Posted on 09/11/2018 6:46:01 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
PLEASE just memories NO "editorializing"!
Yeah, I don’t see the need to even say that
It should’ve been all about turning to God and praying for the lost, injured, missing, recovery and their families. As well as our “ leaders”
>>We know Islamic terrorists struck us a deadly blow.
See how deep the 9/12 indoctrination runs?
America has never harmed others.
We are a decent and good-hearted people. We don’t deserve to be murdered in cold blood.
All we want is to be free and to live our lives in peace. We don’t repress others as the Romans did.
America is more liberal powerful than Rome but is the best, last hope of the earth.
9/11 hasn’t diminished it and we’ve grown stronger because of it.
God bless America!
I was transporting teens to an early morning Bible study class which started at 6:30 (we are on Pacific time). One boy got into my van and said a plane had crashed into a skyscraper in NY. I assumed it was a small private plane. I got back home and flipped on the tv in time to see the towers collapse and the aftermath. Stunning. But the weird memory that stuck with me was how many of those women fleeing the carnage were wearing the absolutely most impractical shoes with stiletto heels and flimsy straps. I vowed always to have practical shoes in my office or car from then on.
The other vivid memory was the absence of planes over my town which sits in the flight path of three international airports. It seemed lonely or sad to me.
Yes. Listening, I heard the name of a classmate of my very first gf. She was on Flight 11 one of the first victims
Btw, if any of you want to hear heroism under pressure, listen to the first phone call...from FA Betty Ong on 11 to American. Several copies on Youtube
I went straight home to watch the TV like everybody else with one special exception. While I was taking the dog out to do her business I remembering looking up in the sky and thinking why is that plane exhaust shaped in a hairpin turn in the sky? I'd never seen anything like it in all my years living in northeast Ohio....to this day I still wonder if that was the exhaust trail of flight 93 that went down in Shanksville.
That night at dinner we prayed for all those lost and their loved ones with tears in our eyes.
I was at my condo in Ocean Grove, NJ. The sky began to turn black. I walked out onto the beach and woke up people who were sleeping overnight and told them. They couldn’t believe it. Later that day, I helped a neighbor turn her flag upside down. She lived with a friend who was a pre-school teacher in Middletown, NJ. Her friend said that many parents were not coming home that night. That night, the air smelled horribly of burning chemicals.
Back in NYC, I remember all the photos of missing people who lined the walls of Penn Station and telephone poles. I had to cancel a dr.’s appointment because my doctor preferred to help a woman whose clothes had been completely blown off in the force of the buildings falling. She had been forced to walk naked for several blocks before someone helped cover her.
This is calling up lousy memories, I must say.
Yes, I've listened to it many times, and I don't want to listen to it again. I remember it very well, and she was heroic. So calm, and yet she was very frightened. Trying hard to be professional and stay in control and be helpful, even though she knew she was in a very serious situation.
When I showed up at my school to teach, the first plane had already hit one of the towers. I immediately thought of the B-25/Empire State Building. I was supposed to work on the school’s computer plan that day, so I had no classes. I wheeled a TV into the workroom and watched the news. At first there was speculation that it might be a small plane or a private jet. Then the second plane hit and the real horror of what was happening came home. Obviously, no computer planning occurred that day.
The fires were burning and the people trapped above them were at the windows and started to jump. From such a height, they had seconds to think about what was happening to them. This part of the horror has seemed to have disappeared down the memory hole. Then the first building collapsed. I went and told the other teachers who were trying to make it a normal class day. And then the second was gone. I often wonder if the buildings had not collapsed how high the piles of the jumpers would have been.
As others have noted, no planes in the sky for the next week. A background noise that you forget is there. And for a while, we were the UNITED states. BBC news readers wore US/UK lapel flags. The Queen sang our national anthem. Special forces riding horses were in Afghanistan, to hunt down the plotters.
And then after only a few months, politics resumed.
My recollection is that politics resumed about two weeks later, with the Democrats demanding to know why George Bush hadn't warned the country that the attack was going to happen, and why he let members of the Saudi royal family leave on a special flight after the aircraft ban was in force.
The one thing that stands out, other than the attack itself, was the silence in the skies! No planes for days in the sky above. Other than military jets doing large reconnaissance circles above, between Tampa and Daytona.
This Wikipedia version of remembering is interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_September_11_attacks
But this is the Mohammod memory, think about it:
Polls taken several years later by Saudi-owned Al Arabiya and Gallup suggest some support for the September 11 attacks within the Islamic world, with 38% believing the attacks to be not justified, while 36% believing them to be justified when Saudis were polled in 2011.[75] Another 2008 study, produced by Gallup, found that 7% of the sample of Muslims polled believing the 9/11 attacks were “completely” justified.[76]
Senior year in college. Learned about it on my way to class. Made it through that class but all the others were pretty much cancelled as everyone gathered around TV sets.
This 10 minute video tells of the remarkable folks in Gander,Newfoundland-—and how they handled all of the grounded passengers.
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I was sitting in a diner in NE Texas with a coworker when the news broke in on the tiny TVs around the room. We sat and watched for a while before going to the office. No work was done that day, only watching the news and discussing what we were seeing.
I went home from work at 10:00 PST and signed up here that day. This was my news source and has been since.
In 2008, John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed published the findings of a six-year effort to poll and interview tens of thousands of Muslims in more than 35 countries with Muslim majorities or substantial minorities about reactions to the September 11 attacks: 23.1 percent of respondents said the attacks were in some way justified, and 7 percent viewed them as “completely justified.”[46] According to Pew Research, the majority of Muslims do not believe the official 9/11 story.[47][48]
The MAJORITY of Muslims do not believe the official 9/11 story.
Nice.
A close friend of mine, a liberal all her life, became a conservative on 9-11, and remains one to this very day.
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