The World Trade Centre: The Tragic Story of New York's Twin Towers
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Welp sad 😭
My bank account says 'No'..
Please make a video about Bar Lev Line, costing around $300 million in 1973.
I think the Internet would make a good video.
@Megaprojects It was 343 firefighters that died, but 340.
I watched the second plane hit towers while stuck in Traffic on the George Washington Bridge. People were stopped looking at the smoke from the first plane strike. I lost 2 cousins in the Towers and 4 very close friends. 2 days later I was down at Ground Zero helping with the rescue effort. I will NEVER forget this event as long as I live.
Sorry for your loss
@@keithg7298 dude it happened 20 years ago lmao get over it
Huh? 20 years or 20 minutes, dude saying he lost 6 people in his life and literally stresses he’ll never forget what happened or his loss. F me for saying a kind word to the guy..
@@ember-evergarden en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
@@ember-evergarden you can’t just say “forget about it”. That is so disrespectful.
Completely shocked that I even found somebody say that. That is disgusting.
hard to believe that was nearly 20 years ago.
Feels like last week sometimes.
And that they never put 2 same buildings there again..
#WillNeverForget
I had just turned 11 when it happened and it feels pretty much exactly 20 years ago for me. I was lucky because I hadn't built up the empathetic or emotional maturity to process it fully at the time. Was still something to behold
I was in 3rd grade when it had happened. Wasn't fully aware of what was going on. We got to the library at school and had a moment of silence. This was probably around the time the first tower collapsed, as I'm an hour behind NYC. It wasn't until a year later that a couple friend's of mine dad's who were Army, got their orders that they were taking off that evening for Baghdad. Worst things that came out of this tragedy, Patriot Act and TSA.
Nearly 20 years later and I still can’t watch the events of 9/11 without bursting into tears. I live in NJ, I’ll never forget the long black cloud that covered the horizon, nor the smell of everything burning 30 miles away, nor my friends who lost their parents, nor my classmates who died in the ensuing wars.
I liked the video though.
I was on the Jersey side doing handyman work on a place when the first plane hit. Then the second... I watched the smoke rise up from lower Manhattan where I had worked just 7 months before. Then to my own horror the tower collapse. Then the second... By the time I got home, it was being repeated again and again on the news for me to relive, even in my dream it still happens.
🤜
You're not alone.
Deep man, 911 makes today look like a walk in the park.
I know, it just tears me up to see and think about what happened.
And all that for a useless oil war and insurance fraud lol
I can remember visiting the roof of the Twin Towers at dusk. You could see all of Brooklyn. As night fell the Brooklyn street lights would come on. They came on a few block all at once and then another section of blocks. A fantastic sight.
Agree (wanted to go to NYC and visit the towers) amazing to see the Twins in films, tv, photos
Sounds beautiful
@@dafyddthomas7299 If you haven't seen Trading Places, Friends or Home Alone 2, there are a few very nice shots of the Twin Towers.
@@dvchel Thanks.
I remember as a kid putting your back and legs against the very bottom of the trade center and tilting your head up so you could watch the building sway even in lil breeze day. Really windy days where crazy watching the building really get to swaying and even me as a lil kid would sway at the bottom
I worked there at the Trade Center after the 93 bomb. There were many things the average visitor never saw, like the network of tunnels connecting all the buildings and I met many wonderful people who worked there, mostly elevator operators and building maintenance workers, most of whom died on that tragic morning. My fondest memory was sitting upon the 109th floor of WTC1 at sunrise, I'll never forget the beauty of the city as the sun rose and the way the towers seemed to change colors depending on the angle of sunlight. that as another world back then. R.I.P TO ALL, WE LOST THAT DAY.
NYFD were absolute beasts. Of all the ways to go out I'd say dying saving TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND people is incredible. RIP.
Pretty sure most of those rescued walked out on their own....
Those guys are the real heroes.
Steve Buscemi went to work in the aftermath clearing rubble without telling anybody he had temporarily rejoined his old firehouse to lend a hand. He didn't WANT to draw attention to himself.
@@codymoe4986 there were 25,000 people in the towers at the time of the first impact. 1,300 were above the impact zone in tower one. When the south tower was hit, Chief Orio Palmer sprinted up to the impact zone in record time. He died breaking open stuck doors and tearing down walls to save trapped people. Just like the 343 other firefighters that day. They saved thousands of lives.
Well, one thing is for sure. The ones that survived, definitely got in shape that day, although the toxic dust didn't help.
The first time I went to New York I wasn't sure what to see. I was there at the last second for work so I just told the cabdriver to take me to One World Trade Center. As we drove through the city I had the windows open and I was taken by just how loud it was, until we approached that block. The only sounds were the wind, the water, and people whispering. I don't think I have ever felt a greater emotion in a place in my life.
It certainly rivals the emotion of the great Civil and Revolutionary War battlefields that I have visited.
I watched The Towers fall live on TV in school. My teacher's son worked in the towers but remarkably he had taken the day off to take care of his sick girlfriend. They were married under a year later.
That’s what struck me when I went to visit the museum which is actually underground in the footprint of one of the towers as they call it the bathtub areaThe absolute quiet Ness of the place even though it was full of people people were whispering it was such a moving experience I will never forget that day I was a paramedic chief in ohio And watch the whole thing unfold on the morning news
I still remember this day far too clearly. My alarm just went off, and the news was on the radio. The details were sketchy at first, and the radio station wasn't taking it too serious. The initial report was that a small single engine prop plane hit the tower. I turned on the tv, and got the full story. Moments later, the second plane hit. Live on CNN. I worked near the airport, and by the time I punched in, all the flights were grounded. Everyone was gathered around the tv in the customer lounge. People started crying when the first tower fell. The sadness turned to rage when the second one came down. I'll never forget it. I still get so pissed off at the conspiracy theorists who say those planes didn't actually crash.. the whole world saw it happen ffs.. Live on CNN.. :( Thank you for this one Simon, it's a day no one wants to remember, but should never be forgotten.
There are people who claim that planes didn't crash into the buildings? They have a name. Trolls.
@@deslow7411 there was no CGI in the images. Those planes really slammed into the buildings.
Don't let your emotions lower your intelligence, you can't generalise all conspiracies to the most ridiculous one, a vast majority of them make more sense than the official story.
it’s a funny day
silly conspiracy theories exist like the "no planes" or "flat earth" ones to be a distraction and discredit any theories which are true. smoke and mirrors.
They built a giant void on the old footprint of the old twin buildings. That's philosophically touching.
When you look at cooling towers of power plants they look pretty similar.
"the Twin Towers were the boxes the Empire State Building was shipped in" - the opinion of New Yorkers before 9/11, according to a local.
Am I reading this wrong? I dont understand what this is supposed to mean?
@@PrayItForwardAGAPE you can fit the Empire State Building snuggly into a tower. They were that big compared to it. Implying, jokingly, they got the Empire State Building there by shipping it in a twin tower. 🙄
@@live2ride18 ok thank you! I thought it maybe meant something that simple, I have never heard that size comparison before which is funny everythings height is compared to the Empire State Building
@@PrayItForwardAGAPE They didn't like the way the towers looked compared to the more ornate Art Deco building.
@@nucnik hence they....
I was in the first grade when my teacher turned on the news covering the attack. I was just a kid, so I kinda dismissed it as another crazy news thing or something.
Looking back on it now... It's crazy to think how that event influenced my life... From how the War on Terror shaped the music I and my peers listened to, to how it affected the topics covered in school...
Similarly happened to me as well. I was sad about it but I quickly got over it
I came home from school (in germany), wanted to watch a rerun of TNG. But there was a "news special" about "some privat smallcabine-plane crashed into the WTC"
I was super pissed, i wanted to see TNG...what does my TV programm has to do with a smallcabine-plane accident happens every day, nothing new ............ I watched the german reporter, from NY. He was bumbling all the news nonsens "We dont know anything, but we will tell you anyway" He was talking, standing on a roof a few streets away. While he was talking the second plane came into the frame. At this moment, all the "I dont care" thinking of a teenager was gone. I was shocked... I knew what would happen and i was like "WTF is happening..... OMG it must be an attacke!" Little did we know, what would follow. Little did we know....the world had changed and was heading into a War...for the next 20 years.
@@thomasnieswandt8805 a pointless war at this point
2nd grade for me in Australia. I remember waking up in the morning for school to my mum sobbing and saying how much she loved both me and my brother, and how the world will never be the same.
I was in the middle of a speed test in math when teachers came to each room telling us to come to the auditorium. The principal told us all what was happening. We all went home and I watched the news unfold with my parents. 9 years later i became an USAF evac medic
Thanks page! 🖤
Thank you for your service, I was in 5th grade in 2001. I became a respiratory therapist!
From a former AF brat, thank you for your service.
@NATHANIEL AMAYA not many people reaize the spouses and children also serve. I spent all 18 years of my childhood with an active duty commissioned officer for a father. He did ROTC in the mid to late 60s. I have his VA flag hanging on my wall. Dad passed away April 2019.
I was a sophomore in high school when this happened. I was dumbstruck. When I graduated, I joined the U.S. Army as an infantryman.
I was in the USA when that happened, that day will stay with me for life. As will the kindness of the American people who were more worried about me not being able to take my flight home for an extra 5 days.
I was 1 year old and still living in China when the towers came down. My parents saw the events of Sept 11 on the kitchen TV. As a current engineering student, I still can’t help but marvel at the construction/design of the two original towers.
Great imagination
The outside columns that limited views stopped the towers from immediately collapsing. The planes took out more than enough steel columns in the interior that other buildings would have immediately come down with everyone inside. The unfortunate part is that the fire kept spreading inside because the asbestos based fire proofing was destroyed by impacts. And the aluminum outside columns were not able to hold up to the fire for very long. But they were marvelous designs. I don't think any other skyscrapers at the time could have held on as long as the towers did in their day.
I was also a year old. Mom was still in high school, and I was with my grandma when it happened. Hopefully one day, maybe you can help recreate the magic of the Twins!
@@seanmccarty1176 the fact they managed to stay upright as long as they did despite a plane much larger than a 707 hitting them speaks volumes as to how well they were built
@@seanmccarty1176 what about the columns beneath the impact zone that weren't damaged nor on fire? It seems like your contradicting yourself.
I was in Marine boot camp when the first plane hit. The drill instructor rolled out a TV and said, "Who here is infantry? You're going to war in a few months". After I was finished with training I spent 3 years in Iraq and 4 years in Afghanistan....here I am 19 years in and my last deployment is going to be back to the first place I deployed to. I'll never understand why people voted 'war' back into office.
Cuz The MSM tricked ppl to think “electability” meant something than what Bernie was pushing even tho all of last year he kept getting proved right and now they’re admitting he was right after the fact
He was appointed.
Amazing all these conspiracy theorists commenting on a engineering/science channel. Perhaps he should do a mega project about tinfoil hats.
I had just started my first week of kindergarten. My father was a volunteer firefighter in my home town in upstate New York. I remember leaving the school with my mom (she was a teacher and the fire house and school shared a property) to say good by to my father. Thankfully he made it home and is still with us
good luck in the field and safe return
The Memorial is an absolutely beautiful design. I've never been to New York, but when I eventually get there I definitely plan to visit. Friends have told me it has an air of heaviness and reflection about it.
Go there early in the morning before the crowds build up.
I felt nothing but a still peacefulness in the air. And it is very beautiful. A definite must visit.
I don't want to be disrespectful but those empty fountains need some fishes
@@criticalhard True. They could have at least "erected" those famous Trident steel columns of the Twin Towers to get a grasp of how huge they were.Not to forget what was standing and what was lost.
The Memorial Site is cool! I live in NYC! I’ve been to to site more than one time, I recommend going there
I was born in 2002 and at my age, as an American, I still cry reading the Wikipedia page of United Airlines Flight 93. Heart-wrenching stuff.
That was a load of nonsense
I hope u know it was an inside job
@@Dan_druft explain
@@anandmorris I've been researching the whole thing since 2004 so many inconsistencies, laws of physics being broken the airforce miles away on Maneuvers training for the exact thing going on in New York, building 7 is the smoking gun
@@Dan_druft by "researching" do you mean watching youtube vids and reading conspiracy theory websites? Or have you actually spoken to structural engineers and physicists? Have you looked into military training procedures and their frequency?
Still remember driving home listenting to the radio.
When I turned on the tv the 2nd plane crashed into the tower.
3000 people dead.
Peeps this is heavy stuff. Be ok people.
Well we learned from thus video that new yorkers hated the building for disrupting traffic flow...
343 fire fighters died not 340. Respect for those brothers too
If he got the number wrong, it likely wasn’t meant out of disrespect and the miscount in the video may have been an accident.
It actually was 420 respect for those brothers too
It was actually 42069 give some respect for those brothers too
@@Damnto Are you a troll or are you high?
@@jesusrox4u how about truthful
Thank you for the video. Rest In Peace all the victims who died on that horrible day. The Twins Towers always be beautiful and iconic.
Im Australian and was a child at the time so the news broke while i was asleep but i remember my uncle was staying over as we lived next to the airport he had a early flight probably scary for him getting that news (10am new york is 10pm here)before his flight . When i woke up i thought my tv was broken as every channel on tv aired the news of it until mum said ( one channel was instead of pokemon i say that to show my age 9)
Yeah, I was almost the same age, but in Florida.
I was almost in the middle of my school day (5th grade) when the news came in. My teacher, and most, if not all others, turned on the classroom tv to a news channel after the first hit.
We didn't really know what was going on-- neither did anyone else though, and I remember seeing the absolute shock and sadness on my British teachers face. Seeing her reaction really made me realize how important this was so I was paying attention and trying to read everything going across while they talked over the footage.
Then shortly after this unusual event started, after they switched to a live feed on the towers, we saw the next plane hit. When that happened the teacher(s - a few others had come in and started talking) lost it even more, as did most of us, though many still didn't exactly understand what was happening. We knew it was bad, that many people had died, and still were, especially since people had started jumping by then.
It wasn't too long after that they turned all the tvs off, made some announcements, and canceled school.
I'll never forget the look on my teachers face before us kids really understood what was going on/how bad it was, and then her crying. Until then she had always been about the worst teacher, an absolute hardass, so when I saw that, paired with what I could understand from the news, I knew this was something really unusual and absolutely tragic.
@@otakuman706 I think we were around the same age. A friend of mines dad worked as a stock broker and she told me he just called her saying that the Twin Towers just fell from planes crashing into them. I remember it like it was yesterday because I told her to stop fucking around. She was one of the most dramatic girls I've ever known but on this day she wasn't being dramatic at all. Not too long after that our teachers let us know and everyone started to get picked up from school.
I too noticed when my Cheez tv was interrupted with some burning building. Like well.. who tf put that building in the way.? I was 6.
Yes my mother set the seriousness of the situation and boom ..wtf am was I born onto? And where's my Pokemon?
@@JJ-yc5cs yes that’s why I thought my tv was broken and stuck on the news and where is Pokémon
I grew up in NY, whenever we had out of town visitors we would take them up the towers. The top floor and roof observations decks had amazing views. Such a tragedy.
My god mother had a job interview in the south tower that day. She missed her bus because her boyfriend who owned a bar met her walking into the apartment building they lived in. It saved her life
I was on the teen challenge program in Scotland 🏴 when it happened. I was 18 years old and I thought I was watching a advert for a new Christopher Nolan movie. I thought the end of the world had come.
@@tim1894 Praise God
@@alexandercarder2281 pfft where was God BEFORE shit hit the fan? It's pretty obvious he ain't real and she just got lucky.
@@alexandercarder2281 you thought it was a trailer for a chriatopher nolan movie? Who had made two movies at that point which were psychological thrillers? Bullshit.
R.I.P. to all those that died
Should have rebuilt them. That's all I'm going to say.
EXACTLY as they were but modernized safety etc.
@@maconp1119 it’s certainly possible. An identical exterior but a much safer interior.
It's a strange unfitting nostalgia to look back almost 20 years ago and see how different the world has become/reacted to life changing events. I recall walking into my middle school first period Spanish teacher's class. He had the TV on and I remember him telling us that we were not going to be covering any material that day and that we were to watch the news as history was happening before our eyes.
It was surreal as it was a bit "out of sight, out of mind", but minute after minute it sunk in. March of 2020, as news spread of how rampant the COVID-19 virus had become, for some reason, my mind was again thrown back to an "out of sight, out of mind" thought process as over here in the Western US, we were very very mildly affected at the time. And now history is again unfolding before my eyes.
same---i was in gym 6th grade and the announcement was for teachers to turn off the TVs and I thought that was so weird and they cancelled band practice-----the only way I knew something was bad was the channel cartoons were on after school was showing NYC news from a local station up there, I saw when WTC7 fell in the evening b/c it had burned for almost 8 hours
I will never forget meeting my customer, Cantor Fitzgerald, on the top floor of the WTC in a conference room that faced the Statue of Liberty and seeing planes below our level. It was surreal.
I still think of those men and women I met with on that day every time I hear about the building. They are all gone.
In a New York Minute Don Henley 1989.
When the South Tower was hit, two of the emergency stairwells were destroyed. However, a lucky few managed to find the one that was still passable and they escaped from above the impact zone.
One of those survivors was a man named Brian Clark who worked on the 84th floor. After rescuing a fellow worker named Stanley Praimnath, the two headed for the stairwell that was still intact.
Tulsa OK actually has the “forgotten twin”, a third tower from the same designer, just smaller. I see it everyday and it serves as a reminder of that awful day.
So does Detroit. It's beautiful in a way, but also sobering.
Butts
Same designer 😂😂😂 that Building was designed way after the original designer passed away. You have no idea what your talking about
I'll never forget that day. Everything stopped at my job and we all watched the tv news coverage. I sat there in tears and in shock. It's amazing how that affected life going forward..
Just for the record the Port Authority had NOT just finished the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel in the "early sixties."
The George Washington Bridge was opened on October 24, 1931 and the Lincoln Tunnel was opened on December 21, 1937.
One last thing David Rockefeller was the son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. NOT John D. Rockefeller.
Thanks for your content, I really enjoy your videos.
20th anniversary today.
Stay free, my friends.
God bless America.
That's what we're trying to do...even in the face of that so-called "president" we have who's doing everything he can to destroy us with all the problems at our border and seeding our country with thousands of potential terrorists from the M East being planted all over...I can't believe there were THAT many so-called helpers over there that were brought here. What struck me about them leaving for here was that it looked like nothing but MALES....
I love your videos. But you had one error in the description of the foundation. The “Slurry” and cages you mentioned were used to build a wall or bathtub if you will to keep out the Hudson River. The interior of the bathtub was exacted down to bedrock which is what supported the towers. The slurry wall was not a foundational element.
Exactly, the slurry wall which was cast of concrete and steel rods was built to hold back the waters of the Hudson. If I remember correctly, the slurry wall was not initially intended and they fashioned it when it turned out that the water couldn't be pumped out, not to mention that if the excavation had gone without a protective structure the subway lines and surrounding buildings would have been flooded. I can destinctively remember a documentary that mentioned that the slurry wall was used as a method for subway construction in Canada and Europe, but was used for the first time in the U.S during the construction of the Trade Center.
343 Firefighters please.
340 FDNY Firefighters, 2 FDNY Paramedics and 1 FDNY Chaplin
@@johns8249 344 1 Fire patrolman
Thank you Simon for your respectful attitude narrating the tragedy part of this topic.
I remember being in early grade school, our teacher turned on the TV, we saw the tower that had been hit on fire, she explained a terrible (at the time thought) accident occuring in NY state. Then, as we sat in horror, we saw the second plane hit. Immediately we even as kids realized there was no accident. An early day off from school was something I usually was happy about. First time and last time I was ever terrified as to why we were being let out early.
I worked right across the street from the South Tower for 8 or 9 years at 130 Liberty Street (1 Bankers Trust Plaza). That was the building that got a 24-floor gash one office deep when it was hit by parts of the falling tower. It was the big, black building that had the cloth shroud and flag on it in all the pictures. We had a skybridge to the WTC Plaza, and we'd spend many lunch hours shopping in the arcade under the complex, or dining at the Skydive, a nice little place in the 44th Floor Skylobby, and once in a while Windows on the World (great wine list!). I'd go through the underground arcade every day to get to work and home on the E train, at the WTC terminal station.
I left the company and the city in 1992, just a few months before the truck bomb was set off in the parking garage. I took a LOT of photos of the towers and surrounding area while I lived there; I'll have to go through my negative and slide files to see what I have.
I'd love to see those negatives. This makes me want to get out my old enlarger and developing setup that's in storage.
I hear you. Many people are unaware that if not for the surrounding buildings are the WTC Complex the death toll would of been way higher. The Collapse of the South Tower captured by ABC NEWS Reporter NN Burkett who was probably less than a block away shows nearly everyone one the street when it collapsed may have perished
Everyone remembers where they were when the news of the attacks unfolded.
I was at work. My brother told me a plane had hit the WTC. I always had a fascination with those buildings and hoped to visit them some day. About 10 mins later he said it again. I said, yeah, I know. You already told me. He said No, ANOTHER plane hit the other building.
I knew immediately the world would change forever.
Can I just say, I really appreciate the lack of insane conspiracy theories down here in the comment section. Well done, humanity. Or the moderators deleting them out. Whatever it takes to keep the crazies off a video about such an important topic. ❤️❤️❤️
I thought he would talk about WTC 7. Just repeating what happened doesn't make sense conspiracy theory or not
Building 7 neatly collapsed into its own footprint in 10 seconds. No planes. Please don’t name call all 3 incidents do leave you wondering. I’m only interested in scientific evidence and all 3 defy the laws of physics as we currently understand them
It’s a disgrace that there aren’t conspiracy facts in these comments!
Could you also make a video about the One World Trade Center and it’s complex.
I was in 6th grade at the time, i remember watching it unfold on the TV in the classroom. It was an event that can't ever be forgotten.
Somehow I can still remember a teacher bringing in one of those oldschool TVs to show the news.
yup exactly.
Megaproject: Symphony of the Seas cruise ship.
I was 10 blocks from the towers and looking at the smoke in the north tower when the south one was hit. I have never heard or seen anything so mind melting. I was blown up in afghanistan in 2011 and it still wasnt like watching an airliner fly into the tower. I didnt lose any family there i didnt get hurt i was just there but i re live it daily. Im truly sorry for anyone who lost their lives there that day it was an unimaginable thing to have happen. I soent 8 years in the army infantry with 2 tours of iraq and 1 in afghanistan and all i can say is idk if what we did was good i feel like iraq was a waste of time after we got saddam who wasnt even behind the attacks but i know we got our asses kicked daily in afghanistan, it is all just so confusing.
I remember that day like it was yesterday very very sad. Keep up the quality content
I tried to watch, but being a survivor the that attack, I could not bring myself to watch. I will try again on a better day.
Ka-Boom Ka-Boom
@@Treron_Sinclair What the hell dude
@@Treron_Sinclair LMAO
"Trains across the gulf" a massive train ferry that runs between Mobile, AL and Mexico may be a good project to cover.
They literally drive entire 200+ car freight trains onto this ferry....
It was actually 343 FDNY members who died in the towers.
Thanks for correcting that mistake !
2 FDNY Paramedics and an FDNY Chaplin
344 Fire patrolman Keith Roma
@@melvynsngltn27 he was a New York fire patrolman. From what I understand not technically a FDNY member. But I could be wrong and it's semantics. He still sacrificed for others.
@@radarmike6713 I hear you.
Good video, very respectful. Thank you Simon and his team for making this.
coworker went and saw the WTC Sept 10. was already flying home that night. he was suppose to be there on the 11th but decided to cut his trip short and head home. my heart aches ever time i remember that day and think of those poor people. makes me cry just typing this.
I knew people who died in the towers. My father was working Department of Defense (DoD) contracts on 9/11/2001 and spent half his time in the Pentagon. It took FOUR HOURS to find out whether or not my dad was still alive (he was). I worked less than 2 miles away from Dulles airport on that day and watched the grounded planes coming in fast and LOW before we were told to go home.
The radio station I listened to back in 2001 patched into the radio station in NYC I listened to on the way to and from work in Northern NJ for 18 months. So I listened to the broadcast as I was driving in to work. The people who worked weekend shifts had TVs so we huddled atound a handful of small TVs and warched as the towers came down and also watched the Pentagon burning. We heard the rumors the White House had been hit or the Capital. My boyfriend at the time worked close enough to the Pentagon to feel the building shake when the Pentagon was hit. I can remember crossing the Verazanno and being hit in the heart when the towers simply weren't there. I was told I said "They're gone ... they're REALLY gone."
It was a beautiful cloudless day in DC. The sky was so blue. We noticed an almost eerie silence once the planes were grounded.
And I shook and shook and shook for days. I combed the lists of the dead in NYC for months. As a country we were changed that day 20 years ago.
Wasn’t alive when this happened, but the footage and stories is just heart wrenching.
Thanks so much for this, Simon. It was a lovely tribute. I had recently gotten a tattoo and so couldn't give blood, but I walked along the lines outside the Red Cross all day, giving instructions, answering questions, and handing out food that generous business owners kept bringing by. For such horrible circumstances, it was one of the most rewarding days of my life. I really felt like I was helping. It was heartbreaking to find out that all of our efforts would be for naught when they found out there were more deaths than injuries.
Thank you for being such a help in a horrible time of American disaster and loss caused by barbarians who revel in it even today...sick, sick people.
Well done!
I visited the Twin Towers in 1979 during a visit to my Aunt and Uncle. I'm glad that I got the chance to see the towers before their destruction 22 years later.
"So, we want to build a massive skyscraper, higher than anything else in what is known worldwide as the city of skyscrapers. Who should we get as an architect?" - "I know, let's get the dude whos afraid of heights!"
@Muetzenfuehrer Yea, Guy Tozzoli, head of the Port Authority, really liked Minoru Yamasaki, his ideas and visions for the WTC to be a place for International Peace. How ironic is it.
Delicate topic, but you handled it professionally with the up most respect. Not easy, but well done!
this ^
He didn't recognize that the towers were not brought down the way the official theory say they were. But it's still mostly good I guess.
I can't believe Simon didn't mention the 1970's version of "King Kong". The towers were part of the final scene of the movie.
grandfather was an engineer for the port authority. he helped build them. died a year before they fell
I was a firefighter in Colorado when 9/11 took place. 10 years later my fire department sent me and two other firefighters to the memorial dedication. Tears were flowing.
And now, 20 years later, it’s still hard to comprehend.
Thank you for this, Simon.
That was really great. Would love to see a biographics or wherever it fits about that day.
Another Excellent Video!
NEVER FORGET!
Will always remember what I was doing on that day I was on my way home from work and it was a beautiful day that day and I just got paid. I was listening to the radio in my car and all of a sudden the announcer said a plane hit the World Trade Center and he said if you have a TV near you you need to turn it on.
I was managing a strip club in Australia and an off duty stripper popped down to the club to tell us what had happened and to put the news on!
I remember the day as well. Phone didn't work, email was not working but I could use ICQ to chat with my buddies living in Queens. He had a good view from a window at the towers and basically told me everything a few minutes before it went up on the news. Before it happened, I planned to visit the whole world and Europe & the USA last, because stuff there is going be around when I'm already in retirement. I had no idea that this event will result in a chain reaction which pretty much messed up a dozen countries and resulted in real historic sites getting lost, like Petra, millions of refugees because of the American inability of stabilizing two invaded countries - one by reffering to complete bogus claims of chemical weapons. This event has changed the world, from progressing into regressing, and while it was a trigger, the horrors that followed as a response were way, way worse and resulted in millions of lives destroyed and damage down, that will take at least decades to recover. In other words, it started a shit show and history is not going to look kind on what followed.
A very well thought out and sensitively presented video....i think everyone remembers exactly where they were on that awful day !
Thanks Simon, the worst tragedy I have witnessed in my lifetime. I thought I was watching a movie when I saw it on TV. I was in Bali at the time, and you wouldn't have known it had happened, only through a phone call to my Mum did I find out. She told me to turn on the TV, and straight up it was the 1st tower being hit by an aeroplane. So 24hrs later i saw replayed footage of it.
RIP to all the lives lost. Shout out to the heroes of that terrible day in history.
I'm not an emotional guy but it gets me every time. I was 17 when it happened. In school that day. As soon as I graduated high school, I joined the Marines Corps. 20 years later and I still cry when I see videos on them.
I was 16. I sincerely thank you for your service. It's neat finding someone in the same age group as myself! ...I normally don't any. I'm the opposite, with videos. I obsessively watch them, trying to make sense of it all still!
What I learned: I pray most for the nearly 700 souls that died in the second tower. Why didn't they evacuate as soon as they saw a smoking high rise next door? Failure of the imagination, is the term. I have found myself on the edge of a couple of disasters since (Hurricane Harvey being the most recognizable), and have used what I learned in 2001 to mobilize my family and get out of harms way while the option still remains.
There was much confusion, but before the 2nd tower was hit, most assumed a plane just crashed, not that there'd be another coming.
@@fromulus what you said. It has happened in New York before, but the difference was the weather was horrible that day when compared to 9/11. But it was probably shock that it happened that kept people from evacuating as a precaution in case the tower came down, or they didn't have an evacuation plan for such a possibility.
Hindsight 20/20
It is my understanding that it was generally understood in the moment that it was an accident. If everyone had immediately evacuated the other tower, more likely than not, the flood of people running would not only be unnecessary, but also hinder rescue attempts in the other tower.
There was an announcement over the PA that told them NOT to evacuate.
I was 21 when this happened and that footage still makes me tear up.
I ran out of Business Blaze episodes so time to binge watch Megaproject episodes. Keeps me company during my long work hour at the laboratory.
Thank You very much for such a nice presentation on a day I will never forget. You are so kind to remember
The 2002 Nova episode “Why the towers fell” is a good early investigation of the why the trade center towers collapsed the way that they did.
Hell yeah
Definitely a good watch
Can't believe it's been almost 20 years. Was in 5th grade. We had just arrived at the computer lab and the lab teacher had the tv on and told our homeroom teacher a plane had crashed into the tower in New York. We watched it on tv for a while. Then the second plane hit. We watched a little while longer, then went back to our homeroom and kept watching there. Then the first tower collapsed, and the second one a little while later. Probably the only time around the world for that many 5th graders to be that quiet.
This was incredibly done and tasteful.
Thank you.
I remember watching this live, still can't get my head around it.
"Aldrich died soon after" made me laugh a bit too hard. It gave me the image of him dying because he was rejected.😂
Rough timestamp 1:54.
Some people don't handle rejection well... 🙃
i turned 8 on 8/12/01 i just turned 28 on 8/12/21. it’s crazy how one month after my 8th birthday this would happen. i still remember that day exactly and seeing it on every channel. i was upset because The Simpsons were canceled but i was just 8 years old in 3rd grade. i didn’t really see the severity of the situation. i live in California so the towers were struck at 5 AM California time. my parents didn’t want us to go to school that morning because she was worried for more attacks. it still leaves me at how something like this happened during my existence and every year we pay tribute to those that lost their lives on such a tragic day. 9/11/01 was supposed to be a ordinary day. it could have happened any other day and now 9/11 will forever be engraved in our minds of a tragic day in American history
Very good journalism. Keep up the good work.
Oh my goodness you’re sooo close to 450k subs!
A day many of us will never forget.
I have to say that I am deeply disappointed that the number of firefighter deaths was erroneously stated as being 340. It is widely known that 343 firefighters lost their lives that day. The number “343” has become sacred to the American fire service, and it has been memorializing on countless apparatus, stations, logos, shirts, and even tattoos since that day. Rounding down to 340 is honestly a slap in the face.
Thank you for all the great content and knowledge.!
wow, i was literally researching 9/11 and this video popped up with perfect timing!
Keep up the great content!!
Of course you were. I totally believe you. 100%.
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there's a bunch of videos about 9/11 being recommended to me since i started watching air accident investigation reports...and a bunch of videos about famous incidents like this.
so not that surprising.
@@livethefuture2492 I recommend applying come critical thinking in your research, like with all things
Oh boi, these comments are going to be wild.
Gonna have to grab some popcorn for this.
Or just censored.
@@jarlborg1531 this is a video to learn and to grieve over. This isn’t a video for conspiracy. I wish I could censor out that ridiculous conspiracy shit myself if it were genuinely an option.
@@kilowhiskey7973 it is an option.... planes don't carry thermite plasma jet fuel that burns for months afterwards. Also, WTC 7, it randomly fell for no reason as well.
@@alexander1485 yeah little surprised how casually he dropped etc 7 in.
Excellent video, as always!
Thank you for posting this.God Bless America!
There’s one other person who contributed quite a bit to the World Trade Center project. That was the lead structural engineer, Leslie Robertson. Yamasaki might have had the design, but Robertson was the one to make sure it would be possible.
One thing that he did was shift a lot of the columns to the exterior wall. He also kept the core area lightweight by using drywall instead of concrete. Even though the drywall used was the fire-resistant kind, it had one major drawback: its lack of strength, especially when heated.
Robertson also was thinking ahead about the possibility of an aircraft hitting the buildings. In terms of the actual impact, his design definitely worked. The only thing that no one anticipated was the intense heat from the fire. Ultimately, the combination of all of those oversights and failure to anticipate the interior structural damage and massive fires is what caused the buildings to completely collapse.
As bad as everyone else felt about the disaster, I think Leslie Robertson felt even worse. In his opinion, his faulty structural engineering cost the lives of over 3,000 people. He felt that their blood was on his hands, and I can’t imagine the kind of torture he’s dealing with.
@@darthkurland true also when designing the Building I'm 100% sure they were thinking of an accidental crash nobody prior to 9/11 would ever think of planes being used as a weapon
your videos are a bit on the low sound level...i have my laptop on max and i hear ok...
can you increase the sound while editing?
Superb video, thank you Simon
Great video!! Love your style!!
Many many comments I didn’t go through them all, but it is a testament to the intellect of Simon’s subscribers that I didn’t see even one inside job theory posted. My faith in humanity is restored.
New yorkers apparently disliked the building for disrupting traffic flow ...
Nit: American English is used in the name, so it's "World Trade Center", not "World Trade Centre".
hes selfish
I dare say that it was a story about an American Icon, thus the spelling the way we Americans spell it. If those buildings would have been in another country, I sure the spelling would have been different. Just because we spell it different than you spell it doesn't mean it's wrong, just different.
You guys spell it wrong, not the rest of the worlds problem
Who care who it's spelled it is the same word. If you think for one second your certain spelling is superior than another's, you are patheticly ignorant.
@@JohnDoe-vn1we So who are you really John Doe? Your writing is amazing.
Great video. Thanks mate.
That was a fantastic reflection on a complex and set of buildings I loved, but never got to see in person.
I still tear up when I think about 9/11. It was just so terrible
I went to New York City for the first time in 2020 to pay my respects at the 9/11 Memorial. I admit, when I first stepped on to the site I was a grown man that started to cry. I went to the pools and said a prayer, and then sat on a bench to reflect that fateful day when I was in college when it all happened. God bless the first responders and the victims. Lest we forget.
U shill! Lol
An interesting, but sad and sombre story. Thank you for covering this mega project.
I was 8 years old when this happened. I was watching TV when I was supposed to be doing my school work (I was home schooled at the time). I remember running out to the garage where my dad was woodworking. He was pissed that I was watching TV instead of doing my school work, and I didn't get out of school, but I swear he started crying as I'm sure he worked with some of the victims when he was at the Pentagon during Vietnam. I may have been only 8, but I will never forget that day. Hard to believe that was nearly 20 years ago.
I remember the day, watching the events unfold on BBC News on the first hit, and then live coverage of the 2nd plane hitting, an absolute tragedy to watch, and worse when the towers fell, and indeed the world has not been the same since...
Can you also remember what politician stood in the BBC studios and announced how the world will change only minutes after the attack ?
And how in the afternoon the BBC reported the collaps of WTC 7 20 minutes prior to the real event ?
This was one of your best Simon. Perfectly covered, thanks.
U shill!
Respectfully and informatively presented. Thank you Simon.
Great video and a good reminder.