Thursday, September 1, 2011

Dramatic Video After 9/11 Attack





First Responder's Dramatic Video After Attack -- 9/11 Remembered/Yahoo News



Career firefighters Kevin McCullagh and Jerry Walsh had retired weeks before terrorists attacked the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Their years at Ladder 126 in South Jamaica, Queens, were over. But when they heard the news, they didn’t hesitate to drive across the Hudson River and volunteer to support their fellow firefighters



McCullagh took along his retirement gift: a camcorder. Aware that history was in the making, he started filming snippets of what they saw from a firefighter’s perspective: a giant pall of smoke rising over the Manhattan skyline, ash a foot deep, firefighters sifting through a sea of rubble, little fires burning here and there, trees blown on their sides, gouges in buildings, and the collapsed Twin Towers.



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My Comment: Another must read piece on 9/11 is from The Daily Mail. The link to that post is here.

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