Anyone watching 102 minutes that changed America?

[Deemented]

I am.

It's riveting stuff - truly awful, but i can't tear myself away.

All those poor, poor people.

terrible

I was driving back from a shopping trip, had the radio on, thought it was a play, bit like War of The Worlds. Not until I got home and put the TV on did I realise that this was real.

i agree with the poster who said how tense it made her

I dont think I will ever forgot the day after it happened. I worked at a cash and carry, and the shoppers were of all religions and backgrounds. The day after it happened, I went to work and everybody stood at the till talking for ages when they came to pay, just everybody shocked and subdued.

I still can't watch any footage. I had nightmares over and over after watching it on the day and I have no desire to go back to that state.

still so shocking

The second tower has just gone.

So awful, so truly awful.

God I just got a real chill watching the second tower come down. I can how horrifying it was.

I can *remember how horrifying it was, even.

I'm just in shock watching it all again.

I watched this live on tv from the very first uk pictures, I was online doing something else and the news flashed up so I switched the TV on

I was on mat leave, so not usually at home during the day

I cried and cried whilst my little baby just looked at me like this

Am finding it very upsetting to hear the commentary from real people who were just watching helplessly

It feels like yesterday, tbh

"It feels like yesterday, tbh "

It certainly does, not 8 years ago.

but to what end? to start a phoney oil war?

we shouldn't forget, because it was an appalling act of terrorism. but we shouldn't grow al quaeda by our response. (too late)

when this was on before, I watched feeling sad and tense, but the tears started with all the voice overs of the calls between people trapped in the tower and the people on the emergency phones; just so sad for everybody. I felt so sorry for the people trapped, but also for the workers on the phone lines; can you imagine taking all those calls?

and in the days following this osama bin laden's family were picked up in halliburton aircraft and flown home to saudi, thanks to bush and cheney.

I'm watching on +1 - I can't believe how curt the operators are being with the trapped people how dare they? would a little compassion hurt them?

I daresay all history will be recorded like this now won't it?

it brings a severe reality with it though - imagine kids in a few years studying modern history and seeing real life footage rather than boring documentaries at school or text books...

Lewis, imagine how they felt after the event ?

Nobody had any idea how it was all going to end

The calls must have been coming through so quickly, they are trained to take just the right amount of info and then move on to the next

I know what you mean though, so very upsetting

I have to remind myself that the emergency operators weren't necessarily able to see or know what was going on - they would have had to manage it as best they could. Can you imagine how many calls they were taking from all over the place?

I agree they must have felt terrible after the event, once they knew exactly what had gone on

certainly directory enquiry operators in the states are like this, it's a time management thing.

to what end though, must we never forget? it's normally a phrase used to commemorate dead soldiers, to honour their bravery and sacrifice. 9/11 was used by politicians to start a phoney war, that's what we should never forget tbh. they created al quaeda more than osama bin laden ever did, for their own ends. those people who died have been exploited, that's a disgrace, it's that which we shouldn't allow to pass without comment.

did anyone watch the power of nightmares on beeb 2 a while ago? that was very very intesting.....and agree with aitch on this one

just finished watching the documentary on +1...absolutely surreal and so sad.

It was really chilling wasn't it.

DH came in and switched over but up to then I just couldn't not watch.

Interesting about the 2nd plane hitting - the shot you always see is of the plane actually going in to the tower, (obv no such pic of first one) but the footage they showed didn't really show the plane. I think maybe the reaction you heard from mum and daughter was just so strong that that was the reason?

I had to turn it off after the second tower collapsed. The thought of all those people - and some of them children - was just awful.

I totally agree that we should never ever forget. And we won't - not while we have documentaries like this.