There is no way to describe what it was like to have been in lower NYC, much less the WTC, on 9/11 - and afterwards.

For many months the air was full of smoke and chemicals. We all thought that we'd get cancer or lung damage eventually, and some of the rescue workers have already succumbed to it.

Most of the firefighters from the fire company across the street from the WTC perished, during rescues. I could picture them, as they used to be, hanging out or responding to the frequent calls in the financial district and WTC, whenever I walked by that fire house for several years. It just seemed impossible that so many had died - at the hands of terrorists.

When the fires started really burning, they knew that it was hopeless. While the emergency-rescue firemen were preparing to go up to bring out more people, there were fire department chaplain priests in the streets giving the Catholic ones their last rights - it was a suicide mission and they knew it.

We must never allow something like this to happen again, ever.
Breukelen advocaat Reviewed by Breukelen advocaat on . MOUSSAOUI TRIAL Moussaoui sipped water and grinned occasionally as prosecutors showed the sentencing jury a multimedia presentation featuring an audiotape of the cockpit voice recorder, an adjacent display of the transcript and a computer-generated cockpit flight simulator to show the speed, altitude, pitch and course of the aircraft before four al-Qaida hijackers crashed the plane in a field in Shanksville, Pa., to defeat the passengers' takeover. http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/14333672.htm Rating: 5