yeah, this is difficult. hello, my name is michael mcmullin. i m speaking to you on january 17th, inside of a plywood box here to relay my recollections of 9/11. i mean, obviously, it s very unresolved for me. [noise] i can see the damage done to people. they couldn t tell their own story in their own words. it was just plain, plain, plain building down, building down. there was absolutely no space for more complicated stories . it became absolutely clear that this really was a very shattered experience. with a lot of feeling okay, rei guess it s working. [noise] what the bleep was that? the trade center, the trade center. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god! so, my husband and i had decided that we were gonna take the morning to do some errands and have breakfast to gather. so, we dropped our daughter off to school. the stairs from the school and my husband was talking to a stranger. he had a page from a paperback novel in his hand. and the edges were burnt. and
Hello, My Name Is Michael , and im speaking to you on january 17th, in side of a plywood box, here to relay my recollections of 9 11. I mean, obviously its very unresolved for me. I could see the damage being done to people, but they couldnt tell their own story, in their own words. It was just plain, building down, building down. There was absolutely no space for the more complicated stories about what people actually felt. So, this is it. Well i, just click it, go check to see. So we were willing to bust open the space for that. So you can see, we are inaction. Once people went inside the booths, they controlled the recording. They controlled their own story. Hey. It became absolutely clear, that this really was a very shattering experience. With a lot of feeling and emotion behind it. Im just, you know. And, our purpose was to capture exactly that. To tell the personal truth about what 9 11 was. Okay, i guess this is working. What was that . Its the trade center, the trade center. [
this is part of my history. he caught me and the worst moment of my life, but that worst moment of my life brought me to the best moment of my life. ready, daddy? losing a spouse was a horrible place to be. i mean, when i opened that booth door, it was almost literally looking out in the darkness, and wondering what was coming next. i didn t know. i didn t know how things were gonna shake out. we moved to shepherdstown, west
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out there and broke the door down and went in as far as we could go in. you could hear the fire above, you crackling. you knew that the smoke was around you because you couldn t see. [inaudible] [noise] we are getting reports of people trapped. a burst of debris from the ceiling fell and landed on my hands. i shook my hands. and i got up out of my chair and i started to look around. [noise] everything around me was on fire. the smoke and the fumes just darted to take my breath away. i started to cough and to choke. and at that point, i just really believed that my life was going to end at that point and i cried out to jesus and i asked him to just help me, help me get out of this.