In a response to the claims made by Screw Loose Change (a “debunking” of Loose Change), “Mike, 30, from NJ” wrote an open letter a day or two ago. Mike is a 9/11 first responder whose life has pretty much been trashed because for two years he wouldn’t shut up about what he saw, heard and felt in the WTC towers. A few highlights:

There were explosions. There were flashes. There was molten metal running down the I-beams of the basement levels like lava flows. I’ve never seen anything like it. Yes, planes hit the buildings- anybody who says otherwise is a moron. But the explosions- the rapid, symmetrical, sequential explosions- they happened.

We were in the basement, helping a man who had been struck by pieces of flying concrete and rebar, and there was one of the huge steel and concrete support pillars with an 8 foot section blown out of the center of it. We looked around and there were other support columns that were the same. We spoke about it right then and there… we were discussing as we were carrying this man, saying “how could someone have rigged all these explosives?”.

Just before the collapses, a series of deep, below ground explosions, then numerous explosions in the buildings upper floors. Then we ran. We felt the same deep explosions before the second collapse. This was not just the planes. THE BUILDINGS WERE RIGGED.

There was a 20 second countdown over the radios, there were bright flashes up and down the sides of building 7, you could see them through the windows…and it collapsed. We all knew it was intentionally pulled… they told us! There was no question about it until a day or so later when the news was reporting that it had collapsed due to fire. We kept wondering when they were going to correct the news reports. Eventually, it became “official story”.

While I recognize that this is nearly an anonymous source (”Mike”), I think it is worth publishing. His story can be corroborated with many other sources. His letter appears genuine. He has reason to want to remain anonymous given the treatment he’s had for having stuck to his story. I think he’s for real, and if I’m right in that judgment call, I support him and wish him well.