edie3
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Post by edie3 on Aug 31, 2021 2:13:51 GMT
It's on National Geographic. The thing that strikes me the most (besides the horrific loss of lives) was how many heroes there were. How people worked together, no matter who they were. We were so much better than what we are now.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 31, 2021 2:26:25 GMT
Who labelled this Politics?!
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 31, 2021 2:28:56 GMT
Who labelled this Politics?! seriously??? (I'm on my phone so I don't see the label)
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edie3
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Post by edie3 on Aug 31, 2021 2:41:16 GMT
Who labelled this Politics?! I did! I guess I thought I was on Twitter and didn't want any backlash. I will remove it the label. Can anyone label a post as political, not just the original poster?
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 31, 2021 2:59:24 GMT
Who labelled this Politics?! I did! I guess I thought I was on Twitter and didn't want any backlash. I will remove it the label. Can anyone label a post as political, not just the original poster? Yes, anyone can do it. Sorry, I just assumed someone else labelled it as politics and I was very annoyed on your behalf!
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edie3
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Post by edie3 on Aug 31, 2021 3:00:53 GMT
I was very annoyed on your behalf! Thank you!
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 31, 2021 4:10:21 GMT
So, back to the question at hand...... I just checked the National Geographic channel here, and I have set it to tape episodes 2 - 7. It looks like I've missed episode 1 though, and it's not on On Demand. Bummer!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2021 4:29:20 GMT
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...
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Post by tealpaperowl on Sept 1, 2021 12:45:03 GMT
I plan to watch it over the weekend. I've heard it's very intense.
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 1, 2021 13:17:56 GMT
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.
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Post by danor98 on Sept 1, 2021 13:25:51 GMT
Thanks for posting this. I had forgotten about wanting to record. It is all available for me On Demand.
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Post by workingclassdog on Sept 1, 2021 13:42:30 GMT
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...
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Post by peasapie on Sept 1, 2021 13:48:41 GMT
My neighbor was telling me about this last night. She said it was very good and that she learned quite a bit she didn’t know.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 1, 2021 13:54:34 GMT
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.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Sept 1, 2021 15:15:36 GMT
For some moments in history, it’s good to not become desensitized to the the horror of that event. 9/11 was the defining event in my life. For others it will be Pearl Harbor or the Holocaust or Nagasaki. I cannot appreciate the full horror of those events that happened before I was born without film reels and recounted stories to help me try and live it. It’s no different for us now with 9/11. Anyone under 25 was either too young to understand or not born yet.
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Post by Jamie on Sept 1, 2021 22:28:25 GMT
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.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Sept 1, 2021 23:21:54 GMT
So, back to the question at hand...... I just checked the National Geographic channel here, and I have set it to tape episodes 2 - 7. It looks like I've missed episode 1 though, and it's not on On Demand. Bummer! If you have Hulu on it’s on there. I saw an ad for it earlier and it looks like most episodes have aired and are available. I haven’t decided if I’m going to watch or not.
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Post by purplebee on Sept 1, 2021 23:56:30 GMT
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... Me too. Too many bad things going on right now. I’m from NY and have a difficult time watching 9/11 stuff.
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Sept 1, 2021 23:56:31 GMT
I tried but it was too intense for me. I remember that day almost like it was yesterday, and I usually have a terrible memory. On top of it, I'm flying out Saturday and back on the 11th so it is just too much for me.
I did recently read The Only Plane in the Sky, which is an oral history of the day and learned a lot
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Post by kiera on Sept 2, 2021 0:20:06 GMT
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.
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Post by pinklady on Sept 2, 2021 0:46:49 GMT
I say this with the utmost empathy for the suffering on that day. I wish for the day when 9/11/01 is remembered the same way we remember Pearl Harbor…with minimal to no fanfare. I just don’t need to relive that day with the actual minute by minute Today show broadcast.
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Post by nicolep on Sept 2, 2021 3:27:20 GMT
I watched up to a certain part and then had to turn it. I couldn't. I started crying on the couch.
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Post by mnmloveli on Sept 2, 2021 14:05:39 GMT
Thanks for posting this. I had not heard about this series. I will definitely start watching.
I will never forget and pray for all who were affected.
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Post by melissa on Sept 3, 2021 0:23:20 GMT
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.
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Post by tealpaperowl on Sept 3, 2021 12:22:30 GMT
Yes, I watched the first 3 last night. I've seen some of it before, from the Naudet brothers documentary. Very sad to see!
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Post by kelly8875 on Sept 3, 2021 12:32:52 GMT
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. 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.
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Post by kiera on Sept 3, 2021 14:53:03 GMT
I went to the museum once, unwillingly, and I'll never go back. It was too much. But I agree that it was very well done.
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Post by mnmloveli on Sept 3, 2021 16:29:00 GMT
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.
Never Forget
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Post by Memo on Sept 4, 2021 0:17:23 GMT
Thank you for the head's up about all of them on tomorrow. I watched one of the episodes and then went down a rabbit hole and ended up watching 102 minutes (I have it on my DVR). Everyone reacts differently to 9/11, but for me I feel like I need to watch the footage as a sort of penance (?) (I'm a horrible Catholic, so I don't know why I do this), because I feel that all these lives lost shouldn't be forgotten.
I remember the day vividly, I got on my computer that morning and couldn't get into any of the news sites that I usually checked daily. I was up early to get our 5 year old ready for school, pregnant with our third son. I ended up getting my opening news from the Two Peas website and rushed to check the news on TV. I saw the second plane hit, we had to figure out if we were going to send our son to school. We decided to keep his schedule normal, because he wouldn't have done well back then with a schedule change as he has high functioning autism. I remember the lack of airplanes and some worry about potential other targets (we live in Tucson and there's a large Air Force base here). When the kids got older, I had them watch with me to understand that part of history. We visited the fountains before the museum was opened and told the kids that they needed to be very respectful, because it's sacred ground. My two cents.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2021 0:49:44 GMT
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. 20 years. Doesn't seem possible. I STILL can't talk about it too much.......... I STILL remember going outside that morning to a perfectly blue sky with beautiful fluffy clouds. I sent my young children off to school and was folding laundry while watching Regis & Kathie Lee. They mentioned the 1st building being hit and we all thought it was some error.......... Then when Regis mentioned the 2nd building having a plane going right thru it, I told my (then) husband. He said, "We're under attack! I'm going to get the kids!" He took them out of elementary school even though the school wanted them kept there for safety (hell no!)....
It was such a sad, horrible day. I vaguely remember when JFK was killed and it reminded me of how dark that day was, but this was much more personal. My kids had friends who lost their parents. It was a world-changing day...... I'll never, ever forget it!
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