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What the fuck, this is the best footage of the second plane by far! Where has it been for the last 21 years?
The slice of life of hearing these New Yorker's reactions and conversations immediately after the impact was really fascinating.
Yeah as someone that watched it live on television this is wild hearing the reactions of people that were there but just far enough to be somewhat passive observers.
Reminds me of how it felt myself watching it honestly.
I was in my 6th grade math class, with one hour left of school for the day when they told us. Nobody had any idea what happened until after 2 pm. I can't imagine the shock of seeing the second plane hit live, I don't think much else can match the disbelief of that.
I was a stewart and colbert loving radlib at the time, I was just old enough at 16 to be really getting into politics so I would watch CNN and other cable news outlets to smugly dunk on them in my head (we didn't have social media as we know it today back then).
I woke up and turned on I forget which one and saw the first tower already on fire. Naturally I was like oh shit something's going down, so I sat there in my pajamas hitting my bong and just wondering what the fuck was happening when suddenly I saw the second plane hit.
I distinctly remember and will never forget my immediate reaction: "oh fuck no matter who did this I think we're gonna go to war with Iraq again".
This was not as much based on any materialist analysis as it was based on the fact that I had witnessed the first Iraq war as a kid and that was really my only frame of reference.
This HN comment suggests that there’s some more Pentagon impact footage hidden out there. New NY pics/footage do come trickling out over the years , but never anything of the Pentagon.
