Where were you on 9/11/01?

I had just caught a snippet on TV of the second strike (9:03 AM New York Time = 6:03 AM with the first hit being 08:46:30 hrs NY time) of WT-Center 2.

I was getting ready leave home for a 30 min.commute to work and thought (oh sh#t) what happened.

I was beginning too run late for the drive too the job, being transfixed and trying to process what i was witnessing and hearing of the events being played out on the television. And only latter would understand the implantations of a grand mind control event, thanks to the "Cassiopaea Experiment". :thup:

While driving into work California time, (on interstate 80 in east bound traffic) in the morning commute i am feeling mesmerized that all radio stations were trans-fixed of what seemed like scripted programing.

While driving (as many no doubt) my attention i was glued to the am radio listening for any more information. But in reality it was all disinformation.

By the time i had arrived at work the first tower had already collapsed and began to have a real sense that something very diabolical was under way.

When i made it in the station all crew members (6- 3-off duty on 3-coming on duty rotation ) watched as the second tower seemed too systematically collapse.

Everyone in the room was speech less with the constant replay over, and over again of the impacts and the collapse of the two towers and the Pentagon strike with the reputed assassins already postilion. With the words on the background of this visual montage. playing again, and again of what seemed like for months.

I remember my face getting tight and my ears seem to fall back along side my head sensing. and feeling that something had been very well executed and orchestrated.

I was far from being awake. Not only externally, but far more importantly internally in those times.

It was at that time in 2001 (from the mid 90's ) that i was a constant reader of SOTT and the sessions. So very, very slowly struggling and continuing to an awaking from a self induced slumber. With the true beacon of light of truth, so far away awash in an ocean of allusion and denial.

On 9/11 2001 through out the day (after it was all said and done) i had this sick feeling in the pit of stomach, (more mentally than physically). that something had really changed, like a jumping from one universe into an alternate universe.

And so it was a Martix. The becoming of the current global police state.



 
I was reading in my living room. Ark was working at his computer in our office. My youngest daughter was upstairs watching cartoons in the kids' playroom. She came running down to tell me that her program had been interrupted because a plane crashed into a building. She was very excited and said that I should turn the TV on see. I didn't think it was all that important so I said I would catch it on the news in the evening. She went away. Then she came back, more excited than before and INSISTED I should check it out. So, I went to the bedroom and turned on the television.... the whole thing was in full propaganda drive and I could tell pretty quickly that this was important. So, I got Ark and he came in and the three of us piled up on the bed to watch. When the first tower just disintegrated we looked at each other and said "WHAT?!" It was clearly impossible.

So, of course, we were pretty glued to the TV off and on the rest of the day and evening. There was discussion on our E-group about it and I was getting tons of emails asking me what I thought. So, the next day I wrote a short commentary about it as follows:

From an “Expert” on Lies:

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, because the vast masses of a nation are, in the depths of their hearts, more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy victims of a big lie than a small one, because they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones. Such a form of lying would never enter their heads. They would never credit others with the possibility of such great impudence as the complete reversal of facts.

Even explanations would long leave them in doubt and hesitation, and any trifling reason would dispose them to accept a thing as true. Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.
~ Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
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Dear Readers,

As we observe the unfolding of the events in the aftermath of the WTC attack, we are being sent many messages from all around the world by our readers thanking us for attempting to present a balanced perspective. They are also sending tid-bits of information gathered here and there, ideas, opinions, speculations and observations, all of which serve to highlight the potential of the moment.

What is that potential?

The fact is: such an event as the horror of yesterday will naturally have long-lasting repercussions.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt once was quoted as saying: “Nothing in politics ever happens by accident; if it happens, you can bet it was planned!”

One would think that he was in a position to know.

One of the earliest reactions to the events of yesterday received by us was the following:

Dear Fellow American,

Provisions in three separate presidential executive orders – Section 5(g) of Executive Order 11905, Section 2-305 of Executive Order 12036 and Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333 – ban the United States government from engaging in efforts to assassinate enemies of this country. In light of the war declared on the United States today by terrorists, these bans should be lifted immediately […] sign the petition urging your congressman to call on President Bush to issue an executive order repealing the prohibitions on assassinations …
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What kind of lunacy inspires such rhetoric? Doesn’t this guy see that he is effectively becoming a tool of darkness?

It seems fairly obvious that, as many of the pundits were saying, there was a “failure of intelligence.”

Well, aside from the grim humor of such a remark, what does it really mean? Is it even remotely possible for that many aircraft to be hijacked at once, for those routes to be changed without being noticed, for those who notice to not ask questions, and once the questions have been asked, for there not to be some action taken pretty damn quick?

What about the simple matter of having “intel,” or “inside info?” Was this attack staged by an organization with absolutely no shoelaces left untied in terms of moles, double agents, or other leaks? In this day and time, that is almost inconceivable.

So, either it is possible that such was the case – there were no leaks – or that there WERE leaks, and someone turned a blind eye for their own objectives. But neither option really justifies the legislation of greater powers of the CIA and intelligence communities which is being promoted.

Meanwhile, playing into the “anti-moslem,” anti-Palestinian mode of thinking is ALSO falling into the clutches of the manipulators.

What is more: there is the even more chilling possibility that it was done by those who would wish to cast blame UPON the moslems or the Palestinians by manipulating them, helping them, and egging them on. Because it is fairly easy to see that the results of such an action would be so great a level of retaliation that only madmen of Islam would bring that kind of wrath down upon their own people.

Again: observe the results: THEY ARE INTENTIONAL.

But then again, fundamentalist fanatics are like that – of ANY religion. The famous remark made at the time of the beginning of the Inquisition: “Kill them all; God will know his own,” is not exclusive to Christian fundamentalist thinking. But we still come back to the intentional results.

Of course, those claiming that the New World Order is coming and that this is part of the plan to cause Americans to doubt the usefulness of democracy and to beg for more and stricter laws, are having a field day. Even if there is no “organized plan” by the “apparent government” in this direction, such an argument can be seen to have some validity. But we caution against running too far and too fast with this idea. The fact may be that we already have a “One World Government,” and that such actions as we see here are merely manipulations of energy – INCLUDING the fear mongering and reactionary stampeding of those screaming that the Beast is coming to take us all away.

This reaction is also intended. And those who are following it are just stampeded cattle.

One of the more obvious interpretations is that the whole incident with its comparison to “Pearl Harbor” is exactly that: an inducement to war. It is now generally known that the United States was aware of Japan’s plans to attack Pearl Harbor well enough in advance to have taken preventive action. This may even be the source of FDR’s remark quoted above. But the U.S. did NOT take action – not even so simple an action as warning the troops to get the heck out of the way.

Why? Well, obviously, the U.S. wanted to get into the war and the people were dead set against it. How to manipulate the people to ask the government to go to war? Why, Pearl Harbor, of course. So we have the government playing the part of “restrained shepherd of democracy” who is waiting for the public (which is being manipulated by the media) to DEMAND satisfaction by war

Today we are confronted with saber rattling of the most extreme sort. It passes even the war dances that were plastered on billboards and television and broadcast on radios prior to the Gulf War. Which reminds me: how many of you caught General Schwartzkopf’s comments? The old hero demanded his last word and pronounced the bastards to be the most reprehensible kind because they attacked civilians – it was not even a “military target.”

Well, heck, that’s true! I don’t think that a single red-blooded American would not agree. We are OUTRAGED.

We are appalled at the whole thing. We are sick to think of those driven to actually jump from the WTC to escape the heat, the flames, the destruction and horror of that Charnel house. One witness nearly broke down when he reported that the sky was “raining bodies.” People were jumping in pairs, holding hands.

Yes indeed! We are most heartily upset, offended, outraged, stunned, and just about every miserable and horrifying adjective you can think up. We are almost unable to even express our feelings for those whose lives were destroyed in this catastropic event, the dead as well as those connected to the dead directly or indirectly.

But, damn it! What if that is INTENDED?!

And intended by WHOM?!

WHO STANDS TO GAIN? By ANY action taken in response to this event?

Remember what FDR said: If it happens, it was planned that way.

And then there is the old intel guy who told me that one of the first rules of intelligence is to observe the situation AS IT IS, and extrapolate to who will gain from it.

And there is only one answer here.

Let’s not be blind cattle stampeded by the sound of a gunshot. In all cases, let’s stop, look, observe and analyze, and try to figure out: Who is on first?

We, as a people, as the human race, have been manipulated for eons. That’s a fact of history. Over and over again. And those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Ark and Laura

Originally Published 2001_09_12
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http://cassiopaea.org/2010/10/05/world-trade-center-terrorist-attack-those-who-do-not-learn-from-history-are-doomed-to-repeat-it/

I followed that up with a couple more commentaries:
http://cassiopaea.org/2010/10/05/9-11-the-new-pearl-harbor-who-benefits/
http://cassiopaea.org/2010/10/05/war/

I was doing my utmost to try to get people to stop and think. Sadly, I failed.
 
I was getting ready for work and my office manager called to tell me a plane had crashed into a building. I turned on the TV and was stunned at what I was seeing and thought, "oh, god, what will he (Bush) do NOW?" I knew it wouldn't be good and it wasn't, and it has only gotten worse. It was hard to hear a sane voice back then, I didn't have the internet or know about SOTT, but knew things were not as being reported. Fortunately, we had access to alternative newspapers. It was freaky how everyone started flying the flag to show what good Americans they were. So now, the police state is well in place, and young people of today have grown up in this system and don't know any different.

I feel very fortunate to be able to read this forum as well as SOTT. Thanks for all the good work.
 
I was living in the south of England at the time, in a house share with four other people, including my then girlfriend. Since Bush had been elected I was pretty much watchful over political developments on both sides of the pond, and I was at that time becoming interested in conspiracy theories after finding the likes of David Icke and infowars on the internet. Their work didn't satisfy me, it seemed sensationalist, at times absurd.

Three of us in the household were watching 24hr news avidly during that period, myself and an old friend of mine were becoming increasingly interested in watching the news for political developments, and as fate would have it we were there to behold much of what was reported on BBC news 24 that day. Man I was naive back then, so many contradictory feelings which took me years to understand. My memories are pretty vague unfortunately because as a household we were all pot-heads, but it amazes and frightens me to recall that a British rock band at the time had recorded a song called "Bomb the Pentagon" and were playing it live prior to the events of that day (subsequently renamed as Rise when it was eventually released. That band was called Primal Scream, still going I believe. Messages as warnings from the collective unconscious from angsty politicized rockers? Or angry anarchists wishing to see the felling of the great Satan? All of these feelings and thoughts were in me at that time.

It was really shocking to see so much death and destruction, and I recall being very sceptical about the so-called experts and talking heads wheeled onto the news channel to offer their opinions on who was behind it. I had recently watched documentaries about Timothy McVeigh and the Waco massacre, so there was a lot going on in my subconscious which had not been processed. I certainly didn't trust the likes of Bush, Ashcroft, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Guliani, and as others have stated here on this thread, it all just seemed too convenient. Far too convenient, in fact. I knew nothing about psychopaths back then of course.

The atmosphere in Southampton where I lived was chilling that day. A very unusual breeze was blowing, I remember being afraid at the bus stop on my way to work that evening, it almost felt like the wind was speaking, I could hear terror on the wind. I know this sounds crazy but that is exactly how I felt that evening. I remember at the restaurant where I worked, a waiter was musing that this was the end of the world, so we better make the most of it. One of the chefs was in proper Guardianista mode, determined to enlighten everyone about al quaeda and the taliban and such (actually that was in the subsequent days and weeks). Most of us were just in shock, we didn't know what to believe. When an event like that happens it's interesting in one aspect because it reveals to you just how little you know and understand. I was driven like crazy to try and get to the bottom of it all, to find out who actually did it and why.

It was another two years before I came upon sott.net and Cassiopaea and read the "Mossad Happy Dance" article and things began to change in my mind.
 
I was at my old job, sitting at my desk. One of my coworkers came into work at his usual later-in-the-morning time, and he announced that terrorists flew a plane into the WTC.

I remember thinking, "Terrorists? What's this guy talking about?"

The concept seemed so idiotic. Well, it didn't take long for the hysteria to go into full swing, and before you knew it, it was the talk of the town. I also remember everybody waving their flags everywhere, and I was just dumbfounded.

I recall speaking to a neighbor in my apartment complex. He was talking about Arabs, etc. I mentioned something - very, very gently - about other possible views on the events of 9/11, and I'll never forget the look on his face. It was like a combination of "zombie", "cold", and a hidden disgust at what I was saying. Wasn't like the guy I knew at all. It was like somebody else was looking at me through his eyes. Then there was the time the invasion of Iraq was discussed with family. One relative sat there in a chair, hands on the armrests, looking decidedly uncomfortable with the direction the conversation was going in, and he said something along the lines of, "I have to believe that Bush has good reasons for going into Iraq, even if we can't know what they are." Even those people who prided themselves on being "rational" couldn't think their way out of a cardboard box in the face of 9/11 and its aftermath. That so-called rationality only went so far. It was bizarre. "Shock therapy", I guess...

On the other hand, that was what lit a fire under my posterior to change my life. It was bad enough wasting my time and energy in a job I didn't really like, with the constant threat of layoffs hanging over our heads, and meanwhile the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Around that time, another relative told me that the only time he felt alive was when he was on vacation. There were a lot of other little events like that... I remember thinking that this wasn't life; it was just surviving - and for what?

The rest is history.

It's funny, because certain things never happened. For example, Bush never became a dictator, although many of us suspected that was right around the corner. I mean, that gang was NUTS. On the other hand, look at today... Police in the US are running around beating and shooting anybody they please, and isn't that the definition of a police state? I mean, DUH!

And yet still, even today, people still don't understand that, "they hate us because of our freedoms" has led directly to far fewer freedoms. You don't have any rights if Officer Angry confronts you for any reason he chooses. That's not freedom.

And it isn't much better in many other countries.
 
I was at home watching on TV after the first building was reported as being on fire. The news were saying 'terrorist attacks' from the outset and at the time, I had no reason to doubt that this was the case.

As events unfolded I became curious as to how the terrorists had managed to rig the buildings with explosives but expected that these facts would ultimately be presented as part of the inevitable investigation.
When the official narrative started to depart from facts that I could see with my own eyes, my curiosity piqued and I began to read read read for all I was worth. I haven't watched any TV since 2001.

It was 9/11 that started me openly questioning events on the internet; that led me to questioning everything; led me to my first encounters with COINTELPRO; led me to SOTT as the only site that appeared totally objective and so onto The Wave, SHOTW and everything else. 9/11 was truly the defining moment that opened my eyes and set me upon a path to seeking objective Truth and a greater understanding of everything (not that there isn't still a very long way to go).

I have you all to thank and I have to thank you all!
 
I was repeating my third year at university for the third time, this time all I had to do where my exams so I was at home.
Me and my dad where watching the UK part political broadcasts from the different parties at there annual conference. The only thing that stood out about that was thinking the Scottish National Party was the only one speaking any sense, and feeling annoyed I couldn't vote for them to run the UK :rolleyes:
Then the BBC news interupted.

I didn't know what to make of it, but it didn't seem real. I remember getting caught up in it, like watching a movie - but this also added to my sense of unease at the unreality of what I was seeing.
The same unease was present watching all the things that followed (along with unfortunately, the same feeling of watching a movie - It was exciting :shock:), especially the Iraq war.

It wasn't until discovering sott.net 5 years later that I actually really questioned it. And it took me a year or two to get into that.

In retrospect, reading this article today I can see I was hypnotized and transfixed by it all - so I'm thankful for the unease that got worse as time went on, and no amount of authority would take away.
The anti-Arab sentiment and nationalism I saw in the US was what troubled me the most. So I guess at least at some level I was aware of the hypnosis.
I remembered seeing the same in history documentaries about the Nazis.

And then I just went back to 'life' because I was powerless to do anything about it all (or so I thought), thinking about it just made my head hurt.

As I was somewhat late to the party I've only had a few encounters with people who just can't go there, mostly in the UK though they just look confused or dismissive.
The 'conspiracy theorist' card gets played, as the propaganda around those words went into overdrive after 9/11.

Skipling said:
The atmosphere in Southampton where I lived was chilling that day. A very unusual breeze was blowing, I remember being afraid at the bus stop on my way to work that evening, it almost felt like the wind was speaking, I could hear terror on the wind. I know this sounds crazy but that is exactly how I felt that evening.
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I put it down to shock, but the air did seem different that day.
 
At college in England around midday? - some other kid was using WAP (mobile internets) and relaying that a plane had hit, then we heard about the second. No way did i think it would look like visual extravaganza that it did.

Me and a friend actually found the whole situation hilarious (i think we were scared, thinking we could die) and joked all the way home on the bus.

I then stayed up all night watching the rolling news; the repeats of the same images.

It is crazy how vivid one day can be in the mind of so many people even those who don't pay that much attention to world events - of course that was the objective.

Oh, and i believed the official line for a good while!... :zzz: same when i was in London for 7/7. But i was never much of an establishment thinker and could see why we may be just as responsible.
 
I was driving home from work. I heard it in the radio that "a plane crashed into the WTC". At that time it was speculated that it could be an accident or something else. During the drive, the tone changed into "terrorists did it!". When I was at home, turning on the TV, the other plane crashed into the second tower and from there, the only word was "terrorist, terrorists". It was really surreal, especially when the first tower went down. I thought that this should be impossible and the way he collapsed seemed to totally defy physics. Seeing the damage at the second tower, I was sure that a second collapse would be just impossible because the plane hit too high. And when the second tower went down in exact the same manner like the first one, I really started to doubt what I know about physics.

There were an aftertaste of "something isn't right here", but couldn't exactly say what it was. It was strange that everyone saw the collapse as something completely normal and nothing to think about twice, the propaganda did work well. I put it into the category "mysterious things" and went on with life while seeing that the world changed in subtle ways. It didn't wake me up then, only running across someone who pointed out that the collapse could not happen the way they told us, my curiosity was sparked again. One let to the other and the rest is history.
 
That morning unfortunately i was barely alive yet. I made sure to take my addictive drugs before anything and then turned on the television while in my disgusting bed in a friends basement. I was very annoyed that i could not find anything else to watch. I guess this is the type of brainwashing raising a child with the television will create. Thank goodness something caused me to eventually push past all of that.
 
I was reading some comic books and my TV was on CNN and than in one blink of the eye program went from boring news to the breaking news - WTC disaster or something like this. I could not believe my eyes, I was in shock thinking (as a total ignorant fool) that CNN is showing just an ordinary airplane crash. I was glued to the TV, crying for the poor souls lost in the WTC and in the AA11, wondering how something like that could happened with all modern gadgets, traffic control and of course heavy control of the US air space. Than my father joined for a cup of coffee, this was some five minutes before second hit into south tower. He calmly said something that I will remember whole my life: "So Americans will finally get the war and the world will go to hell." The rest of the day passed in some kind of haze, I'm sure I could not fathom the depth of the things displayed on the TV.
At the time, I was doing long working contracts in US with month and a half back home between the contracts, I was scared to go back to the US, and actually lost the will to fly, I was wondering if I could be one of that people in a hijacked airplanes. It took me, two years to go back to US, but than looked like entering the fortress not the country (eye scanners, body cavity searches, full body scanning, all kind of limitations, etc), made me sick and I felt like US is not the same country any more, I didn't want to work in US any longer.
Days after 911 I could remember the fishy craze on national and international TV programs and mantra about Arab culprits and constant repeating of the same thing. The newspapers were screaming with propaganda, same BS propaganda we have had in Coratia during final war operations like Bljesak and Oluja. :pinocchio:
Of course the real thing and the real culprits I recognized thanks to this forum, Sott and Laura's work, for that I'm eternally gratefull.
Knowledge protects for sure.
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I was 21, a senior in college. I was generally oblivious and uninterested in politics, current events, history... I was a science girl. (Throughout my younger years, I used to imagine myself in the back of some lab somewhere... let the world/government/politics take care of themselves, I want nothing to do with it! I am amused now by my naivete that politics has no effect on science!) I remember the 2000 presidential election.. the first one I was able to vote in. My roommates and I would watch Indecision 2000 on the Daily Show with Craig Killborn and I remember being so struck by the fact that my roommate was so vehemently anti-Bush. I never thought of her as politically aware/interested (she was pre-Vet major and mostly just into animals). I remember being shocked that she knew anything about the candidates, let alone cared one way or the other.

I spent most of my on-campus time in the science/engineering section of the large campus but that morning I had to go to the other side of campus for a class or something that I don't remember. I had started classes early.. 7 or 8... and it was probably around 10 AM when I decided cut through the Student Union building, which was notable just because as I said, I rarely ventured outside my little sector. I was lost in my own head, thinking about other things not really aware of the things around me as usual. But things weren't quite right forcing me to take notice... groups of students were gathered under the TVs (they were mounted up high, near the ceiling, maybe 4 of them). I looked up to see what they were all watching... the newscaster in front of the backdrop of the smoking towers, the screaming bold banner at the bottom of the screen "AMERICA UNDER ATTACK". I remember the feeling... a mixture of shock and non-shock at the same time.. and the first thought in my head came like an exhale of breath- two thoughts at once: OhMyGodItsStarted/ItsJustLikeMyDreams. I think my jaw might have actually dropped and I just stared. I remember coming home and my roommate telling me they were saying Osama bin Laden did it and I was like " Who the Hell is Osama bin Laden??? (and how do YOU know who he is?!)"

My awareness and thinking has evolved quite a bit over the years, but the 9/11 anniversary has come and gone each time for me with barely a notice. This year, it was different. On Wednesday, I happened to catch the date and realize that 9/11 was the coming Friday and I had a jolt of cold fear/panic/dread go through me- a thought like "Not yet, I'm not ready!"
 
On that fateful morning, one of my sons and I were working on a renovation contract at a friend's building in Montreal. As we began the day, one of our co-workers called in saying he was stuck in traffic near the airport and that we should turn on the TV because something had happened in NYC. It made no sense to us that he was stuck in Montreal traffic while something had happened in New York, yet as we turned on the TV, we actually saw the second plane hit Live! Then, later, as the building crumbled, five of us, sat there, shaking our heads in disbelief, but one thing we all agreed on was the fact that steel buildings do not melt the way we saw these go down. AT least not from fuel fire!

The day is still clear in my mind! And all that followed is now history to reassemble as best we can....
 
I was working as a chamber maid in a hotel in Barcelona. At my break as usually I called my husband and he told me that one airplane had struck one of the Tween Towers. I thought he was joking. So I went to the counter reception and effectively my co-workers were looking at the incident from a computer. At that moment just one Tower was hit and we were seeing a fire and smoked. I had to continue to work so I left the reception and went up to clean some hall ways. Later a tourist group arrived and when I asked some of them how was their trip they answered they were very, very sad for what had just happened in New York. I was really not aware at all of the grandiosity of the event. Later at home I saw the news and the images that would become loops for many many weeks. And months. And years.

My reaction was naturally fear. And because I was ignorant of many things I accepted the official story. The rest is history and the story continued in this country with the train attack. With fear and insecurity in me, the propaganda worked perfectly. I was obsessed by the picture of the guy that fell from one of the towers for many weeks.

edit: continued my story.
 
On that day, I was working in a large grocery store and the customers were the one's who alerted the staff of what was happening in New York. The place was loaded with security camera's but not one TV. That evening, after watching local news, broadcast switched to live coverage in New York. The scenes were horrific. In the middle of another replay of the Towers falling down, The Pa Lottery interrupted for it's live drawing at 7 P.M. First - the Daily Number - number's drawn - 911 (exactly)! My mind went blank after that. It all felt like a sick game, yet hundreds of innocent lives were just savagely lost that day.

The following day, the New York Times newspaper reported - the odd occurrence of 911 coming up in the Lottery's "Daily Number" and that lottery officials had to turn away customers - using 911 straight or combinations of the 3 numbers (earlier in the day) because it had met quota via guidelines, prior to the live broadcast. I was dumbfounded that anyone would use a tragedy, that was still unfolding (live on TV) and use the date to play a Lottery? Only to have the exact same three numbers come up - on the same day - in a live broadcast. The pay-out for playing 911 straight - $500.

The True Story Behind the 9/11 Budweiser Commercial That Only Aired One Time
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- An emotional, powerful television ad featuring the Budweiser Clydesdales aired only one time during Super Bowl XXXVI on February 3, 2002.

In the ad, the horses pay tribute to the memory of the fallen of September 11th with an unforgettable, breath-taking bow. Many people have never forgotten the commercial that only aired one time.

Anheuser-Busch's creative team came up with the concept and moved heaven and earth to make the commercial. They had to get approval from members of Congress, the advertising community and from New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani.

"We filmed in New York City," said Bob Lachky, former executive vice president of Anheuser-Busch Global Creative. "We had a helicopter going over the Brooklyn Bridge. Mayor Guiliana let us into the city -- the only film company of any sort right after 9-11. To actually come into air space with our helicopter to film the Clydesdale... the hitch coming into Battery Park and it was amazing...just amazing."

It was amazing, especially considering how New York was a city still hurting. And yet a St. Louis-based company, touched by the pain of the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil, took a risk to help one of our favorite cities and our nation heal.

The company's logo is absent throughout the entire video until the very end.

Budweiser did air an updated version of the commercial on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the attacks -- however the original commercial (below) has only aired one time.

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eQmzw6n3k
 
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