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I had come out of the subway under the Municipal Building. The people jumping from 1WTC is a nightmare I have revisited often.
As 2WTC started to fall, I began to run toward the Brooklyn Bridge walkway, constantly looking over my shoulder. I watched 1WTC come down from that walkway.

When I finally got back to Woodside that day, I became angered at the talking heads on CBS. (I did not have cable and CBS, because of it's back-up antenna on the Empire State building, was the only 'over the air' station except for UHF 21 which was showing BBC feeds.) They kept calling the dust "soot"!! I kept yelling at the TV "It's desks, walls, telephones, chairs! IT'S PEOPLE!"

The one thing few talk about is the smell that lingered for weeks afterward in the city. Today, whenever I get a whiff of burning electrical insulation (and sometimes without that prompt) I'm taken back to that day.