Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James

Rogers and you're joining us for a special episode today an episode that marks the

20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks that happened well 20 years ago tomorrow.

It's astonishing to think it's been 20 years since that day.

The day when we all watched our TV screens around the world

as not only one plane hit that then astonishingly a second plane hit.

It went from being perceived as an air disaster to being seen as a terrorist attack.

Those fires raging so high up in the sky and the billows of smoke going across that blue sky of New York

so early on what was then a Tuesday morning in September.

There of course 19 Alkaryder terrorists who hijacked four

planes that day and we shouldn't forget those who bravely fought off the

terrorists and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and those who died in the attacks on the Pentagon as well.

But in this episode we're bringing this back round to the human story and I'm joined by

Joe Ditmar who was on the hundred and fifth floor of the World Trade Center when the

planes hit the first tower on that day. He takes us through what it was like, the

sights, the sounds, the fears, the ferocity of being in the second tower,

how he made his way out, how he was just a few floors away when the second plane hit,

but he also enlightens us to those stories of

heroism of those first responders making their way up of how everyone was

human that day just trying to make their way out of the tower to make their way back to their

mothers their families and most importantly to make their way home. Joe talks frankly

about that day and some aspects of what he witnessed are upsetting and graphic so please keep

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