I Saw It All. Then I saw nothing.

This article written by Daniel Hellinger was a first-hand account of him witnessing the two towers of the World Trade Center collapse. He immediately starts off by giving the dramatic action in chronological order in the first paragraph, "I saw the airliner at the instant it hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. A little later I saw the flames burst out of the south tower when the second airliner hit it. I saw people fall from atop the World Trade Center. I saw the south tower fall down. A little later I saw the north tower fall down. I have, in the past several hours, looked into lower Manhattan, and in each time, where the World Trade Center stood, there is absolutely nothing."
He goes on to say this is something that he is going to wish he had never seen. It will probably haunt him for the rest of his life. He talks about the joy of commuting into New York City every morning, seeing the Statue of Liberty and all the skyscrapers in the beautiful blue sky. Next, he flashes back to earlier that morning when he came to the city 15 minutes earlier to pick up a tuxedo at Brooks Brothers, right across the street from the World Trade Center. He then was walking to a small cofee shop at 8:45 AM as he witnessed the first plane hit the Trade Center.
He vividly describes exactly what he saw that morning. "There was a wide gash across the north trace of the tower, very high up, and gray smoke was billowing out of the gash, and there was a large fire inside the building. The sky was filling up with a massive wall of black smoke and orange flames."
He concludes by saying, "I kept looking up at the sky, above the famous old Woolworth Building where the World Trade Center stood, its two side-by-side towers, so high against the sky. I always saw the same thing, which was nothing."
This was a very emotional, descriptive, and overall well-written article. He uses many of the narrative techniques and even gives us a sense of actually being there at the time by painting such a good picture of this tragedy he witnessed.