9/11/01: 'It was like the apocalypse'
Photo credit: AP | An explosion rips through the south tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan after terrorists in the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175, which departed from Boston en route for Los Angeles, crashed into it Sept. 11, 2001. The north tower is seen burning after American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the tower at 8:45 a.m.
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Bill Kelly, a day trader from Georgia, was walking by a Borders book store at the World Trade Center when the first explosion occurred.
"At first we just saw papers and stuff coming down," he said. "But then you noticed, all of a sudden, that it was people you were seeing, and that they were jumping out two at a time."
"I counted 10 of them, and then I stopped," Kelly said, his voice...