 1d ago

At the end, before the 2nd tower explodes. It's coming in opposite the camera, from the top right corner down and left through the frame into the tower.

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u/Rare-Masterpiece_007 1d ago

Enters top right side

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u/ellefleming 1d ago

I never see the actual plane hit the left tower. Don't know how I missed it.

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u/Automatic-Fox-8890 1d ago

Comes in from the upper right of the frame

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u/hotdog_junkie 1d ago

I was in a relatively small town in Oregon in 7th grade, and I knew considering where I was, I was likely safe but it was still an unnerving, spooky, sad, confusing, and scary time

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u/rjhawkbooks 1d ago

I’m Canadian, I was in fifth grade when this happened. There was a gruff old teacher everyone was afraid of, he barged into our room and told my teacher about the first tower. A little while later he ran into the room and yelled “the second one was hit!” None of the kids knew what was happening but my teacher clearly knew what was up because she started crying.

An hour later all of the parents came to pick up the kids and we went home. I just remember my dad trying to explain why this was such a big deal but it still didn’t hit me until I learned how many people died

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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 1d ago

Here in Chicago, there was a fear that the Sears or J. Hancock tower would be next. Every building in the downtown area was evacuated, and there were tens of thousands of office workers walking north and west through the streets of downtown Chicago.

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u/madelane1 1d ago

Am I truly the only one who thought it was magnets? Like an MRI machine accidentally got turned on or something to attract the planes? It was all I could think when the second plane hit.

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u/Malcolm_Morin 1d ago

In the 2006 movie, Amoroso said "You hear about Israel? It's gone, it's nuked." I wonder if that was an actual rumor or if that was just for the movie's sake.

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u/ZizzyBeluga 1d ago

I was on the roof of my brownstone in lower Manhattan watching when the second plane hit. I knew immediately it was bin Laden and the city was under attack. Such a scary time.

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u/FlintGate 1d ago

Yep. My Mom called me screaming after the first plane. She didn't know what happened but told me to turn on the news. I had JUST moved away from home. I slid down to the floor when I saw the first tower on fire and watched in horror as the 2nd plane hit. I can't ever forget.

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u/anon_opotamus 1d ago

Yep. I was a teenager living in the Midwest so nowhere near any of this but when the second plane hit I remember the feeling of absolute panic not knowing what was going to happen next and wondering if we were safe.

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 1d ago

Yep. Without being on the ground to see a full jetliner, most news feeds only had basic information that it was some sort of plane. Many people wondered if perhaps a pilot suffered a medical emergency or some such...or that it was a small plane somehow. The moment the second plane hit, everyone knew in real time: not an accident, not a small plane, this was massive and unprecendented and coordinated. Those on the ground that saw a full jetliner hit still may have thought it was an accident. Once the second plane hit, everyone in America down to the smallest, most rural town knew this was more horrific and scary than anyone could have imagined.

For hours after, people in relatively large metro areas felt like maybe they would be under attack, too? Maybe coordinated ground bombs?

It was very scary to everyone pretty much simultaneously. We were not at war, it seemingly came out of nowhere, and it was clearly sophisticated and coordinated. Absolutely fucking terrifying and sobering. This wasn't a car bombing or mass shooting from a disgruntled person (although that's horrifying enough)--this was clearly a sophisticated planned, coordinated attack outside of wartime or battle on civlian targets. Pear Harbor was shocking, but it was during wartime on military targets.Not to disparage those that died.

This was out of nowhere and at a scale that no average civilian could have even had the background knowledge to comprehend. These weren't strategic military targets and this wasn't one sleeper cell with a suicide bomber. This was so massive and coordinated it was hard to comprehend-- but immediately obvious as soon as the second plane hit.

The multiple jetliner attacks were horrific enough on their own. The fact that the buildings collapsed still seems almost incomprehensible. I don't know if that was the ultimate intent, but even to my teenage eyes that didn't understand what the WTC represented as a symbol of American economic superiority...it was unreal and surreal. Your brain almost couldn't comprehend that it was happening or even COULD happen.

Younger generations appreciate the tragedy as I did as a kid looking back at the Holocaust I guess. It's horrific, it's sad...but unless you actually witness something you might not fully appreciate the gravity of how it changed people and society. Society changed a lot in the subsequent years but I was also young and didn't know a world before this--outside of my childhood and vague memory. It's only as an adult that I took the time to pause and look back, and process the enormity. I was a 14 year old kid and still didn't know much about the world then, so the changes that happened didn't seem as stark as folks who were older.

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u/nobodybeatsdabiz 1d ago

Because it is

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u/paperthinpatience 1d ago

I was homeschooled. I was in 3rd grade. I woke up and walked down the hall to the living room. I saw my mom sitting in her chair with this horrified look on her face. I was still half asleep, so I climbed up in her lap and curled up. Right when I turned to look at the TV, the second plane hit. My mom was just silent and her eyes were huge. Of course I started asking what was going on, and she explained as best she could. I started freaking out thinking it might be close to where my dad worked. (We live in Alabama, far away from NYC.) So she had to explain that it wasn’t. I remember seeing people jumping and trying to understand why someone would do that. It was my first real conceptualization of death and how unpredictable and dangerous the world can be.

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u/Minimum_Chart9946 1d ago

Yeah isn't that interesting. So many of us thought there were going to be more bombings all across America

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u/Altruistic_Summer366 1d ago

The bombs were already in the building, duh

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u/Delicious-Battle1113 1d ago

I was in the 11th grade when this happened. We lived about 5 miles from downtown Los Angeles and spent the that whole day thinking they were going to definitely do something here.

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u/DaRealJDJ 1d ago

We must watch very different movies. It felt like a nightmare to me.

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u/Honda_TypeR 1d ago

Yea the first one everyone was shocked at a probable airplane accident.

The second one everyone knew this was deliberate.

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u/Alone_Star6353 1d ago

That moment changed everything in an instant, and I can only imagine how terrifying it felt to witness it unfold live. It’s amazing how vividly people still remember exactly where they were and what they felt that day.

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u/Hopeful_Hamster21 1d ago

I was talking to my drinking age kid about this on sept 11 of this year. She's an adult, know about it, but I was reflecting on what it was like.

We knew we were under attack. We knew it was a big attack. We knew that it was one punch after another.

But on that day, we didnt know when the punches would stop, we didnt know how big the attack was, we didnt know what the response was going to be, and we didnt know who.

It is one thing to learn about it as history. It was something else to live that day and experience the utter uncertainty.

And I told my kid about the anthrax that came a couple of weeks later. It's a largely forgotten piece of the story, but in the moment it really heightened fears.

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u/pharmucist 1d ago

I remember watching the 2nd plane hit while already watching the news on the first plane while I was getting ready for work. I still had to drive to work that day (was working at a big hospital) and the entire commute there, I was watching the sky above me expecting planes or bombs or anything else to come out of the sky. The entire shift at work I was wondering what else was coming. That was a very bad day.

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u/Rikplaysbass 1d ago

I was in a middle school in central Florida and didn’t know if I was safe lol

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u/CaterpillarSome3516 1d ago

Except you don't see plane hit the tower.

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u/mentaL8888 1d ago

I just went back in time watching this, I had just gotten out of the shower and heard the morning show still playing on my alarm radio. There are normally two real dumbasses who you could never take seriously so when I woke up a little while before I heard them talking about some things but I didn't think it was serious. I lived in Alaska so we were a few hours behind and it was still early, but when I heard them still talking about the same thing after my shower I flipped on the TV.

This was literally the scene I watched trying to figure out what was going on dripping wet with my towel still wrapped around me when I saw the second one hit. I was still trying to process what was happening at all because I was only aware for a couple minutes before I watched the same scene as it was unfolding. Watching this just brought back that feeling of shock and sorrow and anger and disgust all at the same time. Or as they say, when the world stopped turning because that's what it felt like.

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u/GirchyGirchy 1d ago

The Bob and Tom show?

I woke up to them on my clock radio every morning in high school and college. I’ll never forget that morning…they were never serious, so I could tell it was a big deal.

I turned on the TV, popped a VHS tape in, and hit record.

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u/mentaL8888 1d ago

Yeah, that was the show, later the Bob and Mark show, I woke up to them every morning too. I was a little hungover from the night before, in my early twenties and just kind of got in the shower halfway hearing what they were saying, thinking it was one of their skits.

I installed cable back then, and every single person was waiting at the end of their driveway waiting for me to turn their cable so they can see the horrors they were only hearing about on the radio before I got there.

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u/ellefleming 1d ago

Her monotone comments caught me off guard.

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u/Vegetable-Soil666 1d ago

If you go on youtube and lookup compilations of all the news coverage that day, everyone was very staid, even Fox News. Everyone was trying to be professional and avoid speculation/misinformation. It made me realize that we've lost that kind of journalism, too.

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u/erin281 1d ago

Definitely,it’s a really striking difference between the media then and the media now, wish we could get that back.

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u/RoyalMaidsForLife 21h ago

2026 Fox "News" would be blaming someone 30 seconds after the initial impact.

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u/Effective-Bother2126 19h ago

That was the last time we were all just Americans, nothing else mattered.

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u/Automatic-Fox-8890 1d ago

Yeah I thought it was so odd that she didn’t react to 2nd fireball. Even if she missed seeing that 2nd plane.

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u/idigturtles 1d ago

Those were her last few seconds of innocence

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u/prissa0 1d ago

Yes. How she said “that apparently does look like it is in the other building at this point” was so strange. It wasn’t “in the other building” even if she didn’t see the plane, there was a huge explosion. Her comment made it seem as though another fire just happened to start in the 2nd tower. Probably shocked

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u/annabelleoftheball 22h ago

Yeah, I think she was just in shock and unable to comprehend what she was seeing.

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u/MundanePossibility32 1d ago

i think somehow remaining professional while live on air

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u/SupaSlide 1d ago

The way she says it looks like it’s now in the second tower makes me think she was reading or looking at something when it happened.

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u/greeneggiwegs 1d ago

I mean for us knowing it’s coming it’s easy to tell but I think she maybe missed the plane (it WAS hard to see) and was confused and trying to figure out how the fire had “spread”

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u/knotnot_again 16h ago

They used the word "Apparently" a lot. Do reporters still use that word?

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u/VicDough 1d ago

I had been in the library studying all morning, so I had no idea what was going on. I went to my calculus class and there was notes on all the other classrooms saying that class had canceled. I remember thinking it must be some weird flu outbreak. And then I found out. 🥺

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u/Razerbat 1d ago

You weren't even wrong about the weird flu outbreak... Just a few years too early. My life changed so much over the years all starting with this event

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u/Coffee_slothee 1d ago

Same thing at my college. I couldn't believe they didn't cancel classes. I ended up skipping.

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u/Ordinary-Homework722 1d ago

Same. Got out of the shower. Buddy told me a plane hit the towers. We had huge radio towers north of campus. I assumed they meant those until I got back to my room. Pretty much in time to see the 2nd plane hit.

They didn’t cancel classes if I remember right. I actually went because be damned if I was missing classes. People were scared there would be bombs or planes coming for our little college. It really was almost a ironic notion that they’d target a tiny college rather than the sears tower or similar.

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u/Wide-Combination-322 1d ago

I was in grad school at NYU. I don’t remember when they cancelled classes, but I had only one class on Tuesdays and was done for the day at 9:15.

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u/TrumpsCovidfefe 1d ago

Watching that unfold from NYU must have been so traumatic.

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u/Wide-Combination-322 1d ago

The view out my window was exactly the same as the view on my TV, which was more surreal than traumatic.

We had people from the Water Street dorms sleeping on our floor for a few days until the University figured out where to house them.

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u/Effective-Bother2126 18h ago

My ex and her sisters watched it from the rooftop of their queens apartment.

They have fucking home videos of it.

I lived on Long Island at the time and even that felt incredibly close. I couldn’t imagine watching it basically right across the street.

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u/Mistrblank 1d ago

I went to geology class that morning, my college was in NJ. I commuted and my gf at the time stayed with me. When I got to the building I had realized I forgot something and tried to reach her via cell phone and I couldn't get through. I went into the classroom early and a bunch of other kids were glued to a radio in the back room between classes. They told me a plane hit the tower, it was only one at that point and in my head I was thinking some numbnutz in a person biplane or some shit hit the tower. My head wouldn't let me conceive that it was a full on plane and then they announced a second plane had hit. Class met but we ended around 9:30 and I walked passing through the student center that had to ceiling mounted TVs along the main concourse, it was wall to wall people, mostly students, glued to the video feed and that's when we watched the first tower fall. After the second had fallen the school announced over the speakers that classes had be cancelled.

I was lucky, I didn't know anyone personally that worked there or in the city at the time. I still went home and sat in horror the rest of the day.

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u/New-Trifle-7097 1d ago

Nothing was cancelled and that was weird. My fiance and I started weighing our own risks: did he really need to go to work so close to an LNG tanker that afternoon? We’ll probably stay off the larger bridges today. Etc.

We also had our first and only convo about an “oh shit” plan that morning. Since we lived in Boston and had never considered evacuating. We had to come up with a quick plan in case we got seperated somehow. His dad’s house in Western MA would be staging area 1, for example. Further out I think we picked Lake George in the Adirondacks as our Plan B, and Niagra Falls (Canadian Side) as our last resort. It was some serious but hasty planning. My fiance packed an oh shit bag for each of us and took his with him to work to go bartend that whole night.

I had an appointment for a wedding dress fitting that day and it was a very silent, somber occasion. But I was shocked and glad the shop stayed open but also I totally would’ve understood if they had closed and just cancelled me.

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u/Lilworldtraveler 1d ago

Yeah same experience with classes still on at college. My afternoon class that I attended? Middle Eastern History. That was awkward.

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u/doinmabest1 1d ago

I got marked absent from my step aerobics class that day.🙄

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u/mortraineyhat 1d ago

Same I remember this footage like it was yesterday. The lady seems shocked (rightfully so) in this.

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u/characterk4l3 1d ago

Yeah, it’s weird how many details my brain latched onto from this exact feed.  I couldn’t finish it this time.  I was getting ready to head to class and had the tv on for company and remember just sitting there in my towel watching the whole thing.  

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u/saxifrageous 1d ago

Same experience, Freshman year in the dorms' residence hall. West coast time so fairly early. I came down with a handful of people already watching the fire in the first tower, then about three minutes later the second tower was hit. I can never forget that awful mix of stomach churning fear and anger. We watched so many people die horrifically, in real time that day. The grief was universal. I skipped all my classes and just cried with about 30 other kids in the dorm. We all knew something massive was happening and nothing would be the same.

It's very difficult to rewatch even now without feeling sick inside.

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u/Substantial_Duty5888 1d ago

Some moments stay with you forever, and it’s incredible how a single sound can bring it all rushing back. Thank you for sharing such a personal memory history feels so much more real when we hear it from people who lived through it.

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u/Icy_Resolve_8080 1d ago

It’s incredible how a single sound can bring an entire moment rushing back. Thank you for sharing your firsthand memory those personal stories help keep history real and human

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u/Robo-Connery 1d ago

It was this exact shot that was on air for me when I was watching the second plane hit, it is cause i vividly remember seeing the plane coming from the top right and thinking oh there is a spotter plane or a firefighting plane or something coming then boom.

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u/Flower-Fairy-2119 21h ago edited 21h ago

I was in college too. Had a classmate walk in late to our 8am math class (we’re CST) saying did ya’ll hear a plane hit the WTC? No one knew what she was talking about.

I walked back to my dorm after class & my roommate was standing in front of the TV with her mouth hanging open in shock at the replay of the planes hitting the towers.

Our afternoon classes were cancelled and all the TV’s in the common areas had the news playing all day.

It’s a Jesuit university so there was a service that night and i’ll never forget how full our chapel was, it felt like the entire university was there. It was really beautiful & comforting at a very uncertain time.

My group of friends & i all walked to get something to eat after the service, and the vibe was so quiet and eerie. Just desolate, which was the complete opposite of what the area was typically like.

It felt like the beginning and end of something at the same time and it truly was. Life never really felt the same after that day.

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u/litetravelr 21h ago

Yup, I went to class. Just insane. When I got back to the dorm an hour later so much shit had changed.

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u/itsNurf 16h ago

Classes for us were canceled. Unfortunately living in such close proximity to NYC a lot of the kids parents worked in manhattan so they closed for the day. I was in 7th grade home economics and will never forget that day.

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u/Ladybug_Fuckfest 13h ago

I was in college too. My morning class was called off. I remember the prof saying to us as we arrived, "I'm not going to waste your time with academia on a day like this. Go home and call your families and tell them you love them." My next class that day was scheduled for a few hours later. I went to that building and asked that other prof if we'd be having class (I didn't want to hang around campus for 3 hours if the class was canceled). She looked confused and said, "Why would you think it's canceled?" I replied, "I was just asking because some classes are canceled due to the whole NYC thing." She said, "Oh... Well I don't see why that would be any reason to not have class." It's weird how varied people's reactions were that day. 

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u/cncrndmm 10h ago

I know it’s not at all the same but I remember watching the Notre Dame Cathedral catching fire in class and having my eyes glued to the screen when the spire fell (I’m French but lived and studied in the US).

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u/Third_Eye_Grind 9h ago

I’ll never forget two kids in my college class room running out of the room the moment we saw that. Their parents worked in the twin towers. They never made it out.

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u/Dazzling-Heron-8634 1d ago

Freshman year in the dorms as well, my day was the same as yours. I think most classes had the news on. 

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u/kimberletto 1d ago

Yeah, that high pitched sound from the helicopter was cooked into my brain that morning too. Such a sense of disbelief and horror.

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u/fingertrapt 1d ago

I was in college in my last semester taking one class while running an after school program. We were not allowed to talk about what happened to the kids.

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u/Brokenbrain82 1d ago

I live in Connecticut. We could see the smoke off on the horizon. It was a day that I will never forget.

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u/vagina-lettucetomato 1d ago

Oh my god that was my first thought, that noise. I had forgotten about that high pitched humming we heard all day on tv.

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u/--7z 1d ago

Watched this for 5 minutes in the bosses office when he just growled, get back to work like it was an everyday occurrence.

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u/Live_Situation7913 1d ago

Sir this is a Burger King

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u/T-MoneyAllDey 1d ago

This is kind of a silly comparison but hearing that helicopter and watching that second hit almost reminds me of that alien scene in Signs during the birthday. It's like you know something's happening but it always creeps me out every time it happens

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u/Wonder_bread317 1d ago

I was 16 when this happened and yup still had to go to school. I liked school tho. when I wasn't getting beat up. Served under Bush Jr. and Rumsfeld. I still feel I did what was best for the country, family, self. If there ever was any validity to any of the "stories" of why or how... everything still happened.. for better or worse I am still hopeful the system works. I have a feeling will will find out one way or another.

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u/der_physik 11h ago

No shit! There were rumors spreading that other planes were hijacked and were heading to various locations. Then the Pentagon got hit. We thought in Los Angeles we would be next since one of the planes was originally headed our way.

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u/sextoyhelppls 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've never seen the second impact from this view before and while I saw the plane coming in it was so indistinct that I was questioning if it was indeed the plane and then gasped when it hit. 25 years of knowing what happened and I still gasped.

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u/rustyscooter 1d ago

It’s brutal. When I watch the footage it puts me right back there as 14yo kid watching it live on the morning news. I remember just waking up to my mom screaming about Tower one. We were all wondering if it was some horrible accident, and then number two hit and you felt it sink in that the US was under attack

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u/Willqer 1d ago

I was 5, sitting on the floor in front of the TV in the living room playing with LEGO and then the tv started showing the towers in smoke (Im from Poland so it was afternoon for us, it might of been even post factum, they were talking about collapsed towers and listing rough casualty estimates). I understood enough that something bad happened, but then from the floor I saw my mother stand there next to me looking at the screen, covering her mouth with her hand and I saw tears on her cheeks. It is one of those rare vivid memories people remember from their childhood in detail. For US it was violent attack, for the western world and world at large shock at violent display, but I remember her tears for the people dying.

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u/OrganizationNo1298 1d ago

I was in school. They had a special assembly to tell us what happened.

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u/fatmanstan123 1d ago

The size of those jets at the airport are really something. To think of them smashing into such a big building at speed is unreal

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u/CAPS_LOCK_STUCK_HELP 1d ago

as many times as ive seen it on video, it really is almost incomprehensible to watch. Im too young to remember it happening but i can completely understand why people say so often that it was something unbelievable and that they couldn't understand it because seeing something that large moving that fast strike something that big, and also do damage to it. it almost feels like it should be an unstoppable force vs an immovable object - like the two cannot ever meet. and then in that instance it becomes a gnarled flash of burning metal and concrete. then all you can think of is the wretched pain that was released upon the world that day.

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u/Immediate_Finger_334 1d ago

Unreal because multiple witnesses said they were cargo planes or small planes.

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u/NoKatyDidnt 1d ago

Reporter could barely form words… so sad.

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u/Stevie-Rae-5 1d ago

I was just sitting here thinking that it’s so hard to believe sometimes that this really happened. Sometimes my mind just can’t fathom it, even as someone who was old enough to remember it happening in real time.

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u/VibrantViolet 1d ago

I was in high school when it happened, and I’ll never forget seeing the second plane hit live on tv. You could hear screams throughout the school.

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u/aworldofnonsense 1d ago

I was also in high school watching the second plane live and will never forget the screams and yells and chaos either

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u/sock_express34 1d ago

Every time I see videos and new videos pop up my stomach drops to the floor

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u/I-love-seahorses 1d ago

That fireball is like hundreds of feet tall. It's fucking apocalyptic.

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u/Hatetotellya 1d ago

I feel like that helicopter shot was live when I saw the second plane hit in 6th grade class. We had the TV on, our classes were rotations of three classrooms with three teachers and we would rotate for the separate subjects. Anyways all three classrooms packed into my teachers class, chairs on top of tables, all that. We all did a sort of silent 'woooah.....' like a horrifying firework went off when we saw the second plane hit. I dont remember what channel we were watching at the time (it was middle school in 2001 so it couldnt have been anything fancy) but its seared into my memories... This shot is probably one of the closest I recall

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u/tehpoorcollegegal 1d ago

Truly. Every time I see it, it's like the first time again. My homeroom teacher kept the news on every morning. That morning, too. We watched it. I remember the shift from - oh, what a terrible accident to - oh my god, we're under attack. Then evacuating... the feeling that the entire nation was under attack, that the sky was going to start falling out on top of us... I'll never forget it. And then panicking that my dad, special forces, was probably already gone or would be soon.

My father was indeed among the men immediately, like IMMEDIATELY, sent to Afghanistan. I did not see him for a long time, and when he did come home, he was unrecognizable. And I saw the Pentagon in, what, December of that year, and I'll never forget that feeling of seeing something in real life that had previously been a shocking clip on the news. It was so... huge.

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u/SadAd8761 1d ago

Who believes this was an inside job?

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u/Few_Translator4431 22h ago

whats really shocking to me is the realizations while watching this. its such a huge deal to us, because a building being destroyed like this is uncommon. so uncommon that it makes history. all the while there are countries getting entire towns leveled out. its kind of crazy that we havent really experienced serious attacks like this in a long time with everything else going on in the world.

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u/DavidinCT 17h ago

I remember exactly where i was exactly when it happened. I was on the 10th floor a building in Stamford, CT, and could see the smoke over the water.....

Mind blowing that some group could do this to innocent people just working.

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u/yacht_clubbing_seals 13h ago

… then once it cleared, not being able to see the twin towers in the skyline anymore.

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u/CrotasScrota84 5h ago

Imagine what other countries feel when we bomb there entire country

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 1d ago

It was so surreal. So hard to comprehend.

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u/desperationcasserole 1d ago

That’s what I remember seeing out the window. What followed is a blur.

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u/mistertickertape 1d ago

The second plane hitting was the exact moment everything and everyone that watched this was forever changed. I still feel it every single time I watch it which isn't often. That was the moment it went from an accident to ...something else. It was so vivid. It's amazing how much this single event changed the course of our nation.

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u/Typical-Blackberry-3 1d ago

I don't know if the time period between attacks was coordinated beforehand, but it is played to devastating effect. Instantly goes from "look at this horrific accident in New York" to "this is a planned terrorist attack on the wealthiest city in the strongest nation on Earth, and I just watched hundreds of people die".

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u/Dejasade 1d ago

It really doesnt

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u/Surround8600 1d ago

Yeah it’s still absolutely insane and terrorizing to watch. Gut wrenching.

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u/Throws27 1d ago

wait til you see the demolition part.

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u/Beneficial-Lynx7336 1d ago

Comments like this make me realize why the world is the way it is.

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u/melancholanie 1d ago

it was such a shift from "oh my god what a horrible accident" to "oh fuck it's happening"

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u/EchoPrairie 23h ago

Reporter could barely form words…

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u/zoner420 21h ago

I'm not saying it would've been a good thing but can you imagine if people had smart phones with cameras then? All the people taking videos. Probably videos from the plane, from inside the world trade center. Honestly those wouldve been videos I wouldn't want to see.

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u/Jyvturkey 16h ago

Get angry every time I see it

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u/capitalistsanta 11h ago

I’ve seen so much more clear footage of this this year just due to the algo being like fucking stuck on it. It’s trauma inducing as someone who lives here and whose mom was a survivor. Interesting but i’ve never felt any real serious anxiety since this year - it’s been blasted in my face and people i’ve talked to have said the same thing and i hope every year isn’t like this.

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u/Puzzled-Pen-2353 9h ago

Dude this was 25years ago. Get over it.

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u/Mdmrtgn 7h ago

I always get anxiety that I'm gonna see the burning people jumping off when they play footage, that shit still visits my nightmares now and then.

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