Is anyone watching 9/11 One Day in America?

Who labelled this Politics?!

I am purposely not watching any 9/11 docs this year. Too much new stuff to be sad about these days--wildfires, floods, explosions, all the hatred in the U.S.  There's multiple documentaries playing annually. I've seen most of them through the years. I've been to the memorial. It's powerful. 20 years...

No. I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was just thinking about it. We were at work, in a school. It was a beautiful day-picture perfect weather. All of a sudden one of the aides burst into the room to tell us that planes had crashed, and to turn on our TVs. And then all of the endless sad coverage of NY, Flight 93-“Let’s roll” and of the Pentagon.

I’ll never forget it.

For those who weren’t born then, and for those too young to remember, or for those who just want to watch it, it will be a powerful series. But it makes me too sad.

Shoot.. I don't have any cable TV so no recording for me. I usually watch something on it. This one sounds like a good one to see. I will try to find something though on streaming. I always try to watch something on it every year so I can just reflect on that day. I talk to my kids about it. My two oldest were pretty young, 3 and 4.. they seem to think they remember some stuff but not sure if it is just us talking about it or what. My youngest was born in 2008.. so she only knows what I watch or say about it. I try to keep her in the loop.

I did just watch World Trade Center with Nicholas Cage.. it went off Netflix yesterday. Just a movie, it was okay...

I'm watching it on Hulu--very good so far (I've watched episodes 1 & 2). I've watched the documentary on 9/11 that is about how most of the firefighter footage came to be--a documentary was being shot about rookie firefighters--but it has been interesting to get a few different points of view beyond those involved in the original documentary. Episode 2 focused on the South tower & most of those were new stories to me.

I am now. I didn’t realize it was on Hulu. Stuff like this and the Holocaust I just get engrossed in and love to learn about it. 

Me too.  Too many bad things going on right now.  I’m from NY and have a difficult time watching 9/11 stuff.  

This is the first I'm hearing about it and I have to say.... hard pass for me. I was a 10 year old kid in NYC that day. I remember everything. The screams from my science teacher as she ran down the hall towards the school's main office office - she had a small TV in her own office. Class being pushed off, and kids being picked up one by one until everyone eventually gathered in the gymnasium, confused. My mother looking me in the eye as we sat in the car and telling me "something very bad has happened. We are going home, we are sitting on the couch, and we are watching the news." Watching the news. Seeing the towers fall. The video of the jumpers will be burned into my psyche for the rest of my life. Cell phones weren't a thing in my family yet and it took at least 10 hours to make contact with my dad and learn that he, his sister, and their mother - all working in Manhattan at the time - were safe. Watching the sanitation workers and city crews sorting debris and.... god knows what else on our formerly closed landfill from not just a distance, but my bedroom window. I cannot listen to Hero by Enrique Iglesias because it was all that was played on NYC radios in the aftermath. And the smell. I'll never forget that smell.

I'm thankful that this is available for people to learn about that day but I hope to never watch it. I already saw it once and don't need to go back.

I watched up to a certain part and then had to turn it. I couldn't. I started crying on the couch.

I saw that it was on Hulu.

I want to watch it but it will have to be when I am in a strong place to dissociate myself from what I am watching.

I’ve been retelling the stories now and then recently. Many of the people I work with now did not know me then and it comes up from time to time, my dh was one of the many who walked (ran) away from the WTC buildings that day. It took him 3 months to share some of the details of that day and he was out before the collapse.

Wow. Thanks for your story. Certainly a different perspective you have on that moment in history.

I want to watch it, but missed it. I see it’s on Hulu, so I can catch it there.

I’ve been to the 9/11 Museum a couple of times, and I could have been there for days. It was very well done(to me), and recommend it for anyone.

NatGeo is running all six episodes tomorrow, Saturday 9/4/21 starting at 12:30 p.m.  I’m recording them to watch next week leading up to 9/11.  

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