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. [
won t be friends with for the rest of my life. diane and kim and sal, like these people, they have a part of me now. kind of summed it up, even after 20 years. it, it has an emotional part to it. what s that? what s that? here we are.
the people that were down there and that i shared this with, we still keep in touch. i met people down there that i will be friends with for the rest of my life. diane and kim and sow, these people, they have a part of me now. kind of sums it up. even after 20 years. it has an emotional part to it. here we are. 20 years later. yeah. 20 years later. 20 years later. wow. wow ce, so you only pay
is one day it is 2021. everybody was together. right? coeds, college kids bringing us peanut butter and jelly in wax paper on site. and america was probably as unified as it could ever be. there was no bipartisan divide. he just said, i m in american. i have to do this. every buddy was one. the people that were down there and that i shared this with, we still keep in touch. i met people down there that i will be friends with for the rest of my life.