9/11 Terrorist Attacks - The Timeline

CORRECTIONS: 3:25 Should read 1990- Bin Laden finds an unlikely partner in General Shahnawaz Tanai, a hardcore communist who wishes to overthrow the Afghan government in a coup led by Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whom Bin Laden disagrees with ideologically and attempted to have thrown out by organizing a no-confidence vote against her the year prior. Bin Laden agrees to fund the coup attempt by bribing many Afghan army officials, but the coup ultimately fails. Working to see if we can replace the video with the proper correction.

Man imagine being in a situation where you have to choose burning to death or jumping from 80 stories up.

That voicemail when he said “I’ll see you when you get there”. Man, thats heavy.

We were the class of 2001. This was literally the introduction to the "real world" for us. It still blows my mind that so many kids didn't experience this. It's becoming nearly as distant to this Generation as Pearl Harbor is to us. I'll never forget my friend calling and waking me up that morning, frantically. "You HAVE to turn on the T.V." I replied "why what channel?" "EVERY channel..."

My grandpa was a firefighter in DC during 9/11 and responded to the pentagon, luckily he was able to return home and is still around.

My aunt was a worker in tower 7, and she actually has an amazing story from this day. At the time she was extremely pregnant and was caught in traffic on that morning. This caused her to be late for the collapse of the towers. The crazy thing is, the next day, my cousin was born.

The passengers and crew who took the plane back are real heroes, they were truly acting selflessly. I can’t even fathom what they did. Truly incredible. Rest in peace to all of the 9-11 victims

Thank you for talking about the 2 fighter jet pilots who were prepared to take down that plane, if they had no choice, even if they went down with it. I read about this story while doing some research on 911 earlier this year and I wish more people knew about this!!

Trying to get your $400 deposit back from a rental van that just exploded is wild 😅

I was 13 when this happened. I was in my English class when they wheeled a TV into the room. I remember us all seeing the second plane hit live. I will never fully be able to explain what that did to my brain, along with many others. This event is what made me notice politics, violence and war. I remember they sent us all home early, and on the way home I couldn't stop looking at the sky. Everytime I heard a plane for months after this event it triggered this fear in me that it was another attack. I also remember waiting in line at a gas pump for almost 2 hours. Everyone was scared and panicking. The whole thing was so tragically wild. But it is the exact moment I became politically aware, as well being aware of geopolitical conflicts. To my young naive brain, that sort of violence and hatred can only come from blockbuster Hollywood movies. It really forced me into realizing the harsh realities of the world, and looking at everything differently. It was the end of my naive innocence.

I didn’t register the attack in kindergarten, but I had the sweetest old teacher, who’s room was covered in kitten pictures and posters, who was a total wreck while we watched and listened to the attack on her TV, appropriately strapped to a rolling black cart. 😢❤ Since then I got to work with an ex firefighter named Glen who could still go minute by minute with you through his experiences and the names of victims he rescued. We will never forget 9/11. And god bless the Americans who lost blood in rescue efforts. ❤ 🇺🇸

First, thank you so much for creating this! I was 21 when this happened, and remember so much of it. But even I don't think I've seen such a comprehensive timeline put together, going as far back as 23 years prior. That voicemail from the man on Flight 175 to his wife three minutes before the plane hit the tower is...chilling, to put it mildly. We hear a lot about the phone calls made from flight 93 (as well we should), but I'd never heard this voicemail. Also, thank you for naming those two F16 pilots, and telling of their bravery by being prepared to sacrifice themselves to stop more loss of life. I'd never heard of them until just now. I'm glad you created this for a ton of reasons: for those of us who were alive when it happened, but maybe even more for those who were alive but too young to understand, and especially for those who were not even born then. I'm showing my age here, but my generation grew up with our parents talking about where they were when President Kennedy was assassinated. Now our kids grow up hearing us talk about where we were on 9/11. I pray our kids' generation doesn't have a "where were you when "insert tragedy here" happened," but I'm afraid they will.

We got 9 people saying first 💀Watch the dam video Edit: I didnt even see what happened but like dam bro what is goin on 😭

The two soldiers who were flying the F-16s don't get enough credit. They were so brave. 😢 for country, for humanity, and nothing else. Makes me tear up every time. 😢

I remember this day and I was only 4 years old. I was living in Alaska and had gotten up early to secretly watch TV shows. It cut to a live feed of the towers and I remember watching the second tower get hit. I remember watching the people jump. My mom came into the room just after the first tower fell and saw me frozen in place and crying. She immediately turned the TV off and hugged me. She just hugged me and let me cry for at least an hour strait. I remember only being allowed to watch movies for the next few weeks instead of TV shows so that me and my siblings would not have a chance of seeing any of that stuff again.

At the time I was only 3 years old, however, my father’s birthday is on the same day and he told me how devastated and heartbreaking it was for everyone to have witnessed such an cowardly and inhumane act of violence. His exact words were “You should not fear the man hiding in the shadows, for he is not able to hide from god”. Truly an iniquitous experience.

So glad someone did a video on this from the beginning. Thank you❤

"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll." Those words by the passengers of flight 93 are haunting but incredible. Knowing they were backed into a corner, they sacrificed themselves rather than be another missle in an evil plot.

The younger generation needs a reminder of the tragedy that occurred that day. I’m not American and I remember the event and watching it unfold live on tv. I was only 9 so I didn’t fully comprehend the scale of what was happening but I remember seeing and hearing about the people jumping from the building. I’ll never forget that day

Its so terrifying to me that this generation CAN'T grasp the impact this had on us yet I'm so grateful they haven't had to understand it in the same way. Seeing the second plane collide with the tower, seeing your teachers and parents crying, seeing the whole world stop and hold its breath, our schools being on lockdown all day, and the aftermath of people stockpiling gas and water, the missing persons posters of people who would never be found... Seeing 2000 people die on live TV when we were 10 years old changed us.