anyone watching the 9/11 programmes?

[Tink78]

I watched the widows one. Very sad.

I think I may have watched the Fire Fighters one a year or so ago.
It was horrible.
Was that the one where the fire fighters were in the lobby and you kept hearing these loud bangs (the bodies hitting the floor)?
If so, that one was truly awful.
Really disturbed me and I still think about it a lot.

They were all so brave.

When we went to NY last April we visited the little chapel opposite the site of the Twin Towers.
Somehow, it survived with very little damage, yet it is only feet away!
They have turned it into a little shrine type museum, but it's also a chapel.
It made me cry seeing photo's of missing people, and helmets of firemen who didn't make it.

 

[carolfoy]

I think I may have watched the Fire Fighters one a year or so ago.
It was horrible.
Was that the one where the fire fighters were in the lobby and you kept hearing these loud bangs (the bodies hitting the floor)?
If so, that one was truly awful.
Really disturbed me and I still think about it a lot.

They were all so brave.

yes, that was the one, I saw it a while ago too so deliberately didn't watch it this time round. truly horrifying. In the programme 'The falling man' that was aired on C4 a while ago it stated how many people in the US beleived the 'jumpers' to be cowards, I totally disagree, I feel these people took the bravest decision of all and if I had been there my final moments would have been cowering in the corner. I like to feel that those who jumped had a few blissful seconds flying instead of suffocating or burning.

 

[Strommie]

yes, that was the one, I saw it a while ago too so deliberately didn't watch it this time round. truly horrifying. In the programme 'The falling man' that was aired on C4 a while ago it stated how many people in the US beleived the 'jumpers' to be cowards, I totally disagree, I feel these people took the bravest decision of all and if I had been there my final moments would have been cowering in the corner. I like to feel that those who jumped had a few blissful seconds flying instead of suffocating or burning.

That's a lovely way to think of it Carol, I didn't watch it either for this very reason

 

[carolfoy]

I think the most difficult programme will be 'The path to 9/11' apparently it really shows how the US government were warned many times that al-qaeda were planning the atrocities. If they were pre warned it doesn't fill one with much hope

 

[mark&sue]

I watched last night's programme and could not believe that people in the first tower let alone the second tower were not evacuated immediately. I could not believe that people were being told to go back to their desks. Had the second building been evacuated following the major incident next door so many lives would have been saved.

I work in 11 storey building and we regularly have fire drills (long before 9/11) Not only must we leave the building without stoping to pick up our valuables immediately but walk a long distance once exiting the building in case there is a bomb and the building fall. Since I have been there we have been evaculated when a toaster caught on fire and a woman poured petrol over herself and threaten to light a match. Last summer we had workman setting off the alarms nearly once a week when working with the electrics. Even when we know it is a drill we must leave the building.

Watching last night's documentary made me think of the Titanic in that the builders of the ship thought that it would be invincible and did not carry enough lifeboats. In the same way there seemed no health and safety procedures in the twin towers in case of a major incident. As the World Trade Centre had been attacked in 1993 I was very surprised that no proper evacuation plan seemed to exist.

The end of the programme was very chilling when they said next time it would be nuclear.



Susan

 

[daisax]

I watched last night's programme and could not believe that people in the first tower let alone the second tower were not evacuated immediately. I could not believe that people were being told to go back to their desks.​

In the minds of the people give those instructions, they needed to get emergency personnel into the other building as swiftly as possible, and tens of thousands of people exiting the building at the same time would inevitably complicate matters. Keeping them out of the way seemed to be the most practical thing. Unfortunately, they had no way of knowing the tragedy wasn't over.

As for the Path to 9/11, it may not air in the US -- more and more people are coming forward and questioning its depiction of events as being totally fabricated and slanted towards affecting our upcoming elections. That it's decidedly biased (its writer is a strong partisan for Bush et al) is not questioned -- what remains unanswered is why a network would agree to broadcast it without commercials, thus forfeiting millions of dollars, and whether $$ is involved and how much and by whom.

Should get interesting. The respected publisher that had prepared a whole curriculum to distribute to schools on the program has already backed out citing their concerns, and there are rumors it won't air at all because of backlash against the network and unanswered questions.