AN INCREDIBLE PERSONAL STORY ABOUT THE TWIN TOWERS’ ATTACK

AN INCREDIBLE PERSONAL STORY ABOUT THE TWIN TOWERS’ ATTACK:

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9/11 GROUND ZERO: ENGLISHMEN IN NEW YORK - AFTERMATH Don Hale reports on one of the world’s most dramatic terrorist attacks ever.

9/11 GROUND ZERO: ENGLISHMEN IN NEW YORK - AFTERMATH – BY DR SAM ALLEN. Now available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4egiLc0

Some years ago, I heard from Dr Sam Allen, a well-known, and highly-respected doctor and a global specialist on highly infectious diseases. I have known Sam for about 40-years, and we both ran for the same Derbyshire athletics club in Matlock, when I was editor of the local newspaper. Just a few weeks after I left the paper though, Sam became unintentionally involved in a daring rescue attempt to help the victims of the world’s worst-ever, and most horrific terrorist attack on New York. The following statement is from my original archived introduction to Sam’s incredible book which fully explains his key role on that fateful day, and includes details of an amazing family coincidence that helped to reflect the impact the attack had on the people of that great city, and elsewhere. *Dr Sam Allen is pictured below (*right).

TWIN TOWERS ATTACK: This is the true story of the part two men from the same family unknowingly played as one of the world’s most horrific disasters, the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, took place in New York in 2001. It confirms what they each recorded from completely different perspectives, not knowing that the other was involved. One was a young medic who provided desperate life-saving experience to casualties near Ground Zero, whilst his uncle, a veteran newsman, compiled vital photographic data of the devastation caused by this incredible incident. Dr Sam Allen was travelling back home to London after spending many months in the depths of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil working with the Koto-Mama expedition. His early morning American Airlines flight from Rio de Janeiro had landed at JFK, been refuelled and was about to take off when news of the attacks was relayed to the pilot. He was travelling home with expedition colleagues, many of whom also had vital medical experience and equipment. All watched in horror as terrorists attacked the enormous towers triggering a swirling spiral of dense smoke into the clear blue skies. They were kept aboard their plane as US jets controlled the skies worried about further strikes, until they were finally allowed to disembark, wondering just what had really happened on that unbelievable morning. Once the extent of the attack was realised Dr Allen and his companions answered a call for emergency assistance and journeyed to provide essential voluntary aid. It was to be an unforgettable and emotional experience for all, which led to days of long hard shifts and traumatic work in treating the casualties, even tending to numerous body bags in the choking grey dust of devastation. The newsman was Harry Koundakjian, a highly respected and experienced journalist, who ironically was Sam’s uncle. At the time, he was chief photo journalist for Associated Press (AP) based in New York. The story confirms what it was like to be part of this unbelievable incident. 

9/11 GROUND ZERO: ENGLISHMEN IN NEW YORK - AFTERMATH – BY DR SAM ALLEN. Now available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4egiLc0 HARRY’S STORY: Former Associated Press chief photo editor Harry Koundakjian died on 21st April 2014, aged 83. It was his desire however, to record and circulate vital images of the devastation as a vivid reminder that ‘we should NEVER forget that day that changed our lives.’ Previously he sent a compilation file of images from the 9/11 disaster to his nephew Dr Sam Allen in the UK telling him to ‘please pass it on,’ and to use them as a unique record of events.

*THE BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE VIA AMAZON: 9/11 GROUND ZERO: ENGLISHMEN IN NEW YORK - AFTERMATH – BY DR SAM ALLEN: 

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