'Never Forget' Says a 9/11 Survivor

On the 10th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on an airplane in Pennsylvania, a Julian woman who said she was present when Tower 1 was struck has told Patch she does not believe conspiracy theories about the source of the collapse.

Delynn Ketcherside is an opera singer who told Patch she had just arrived on the subway station under the center that day when the events unfolded. , Ketcherside described the experience of being caught in the subway train in the dark, coming up to see dandelionlike fluff and ash everywhere and hearing people screaming. She also talked about seeing bodies or parts of them buried or flying through the air and walking in shock before collapsing near an ambulance.

Ketcherside said she does not believe conspiracy theories that postulate that explosives beneath the buildings could have set off the events.

"I felt an explosion, but it was above me," she said. "I felt some shaking but it didn't come from under my feet."

Ketcherside said that, as for the building she had been in, "It was exoskeletal and it collapsed from inside." Conspiracy theorists, including come engineers and physicists, have expressed a belief that the buildings could have been set up for demolition by people other than the reported terrorists.