"People fell from the shock"
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2015
- One of the hallmark characteristics of trauma is it’s disempowering. Ideally you find a way to feel powerful again, to feel that you in some sense can make a difference.
Doug Gomez was working at home 3 miles north of the World Trade Center.
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It was traumatizing enough for me to watch it on television can't imagine being that close😰😪😪
I do remember seeing one girl collapse to the floor and people standing around her trying to help. Now this was nowhere near the WTC, this was on 54st between 6th & 7th Avenues. This memory is still vivid in my mind mostly because of the thousands of people walking up the street, she was the only one on the floor. When i went to find out what had happened to her, i heard someone mention that her brother worked in one of the towers. The towers having just collapsed. That was sad to witness.
So sad damn I can only imagine what she was going thru poor girl
That's horrible 😔. I hope her brother was able to get out 🙁
How tragic! I hope her brother was able to escape
I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be there that day. My heart goes out to you.
I live in the UK and I watched it all happening live on tv with tears streaming down my face in complete shock, horror, fear, anger . You could feel the pain and tension even through the TV. I have cousins who live in America and I feared for them, you never know who’s going to be on a plane across the States going to a meeting or holiday etc.
Thankfully all my friends and family were safe but it was still horrific to watch fellow human beings, someone’s Mums, Dads, Brothers, Sisters falling to their death or having died from the impact or the fire and then the collapse of the first tower then the second. I remember watching the first and screaming out and afterwards feeling embarrassed and ashamed, I was safe, I was thousands of miles away and yet I was there with the people of New York and America that day. There were many British people who worked in the buildings some who got out, sadly too many who didn’t.
I knew there wasn’t anything I could do but I made a promise to myself and everyone there that day that I would never forget what happened nor would I forget them. I struggle now to remember names but each year I watch all the documentaries made in an effort to try and remember if only briefly some of the names no matter how upsetting it is.
Lest we forget ♥️🌹♥️
I still feel the same sadness like if it was yesterday when it happened.
Me as well. 😭
Same here. So sad.
Me too. I was at work in the UK [I'm a Brit]. Popped into the office after I finished for the day [I was a respite carer] and about a dozen people were stood around a TV all with their hands on their mouths/faces, watching in silence except for the occasional 'OMG' type remark. I feel very sure that I will continue to be horrified by the events not only of that day, but the terrible aftermath [War/9/11 cancers etc] for the rest of my life.
Me too
Me as well 💔
People have never been in a structure fire before clearly. They either got blown out, they jumped, or that one guy that made the rope out of curtains or something and he went sliding down and gained way to much speed. Once you’ve been in a structure fire and feel how hot it is you will understand what I’m talking about. You will gladly jump because the air is 500deg in no time. It will reach 1000 very shortly. When you start getting burned and cooked alive you will jump out with joy. People underestimate the will power the human body has especially when it’s in danger. I bailed out of a house fire and landed in the pool. It was a two story and I had very hot conditions during primary search. I just went diving out and somehow I had no clue that pool was right out side the window. I literally didn’t think about the landing all my mind was on was (step #1 get out!) I honestly never thought about what comes after jumping. So I imagine they did the same. Keep in mind I had structure fire bunker gear on and my scba mask started melting. I still had 1st and 2nd degree burns threw my gear. So I can imagine without protection you will gladly go out.
That’s what I feel too…that the will to live, even for just a moment longer, is so strong that most would choose that moment rather than curl up and die.
I’m glad you landed in a pool. Not one to believe in divine intervention…but that’s amazing.
A tour bus company was based diagonally across the intersection from my home. It was a 1940’s quanset hut so essentially a metal cave. The firefighters evacuated us in the middle of the night. We opened our side door (maybe 75 feet away from the fire) and immediately got 1st degree burns. It was like opening the oven door when it’s set to broil. Our house was ok, out trees died on that side the bus company was a total loss. I can’t imagine being above a high rise fire. If I knew there was no hope and I was going to burn I would jump.
Like someone said, "They made their piece with God and jumped!" They knew that they were going to die one way or the other. They chose the other. RIP
It bothered me so much to hear people criticize people that jumped. They have no brain cell left to think those people choose to do that. They had split seconds to deal with their lives. There was no choice. They were murdered. They do not commit suicide. Burn to death alive or jump and pray God has you! Bless them all!
The way you describe it, I can 100% understand how people would get out any way they could.
Imagine watching the first tower come down whilst trapped in the North Tower.
Wow this is exactly what I was thinking, I believe this has to be the most terrifying for those still alive in the top floors
The smoke of the south tower must've made it even harder to breathe then
@@sherlockhomeless7138 no some were alive
@@krislv9219 Your answer makes no sense.
Horrendous. May they rest in peace🌹
Like on the Titanic. You know you're going and you have about 20-30 minutes of your life left. God help us all.
my uncle lost most of his firm he stayed home to help my aunt he watched from his penthouse as the planes hit saw people hold hands and jump he has never been the same he even had to move now all those beautiful souls are angels
The thing that bothered me about it was people jumping.. Then people posting those images online of the people on the ground after they jumped. I'd recommend that no one ever looks at those.
Yeah back then I wondered if any of those people actually survived...but stupid me I was young.
Alexis Burton Me too.. Sometimes ignorance is bliss 😔
I looked at them just out of curiosity... So sad.
NewWaveFan1 why? So ppl won't believe what happened on 9/11? Ppl have a hard time believing this already.
two fireman and a lady survived on the 31st floor after the collapse of the 2nd building great documentary on it@@shanz4194
This man couldn’t turn his TV off, and escape what was happening in NYC after 9/11, like many of us could. That must have been difficult.
my mom worked at windows on the world sometimes as a cellist but wasn't officially working there. I think she was hired out to perform at weddings or events. She knew the people there in the restaurant that died sort of but not that well but still was quite familiar with them. She used to do a. yearly 9/11 concert actually done in Long Island at a memorial site actually ironically. I was a little kid so I barely remember that day but it was hardest on my mom..having to walk past the "pile" all the time and she still owned her office where she would did consulting on canal st with her business partners. Her business partners saw the whole event and the people falling. That day my mom decided to take a day off ironically to go to the gym with my other parent. Crazy day for sure.
Very scary
He must be so happy he wasn’t in the WTC, but as the same time feeling guilty
I was one of those ones who fell from the shock.
I was on University Place, walking north, continually looking back, at the last moments of the North Tower.
I watched it fall, then, I fell.
I'd of stayed to the very end helping ppl. I was 18 when it happened I wanted to go to ground Zero and help out, but I had no way of getting there from where I lived in Canada
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Ok great thanks for sharing what a make believe hero you are. I’m sure your imaginary service took a lot of courage.
@Laila there are 140 different languages in a very small part of Los Angeles. Of course we have other languages here. Having my master's in English it's funny to see this kind of grammar. 🙄
@@DarciHayford63 I think most English books start a sentence with a capital letter. Masters in English? I guess they give those things away for certain subjects.
@@ryand141 I do not capitalize on social media. Believe what you want. You are so rude.
I have to be honest, on the day it happen I had never heared of the twin towers!!!! September the 11th is my birthday, I was at work at the time, someone said to me the towers have been hit, I said what towers, I thought he meant something in London, later on I watch what had happen on telly later, it was simple terrible, those people that died that day, will always be remembered by me, and especially on my birthday!!!!! I find it strange how anyone can think any cause has the right to take one human life!!!!!! 🐩🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
You had never heard of the Twin Towers??
You ain't the only one ..... though they are in the background of a photograph of me in NY City in 1978 ... 👒👠📷😃
M from Canada 🌷🍁
I live in the US and I’d never heard of them. I’m not a fan of nyc though so maybe that’s why. My brother’s birthday is September 11. Happy belated birthday to you.
My brother Johns Birthday 🎂 is September 11 1963
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I know someone who knows someone who worked security at nights across the street from the towers on his lunch he would eat a sandwich smoke a cigarette and call his wife like clockwork I guess for 3 days these white vans would come and then one would leave and the same guy would come back with the same guys that brought the first vans 2 guys in 3 more vans back to back to back from 10-430 and @ 430 All the vans would come back out with a driver for each van.. Said It Happend every night 3 days prior to 911 from 9/8-9/11 he only remember because he would tell his wife that it looked like SOMETHING out Of DIEHARD..
The man is wearing a lav, FFS. Wtf is the excuse for this audio?! If someone wasn't fired for that, I hope they were at least moved to a task they're competent in.
Yeah, they used _way_ too much noise reduction on this. It probably didn't even need it in the first place.
Cry me a River. Geez
a bit nit picky considering the circumstance of the content, but I honestly laughed very quietly
@@303Smilezzz Thank you for your honesty
Remember like it was yesterday I was 9 years old. Had day off because ironically that summer my school burnt down. But hey. I was watching on my as my mum had to go collect my brother and sister from school and I watched the towers fall and was in shock. Still get PTSD trying to comprehend.
But no prayers for the people trapped inside; it was just a spectacle.
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Just being nosey me I would of stayed away
I had the same thought. Unless you were police, fire or EMT you had no business to be down there. All that gentleman did was risk himself becoming a casualty.
@@wmst5065 Yes I agree, but at the same time I don’t think they knew what was really happening at the time. We have to remember most thought it was tiny plane that hit the first tower and no one would’ve ever thought they would collapse either. I think his intentions were pure, but yes, definitely should have stayed back.
When trouble starts ..... I get packing 💼🏃
M🌷
While in his voice do u think maybe he regrets going cause he sounds pretty upset with what he witnessed so.
@@omohson6301 I recently watched the six-part Nat Geo 9/11 documentary on Hulu. The things that some of the people talked about witnessing I imagine would haunt anyone who was in Lower Manhattan on that day right up to today. I think there's a lot of regret and possibly even some survivors guilt as a result.
Isn't it hypocritical that people will "fall down from shock" when something terrible happens in their neighbourhood, but if things like this happen in the 3rd world, they don't even bat an eyelid. How many overseas have experienced the horror of American airstrikes?
A lot fell in shock because they knew someone who worked in that building, I feel for the many who are victims of Imperialism, especially American Imperialism, but there is a huge difference between feeling sad when a fellow human being is murdered, and completely shutting down when your sister or best friend is murdered. Your pain is valid no matter what.
For us, it was the worst attack of our lives that will define us forever. For the rest of the world, it was Tuesday.
That's not true. There are many of us who feel horrified and saddened when tragic things happen in 3rd world countries. We're not all heartless monsters
How is that hypocritical? Of course you're going to be more upset about something that happens on your own doorstep and directly affects you than you are about something that's happening a million miles away.
Because he was standing a few hundred feet away????
The horror of American airstrikes? Yeah it's so horrible when an American airstrike takes out a terrorist that one day could have exploded a nuke on your homeland or wouldn't bat an eyelid to blow himself out in a crowd. Sure innocent people have been killed in American airstrikes but they weren't intentionally targeted like what happened on 9/11, not the same thing at all..
I posted a comment but it was deleted. When you try to cancel someone, shouldn't you also delete the replies to my comment? Internet police? Such an embarrassment.
He weren’t going to help he was going for a nose and to watch ppl die
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@Laila yes 👁🗨〰️👁🗨
Just a nosey parker
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Looking for sensation. Well he got it BIG time.
M
A waste of 2 1/2 minutes 🥰
Two huge skyscrapers are on fire and about to crumble and this guy went there to see if he could help..... This geezer is meshigah. But then ... everybody in NY is 🙌
@@margalitvanbergen6620 👍💯