And thank you so much for this beautifully written piece, Tawiskaro. It paints a visual and sensory picture the likes of which I haven’t read, or seen, anywhere since 9/11.
Your comment 'I left that place .... I had seen enough jumpers' really hit home. You experienced the holocaust firsthand, so, despite your eloquent and heartfelt descriptions of that glimpse of hell, none of us will remember it quite as painfully as you. I recall leafing through a book in Border’s called ‘9-11’ and carelessly turning to a page which consisted of nothing but a large photograph of people clamoring at the higher-story windows …. perhaps half a dozen of them having leaped from the inferno, suspended in mid-air, on their way to their deaths below. I don’t ever recall experiencing such an instantaneous blanche/deep-bone chill. I dropped the book to the floor, picked it up, and left the store on weak legs. How you must have felt seeing such a horror firsthand is inconceivable to me. Thank you so much for helping us to understand what it must have been like.
I now have a greater role as an American citizen—to make sure that no one forgets what evil has been done to us. I will not rest until those innocent thousands who died so near to where I stood are avenged.
You speak for us all.