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Ben Sliney is looking at it saying "That is NO small plane. Look at the size of that hole!" (Take THAT DU conspirators!)Then the ATCs that are actually watching the second plane fly into the tower. It was like opening a fresh wound, again.

Switch to NORAD, and they are trying to figure out what is going on. Each tower has a piece of the information, but none of it has been put together. NORAD is only getting sketchy reports. Someone at one point says "How are we supposed to protect the entire eastern seaboard with only four planes?" And you feel the sense of helplessness.

A new batch of movie trailers here, including scenes with Sliney and NORAD.

I recommend, as reading, a related book "The Day the World Came to Town" (by Jim Defede, ReganBooks, softcover, 244p.). It is the story of 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland where as a result of Sliney's order 38 planes with 6,600 passengers and crew landed in a town with only 10,000 people. How the people of Gander and surrounding communities came together to welcome, feed and house those passengers and how the passengers reacted when they found out what had happended is the focus of the book. A very good and very fast read.

I haven't read the book, but I have heard about that story before.

For a short time, the world came together as one in solidarity...but alas, that didn't last long, did it?

Thanks. I will have to check that out.