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- Aaron McLamb was cleaning a bookbinding machine in a Brooklyn factory when he happened to glance out a window and see history unfolding on the morning of September 11, 2001.
- Then a 20-year-old volunteer at the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses, McLamb recalled that he momentarily turned away from his work and noticed a “very large fire” in the north tower of the World Trade Center, across the East River in lower Manhattan.
- “I knew that this was gonna be something really big,” McLamb, now 45, told The Independent.
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- Aaron McLamb was cleaning a bookbinding machine in a Brooklyn factory when he happened to glance out a window and see history unfolding on the morning of September 11, 2001.
- Then a 20-year-old volunteer at the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses, McLamb recalled that he momentarily turned away from his work and noticed a “very large fire” in the north tower of the World Trade Center, across the East River in lower Manhattan.
- “I knew that this was gonna be something really big,” McLamb, now 45, told The Independent.
Sources: The Independent