How 115 Eyes Saw Hell (brutal, heart-wrenching HBO 911 documentary)

NY Post ^ | May 15, 2002 | Linda Stasi

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LIKE thousands of other New Yorkers, my friend Louis Viel who lives downtown walked out of his house on his way to work on the morning of Sept. 11.

He was expecting to grab a cup of coffee, and then stop by the local photo shop. That's why he had his camera with him.

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From yesterday's Liz Smith column in the NY Post:

THE COMING HBO "In Memoriam: New York City, 9-11-01," airing May 26, is discussed by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the May 25 TV Guide. In answer to a question about graphic shots of people leaping from the burning WTC towers, he says: "The documentary is very powerful. I've watched it now three times. I find it more difficult each time . . . But I continue to believe that it's absolutely necessary to confront what actually happened . . . rather than some euphemistic version of it. I remember the first time I went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. It's very painful but by the end of it, you feel that it is a good thing to go there because people who confront it will be reminded not to forget it."

[Hans]

Thanks for the post.

[RoughDobermann]

Good. Show it again, and again, and again, and again, and... Never forget and never forgive.

[nothingnew]

Good post dead. One of the VERY few times I wish I still had TV..."NEVER FORGET!"

FMCDH!!!!

[billybudd]

Wow, there were 115 cyclopes in NY on 9/11?

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There was a pirate photographer's convention in the city that day.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

No, 57 people and one cyclops.

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bttt

[Slyfox]

I don't get HBO. Can somebody give a play by play on this thread on Sunday?

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I'll be at the beach, away from my computer that weekend, but I'm sure there will be live threads discussing the show.

I'll tape it. It will probably be pretty painful to watch. I have this rather irrational dread fear that I'll see one of the victims that I knew jumping.

[Dec31,1999]

I kind of hate to bump this tread, because I hate HBO, but I want to tape the program. I taped the "9-11" program shown about a month ago by one of the other channels, I don't remember which. One of the things that truely surprised me was the sound of the jumpers landing. It was an unbelieveable sond, like an explosion.

I taped the original attacks on Sept 11th, and I still haven't found the courage to watch them again. I might just subscrivbe temporarily just to tape it and then cancel immediately after.

[Timesink]

It was an unbelieveable sond, like an explosion.

I believe many, if not all, of the sounds recorded by that filmmaker were of bodies not just hitting the ground, but breaking through glass awnings that jutted out from the building outside his location just before hitting the ground.

Not that the sound without the breaking glass would have been much better, but it definitely added to the creepiness.

[Dec31,1999]

I see. I am not very familiar with the glass structures jutting out, and don't seem to recall any. I've been to the WTC many times, but mostly in the eighties, when I used to love to go to the top and enjoy the incredible views. It seems like a dream that they are no longer there. After the 93 bombing, I just never went to the top again. However I have gone to the top of the Empre State Building, which "also" provides a great view.