Posted on 09/10/2014 6:28:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Upon request, I have collected links to many of the earliest threads from September 11, 2001 below. I reviewed threads from the very first FR report (http://www.freeRepublic.com/focus/fr/520255/posts)through thread number 520326. Feel free to add other significant threads, including photo archives. Bumping this thread periodically instead of the original threads will also avoid scaring people with the headlines.
Bookmark this thread, and bump it from time to time when the nation and the press seems to forget why we need resolve in the face of evil. Forgive some of the early misinformation and broken photo links, and recall the horror and fury.
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That was an amazing day for FreeRepublic.
I wasn’t very cyber literate then and so was rather
limited in my abilty to reply to people.
Looking back, the ability of freepers to gather, process
and distribute information was so far ahead of the
main stream news that I knew we had entered a different
age. Will also never forget the time when NO PLANES FLEW,
we are so used to seeing them in the skies that it was
so very disturbing to see nothing but birds flying.
Islam declared war on us that day in no uncertain terms
and it’s about time we got up to speed.
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It's hard to judge time in those circumstances, but it was probably two minutes before they calmed down enough to tell the rest of us on the call that they had just witnessed an airplane fly into the WTC. I don't mean they were calm, only that they were calm enough to tell us what happened.
We ended the conference call and I found the closest TV.
well, I have a story. I was off work for a week, stay-cation, out early doing errands. I think I heard about it on Howard Stern. So I grabbed up my son from school and continued to watch on tv. I cried a little while (I lived in NYC in the eighties) and had two or three rum and cokes.
Then I pulled myself together and drove from Akron to a friends in East Rutherford NJ. I-80 was desolate. I got up in the morning and went to liberty park where they said on the radio that volunteers were gathering. I brought by RN credentials with me and ended up meeting two doctors, one from Detroit(he drove all day like me) and one from NJ.
A boat took us over and we worked setting up medical care.
It wasn’t long till we realized that there were few victims to aid. Mostly I took towels I found, wetted them and took them around to firemen too wipe the soot and dust from their faces as well as food and drink.
I’ll never forget the rude FEMA guy who approached us on the morning of the 13th and said you guys need to leave.
I said to him I think what you meant to say was thank you, we’ve got it from here. He just stared at me.
I’ll never forget all the ash and the shoes.
I’ll never forget the rescue/recovery dogs.
I’ll never forget.
I was in grad school and preparing to go to my first class of the day. A relative called me and frantically told me to turn on my TV. When I turned on my TV, I saw that one tower was smoldering and a few minutes later, the second airliner slammed into its target.
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I seem to recall the servers were getting pommelled, understandably so, because I can’t seem to find any posts between 10:30 AM and the afternoon. Does anyone else remember on that day how it was trying to follow on FR?
>> “Where were YOU on September 11th, 2001?” <<
I was on a hilltop in Pittsburg, California, explaining to a Dummacrap that what had just happened was Bill Clinton’s Legacy.
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>> “Where were YOU on September 11th, 2001?” <<
I was on a hilltop in Pittsburg, California, explaining to a Dummacrap that what had just happened was Bill Clinton’s Legacy.
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I remember being woken up by my sister (I freeped late) because “a plane crash or something happened in New York”.
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I was working as a sub for CSC on an airline safety software program in NJ.
Nor was I. However I as a lurker the board was read on a daily basis.
The morning of 9/11, still asleep when DH woke me before leaving for work with this terrible news. Immediately got out of bed and sat in front of Fox News. DH started for work but never arrived. After hearing of the second strike, he turned around and returned home. For days many of us avoided large crowds (malls, theaters, etc.) Our Tee Vee was on 24 hours a day. We slept with it on. Just in case. We also awaited with anticipation the words of our President on this particular act of war.
To elect a muslimb to the OO less than ten years later many of us are now opening our eyes that most of our electorate is either ignorant as chickens or silent terrorists implanted in society. The Rat party is now the Socialist/Commie party full blown.
It was the morning of my first vacation day. I had been sleeping, and we had two very young babies in the house. My second had been born just 1 month before the attack.
My wife came into our bedroom and woke me up, because I had slept in from feeding my son the during the early morning.
She turned on the TV, and there was a replay of the first plane hitting the tower.
I was now up at that point.
Not too long after, the second hit the tower.
I looked at my wife and said to her, “That’s not an accident. We are now at war.”
Then we started filling bathtubs, moving plywood, and positioning hammers and nails to cover doors and windows.
About 45 minutes after the second plane hit the tower, we could here military aircraft flying low and almost directly over our house. It was low and loud enough to shake the house.
My wife had a sort of normalcy bias going while I was running around - I was completely committed to preparation for what I though would be a serious of follow up strikes all over the US.
After the jets rattled the house, she was now fully on board and getting stuff ready.
Then we heard about the Pentagon hit, and something happening in PA.
Once we had done some basic prep stuff, we were glued to the set waiting for updates.
I hadn’t been turned on to FR at that point. I was going by what Fox was broadcasting, and back filling that with CNN stuff. CNN, in events like this, has traditionally had better live coverage, with people positioned closer to where stuff was going on at the time.
I remember, later in the very early morning of 12SEP01, thinking that the Muslims here had acted with incredible stupidity. They had made a bold opening move, and succeeded in bringing down the commercial air traffic to nothing.
But nothing happened afterward - no attacks on malls, no attacks to power infrastructure, no attacks to banking, the internet, or water supplies.
I remember thinking in the following days, “What was the point? Now we are pissed. You know what’s coming.”
I also remember thinking, “Does W need an engraved invitation to hit something at this point? Why isn’t the Middle East a sea of glass? One big Chihuly sculpture piece?”
My inlaws were on a cruise down off of Florida. A planeload of tourists from their ship went down in a sightseeing sortie over one of the islands down there. They had real trouble getting back to WA state from that trip.
Hindsight is 20/20. I remember thinking, “An asymmetrical attack by a state-sponsored terror group on a superpower deserves an asymmetrical response.”
We should have responded with nukes that day, the following couple of days, where we had a window - but didn’t.
Instead we got sucked into the doctrine of ‘appropriate response’, and here we are today.
I was on active duty as a young MP 2LT - on patrol maneuvers in the field...humvee’s at the ready & MK 19 mounted...I had previously given an assessment to higher ranking officers on the Twin Towers, stating that moslems attempted to blow them before - that would try again because I understood their determination...I was told by a CPT that I over “did my analysis” and that I should have stuck to detailing Iraq...that was the Summer of 2001 So - when the call went out over the net to rally at the back gate of Fort Leonard Wood, we were the first to show up - gunner pointing at the first vehicle attempting to cross the bridge into Leonard Wood - a older vet - from Korea I think - got out - raised his hands and didn’t want any trouble from the MK19 weapon system...other MP’s soon followed as we listened to the portable radio another fellow 2LT had with him...it wasn’t until that evening when I watched the news I saw what they were talking about...we went on high alert for weeks after that and I began preparations for war! Seems like last year...I wonder if the WW II vets felt this way - remembering...I can’t believe I was there in OIF 4 times...and now with what is going on ...knowing 17 that didn’t return alive and a number more that did - permanently disabled...makes one wonder...
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I was fortunate. I had been on FR for a while. The first thing I did was turn off the radio and sign onto FR. There were freepers in NYC and DC who gave hair raising accounts of what they were seeing.
It was interesting that some of the events they spoke of never made it into the news. I still wonder about the explosions near the state department (verified by a family friend who was near there) and the smoke markers heading toward the Capitol.
BTW not only should Bush have retaliated immediately, he should have slammed our southern border SHUT immediately.
Now we have a “leader” who thinks we can absorb terror strikes.
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