I smelled human flesh burning twice in my life. Once faintly in
   2001, on Sept 11th [I lived 7 miles by air from the World Trade
   Center, and the smell of burnt concrete and flesh was
   unmistakable.

   But how did I know the smell of flesh in the first place?

   [1]http://warisacrime.org/.../twenty-years-ago-today...

   Feb 20, 1991. A man set himself on fire "to protest the invasion
   of Iraq" in Amherst, MA. I went to Hampshire College in Amherst
   MA, and it happened just a couple of miles away.

   The smell of HIS body? It was like a sickly sweet smell, and
   there was a blue haze over the entire Hampshire College campus
   for a day or two..

   It was gross.

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