Plane Crashes into World Trade Center

NewYork1 | 9/11/01

[hellinahandcart]

Just in. I am looking at a picture of the WTC with smoke pouring out of the western tower. Looks like a huge amount of damage. Debris raining down on people in the street.

[Jaidyn]

I could only go as far as the second plane hitting. Maybe next year I will be ready to read it all again. I feel like the rest of you. The memory will sear in our brains as though we were branded by it.

[ChareltonHest]

Especially the first 141 entries which were on 911.

Oh yeah.

C.H.

[Roberts]

bttt

[sweetliberty]

I was working out of town when all this was happening and was going crazy not having access. I only got to check in briefly over a period of 3 days and it was awful. It is chilling to read this thread now. These monsters aren't through with us yet. We still have some serious a$$ kicking to do! Some of it right here at home.

[Vinomori]

we take FR for granted but it is a lighthouse in the storm -----b u m p

[sweetliberty]

"we take FR for granted but it is a lighthouse in the storm "

A most excellent description.

[deadhead]

"We still have some serious a$$ kicking to do!

I agree, and we will

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Well Well Well Guess Bush hasn't been doing the job he ought to have been doing. Now we get to find out if he has any balls.

Well, what is the verdict? Do you think he has any balls?

[Teacher317]

me2

[JulieRNR21]

We will always remember 9-11.....and the thousands murdered by Moslem terrorists.
God Bless America.

[Catspaw]

I was posting on this thread while it happened. It is still frightening, eerie, terrifying.

We shall never forget.

[Catspaw]

yeah, just as I thought anti-Israel, anti-American.

And giving her use of "skinhead" a historical perspective. What an idiot.

[Mom_Grandmother]

We go on, we live, we work, we take care of our families, we pray. But I'll be damed if I ever loose this anger, this rage, this fire that will not go out inside of me, it is the only emotions that keep things in "Perspective" for me.

If we back-off, lighten up, blink, faulter and begin to question our right in rooting out and destroying any and all nations or people that are responsible for this, 9/11 will be like a scratched knee cap compared to the Hell that may someday be unleashed upon us, it's them or us, If our nation does not unite with George W. Bush, then God Have Mercy Upon Us All!

We cannot be divide, we cannot allow Democrates to play political socker with our lives. They have to be reminded that they are Americans first and Democrates second, because if we lose America, there will be no Democrates or anyone else that matters.

[CarolAnn]

FreeRepublic is indeed a lighthouse in a storm. Even though I was watching live tv when the second plane hit the other tower, I logged on to FR shortly after because I wanted to be here. Some of our people here had an uncanny sense of what was what.

wingnuts'nbolts wrote within just a few minutes of the second strike: "Kamakazie Palistinians?"

hellinahandcart wrote within the same minute: "....We need all the airports closed right now and the military in here."

I wouldn't have believed that could even be done! And here hellinahandcart was calling for it well before it was actually done. I don't think they had even reported that those planes had been hijacked yet. Good call. Hell, I was in such a state of shock my brain was about as functional as jello pudding.

Any time crazy things happen, I come here quickly. I don't always say anything, but because of faithfullness of the people here, I have a sense of connectedness when I read everybody's posts. That's comforting in frightening times.

[JamesWilson]

bump, back at you!

[Budge]

Osama bin Ladin is my guess, no matter who takes credit.

38 posted on 9/11/01 6:15 AM Pacific by Catspaw

Catspaw was the first on this thread to name Osama bin-Laden, within 20 minutes after the first plane hit!

Have you anything else for us, Catspaw?

[scan58]

Any time crazy things happen,
and pretty much ever other time, for me...
I come here quickly. I don't always say anything, but because of faithfullness of the people here, I have a sense of connectedness when I read everybody's posts. That's comforting in frightening times.

Me too, CarolAnn, me too.

[Starrgaizr]

Check out the Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01

[ChareltonHest]

Check out the Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01

So they already have a permanent kind of "memorial" here at FR? I hope it's permanent.

C.H.

[Starrgaizr]

Just some links I assembled -- they will remain active as long as the servers are maintained. To my knowledge, it is the best way to review the threads from that morning.