Photos from a Tuesday morning(and some time after)

[UncleMo]

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O.S.

With the upcoming anniversary of the September 11th attacks, I thought I'd share with you some pics that a retired member of the F.D.N.Y. took of that day while following the group of guys I was working with from my firehouse and the days immediately following.
I was actually already down there and this guy was with some of the guys I wound up meeting up with later.
I've never shown these pictures to anyone except family members ...and I guess O.S. is really part of my extended family now.

On the bus they commandeered to get to the site...


The next photo should be first...but this is looking up Barclay Street..


Walking up West Street south towards the Trade Center







This was either 4 or 5 World Trade Center ...to the left is where N.Y.C.'s command center was right before it came down(7 World Trade Center). This is later in the day.


Yes...Fire Department apparatus under there...




7 WTC coming down...






I have a couple of hundred...but I'll end with this one....


RIP brothers....and all who died there.
343. All gave some. Some gave all.

M.K.
Knight165

Knight, how many total building came down that day? Someone told me 3.

[Knight165]

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Knight, how many total building came down that day? Someone told me 3.

Technically three....Buildings 1,2 and 7....but all were destroyed that day. There were 7 buildings total in the complex. 4,5 and 6 were the shorter buildings you see in the pics.


M.K.
Knight165

[slickdtc]

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They say everyone will always remember where they were and what they were doing when it happened and it's true.

I was in 6th grade, in my English class with my home room teacher and she turned the TV on. I don't remember much from 6th grade, but I'll never forget that day. Now, I'm 21 and making decisions that could/will impact me for the rest of my life. It's amazing how fast time flies sometimes.

Same here.

Seeing these first hand pictures... it's incredible but gut wrenching as well, looking back in hindsight, knowing what they were traveling on that bus towards and knowing how many people may have been trapped in all that rubble. I'm sure a lot of people didn't even know what had gone on at the point in time when all these pictures were taken.

Thanks for sharing, and God Bless America.

[Koolie G]

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Thanks so much for posting. The emotions just come rising back to the surface with each picture. God bless America.

[canes21]

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I was only in 2nd grade, but I remember that day more vividly than most in my life. Looking at those pictures made the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up and my eyes actually teared up a bit. It's just one of those things that every time I see it I still will find it hard to believe it was all real.

[WyxHarmon]

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I have the biggest knot in my stomach right now.


Thank you. So much.

[TripleCrown9]

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I just wish I would have been older when it happened to fully understand what was going on. I was in 5th grade and as I watched it on TV, I honestly didn't care because it was in a different part of the country. Then over the next couple of days what exactly had happened and what it meant started to settle in.

[Skyboxer]

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They say everyone will always remember where they were and what they were doing when it happened and it's true.

I was in 6th grade, in my English class with my home room teacher and she turned the TV on. I don't remember much from 6th grade, but I'll never forget that day. Now, I'm 21 and making decisions that could/will impact me for the rest of my life. It's amazing how fast time flies sometimes.

I had just gottten home from work (I was on nights at the time) and a friend and I were playing Madden. Wife called from work and said turn on the TV.
We never finished that game obviously.....

Never Forget...

[stlstudios189]

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I still remember watching George W. Bush at the rubble and he was just so amazing when a worker yelled "we can't hear you" he replied back and just energized me so much that I started crying in my living room. I have never been so proud to be an American in my life. Think about this the planes that crashed into the towers one was "American" and the other was "United" think about it. I went to the 1st Browns game afterwards and that was the greatest game I ever went to as they covered the field in a flag and the whole crowd was singing the national anthem as loud as they could. Go ahead terrorist test again and you will see the American Spirt at it's finest

[8]

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I was in college at the time, I was actually in one of my graphic design classes which has a huge projector screen probably 20ftX20ft that the prof taught on. The door to the classroom was open and we noticed an abnormal amount of people walking by and talking loudly. I heard someone say something about a plane going into a building but I didn't hear what building. Eventually the professor turned on the tv feed to the giant projector screen and it happened to be on the cbs affiliate and what we saw made us all just stop dead in our tracks. At this point both buildings had been hit and they were showing replays of the second plane hitting. We were actually watching on that huge screen as the first tower crumbled to the ground. It was extremely surreal.

Then I remember them saying that some other planes were unaccounted for. My first thoughts were my parents because they work for the department of defense on a military base. So I told my prof that i needed to go and get in touch with my parents, he just kind of mumbled and I left.

It took 3 or 4 hours to get in touch with my parents, but obviously they were fine. In the aftermath I remember being angry, worried/scared, and proud. My roomates and I found an american flag, we didn't have a pole so we hung it out a second floor window, I was actually surprised we were the only ones to do so. Sorry I went on kind of a rant but I was just typing as I was thinking about it.

[ehh]

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Thanks so much for posting, Knight. It's impossible to not have your emotions stirred when looking/hearing/seeing anything related to 9/11, even a decade later. It's still surreal and unfathomable what happened that day.

I was in my 9 AM class in college, the prof walked in and told us all to go back to our dorm rooms and turn on the TV - and that our lives had probably been changed forever. I figured she was just overreacting, honestly the first thought that went through my head was "nice, class is cancelled!" SMH @ me.

We walked to the cafe and saw masses of people around every TV in the building. We learned a small plane had hit the WTC and I didn't think much of it, I figured a few people would have lost their lives but that it was a small accident. Hundreds of us were there watching when the second plane hit but that wasn't the worst part obviously. At that point we stilled hoped the damage was minimal and obviously no one anticipated what was about to happen. When the first tower came down - I've never heard a collective shriek from a crowd like that. The kind that sends chills up your spine and you never forget. One girl went berserk, unfortunately we later learned that she lost her father when the second tower fell. I still get choked up thinking about that moment.

[Marino]

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Thanks for posting these Knight. It is still incredible that I can remember exactly where I was when I heard the news (albeit 4-5 hours after the action happened) and remember everything that happened that day.

Besides personal loss in my family, 9/11/01 was one of the worse days of my, and well many peoples lifes.

I always wake up around 8:30 on September 11th and watch on MSNBC, as they go second by second of the events of that day. I believe that those who don't remember history are destined to repeat it, so I try to make sure that I remember what happened on that day and those feelings and I hope/pray that one day we don't go through these events again.

[Sausage]

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Knight, you mentioned you had more. Could you post a few pics each day.

[Knight165]

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Knight, you mentioned you had more. Could you post a few pics each day.

Yes. Some tonight and some tomorrow.
It's tough looking at some of these and there are ones I just cannot post.
When I uploaded them....they got all jumbled(sequence) so some are of the actual 11th...and others are the days/weeks following.

I just wanted to post another bus pic.......the guys told me this bus driver wouldn't give them his bus, but he'd drive them anywhere they wanted. Ballsy. I respect that.(I and a few other guys(stupidly, in hindsight I might add....it nearly cost us our lives)...didn't wait for the buses and organized trips in...we took one guys van in...so I wasn't on this bus...but either way, the trip in was eerie.








For those of you who remember the WTC...the walkway from the North Tower across West St.




The rescue dogs were in quickly....the bottles on the rebar to keep us from getting skewered(forgot about that for 10 years now)




I can't stress how massive the pile was....


My chief








I believe this was a rig(FDNY)...a Ladder Co. truck...
















In the first few days...all searched by hand....using 5 gallon buckets.(hoping we would find people...so no heavy machinery)...and the pile was on fire for weeks. I'll never forget that smell.

M.K.
Knight165

[Happy29]

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God bless you Knight for what you had to go through and your co workers. A big thanks for you and everyone like you.