We Were There, August 22, 2018
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2019
- Lower Manhattan Resident Ray B. and FDNY World Trade Center Responder Gregg H. share their personal stories of September 11th in their 9/11 Tribute Museum presentation of We Were There on stage at the National September 11th Memorial Museum.
I worked with Greg as a firefighter. Great guy. Very smart. It was his intuition and intelligence that saved many many people that day including his men. Bravo Greg. Job well done.
RIP Orio Palmer and all who we lost that day and continue to lose ❤
On the 9/11 20th anniversary I have happened across these stories. It has given me insight and a better understanding. The firefighter in this clip spoke so eloquently. Best wishes to all from Australia 🇦🇺
The part that touched me and brought tears to my eyes was when the first man explained how New Yorkers changed after 9/11. How everyone no longer kept their distance from other people, but rather started caring about each other and asking how you were doing and if you were okay.
I've seen this fireman in other videos. he's EXTREMELY affected by this, he couldn't even look at the camera. I just wish I could give him a hug and thank him and apologize that humanity is so horrible but also let him know that because of him, humanity has potential to be amazing.
You can tell that this still really effects the fireman especially. I'm Australian and remember when it happened. It was a shocking day in history but being there would have been a million times traumatic
My dad literally died as a pilot
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thats so sad...
sorry for your loss...xx
1995 I met a young fireman named Michael Murphy. He worked in New York. I was in Hong Kong on vacation as was he. I hope he survived if involved in 9/11. They are the bravest of the brave.
Michael Murphy was not one of the 343 that died that day.
This one was hard to watch. I’ve watched a lot of survival stories and these in particular and this one was really emotional. Thank you to all the heroes from that day. We will NEVER FORGET 🇺🇸
John Morabito was that officer with the flashlight who guided you out!
Thank him for his Service and Godspeed.😇🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇
the firemen stories really put you right there in the moment every one ive heard the emotion from the fire fighters is like it happened yesterday
God bless these gentlemen. Hopefully the pain begins to fade as time goes on...
That Poor Fireman.. GOD BLESS Him!!! xoxoxoxo
God didnt bless all those people that died that day. Get off your ass and stop drinking the koolaid
I loved the firefighter’s story,.
Thanks for posting ❤ Never Forget
I remember very vividely my 9 11. I am italian, and in that day at that time i Was sustaining my BLS exam (i was medical student) . Suddenly me and the others were shocked by the news that a Plane was just crushed into one tower , so we all run to see the live con and we saw the second plane hit the wtc2.
I was on the other side of the planet but i feel a deep sense of anguish of terror of instability of fear..i feel under my skin the the world would not have been the same ever ever again
Paola Ponticelli i am an American, and was in Spain for one month on an artist’s fellowship. I was 10 days into the experience, and this happened. I had an elementary understanding of Spanish, but nowhere near enough to understand the newscasters. The flight to Spain was so different from my flight back to the states a couple of weeks later, and it has never been the same since. I was the only American at the fellowship program, and I remember a sense of knowing the same thing you felt; things will never be the same again. And I do think this feeling would have been the same had this happened to Italy, had they flown into the symbols of your country, the Colosseum, St. Peter’s, and the Duomo in Florence, or Venice. Or Big Ben, the Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in London. It was the nature of it; it was so surreal to imagine that people would do something, almost, this absurd, this “immature” in a way, on such a scale. It was so very personal, and totally unprecedented, due to the absurdity of the plot, the adherence to this bizarre, almost childish plan that must have occurred over a period of time; that during this time, logic never prevailed. Somehow we are able to deduce and encapsulate so many intellectual concepts, within the space of a feeling. A moment of profound comprehension.
@@quintuplebanned4267" it was so personal" you said... I agree, totally
I guess one didn't have to be "there" to have a 9/11 story 9/11 was too big to not have touched the lives of everybody around the world in different ways.
I live in Mumbai India 🇮🇳 the time difference between Mumbai and New York is 9 1/2 hours it was 6:33 in the evening for me when Ua175 hit the south tower but I too have vivid memories of that day God bless the people who perished on that day and later because of the events of that day May their souls Rest in peace May God give strength to those who lost their loved ones because those historic and horrific events of that day God Bless the United States of America 🇺🇸
I’m American and live in North Carolina about 4 hours or so from DC and 8 from NYC. I was 10 when it happened (8 days from turning 11) and my dad was supposed to be in DC that day. I went the entire day at school not knowing if my dad was alive or not. When my mom picked me up from school I asked “is dad ok?!” and he was actually in North Carolina and was ok. I just ran into my moms arms and started sobbing. Scariest day of my life!!!!
I lived near Washington DC at that time and we were all terrified, I couldn’t imagine being there, in the buildings or even near those buildings, and I’ve heard lots of story of survival, and it’s like someone or something was watching over them! RIP to the people that couldn’t get out 🥺
True and heartfelt. Not flighty like some who are giggling twisting around. He tells the true story seriously!
Thank you for Sharing 🌹♥️
Super emotional
Very touching and emotional
People all over the world were with you all in thought that day. And a great many of us also mourned with you, and still do. God bless the survivors, and the families of the fallen 🙏 ❤
Was there the very next day at the pit . I will never forget that smell and devastation.
I would love to meet someone who was there I did not know anyone that was there but my cousin worked there and she knew people that died thank god she was back in Ireland
God Bless u 🌷
In my humble opinion, usually a miracle comes in the form of a still small voice… an intuitive moment when you pause and hear.. “don’t take the elevator” “ don’t run that way” “time to move faster” “get in the fetal position”
That’s Gods voice directing us to safety. We can choose to listen or not to listen.
You listened. Others didn’t, and others never had the chance. God can’t control anyone, he couldn’t stop the people who flew the planes, he couldn’t force people to run this way or that. But he tries his best to direct us out of danger every single day. We just have to listen.
A very powerful, gripping and emotional recounting by that fire fighter.
Love Gregg Hanson.. he better get a higher pay raise.. oh!! Captain
This is no exaggeration.....I got a panic attack just listening to the accounts of that day
We will nevervforget.
I wasn’t alive( I was born in 2004) but obviously my parents and 2 older sisters ( aged 11 and 9) were alive. My mom said that they didn’t think the 1st one was a plane. They figured that maybe it was an explosion or something because, how could a plane not see the tower right there. After the 2nd one, they then realized that this wasn’t a mistake and that something serious was going on. They then went to pick up my sisters from school and went home. We live in Jersey, so they saw the smoke from their jobs and they heard thousands of ambulances, police officers and helicopters rushing to NY. It was a tragic day.
Volume needs to be higher!
Then turn it up on your end🙄
A ride that safely connects and is like a cage that safely secures the victim entire human body in the seatied position or even in tha fetal position. I will try to draw it up. Ok you guys. I gotta go stay safe. Many blessings 🙏❣️🙏 💞🙏💞❣️
Good lieutenant.
I wonder how these guys are coping with Covid now in NY
Poor NY
Same way as everyone else. What u mean?😃
@@joulupukki1607 agree. what is shoe on about.. id hardly compare 9/11 to covid!!
Everyone who was alive at this day and in a age of let’s say around 10 and up exactly remembers where he / she was and what he / she was doing when it happened.
I personally came home from my job training to be a kindergarten teacher, quite tired and happy to be finally at home. (It was early afternoon in my time zone). My dad sat on the long sofa - he had the early shift. My mom on the short one - it was her day off. She said very seriously and concerned “Something happened”. I glanced to the TV and saw the burning towers. The second airplane hit just a few minutes ago. For a brief second I thought it was a kind of stupid catastrophe movie. When I realised it wasn’t, I put my backpack on the side, took of my shoes and my jacket and sat down on the floor where I was. We watched silently. No one said a word until my brother came back home as well (around 5:30pm our time). At this time my father spoke to him. “Two planes hit the World Trade Center. The towers collapsed. Another one hit the Pentagon in DC.“ My brother stood there a few minutes, watched silently as well until his phone rang. He answered it, listened for a few moments, said „I know. I see it.“ and he left the living room. Usually I wear a combination of different colours. Blue jeans, black shirt or something similar. At this day it was a black shirt, black jeans, black chucks and black socks. I was late in the morning and took the first shirt of my closet I could grab.
I was 5 and I remember where I was. I had just started kindergarten and my mom pulled me out of class
You can even put a swing like a child's swing with a piece a contrapment that can keep the person or persons safely inside while the helicopters rescue them from high-risers and tall buildings.
The fire doors to the roof got bent from the impact and were jammed shut.
What really caught me was when he said that for week he smelled burning hair.
Like a one of Tha rides from great adventure. That would really work you guys. I know it would. Even ask all tha children what they think.
It’s interesting that the mayday came in before the South Tower collapse. I would have thought it to come afterward.
I heard one survivors story say that the police helicopters overhead could tell it was about to fall so they radioed for all police officers to evacuate as soon as possible. I don’t know how long the gap was before the firefighters sent out the evacuation order but their was at least a few minutes before the firefighters were informed of the eminent collapse on their frequency. The only reason the mayday was sent out was because one of the lead firemen overheard a transmission from a police radio, near where he was setting up a command post, calling for all officers to evacuate.
Even with a warning of a possible collapse I don’t think anyone down there that day had any idea that a complete collapse was even possible. I think most thought it would fall off in big pieces over a couple hour span at worst. When the trade center was designed it was designed for a pancake collapse. The engineer that designed it had fears that if the building ever had any major support issues it would tip over to the left or right and have a significantly higher death toll than if it were to just drop straight down.
There were reports of the fire floors sagging pulling the exterior inward. The foam insulation that protected the steel was destroyed when the planes collided with the towers. Nobody thought a full collapse of a steel structure was imminent. Partial yes but not the way that it did. EMS division chief John Peruggia received a warning from an official, who he believed to be an engineer, that the buildings were leaning and severely compromised. He got that message to another command post just seconds before the tower came down.
From what I heard about 10 minutes before the South Tower collapse, they started getting word that they were concerned the towers would collapse but they weren’t sure. It possible a May Day happened.
I was there too...39 Broadway. Smell was acrid, nasty all that time.
Ray reminds me of George Costanza
0:58 Willy thorne 🤔🤔🤔🤣😁
Crazy that he was told to go and everyone else told to stay .
Please put parachutes in all high risers. Please make sure all people have a second set of sneakers too at thier desks too and students too. Please have practice drills and auditoriums show theaters for all children and thier family members too. I was even thinking maybe have some wheelchairs too in all the high-risers too so that all tha firefighters can get all tha handicap people who can't walk a safe ride out of wherever there's a fire. It might even work on regular people too. Yes you guys that would really help all tha firefighters out. Please start to have emergency wheelchairs there too. This way less weight is put on the firefighters back. An emergency fire department wheelchairs. And you put FDNY on all tha wheelchairs too. In honor of all my guys who fired. I have more to say just let me think about it more.
You people need to realize that parachutes can not and will not work in compact cities, you would end up hitting other buildings and roofs with hard impact. Also they are not up high enough for impact to slow you would still go down just as fast. There's a reason why you have to go way far up in a plane to air dive.
The average fire fighter's extra gear is about 50 pounds extra ....wheelchairs slow people down on stairs and become more problematic.
are you high or something?
Coz wheelchairs are soooo handy in stairwells 🙄
@@moniquem783 Each floor was equipped with ‘emergency’ wheelchairs, which could be carried from the front and the back by two people on a stairwell if necessary. Lives were saved by this ability to transport the handicapped and/or seriously injured.
Can debate god or no god. No unseen intervention or an affirmative. I see faith as either the greatest excuse to give up personal responsibility or the courageous ability to believe in some sort of salvation. None will know for certain. It comes down to doing whatever gets you through the day.
I feel bad for you for your lack of faith - how pointless life must seem.
No not commercial airliner
Black Flag operation RIP
BTK
Hahahaha Jesus Christ, your a savage
Well said, Mr Firefighter. I always wondered how it could be said some had miracles while others died. I totally get that. But I do think nobody lived or died without His Ok. He never lost control of it all. It was just not our time. And unfortunately it was their's 💔
Which god is one who survives a tragedy suppose to "Pray" to? The one who created the tragedy or the one who didn't Stop it?
No one has all of the answers as to why things happen the way they do, but you used the word "survives" as in the person or people lived. God is responsible for that. The people who died that day, with the exception of the terrorists, served the purpose that God put them here for. Everybody has to decide who they will serve before they die, God or Satan. The terrorists chose Satan.
@@Caramel1806 Caramel1806 "No one has all the answers as to why things happen the way they do..." Well I'd surly agree with that, but theists (believers in a god/s) are the ones who claim to in Fact "know that their god exists..." 🙄😕😒 And yes I did say "Survives" because it would be awfully hard to thank your god is one didn't survive, right? And then you Claim/Assert that "god" was responsible for their survival, yet can't demonstrate your claims/assertions..? 😕🤨 I mean can you demonstrate your god's existence? does he/it manifest in Any way, shape, form, within Reality, because if so then this should be testable..? If Yes, please demonstrate, if Not, then your god must be Space-less, Timeless, Formless, immaterial, correct? In which case, your god exists in No location, No timer, with No form, and has No detectable qualities, does this sound accurate? If so, I would probably Agree... But if you can't demonstrate something, then you surly Don't know it, and shouldn't say that you do... Then you say, "The people who died that day, with the exception of the terrorists, served the purpose that God put them here for." Two questions... 1. Why did you exclude the terrorists, did your god Not create them? 2. What is the purpose of a newborn baby's mother or father dying in such a way, having to grow up never having the opportunity of knowing them, or a baby being born into this world with a terminal disease, what's their propose? and then you ended your comment by invoking "Satan."
Question: How often do you (assuming you are Christian) think about or worry about the Islam Hell? Do you know what it says in the Quran about those who die w/o accepting Allah as the "One True god ?" Luckily for you, their is No more evidence/reason to believe in it's existence that yours, and if when the thought of yourself being "happy" while looking down at the billions of damned "souls" burning in a lake of fire, well then you just might be as big of an immoral monster as the one who created it...
Personally I am a Truth seeker and my atheism is nothing but a side effect through that endeavor. I am Not saying that a god/s Do Not exist, which I would be happy to make an argument for if you'd like, especially a "Personal" god like Jesus/Allah, but theists claim that a god in fact Does exist and I simply say that I'm Not convinced, based on the Lack of Any Evidence/Reason... and choose to withhold belief until further Evidence/Reason can me provided and or demonstrated, as any Rational thinking person should...
To me it seems that "God" is not an explanation., It is a placeholder for those lacking the courage, or the intellectual honesty to say "I Don't Know." Near the core of religious experience is something remarkably resistant to Rational inquiry...
I find that people often follow a religion Not because of "Personal Revelation or Transcendent Truth" but because the religion is culturally familiar, childhood Indoctrination, linked to where and whom one is raised, and it just so happens that statistically, in almost every case, people Always adopt the exact Same religion/god as their parents, oh and it just so happens to be the Correct god... 🤔😒😞 I think that it is time we admitted that Faith is nothing more than a cop out, the license religious people give one another to keep believing when Reasons fail. I mean, if Faith is one's reason for believing something, one could use Faith to justify Anything they wanted to believe, and sadly, many don't see the problem with that.
Truth is available to those who's curiosity exceeds they're desire to prove themselves right, who's passion for Truth is Bigger than their fears, who have the courage to Question whatever they have been taught... Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.
I wish more people would try and understand that our beliefs actually Do matter because they inform our actions, and if one holds irrational beliefs, it can and will result in irrational behavior...
What are you talking about ?! For the love of it, stop being so dumb and educate yourself..dig deep, all the answers are within you..God neve creates tragedies! NEVER
I've gone through literal hell ,9 times in 37 years, including homelessness and MUCH more, in a foreign country ; I was alone and if it wasnt for my child I'd be dead right now! And I never blamed God for anything you know whY? Because we all have our own missions on earth and God always shows us the way, but our ego(satan) prevents us from seeing things clearly ! Compassion is the highest form of intelligence, btw! There are universal laws to consider as well...please dig deep, do your research, entertain yourself, at the least ....God gave us all a free will and majority, unfortunately, choose ego (satan)
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"God" is not an explanation.
It is a placeholder for those lacking the courage, or the intellectual honesty to say "I Don't Know."
Near the core of religious experience is something remarkably resistant to Rational inquiry...
I find that people often follow a religion Not because of "Personal Revelation or Transcendent Truth" but because the religion is culturally familiar, childhood Indoctrination, linked to where and whom one is raised, and it just so happens that statistically, in almost every case, people Always adopt the exact Same religion/god as their parents, oh and it just so happens to be the Correct god... 🤔😒😞
I want people Not to be fearful of challenging your/their own beliefs, it can lead to great enlightenment. Think for a moment, if you were born in a different region of the world and your guardians taught you Different beliefs than you hold now, would you still hold the same beliefs as you do today? Most likely Not, so wouldn't that mean your beliefs are largely based on your region and upbringing? Sometimes in the "school of life" it is not only important to continue learning, but to Unlearn that which does not agree with you anymore. I mean, if there was some kind of Proof (which I'm not claiming to have) that in fact you have been mistaken and you god in fact Doesn't exist, wouldn't that be something that you would want to know? Life is full of illusion pretending to be True. And the amount of people that believe in something has Absolutely NO bearing on the TRUTH whatsoever, the TRUTH does Not change weather it is, or isn't believed by a majority of the people. Always keep an Open Mind, which means that you are capable and are willing to question your beliefs and adjust them accordingly to New Evidence/Reason that is provided. Wisdom is given to No man/woman until he or she has an Open mind and asks for it... Truth is available to those who's curiosity exceeds they're desire to prove themselves right, who's passion for Truth is Bigger than their fears, who have the courage to Question whatever they have been taught... Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.
People seem to think that there is No harm in just believing, and I wished that they'd try to understand that our beliefs actually Do matter because they inform our actions, and if one holds irrational beliefs, it can and will result in irrational behavior...
It is not Gods responsibility to stop people from ever experiencing tragedy - that is what heaven for, the reward for being a believer in this realm. If God intervened in every moment to prevent bad things happening then there would be no free will, we would just be robots. All we can do is be faithful and make the most of the time we have so we can enjoy heaven in the afterlife. This life is temporary, the afterlife is eternity. Evil created the tragedy. Be good in the face of evil.
The hair ? Tires wtf
You can smell the dead bodies for months in lower Manhattan. It was horrible. You couldn’t avoid the smell.
And you can even have a helicopter that has an scaffolding connected to it that way it can rescue all tha people. In all the high risers buildings. Then we can call it a rescue NYPD FDNY helicopters.
You should put glowsticks in the rescue first aid kits too and flashlights too.
The smoke stopped helicopters from picking people up. It wasn't safe.
@@runningfromabear8354 Access to the roof was also locked, and too much antennas/equipment prohibited any rescues. Not to mention the no fly zone that was quickly put in place. Had it have been 2+ hours, things like this could have happened, sadly there was not enough time to comprehend what was happening let alone act on it.
A man had climbed antenna. I heard it on Manhattan dispatch audiotape . It must have been horrible being in the helicopters and not able to help.
The roof doors were all locked for a reason.
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Oops I meant fried in honor of all my guys and girls who fried. I'm sorry this stupid computer telephone
Judith....less me me me and more them them them.
I don't think so. I like Judith and i wish i heard her story here
Well, Judith was also affected by the attacks, I would love to hear her story though
First story sucked. Second better Lobby windows busted marble cracked I dunno . I think they cut all supports when plane hit. That’s why building was shaking. 11 seconds is a free fall
Watch the Naudet brothers documentary called 9/11. It’s here on RUclips. They filmed in the lobby of the North tower. You can see the broken windows for yourself. It also has footage of both planes hitting.
my wife had a miscarriage and the baby was my only child ....because of the stress of 9/11 .so to say no one was in danger if you werent in ground zero. u r full of crap. America and the world was in danger. and some people stll are, cancer you name it. now i have no family at all sisters all idiots and parents just died , would have been nice to have my child in my life , so yes 9/11 still effects me pretty deeply. now im 45 alone with no home and no one at all in my life. just my little dog.. i think i will be alone until i die. everyone rip
Adopt a kid.
I don't even have a dog and have no direct relatives left, so cheer up. And where i'm moving to won't allow pets.