Upside::: My wife woke me up when Fox reported the first hit... I got out of the rack and grabbed a cuppa joe and watched in curiousity thinking what kinda of nimrod pilot would crash into the WTC...
She was getting ready to dash off to work as we both stared numbly at the screen as the 2nd jet crashed into the other tower... I hit the record button on the vcr... screaming at the tube "Accident my ass! This is WAR!!!" We both grabbed onto each other and tears of shock, anger, and an emotion I hadn't felt since engaging the enemy on the battlefield in Viet Nam...
The VCR was left recording for hours and hours, straight through, tape after tape...
The downside:::
Those tapes are in my summer house, which I won't go to for a few weeks to prepare for the move... I will find those tapes (I have literally thousands of them as recording movies has been a pet project for the past 15 years, of so), and I can be persuaded to dub you a copy of the first day of the War...
Freepmail me...
JD
If you don't already have it, purchase a copy of the movie, 9/11. It was actually supposed to be a documentary by 2 French brothers on the NYC Fire Department.
It contains the only known footage of the FIRST plane striking the towers, plus the only footage from inside the lobby of Tower I as Tower II came down.
VERY MOVING. VERY WELL DONE. I've played the DVD many times in the last 5 years, and weep every single time.