I wasn't even there, yet every time i see 9/11 footage the pain i feel is the same as when it actually happened. Will that pain ever go away? I truly hope the pain felt by those directly affected has diminished, but for the rest of us maybe it should never go away, because that pain constantly reminds us of what we all lost that day.

I'm not even american, and i always find it just... I don't even know. Unreal... Tragic...

That and although the vast majority of victims was american, 317 non-americans were also killed from a total of 56 different nationalities. 911 was not an attack against americans. 911 was an attack on the civilized world.

I find the manipulation of this event tragic. How could we let two never-ending wars start over this one event? How could we allow our nation to become so savage? How could we squander so much wealth and turn it to poverty? The terrorists won--but not because two towers fell.

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Just awful..

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I find it more awful to watch now than I did when it happened. I was 13 yrd old back then and I can't really remember any real emotion. Just excitement that something big had happened tbh, a feeling I am now ashamed of.

Anyway, it makes me sick to watch it now.

"Oh My God"

And to think Osama Bin Laden was in his bunker just a few months ago, re-watching this kind of footage over and over, proud of what he had accomplished. Sociopathy taken to its extreme.

I wonder if architectural engineers ever saw this footage before and if it would help them more accurately model WTC2's collapse..
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I was on R train riding to work, while at the last stop in Brooklyn conductor announced that "due to smoke conditions" at WTC station my train would be skipping that stop. So I got out a stop earlier at 'White Hall' station. I had no idea what was going on. I had my headphones on listening to music. The moment I stepped outside I heard a noise as if a helicopter and then a loud boom. I thought that was just a supersonic boom of a plane. I saw people on the street looking up in the sky and thought to myself why they are looking up in the sky, if that was a supersonic boom that plane was long gone. I still had no idea what was going on. As I got closer to my office, I crossed Wall St and suddenly I felt something like dust/dirt/tiny shards of glass falling on me and large amount of papers flying around. By the time I got to Maiden Ln where my office was I could clearly see what was happening.

If I hadn't gotten off one stop earlier, I think I would have been stuck on that train under WTC....... ;(