Posted on 05/23/2008 8:00:32 AM PDT by Fry
Fresh Air from WHYY, May 22, 2008 · After American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, it took firefighters three days to extinguish the flames. Firefighter Patrick Creed and journalist Rick Newman join Fresh Air to talk about the Pentagon blaze and the book they wrote about it, Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11.
Firefight tells the stories of the people inside the Pentagon when the plane hit, the rescue efforts that followed the attack and the three-day battle to extinguish the blaze. Firefighters faced unique circumstances, Creed and Newman write, because structural reinforcements built to safeguard the Pentagon against attack like blast-proof windows and a roof covered by a foot of concrete hampered their progress.
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Thank you again.
“I hate that pop-culture has redefined “hero” into meaning famous. This book is full of people who I’m sure wouldn’t call themselves heroes, but should be recognized as such.”
You are correct.
Since I don’t live in the U.S., I will order it through Amazon.
Again, thank you.
DC Chapter ping.
For a great many weeks after 9/11 a few DC Chapter Freepers, myself included, paid our respects every Saturday just up the hill from where the plane struck the Pentagon. All those who came out on those Saturdays - chime in.
WOW! I would pay real money to hear your brother take on one of the truthers!!
Japaneseghost & i saw many of you there.
free dixie,sw
BKO, a good acquaitance of the DC Chapter was on United Flight 77. The Valentine brothers have read her book, Hell to Pay, many times.
I remember a specific afternoon when a gentleman marched up to the construction area late on a winter Saturday. He unlimbered his bag pipes and played "Amazing Grace." My eyeballs got a good washing then. When he finished, he put away his pipes, saluted and marched away. Never saw him again.
Thanks for posting. I heard most of this interview live.
Bump for later reading
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