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.

[usconservative]

I believe that this thread says a great deal about FR. The article was posted 10 minutes after the first tower was struck. The second post was offering prayers.

And by the 16th post, we knew it was a terrorist attack.

[contessa machiaveli]

i have the chills reading the original thread. thank you freepers for bearing witness to the outrage of 9/11.

[Wyatt's Torch]

And by post 38, at 9:15 ET, Catspaw had guessed the responsible party. FR, the best news organization on the planet.

[aristeides]

I see you guessed Osama bin Laden within less than half an hour after the first plane hit.

[1Old Pro]

A never forget bump. Let's keep rolling.

[Catspaw]

It turns out all the sirens were because the local airport had been alerted to expect the Shanksville plane, because it was heading in that direction. Once I got home I called the office and sent everybody home. Best decision I even made, everyone needed to be home at that time. Scary stuff.

I went to the office, forwarded my calls & turned around & went back home. I missed the first tower collapsing on my drive, but remembering that day still brings a visceral reaction. I was in too much shock that day to even cry much, but I do remember crying that night, not only for those who had died, but for those whom I knew would be going off to fighting a war against these monsters. But it really didn't hit me full force until a few days later. I just lost it. Unfortunately, I was driving at the time--I had to pull over.

The most eerie thing was sitting outside on the porch on a gorgeous fall evening & seeing no planes, nothing in the sky except stars....and I remember taking the dog for a walk the day the planes were allowed to fly again & seeing a commercial flight being led by two small jets--the first planes I'd seen since 9/11. I got the chills thinking, "is this how we're going to have to live?" And the answer was, "yes."

I'm over the shock. My grief has abated, but my anger has turned into a cold, cold resolve.

[TomB]

The most eerie thing was sitting outside on the porch on a gorgeous fall evening & seeing no planes,

I remember the same feeling, and I also remember the feeling I had when I saw the first plane back in the sky.

[Roscoe]

Ditto.

[Saundra Duffy]

If this is terrorists (as seems clear now), we need to find out who is responsible and kill them. Not arrest them. Kill them.

You were the first to say this. Good for you! For victory & freedom!!!

[SpyderTim]

bump

[dakine]

For newbies, see post #38, bump.

[misanthrope]

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[misanthrope]

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[My Favorite Headache]

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[The Game Hen]

Yep, I was #2.
It's so overwhelming to read these posts and actually relive what it felt like at each precise moment. My heart is racing and my eyes are watering.

[cardinal4]

Upcoming anniversary bump.

[Joe 6-pack]

Never Forget...

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...it is far better, as Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting The one embraces the soul, disarms our resolution, and lays us open to an attack: The other cautions us to recollect our reason, and stand upon our guard and infuses that noble steadiness, and seriousness of temper, which it is not in the power of an ordinary stroke to discompose. Such objects naturally induce us to lay it to heart, that the next summons may be our own; and that since death is the end of all men without exception, it is high time for the living to lay it to heart...

Regards, By.

[Conservative Dr.Pepper Drinker]

Vengeance!

[Godel]

Islam is murder.