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Rise of Freedom: The Second Day

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    Student hopes to help heal wounds with video camera

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And now the rise of freedom our cameras have been following the progress at the World Trade Center and we plan to be there for years to come.

Of course for many of those who witnessed the towers fall on 9/11 the emotional scars still run very deep.

But now one Manhattan middle schoolers says he aims to help heal those wounds with a video camera and a microphone.

Shepard Smith report.

Basically -- not -- you had.

The smoke flames of people -- and com that's just a little what I saw besides the -- chaos.

And it's just four short blocks away from what is my school -- behind me is the World Trade Center towers at ground zero.

His name is brook Peters an eighth grader just like any other I deeply.

Guitar -- -- days except when Brooke was just a boy.

He witnessed first -- it.

The tragedy of the attacks of nine -- It's obviously a tough thing music you can't breathe.

Just.

Alex smell of the dust that was that's why -- Getting into your nose and your -- your -- September 11 2001 was Brooke's second day of kindergarten.

But rather than -- that pain anger and confusion inside.

Group channeled those emotions into work the barks a documentary he calls the second day.

-- interviewed dozens of students and teachers who were in lower Manhattan on the morning of -- terror attacks.

See -- -- Harris actually collapsed that I inherited that jet.

For over at school which was scary.

I remember being on the ground put my head down into the ground.

Saying a prayer the whole time I was so afraid.

And and I could feel this cutting in my neck it just in the field with a blast just beating you.

And cutting -- many of the film city since nine elevenths they haven't really talked about what they've gone through with any.

It was a story about.

Has never been told it was there was a lot of focus on fireman and their heroism and the widows -- the kids of the firemen.

But never about people that work directly affected.

But it had nothing to do it that's pretty much just aren't in her view of some my friends from school.

When I interviewed kids from other schools -- kind of just grew larger and larger and larger it also.

Futures -- close personal friend.

A New York City firefighter who worked in the firehouse just blocks from ground zero and -- -- the show.

Did it last month his film was featured in the prestigious TriBeCa film festival in front of a crowd of nearly 900.

Still he says he's not looking for fame or fortune instead he says he's just trying to help himself and others heal from the wounds that still linger.

After ten long years.

I it like sentence telling me it's helping the story got out there.

Personally I'm not one to do exactly take the spotlight I don't care as long as it gets.

Help to the people -- need it is what I want to happen next it's off to high school it if Brooke has his way.

Film school may have to wait I still want to do filmmaking side.

I've always felt that my -- and career choice would be to become -- violent.

And it's something I've wanted to -- -- -- still and I still.

Wanna do it now so obviously it's kind of stated what -- him.

So part of its -- -- Brooks documentary has not been released just yet but when it is we will of course let you know.

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