East TN man reflects on working at Ground Zero after Sept. 11 [Video]

NEW MARKET, Tenn. — It’s a day of remembrance and a day that’s difficult to forget.

“The odors, the sounds, everything was mingled together,” said retired Knoxville Police forensic scientist, Arthur Bohanan. “It was almost unbearable at times.”

Bohanan and his colleague Knoxville Police Department Lt. Steve Tinder worked at Ground Zero after the Sept. 11 attacks.

“With dignity and respect, we would try and identify anything we could, trying to narrow that search down.”

The two men, among hundreds of other first responders, spent the next several weeks working around the clock, digging through rubble, trying to identify victims and bring families devastating closure.

For Bohanan, those memories don’t fade.

“Little things trigger flashbacks that you can’t get out of your mind, you can’t,” Bohanan said.

But now, it’s not just memories that linger. Bohanan said …