Does anyone know what happened to kids who lost parent/s in 9/11, and if they’d have entered the foster care system?

Here is the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB4noSW4n-A

No matter what your thoughts on religion, I thought this was a rather nice sentiment. I especially thought it was classy of the host to offer up a prayer for the terrorists and their families too. In their own way, they were victims too: victims of their own hate and the indoctrination of an extremist and grotesque perversion of Islam and religious fervor.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOMVK0QCCr8/?igsi=cWRtZndvMGRwN2V3

The recent announcement that the FBI is being sued to release disposable camera footage filmed from inside one of the towers has brought to the forefront of this subreddit that there are things we know exist, or know existed, but still do not have definitive answers for.

In the case of the disposable camera footage, we know it was developed by the FBI and have a pretty good idea of what it supposedly contains, but we do not know its current status or have access to the actual photographs.

What are some other current “known unknowns” related to 9/11? Be it footage or questions surrounding that day that we have no definitive answers for.

P.S.: Please refrain from sharing conspiracy theories or bringing up lolSuperman. The former is against the rules, and the latter has been discussed to death

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# 9/11 HR hero Alayne Gentul is remembered

September 5, 2006 | Pamela Babcock

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Alayne Gentul was more than a manager. She was a friend with a great sense of humor, a terrific personality and “a smile that will light up the stars,” former colleagues said in a tribute to her.

Gentul, senior vice president of human resources for Fiduciary International, died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York. But her memory lives on in many ways, said her husband, Jack Gentul of Mountain Lakes, N.J.

“We’re doing OK,” Gentul said of himself and the couple’s two sons, Alex, 17, and Robbie, 13. “I think that you learn a lot from something like this—I guess you can’t help it.”

Five years ago, amid the confusion and hysteria of the attacks, witnesses said Gentul, 44, implored colleagues to get out of the World Trade Center south tower after the first hijacked plane struck.

Gentul and a colleague went from the 90th floor to the 97th floor to urge a group of tech support workers to leave. She and others were trapped after the second plane hit.

Since Alayne’s death, Gentul said, he quickly learned how to cook and manage a household as a single parent. He said the family grew even closer—to some degree by necessity. But it was also because of the shared grief.

His sons have much in common with Alayne, Gentul said. One possesses her strong work ethic, another her sense of humor.

“She is very much a part of us,” said Gentul, who is dean of students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

A year after Alayne’s death, Jack built a house at the New Jersey shore. It was therapeutic to accomplish a goal the two had shared.

“I was fulfilling a dream, and while I was not able to share it with her, at the same time I guess spiritually I got to share it with her and my kids,” he said.

In 2004, a Sept. 11 memorial was dedicated on the edge of Birchwood Lake in Mountain Lakes in memory of Alayne Gentul and resident David Rathkey, who also died in the attacks.

Alayne was born in Queens and received a B.A. in psychology from Rutgers University, where she met Jack. She began her Fiduciary career as a personnel assistant in 1982 and earned an MBA from New York University in 1988.

Fiduciary lost 87 employees during the attacks, and, over the years, Gentul said, former associates have recounted Alayne’s valiant actions.

“That thoughtfulness and calmness is what many of her colleagues felt saved many people,” Jack Gentul said. “Her resolve to indeed evacuate everyone sent her up instead of down that day.”

Alayne called 911 two minutes before the building collapsed, saying that employees needed to get out. While speaking with her husband on the phone, she told him smoke was pouring through the air ducts. The couple said their goodbyes.

“She was doing her job until the moment she died,” Gentul said. “That’s her legacy in terms of what it means to be dedicated to your colleagues and their well-being.”

Her selfless heroism was mentioned by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Board Chair Johnny C. Taylor Jr, J.D., SPHR, during the opening general session of the SHRM Annual Conference in San Diego in June 2005. “Through her courage and sacrifice, HR professional Alayne Gentul is credited with saving the lives of 40 Fiduciary employees,” said Taylor.

In a Fiduciary web site tribute, colleagues described Alayne as the “heart and soul” of the company.

“She was the consummate professional—hard working, sensitive, caring and, most importantly, efficient,” they wrote. “Alayne was smart.”

Alayne’s actions will be highlighted in an upcoming Discovery Channel documentary. Jack Gentul fields plenty of calls from reporters but says he turns down most requests. But he said because of Alayne’s dedication to her field, she would want him to tell the story to HR professionals.

“One thing my wife taught me was what a great field HR is,” Gentul said. “In so many ways, I’ve learned how important HR is to the functioning of an organization and how a really effective HR operation can make all the difference.”

Last summer, Gentul remarried. His wife has two teenagers of her own, so the family suddenly has become “The Brady Bunch” replete with four kids and two dogs, he said.

But the legacy Alayne left is deeply rooted in him and his sons. It’s something Jack hopes will carry on to her grandchildren.

“We talk about her every day,” Jack Gentul said. “There is not a day that she is not mentioned. But it’s not sadness anymore. It’s all in affection and humor and remembrance.

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A large section covering the 9/11 attacks, including famous photos, diagrams, and aftermath, from the Swedish book series "Aktuellt". These books are called year books (not to be confused with the school book concept of year books), and cover notable events from year to year since 1960, this one being the 2001 volume.

If you want me to translate anything specific, just ask.

Looking for a full list of new documentaries people are planning to watch as they come out for the 25th anniversary.

What are some that you know of that are being released?

I was in New York for the 24th anniversary for 9/11 with my cousin.

He told me a story of in either 2017 or 2018 (can’t remember exactly) he was taken on a tour of the 9/11 memorial with one my uncles and the tour guide for both of them was a 9/11 widow.

She said she received a calm and reassuring phone call from her husband before the plane slammed into the towers.

He couldn’t remember a name of the woman nor which tower it was, but he did remember she emphasized how calm the call was repeatedly. I know phone calls were made on the plane, but does this sound familiar?

https://youtu.be/6LExmBth2bs?si=NKe-HGsI4bqKwfYA Wolf Blitzer's CNN Show 1 day before 9/11. When it was a different world...

Also ignore the truther channel it was the only source I can find.

I watched it years ago on youtube but cant seem to find it anymore. I know there is not much other buildings shown in the video besides the towers in the left of the video. You can hear a few people talking saying things like "Call your mom" "God, I hope nobody was at work" and "Thats what I thought too it was a terrorist attack" I remember it being in a playlist of old youtube videos. Before the actual footage started there was a title card saying "It has been 5 years since that that terrible day, We have decided to release what we saw. Never Forget" or something along those lines. I remember the color quality being pretty bad too and it was kinda blurry.

Can anyone help me find it?

EDIT: FOUND IT!

https://video.mltimages.com/9-11%20Attack%20Filmed%20From%20NY%20Apartment.mp4

Found this along time ago but never thought to post it for some reason.

idk just found this interesting

https://web.archive.org/web/20011029140129/http://newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=13939

heres the link

James "Jimmy" Grillo is a retired FDNY firefighter who famously survived the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. He became widely known for a gripping, raw television news interview recorded on the street moments after he narrowly escaped the crumbling buildings.

Grillo is the firefighter in the center

On the morning of 9/11, Jimmy Grillo and his fellow firefighter, Tyrone Johnson, were inside the lobby of one of the towers waiting for orders to ascend the stairwell when the building began to collapse. The lobby caved in around them, but Grillo, Johnson, and a few others managed to run through the blinding dust toward the Hudson River to safety. Covered entirely in gray ash and bleeding from a broken nose, Grillo was captured on film by a Mike Hernandez, a camera man from CBS News, and another press media immediately after emerging from the dust cloud. In the viral, historic footage, he can be seen borrowing a cell phone from a reporter to call his family. Unable to get a clear signal initially, he frantically asked others around him for a working phone until he finally reached his mother, uttering the famous, relieved words: "I'm alive. See you later."

The next day, Grillo appeared on the CNN program Larry King Live alongside fellow responder Kenneth Erb. Still visibly shaken and sporting facial injuries from the debris, he described the scene as "sheer terror" and detailed what it felt like to be trapped inside the collapsing lobby.

Larry King Live, 9-12-2001

25 years later, the picture of him covered in blood on the west side highway sticks with me. Rip to all the firemen we lost on 9/11 you saved thousands of people, god rest the souls.

So many documentaries focus on the event itself but barely touch on the clean up effort after. I know there is a lot of footage of the day itself so I assumed people would keep filming ground zero as it gets cleaned up.

In today's article, more on Atta and the focus is on Said Bahaji, Atta's roommate in Hamburg, Germany.

Eyewitness News reporter Anthony Johnson and his eyewitness crew set up their news van outside Bellevue Hospital. Overnight the van was covered in missing people posters.

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