He’s chosen an odd format for the task, but former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer’s ongoing string of tweets today about his recollections of being at the side of President Bush on 9/11 makes for compelling reading nonetheless.

Most of the anecdotes he is sharing — from memory and six pages of extemporaneous notes he took that day – will be familiar to anyone steeped in the details of that horrible day. The tweets are timed to coincide with events as they unfolded, so if you’d like to read them in chronological order you’ll have to scroll down to the first one.

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