New York Reservists Go From Ground Zero to Iraq (Prepare for Blurry Screen)

Defend America ^ | July 5, 2005 | Staff Sgt. Julie Nicolov

[SandRat]

Blurry Screen warning!

[handy old one]

9-11 pissed off The United States more than they will ever know till they die.

[El Gato]

As Admiral Yamamoto once said, could now be said by the Jihadists. "We have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve".

[Question_Assumptions]

I was really happy to see footage from 9/11, including the second plane hitting the towers, on Penn and Teller's Showtime show "Bull****!" last night during a show on conspiracy theories (dealing with nuts that think it was all a government conspiracy) to remind people about the reality of that day. I think the news blackout on those pictures is a form of propaganda that hopes that Americans will forget. I won't.

[pax_et_bonum]

ping

[luvie]

Thank you for the ping! You were right about the hanky alert!

NEVER FORGET!!!

[Calpernia]

He bounced out of the gunner’s hatch of his armored humvee, removed his helmet to assess the desert landscape of Forward Operating Base Bernstein, Iraq, and made his observation.

“Man, I would love to plant some tomatoes out here,” said U.S. Army Spc. James Letohic, scout, 42nd Infantry Division command group personal security detail. “They’d get as big as basketballs!”

[SandRat]

Better hang on to the hanky because I've got more coming. Some happy like saving the small Afghan baby and some like this one.

[Avenger]

As Admiral Yamamoto once said, could now be said by the Jihadists. "We have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve".

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Unfortunately, there are apparently two giants that have been awoken in the U.S. One giant wants to defeat the enemies of the United States. The other giant wants to defeat the United States.

[wtc911]

Two things connect me to this guy...

“They’d run the sirens, thinking a building was going to fall,” Gaudioso said. “You’d have to drop whatever you were doing and run.”

I worked GZ before the 42ID got there and he is right about the fear that Liberty Plaza was going to come down and the blasts on the sirens warning that they thought it was happening. The difference was that we were in the pit for much of the time and there was no way of running for cover. It took fifteen minutes to crawl, climb into the pit, and there was no easy way out. All we could do when the sirens blasted was hunker down and pray. We left late at night on the 13th as the ANG trucks were pulling in. It was still wild but we had nothing left to give by then.

Another eerie happening there was that whenever there was even the smallest sign of life from the rubble someone would blow a lifeguard whistle and all work on the pile would stop. Everyone would hold his breath as a FF near the point of contact would call out "Firefighter...what's your name!" then listen for an answer that never came. After a minute of calling without response the whistle would blow again and we'd get back to work.

The other connection...42ID HQ at FOB Danger in Tikrit flies a flag that I took to GZ and ran up the pole right before they deployed then donated to them.

Everytime this forum goes on one of its NY is hell junkets I think about these guys, the ones who showed up to dig in 2001 and the ones who left their families back here to go to Iraq in 2005. These people are the real NYers and real Americans.

[SandRat]

Glad I could find a story to let you know just how your fellow New Yorker's are doing.

[wtc911]

Thanks, I talk to a bunch of 42ID folks over there and the wife and I do what we can for the families in our area.

[naturalman1975]

“I remember the cartoon where they showed the fireman handing the American flag to the soldier,” Gaudioso said. “The soldier was saying, ‘We’ll take it from here.’ There’s no way you didn’t want to be [in Iraq].”

[naturalman1975]

“I remember the cartoon where they showed the fireman handing the American flag to the soldier,” Gaudioso said. “The soldier was saying, ‘We’ll take it from here.’ There’s no way you didn’t want to be [in Iraq].”

[SandRat]

Thank naturalman1975 for this.

I remember the cartoon where they showed the fireman handing the American flag to the soldier,” Gaudioso said. “The soldier was saying, ‘We’ll take it from here.’ There’s no way you didn’t want to be [in Iraq].”

[Chode]

[TomGuy]

Reminder -- various news reports beginning the morning of 9-11-01:


Various news videos from 9-11-01 posted on putfile.com

9/11/2001 The News As It Happened

 

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dallastexas
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:59 pm    Post subject: 9/11/2001 The News As It Happened
From a now defunct website from Jan. 2002. The sound is bad. You will have to adjust your volume level. American and Foreign News casts before and after 8:30am, Tuesday September 11, 2001.... I have to do this in parts. It's a big file. Part 1: NBC Today Show 8:30am EST Before Attack (bright and shiny day) The Beginning / CBS NEWS Special Report: Unkown Plane Hits WTC Tower / CNN Breaking News: Aircraft Crashes Into World Trade Center Tower New York Click here to watch 911P1 Part 2: Henchos Spanish TV / ABC News Special Report / Second Plane Hits WTC / George Bush Announces Terrorist Attack From Florida School / FOX News Special Report Attack on Pentagon Washington DC Click here to watch 911P2 Part 3: FOX News Special Report First WTC Tower Collapses Live / NBC News Special Report First WTC Tower Collapses Live / Russian News On WTC Attack / Chinese News On WTC Attack / CNN NEWS Special Report On WTC Attack / WABC Canada Second WTC Tower Collapses Live / FOX NEWS Breaking Hijacked Flight 175 Crashes Near Pittsburgh PA. Click here to watch 911P3 Part 4: FOX NEWS Breaking Hijacked Flight 175 Crashes Near Pittsburgh PA. / Iraqi News / BBC Special Report On WTC Attack / Japanese News WTC Attack Click here to watch 911P4 Part 5: VOA Special Report On WTC Attack / 20 Sec Still / ABC NEWS Special Report Recap / ABC NEWS Second plane hits / Street interviews by phone (people confused) Click here to watch 911P5 Part 6: ABC NEWS Channel 7 Special Report On WTC Attack Street Level Video Of Collapse / Pentagon Attack Coverage / National State Of Emergency Declared / FOX NEWS Special Report Second Plane Hits Live Click here to watch 911P6 Video Shorts [b]Video Of WTC 7 The Forgotten Tower Collapsing / Third Skyscraper To Collapase / Base Damaged By The Collapse of The WTC Twin Towers: Click here to watch wtc7_collapse2 Click here to watch wtc7_collapse Click here to watch wtc_7_cbs Second Plane Hits WTC http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=WTC-Plane-2--RARE-FOOTAGE Second Plane Hits Street Level Click here to watch 911.wtc.2.hit.west.below Second Tower Collapses Street Level FOX NEWS:People Running In Panic Click here to watch Second Tower Collapses Street Level CBS NEWS Live Coverage Attack on America Second Plane Click here to watch NBC NEWS Live Coverage Attack on America CNN BREAKING NEWS: Second Plane Hits Live: Click here to watch CNN BREAKING NEWS: Second Plane Hits Live FIrst Plane Hits WTC CNN NEWS: Click here to watch FIrst Plane Hits WTC CNN NEWS CNN BREAKING NEWS: Second Tower Collapses Live. Click here to watch 911CNN Last edited by dallastexas on Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:55 pm; edited 25 times in total

[easonc52]

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[wtc911]

Yep, thanks for the picture.