United 93 - Full Reaction
Added 2021-09-08 05:11:16 +0000 UTCHey everyone, so I was hesitant to do this reaction, I did not want it to seem like I was exploiting this tragedy in any way, and please know I watched this with the utmost respect. Wow, my heart was truly beating so fast the entire movie. There was so much behind the scenes that I did not know and was interesting to see those angles of that day. This really hurt my heart, it was a very tough watch but like I say in the video I think watching these people's stories is one way to show respect and let them know they are not forgotten.
I can't believe it has been 20 years. I hope the victims families have found peace and comfort and may we never forget.
I am sorry there is so much nose wiping, someone get the girl some Kleenex.
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Comments
Wow. It had been years since I saw this movie. A truly appropriate movie for the 20-year anniversary of 9/11.
Clay F
2023-10-15 02:08:41 +0000 UTCI know this is late, but two other really good films about 911 or the effects of it and I highly recommend is "World Trade Center" (directed by Oliver Stone Stars Nicholas Cage, MIchael Pena (Ant Man), Maggie Gyllenhaal) and the other is more about the effect it had, is Reign Over Me Starring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland.
Ryan Towell
2023-04-06 07:01:15 +0000 UTCI have not been able to watch this yet, too hard. I thought that with you talking it just might distract me enough to let me handle watching, but as I cued it up every fiber screamed no, love all that you are doing, maybe one day. Now I have to rewatch something I love to settle down
Keith Jones
2022-03-02 01:33:46 +0000 UTCI was a veteran by 9/11 but my spouse had gone back in after a break so we were stationed on a post on the west coast. For a while the post was on alert because it wasn’t known if there would be western attacks of any kind.
Rumpus Parable
2021-09-20 13:05:14 +0000 UTCMy father did one trip where he flew. It would have been around 1960 and he had to go with a guy that was a salesman for a company that developed new tech (Dad was a machinist and was often teamed with a scientist). They were in Cleveland trying to get to Newark or New York but there was a big snow storm and talk of closing the airport. The sales guy got them a flight. Dad said it was just them and the flight crew. He asked the salesman what was going on. The guy explained the airline was flying the plane out before the airport closed so it wasn't a regular flight. Dad said it was lucky they were headed home and then the salesman said that the pilot was going to be contact other airports to see where they could land and he said that he had no idea where they would end up except that wherever it was the airport would be open. By a stroke of luck, they ended up in Newark.
Charles Mills
2021-09-12 20:59:20 +0000 UTCI was in the cockpit of a plane in 2007, but by then you were only allowed to visit during cruise and were checked before you could enter. I think it was shortly after that the rules were changed so only the main stewardess that could enter after chatting with the pilots on the intercom system.
Mikio
2021-09-12 20:24:07 +0000 UTCMost definitely, when I was a kid on my way to Disney World in 1998 they allowed me to even sit in the cockpit.
Brandon Dague
2021-09-12 15:53:12 +0000 UTCDon't know about the US, but on Irish & UK flights back in the 80's & 90's, you could request to see the cockpit. I remember when I was 12 being escorted into the cockpit and the pilot would give a brief tour. They used to leave the door open for most of the flight
John Drake
2021-09-12 14:20:55 +0000 UTCAmazing reaction! I love how raw and honest you are. I was on active duty in the Marines on 9/11. There were wild rumors going around. At one point we where told there was going to be a mass attack by suicide bombers at our front gate and we raided our armory and prepared for an attack. I can't put into words how bad that day was.
Fireteam Joker
2021-09-12 05:24:03 +0000 UTCGoing to skip this one. My memories of 9/11 are still too vivid, particularly the horror of watching people die on live tv. Not being judgmental of anyone wishing to watch this movie in any way. But the horror of that day is just too real for me.
Quacksalver Extraordinaire
2021-09-11 10:22:06 +0000 UTCI knew two guys who joined the Marines that week. One was killed by an IED, and the other came home crippled by PTSD and a weird form of malaria. Very glad I didn’t do the same.
Brian Harris
2021-09-11 08:30:32 +0000 UTCThat is such an extreme response, it's pretty crazy. There have not been any event in Europe since WW2 that have let to a wave of volunteers, and there have been plenty of terror stuff, it is just so extreme.
Mikio
2021-09-10 23:25:24 +0000 UTCtwo days after 9/11 I called my local Army recruiter, told him I want to go back in and I want to go back to my old unit (3rd Infantry) because I pretty much knew where they were going (Iraq). He calls me back a week later and says "Are you ready?" I said "Yep." Fast-forward to 2003 and there we are, the 3rd ID, spearheading the invasion into Iraq, enroute to Bagdhad
ron young
2021-09-10 18:43:27 +0000 UTCIt is nice and all, but the Canadians were obligated to let all the planes land as a NATO member, and by the aviation authorities that had to let them do an alternative landing if they were too low on fuel to go anywhere else.
Mikio
2021-09-10 16:25:01 +0000 UTCAnd perhaps focusing on the "face punch" and forgetting the other actions could possibly lead to other acts of arson.
Robin
2021-09-10 05:03:11 +0000 UTCI think I messed up by not explaining myself properly in my original comment. I think 9/11 was horrific but I just wondered if people viewed it in context with the follow-up events. It was a controversial question and probably the timing isn't good. The clearest way I can explain what I meant would be with this clumsy analogy; Peter (al-Qaeda) punched Steve (U.S) in the face. Everyone agreed that Peter was a dick and his actions were disgraceful. Some did wonder however if Steve should have burned down the apartment building that Peter lived in as a way to solve the problem.
Robin
2021-09-10 04:59:49 +0000 UTCCassie, Where there is sadness there is also hope. When the US shut down its airspace all the planes in the air needed some place to land (they were not allowed to land in the US). The flights over the Atlantic Ocean were either sent back to Europe or directed to land in Gander, Canada. Here is an article about "Operation Yellow Ribbon" and the overwhelming graciousness our "neighbors to the North" showed on that horrible day and the week that followed: https://simpleflying.com/operation-yellow-ribbon/ Tom Brokaw did a piece on the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXbxoy4Mges&ab_channel=Trabis There was a documentary film made called “You Are Here: A Come from Away Story” about the operation. The principles were interviewed in 2019 on WNYC. Here is the fascinating interview: https://www.wnyc.org/story/broadway-returns-you-are-here-come-away-story/
Kevin
2021-09-10 04:48:25 +0000 UTCFreedom isn't free is useless if prattled at people who don't care to be free, and the meaning lost on others who simply want to belong to a specific group. Freedom requires responsibility, which means accountability. As Freud observed, people don't like those. Give some people comfort, entertainment, and when those fail, a scapegoat.
Michael Hawk
2021-09-10 04:27:00 +0000 UTCWasn't the last one in the US D.B. Cooper?
Kevin
2021-09-10 04:15:23 +0000 UTC"Freedom isn't Free." What exactly does this mean? "If you intend to spout anti-american comments I will not let that go unchecked." Robin did not write a single anti-American syllable. He asked some fundamental questions about policies of defense and wartime, questions that any thinking person should find reasonable. War is terrible and governments commit nightmarish acts of violence, often with no sense of proportion or moral justification. The US is no different. Why would they be? "If you don't like America stop listening to our music and watching our movies." Be careful what you wish for. "God Bless America and the men and women who defend it." Again, Robin said nothing against our soldiers. He questioned the humanity of certain strategic decisions made well above the heads of the rank and file. Why are you so sensitive about this? Do you believe military decisions are above criticism? There's a word for that, and it isn't democracy.
Brian Harris
2021-09-10 04:04:17 +0000 UTCInteresting fact, at times during the 60s, and 70s, hijackings were almost a monthly accorance.
LightsCameraJake
2021-09-10 03:26:36 +0000 UTCLuis, I would say that maybe people who are marginalized in society could possibly be more susceptible to being radicalized. But as a few people have said here, I'm ignorant and naive. So there's that.
Robin
2021-09-10 03:14:58 +0000 UTCNo, Luis, showing cartoons of Mohammed INSULTED most Muslims. It didn't radicalize them. There are several million Muslim Americans and yet those pointless cartoon contests somehow didn't result in waves of suicide bombings or shootings. There's a difference between being offended and being murderous.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-09-10 03:07:53 +0000 UTCDoesn't take much to radicalize Muslims to be honest, showing a cartoon with their prophet is more than enough.
Luis Rodriguez
2021-09-10 02:57:46 +0000 UTCInvading Afghanistan and Iraq was precisely what al-Qaeda wanted. It gave them an ever-replenishing supply of Americans to attack on their home ground without having to venture overseas, and it radicalized thousands of formerly indifferent Muslims who now saw America as the aggressive Crusader state which bin Laden had always described it as. It's intellectually dishonest to pretend that criticizing the war and its architects is synonymous with criticizing the men and women sent to fight it.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-09-10 02:31:26 +0000 UTCThe casualties were civilians. I don't disrespect them.
Robin
2021-09-10 02:24:17 +0000 UTCCan you tell me what you are referring to specifically in regards to Islamic attacks in NZ and what the reaction was? Do you mean the stabbing in the supermarket in Auckland?
Robin
2021-09-10 02:17:21 +0000 UTCNo, I specifically asked if the civilian causalities in Iraq and Afghanistan were over the top. I mentioned the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a comparison to the Pearl harbor attack.
Robin
2021-09-10 02:15:34 +0000 UTCJust because you are naive and just see humans as humans doesn't mean everyone in the world looks at you that way. Some people see you as an enemy and they wish you dead, you should be a little respectful to the people that have died and will die to stop that from happening.
Luis Rodriguez
2021-09-10 02:11:33 +0000 UTCWhy ask the question when you just want to give your opinion? You go on to give a moral lecture on your view of America's response with a false equivalence comparison with 1945 Japan. Do you even know what happened during the Battle of Okinawa? Considering New Zealand's reaction to recent Islamic terrorist attacks, if an airline suicide attack hit the nation, the government would ban air travel and the citizenry would capitulate, deserving of jackboots allowed upon their napes. Many Americans are ambivalent, by the way. As a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom myself, my ambivalence is especially strong. Sharing any nuance with you , who comes off strongly insincere and ignorant, would be throwing pearls before swine.
Michael Hawk
2021-09-10 02:10:39 +0000 UTCAnd the comment; if you don't like America then stop listening to our music and watching our movies, is problematic. They are movies and music made by creative individuals. Not as a collective. You don't own the creative works of someone just because they are from your country. You are being a bit silly mate.
Robin
2021-09-10 01:40:46 +0000 UTCI'm not anti-American. I just like things to be viewed in a just and fair way. I wasn't raised with a nationalist mindset, so even your comment; 'God bless America and the men and women who defend it', is foreign and strange to me. I just see humans as humans.
Robin
2021-09-10 01:34:35 +0000 UTC
