[TonyTheTiger]

New (2021) Nat Geo series chronicling what happened on that fateful morning.

parently, it took twenty years to put this together and includes a lot of detail..

It's a VERY hard watch with film of both planes hitting the towers and people waving white sheets from the windows and others jumping/falling to their deaths. The sounds of bodies hitting the roof of the lobby where the firefighters were gathering is harrowing.

Lots of personal stories from firefighters and individuals who survived in one way o another.

All this and all we've watched is the first episode!

 

[Mike Lang]

Watched all 6 in two nights. It was very well done. Tough to watch but worth it.

 

[MScottC]

After having sort of lived through it (I was in mid-Manhattan that morning and my wife was 3 blocks from it), working on countless stories/shows over the days, weeks, months and years following it, and seeing the hole in the skyline for the last 20 years out our front window, I'm not sure I want to see another documentary on it.

 

[TonyTheTiger]

We watched the rest of it tonight and boy, what stories!

 

[fcfc2]

We watched the rest of it tonight and boy, what stories!

To MScottC, while I do sympathize with you and understand your position, this is the Now Playing forum, not the survivors of 9/11, so how you feel is largely irrelevant and could be interpreted by some as a threadcrap!

WOW, this gives an entirely new meaning to "sympathy" and "understanding"!!!!!

 

[astrohip]

After having sort of lived through it (I was in mid-Manhattan that morning and my wife was 3 blocks from it), working on countless stories/shows over the days, weeks, months and years following it, and seeing the hole in the skyline for the last 20 years out our front window, I'm not sure I want to see another documentary on it.

I have not watched this yet, but found your comment moving.

 

[hummingbird_206]

After having sort of lived through it (I was in mid-Manhattan that morning and my wife was 3 blocks from it), working on countless stories/shows over the days, weeks, months and years following it, and seeing the hole in the skyline for the last 20 years out our front window, I'm not sure I want to see another documentary on it.

I'm sorry this is so difficult for you. I was no where near ground zero and cannot imagine how incredibly difficult it would be to be so close for so long. Thank you for sharing your POV.

 

[MScottC]

I'm sorry this is so difficult for you. I was no where near ground zero and cannot imagine how incredibly difficult it would be to be so close for so long. Thank you for sharing your POV.

Thank you, to you and all the rest who undertand I'm not trolling here. For me... it is what it is. I was far north of the incident. But I've just seen and heard the footage over and over again.

My wife is the one who was 3 blocks from the WTC at the moment of the crash and was totally enveloped by the clouds of dust and debris as she was making her way over to the the ferry piers trying to get home, when the first tower collapsed, and then again on the floating pier when the second tower collapsed. She still has the white blouse she was wearing that has burns from the floating embers that fell on her shoulders. For her, watching it, even now, is truamatic. And when she hears a plane fly overhead, that also triggers memories.

People suffered far more than we did. Two co-workers, several neighbors, and a few others we knew of through friends and family were among the lives lost. I think the worst of it for me was several days later when a friend of ours called, asking me to look out our front window, which overlooks Liberty State Park, where they were doing triage of bodies, asking if there was still activity there. She was still waiting on word about her husband. At that point the activity had pretty much stopped. Donna had taken a similiar call from her the day after 9/11, when the activity was full bore. To tell a woman that you don't see any hope for her situation, that personally broke my heart more than any thing else that week.

I certainly understand the need for people to watch documentaries on the subject. People should never forget the events of that day. As a matter of fact, I'll plug the 60 MINUTES story Scott Pelley is reporting on 60 MINUTES next Sunday, telling the story of the brave firefighters who lost their lives. Very rare for 60 MINUTES, the entire show is dedicated to the one story. And yes, I'm a contributor to that broadcast.

 

[TonyTheTiger]

I seem to have upset some of you and this was not my intention. I can see where I’ve been taken as insensitive and I can assure you that I did not mean to.

I’m going to bow out of this thread, but not without issuing an apology to any or all that I unintentionally offended. I really do have the utmost respect for anyone who lived through that day.

 

[Regina]

I watched all 6 episodes this holiday weekend. It was so well done. I loved how they matched footage of the participants to their stories.
So many stories .. so hard to believe all of that happened in one day.

 

[Aaron Malloy]

We watched the rest of it tonight and boy, what stories!

To MScottC, while I do sympathize with you and understand your position, this is the Now Playing forum, not the survivors of 9/11, so how you feel is largely irrelevant and could be interpreted by some as a threadcrap!

Wow, dude, that's the nastiest thing I've heard in here in awhile.

Lost & Found called. They've located your soul.

 

[TonyTheTiger]

Wow, dude, that's the nastiest thing I've heard in here in awhile.

Lost & Found called. They've located your soul.

Why not read the whole thread before making nasty comments?

 

[Aaron Malloy]

Why not read the whole thread before making nasty comments?

Funny, considering you made the nasty comment to begin with. I shouldn't have to need to scroll down for other posts. Your first post was who you are. The second was damage control.

 

[TonyTheTiger]

Funny, considering you made the nasty comment to begin with. I shouldn't have to need to scroll down for other posts. Your first post was who you are. The second was damage control.

Did you even bother to read post #9 or do you just want to dig at old wounds?

 

[jcondon]

I certainly understand the need for people to watch documentaries on the subject. People should never forget the events of that day. As a matter of fact, I'll plug the 60 MINUTES story Scott Pelley is reporting on 60 MINUTES next Sunday, telling the story of the brave firefighters who lost their lives. Very rare for 60 MINUTES, the entire show is dedicated to the one story. And yes, I'm a contributor to that broadcast.

Not sure if my wife recorded it and if so if we will watch it. We are a bit more removed from it then you and your wife. I sort of knew one of the firemen who died that day. Cousin of a friend. Only really met him once or maybe twice. Also another friend of a friend I would see once a year for a while at a super bowl party. Wife had a co-worker who lost a cousin as well.

Perhaps we will record the 60 MINUTES special though.

 

[Steveknj]

After having sort of lived through it (I was in mid-Manhattan that morning and my wife was 3 blocks from it), working on countless stories/shows over the days, weeks, months and years following it, and seeing the hole in the skyline for the last 20 years out our front window, I'm not sure I want to see another documentary on it.

That's me. I think I was just too close to it, not sure I want to relive it again. I too was about 3 blocks from it (I was on Wall Street that morning), and went into the office early that morning because I had a meeting to run and to prep for. The bus I normally take would have passed right by the towers around the time the first plane hit, but because I went in early, I wound up OK. We were stuck in the office until later in the morning, when the buildings came down there was a HUGE billow of smoke that went down the street. I ended up walking with my boss (also a close friend) at the time to his apartment on E. 75th Street and stayed at his place until the next day when I went home. Luckily I was OK, but the woman who sat opposite where I worked lost her husband.

 

[hummingbird_206]

Did you even bother to read post #9 or do you just want to dig at old wounds?

If you'd edit post #4 to remove the offensive comment, then late comers wouldn't have anything to keep dragging up.

 

[TonyTheTiger]

If you'd edit post #4 to remove the offensive comment, then late comers wouldn't have anything to keep dragging up.

Done, but it got quoted. I'll try to get a Mod to remove it for the future. However, I messed up and I do, at least, own my mistakes.

 

[HarleyRandom]

I must be the only person in the world who would want this, and I must be the only person in the world who had this situation, but I was hoping for something like one of the networks showing the events as they happened. I didn't find out about this until late in the day.

 

[Steveknj]

I must be the only person in the world who would want this, and I must be the only person in the world who had this situation, but I was hoping for something like one of the networks showing the events as they happened. I didn't find out about this until late in the day.

You mean you want to watch the 9/11 specials? I'm sure you're not the only one. Normally I like historical things like this and I might still watch one or two of these. I'm just not really in the right frame of mind to watch these, considering my situation. But as a historical piece, these specials serve a purpose. I'm sure those folks who were at Pearl Harbor might not be too keen on watching a special about that particular event. It can bring up bad memories. And the other thing is, the airwaves will be flooded with dozens of these specials over the next week. I don't know which will be the best, but I might lean to the one that 60 Minutes will have as they tend to present these types of things so well.