Posted on 09/08/2006 3:06:27 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
Tuesday, September 11
8:45 a.m.: Jet airliner crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
9:03 a.m.: A second airliner crashes into its twin south tower, causing a devastating explosion.
9:10 a.m.: In Florida, President Bush is reading to children in a classroom when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispers news of the attacks into his ear.
New York Field Office
9:20 a.m.: The FBI investigates reports of planes being hijacked before the World Trade Center crashes.
9:29 a.m.: First reports of casualties indicate that at least six people were killed, with at least 1,000 injured.
9:30 a.m.: Bush declares: "We have had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country."
9:43 a.m.: Another plane crashes into the Pentagon in Washington. The nerve center of the U.S. military bursts into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapses.
9:48 a.m.: The White House and the Capitol are evacuated amid further threats.
9:49 a.m.: All airports across the U.S. shut down.
10:00 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93, en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, crashes near Pittsburgh. The crash site is 85 miles northwest of Camp David.
10:05 a.m.: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
10:29 a.m.: The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
The Passengers on Flight 93 who confronted the hijackers on 9/11/2001.
12:33 p.m.: United Airlines confirms a second of its planes has crashed at an location.
12:39 p.m.: Bush makes a second statement, vowing to hunt down and punish those responsible.
2:48 p.m.: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says the eventual death toll from Tuesday's attack may be "more than any of us can bear."
2:51 p.m.: The Navy dispatches missile destroyers and other equipment to New York and Washington.
4:25 p.m.: The American Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange say they will remain closed on Wednesday.
4:30 p.m.: Bush leaves Offutt Air Force Base aboard Air Force One to return to Washington, where he will make a nationally televised address.
5:25 p.m.: World Trade Center 7 collapses.
NYPD cops Richie Hartigan and Rich Miller raised the first flag at Ground Zero just 24 hours after the planes hit the towers. (Photo credit: Det. Bill McNulty, NYPD)
8:30 p.m.: Bush addresses the nation. "These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat," he said. "But they have failed; our country is strong."
8:35 p.m.: Bush attends national security meeting.
10:21 p.m.: Meeting ends.
Rescue crews work through the night attempting to find any survivors.
"I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
Sergeant Michael Curtin found March 6, 2002
During the rescue and recovery efforts in Oklahoma, Curtin was walking past an area that had been checked previously for casualties. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of some blue material with a red strip on it. He knew exactly what it was, the dress blue trouser leg of a Marine. He had discovered the remains of Capt. Randy Guzman, an officer in charge of the recruiting office at the Oklahoma City Federal Building.
Because the dangerous location, Curtin and a few others had to request special permission to endanger themselves to recover Guzman's remains. They were granted a four-hour window and were able to recover the body. The part of the whole recovery that caught the Nation's attention was how Guzman was carried out. A U.S. flag was draped over his body and it was ceremoniously saluted as they took it from the site.
When asked why he risked his own life to recover the remains of another Marine he simply replied, Marines don't leave their own behind.
Book of proverbs 10:25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
“Men who have offered their lives for their country know that patriotism is not the fear of something, it is the love of something.” Adlai Stevenson
God Bless our troops
View of Pentagon fire from Arlington 9/11/01
Freedom Isn’t Free
What ever happened to those girders in the shape of a cross?
Comrades Clinton and their ACLU pals probably demanded that it be taken down and destroyed.
Thank you is all I can say.
NEVER FORGET!
Thank you everyone for your reply. Help me keep this going until Monday.
I ask myself that every day, they should have all been made into smoldering craters.
This is incredible. It is still so hard to look at these pictures, but so necessary. I fume at the pieces of dirt that did this, and the left who would stomp on the blood of those we lost for political gain.
I love my country, and I grieve for those we lost that day, and all of the other days that Islamic Jihadist murderers took the lives of Americans and didn't pay one thing for doing so because of a corrupt administration who wanted to pretend all was peace and prosperity. God will judge them all.
God Bless our Troops and our President! /rant off
Thank You. Never forget.
9/11 WTC Only Time video (Enya)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=doTZjVIGF9w
Blood Of Heroes (flash photo video)
http://www.fdnylodd.com/BloodofHeroes.html
9/11 The World Reacts
http://tributeto9-11-01.com/911-0-george/pgs/02.html
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after it has happened; but it only the wise person who knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.”
Sir Winston Churchill
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan
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