Yesterday during History we watched this 9/11 video shot live by 2 filmmakers. Actually they were filming one guy from the NY Fire Station. Well the fire department got a call that there was a supposed underground gas leak near WTC buildings and they went there to investigate. One of the film makers tagged along and he was video taping the incident and for a moment diverted his camera to capture the WTC building and BOOM! The first plane crashed into the South tower and the explosion was caught live on tape.
It was really disturbing because you can almost feel what the people trapped in WTC building were feeling. I mean, you have a burning plane stuck on the 80th floor and jet fuel has damaged the elevator and you have no chance of escaping. You stay there, trapped in an inferno, because from the looks of it, the site of collision was burning. I am assuming the 80th floor and a few other floors were burning as well. I almost choked in tears as I tried to imagine what the people felt.
But it was great to watch how firemen from all over New York poured into WTC building within minutes after receiving the call. They mobilised themselves quickly and the cheifs set up a command centre at the lobby. But you know what really really hurt and disturbed me? Was when the narrator said that the people couldn't be evacuated through the lobby door because there were not only debries falling, but people too. I mean you could hear it, a big THUD and you could tell someone just ended his/her life. I mean I heard from people who watched the whole tragedy and how traumatized they were when they saw people jumping down from those high floors, some of them on fire...it was just sad and painful.
Then, the filmmaker managed to capture the collapse of the whole South tower. He was inside the tower when it collapsed! However, him and the other firemen managed to escape unharmed but you could hear the noise and the trembles when the tower was collapsing. That was just part 1. Mr. Tay says there's a part 2 to the tragedy. I seriously don't think I can take anymore of it. Even though this is supposed to give us an overview of our next History topic, that is Islamic Fundamentalism but seriously, I never took the WTC tragedy seriously until yesterday. By that I mean, yeah sure I heard about the tragedy and I felt bad for the people who lost their loved ones but this...it just gave me a whole new image of what happened on 9/11/2001. And today I truly feel pained about this tragedy. I mean how could people do this to their own kind? I mean sure the terrorists think they're fighting their own battle but no religion preaches taking the life of innocent people as a honourable thing to do.
I hope nothing of this sort happens in the future. Can't everyone just live in peace?