September 11: 6 years later and I still get the chills

I just watched a video taken by a family living 500 yards from the World Trade center, with 27 chilling minutes of footage they shot out of their living room window. They write at the beginning of the video that they were very hesitant to release it, and did so only 5 years later, because of the personal nature of it and their reluctance to have others abuse it.

The sheer horror builds up over the minutes, when at start one person describes to a friend what she is seeing over the phone, and it is clear that due to the shock she initially does not register the true magnitude of the terrible thing happening in front of her eyes. she gradually begins to understand, and her husband joins in the conversation, until the horror takes over them as the second building collapses and the huge, menacing cloud of smoke and dust approaches their window and engulf them.

I remember watching this live on TV from Israel at the time, but this original, plain, untouched video gives me the chills more than any footage of 9-11 I have seen to date.

Here it is: