Mr. Chairman, on the morning of 9/11, I was on the World Trade Center
 Concourse when the first plane hit. I responded immediately to the World Trade Center
 Police Desk, which was in the immediate vicinity on the plaza level and was told that the
 police had a report that a missile had been fired at the World Trade Center from the
 Woolworth building. A PA detective and I immediately left the police desk and headed
 out to the plaza through Five WTC to see what had really happened. We observed the
 north face of the north tower with a large gash across it and multiple floors fully engulfed
 in flames. We realized that this was not a missile, based on what our minds could
 conceive of the damage, and then we noticed part of a large plane’s wheel assembly on
 the plaza. We dragged the assembly back to the police desk and informed the desk
 officer that a large commercial plane had hit the tower. I then assisted the desk officer in
 answering calls, checking with the fire command stations and OCC and keeping the desk
 officer informed as to the situation. We were stunned when 2 WTC was also hit by a
 plane. The police officers and I rushed to the rear emergency exit and looked up at the
 tower and realized we were at war. I remained at the police desk until Two World Trade
 Center collapsed without warning, trapping me and the officers at the police desk. We
 thought the loss of power accompanied by this tremendous roar was a secondary attack, a
 bomb. After we finally escaped, I made my way to the police command post on West
 Street, and it was only as I walked west on Barclay Street, that I realized through the
 smoke that Two World Trade Center had collapsed. At the Port Authority Police