Inside the Twin Towers - Discovery Channel Special - Live Thread

Discovery Channel ^ | 9/3/2006 | n/a

[WoodstockCat]

conspiracy is always the easy out, it's much easier to believe the government is at some secret fault.
It shows a small mind that is easily swayed.

[Wilhelm Tell]

There are people who are highly mentally defective who believe that the 9/11 attacks either didn't really happen or else the attacks were the result of some "Zionist" conspiracy. These people remind me of the idiots who say the Holocaust never happened. This type of thinking is becoming respectable in one of the major American political parties -- this is very dangerous.

[Koblenz]

This show is really good, but with way too many ad breaks. Last one ended at 1001 pm and then they started at 1005 pm with the next. What gives?

[maica]

I can't recommend it strongly enough.

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I second the motion. The footage of firemen going up is haunting.

[bannie]

That's the one. It's excellent. I'm anxious to see the new one, too.

[bannie]

That chaplain didn't make it. I agree about the sounds of the people dying. It was hard to realize that every noise was another lost life--agonizingly lost.

[cardinal4]

Well, this one started at a little past 900pm here..

[cardinal4]

Yes, wasnt he death certificate number 1? As the first one filled out? That guy was really something. It makes me feel better that man of God was in there with FDNY..

[murphE]

This is making me so sad all over again.

[boop]

Oh, God, that was horrible. I'd never heard this.

[NCC-1701]

I can't see the Discovery channel 9-11 special right now. I am taping it for later viewing. Can't wait to see it.

For those of you that may be interested, click the link provided. It is an e-mail from Frank Culbertson, the first commander of the International Space Station. He was the only American off the planet when the attacks happened. The e-mail is of his thoughts for that day and the next. It's a very interesting and moving read. I reccomend it.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp3/culbertsonletter.html

[bannie]

Yup...the super heroes are, like him, those who weren't victims by circumstances...but who headed in to disaster to help the victims.

[Cobra64]

It'll be on 9 pm EDT.

Day? Month? Year?

[Pyro7480]

Whoa, I didn't see that first footage of the collapse before. That was mindbogglingly close.

[Pyro7480]

It's on right now, and has been for nearly an hour and a half.

[MamaLucci]

Absolutely chilling.........I can barely believe that so many people have already forgotten the horror of that day.

[blam]

There's another good one about how they landed all the airplanes that day. The most memorable part for me was all the planes that landed at Gander, New Foundland and then the ending.

Not one mishap occurred during all the landings 4-6,000 of them.
Someone suggested writing new rules/regulations/directions in case it ever had to be done again.
Some one said "how could it have been done any better" and it was decided that the lack of rules allowed everyone involved to make on the spot decisions about what was best to do and writing news rules/instruction, etc would only hinder that freedom.
No new rules were written. I thought God, common sense won out.

[WoodstockCat]

Inside the Twin Towers TV listings

[WoodstockCat]

Yes, it's called "Grounded on 9/11" and ran on the History Channel..

[PackerBoy]

Holy sh@t. That is quite a viedo.