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I'm thinking it was TLC but not positive my girlfriend put it on after Big Brother. They took a bunch of amateur tapes shot on 9-11 and spliced them together without any narrative so all you hear is the people who filmed and the crowds around etc. Aside from being extremely moving to see all these different vantage points of what was going on it just brought back so much hearing the "man on the street" reacting to what was going on because at
that time nobody knew. After the 2nd plane hit one guy said he heard on the radio they were going to be sending another plane every half hour for example.
There were 3 stories of survival in the thing that stuck out, 1 I'd heard before but not in this detail, the other 2 I'd never heard.
One guy was standing on the street watching it on a bigscreen tv on a building. He said he'd stayed up late the night before watching Monday Night Football, overslept and was 15 minutes late. So instead of going into tower 2 for work as normal, he had seen tower 1 had been hit and didn't go into work. The floor he worked on was so high up he's convinced if he'd been at work as normal he'd have died.
The 2nd one the guy was in the lobby of tower 2, stopped to get a coffee, and spilled some on his shirt. So he went into a restroom to wash off, heard a loud noise that scared him so he ran out just in time to miss the tower collapsing. He was covered in dust and said I guess that coffee stain doesn't seem so bad now it saved my life.
The last one was a fire fighter whose wife worked in one tower. He was in one tower and trying to call her in the other tower. he couldn't get through. After helping to evacuate his area he tried to go to the other tower to find his wife, couldn't get up there so he ran several blocks home to see if she'd made it home alive. Didn't have his keys, nobody answered the door, so he went outside and sat down assuming she was dead. He decided hey I'm a fire fighter this is an emergency so he went back with the super and broke his own door down. Just as he did, the phone rang, it was his dad, who said "I know where she is she's at the Chinatown fire station she just called me she's looking for you." So he ran over to the station and found his wife alive.
So not only did she survive, but he did, if he hadn't ran home to look for her he would have been in tower 2 when it fell.
It was a pretty emotional thing to watch .
that time nobody knew. After the 2nd plane hit one guy said he heard on the radio they were going to be sending another plane every half hour for example.
There were 3 stories of survival in the thing that stuck out, 1 I'd heard before but not in this detail, the other 2 I'd never heard.
One guy was standing on the street watching it on a bigscreen tv on a building. He said he'd stayed up late the night before watching Monday Night Football, overslept and was 15 minutes late. So instead of going into tower 2 for work as normal, he had seen tower 1 had been hit and didn't go into work. The floor he worked on was so high up he's convinced if he'd been at work as normal he'd have died.
The 2nd one the guy was in the lobby of tower 2, stopped to get a coffee, and spilled some on his shirt. So he went into a restroom to wash off, heard a loud noise that scared him so he ran out just in time to miss the tower collapsing. He was covered in dust and said I guess that coffee stain doesn't seem so bad now it saved my life.
The last one was a fire fighter whose wife worked in one tower. He was in one tower and trying to call her in the other tower. he couldn't get through. After helping to evacuate his area he tried to go to the other tower to find his wife, couldn't get up there so he ran several blocks home to see if she'd made it home alive. Didn't have his keys, nobody answered the door, so he went outside and sat down assuming she was dead. He decided hey I'm a fire fighter this is an emergency so he went back with the super and broke his own door down. Just as he did, the phone rang, it was his dad, who said "I know where she is she's at the Chinatown fire station she just called me she's looking for you." So he ran over to the station and found his wife alive.
So not only did she survive, but he did, if he hadn't ran home to look for her he would have been in tower 2 when it fell.
It was a pretty emotional thing to watch .
