Film details first responders' experiences
Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | John Feal, founder and president of the Fealgood foundation, right, and Retired NYPD Detective Glen Klein, left, listen during the showing of the film, "9/11: An American Requiem" during the Stony Brook Film Festival. (July 24, 2011)
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They walked into the theater as 800 strangers, with little more to talk about than New York baseball and the architecture at Stony Brook University.
But for 105 minutes Sunday afternoon, as the world premiere of "9/11: An American Requiem" -- composed of interviews with 9/11 first responders -- was projected, these strangers sat unified, listening to 18 gripping tales about Sept. 11, 2001,...
