Eitan Chitayat & Birdo : For Bill

I knew a guy. Just for a few months while working together, but long enough to call him a friend. We talked about his loving family, my international traveling (he didn't do much of that), we worked, kidded around and hung out. We also discussed Israel a lot since it was around the time of so many suicide bombings hitting my country. He didn't get how Israelis could live with such a constant threat of terrorism in our lives and expressed how far America felt from it all -- and that it felt surreal. His name was Bill Weems and he was plain decent and cool. He was also a passenger on one of the planes steered mercilessly into the twin towers.

This piece was made for him. For his family. For everyone who lost someone and anyone who didn't. To remind us that individual lives, families and friendships were torn apart on 9/11, and the scores of murdered innocents that awful day don't just make up a meaningless number. Yes, I didn't know Bill a long time. But I'm glad I met him briefly, I'll never forget him -- and he'll always be my friend
Eitan Chitayat. Creative Director. Friend

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[rokedetbamidbar]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing this.

[aydoooo]

shut up... seriously.

nobody gives a shit about innocent girls being raped and killed everyday in african countries... but HEY you are special because you got killed on 9/11

and to those who watched this video and went AWWWWWWW SO SAD... you know you forgot about this video 2 mins after.

[cscdigitalgraphics]

Nice tribute.

[Mary Franco]

If you really don't like the video then it shouldn't be worth your time to comment or rate.

[mosainagant]

Yeah, because the USA only has an army, no other country has a army so you can just walk into our country and take whatever. Humans are a really bad source of energy, maybe you should do like the matrix and grow people in tubes so you get energy, that would be the best way, and then create a program where people can live lol

[korn1536]

We'll just burn the millions of dead bodies that pile up as fuel...simple as that. By the way, do you have any good natural resources in your country? It's always good to have a battle plan set up ahead of time. We'll be knocking on your door soon.

[mosainagant]

Who's the troll now? Owned. Soon the oil will end and u will be in deep shit hahahahahahahahahaha

[metropol77]

So do you think 9/11 was an inside job? I know it was and more.

[GeneralSquirtle]

People who disliked weren't AMERICAN.

[keybladelordus]

but what if people genuinely dislike the video? with millions of videos on youtube, i've watched plenty that i didnt like, i think its a great system for providing feedback

[melvinmangada]

nice job, eitan. congrats!

[Mary Franco]

Youtube needs to get rid of the dislike button, its just for trolling and always starts stupid conversations. Its a distraction.