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It has been 17 years since the devastating 9/11 attacks. Coverage of the American Airlines flight 11 tragedy during which nearly 3,000 perished was the main priority that day for most Western news agencies (the scenes of the twin towers collapsing were witnessed by an estimated two billion people - a third of the human race). Together with amateur records, this has produced such an incredible amount of 9/11 photos, some of it is rarely seen even today.
Bored Panda has collected some of the least seen 9/11 stories from across the internet. From street shots of the twin towers attack to satellite images of New York City, these historical photos are revealing new angles of the horrific day that changed the world forever. For more similar September 11 shots, check out this powerful book by David Friend.
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#1
A Knot Of Bystanders At Park Row And Beekman Street Look Up As The South Tower Begins To Collapse
EmptySoul 8 years ago
Most expressive pic of all pics. No matter your color, caste, religion, when such in-human and horrifying thing occurs, we all weep and bleed same color.
Andreea Prisacariu 8 years ago
Does anyone understood what I was trying to say? We have to stop putting forward our ideas of race, religion or caste in order for these things to become fully accepted and integrated. Marking them as separate only makes them separate. It is a philosophically inclined statement and not some sort of contradiction with what you stated.
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Tullzter 8 years ago
if this happened today, then everyone would be with their smartphones filming without any expression except for the emojis they are accompanying their videos /photos on Instagram
Rosa Darkwood 8 years ago
The sad thing about this comment is it's actually probably true although I wish it wasn't
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Julie Major 8 years ago
when it comes to a tragic thing like this we are all the same in every way horrified
Monica Jfk 8 years ago
This looks like a science fiction movie when aliens just landed and started to attack.
Mimi Williams 3 years ago
I too watched it from the beginning. Often wondered about a news video of a news guy at the Pentagon. He was telling of the NY planes when he jerked around saying, "I think we've just been hit." He was alone in a boardroom like room waiting for officers to walk through for a emergency called meeting. The video shut down so fast one didn't know if it was a cut or something happened to him or Camera person. Never have forgotten that image. I guess someone with an investigative mind could check who got that assignment??
Marie Grimes 4 years ago
Mesmerizing photo. Gives me chills. 🥺 Seeing it takes me right back to the day and, almost 20 years later, no matter who you ask, they remember exactly what they were doing when they first heard the WTC had been struck by an airplane.
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#2
At Rector Street And Broadway, A Photographer Leaned Out His Window With A Medium-format Camera And Caught The Moment Before The Second Plane’s Impact
Cat Meow 8 years ago
Looking at all these pictures gives me goosebumps and flash backs to that day
Cesi Baca 8 years ago
Hard to think of all the terrified people in the cabin of that plane seconds from death.
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Suzanne McGee 8 years ago
I was standing right on Liberty Street, right underneath. Amazing that anyone caught this image, as we just heard a "whoosh" and saw the plane vanish into the building. And then the nightmare became even worse.
EmptySoul 8 years ago
This image is so thought provoking and sad, seconds before disaster. I wonder if any one was looking from the window to see this plane coming directly towards them.
John Custer 6 years ago
Yes, it's been documented it, "Fall and Rise: The Story of 9-11. It's well written, describing the unknown lives of some of those on the planes, in the Towers and at the Pentagon that dreadful day.......I listened to the audiobook version which is also compelling.
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I remember everything from that terror..smoke..fire..bodies .ppl jumping to the death ..
Kristin Haskins 6 years ago
I couldn't take it in, then...and I still have to say, I never will be able to .....
Lovely 6 years ago
What I remember that day. My mom worked at the federal building in Cleveland, Oh. One was assumed one was meant for them, the course was changed.. Maybe a fight on the plane. So the other went to NY. They both got hit with the tragedy. My mom was at work and wondered why a plane was flying so low She was on the 6 the floor, it's way more than that. She froze in fear. The building got evacuated immediately.
Ellen Linn 7 years ago
I can only think of all the people in that plane, and the terror they must have been feeling
#3
People Falling From The Towers
John L 8 years ago
Burning to death is the most painful thing, and it isn't any wonder that so many choose a quick death over the ultimate torture.
Pandola 8 years ago
these are the scenes that realyy make me cry, this is real disperation...and from down under it was a nightmare...the firefighters were so shocked seeing all these bodies on the ground that some started to cry...it looked the end of the world
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MrGosslet 8 years ago
The amount of strength a human would need to make a decision on how they end there life is completely incomprehensible. I salute those in this photo for choosing their own fate.
アル ちゃん 6 years ago
i dont think they gave it any thought.. probably they tried to save their life until the very end when they just couldnt stand the heat or the smoke... They made no real decision they just jumped away from certain dead into certain dead... it's so painful to think about what they might have felt those last second before jumping or even while falling... The world can be really cruel...
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Fay 8 years ago
The saddest thing is how often the jumpers have been edited out of pics and video after the attacks. The news deemed it too distressing.
Kristel Bijnen 8 years ago
I did not know this (being from the Netherlands).This makes me even more sad. Of all the attacks that happened since then (leaving out if this was a terrorist attack or not, it was an attack) this one hits and hurts me the most every year again.
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sunnyrei82 8 years ago
And just to think all those people got out of bed, had their morning coffee, and got to the office thinking "another day at work". Who would have tought the would never see their loved ones again, and wouldn't get the chance to make their dreams and plans come true. Heart breaking.
frederic eeckman 8 years ago
I remember a documentary where they were with the fire department when it happened at the WTC (it was 2 french guys I think)... At a moment you can hear a sound, and the fireman said it was the impact of the people who jumped. Still today it's haunting me.
Denise Stark 8 years ago
Jules and Gédéon Naudet made that documentary and it is available on YouTube.
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Zori the degu 8 years ago
That's one of the most shocking pictures ever taken. If I was the photographer, I would've received a heart attack.
Emily Softley 8 years ago
This image has remained with me since I watched them falling live when I was 16. It remains the most haunting thing I ever saw. A truly dreadful day, even in the UK.
Lena Palsdorf 7 years ago
I was 16 too, and it really changed my world view. Just old enough to understand that this would effect everything, but young enough to not being able to understand the cruelty of the world. I hadn't really heard of terrorism until that day.
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Lululoohoo 8 years ago
absolutely heartbreaking. Cannot fathom what was going through these poor soul's minds. may they rest in peace.
Denise Stark 8 years ago
I don't think it was a choice. A body will do anything to get away from fire. If the room you are standing in is burning and the floors are giving way, you get away however you can. You HAVE to,, it's non optional. Watch The Falling Man on YouTube.
William Teach 8 years ago
There was a documentary done called The Falling Man. You can watch it on Youtube. It truly brings the horror of the day into focus. Also, 102 Minutes That Changed America. There is an disturbing portion where you're seeing the courtyard between the towers. A Muzac version of a Billy Joel song is playing, and you hear thump every once in awhile. That's bodies.
Kristin Haskins 8 years ago
I remember that....wished I never watched it. I didn't hear thumps...I heard what sounded like loud crashes that I couldn't possibly describe in a million years, because I'd never heard HELL.
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A Man Has A Job To Do
John L 8 years ago
This does not surprise me at all. When I was in graduate school I worked the midnight shift at UPS, in Knoxville. Everything was 100% about getting the packages shipped and delivered. Management never slowed down. Everyone worked non stop from the moment they clocked in until they clocked out. In other words, you were paid well, but earned every penny made. Its the most 'workaholic' company in the world, I kid you not.
Cesi Baca 8 years ago
Also It was hard for people to wrapp their heads around what was going on. Many people didn even know about Al Qaida or Bin Laden. Everyone had cell phones but few had internet on them to read and pass on info. In California where I was, much of the state was still asleep when both plains hit. I didn't really understand what I had woken up too or how serious it was, that it was a terroist attack, and just went to my university class as usual.
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Contessa Nguyen 6 years ago
Businesses can be heartless. My credit card payment arrived two days late due to the planes being grounded immediately following the attacks. The charged me a late fee and when I called and suggested that mailing a week in advance should have been enough under normal circumstances, they basically said, too bad. Pay the fee. (They were dropped as my card provider that moment) Some places don't give a rat's backside about what is happening. It's all about the bottom line. So sad. That guy's face tells you he's panicking inside.
Craig Hammerlind 6 years ago
I see in this picture, someone who has seen the horror of what is behind him, and he is moving forward, with something to do, because he realizes things will never be the same. He is not just looking for an address with those eyes, they convey deep sadness...at least to me.
#5
As Seen Through A Fish-Eye Lens From An Apartment Four Blocks Away, Smoke Streams From The North Tower Within Minutes Of The First Plane’s Attack
EmptySoul 8 years ago
I am sure who ever took this pic, will never forget the view entire life. Horrific, terrible and sad.
Tracey Hunt 8 years ago
The juxtaposition of the bright, cheery apartment against the backdrop of sheer horror is almost beautiful.
Cheryl Trewin 8 years ago
Wouldn't be too surprised if this window doesn't have a blind or curtain on it now.
#6
American Airlines Flight 11 (Visible In The Upper Right-Hand Corner Of The Photo) Approaches The North Tower Of The World Trade Center On September 11, 2001
American Airlines Flight 11 (visible in the upper right-hand corner of the photo) approaches the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This largely unknown triptych (the subsequent images follow), shot from a Brooklyn window, was part of an ongoing Internet art exhibition that displayed updated panoramas of downtown Manhattan every four seconds. A time code can be seen in the lower right-hand corner of each frame.
Greg Hoggarth 8 years ago
I recall there being very little footage of the first plane hitting, so this might be amongst that scarce record.
Myxomatosis 8 years ago
I watched it happen and just could not believe, "What??!!!" Then to find out that that very plane left from my hometown. I was immediately sick.
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Marylou Sakosky 8 years ago
Here ...I have one you can treasure ..as it was intack..Keep yourself a copy..Pop was a pilot in the 60's so it is old 581516_101...a8fe02.jpg 
RaroaRaroa 8 years ago
I have too much imagination. People sitting at their desks, going about their work. Glance out the window and see a plane heading straight for you. Those poor souls would have had but a moment to realise this was the end for them in the most unlikely of ways.
Marie Grimes 4 years ago
Same. 😢 The first few years after 9/11 I obsessed over what those poor souls were thinking or doing in those final moments. I watched every piece of news footage, interview, documentary, etc that I could find. It was not good. I would spiral into a very dark place. 😰 Even after almost 20 years, as the anniversary approaches, it’s still hard not to go there in my mind. 😓 I want to honor those we lost that awful day but I know I have to find others things to distract me so I won’t go down that dark rabbit hole again. 🥺 Sorry that’s probably way more info than you wanted to know.
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Johanna Zamora 8 years ago
This is the only other image I've seen of the first plane, except for that video excerpt
Jessica Mellor 7 months ago
The top picture, the last moment before everything changed forever.
Jessica Mellor 7 months ago
The top picture : the last moment before everything changed, forever
Crystal Temple 4 years ago
To think this is probably the last photo of the towers, and heartbreaking to think what the passengers felt.
#7
South Tower Of The World Trade Center Collapsing
EmptySoul 8 years ago
omg, this is so unreal. wonder how this person or camera survived. I have never seen any pic before captured at this angle showing tower collapse. OP must be couple of hundred meters near or less than the base of building.
Kim Lee 8 years ago
He survived. Click the credit at the bottom of the pic
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Robert Arellano 7 years ago
My father took this picture. He was directly across the street by the garage (which is basically under the towers) when he took this. When the tower began to collapse, he snapped this picture and turned to run, only to be lifted and thrown into a wall by the cloud of smoke. I still do not know how he survived.
Robert Arellano 7 years ago
My dad took this picture. He was across the street (which is basically under the towers) when he took this picture. Right after he took this, he turned to run when the cloud of smoke threw him into a wall and on top of another fire fighter. I still do not know how he survived.
Tammy Chapman 8 years ago
He was very brave to go and photograph everything. I'm glad he survived.
sunnyrei82 8 years ago
So many windows... so many floors... so many offices... so many people who died that day because of someone else's heartless interests.
Zach Janisch 6 years ago
Whats crazy is you can see power is still on to both towers at this point. Looking at the windows you can see lights on. Amazing how even as the buildings were coming down, the emergency efforts put in after 1993 still were working strong.
#8
The South Tower Disintegrates, Raining Debris Behind A Cross Atop Trinity Church
EmptySoul 8 years ago
I wonder if that cross was still standing post both buildings collapsed.
Patrick Bouchot 8 years ago
I'm an fervent Atheist, but I find this picture so strong in it's destructive and painful aesthetic. knowning all the human lives loss, the pain and the suffering makes it even more peaceful and disturbing. These lives have been destroyed by people putting religion before human life. All religions have blood on their hands, the catholic church more than any others since 2300 years. The extremisms have shifted. They use modern weapons nowadays, but the goal is the same.
Matteo Durasevic 5 years ago
Actually these lives were destroyed by crazy people. They thought they were helping God(Ir Allah) Don’t judge any religions because of a dozen of people
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Michelle Craren 4 years ago
This isn’t Trinity, it’s St George’s Catholic Church at the corner of Church and Barclay Streets.
Lynda Leddington 7 years ago
There is something not quite right about this pic if you look to the left and they way it’s joined to the building on the left I doubt this is genuine picture
Lisa Zelenetz 6 years ago
It is a real picture and that is scaffolding on the side of that building
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The Day of the Lord is Near 4 years ago
Really? How so? Jesus Christ is God. He took on human flesh to die for your sins, and even the sins of the ones responsible for this terrible tragedy, which aren't even the people you think. Repent for the Kingdom of God is near. Every knee will bow to the Lamb, who shed His precious blood to save His people from their sins.
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Heather Resendiz 7 years ago
Wow such a powerful photo. It almost looks like a doomsday warning or Apocalypse graphic.
#9
Not Yet Realizing A Terrorist Attack Was In Progress, Architect And Amateur Pilot Isabel Daser, Eight Months Pregnant, Asked A Co-Worker To Take Her Portrait As A Record Of The Day
Tracey Hunt 8 years ago
Again - the juxtaposition is amazing. Death and destruction in the background - brand new life in the foreground.
Kimberly Cagle 8 years ago
I was 8 months pregnant that day with my daughter as well. I will never forget that day. I was on my way to work when I heard on the radio. Pray for Peace !!
Tracy Longley 5 years ago
Looking at the photo and how far down the impact site is, that's the South Tower which means the North Tower was hit twenty minutes prior so she knew. She just wanted a souvenir pic...
Linda Harms 5 years ago
WTF is wrong with her? People streamed out of buildings onto the street because of the terrorist attack, and she wants a picture of herself to document the event?
Wendy J Shores 7 years ago
I had my daughter a month to the day after 9/11 so I was in the same condition that day. I hope this woman and her baby were ok, so many who inhaled the asbestos and glass that have died since that day. So damn sad...
#10
The Second Plane Flew Directly Over My Head And Slammed Into The South Tower. It Took Me A Few Seconds To Get My Head Together, And This Was The Shot I Took
EmptySoul 8 years ago
I would probably print this and hang in my study as a reminder of world is not a fair place. So many peaceful and innocent lives were lost this day, so many people lost their loved ones, and for what?
Dora Shandor 8 years ago
for hate and greed... the two worst enemies humanity has
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Stacy Etgen 4 years ago
Has anyone ever looked closely at this picture. Top right smoke fireball.. Looks like a fireball skull, 2 eyes, mouth and there's a teddy bear, or such, eyes, ears, like grabbing it from behind. Creepy...
Sarah Dunham 6 years ago
I can’t even imagine what it looked like to those in the offices where the plane flew into
Parvana szoelana 3 years ago
These aren't jokes. There just memories and photos. If you think this was a joke then you need to pour bleach on your brain.
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I Was 4 Years Old And The Picture Was Taken Along The Westside Highway That Morning On 9/11
Isabel Tamayo 8 years ago
Who would have thought? Walking on a busy street, the weather is nice and sunny. You click a picture of your son and suddenly see the tragedy at the background. Really sad.
A Rey 8 years ago
Suddenly? I doubt it. The photographers almost certainly knew what was going on and took the picture to remember they were there when... (sort of how I recorded the whole 24 hours of news on a VHS tape to remember the day)
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Pamela Grove 8 years ago
You can be glad you were only 4 years old and didn't understand the impact of what was happening that day.
Cynthia Phillips 8 years ago
By including the child in the shot they are capturing the moment in history that the child live through but probably won't remember when he grows up so I Kinda didn't work so I would've clicked I think
Cynthia Phillips 8 years ago
Stupid AutoCorrect I actually said that I don't know if I would've Clicked or not. It will be something the child should have in his memory yet ,might not be able to get around the shock. When asked what he was doing that day, he will remember! I think they would have run for a better angle if planned...!
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Bina Acharya 8 years ago
everything has happened so fast that none of them saw the dusty smoke... :(
Cynthia Phillips 8 years ago
Exactly! They didn't even know how big it would become, if they had seen it at all
Load More Replies... Becca Jozwiak 8 years ago
People didn't really realize what was going on. All they knew was that it had happened.
Diego Giuliano 1 year ago
If my parents would tell me that i was there during that orrific day, then i would be terrified. This kid's heart problably destroyed when he seen this image of him, when there is the north tower of the World Trade Center in flame, losing very very much smooke. INCREDIBLE!
Decarlos James 4 years ago
both towers were already burning..."lets get a photo of people dying billy..ITS THE AMERICAN WAY!!!!"
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A Lone Man Runs Down Broadway As A Smoke And Dust Cloud Comes Up The Street From The Collapsing World Trade Center Buildings In New York September 11, 2001
Toph Morris 8 years ago
Obviously, I would imagine that that would be exactly the feeling if pure adrenaline didn't knock everything else out of the way, but the profundity of that day, and of moments even like this, is how un-alone he really was. I've never been more proud of my country than in the days we all pulled together after this.
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Jude 8 years ago
I wonder if the man lived through this. The photographer could've been quite far off and had a telephoto lens (or not). But there's no way that guy would've out ran the smoke and dust. Pyroclastic flows from volcanoes can travel up to 100 mph. This would've been slower, of course, but much faster than what any person can run.
#13
9/11
Ben Gibson 6 years ago
This picture is photoshopped. You can see the extremely bad cropping that the artist has done on the mans left thigh. Also if you look at his for arm just above his hand his arm is inconstant and has many small craters on it which wouldn’t be there in the original picture of the couple. The couple are probably from a completely different picture and then cropped out and put into black and white before pasted into the picture of the 9:11 attack aftermath.
Maritta Hakola 6 years ago
This attack achieved nothing. It made the whole world hate a certain race of people. That's what it did.
Connor Anderson 2 years ago
Wrong. It enacted the Patriot Act which stripped Americans of all of their rights and lead to the absolute collapse and destruction of the United States and thereafter the destruction of the entire planet in a biblical nuclear holocaust.
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Smoke Plumes Are Clearly Visible In This Landsat 7 Satellite Image Of New York City Made Early On September 12
logical fallacy 8 years ago
One of the scariest accounts I've read on 9/11 is that of a woman who worked nearby and lived not-so-nearby. In her mind, the most horrifying was the smell of burnt debris and people that engulfed te city in the following days. I can see why now.
Cesi Baca 8 years ago
That's true the smell during these tragedies is something that gets lost to history obviously. Lived in LA during the riots (not saying it's at all the same as 9/11) but the whole city, not to mention your clothes and hair smelled like a fireplace for the longest. No one ever mentions the smell.
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Patrick Bouchot 8 years ago
My boyfriend was a banker and they lost dozen of collègues during 9/11. Thankfully he reused an office in the tower, and worked in the main office on 5th Ave. But he and his friends, living in West Village, told me the smell lingers for many weeks after the crash; Not the smell of smoke, but unfortunately, bodies not yet recovered in the rubbles. Scary.
Nicole Drummond 4 years ago
I visited in December 2001 and it still smelled so bad. We couldn’t get that close maybe 4/5 blocks and it was STRONG. That area still smelled like it was burning. Even 20 years later I remember the smell more than anything else…and of course the people still.working down there at night.
#15
A Plane Explodes After Hitting The Second Tower Of The World Trade Center As The Other Tower Burns
EmptySoul 8 years ago
O' dear lord, please spare me from seeing such images again in my lifetime, or my children or anyone after that. It scarred me for life, don't want to happen with this anyone, anymore.
Casandra Nițescu 8 years ago
To be honest , I think everyone should see these pictures. It's important to remember things like these and also that this is the reality for many people even in the present day. We can't sweep horrible events under the rug and pretend everything's fine because if we do, we will never be able to stop anything.
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Joy Sterrantino 8 years ago
This is what people in Syria and other places have to see every single day.
ZEFCAT 8 years ago
It was one of my first thoughts when the whole world went crazy about this incident. Terrible horrifying and choking...YES, but why is it more worse in usa, than in other places?
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It's been 16 years and none of these images are any less shocking, any less upsetting; and yet, it is still so hard to believe that this actually happened on US soil.
Rue Granger 8 years ago
I wasn't there at the time, but I can only imagine the terror people went through. Just goes to show how cruel the world is:(
Sharon Beaudette 3 years ago
It was a horrible attack and a scary time for America. It made us realize we are not above being destroyed. It was the only time I've ever known all Americans to be on the same side.
Juan De La Cruz 6 years ago
My wife wa still insisting it must be a movie trailer of the next blockbuster.
Ann Herring 8 years ago
sorry everyone... somehow my comment got repeated umpteen times... if anyone knows how I can delete it, pls tell me. sorry.
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Penman Got As Close To The Buildings As He Could, Before Police Put Up A Cordon. But That Meant He Was Right Next To The Buildings When The First Tower Collapsed
Sophie G 8 years ago
how there was not more damage to the buildings surrounding them, or was there?
Monica Irwin 8 years ago
There were MANY buildings destroyed, including a Greek Orthodox Church that has just recently been rebuilt. Several buildings also had facade damage.
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Anthony Rimoli 2 years ago
That was purposely done in the 3 CONTROLLED DEMOLITIONS of WTC TOWERS 1, 2 and 7 later that day around 5:20 PM. And WTC BUILDING 7 WAS NEVER HIT BY ANY MILITARY DRONE as the first 2 WTC TOWERS WERE early in the morning. It was ALL PRE-PLANNED OF COURSE, as ALL FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS ALWAYS ARE.
Valerie Linares 6 years ago
I see these pictures and I just think of all the people who were in these buildings... so many people just living their lives, working. And the children in the daycare centers. It just makes me sad.
Cassie Yun 6 years ago
i like this pic. composition wise, it's very beautiful. tall structures in front of each other. a light post, church steeple, the towers. can be metaphorical, too. a light lighting the church to hell, all done in b/w.
Donna Rizzuto 6 years ago
This is a powerful picture. The juxtaposition of a serene old church and Victorian street lamp against the horror of a huge modern building just crumbling is chilling.
Peggy Wilkins 8 years ago
We lived in Brooklyn then. Many buildings on West St had blown out windows and sheared-off facades. The Winter Garden, the American Express building... We heard many first and second hand stories about people returning to their apartments and finding body parts. I don't know anyone who ever permanently moved back.
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On A Brooklyn Rooftop Shortly After The Collapse Of The Twin Towers
On a Brooklyn rooftop shortly after the collapse of the Twin Towers, Jenna Piccirillo and three-month-old Vaughan embody innocence and resilience, according to the photographer: “Life continues in the face of disaster . . . despite the horrors we inflict on one another.”
EmptySoul 8 years ago
why I can't find anything to comment on this pic, is it because this picture is such a contrast of what is happening. One side is disaster, loss of innocent lives, and one side there is a new life booming and making its way into such unpredictable world. what thoughts must be going inside that mother's mind, only a mother would know.
Wanda Queen 8 years ago
My first child was a year old and it was so hard, I found myself wishing I could put her back. I kept asking my husband "what have we done"?
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Sheila Robinson 8 years ago
This resonates with me hugely. Here in the UK I was watching TV with my new baby, turned on the TV and saw the news. We had been there a few months before visiting family-and there was a few seconds shock before my husband said 'Oh my God, Michael's in there'. Michael is his brother-and he got out safely. It was the speed in which out little bubble of baby joy just burst...
Susan McKay 7 years ago
That baby should have been inside far away from the smoke that was to follow!
Tracey Hunt 8 years ago
Broken record here, I know but again - the juxtaposition reminds us that though many die, oftentimes unnecessarily and horrifically, and there are always going to be terrible things in our world - there is always hope.
Linda Manganello (LinnyTish) 2 years ago
WHY! Would you subject an innocent newborn to the toxic fumes of this horror!!!!!!???
Georgette Kostopoulos 4 years ago
But the baby was breathing in the debri smoke toxic air I hope the left the city
Marilyn Z 6 years ago
I remember reading posts the next morning from women saying they didn't know how they could go on and whatever would happen to all of us. I posted that you will get up each day, feed your family, go to work and continue your life...that is your only choice. IF you can't go down and help, take care of your own business as normally as you possibly can.
Shauna Clodfelter 7 years ago
My oldest was also 3 months old at that time. I was giving her a bath when we heard the news. Her blue and yellow tub will forever be a part of my memory of that tragedy.
Vicky Rozentals 8 years ago
It's crazy to think that little baby is now a 16 year old in high school, about the age I was when this picture was taken...
#18
The Photographer Considered This 9/11 Brooklyn Scene Too Tranquil At The Time. He Decided Not To Publish The Image Widely Until Four Years After The Attacks
Monty Is Fiennes 8 years ago
But what did it mean to them...no radio???...no news????...They may have thought it was an office fire...very much doubt they were aware of the tragedy and continued so casually....
Grazina Strolia 8 years ago
The smoke went on for days. Think about the last funeral you went to: by the repast, some people are talking, smiling, even laughing. These people have probably been standing there for hours.
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Valerica Rosca 6 years ago
They looked like debating, probably everyone found an explanation for the smoke, but no one of them thought of something so horrible
Susan Callihan 6 years ago
No Twitter in 2001. Cell phones technology was young. Internet was not all that widespread.
Jodi VanDyk 8 years ago
I saw an article about this photo once, not that long ago. The picture is a bit deceiving. They were strangers who had been watching the tragedy, which had been happening for long enough for them to sit down and the photo caught them talking about and trying to understand what they were seeing, as anyone would. They were horrified and felt helpless to do anything.
Keith Westerman 8 years ago
When the news broke, many people called, emailed, and IM'd their friends and family. This could easily be a moment between friends talking about how insane the world is becoming, and how grateful they are to be alive.
Chuck Gonzales 6 years ago
I was there, the whole event took a while. You eventually had to sit down and reflect.
João Pestana 7 years ago
Come on people! You jump to conclusions through only a picture? Maybe they are discussing the event, their faces are not relaxed, they have that face when you discuss something serious.
Liam Youngblood 3 years ago
When I first saw this photo, I have to admit I was angry; I saw the woman looking relaxed and the bike and it was easy to cast judgment. Then I realized that they were probably indeed discussing, well, everything you could in the aftermath of such a horrid event. Everyone else in the photo is leaned into the woman paying close attention to what she's saying; they're not all laid back. Even if the woman is "laid back", she may have been reminiscing on a positive memory she had of the WTC from years, months, weeks, or even days before the attack. I think the bicycle adds to the "laid-back" interpretation of the photo, but people use bikes to get around NYC and other bikeable communities all the same, attacks or not. I think they were parsing it all the same as the rest of the country, but since most people here in the States associate bikes with leisure and not necessarily part of a commute, it makes it look all the more suspect.
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Marnee DeRider 8 years ago
They just look like they were talking to me, which is what everyone did all day that day that wasn't in the immediate vicinity. Maybe each other what they've heard, what they think it means. What's weird to me is that even though the US was under attack, we all just sent our kids to school. How did we know there wouldn't be a next wave? I'll NEVER get over that.
Sarah Geiser 8 years ago
I read into this photo, 5 People discussing the events they see-perhaps Strangers the gathered to watch and remained as many People did- to stay in a 'group' out of confusion/safety...
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Twin Towers Of The World Trade Center Burn Behind The Empire State Building
Patrick Bouchot 8 years ago
I'll bet the people on the top of the Chrysler or the Empire start to freak out and leave the building; I would have. Who knew if the two planes were the last ones...
Vicky Rotter 6 years ago
I heard that offices located at Empire State Building were evacuated in case the similar attack on the. But like in 2 hrs after WTC
milan stojkovic 8 years ago
NATO=USA bombarding Serbia... https://www.google.rs/search?q=nato+bombardovanje+niske+pijace&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH7Oa4ip7WAhWFDZoKHQieA7gQsAQIZA&biw=1366&bih=672#imgrc=_
John Carpenter 6 years ago
Everyone says "Never Forget". but. what about the other half of that statement, "Never Forgive."
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Several Buildings In The Trade Center Complex Collapsed Following A Terrorist Attack
EmptySoul 8 years ago
sometimes its so hard to believe those 2 buildings collapsed like dominos. It feels like it happened yesterday.
Deb Martin Knaff 8 years ago
This photo affects me the most. I had to ask myself why this one has such an impact on my soul and I think it is just because of the sheer amount of energy captured at this moment. It encapsulates the force of the crumbling building but moreover, the crumbling of the safety & complacency we felt in this country up to that day but feel no more.
izraul hidashi 5 years ago
That seriously looks like a crumbling building to you? Because I'm pretty sure when a building crumbles everything falls straight down, not blown outwards. Also, 110 story building that crumbles would leave at least 30 to 50 stories of crumbled building. Not 3 stories of pulverized oxygen smothering dust. I say oxygen smothering dust because fire needs oxygen to live. And yet 500,000 tons of oxygen smothering dust couldn't extinguish those fires. Fires that burned for 3 months. I look at that picture and think, how in the heck did roof fires survive all that?! Can a roof fire even collapse a building? I'm more shocked that people haven't even thought about those things.
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Sara Martinez 8 years ago
Damn well know it wasn't a terrorist attack from someone out of this country but from someone within the states.. conspiracy all over
Lynnette Gittens 4 years ago
As a native New Yorker, visitors always wanted to be taken to the WTC. I have always all my life, been afraid of heights. But the three times that I took visitors to WTC, I would always stand near a shop or a wall where the windows were not visible to me. Which was difficult, because the windows were the walls. I was always terrified. When it was televised, I was absolutely torn apart. Those thousands of people, with no way to escape. I am still not over it.
Kat Frederick 4 years ago
Don't forget building 7. It wasn "hit" yet collapsed in a controlled demolition.
izraul hidashi 5 years ago
Wow...look how gravity pushes all the debris outwards. Body parts were found as far as 1400 feet away (that's 4 football fields). Imagine a gravitational collapse hurling objects the length of 4 football fields. I guess gravity is what caused 100s of cars up to 7 blocks away to spontaneously combust too. Who knew falling buildings could start car fires? : /
Kerrie Sohl 5 years ago
I was in Australia, working at the Darwin Airport NT I was about to start my shift in the cafe and I remember parking the car and seeing police and security everywhere they came into the eatery and removed all the cutlery is was surreal
Ian St John 6 years ago
Several? no only 3 WTC1 WTC2 WTC7 There were a few with partial collapses though. Marriott hotel when WTC2 collapsed on to it. WTC 3 WTC 4 WTC 5 Were all impacted by the falling buildings and suffered partial.
izraul hidashi 5 years ago
Don't forget the 100s of cars up to 7 blocks away that spontaneously combusted because buildings fell down.
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Willis Butts III 6 years ago
Ho hijackings, no hijackers, no Bin Laden no Al Qaeda, just CGI graphics and lies
izraul hidashi 5 years ago
You're right that were no hijackings. And Bin Laden had nothing to do with it. But you're wrong about the CGI. Use your brain. Eyewitnesses could not have seen CGI in real life. And all the people who caught the planes on home video cameras did not CGI the planes in. The 2 planes were military drones.
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Diana Krenz 3 years ago
You mean like planned demolitions. Explain how tower 7 fell the exact same way. But wasn’t hit by a plane.
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Cat Meow 8 years ago
To this day, I know EXACTLY what I was doing. It was about 1.30pm I got home from Europe (based in Europe, fyi), which is 7.30 in NYC, had lunch. After lunch, I went to my room and turned on the radio only to hear the sky above the US was closed. They didn't say why at that moment, so I went to ask my mom. She didn't know either. Instead of going back to my room, I went to the living room, turned on the TV and basically shouted for my mom to come over. We spent the rest of the day glued to the TV watching the second plane hit the tower and the rest of the horror unfold. Up until then, it was the most terrifying experience. I can't imagine how everyone close by felt. :(
Mascha Claessens 8 years ago
It seems everyone still remember what they were doing... Even people who don't live in NYC, or even the USA, at all. I was 10 years old at the time, also from Europe, I live in The Netherlands, and I also still remember everything. How I was playing with a friend at home after school, and her mother was incredibly late to pick her up. She apologised, she was late because she had been following the news. My parents hadn't seen the news yet (they usually don't watch TV during the day), and immediately turned on the TV. You can imagine it still took a few hours for my friend and her mother to leave.
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Fay 8 years ago
It's hard for me to see any pics of video from 9/11. All I think about is how many people are dying right as the footage was taken.
Marilyn Z 6 years ago
I well understand...I am not one to cry, but every time I see these pictures, I would just like to burst out sobbing. To think of all the innocents who started their normal day never to go home again. Heartbreaking. There but by the grace of God, go I.
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Samantha Bing 8 years ago
I was living in downtown NYC that day - the entire island was filled with dust and silence - I will always remember the smell that permeated the air for weeks - its something I will never forget
Suzanne McGee 8 years ago
Oh god, that smell. If I woke up and smelled it at home in Brooklyn, then I wouldn't smell it in our temporary offices in SoHo. But the reverse was also true. And I knew dozens of people who died that day and knew what that smell represented.
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Wendy 8 years ago
I saw a make-shift kiosk selling memorabilia I saw in December of that year. There it was, in the face of all the rubble. I felt the same as you do.
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Christine Halderman Olsen 8 years ago
I was home on Long Island with my 4 year old son. My other son, who was 6 at the time, was in school. I was exercising on a Nordic Track, watching TV. My sister called me to tell me to put on the news. That's when I saw it all unfold. My mom called me to say she had already heard from one of my brothers, and that he was okay. He was a Captain with the FDNY. My mom couldn't get in touch with my other brother, who was a fireman at Squad 18. My brother also could not reach him. Later on that day we found out he was missing. We cried and hoped and prayed he was in a hospital somewhere or trapped underground, but still alive. There was the media saying that perhaps people might be underneath alive in the subway tunnels. We held onto the smallest glimmer of hope for a few days. It was excruciating. At the beginning of October, they found my brother's body. It brings back so much sadness and helplessness to this day. It's like it happened and year ago, not 16. R.I.P David Halderman.
Marilyn Z 6 years ago
I cannot imagine your sorrow. I hope your family is finding some peace knowing your brother was a true hero...as are all our first responders, but he gave his life to help his fellow man. Prayers for all of you and all the others affected by this nightmare.
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José Alejandro Díaz Bravo 8 years ago
I remember CNN broadcasting and old video of pakistan people celebrating a national holyday but showed as they were celebratring the attack...
Carl Anderson 1 year ago
Jose. Actually, it was the Palestinian's, celebrating hearing the U.N. News They got their country; it was at night and not on same time period
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Zori the degu 8 years ago
I wasn't even born on that sad day. But I know a thing or two, thanks to my relatives and friends' parents. My close friend's mum summed up quite perfectly the general mood on that day while telling a story about the old family cat: " Oh, yeah, Greebo was a tiny kitten then. We sat on the sofa, grandma, Zornitsa(my namesake and the storyteller's best friend for life), the cat and I, and we watched television. And then I received a call from a coworker "Hey, change the channel and see the news, the Twin Towers are falling. I really thought she was joking, so I laughed for a few seconds before asking Zornitsa to turn to channel one. Only then we realized that it was no joke."
Marianne Leger Null 8 years ago
I was in a court room waiting for jury duty. There were two men there that had phones that got news. (Remember, no Smart Phone yet.) They kept walking back and forth to each other but the rest of us had no clue. The judge came in around 10:00am and said that we were all to be released "due the events in New York and DC." Everyone, except those 2 businessmen, were confused. Some were just relieved to be let out so early. As the crowd made its way down the stairs to street level there were bailiffs screaming at everyone to power off their phones and keep moving. (Learned later they were afraid an incoming call might trigger a bomb and they weren't taking any chances.) Outside on the court house steps I stopped by a man who had his cell on speaker. Got home in time to see the towers fall. I cried all day.
Cat Meow 8 years ago
To this day, I know EXACTLY what I was doing. It was about 1.30pm I got home from Europe (based in Europe, fyi), which is 7.30 in NYC, had lunch. After lunch, I went to my room and turned on the radio only to hear the sky above the US was closed. They didn't say why at that moment, so I went to ask my mom. She didn't know either. Instead of going back to my room, I went to the living room, turned on the TV and basically shouted for my mom to come over. We spent the rest of the day glued to the TV watching the second plane hit the tower and the rest of the horror unfold. Up until then, it was the most terrifying experience. I can't imagine how everyone close by felt. :(
Mascha Claessens 8 years ago
It seems everyone still remember what they were doing... Even people who don't live in NYC, or even the USA, at all. I was 10 years old at the time, also from Europe, I live in The Netherlands, and I also still remember everything. How I was playing with a friend at home after school, and her mother was incredibly late to pick her up. She apologised, she was late because she had been following the news. My parents hadn't seen the news yet (they usually don't watch TV during the day), and immediately turned on the TV. You can imagine it still took a few hours for my friend and her mother to leave.
Load More Replies... Fay 8 years ago
It's hard for me to see any pics of video from 9/11. All I think about is how many people are dying right as the footage was taken.
Marilyn Z 6 years ago
I well understand...I am not one to cry, but every time I see these pictures, I would just like to burst out sobbing. To think of all the innocents who started their normal day never to go home again. Heartbreaking. There but by the grace of God, go I.
Load More Replies... Samantha Bing 8 years ago
I was living in downtown NYC that day - the entire island was filled with dust and silence - I will always remember the smell that permeated the air for weeks - its something I will never forget
Suzanne McGee 8 years ago
Oh god, that smell. If I woke up and smelled it at home in Brooklyn, then I wouldn't smell it in our temporary offices in SoHo. But the reverse was also true. And I knew dozens of people who died that day and knew what that smell represented.
Load More Replies... Wendy 8 years ago
I saw a make-shift kiosk selling memorabilia I saw in December of that year. There it was, in the face of all the rubble. I felt the same as you do.
Load More Replies... Christine Halderman Olsen 8 years ago
I was home on Long Island with my 4 year old son. My other son, who was 6 at the time, was in school. I was exercising on a Nordic Track, watching TV. My sister called me to tell me to put on the news. That's when I saw it all unfold. My mom called me to say she had already heard from one of my brothers, and that he was okay. He was a Captain with the FDNY. My mom couldn't get in touch with my other brother, who was a fireman at Squad 18. My brother also could not reach him. Later on that day we found out he was missing. We cried and hoped and prayed he was in a hospital somewhere or trapped underground, but still alive. There was the media saying that perhaps people might be underneath alive in the subway tunnels. We held onto the smallest glimmer of hope for a few days. It was excruciating. At the beginning of October, they found my brother's body. It brings back so much sadness and helplessness to this day. It's like it happened and year ago, not 16. R.I.P David Halderman.
Marilyn Z 6 years ago
I cannot imagine your sorrow. I hope your family is finding some peace knowing your brother was a true hero...as are all our first responders, but he gave his life to help his fellow man. Prayers for all of you and all the others affected by this nightmare.
Load More Replies... José Alejandro Díaz Bravo 8 years ago
I remember CNN broadcasting and old video of pakistan people celebrating a national holyday but showed as they were celebratring the attack...
Carl Anderson 1 year ago
Jose. Actually, it was the Palestinian's, celebrating hearing the U.N. News They got their country; it was at night and not on same time period
Load More Replies... Zori the degu 8 years ago
I wasn't even born on that sad day. But I know a thing or two, thanks to my relatives and friends' parents. My close friend's mum summed up quite perfectly the general mood on that day while telling a story about the old family cat: " Oh, yeah, Greebo was a tiny kitten then. We sat on the sofa, grandma, Zornitsa(my namesake and the storyteller's best friend for life), the cat and I, and we watched television. And then I received a call from a coworker "Hey, change the channel and see the news, the Twin Towers are falling. I really thought she was joking, so I laughed for a few seconds before asking Zornitsa to turn to channel one. Only then we realized that it was no joke."
Marianne Leger Null 8 years ago
I was in a court room waiting for jury duty. There were two men there that had phones that got news. (Remember, no Smart Phone yet.) They kept walking back and forth to each other but the rest of us had no clue. The judge came in around 10:00am and said that we were all to be released "due the events in New York and DC." Everyone, except those 2 businessmen, were confused. Some were just relieved to be let out so early. As the crowd made its way down the stairs to street level there were bailiffs screaming at everyone to power off their phones and keep moving. (Learned later they were afraid an incoming call might trigger a bomb and they weren't taking any chances.) Outside on the court house steps I stopped by a man who had his cell on speaker. Got home in time to see the towers fall. I cried all day.
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