Thank you. I loved seeing their smiling faces and their kind eyes. You could almost hear these Bumble Bees bantering with the brothers with their New York accent. We remember. Jane
I was in a fire academy class, on that day. I knew, immediately, that it wasn't going to end well for my brothers. They knew. But they went into the mouth of the beast anyway. They are forever beautiful.
Those brave men saved almost 10,000 people that morning. My friend was on the 89th floor of #2, Thomas J Collins. He never made it, but in these 22 years Ive sought to find answers and met several great human beings who were there. FDNY knew those buildings were designed to withstand planes. Ladder One, Engine 7, in south Manhattan, Joe Castelucci was a passenger in my cab I drove form a hotel here in Cocoa Beach, to one of the cruise ships in Cape Canaveral (Florida).. Nothing bigger than a business card survived that collapse. He said they found a part of a phone dial key pad. He was in the 9/11 documentary made by the Naudet Brothers. I told him about my high school friend who didnt make it. It was good to meet him, and I am glad I had some kind of closure. Many parents and families dont have that. I still have questions, and I know its verboten to ask and still do. _I will carry this to my grave, you are angels on our shoulders in a time of disaster, and destruction. 343 FDNY - Thank you forever, you are not forgotten._
I'm a little confused on who these two people are that you mentioned. I couldn't quite follow what you were saying. I know you said that one was a passenger in your cab. Was he at the World Trade Center on 9/11? Did your friend die and no remains were found?
Like so many others, 9/11 is a day I will never forget. I remember how clear and sunny the skies were that day… I remember watching that 2nd plane hit the South Tower live on the news. I’m in California but everyone everywhere was completely consumed by the horrific events that transpired that day. All over my city, there were candlelight vigils that evening. American flags were sold out everywhere. I was lucky to find one small hand-held flag and walked it out to the vigil on my street. Everyone was completely devastated. The whole country stopped that day and I remember just being in total shock that something like that could happen. I’m the proud Granddaughter of a WWII Veteran who earned a Silver Star, 3 Bronze stars and several other accolades for his time serving on the front lines in the South Pacific. He watched a lot of guys he called brothers die in that war… They died so something like 9/11 would never happen. I remember how devastated my Grandpa was that day. As far as he was concerned, all of these brave men who lost their lives on 9/11 trying to help people were his brothers too. I knew that a lot of firefighters died but, until now, I didn’t realize just how many! I can’t help but look at each face and wonder where they were when those towers went down. For those that were in the towers, I wonder if they heard the rumbles of the building they were in collapsing… I wonder if they knew what was about to happen… Were they scared… What were they thinking… ? It’s been 22 years now. I was just 22 on 9/11 but I knew then that our country would never be the same. It still rips my heart out to see the footage of those planes hitting the towers, knowing that at the moment of impact, hundreds of people died. It’s so hard to grasp the magnitude of it all. My God, all those people… May their souls Rest In Peace. Thank you so much to you who put this beautiful tribute together and shared it here. To all the firefighters, police officers and paramedics who risk your lives every day to save people, you are the true heroes in the world. God bless you all. 🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻
😢I wanted to be a firefighter at one point in time. But, realizing how deadly that job is, I do not want to be a firefighter anymore. However, I will always admire our firefighters who risk their lives to make our lives safer. RIP to the 343 Brothers!
God Bless all you Brave souls who lost there life's on that day God opened his Gates to Heaven for so many and we must always Remember everyone and there family's. God Bless you and America 🇺🇸 from our family in the UK it's a day that we sore the terror attacks on TV and we will never forget the Horrific images 😢 💔 RIP to all you Heroes who gave there life's so that so many did live .😢😢😢😢
My oldest cousin has a brother in law who was a firefighter in the NYFD. I don't know if he was on scene that day, but he lost many "brothers" and it messed him up so bad, he retired.
22 years and it still hurts.... And it is shocking how the little 'context' descriptions calls them militants from an extremist group and not what they were: TERRORISTS. Whom these men and women stood tall against showing the faith, love, and values of America....
In memory of our fallen brothers who died on the attack rest peacefully brothers of the FDNY including the brothers of 343 firefighters who ran in while others ran out for safety as the brothers of the FDNY would parish but we remember the sacrifices that each and every firefighter of each family has lost their lives to save others.
I’m not sure what’s worse…dying that day or slowly dying for years after surviving it and being apart of the cleanup. Sickening. Rip to the real heroes. ❤
Sadly, though, 22 years later, the same number of firefighters and members of the FDNY have now died from illnesses as did those on that day (343). I only wonder how many of these firefighters would’ve just ended up dying from illness, even if they did survive. 💔
It's a nice tribute but I really think more information should already be provided in 22 years, unit, engine, truck building recovery all of this information should be here or in a book on this subject. Otherwise it will be lost and forgotten.
Him Exe, the elevators were out. One account is a fireman trying to get people out of an elevator which was stuck almost shut that had fallen fast 70 floors, there was fire in the shaft and they were basically being like on top of a barbecue. With fire in a building the advice also is don't use elevators, its never possible to assess damage properly, the advice is to always use the fire escape stairs. This was a unique situation, the firemen knew there was huge internal damage to the buildings falling plane fuel was causing pockets of fires on different levels. You seem angry they didn't do more to help? It was an impossible tragedy, everyone remembers that day and the awful shock, fear and sorrow. Most of us were lucky enough though to be watching or listening through media. I can't imagine how it was to be there,.
You should try to learn how YT works... And what the elevator system was about. Only very few elevators served all floors, almost each of the 99 elevators per tower served only one third of the building. So to put it simple it´s 33 elevators in each third of the tower. 33 elevators above the upper skylobby. 66 elevators below the upper skylobby. 66 elevators that they could have used. Or at least the 33 elevators in the lowest third. To the very least they could have used these elevators to lift equipment, dozens of storeys in seconds. One small group of firefighters actually did exactly that, they used an elevator to carry equipment up to the lower skylobby despite the "no elevators" order. So yeah, it was possible, it would have saved time and energy and possibly people, but no, I´m not angry about them being cowardish and stupid. It´s more that I don´t really understand why they are praised so much and that this kind of brainless "heroism" fandom is kind of disgusting. All your sad excuses, "impossible tragedy", "awful shock, fear and sorrow" will never change any facts.
Thank you, heroes.... now, at last, I have seen the faces of those who gave their lives that awful day.... May your souls rest in peace for all eternity.....
Why aren't the History Teachers giving their students long hours of learning about what happened??😢 look at these faces...they never saw it coming. God 9 Bless them all of 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😭🙏🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
it was a catastrophe of such a giant proportion that at some point rankings mattered no more. at the beginnin there seemed to be some organization of ranks still but as time passed the urgency of savin more people put aside rankings in favor of the rescue mission and eventually the recovery one. Also it was a very rare evenience in which even fire marshals and similars were on field so everybody below that ranking including batallion chiefs went in to rescue instead of simply directing operations as its typical of a 5 alarm fire or more at the same time.
the firefighters in the video were all paid firefighters,most on duty, some off duty that morning who came because everybody had been called in even those who weren't supposed to be; but amongst the dead there were also volunteer firefighters(who re not in the video)such as Welles R. Crowther an equities trader from the 104th floor of the south tower who had planned to quit the job at Sandler O'Neill to apply as a paid firefighter shortly after 9/11 and was named a honorary FDNY member in 2006,Mr. Glenn Winuk who was nearby and raced to the scene with his EMT bag and was recognized a Honor Legion membership (their plaques have been added to several firefighter/first responder memorials)in 2006 too and there s at least another two who were involved and lost their lives too.
i will never understand why Build 🏢 that when there is a fire you haven't a chance to save anyone's life's from above 7 floor's. i Wouldn't feel safe in any high Rise Building not after 9 / 11 .so why isn't this stopped. 😕 😢😢
Many people consider the firefighters as heroes that did a great job that day. I wonder why... As far as we know they didn´t manage to put out a single flame in WTC1. As far as we know they didn´t manage to put out a single flame in WTC2. They didn´t even try to fight the fires in WTC7. Does that honestly sound to you as if the firefighters did a great job?!? They stupidly carried all their stuff up the stairs instead of simply using the elevators which they could have done without any danger up to the skylobby on the 78th floor. Them carrying up all their stuff the same stairwells that people used to evacuate downwards surely hindered the evacuation more than it helped. Some people who were about to evacuate even stopped to help the exhausted firefighters that were too stupid to use the elevators. How is that a great job?!? Sure, looking back after the collapses it somehow looks heroic that they just walked into the burning towers. But honestly, I myself was walking into a burning building once and I don´t see anything heroic about it since there was no reason to fear that that building might collapse because of the fire. And the firefighters also didn´t think the towers may collapse, obviously. They didn´t consider the possibility of a collapse until the first collapse happened. And guess what they did then. They immedialtely fled out of the other tower. Because they were NOT the great heroes that willingly risked their lifes. And their fear of collapses also led to their decision to not even start trying to fight the fires in WTC7 (THEY say). They evacuated the area around WTC7 for hours, meaning that they had to stop the search and rescue there for hours. They put their lifes over people who were buried in the rubble. Also they risked the last remaining regular water supply by their cowardish decision because it was housed in a neighboring building of WTC7. Now that´s great heroes huh? But to be fair, they managed to increase the death toll by 343. Great job!
Your lack of research is quite obvious. There are well known accounts confirming fdny getting to work with a house line on the 78th floor of the south tower. They also extinguished fires in the B stairway at the impact zone in an attempt to create a path removing people trapped above. First responders co ordinated a mass evacuation that day that saved thousands of people even after the towers collapsed civilians were still being evacuated, guided by first responders. Your comments are offensive to say the least, if you don't agree with what this video is trying to convey simply don't watch it and move on.
@@BillyS041 The only well known account is that they reached the fire zone in WTC2. One firefighter reported two isolated pockets of fire which they would be able to knock down with two lines. Seconds later WTC2 was demolished, definitely not enough time to set up the two lines he was talking about. There are no accounts about firefighters actually fighting fires in the towers, not even accounts about having established the lines needed to even start an attempt to fight the fires. Prove me wrong. _"First responders co ordinated a mass evacuation"_ I don´t even know what that´s supposed to mean. People surely knew how to walk and how to find the exit without firefighters "co ordinating" shit. _"Your comments are offensive to say the least, if you don't agree with what this video is trying to convey simply don't watch it and move on."_ Who says I watched this pathetic bullshit?
Excuse me??? are you kidding me? people were trapped behind doors and rubble and freed by firefighters, there were fires put out on the 73rd floor in the stairway by L15 who were to meet with Orio Palmer to put out the two isolated pockets of fire in the North tower, it collapsed less than five minutes later, also another FF got stuck in an elevator that was repaired by Orio 45 minutes earlier and he never got out. And in the South tower the rescue companies made it to the 83rd floor only to be trapped in a partial collapse when the North tower fell, also in the North Tower Lieutenant Kevin Pfeifer was directing people to the B stairway because the others were blocked or would take them to an area that would be to far away from the exits to make it out of the buildings. None of the elevators worked in either building because of fire damage from the jet fuel Orio managed to get one working to the 40th floor, and about 30 minutes before the collapse of the North Tower the port authority advised not to use an elevator as they were about to come down, oh and not to forget some firefighters pried open elevators and got ppl out, there is countless documentaries and dispatch videos of everything that happened that day if you wanted to take some time out of your pathetic life to go look it up, it's very easy to be so informed and make stupid assumptions about others actions but here you sit, acting like you're all that and you weren't even there to see what they saw or do what they did, it's all documented, no denying they are hero's but they were hero's before that day, they became hero's when they took the oath to serve and protect others.
@@HirnExe meh, easy enough to get two virtually identical towers mixed up, I'm not even American but at least I didn't write paragraphs of verbal diarrhea, it's pretty obvious you're well aware of the true facts, you just choose to write something different, maybe for attention or to set ppl off, either/or it doesn't matter, people will look at your comments and think very similar to what I'm thinking, so carry on keyboard warrior.
