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.

I still have the end to watch but it was incredible to watch.
Struck by Bush's first statement sounding like a confused child - calling the attackers 'folks'.
The dispatch workers receiving calls from those trapped in the tower actually losing their tempers with the callers : "I have TOLD you to sit tight. Someone WILL get to you. I am HANGING up now". I know what you were saying about how they didn't know and had to take necessary information but they just got so desperate. That must have really haunted them later.
And how at one point a fire chief asks for a list of all the fire crews inside and the dispatcher lists all the ladders and engines and the list goes on forever. Bloody depressing but very powerful.

It was the people jumping that upset me the most. Can you imagine that choice? Being burned to death or leaping from 80 floors up from a skyscraper.

I don't think anyone who watched this happening could forget

I fell asleep whilst watching it. I can remember when it happened,it was three months after my husband died and I had felt strong enough to go out to a big place shopping on my own for the first time, my friend had asked me to pick something up for her and i called in with it. She had the tv on and i can vividly remember saying "what a horrible film youve got on there" She then told me it was really happening and I was so upset!

I remember the day vividly, Dh had gone out to pick the fc's up from school and I put the tv on for the kids programmes for them coming in.

He walked in the front door and I yelled for him to come and see. He walked in and I quickly explained what he was seeing was real.

Two hours later he took his coat off, he had sat on the edge of the sofa riveted.

An awful awful day

i think people should be allowed to take issue with your posts without being described as 'pedantic at best', leonie. and the reasoning that these people are in any way like the deaths of six million jews is faulty and tbh crass. yours was a soundbite post, i was just asking you for some elaboration on your thinking, that's all. it's hardly a hijack to point out that there was a further desecration of these people's graves when their deaths were hijacked for a phoney war. how many more civilian deaths should we not forget, in afghanistan and iraq?

well i had many friends who were involved on that day as well, and lost someone i knew too, and i think it does them a disservice not to discuss it.

plus, this is a telly addicts thread, not a bereavement or memorial, and i do rather resent your telling me to go away tbh. this was an amazing film, a haunting document of a terrible day, and i found it enormously moving. just not to easy sentimentality, that's all.

I didn't watch the programme last night but it's definitely one of those "you remember where you were" moments.

I do remember though days afterward saying to someone "but there will be the miracle people who are found alive in the towers, there are usually people found alive after days," and there were none.

I agree with Leonie

cold political comment is one thing, but raw human emotion is another no matter what your viewpoint might be

this was a specific thread about how upsetting 9/11 was and there was no real need to widen the discussion

no it wasn't, anyfucker. it's a thread about a tv show in the telly addicts section of MN, and Leonie, telling someone that they can't post on a thread is telling them to go away.

and yours was the post in any case that started the widening of the discussion, using language that calls to mind the sacrifice of servicemen and the holocaust.

i'm baffled by your response, tbh, if a thread is solely to be used for hyper-empathising without any actual thought then it should have been put in another section. it's pretty much understood, i'd have thought, that Bereavement is not the place for a debate but this is Telly Addicts... we can say what we like. start your own candle lighting ceremony and link to it if that's what you want to do, but your reaction to my posts is just a bit... weird. (although adam curtis would be interested in it, i think).

aitch, if you don't like being told not to post on a thread, then how do you justify telling someone where to post something ?

and tbh, this wasn't a topic about The X Factor or something, was it

whether this is the wrong topic does not matter, the OP said something from the heart and it took off from there

er, that was my point, anyfucker... it's a ridiculous thing to do in any case. you can't dictate what other people can post or where.

They have caught other terrorists that were going repeat 9/11 but worse
(pity they didnt take as much notice before instead of ignoring the threats).

i thankgod they caught them.