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Posted on 03/30/2004 5:28:49 PM PST by Happy2BMe
I was there when President Bush visited the "Pile" - soon to be the "Pit" - and just as we lifted the nation's spirit with our courage and sacrifice he lifted ours.
I spent five months at the WTC - more time than Kerry spent in Vietnam - and for every miserable moment there I was comforted by his visit.
If Kerry were president we would have spent a year wringing our hands and searching our souls trying to figure out what we did wrong to those who want to destroy us and then we would have crawled on our bellies seeking forgiveness.
God Bless President Bush!
It's a must read .. I'm only half way through reading it and I am just blown over at the amount of support for President Bush and how upset they all are at the way the Union Leaders are using them
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I've been for President Bush since 9/11 (hadn't paid much attention to politics before then). But the real surprize was that a few days ago, my wife said she is also going to vote for him (she's from the Phillipines and basically a self proclaimed socialist). Go President Bush!!!
.....Westy....
My cousin Mike Lynch died on 9-11 trying to save people trapped in an elevator. Here is the story:
Michael Lynch, FDNY, died a hero on September 11, 2001, while engaging in the rescue of civilians trapped in an elevator.
The Story, as told by NY Daily News Reporter Michael Daly: Another Article on Michael Lynch
Sunday, November 24, 2002. Page 2.
The doors parted, but the elevator had become stuck just as the bottom of the cab was reaching the lobby of the south tower. Only the feet of the trapped passengers were visible as the burning jet fuel that had cascaded down the shaft ahead of them threatened to broil them alive.
"These people were getting cooked," recalls Firefighter Tim Brown. "They were screaming. They were dying."
Brown was assigned to the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, and his official role at the World Trade Center that horrific September morning was to help coordinate the overall rescue effort. He momentarily cast those duties aside and grabbed a fire extinguisher, only to discover it was empty.
Brown tried another extinguisher, but it also was empty. An arm stuck out of the smoky gap between the bottom of the stalled cab and the top of the doorway, flailing as if attempting to pull the elevator down.
"It was hell for them, and I was watching it," Brown recalls.
Brown turned to his right to get help and discovered it already had arrived in the form of Firefighter Michael Lynch of Ladder 4.
"He slapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Timmy, don't worry about it, we'll take care of it,'" Brown recalls.
Brown knew Lynch to be smart and brave, one of the department's future stars.
"I just had this whole wave of relief," Brown says. "I knew things were going to be okay. He was just one of those guys. I said, 'All right, Mike, you got it.'"
Lynch set to work with seven equally brave and dedicated members of Ladder 4: Capt. David Wooley, Lt. Daniel O'Callaghan and Firefighters Joe Angelini Jr., Michael Brennan, Samuel Oitice, Michael Haub and John Tipping.
Brown returned to his duties, which soon sent him in search of an Emergency Medical Service supervisor. He was coming out of the tower onto Liberty St. when he looked to his left to see Ladder 4's rig parked on the sidewalk, just outside the lobby fire command station.
Debris was still cascading from above, and Firefighter Danny Suhr of Engine 216 had been killed by a jumper moments before, but there was Michael Lynch, reaching into the upper compartment on the rig for a Hurst tool, the Jaws of Life used to pry open doors. The motor end is heavy, and a young firefighter dashed out to help.
"I yelled, 'Mike, you guys got it?'" Brown says.
The reply was calm and confident as the most mortal danger rained all around.
"Yeah, we got it."
Lynch headed back into the lobby where the rest of Ladder 4 was extinguishing the fire under the elevator. The Hurst tool would be able to widen the gap between the cab floor and the doorway so the firefighters could pull everyone to safety.
Brown found an EMS team under the south pedestrian bridge and was starting back to the lobby when the south tower collapsed. He dove into the adjacent hotel and survived.
Bodies found together
Ladder 4's firefighters were still in the lobby. Their bodies were found six months later, clustered together, as you would expect a disciplined company to be in a high-rise fire. The Hurst tool lay among them, along with the remains of a civilian woman. That would suggest Ladder 4 was in the midst of rescuing her.
Their crumpled rig had been found in December, having plunged five levels below the street.
Heads Up for a very worthy cause - FIRE FIGHTERS FOR BUSH!
These are the very same people who many of their friends and relatives were either killed or seirously injured in the 9/11 attacks in New York City.
It is a grass-roots movement rallying against the liberal media attacks on President Bush and rebelling against the Fire Fighter Unions who have thrown their political weight and fortunes in behind J-FK..
HERE is one first-hand account of a 9/11 Fire Fighter's true story.
Check out the GUESTBOOK - see what Fire Fighters across the entire country are saying about President Bush.
Name: Greg Wakeman, Captain, Virginia Beach FD, Retired
comments: Finally, a site where "WE," those not swayed by the biased media, can send our message of support for a President who has the same courage it takes to be a firefighter.
To be called upon to make decisions and take action based on known facts, as well as the "unknown", without hesitancy, because of the critical nature.
I am proud as hell of this President and his administration.
We are living in a different world/country these days, and we had better be sure the right choices are made.
Lest we forget 9-11-01, NEVER....Kudos to this site.
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These must be Massachusetts constituents, wantin' to 'Fire Kerry' ....
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