9/11 As it happened

[jjshabado]

Right now on msnbc they're replaying the original september 11th coverage. Its crazy to hear the original news coverage knowing what we know now.

I'm finding it pretty powerful and would recommend checking it out for a bit.

[katyseagull]

I just turned it on and wow, it is just so sad and shocking. People who have forgotten should turn it on even if only for a couple minutes. It really is a horrible event in history. Unbelievably sad.

[jjshabado]

Yeah, hearing the reporters/witnesses voices breaking is what makes it so powerful for me. Before the 2nd plane hit they were talking about how it was probably a commuter jet gone off course. Then all of a sudden the 2nd plane comes in and you hear the raw emotion.

They made a comment about 6 people dead and thousands injured, and I'm just sitting here thinking how naive those comments are in hindsight.

[katyseagull]

Yeah that one guy on the phone sounded so upset. You could hear his voice break and it was hard to listen to.

Did you hear Katie Couric say that she hoped everyone made it out? I remember watching the Today Show at the time it happened and I thought they had made it out because Matt Lauer and Katie were so calm and they acted like everyone was probably evacuated.

[jjshabado]

This is kind of like watching little kids talk about death/war. They have no clue about the magnitude of the loss.

[katyseagull]

Ok now they've just discovered the Pentagon had been hit. They think it was a bomb. Wow. I had forgotten the magnitude of this tragedy. It's pretty strange listening to them because they have no idea what's going on. They are keeping it together pretty well.

[tuq]

Ugh, no thanks. Will I grow as a person if I watch that? No clue. But everything that's been described in this thread just makes me wince.

I remember coming out of spinning class at 6:30AM and everyone was huddled around the TVs in the cardio room. I couldn't understand why so I went to the weight room to do ab work. It was in there that I heard a guy on the radio announce the news. Like everyone else it took awhile for the gravity of the situation to get hold of me. I ended up in the locker room with a bunch of friends watching the towers come down. Ughhhhhhhhhh, yeah I don't need to go through that again.

[rothko]

a truly awful day. made all the more terrible with the continuing loss of life overseas.

can't we all just get along?

[entertainme]

I happened across it in my hotel room and haven't been able to turn it off. I watched the second plane hit live that morning and knew immediately we were under attack.

I don't even know how long we stayed glued to the coverage. At least until late that night and then for days afterward?

It's strange. In a way I'll feel disloyal turning it off, as if I owe it to those who suffered such horrible loss that day to be a witness, to remember all that was lost. Somewhere inside me a voice screams, "Never forget!"

The first tower just fell. I really am going to have to turn this off. I have to get up at 5:30 to get ready for an early morning meeting.

As far as coverage, I'm surprised that MSNBC doesn't have cameras in the area. I remember seeing the cloud of smoke coming down the street during the collapse and everyone running like crazy. (Maybe it was the second collapse?)

It's also odd to watch from the start and to know....the second one's coming....the second plane is coming....watching over their shoulders, knowing it will take time for it to register with them.

[diebitter]

I remember hearing the reports saying 6 had died in a plane crash hitting one of the towers, and assuming it was a light aircraft.

I remember a little while after when the planes started flying again, every plane in the sky looked like a flying weapon.