Anyone else watch the Fox News 9/11 timeline?

[tinatark]

It is on tonight,and again tomorrow at 3 and 6 - AWESOME show - started early in the morning of September 11 and follows the events of the day - various first hand, news reports, FAA and 911 recordings, interviews with survivors and victims' families.

It's eerie - showing their morning show guys goofing off before everything started happening, I think they were off location, moved into the news coverage. Whoa... Shepherd Smith looked very young!

Very well done.

 

[DVCLiz]

I think some of the "pre event" coverage is the most chilling and memorable of all - watching Katie Couric say things about the radar of the plane being defective, etc. Then the realization that what has happened is real and then on through the day...just chilling.

I especially remember Ashleigh Banfield's coverage as the cloud moved toward her. I can't get that part out of my head.

I was thinking as I drove to do some errands today that there was a time when I could never conceive of feeling safe outside my house again. I watched CNN day and night and never turned off the TV - slept with it on, in fact. I just couldn't get back into real life for days.

Honestly, I think it was the Saturday Night Live and the David Letterman show they did right after that finally snapped me back - just a few little "normal" things.

 

[Dee77]

I am watching the History Channel special "9/11 State of Emergency" that I recorded last night. It is an interesting perspective with a lot of commentary from Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice etc. The Chief of Staff elaborated what he said to President Bush at the elementary school, that the second plane hit and that the United States is under attack. Like so many other images from that day, the image of the president's face is one that I will never forget.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

I really hate 9/11 and try to avoid watching TV at all. I lived about 20 minutes from the city and that day was awful for me. I remember kids in my classes crying b/c their parents worked in the city, some leaving early b/c they couldn't find their family members. My Spanish teacher's wife was actually in one of the buildings, pregnant with their 1st, thank God she made it out ok. I was calling my mom trying to see if my grandfather was in the city (he was retired but worked when needed at the piers). My nan worked in a college in Jersey City, NJ and watched the whole thing from her office, ugh it was just a terrible day and I hate reliving it every year.

I remember sitting in pysch class and we were NOT allowed to watch TV, even though every class had 1, and we actually listened to it on a radio, it was so eerie hearing everything that was going on but not seeing it.

When I got out of school my mom left a note on my car to come straight home, the library (my job) was closed and I wasn't needed at work.

I didn't find out until 3pm that the towers were actually gone. When I got home I gave my grandparents the biggest hug, I was so thankful that they were home safe. Being so close to the city, my town lost 2 people, one was very young, in his late 20s.

 

[shellabell]

I have my DVR set to tape 9/11 as it happened tomorrow on MSNBC. I watched it last year and even knowing what is coming it is shocking. I also have been watching various documentaries on the History channel.

 

[Hannathy]

Like remembering where I was when JFK was shot I still can remember sitting and watching the second plane hit live and saying OMG that flew right into it. Seeing Bush's face -what controlled emotion and resolve- and then when the first tower collapsed!

I hadn't had the TV on that AM till the phone rang and it was my SIL frantically saying I'm OK I was working from home today I didn't go into the city!! she worked in one of the buildings right around there and used that train stop. I then turned the set on and didn't turn it off for days.

 

[themilesfamily]

I was watching this tonight. I think Fox News did a great job with this compilation.

One of the most heartbreaking things I've seen re: 9/11 was a documentary called "Telling Nicholas: A Mom Lost on September 11th." It's about a little boy whose mom was killed in the Towers on 9/11 -- the documentary recorded the events of that week and his father telling him that his mother would never come home.

 

[livie1205]

I saw it the first time, I cant watch it again...

 

[golfgal]

I remember watching it "Live". I was on the computer on a discussion board and someone posted "TURN ON YOUR TV". It was right after the first plane hit and everyone was thinking a small plane made a mistake, then the second plane hit. I think the worst was watching the first tower fall. The news reporters kept saying that they thought it was on fire or there was an explosion and I kept saying "that building is falling down". I called the kids' school and they didn't know anything about it. They let the older kids watch but not the younger kids (K-8 school).