When Steel Became Paper – “…you think you died three times…”

he spent 5 years working in the Trade
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Center complex and was in the basement
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of tower one when the first plane hit
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sending a fireball down the Elevator
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Shaft 10 ft away all of a
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sudden the whole floor the whole
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building just rocked it just rocked and
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through you and just through you you
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didn't know what happened I get up and
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all you hear and all now all you hear is
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now now you feel is heat you hear heat
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it blew it now it blew me into going
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into the doors of the parking lot then
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all of a sudden the Heat and it just
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came blowing through and the heat that
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you felt was so terrible and and the
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explo and and the the explosion that
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happened it was knocking down the Walls
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the ceilings were falling the the the
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block walls were caving in steel
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doors steel doors just look like paper
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then there's silence then there was all
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there was was silence and then after
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couple of seconds you're getting up off
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your knees and all now you hear silence
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and it's a Dead Calm of dust and smoke
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and all of a sudden you hear people
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slowly somebody starts screaming someone
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starts yelling someone starts saying
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you're hearing you're hearing help
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you're hearing please you're hearing
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very one at a time you're hearing it and
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and people you see burnt and everybody's
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hurt and you're just getting and it's
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smoke and and it's and you're just going
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over the building too and you just feel
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like you're just going to get up and
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just I know the building you just feel
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like you're just going to get up the
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staircase everybody's going to go up the
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staircase and leave all of a sudden Here
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We Go Again building two gets hit I
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couldn't get it to building two if the
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doors nothing would open nothing would
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open it just felt like something like
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compressed all the it was strange it was
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just you couldn't even push doors we're
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running up the ramps and things Elevate
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you hear elevators coming screeching
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it's like a it's like a missile coming
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toward you when you hear a 10,000 lb
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20,000 40,000 lb elevator coming down
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and shf now I don't know what that is I
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just think now you're getting invaded
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you're just being invaded there's
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everything's just coming at the world is
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coming to an end you don't know what's
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going on you just keep hearing these
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things shooting down the shaft you're
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hearing people screaming then all of a
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sudden you don't hear them screaming you
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know the wall you know they just died
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whatever was over there just died
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because it was just silence and then we
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come running up and down we're running
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up and down the ramps because there's
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ramps and it's long runs and then
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finally I we we we finally see a panic
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door we're coming outside and it's the
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it's the Westside Highway people are
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everybody screaming no no you don't even
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know what the you have no concept of
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what's going on above you all I know I'm
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just speaking for what I know is there's
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110 floors above my head that all you
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see is people that you don't know but
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they jumped people that jumped and
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you're seeing PE uh people that things
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happened to crush cars you're seeing
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everything that have flames of fire
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coming down now you're saying to
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yourself you know I mean do you stay
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here or do you just make a run for it
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you don't even know what the hell to do
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and we we're all we all made a run for
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it and all of a sudden we're running
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down the Westside Highway and now you
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you think you died three times now all
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of a sudden you're out on the westside
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Highway after all of this is over and
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then people are screaming the building's
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coming down and then all of a sudden you
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feel the rumbling of the floor down the
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Westside Highway you just think you you
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just think it's going to something's
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going to fall on you you just think
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you're going to die I still cannot
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believe those two buildings are not
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there I that day when I saw dust I I was
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hoping to God when that dust was over I
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was hoping to God that buildings were
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still standing there and I stood there
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until the dust you know what I mean but
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then all of a sudden the dust started
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going One Direction started going the
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other direction and we were full of dust
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and we were crying and and all of a
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sudden the buildings weren't there no
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