Posted on 09/09/2011 6:34:10 PM PDT by Pelham
Brad Burlingame reaches into the pocket of his suit pants and pulls out a small black leather pouch, unzips it and reveals a jagged thumb-size piece of metal wreckage that he carries with him.
The aluminum is from the fuselage of American Airlines Flight 77 – the plane that his brother Charles “Chic” Burlingame III piloted before terrorists hijacked the controls and plunged it into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
The attack on the jet killed his brother and 188 others, including 125 on the ground. Ten years have past since the morning Brad, his brother Mark and sister Debra got the call that their big brother had died.
But there are daily reminders of that day on TV, in newspapers, in business meetings – the phrase “in the wake of 9/11.”
Brad Burlingame, 58, the president of the West Hollywood Marketing & Visitors Bureau, has had many offers to attend or speak at 9/11 memorials in California and across the country as Sunday’s 10th anniversary approaches.
He chose one – to come to Anaheim.
“It’s where we went to high school, it’s where we grew up,” Burlingame says. “My whole family has such fond memories there.
“And the Anaheim community was so good to us (after 9/11),” he says. “The time I’ve spent there – including Angels (baseball) games – has truly been like therapy.”
“Brad. Chic has been killed.”
Brad woke up at home in Los Angeles on Sept. 11, 2001 to the horror on TV of seeing a plane crash into the World Trade Center.
Then a second plane.
“Like everybody else, I watched and knew something was seriously wrong,” he says. “When that second plane hit, I knew I had to call my brother.”
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Damn it, the sadness will never leave, it’s always there.
It was hard for me as a child and young adult to understand my aunt’s loathing for the Japanese. She was a quiet, intelligent and reasonably tolerant woman but she absolutely loathed them due of course to Pearl Harbor. I feel that way now about muslims. I have a cold hard anger in my gut which I doubt will ever go away, even if tomorrow they all became reasonable and civilized people.
They will never become reasonable and civilized people unless they leave the cult of islam.
We have friends that were formally muslim (now Christian) and they will tell you the same thing.
I know a number of muslims, they are becoming common in Orange County. Most of them are fine people. But the religion has always been the great enemy of freedom and the West. One or the other is going to prevail. We are fools to be allowing Islamic immigration.
I have the same feeling about the Muslims/islamic DOGS.
One of my friends and coworkers is a former officer in the Imperial Iranian Army. A Christian, he and his immediate family were forced to flee after the Shah was overthrown, but he still has relatives living in Iran that he is occasionally able to contact (don’t ask how, I won’t tell) and the horror stories they have told him are both gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.
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