Originally posted by: focuspuller
Don't know if I could handle watching most of it, was there myself. But I think this kind of restoration project should be done, and it's great you're doing it.

I've been lucky enough to receive support from several people who were in NYC when it occured. It's something I've worried about, because it seems that many people who were there consider this to be sort of a private matter for them, and anything that violates that privacy is seen as a personal violation. I saw interviews with a couple people that videotaped the attacks from just below the trade towers, and they said that they would never release the video, as it was a traumatic experience, etc etc.

I can't imagine what it must have been like to have been there, but my retort to that sort of thinking is, when its something of this large a scale, it can never be a private experience. The nation as a whole experienced it. To deny that experience to future generations is a huge mistake. Should we have burned the pictures of the internment camps in Germany, because of how horrible they were? Should Abraham Zapruder have let his film rot in a can, because of how traumatic it was for him to see his president die?

Like it or not, it's national and international history, and to hide that away is a mistake. So I really, really appreciate the interest and support. If anyone knows anybody with personal photographs or video of that day, please encourage them to release that stuff. It was a horrible day, but it happened, and that can't be changed. To hide it away in the dark would be a mistake.

Zombie84--It would be great if you could digitize that and send it my way. I've been offering to do transfers myself, but I would much rather have people do it for me.

And again, if anybody has better footage in better quality than is available at Youtube, please send it my way. I am fortunate enough to have the first post-9/11 broadcast of the Daily Show, and Jon Stewart gave a hell of a speech at the beginning of that show. I'll definitely be including that in a future DVD.