Remembering The WTC

[dnoblett]

Came across this video today in the news wanted to share:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diOKDbPOSNM

Hope the sound works for you all, YouTube seems to block sound when viewed on YouTube due to copyright, I can hear when embedding though.

 

Original is here: http://vimeo.com/28171399

Leave it to the Internet to break your heart.

 

While television anchors and pastors, executives and politicians do their best to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with thoughtful words and meaningful moments of silence, Dan Meth -- a New York animator and filmmaker who generally works creating humorous videos for the Web -- has put together a deceptively simple, deeply moving tribute to the twin towers by creating a montage of their appearances on film.

 

Even if you think you've hit the 9/11 memorial saturation point, this video is worth watching.

 

MORE...

http://latimesblogs....ed-in-film.html

 

Share your memories, any of you all visit the iconic buildings? And remember were you were on that fateful day?

 

My memories of the towers was visiting the a couple times in the 80's, took the express elevator to the observation deck, I remember the ride up and down, that elevator traveled at high speed, could hear the wind in the shaft blowing by it, the car was the size of a freight elevator, with doors front and back so that passengers did not have to turn around in them. The elevator system in the buildings were innovative using "Sky Lobbies" at two points in the building allowing a reduction in the number of elevator shafts in the building, ride an express to one of the two lobbies located at the 44th or 78th floor, and then take a local elevator to a floor between the lobbies.

 

Got to visit the outdoor observation deck too, was the world's highest outdoor deck.

 

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/World_Trade_Center_Building_Design_with_Floor_and_Elevator_Arrangment.svg/1000px-World_Trade_Center_Building_Design_with_Floor_and_Elevator_Arrangment.svg.png

 

 

As for the fateful day, I was just starting work when I heard the news, we got out a TV, and all work stopped for the day no one could pull away from the TV.

Edited September 10, 2011 by dnoblett (see edit history)

[Randy W]

Interesting, though - at around 2:42, it shows a plane apparently flying TOWARD the Trade Centers (due to depth perception).

 

A unique view of the incident (from space)

 

http://news.yahoo.com/astronaut-in-space-during-attacks-shares-unique-footage-of-9-11.html

[Ryan H]

I've only been to NY once and that one time was an airline layover in 2005 (JFK). When I was a kid, the one place I always wanted to go to was NY and the highlight of going to NY would be going to the Twin Towers. When the shock and horror of the events of that day wore off, I found myself being unable to ever go to NY for tourism unless the Twin Towers were rebuilt, it affected me that much. I have seen the renderings of the 1 World Trade Center under construction, if a second building just like it, sans spire, were to be constructed at that site, then Lower Manhattan would have Twin Towers again, granted they would be different from what was there before (and I personally would have preferred to see something along the lines of the original design), however, something would feel right and then I could, perhaps should, bring myself to go to NY for tourism.

 

As for where I was on the day itself, I was living in Oregon at that time and I was at work on the graveyard shift as it was all unfolding.

[knloregon]

At the very end of August and the first days of September 2001, I was in Hufei, Anhui province adopting daughter #2. And shooting video out of the top floor of my hotel, I marveled that here was a city of 3+ million people with no planes overhead. It seemed that all the commercial flights came in in the afternoon, in about a two hour window (perhaps the time when the control tower was manned) ---- and there was no civil aviation. I remarked to myself as I was filming that this could never happen in the US, a major city silent of aircraft noise. We flew out of Guangzhou on September 8, to an uneventful POE in Portland, although, many of the people we met also adopting were to spend four to six weeks before getting out of China. (beginning of the Black Hole)

 

Perhaps one of the memories we all share is the totally silent air space over American cities post 911.

[Mick]

Li and I were living in Shantou, Guangdong. Oddly enough, we had just sent in our visa application. Talk about bad timing.

 

I had just finished teaching an evening class and when I walked in the door of our apartment, Li was watching all this unfold on television. She told me what happened. I arrived at home just prior to the second plane hitting. I recall sitting there in stunned silence when the buildings collapsed. I didn't sleep at all that night, stayed up watching events unfold. Somehow, being halfway around the world made it all seem more surreal for some reason.In the days that followed, many friends and students reached out to me and offered their condolences. Others, more than a few actually, mostly cabbies and the like, expressed glee over the attack. I found this very difficult to take.

 

As mentioned earlier in the thread, the Black Hole was birthed that day, but compared to the loss of life and grief of 9/11, it pales in comparison.The actual change in the visa procedure began in July, 2002 but of course, it was the events of 9/11 that gave rise to the changes.

[tsap seui]

I was living about 25 or 30 miles north of DC when this happened. I had gotten my daughter off to school, my three trucks off enroute to their jobs for the day, and my second wife and I were eating breakfast when we heard on the TV in another room that "a small plane has flown into one of the WTC buildings". We sat and watched as things unfolded.

 

One of my trucks had his first job in McLain, VA with his second job in Arlington. My crew chief was on the George Washington Parkway headed east to Arlington when he calls me up to tell me he was running a little late from the first job.....then....his voice goes up 3 octaves and he screams WTF as he almost unintelligably tells me a plane TOO LOW, TOO FAST, and on HIS RIGHT SIDE (not the left out over the Potomac River) just flew by him.

 

Then he goes ballastic as he rises to the top of a small hill and watches as the plane flies right into the Pentagon....right there in front of him!!! I told him I'd call his customer and cancel the job and for him to get the hell away from Washington as quickly as he could. Even though he was right there on top of things and immediately tried to get away from Washington it still took him 2 hours to get back.

 

It was the start of some crazy times around Washington. Military jets rumbling everwhere over us, even chasing planes down to airports.....and then, save for the war planes....nothing in the air.

 

I had a good friend from my industry who worked in the mornings in the WTC. I started trying to e-mail him to see how he was. For three days I tried e-mailing him. His wife finally e-mailed me to tell me that Ian had not been heard from since that morning, but that as he was a part time paramedic she and his two young daughters knew that he had just lost his phone and was trying to help others. Turned out, Ian talked to his wife briefly and told her he was getting out of the city.....before he could leave that second plane hit one floor below where he was working. We flew up to Long Island and went to his wake a few days later.

 

9-11...A sad day in American history.

 

tsap seui

[warpedbored]

Like the assassination of JFK everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news of the attack on the World Trade Center. While my politics may lean to the left I am not a pacifist. I find it very fitting that steel from the WTC be used to forge a weapon that can be used to strike back.

 

http://www.ussnewyork.com/

The USS New York

 

 

http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/USS-New-York-thumb.jpg

 

[knloregon]

Carl, I'm guessing we are both old Kennedy Democrats ------ and JFK, God bless him---- was no pacifist either. Here is a letter I wrote to the letters page of the Oregonian (not printed, as usual..)

but puts JFK's and lets be honest-----every American president's position since him in perspective:

 

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al-Qaeda¡¯s leadership should have been better students of history. Half a century ago this month President John F. Kennedy, addressing the UN General Assembly said this:

 

¡°Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats, and that aggression would meet its own response. And it is in the light of that history that every nation today should know, be he friend or foe, that the United States has both the will and the weapons to join free men in standing up to their responsibilities.¡±

 

Ten years after 911, President Kennedy¡¯s prophetic words have come to pass.

[Mike62356]

The weekend before my friend, his wife and there daughter were at my home for a bar b que, he told me he had changed his flight with a co worker so he could take his wife out for thier anniversary when he got back after September 11, his flight was hijacked, he was the co-pilot of flight # 93, today I returned from Shanksville with his wife and daughter after I placed a flag at the base of that cold piece of marble, his wife left a white rose and his 14 year old daughter left her tears, I miss my friend but not as much as they do.

I'll never forget you, and I'll never forgive them for what they did.

[dnoblett]

Budweiser tribute, aired only once:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eQmzw6n3k

[Kyle]

Budweiser tribute, aired only once:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eQmzw6n3k

 

 

I saw this. It took me a second to figure out what the horses were doing. The opening segements of yesterday's NFL games were a nice tribute

[NUWORLD]

Here is a little movie i put together a few days after 9/11/2001.

where were you (When the world stopped turning)

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LgnonQeuk

[NewDay2006]

I worked in the World Trade Center complex in one of the smaller buildings as a teenager at the US Customs house. I was there the day when a Frenchmen walked between the 2 towers one day( I didn't know it, I saw it in the paper the next day). Frenchman walks between twin towers

 

It was an amazing place. malls underneath and that's where I caught my train out to Queens after work. I can remember working nights on Wall street and approaching the the buildings and looking up and feeling that I had accomplished something in my life since I escaped the grip of poverty and was providing for my young family.

 

One night, I was walking to the subway and a man was standing on the subway stairs pleasuring himself ... Ididn't have to go into that entrance

 

I can rememeber in the summer at lunch time there would be concerts everyday. I rememeber going on fridays which was Jazz day and I saw Special EFX for the first time and liked their music.

 

My last job in NYC in 1989, I was one block away from the tower I don't know for sure, but I'm sure the building at 101 Barclay Street was probably damaged heavily, as it was all glass.

 

There were so many good and bad experiences over the years for me... the worst of course was 9/11. Still makes me mad when I see it in old movies. Still unbeleivable. Changed America forever.

[dnoblett]

Getting back to remembering visiting the WTC, the other day I stumbled across this handout from one of the visits I made to the towers.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/WTC%20Handout/WTC001.jpg

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/WTC%20Handout/WTC002.jpg

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/WTC%20Handout/WTC003.jpg

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/WTC%20Handout/WTC004.jpg

[dnoblett]

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/WTC%20Handout/WTC005.jpg

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/WTC%20Handout/WTC006.jpg

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/WTC%20Handout/WTC007.jpg

 

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