r/decadeology • u/icey_sawg0034 Early 2010s were the best • May 22 '26

Discussion 💭🗯️ Why did so many media pre-9/11 predict the destruction of the Twin Towers before the attacks happened?

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u/CompetitiveLake3358 May 22 '26

The twin towers have been attacked constantly since the day they were made

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u/RaynbowZFTW May 22 '26

'i hope someone knocks down those ugly towers' circa 1973

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u/Jiggly_Pop55 May 22 '26

Constantly?

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u/splanks May 22 '26

every minute every day.

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u/sonnytron May 23 '26

It was the primary reason for Rick Rescorla completely revamping emergency preparedness for Morgan Stanley’s employees. Out of 2700 employees in the towers, 2687 made it out alive thanks to him. He literally predicted it would be attacked again, using his veteran experience of two country’s armed forces, and insisted on training employees under his protection in evacuation steps.

He’s the real life equivalent to the typical movie trope where a guy warns big executives about an attack and being brushed off as being crazy. They actually tried to order his company to shelter in place. He said “no, fuck that, we are getting out now” and had employees follow his evacuation prep plan to a T. They climbed down 60 flights of stairs and he used Army marching cadences to keep them moving.

After he evacuated all his employees he started going back to save employees of other companies. He called his wife and told her his goodbyes when he felt the building was gonna come down.

So yeah, safe to say a lot of people knew it was a big target.

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u/NotsoGreatsword May 24 '26

God what an awesome person. It sucks when people like that end up being part of who we lose.

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u/MattWolf96 May 23 '26

*in media

King Kong climbed up them back in the 70's, he also caused a helicopter to crash into it