[btown]

Here is a compilation of recordings of the moment the second tower was hit - by which time both news cameras and amateur cameras were focused on the towers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLm3pkAiJQ

So much of the world as we know it now can be traced back to this day, and perhaps this moment above any others - the moment we gained an innate knowledge that something sinister was going on, a deep feeling of fear, anger, and vulnerability awakening in the American populace with an immediacy that had perhaps never been felt in the country's history.

I vividly recall being a middle school student, seeing friends being pulled out of the classroom one by one, knowing that something horrifying was happening, not knowing details, not knowing whether I would be next, eventually understanding with dawning horror that some of my classmates had family members who would never come home. An entire generation felt this pain.

It's really important that projects and video archives like the OP exist so people understand not just the statistics, but the fundamental shift of people's worldviews that happened that day.

[workfromspace]

There's a newer version from the same channel with 50 different views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hApRZ_7v2A

So shocking and heartbreaking...