[dandroid]

which has me wonder about alleged forgeries...i think that there are some photoshoppers out there that, for the very reason of not having the jumpers forgotten, produced images that fail under scrutiny...

[Sunvang]

How is going with the scanner your wife bought Bill? Looking forward to see the pictures you took that sad day.

[Codemonkey3]

Also very interested in seeing them, just giving this thread a little bump as well.

[Billthegravedigger]

Getting there folks. When you see that baby.............you WILL understand.

[curious_one]

Bill, thank you for sharing your pics and stories. I have always wanted to hear a first hand account of someone that was there at the Trade Center. I can only imagine how horrifying your experience has been, with not being able to get some of the images and visions out of your mind. Can you tell me if there was a smell that day of jet fuel? I have never smelled jet fuel, but wanted to know if it really was that strong? I don't know why, but it seems like this tragedy happened last week--hard to believe that it's been over 10 years. I can only imagine what the families go through of those that perished that day. Honestly, I wouldn't know how to live myself if I were in your shoes. I feel like I would have to be drugged up all the time to take the pain and experience away. You are so strong, and so brave for sharing your story. God Bless you and your family.

[Billthegravedigger]

Jet fuel is a type of kerosene that has been refined several times. Yes, you could smell it strong at first, along with the smell of burning wires, and flesh. It's fucked up, that is for sure.

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Bill,

Thank you so much for your moving account of what you experienced on that dreadful day. It brought me to tears several times.

I was watching the late night news here in Australia when they crossed live after the first plane hit. I remember it started out with the thought that it was a terrible accident and that a light plane may have crashed.

While the news reader was talking, I saw the 2nd plane hit on the screen behind her - a few minutes later my mum rang me from across the country to tell me to put the TV on, America was under attack.

I stayed glued to the TV, in shock and tears, all through the night. As it unfolded I watched from half a world away, and it was the most memorable event in my life thus far.

To imagine what an impact this has had on people who were there and saw it first had - I cannot find the words.

I visited NYC in late 2010, and visited the tribute center. The experience was deeply moving. To think of what occurred there.....it's just heartbreaking.

I've watched every documentary I could find, but your story is by far the most poignant recounts of 9/11 I've heard.

Thank you for sharing.

Steph

[Billthegravedigger]

You are welcome. I have more things I should tell, but it is just getting the memories to come back that I have tried to bury. I have to deal with it sooner or later though, if not it will deal with me. I have often told people that I think our eyeballs might very well be among the strongest parts we have.

Some think that is a joke, but it isn't. You could look out the windows and see different things scattered. Some things were tiny, but you could tell that they were of human origin, like small pieces of skin, a finger, toe, and you could see several teeth scattered about. Then you could see these rather odd looking white, round balls every so often. I remember one female cop that looked out and stared trying to figure out what different things were. Her gaze kept falling a paticular place, and expression remained puzzled looking. That did not last long.

They were moving people through at a decent pace, which was amazing to me considering the events, and number of people there. You would see people carrying others, or two would get a shoulder and walk them out. One poor woman's foot was cut very badly, and we were clearing a way so she could go ahead of us.

This was going on while the female cop was looking out the windows. Then we heard a sound that was..............a mixture of sounds ? It was a bang, splat, and a crunching sound, that is the only way I can decsribe it. The sound is troubling, almost as much as the visuals, and in some ways worse.

As a few were gazing out the windows, a poor black man came down feet first, though his knees were bent. The tips of his toes hit first, then his knees, then his body and arms. When his head hit, it shot both of his eyeballs out and one hit the window in front of the cop. She screamed a scream that would make chills run up your spine. The eyeball hit the window, and slowly slid down the glass leaving a trail as it did. It sound bizzare, I know it does. But it happened. Strange a body can hit with enough force to explode and destroy it's self, and blood comes out in a mist and it looks like hamburger meat laying there with bone marrow and fatty tissue clumped up. Yet the eyeballs remained for the most part intact.

[Codemonkey3]

The thing you said about the sound. It's nothing like what you just contributed but my Mom runs a Gym on the second floor and on the bottom floor there is a dance studio and she keeps getting complaints that people dropping weights up stairs are sending one of the dancers into episodes because she was there on 9-11 and she thinks they sound like bodies hitting the ground or something.

Thanks for sharing again, I really cannot tell you how much I appreciate your first hand account. You ALWAYS hear the same stories about people leaving the building, about fire fighters and police officers saving people but almost never hear the gruesome stuff that is, like or not, a huge aspect of this event. Maybe it's better that it didn't come out in full force or we'd have turned half the Middle East to glass.

I just want to add this, I was browsing 4chan awhile ago and I made a 9-11 thread to see what more information or images I could dig up and I brought up the possibility of unreleased images and photos (Like the CCTV you mentioned) and this quote was pretty convincing. I guess the guy worked with the media.

[Billthegravedigger]

Well, if there were any doubters before, this should have taken care of it.