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We filmed this one to remember and commemorate the events of 9/11 and I don't think we want to have to sit through a movie like this again for quite a while... If you are a fan of seeing us cry, Lauren especially, then this is definitely one for you but this movie really took it out of us. We are still going to post it as it is important to remember those that lost their lives in these events but that was a really brutal one to watch that's for sure.

Lots of tears during it and then afterwards in the editing was also lots of tears throughout so this one was exhausting.

That day was horrific and we hope you all are able to commemorate in a way that is suitable for you. The movie itself portrayed the events and conveyed its message very well, if it wasn't so sad we'd say it was a great movie but that feels wrong to describe it as such.Full Length, Un-edited Reaction for Feels Fanatics and above.Movie/TV = Blurred and Muted after first section in order to synchronise your copy with us.You MUST own your own copy of the film to watch along. Else you just watch a blurred out box... 🤣

Thanks for watching along with us.Much Love,Lauren & Harry!

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James Lewis

U.S. fighter jets are routinely armed and kept on continuous alert status today, a major change since the September 11 attacks. Quick Reaction Alert (QRA): The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) maintains armed fighter jets at multiple alert sites across the United States around the clock. Live-Load Weapons: Unlike many jets on 9/11 that scrambled without live ammunition or time to arm, modern alert aircraft carry live missiles and ammunition ready for immediate response. Shoot-Down Authority: Protocols established after 9/11 give high-level military commanders clear rules of engagement to intercept and, if necessary, shoot down hijacked or unresponsive civilian aircraft threatening major population centers.

Flix n Feels

Thanks for sharing! It's really interesting to hear how much the world has changed from this day, particularly the aviation side

Frank

To add to this, those first 2 pilots that were scrambled on 9/11 were interviewed in the years after. As they were unarmed both pilots knew that this was a one way trip (they didn't know it had already crashed). They were fully prepared to ram the jet to take it down. The 2 fighter jets launched after them were armed, but were misdirected. Those first 2 F-16s, Lt. Col. Marc Sasseville and Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, were planning to strike the jet together. Sasseville taking the cockpit and Penney taking the tail. Insane heroism on display and even that unselfishness was dwarfed by the passengers of 93. For regular people to take that upon themselves to not allow that aircraft to reach its destination is just incredible. Heroes all.

Buster

In the movie the FAA National Operations Manager is Ben Sliney, and that is the REAL LIFE Ben Sliney playing himself in that job. because the filmmakers said "No one can play Ben Sliney better than himself." Here is the kicker, it was Sliney's first day as FAA National Operations Manager! He has said in interviews that since the weather was quite nice across nearly all of the country, that it would be for an easier first day. When all the planes were ordered to land, and the air-traffic controllers had to bring down thousands of flights of all types of planes as fast as possible, there were no instructions on how to do it, because it was an eventuality that had never been anticipated, so they just started directing pilots where to land and learned as they went. In later interviews, experts in Air Traffic Control say it was just as well there was no instruction manual, because you'd be wasting time trying to look through an instruction manual. The end result was over 4,500 planes on the ground within 3 hours. Transcripts of the Cockpit Voice Recorder and audio portions have been released, but the audio of when passengers try to get in the cockpit (and reports say at least one passenger was partially inside) has only been played in private in 2002 for the passengers and flight crews family members if they wanted to hear it. It will never be made public. As for the knives and boxcutters, before 9/11, you could carry on boxcutters, knives & scissors with a blade less than 4 inches, and small tools under 7 inches. This is because hijacks up to that time were hostage situations with ransom demands and/or wanting to be flown to a certain country.

Flix n Feels

Thanks for clarifying Buster! ☺️ We knew aviation had changed because of this but we're too little to remember what flying was like prior. So hard for us to picture taking a box cutter on a plane 😯 Wow that's awesome they got Ben on board, we imagine that must've been super hard for him to remember to relive this day!

Lana Gorgeous

I enjoyed watching with you guys....................... A day I shall never forget. It was supposed to be the day one of my biggest triumphs. I used to work for a company that thrived on new, innovative, and creative ideas for organizational growth. In fact, that company headed by the greatest CEO/Executive Director of all time who encouraged ideas. I had an idea on how to restructure of of the companies within our organization and making it a model of innovation. I worked on this proposal for weeks. I stayed up all night on September 10th rehearsing my presentation that was to be given to the executive senior management team and the board. On that day, I commuted into work, so I happily took the commuter bus. I started out early that morning, the meeting would be at 10 am but I needed to be there no later than 8. I rehearsed my briefing again on the back of the bus and I noticed another businessman in a suit looking back at me periodically. On that commuter bus was only professionals, men and women in suits commuting in from the burbs to DC. The bus stopped at a metro train station and I found riding the metro quite delightful. I took the yellow line, the train that passed over the Potomac River and seemingly a stones throw away from the Pentagon. Not really that close but close enough to see that building clearly and on such a beautiful sunny day. I passed the Pentagon at about 7:30 am, two hours before it was hit by the plane. I passed by the Pentagon for years, many years either by car or metro train and thought it was just an amazing building. It was the headquarters of the military and I served in the military for 9 ½ years in the US Army. I arrived at a conference room for one final rehearsal for my presentation. There was a TV on in the day room or lounge area, turned to one of the morning shows and that is when I saw that the first Twin Tower was hit. I thought at first, this was very strange, a crazy accident. I tried to stay focused on the task at hand and then the other tower was hit. Instinctively as a former soldier and officer, my greatest fears were realized. This was terror, but it was in New York miles away, and then The Pentagon was hit. Not only would there be no briefing or meeting on that day, since so many people commuted, they were now stranded in a nonstop traffic jam that went nowhere. Everything was cancelled. Then the word got out about car bombs going off and the metro that I had been on just a couple of hours earlier had been taken out, blown up. These turned out only to be rumors but at time it all seemed so real like the whole world was falling apart. My thought was to first call my family make sure the kids were ok and to make it down to the program I managed to check on my people, in such a crisis they needed to see me. Since I commuted and traffic was crazy everywhere it took me two hours to travel eight miles. They attack seemed to trigger something in me. I was not an emotional person, not a crier at all, but I stayed on the job till 8 or 9 and before I left I called my significant other and we discussed the day and I could no longer hold it in, I sobbed like I had never cried before, you know one of those ugly types of cries and you can’t stop. It was not fear, or even the massive deaths per se, it was the people jumping from the buildings. Seeing these people innocent people jumping to their deaths just triggered me to no end 🙁 Back then all executives or senior managers in the entire country did the same thing early in the morning. They went to work early, they prepared for briefings and meetings, they had that good cup of coffee, they checked their voice mails or emails, blackberries if they had them, they met with their subordinate leaders, if they had a minute or two they may have even read a sports page or headline from a newspaper, they turned on their computers, all got around to their administrative and managerial tasks to be performed. They were not soldiers! they were civilians just living their lives. As a former soldier I can understand battlefield deaths. We accept that because even though the enemy has weapons so do we. But as a civilian you do not expect to go to work in an office setting and have to jump over 100 stories or be burned or crushed to death. When you park your car at the commuter stop to get on the bus, you don’t think you will never see that car again. When you send your kids off to school or kiss your significant other goodbye, they don’t think that they will never see you again! It was the death of these office workers that really hit me hard. Because they were me, it was easy to empathize with them. I had been in the corporate world for 10 years since I completed my military service. I had so much in common with these people who were jumping to their deaths and facing this horror. After the pain I only felt anger. I thought of trying to get back in the military but I was in my 40's back then so that wasn’t going to happen, I wanted us, the US to get some payback, so I was all for us invading Afghanistan, going into Iraq was stupidity but boy was I happy when they got Osama bin Laden so many years later and to hear President Obama announce it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYmK19-d0U But I will always remember that day and how I felt and how it affected me. As for my briefing, I did give it a week or two later, but it was not the same. Something was missing that was originally there. It is hard to explain but the world became less hopeful and so did my vison of the world. The senior management team gave me the green light to explore it further and I had another manager and others there for support of this initiative, but I decided to hold off and that project was never implemented in whole but some of the ideas were used, not the whole. Anyway, I moved on from that directorship and became a Director in the Workforce Development and Training space and in that area I created other programs. When I look back at the tragedy of 911, I still see those people jumping from the building and there was a recent story about a woman trapped on a ledge after the planes hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTLcCwnhZrw , and the story about Windows on the World and all those people cut off on those top floors for over an hour and the horror of knowing there was no help for them and the phone calls to loved ones. “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8V9DEEx_cA” There were so many people who died instantly before they could even comprehend what was happening, but for others that feeling of helplessness must have been unbearable and incomprehensible. It is those folks who I think about and cry about even all these years later ☹ It is something I will never forget, but I will also never forget those first responders who gave their lives to help others. Those firemen and women and the police who were lost are the epitome of true heroism. Such courage and selflessness of the first responders in the face of great terror. These heroes and their stories fill us all with great pride. It was terrible how so many of the survivors were treated by their government after, but that was finally rectified. https://en.wikipedia.org/.../11_Health_and_Compensation_Act; After it was advocated for and it took too long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT5FTrIZN-E ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdbROxCyEx8 ; Such courage and selflessness of the first responders But I enjoyed watching the movie with you. I watched it in the movie theatre when it first came out, but it hit me just as hard watching in again! Than you.