The Following is a Personal Account from a Photographer who escaped from the area and was able to take some photographs...

The Photographer: David Rivera Jr.

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THE 'PHOTOGRAPHER' IS DAVID RIVERA AT 80 WASHINGTON STREET WHICH IS IN DIRECT LINE TOWARDS THE TOWERS BY SOME THREE BLOCKS.

IT IS FROM THIS BUILDING WHICH I WAS ABLE TO SHOOT THE IMAGES.

I BARELY ESCAPED. I WAS STUCK IN THE ASH CLOUDS
WHICH WERE PRODUCED BY THE FIRST TOWER FALL. MANY
PEOPLE SIMPLY WERE IN PANIC!

IT WAS LIKE A WAR TO ME. I WAS BY THE EAST RIVER
AND SEEN NOTHING BUT CLOUDS OF WHAT SEEMED TO BE
SMOKE SURROUNDING ME. MINUTES LATER WE WERE
LUCKY THAT THE SMOKE WAS MERELY ASH FROM THE FIRST
TOWER FALL.

WE ALL HEADED THEN CALMLY NORTH TOWARDS THE
BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND ESCAPED!

SOME ON THE ROOF WHERE I SHOT THE IMAGES ACTUALLY
WITNESSED PEOPLE FALL TO THEIR CERTAIN DEATHS.
IT WAS PURE HORROR AND JUST WATCHING THE SAFE
AREAS OF THE BUILDINGS MADE ME THINK OF THE LIVES
WHICH WERE TAKEN. IT WAS HEART BREAKING TO
KNOW SO MANY INNOCENT LIVES WERE TAKEN.

THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST DISASTERS FOR OUR
NATION AND I WAS RIGHT THERE TO SEE IT ALL.
THERE IS NO HONOR IN THIS. IT IS PURE HORROR.

DAVID RIVERA JR. can be contacted at:
indesu@indesu.nu

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