COL. MATTHEW BOGDANOS: On 9/11 I was in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. I live a block from there.

I both heard it happen and saw it happen. And then experienced it. I lost my apartment on September 11th.

I was in the middle of a trial, what we call "on trial" in court, and I was walking out the door on my way to court when the crash happened. It was my four-year-old who asked about the noise, and not being at the window my first reaction was there's so much construction in downtown Manhattan. I just assumed that it was simply more construction, because as you know there's a lot.

And he then said, Daddy, what about the fire, why is there fire? And at that point I turned to walk to the window and saw the fire in the first Tower that was struck. And then unfortunately as my four-year-old was watching out the window, the second plane struck. So he saw that entire collision, saw the fire.

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DONNY GEORGE: In the morning of the 8th [of April, 2003], Tuesday, at 5:00 in the morning, I woke up to sounds of heavy tanks and heavy artillery fighting. The fighting was very close, near the Ministry of Information, and the radio and television station, which is not more than 400-500 meters from the museum. This sound started coming closer to the museum, and again, we started having shooting from the other side of the museum; that was from the area where the central bus station is. Around 11:00 in the morning we started hearing Apache fighter helicopters on top of us.

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