America Attacked

"Dedicated to the men, women and children who lost their lives;
all those who sacrificed their lives;
And to all the Heroes that responded to the emergency 11 September 2001"

The Macromedia "Flash" presentation you are about to see was made by Steve Golding, a New York City native, who says he is alive today simply because he was late for work.

This movie is a nearly 7MB download, but don't let that put you off if you're on a dial-up connection – it's well worth the wait. If you came here from my Home page, this page opened in a new window, so just click the Play button to get the download started then return to my Home page and continue browsing around. If you came here directly from another location, hold down the <Shift> key when you click the Play button which will cause the Movie to open in a new window, then continue your browsing while the movie loads.

The movie is 16½ minutes long. The music, while non-obtrusive, becomes a bit monotonous after a while, but don't turn it completely off because you'll miss the sound clips which begin about half way through. Toward the end, pages of text will be interspaced with the pictures. There are Forward/Back buttons on the text pages, which should be ignored; the next picture will appear by itself. If you click the buttons, you'll jump over the intervening pictures to the next text screen.

After pressing the Play button: When the next page opens, if your monitor is set to 800×600 pixel resolution or less, press F11 (to toggle to full screen, a.k.a. "kiosk" mode). If your resolution is higher, you may want to Maximize your browser window.

If you'd like your own copy of the movie, let it play completely to the end (when the "Replay" button appears and the music stops), then click the Return or Close button at the bottom of the page.  The following instructions are based on Windows 98:  If your keyboard has a Windows key, hold it down and press the "F" key to bring up the Find or Search dialog, otherwide click Start and Find or Search. In the Name field type "attack*.swf" (w/o the quotes). Make sure the Look In field contains the drive where you keep your Temporary Internet Files folder, probably "C:", and that Include Subfolders is checked. When the file is found (it will be "attack[number].swf" of 6,695KB in Temporary Internet Files), right-click on the file name and choose "Cut." Go to the folder in which you wish the movie to be, in a blank area right-click and choose "Paste" – the file will be moved to that folder. You may rename the file to anything you like (you'll probably at least want to get rid of the "[number]" portion) so long as you keep the .swf part. Now you don't need to connect to the Internet to replay the movie; double-click the file name and it will start up immediately.