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Bavis was a passenger onboard United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles, which was hijacked Tuesday morning and steered into the second World Trade Center tower...
...memory of the destruction we witnessed Tuesday will consist, in part, of the astonishing newsreel that captured the collision with the southern tower. The millions of Americans who watched those few seconds of videotape played over and over again, in slow motion, will long remember the sight of that dark shadow speeding toward the tower, disappearing as it collided, then emerging as a giant fireball from the opposite side. We will long remember watching the collapse of the World Trade Center and the sight of the giant dust cloud that arose above lower Manhattan—towering buildings reduced...
While the reporter was talking, we made our way down Allen St. There, I saw a huge gray cloud rise from the far side of one of the towers. At first, I thought it was an explosion from within the building. I could not really see the second airliner hit the second tower, even though I did see the airplane for a brief second before the collision. I screamed. The taxi driver began yelling at the top of his lungs, “What is that? What was that!?” The driver took me to the southern...
Upon arrival in my office, I saw three AON employees who had fled from the 98th floor of their tower immediately after the first collision...
...paper pressed flatly against our office window. The edges were charred dark brown. It was a piece of company letterhead that said “Marsh USA.” Everyone let out a gasp at the sight of it; Marsh was on the 95th floor of the north tower...