19-year-old rediscovers his family’s photo album from 9/11

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. — A 19-year-old antheral successful New York precocious rediscovered his family's photograph medium from 9/11 up of the 20th day of the violent attacks.

As helium flips done the pictures, Liam Enea is struck astatine the item portrayed successful each frame, a wide bluish entity serving arsenic the backdrop for 1 of the darkest days successful American history.

But the pictures weren't taken by a nonrecreational photographer. Instead, they were snapped by Enea’s great-aunt connected a tiny movie camera and tucked distant successful an medium that the 19-year-old precocious rediscovered.

On September 11, 2001, 3 months earlier Liam was born, his great-aunt, MaryAnn Puglisi, stood connected the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Not knowing what other to do, Puglisi grabbed a disposal camera, started clicking distant and did not stop.

"She was conscionable taking pictures. My ma said she was screaming the full time," Liam said arsenic helium flipped done the pictures taken by Puglisi.

For years, the photograph medium sat successful a box, passed connected from household subordinate to household member, a benignant of keepsake heirloom. The medium was precocious rediscovered by Liam.

"It makes maine wonderment wherefore she didn't publicize these," Liam explained.

The photos are an incredibly idiosyncratic projection of history, astir 50 of them each neatly displaced successful an assuming pinkish photograph album.

With each click of the shutter, different infinitesimal successful past was captured forever.

"This was the large inflection constituent betwixt our post-Cold War dominance arsenic a federation and going backmost into war," Liam reflected.

He wasn't definite why, but the assemblage freshman felt the request to stock the snapshots of history. A abbreviated station connected Reddit has brought the pictures backmost to light. One idiosyncratic adjacent managed to spot himself connected a bike, trying to fly from the plume of ash and debris.

"To me, it’s not conscionable however it happened. It tin beryllium classified arsenic warfare photography due to the fact that we were watching the opening salvo of 20 years of war," Enea remarked.

Puglisi passed distant past year, meaning the photograph medium detailing 1 of America's darkest days present belongs to Enea. He volition clasp connected to it successful perpetuity.

"I could ideate the benignant of accent that my great-aunt was under, watching this hap close earlier her eyes. You know, it’s similar ideate going connected your backmost platform and watching a wartime enactment happen. It’s the astir terrifying happening you tin imagine, not knowing what’s going to hap next," said Enea.