through the eyes of the camera holder

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but last night on The History Channel, there was a 9/11 special. Footage none of us have ever seen before, captured by regular people; a college student, a mother, a couple of regular guys, etc. It was amazing to see it unfold, the way they saw it.

The mom a block away, she & her husband inside their apartment, one minute terrified, watching a terrorist attack killing thousands, the next minute telling her little girl -- in a calm, comforting voice -- to go watch cartoons. All were evacuated from their buildings ... and sent walking.

One guy filming, captured a group of firefighters walking, carrying their equipment toward tower 2, close-ups of their faces. I remember thinking how beautiful they all were ... and wondering if they lived through the day. Later we were told that all of them were killed. It was almost spiritual seeing their faces. It's hard to explain without sounding like a crazy person... there was just this great sense of calm about them.

We heard voices coming through the radios. The voices of men up there trying to help, sounding overwhelmed, frustrated, sad, desperate.

And one guy walks by a building with 7's on each large window. Building 7? Yup. The guy with the camera went in. There was a dude inside, in charge. "Everyone's out of here, we evacuated, I'm just here to make sure nobody else is up there." (Yet he was standing in the lobby.) He tells dude with camera he should go. But the most remarkable thing about that footage ... there was no smoke. No fire in building 7.

Men with thick Italian accents at times square, watching it all unfold -- with 100 other people -- on the big screen. "We should go to war, now!" & "They don't deserve to walk this planet." & We should go to Afghanistan & just bomb the hell out of em'. -- blow them all up -- kill 'em all!."

"Basic human survival." they called it. Speaking of which, A five-second shot, of an Asian man, carrying a 3 year old boy. The man was wearing one of these

The child he carried, was not.

My immediate reaction to seeing that was: "fucking asshole".

I like to think that I do not know anyone who would have been wearing that -- everyone I know would have had it on the child.

Fucking asshole.

The college students. Two Freshmen women. "What do we do? what do we do? Wait for ME!"

People just completely covered in the white ash.

A fireman phones his wife: "I'm okay."

I don't know when they'll replay it again. Maybe you can see it online. I don't know. Due to the graphic nature ... it was on late.

Very powerful stuff.

See it if you can.