9/11: The Legacy

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The tragic events of 9/11 left thousands dead and injured and the impact of that loss is still being felt twenty years later by the families. It was also a day of extraordinary escapes as thousands more fled the twin towers after the planes hit. In this podcast, we both remember those people who died and also hear an extraordinary story of survival.

Dan is first joined by Jonathan Egan who lost his father, Michael, and aunt, Christine, during the attacks on 9/11. Whilst Jonathan is a New Yorker his father and aunt were from Hull, England. Michael and Christine were on the 100th floor of the South Tower when the plane struck and as his aunt attempted to escape his father made one last phone call home to say goodbye to his family. Jonathan tells Dan about his memories of that terrible day, how he dealt with his loss and the impact it has had on him and his family.

Secondly, in an extract from our sibling podcast, Warfare Joe Dittmar shares with James his story of surviving 9/11. On the morning of 11 September 2001, he was in a meeting on the 105th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when the plane struck. He was one of the only people to escape the tower from above the point of impact after locating the only remaining intact stairwell. Listen to the full interview with Joe here.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History. 20 years ago this weekend out of a
0:05.7	beautiful blue sky, the 9-11 attacks changed our world. 2,997 people were killed
0:15.2	and 19 alkydeteris of course add onto that, bringing the number nearly to 3,000.
0:20.6	It was a day none of us will ever forget, we all remember where we were that day. I just
0:24.9	come off a plane, I just landed flying from the US, I just landed in Heathrow Airport
0:30.2	in the UK. I'd noticed the night before in LAX Los Angeles Airport, huge levels of security,
0:37.5	armed men, sniffer dogs, I thought something very old was going on. And I landed in Heathrow,
0:43.8	rang home, tell them I'm in doubt, I'd be back to see them soon after some months away,
0:47.7	being a student, a parapetetic student, and they told me the first tower had been hit.
0:53.0	Like so many of you listening, I had friends, I had family members in and around those buildings,
0:58.8	my cousin Alex, my best friend was a block away. We lost contact within that day, phone
1:03.9	lines went down, and all we saw was Loma hadn't shrouded in a giant pole of smoke and
1:10.7	debris, we didn't know the extent of the damage and we didn't know whether he would be
1:15.3	okay. Millions of us I think waited for those phone calls, those text messages to arrive
1:20.3	and bring us news, but we're so desperate to hear. For many families, those messages never
1:24.6	arrived for thousands and thousands of families. They have spent the intervening time mourning
1:31.0	the loss of sons, daughters, brothers, wives, husbands and parents. In this podcast, I'm
1:37.7	very lucky to talk to Jonathan Egan, he's a family member. He lost his father and his aunt
1:45.8	in 911 attacks. He's a New Yorker, but his dad and aunt were both English. He's got a
1:51.9	harrowing story of his father being able to ring home, say goodbye to his mum, say goodbye
1:59.4	to rest the family, before the tower collapsed and took him and his colleagues with it.
2:05.6	You're also going to hear from another interview conducted by the history hit team. This time
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