r/pics • u/Stinky_Fartface • 12h ago
This picture I took from the Brooklyn Promenade on 9/11 still haunts me.
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u/topNotchMonkey33 9h ago
You should get all the people in the pic and ask what they remember
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u/Melquiades-the-Gypsy 7h ago
I'm gonna guess they remember some buildings collapsing.
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u/swb1003 6h ago
I’m gonna guess there’s a whole lot more to the day. I spent most of the day in my middle school principal’s office, I remember the blue floral dress the secretary, Ms. Beabo, was wearing.
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u/Melquiades-the-Gypsy 5h ago
Yeah but you were at school; these people are watching the twin towers on fire.
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u/notsuperimportant 3h ago
I think thats the point... theyre saying those people remember a lot more details than just the buildings themselves collapsing
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u/WETiLAMBY 9h ago
Not a dig at all but I’ve seen loads of photos of people posing their kids in front of the towers to get a photo of them with it, I have no idea if it was different that day but if it were me I wouldn’t be using a major serious event as a photo op. I know the true gravity of the situation wasn’t fully known at the time but what was the mindset behind the whole family photo with a burning building thing that was so common
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u/freericky 8h ago
Nobody knew what would happen, everyone was just frozen, totally shocked. We knew something big was happening, but nobody understood how big of an impact it was going to have. Easy in hindsight
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u/gOingmiaM8 8h ago
Media knew tho, immediately music videos and movies where made. People have been tragedy farmers since the beginning of time.
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u/liamhull 8h ago
🤣NOBODY had a clue what was going on. I remember watching this live on the news and even the Russians was mentioned that they might have done it.
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u/gOingmiaM8 7h ago
Yet within HOURS they had music videos made .. way back then.
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u/swb1003 6h ago
lol wut. No.
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u/gOingmiaM8 5h ago
Toby Keith, Garth brooks? Both released songs the very next day.
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u/the_other_50_percent 3h ago edited 2h ago
Well that’s 100% false. Besides me remembering how everything was at a standstill other than grieving as a nation and even globally together, there are records of song releases to prove you laughably wrong.
Garth’s first single released in 2001 was in October (“Wrapped Up In You”), long planned from his album that year.
Toby Keith’s last 2001 single was released in August (“I Wanna Talk About Me”). His dumb “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue” that was actually inspired by the 9/11 attacks was written at the end of 2001 and released in May 2002.
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u/swb1003 2h ago
There are 2 notable songs from the 9/11 era. Enrique Inglesias’ Hero, released the week prior to 9/11; and Alan Jackson’s Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning, written at the end of October 2001 and not released until the following year.
Nobody was monopolizing 9/11 with music videos the next day, that’s an insane lie.
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u/Stinky_Fartface 2h ago
Dude no one was “posing” anything. This was a candid shot I took, along with many others, of the catastrophe. I honestly think its weird that you jumped to this assumption.
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u/FrancisBitter 5h ago
This attitude of “posing for the shot” you’re describing didn’t exist yet in 2001. There was no social media to post it on and the photo was likely analogue too, you only had 36 pictures per roll.
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u/timecomes 3h ago
Posing for the shot definitely existed in 2001..
This photo doesn’t even look like anyone is posing though so what are we even talking about here?
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u/PimpTrickGangstaClik 3h ago
I’ve literally never heard of or seen any pics of people posing in front of the burning buildings
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u/No-Student-6817 11h ago
It's OK. Back then, you had to focus on Iraq or Afghanistan. Look at your progress, you're able to threaten so many more countries now. Imagine what you'll be in another 25yrs. I can't. It horrifies me. But I'm sure you can....
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u/xenzor 11h ago
I'm as anti-America as the next person. But pick your moment dudette.
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u/No-Student-6817 11h ago
60%+ sat at home voting day or worse. There is no bad time to wake a sleepwalking giant falling to the world like a bomb. Not one bad fucking second on any fucking clock...
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u/Aidanation5 9h ago
I didnt, did you? Were you here voting? I voted against the evil that runs this country now. I donate my hard earned money to good and honest candidates that want to restore honor and democracy to the country. I try to teach the people in my life who are trump supporters the error of their ways.
Did you?
What have you fucking done? If you dont do anything, and especially if you arent one of the people living here and dealing with it, then maybe grow up? You cant find a better time to be a little bitch?
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u/No-Student-6817 7h ago
Yes, many large words in a sentence do seem to red-flag bot-creation lately. Also sad.
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u/triplediscount 9h ago
Don’t you people get tired of using your free time to moan on Reddit?
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u/No-Student-6817 9h ago
No, I remind myself of American ineptitude.
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u/DonHarold 7h ago
Get over yourself
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u/No-Student-6817 7h ago edited 6h ago
Oh, my country sucks. Our output is like bottom of the list. I'm not high on myself at all. However, my grandfather did tell me to learn from history and what he fought for in France. He asked me to call out dictatorship at any available time. You are sitting on your ass with a dictator at the helm.
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u/TherapyPsychonaut 7h ago
You talk about voting rates and aren't even from the US. Stfu.
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u/No-Student-6817 7h ago
U.S. power controls the world. Everyone in the world must respect and worry about that.
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u/DonHarold 7h ago
Okay I’ll just get up and storm the capital alone. That should help.
Get real. You have no idea what you’re talking about. I and many many others have been busy since he was reelected organizing and getting progressive candidates elected. There is constant progress happening and it’s all thanks to local organizers.
Anyone that would say that nothing at all is being done is just lazy. It’s not hard to research and find all of the grassroots efforts that are going to wipe republicans out in November.
If you don’t care enough to search, keep your mouth shut.
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u/No-Student-6817 7h ago
No, I'm not saying nothing's being done. I know exactly what I'm doing.
Angry people vote. What am I doing Don ? Until you, you, you and you, - yeah, you, the guy grabbing snacks - drop that ballot, I will keep pissing you all off.
Why ? Because after four years of him before - WITH KKK MARCHING OPENLY IN THE GODDAMN STREET DON - 35% of you stayed home voting day.
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u/liamhull 8h ago
I'd say the Americans invaded Iraq and Afghanistan pretty effectively wouldn't call it inept at all, maybe the exit. However a regime attacking the innocence of the worlds most powerful military and putting the innocence of your own country at risk, I would consider a massive dose of ineptitude.
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u/No-Student-6817 7h ago edited 6h ago
People have died in the streets from ICE without reasonable investigation. Your ineptitude to hold your administration accountable -both sides- is being studied across Europe and Asia in a manner not seen since the late 1940's examination of the Nazi's grasp over the will of it's people.
You have girls hiding up in attics - just like Anne Frank.
You are disgusting. You make us sick.
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u/su6oxone 10h ago
You should blur kids faces man.
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u/ZweitenMal 10h ago
They’re 30 years old.
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u/bahnsigh 11h ago
Please consider crossposting to r/911archive if this is your first time posting this photo