Liverpool journalist says 9/11 devastation still haunts him
Larry Neild was one of the first international reporters to fly into New York to cover the atrocities
Last updated 10th Sep 2021
A Liverpool journalist who covered the 9/11 terror attacks says the scenes of destruction still haunt him to this day.
Tomorrow marks 20 years since almost 3,000 people lost their lives as terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Centre and The Pentagon, as well as another which crashed when passengers fought back against the hijackers.
Larry Neild was one of the first international reporters allowed to fly into New York to cover the atrocities :
"I could see smoke rising thousands of feet into the sky like two ghostly towers and I thought, my god, that's where the towers used to be.
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"Time stood still as though I was entering a war zone in the quiet, silent streets that were all covered in this terrible dust.
"Stores, cars, bicycles all covered in this dust what was left o fthe twin towers and that was really eerie. It haunts you in a way and you never forget.
"People had put up photographs; have you seen this person? My daughter, my wife, my husband and I thought they're not here anymore, they're gone".
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