September 11th: Where Were You? - Notable New Yorkers Look Back - History
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And now, 19 years later its still a tragedy that effected people around the whole world.
We should never forget that this day effected 3. 000 families in a way that we can't even imagine.
Date: 2022-09-14
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klassicalmuzik
I was 7 years old on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately I don-t have too many recollections of that day BUT what I do remember is I was already feeling down that day even before the attack because I had just started a new grade and I was pretty anxious. Also my favorite singer, Aaliyah, had died just a few weeks prior to 9/11 so I was thinking of her too. When the attacks happened I remember the teacher walked out of the room for a moment and the lights getting turned off. I don-t really remember anything else but I asked my teacher what happened that day several years later. Then according to my teacher, many kids parents came to get their kids. My mom has told me that she tried to get me but the school principal urged her not to and that I was safe. When I got home my mom was very sad but also agitated, told me not to turn on the TV. Years later I found out the reason why she didn-t want me to turn on TV was because they kept showing images of the planes flying into the towers and the towers eventually collapsing, and she was worried that would upset me. The teachers also urged parents to keep their kids away from TVs that time too.
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I was 7 years old on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately I don-t have too many recollections of that day BUT what I do remember is I was already feeling down that day even before the attack because I had just started a new grade and I was pretty anxious. Also my favorite singer, Aaliyah, had died just a few weeks prior to 9/11 so I was thinking of her too. When the attacks happened I remember the teacher walked out of the room for a moment and the lights getting turned off. I don-t really remember anything else but I asked my teacher what happened that day several years later. Then according to my teacher, many kids parents came to get their kids. My mom has told me that she tried to get me but the school principal urged her not to and that I was safe. When I got home my mom was very sad but also agitated, told me not to turn on the TV. Years later I found out the reason why she didn-t want me to turn on TV was because they kept showing images of the planes flying into the towers and the towers eventually collapsing, and she was worried that would upset me. The teachers also urged parents to keep their kids away from TVs that time too.
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JWMGaming
I would've been 4 years old at the time, I can't remember anything about it, which is strange because my earliest memories are from 2-3 years old - I'm from the UK, so it would've been around 3PM when the towers fell, I would've been at school, I remember stories from my parents how my mum was frozen with sorrow and disbelief upon seeing the news, how she called my grandma to tell her, and that as she was doing so, Tower 2 collapsed. She just said all she could think of was the thousands of people inside, and how it looked so much like a demolition. I can't seem to figure out why I can't remember anything, it would've been all over the school, and talked about and shown at home, maybe the trauma from learning about it at such a young age was blocked in my memory. In the years since, I've educated myself, watched countless videos and documentaries, I've shared in the grief and sorrow of countless others, and one day - I will pay my respects to those lost at ground zero in person.
May their souls rest in peace.
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I would've been 4 years old at the time, I can't remember anything about it, which is strange because my earliest memories are from 2-3 years old - I'm from the UK, so it would've been around 3PM when the towers fell, I would've been at school, I remember stories from my parents how my mum was frozen with sorrow and disbelief upon seeing the news, how she called my grandma to tell her, and that as she was doing so, Tower 2 collapsed. She just said all she could think of was the thousands of people inside, and how it looked so much like a demolition. I can't seem to figure out why I can't remember anything, it would've been all over the school, and talked about and shown at home, maybe the trauma from learning about it at such a young age was blocked in my memory. In the years since, I've educated myself, watched countless videos and documentaries, I've shared in the grief and sorrow of countless others, and one day - I will pay my respects to those lost at ground zero in person.
May their souls rest in peace.
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Peter
I was almost 5 months old. Me, my mom and my twin brother had just come home after a ride in the carriage. A few minutes after we got back my maternal grandfather (1923-2015) told us to turn on the TV and there it was. We went out to dinner that night and we were like the only ones in the restaurant. We live in Massachusetts and 2 of the 4 planes took off from Boston.
Welles Crowther (a volunteer firefighter that died in the South Tower) was my cousin's roommate at Boston College.
My dad worked as a court officer at a court house (on weekdays from 1978-2017) in Cambridge, MA. And my mom called him to get out of the building. It is a pretty tall building. They also had prisoners in the building. The court house's address is 40 Thorndike St, Cambridge, MA.
My teacher was working for a software company at the time. He was on the phone with a woman in the one of the twin towers. Then they heard a loud noise and the woman said -Someone just flew a plane through the tower I'm in. - He assuming that she died.
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I was almost 5 months old. Me, my mom and my twin brother had just come home after a ride in the carriage. A few minutes after we got back my maternal grandfather (1923-2015) told us to turn on the TV and there it was. We went out to dinner that night and we were like the only ones in the restaurant. We live in Massachusetts and 2 of the 4 planes took off from Boston.
Welles Crowther (a volunteer firefighter that died in the South Tower) was my cousin's roommate at Boston College.
My dad worked as a court officer at a court house (on weekdays from 1978-2017) in Cambridge, MA. And my mom called him to get out of the building. It is a pretty tall building. They also had prisoners in the building. The court house's address is 40 Thorndike St, Cambridge, MA.
My teacher was working for a software company at the time. He was on the phone with a woman in the one of the twin towers. Then they heard a loud noise and the woman said -Someone just flew a plane through the tower I'm in. - He assuming that she died.
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Pedersen
I wasn't born yet but my dad was on the Belt Parkway by Fort Hamilton driving to a splicing job (he works for Verizon)
and my mom was in bed and woke up a little past 9 am and got a call from my dad saying -Mary, turn on the tv- and the only person we lost was my mom's friend susan who worked in the North Tower (I think) and even though I was born in 2004 i agree with the people that actually witnessed the tragic events of 9/11 that you should never not now not 50 years from now make a 9/11 joke because it's just wrong and I know the saying Tragedy+Time=Comedy but there will never be a long enough amount of time for that saying to work. I can imagine the radio station just suddenly changing to breaking news like -CBS FM America's Greatest Hits Welcome to sco- Breaking News a plane has just struck the North World Trade Center
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I wasn't born yet but my dad was on the Belt Parkway by Fort Hamilton driving to a splicing job (he works for Verizon)
and my mom was in bed and woke up a little past 9 am and got a call from my dad saying -Mary, turn on the tv- and the only person we lost was my mom's friend susan who worked in the North Tower (I think) and even though I was born in 2004 i agree with the people that actually witnessed the tragic events of 9/11 that you should never not now not 50 years from now make a 9/11 joke because it's just wrong and I know the saying Tragedy+Time=Comedy but there will never be a long enough amount of time for that saying to work. I can imagine the radio station just suddenly changing to breaking news like -CBS FM America's Greatest Hits Welcome to sco- Breaking News a plane has just struck the North World Trade Center
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starwarsROXmy
I was so young when this happened, but my father was working in Queens when it happened and he told me time just stopped. That he just sat down, called my mom and told her what was happening. He said that from where he was in Queens, he could see the towers in plain sight. Now my dad is a trucker, and he's seen his fair share of terrible incidents. But he had never seen a plane crash, yet alone into one of the world's most famous buildings. It's amazing how many people saw this with their own eyes. New York City isn't just Manhattan, like you see in the movies. Millions of people saw this with their own eyes, and its get me mad that conspiracy theorists still want to claim it didn't happen or it was an inside job. I have vague memories of the towers, but they will always be a symbol of New York and of America.
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I was so young when this happened, but my father was working in Queens when it happened and he told me time just stopped. That he just sat down, called my mom and told her what was happening. He said that from where he was in Queens, he could see the towers in plain sight. Now my dad is a trucker, and he's seen his fair share of terrible incidents. But he had never seen a plane crash, yet alone into one of the world's most famous buildings. It's amazing how many people saw this with their own eyes. New York City isn't just Manhattan, like you see in the movies. Millions of people saw this with their own eyes, and its get me mad that conspiracy theorists still want to claim it didn't happen or it was an inside job. I have vague memories of the towers, but they will always be a symbol of New York and of America.
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Shea
I was only nine months old and at my grandparents house in Florida. They all watched the whole thing from the second plane hitting to the towers collapsing. My dads a firefighter so it really hit him hard. My grandma said as the towers were collapsing my dad said we just lost a lot of brothers meaning firefighters and police officers. To this day those words still haunt me. I often think about how it could-ve been him. It could-ve been him that was in there and got killed. Thankfully we don-t live in New York and Michigan where I live doesn-t have very many important buildings like that. Now with all the stuff that-s going on with isis is starting to bring some of that fear back. I can only hope that nothing like this happens again.
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I was only nine months old and at my grandparents house in Florida. They all watched the whole thing from the second plane hitting to the towers collapsing. My dads a firefighter so it really hit him hard. My grandma said as the towers were collapsing my dad said we just lost a lot of brothers meaning firefighters and police officers. To this day those words still haunt me. I often think about how it could-ve been him. It could-ve been him that was in there and got killed. Thankfully we don-t live in New York and Michigan where I live doesn-t have very many important buildings like that. Now with all the stuff that-s going on with isis is starting to bring some of that fear back. I can only hope that nothing like this happens again.
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I was in 5th grade, I was 10 years old when it happened. I live in Manila, Philippines on the other side of the world. It was a normal school day. It was already lunch time. Near the canteen, there was the parent's waoting area with a TV. I remember they were watching the breaking news and I heard gasping. I remember that we were immediately sent home. I saw the news and it was the most surreal thing. It looked like a Hollywood movie but you know it was real. That was the 1st time ever that I became afraid of watching the news. Before 9/11, I saw the US as untouchable, no one would dare against it, but when this happened, in my 10 year old brain it dawned on me that there was no sacred nor safe place in the world anymore.
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I was in 5th grade, I was 10 years old when it happened. I live in Manila, Philippines on the other side of the world. It was a normal school day. It was already lunch time. Near the canteen, there was the parent's waoting area with a TV. I remember they were watching the breaking news and I heard gasping. I remember that we were immediately sent home. I saw the news and it was the most surreal thing. It looked like a Hollywood movie but you know it was real. That was the 1st time ever that I became afraid of watching the news. Before 9/11, I saw the US as untouchable, no one would dare against it, but when this happened, in my 10 year old brain it dawned on me that there was no sacred nor safe place in the world anymore.
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cityofchamps66
I was working at a country club outside of Pittsburgh, my boss told me to go out on the course and get all the women off(little did I know several of their husbands were on business trips in NYC) I had to tell about 40 women what I thought had happened, they looked in utter disbelief, not so after they closed all the bridges( behind only Venice, Italy, Pgh has the 2nd most bridges in the world) around town, but sadly the one thing I most remember where members calling, only a few, asking if the course was open, people were actually thinking about playing golf while this was going on, in all my life I had never cursed over the phone to people who pay my salary, but I did that day.
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I was working at a country club outside of Pittsburgh, my boss told me to go out on the course and get all the women off(little did I know several of their husbands were on business trips in NYC) I had to tell about 40 women what I thought had happened, they looked in utter disbelief, not so after they closed all the bridges( behind only Venice, Italy, Pgh has the 2nd most bridges in the world) around town, but sadly the one thing I most remember where members calling, only a few, asking if the course was open, people were actually thinking about playing golf while this was going on, in all my life I had never cursed over the phone to people who pay my salary, but I did that day.
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matt
I was 9 years old living in California and distinctly remember seeing the news report for the first time. My mom hadn't woken me up for school so i made my way downstairs and realized the news was on, which wasn't always the case in the morning. My mom asked if I wanted to go to school or not and I said no, not out of relief for skipping school, but it was more of an involuntary response probably out of fear. I had trouble comprehending what just happened and in my head kept thinking it was a scene from a movie. Even living on the west coast, close to San Francisco, the fear and awareness was well spread throughout the entire country on that day.
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I was 9 years old living in California and distinctly remember seeing the news report for the first time. My mom hadn't woken me up for school so i made my way downstairs and realized the news was on, which wasn't always the case in the morning. My mom asked if I wanted to go to school or not and I said no, not out of relief for skipping school, but it was more of an involuntary response probably out of fear. I had trouble comprehending what just happened and in my head kept thinking it was a scene from a movie. Even living on the west coast, close to San Francisco, the fear and awareness was well spread throughout the entire country on that day.
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Scott
I was in Lower Manhattan at the time visiting with my Dad who was apart of the NYPD. I still remember when the plane hit the first tower and my Dad ran as fast as he could toward the tower to go help people, me being 15 at the time, I ran right with him. Me and my Dad stayed there helping people at the towers until September 13. I will also never forget the moment when the North tower collapsed and I was helping someone to a bench and we ran inside a store just in time before the dust came.
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I was in Lower Manhattan at the time visiting with my Dad who was apart of the NYPD. I still remember when the plane hit the first tower and my Dad ran as fast as he could toward the tower to go help people, me being 15 at the time, I ran right with him. Me and my Dad stayed there helping people at the towers until September 13. I will also never forget the moment when the North tower collapsed and I was helping someone to a bench and we ran inside a store just in time before the dust came.
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Queensland_Girl
I was 8 years old at the time and was asleep. I live in Australia and it was early hours in the morning of 12th. My mum was planning a trip to the US 3 weeks after the attacks and she had got a phone from one of her friends telling her to turn on the tv, saying that a plane had hit the World Trade Centre in New York. My mum thought that her friend was trying to scare her (Mum was nervous to fly, but as soon as she turned on the tv; she knew that it was real.
Never Forget 9/11
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I was 8 years old at the time and was asleep. I live in Australia and it was early hours in the morning of 12th. My mum was planning a trip to the US 3 weeks after the attacks and she had got a phone from one of her friends telling her to turn on the tv, saying that a plane had hit the World Trade Centre in New York. My mum thought that her friend was trying to scare her (Mum was nervous to fly, but as soon as she turned on the tv; she knew that it was real.
Never Forget 9/11
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swampfFox
I was 19, and deployed to Macedonia. Was sitting in the dayroom and about to go on a night shift and the Today show was on the TV. I was at a NATO camp (Gazela shoe factory, KFOR Rear HQ, Americans like me were actuyally in the minority, and they didn't really increase security too much. The Turks that manned entry/exit into the installation had to wear full battle-rattle as opposed to their soft caps, but that's about it.
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I was 19, and deployed to Macedonia. Was sitting in the dayroom and about to go on a night shift and the Today show was on the TV. I was at a NATO camp (Gazela shoe factory, KFOR Rear HQ, Americans like me were actuyally in the minority, and they didn't really increase security too much. The Turks that manned entry/exit into the installation had to wear full battle-rattle as opposed to their soft caps, but that's about it.
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Chris
This video is so sad. I go to stuyvesant, the school that one of the interviewees mentioned, and to think that if i was there on that fateful day, wondering whether i would be crushed by the falling towers, looking up at the billowing smoke, is so frightening and horrid. i pay my respects to everyone that lost their lives on that day, save for the evil perpetrators.
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This video is so sad. I go to stuyvesant, the school that one of the interviewees mentioned, and to think that if i was there on that fateful day, wondering whether i would be crushed by the falling towers, looking up at the billowing smoke, is so frightening and horrid. i pay my respects to everyone that lost their lives on that day, save for the evil perpetrators.
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Becky
Felt the effects where I am in the West. Commercial planes fly all the time over my neighborhood headed for the airport and I clearly remember how solemn it felt without them. Also saw the buildings collapse live on television and realizing as I watched that people were in them. Honestly couldn't watch action movies with explosives in them for about a year.
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Felt the effects where I am in the West. Commercial planes fly all the time over my neighborhood headed for the airport and I clearly remember how solemn it felt without them. Also saw the buildings collapse live on television and realizing as I watched that people were in them. Honestly couldn't watch action movies with explosives in them for about a year.
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Nic
I was in college at USC in California and I woke up to my mom calling me from Michigan telling me to turn on the tv. I, as well as pretty much every other american, was obviously glued to the tv all day (classes were obviously canceled. it was honestly a surreal experience (rip peter jennings btw he was my emotional support that day.
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I was in college at USC in California and I woke up to my mom calling me from Michigan telling me to turn on the tv. I, as well as pretty much every other american, was obviously glued to the tv all day (classes were obviously canceled. it was honestly a surreal experience (rip peter jennings btw he was my emotional support that day.
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Johnathon
I was only 2 years old when this happened,
So yeah I don't remember much about what happened that day I was very young back then but i did learn about it in middle school 10 Years Later in 2011 & did some kinda school project to celebrate the 10th anniversary I believe.
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I was only 2 years old when this happened,
So yeah I don't remember much about what happened that day I was very young back then but i did learn about it in middle school 10 Years Later in 2011 & did some kinda school project to celebrate the 10th anniversary I believe.
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Mike
Was my day off work. My brother woke me up and I saw the first tower burning. A min later the second plane hit the other tower. I smiled and said. - Thank god my Army IRR time ended Apr 4, 2001- I just turned 25 and met my current wife and was working in my career.
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Was my day off work. My brother woke me up and I saw the first tower burning. A min later the second plane hit the other tower. I smiled and said. - Thank god my Army IRR time ended Apr 4, 2001- I just turned 25 and met my current wife and was working in my career.
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Bryan
In New York, 8th grade and a low plane flew over my school; didn't think anything of it. Planned to go purchase Fabolous and Jay-Z's album from the bootleg man after school. There were a couple people attacking muslims so many of the stores were closed around me.
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In New York, 8th grade and a low plane flew over my school; didn't think anything of it. Planned to go purchase Fabolous and Jay-Z's album from the bootleg man after school. There were a couple people attacking muslims so many of the stores were closed around me.
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Umme
I was working the desk at the studio apartment building that I was living there as well, I had just started my shift and someone came down and said New York towers were hit so I went to the community room and turned on the TV. Then everyone started trickling in
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I was working the desk at the studio apartment building that I was living there as well, I had just started my shift and someone came down and said New York towers were hit so I went to the community room and turned on the TV. Then everyone started trickling in
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