Posted on 10/12/2024 8:00:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
In 2001, digital cameras were a rare commodity. They were expensive, bulky and captured images that were inferior to the organic look of film. After you downloaded and edited those whopping 3.1 megapixel images, you had very few options of where you could publish them online. Remember when Shutterfly and Snapfish were a thing?
Contrast that to today where you have people shooting magazine covers on cell phones and uploading over 500,000 images to Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook every minute. We don’t hear about national tragedies on the news anymore, we read about them in our Twitter and Facebook feeds. Seconds after they happen.
When the events of 9/11 took place there were thousands of photographs taken by professional photographers and members of the press. These images were shown on the news and published in magazines and newspapers all across the country. Yet, few of these featured photographs were taken by everyday people.
I wanted to set about curating a selection of photographs that most of you haven’t seen. Photographs captured by everyday people. Thanks to the internet these individuals have been able to publish their photos to Flickr, but most of them have less than a thousand, or even less than a hundred views. As I searched for these images it was like I was witnessing history again, but from an angle that no one had ever been shown. I decided to share these photographs with all of you.
For the images that were captured on a digital camera, I’ve made a note of the model of the camera. All images are hosted on the account of the person that owns the photographs, none of them were taken down and re-hosted.
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“...it seems like every bad political/.gov/.mil/cultural problem we had prior to 911 was magnified many-fold in response...”
The only thing Government ever protects is itself. They never let an opportunity to increase their power slip by. Bureaucrats will increase their numbers, increase their power and reduce your freedom and liberty reflexively on any pretense. Major incidents like 9-11 only serve to accelerate that process like throwing gasoline on a fire, resulting in an actual witnessing of what usually is a slow, unobservable process...................
They hate us for our freedom. S/
I wish I had not read this thread today.
A blind friend of mine was working in the South Tower that day, on the 86th floor. He made it out and as he and a co-worker were nearing a subway entrance east of the World Trade Center plaza, they could hear the North Tower collapsing. I met with his wife at their home in Westfield and we waited most of the day before we learned her husband was O.K. and on his way home.
I was in a men’s Bible Study group the other evening and several men were relating stories of how they had been protected from harm. One fellow, probably late 70s, told us he had been in New York to attend a meeting in one of the Towers on the 11th. The night of the 10th he was advised that his meeting was cancelled.
I’ve seen most of them already…..
We have a similar story like that, of a distant relative whose plans to keep an appointment in one of the buildings changed at the last minute.
There were so many people there, I bet many people know of someone who died or escaped.
In the second week of April, 2001, my young family took a trip to visit my sister-in-law, who lived in New Jersey, but worked in New York city. Every day, Sue would catch the train, and commute into New York. She worked in the Grace Building, which was the corporate headquarters for Victoria’s Secret, her employer. We all got up very early each morning, and made the commute with Sue. On most of those mornings that week, she would go to work, and we would go site-seeing. New York is rich in culture and accomplishments, and is the center of many industries and businesses.
One of those days, Sue went site-seeing with us, and we visited the Twin Towers. Sue, having lived in New York many years, was a master tour guide, and took us to the Towers via train. Few people know that the Twin Towers had at least 4 levels beneath the ground, housing the train stations, and shopping malls and every type of store possible. You could buy your groceries, pick up your dry cleaning, and shop for a toy for your child…
We came up from the train station into the center court-yard of the Towers. There were connecting buildings between the towers that were eight stories tall, and a maze of walk-ways leading everywhere, in every direction. The complex was huge. Being Spring, there was an amazing Tulip garden encircling the courtyard fountain, and the tulips were in full bloom. In the middle of the fountain was a huge bronze and copper globe that water rained down from.
And then you looked up! The towers were huge at their bases, and very tall. They were 110 stories tall, not including the TV and radio towers perched on top.
We entered one of the towers and began our elevator ride to the top story. We needed to change elevators many times, as no elevator goes the entire distance. (Both towers combined had 198 different elevators.) Once at the top story, we realized the most amazing view, in every direction. It was a cool and very clear day, and we could see for many miles. That huge Statue Of Liberty seems so tiny from our vantage point. Sue slowly walk around the observation deck with the kids, and pointed out buildings, churches, rivers, bridges, parks, harbors, islands… She was a great tour guide, and we had a great view. We had lunch on that level, and interacted with many other visitors as well as workers in restaurants and shops. And then we realized that we could go onto the roof! Amazing clear day, with very little wind. The view and experience was stunning!
We realized we had been in the tower for nearly 4 hours. We took the elevator(s) ride down, and began our walk toward Battery Park, where we could take a boat ride to the Statue Of Liberty. As we talked among ourselves about which way to go, a gruff sounding gentleman (on his cigarette break) interjected, telling us exactly how to get to the river. We did visit the Statue Of Liberty, and walked many miles, and had a great dinner in a neighborhood restaurant, and then headed back to Sue’s place in New Jersey.
On September 11, 2001, a short 5 months after we had been in New York, we heard that the towers had been attacked.
Sue relayed that she had not gone into New York that day. Had she been there, she would have likely stayed with friends, as transportation was shut down.
Many weeks later, during the recovery, she met with a friend, Rudy, who was a Port Authority Police officer, and was on-site during the attacks. He evacuated hundreds of people before the towers fell, escaping through the train tunnels below. During the recovery, Rudy was in charge of the on-sight morgue. Each recovery had a very solemn procession. When Sue visited Ground-Zero, she witnessed many of these processions.
I often wonder about all of those people we met that day. What was their fate.
My husband and I went to get gas later in the afternoon, long lines. It was almost total silence in a usually busy area suburb of Columbus. All flights had been grounded, I looked high into the sky and there was one plane surrounded by four fighter jets, it was AF1 headed back to DC. Will never forget that surreal moment.
We should have nuked Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh on 9/12/2001.
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On the anniversary some of them were making jokes about 9-11. I stopped the hell I was doing and screamed at them "YOU DO NOT JOKE ABOUT NINE-ELEVEN!!" I told them they had absolutely no damn idea about what happened that day or the life that we had before it and that they had better shut the hell up.
My screaming stopped everyone in the kitchen in their tracks. Including the manager. He never said anything about it though.
It is damn travesty to see an entire generation come up and of age who hasn't the faintest memory of who and what we lost that day.
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