Did anyone watch it??

The calls just made you realise just how real it was and how many people lost their lives.

Really emotional programme to watch.

 

Fuck, forgot this was on! Meant to record it... Hopefully it'll be repeated

 

watched this too.

sad to hear the calls people made as they died.

 

yeah i watched it it was sad to watch

 

Hopefully it'll be on 4od. Theres alot of 9/11 stuff on C4 atm.

 

Cos it's coming up to the anniversary?

 

watched it was very sad would be devasting to hear a loved on die and not being able to do anything about it

 

Did you hear the one where the bloke was talking and you heard the building start to collapse then the line goes dead?
Thought that was bad!

 

watched half of it and sky+'d the rest

me and the Mrs was wathcing it; she was in tears - very sad and does make you evalute things.

Makes you think that so called "problems" we have are pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things

 

watched it and thought it was very sad, i remember on the day it happen i worked for a import and export company and when we found out what happened it was very very sad i remember not getting a single phone call for the rest of the day very sad day

 

very very sad..will never forget this day as my mrs was in Atlanta at the time,couldn't get in touch .any one watched UNITED 93?crazy!

 

Very sad i went to ground zero 4 years ago & its very eary such a shame

 

Just watched it, very sad some of the storys there

I still find the whole thing really sad and it doesnt feel like it been as long as it has been

 

Never seen it however was it actual recordings of the calls? If so - how did they get the recordings? Or am I being a mong?

Must have been pretty deep stuff either way.

 

most financial companies have to have off site telephone recording plus some might have left voicemails etc

J

 

Some were emergency 911 calls and some were where loved ones had phoned home and left a message on answer machines

 

Ah shit, of course, i assumed it was all mobile phone calls from people stuck. Makes sense now. Must have been grim listening.

 

The worst call ive ever heard was kevin cosgroves. his was featured on the programme last night, but they didnt play all of it. this is a clip of the last 5 minutes of the call on youtube. rite at the end as the tower starts to collapse you here him scream 'oh god' then the line goes dead. heard it for the first time about 5 years ago. poor bloke, cant even begin to imagine what he was going through, it must have been like hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA

 

There is another programme on channel 4 tonight at 9pm i think, called 102 minutes that changed america, its lots of video footage of the WTC on september 11th most wont have seen, lots of home video etc, deffinatly worth watching if you havnt seen it before.

 

repeated on more4 on friday i think, just logged onto sky to set it to record

 

Very sad indeed.

Benni.

 

There is a documentry called "102 minutes that shocked America" was on a while back on a sky channel.

Just found a link. Its a must watch for anyone interested in 9/11. Is absolutely amazing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...88180526230130#

 

i've sky plussed it because i was watching the other film about it last night, which showed what a complete mess of chaos the yanks had back then in air traffic control and to try and get access to scrambling USAF planes. i wonder if all that side of things have really been sorted out now...

so when is the anniversary of 911?

 

September 11th 2009

 

I wonder what 102 mins is like everyday in Iraq/Afghanistan since 'Team America' popped in. I still think it's strange how people seem to think western blood/loss of life is more valuable then other people from other parts of the world; and then big it up with TV programmes, memorials, statues, plaques etc etc....and people wonder why some folk are pissed off with the west when most people don't even bat an eye lid when another 50 or so Iraqis get blown up by another suicide bomber.....strange....very strange IMO....!

 

Didn't see this before i posted. If it is on again is a must watch program really really makes you think and see it from a different perspective.

 

Who said anything about western life being more valuable ?. loss of life is loss of life regardless of who dies.

 

fucking hell thats fucked me right up listing to that call espically the end

 

Its on channel 4 tonight mate, 9pm, just checked. i agree, defo worth watching if you havnt seen it.

 

no desire to watch that thanks! heard it live when it happened!
as per b16jus, we have tapes of some of the conversations here as we had both offies and customers in the towers.

 

I think the ones that tugged most at the heart strings are the calls where they really do know that there is no way out rather than those who maybe made the calls but still had some hope.

The guy who called his wife from a meeting room and when she said get out, he told her people are jumping out of windows from above. That feeling of knowing you are going to die and there is no way out.

Horrific, makes you realise life can take a turn at any time.

 

It must of been bloody horrile.People must of been desparate for them to jump out of the towers.

 

That's pretty much my take on it......so why then do people seem to obsess about things like 9/11 when it's pretty much nothing to do with them. Why on earth would a TV program be made about such a subject and who would feel the need to watch it.

Those calls are private and are only really intended for the people they were calling - all seems pretty sick to me and yet something else to big up the deaths at 9/11.

There was nothing special about these people, just like there is nothing special about most people in the world. People are killed every day from simply being shot or in the extreme being blown up in a suicide bomb. These people could be the salt of the earth or they could be such utter scum the world is a better place without them!

9/11 happen, people died, lots more have died since then (related/non related)......so why are the media/people (as in people who have no connection to the event whatsoever) still obsessing about the deaths...

 

that was horrible to watch and listen to

What an absolute tragedy

 

i really dont agree with what you are saying

9/11 was a historic event in recent history; where by terrorism was the route cause - wether you agree or disagree with the reasons behind the hijacked planes is neither here or there. Innocent people lost lives and IMO it should be talked about and discussed - i'm sure it helps the healing process for some. The familes gave their consent for the audio recordings to be played.

If you think we shouldnt obsess about people losing lives i'd be interested to hear what you have to say about the WW1 & WW2.

 

I can understand the interest in the event itself but not the death of the victims...these people are just like most of us and hence are nothing special...

My main point is what makes 9/11 victims so much more special than say the death of innocent people in Iraq for example ? If time was deadicated to making TV programmes, memorials, building statues, making plaques etc each time a load of innocent Iraqis were killed then we would never be able to keep pace with it all!lol

But seriously, why does anyone need to hear these phone calls, do people get a kick listening to others in peril who are about to die ? What we really need are some close ups on CCTV of them fearing for their lifes while chatting on the phones....nice...not...! I personally just don't get it....

 

thankfully its subjective, some people want to see/hear it, some dont

nothing makes 9/11 victims more "special" we are all equal

but i think the point you are missing is this is probably the most historic event in recent times where 2000 odd people lost their lives in one go. It will be talked about and docs made about it - its a fact of life that we live in an era whereby media is accessible to most people and the fact that the whole 9/11 event was captured on some form of media device

imagine if we had WW3 now or the Titanic sank 2 years ago, i'm sure that would get the same coverage.

 

I think UK coverage is excessive for 11/9 especially when weve got our own terrorist tragedies.

Plus 8 years down the road i think people need to start letting go. theres far too many people who were not involved or didnt know anyone even remotely involved in 11/9 yet they are still "mourning" the tragedy and letting it effect thier daily lives.

Theres stupid morons who wont fly because of 11/9 FFS!!!! And other saddos who blame depression or anxiety on 11/9 even though they dont live in the US!!!!

 

LOL - hmmm let me think for a second, does any remember that earthquake that happened in China back in May 2008....killing an estimated 90,000 people....

And what about the tsunami back in 2004 (boxing day).....killing an estimated 200,000 people....

Thank fook neither happen in America.....we would probably have had dedicated TV channels for it....

And then on to something proper nasty - the Rwandan genocide 1994 - 1 million dead!

(there is lots of shit that has killed people apart from sodding 911!)

Anyway fook those dead people as most are not from the west and are worhless scum...!lol

 

Dannn, sadly thats how a lot of people view it albeit subconciously Weve got used to seeing starving africans, dead asians, dead arabs all over the screen all from far far away places we dont know or care about. So of course you get used to it and it becomes far from your mind.

Those places really are a different "world" with many of these people living a life worse than animals here and what wed call subhuman conditions and behaviours (think hacking off arms etc - most people would think they are animals acting that way).

But when things happen closer to home, we can empathise with it because its a more familiar lifestyle etc.

Plus ultimately we are all inherently selfish. Would you step over the emaciated dying corpse of a etheopian to ensure you get enough food for you and your family?? (assuming theres not enough to go round) course you would.