Posted on 08/20/2007 8:43:27 PM PDT by shineon
This is the best footage I have ever seen of the World Trade Center attacks.
The documentary went over this issue about WTC-7 and Silverstein’s comment. I think it is utterly clear (and Silverstein has confirmed) that what he meant by ‘pull’ was that he agreed it was best to ‘pull’ remaining firefighters away from WTC-7 due to the danger of collapse.
The nutters are still making me sick - every nonsensical point they make has been amply refuted - they have some psychological need to believe total nonsense.
My God-nothing like a sobering reminder as to what is important in our lives.
The woman crying was almost too much to bear.
I totally agree.
If that’s the one by the photo journalists, it’s incredible. I got it at Sam’s Club when it first came out. I wish I had bought more copies then.
It’s good to know it’s still available and I’d encourage anybody interested in a good documentary about the day to get it.
sorry for your loss that day and always.
My sister-in-law lost two cousins.
RIP Frank Monahan (Canter-Fitzgerald)
Yup, that’s the clip. Thanks for finding it. Though Silverstein didn’t make the decision to ‘pull’ whatever they were going to pull. The fire department made the decision to ‘pull it,’ according to what Silverstein actually said on the tape.
And now they remember, too.
Thanks. I taping it now and will watch it later.
yes, me too, I just kept starting it over, going to where I had left off...it stopped one or two more times and then played until the end.
bttt
I am an old man now, and if I was younger I would be over seas in the fight.
My comfort is simply and lovingly to take out my guns, clean them every one, and polish them in what has become an annual super maintenance, and pray that the Islamic Fascist bustards eventually have enough balls to come over here, where my rounds will take them from the feet up, or that the good lord will subtract about 30 years from this old man's body.
Bless those who were lost, and bless those who lost friends , acquaintances and loved ones. We will not forget.
excellent!
Bookmark.
Battalion Chief John Norman, Special Operations Command (FDNY):
"I started to go down Vesey toward West, but there was a lot of debris blocking the way and they were telling me no, you don't want to go down there. They're worried about that building collapsing. I looked at 7 World Trade Center. There was smoke showing, but not a lot and I'm saying that isn't going to fall. So I went up Church Street two more blocks and went across to West and went right down behind 7 and got a good look at three sides.
Again, there were a lot of fires on the ground, some crushed mail trucks, some burned-up engines. It was a scene out of a war zone. I continued around to West and Vesey and reported into the command post. They were very concerned about fire extending into the telephone company building.
They gave me a couple of companies and said get into the telephone company building and check on extension there. We had extension on the first and second floors, so we took some standpipe lines, put them in operation and knocked that down. From there, we looked out at 7 World Trade Center again. You could see smoke, but no visible fire, and some damage to the south face. You couldn't really see from where we were on the west face of the building, but at the edge of the south face you could see that it was very heavily damaged.
But I never expected it to fall the way it did as quickly as it did, 7. But we took some defensive positions, actually tied the lines off and pulled the companies back from the building. I didn't feel too bad once we got back away from the perimeter just because that's a real, real heavy, old-style building. We knocked down any fire and checked for extension in the phone company building. We tied the lines off and left them flowing out into the street onto the debris piles that were burning out in the street there between the phone company and 7."
Glad this thread is here. More info on Bldg 7 than I've seen in one place before.
It’s always very sobering to think about how the history we take for granted could easily have been different. The outcome of WWII, for example, wasn’t such a given. There are a lot of ‘what ifs’ in history and we shouldn’t forget how fortunate we are. While I have great faith in the resilience of America, I also realize that our freedoms and what we are as a nation are precious and fragile and need to be vigilantly protected. I worry that we’ve become so complacent as a nation that we’ve let our guard down dangerously.
bttt
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