Posted on 11/01/2001 6:06:29 AM PST by vannrox
Actually, I was hoping against hope that there was actually someone I hadn't heard about who'd lived to tell the story.
I think the thread is tacky beyond belief.
The author was recently on TV and this is how I learned of the book. Bill Bresnahan is the author. He is a retired SWAT team member. He arrived shortly after the collapse and gives accounts of the rescue and recovery efforts. Some of what he recounted on the show is chilling and truly needs to be told.
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I am not associated with this publisher and have no interest in the book. Merely sending along the informatin.
Judging by our track record, Americans have been known to have a short memory. That just may be what SOME of our foes are counting on. So, no, this is not in bad taste IMO.
Just in case it does not work this time ... http://www.republicbooks.com
It is time America understood that keeping these painful images at the forefront is not about p##ing on your cornflakes, it is about facing the truth and dealing with it for all time. Your own life is at stake.
It is time America understood that keeping these painful images at the forefront is not about p##ing on your cornflakes, it is about facing the truth and dealing with it for all time. Your own life is at stake.
These Americans were victims of tyranny-terror-evil...
The bridge(Clinton) of terror(reno)... Beast Train---Evil/liberalism will fail---destroy themselves!
As I looked up I saw a love affair in the midst of all the horror. A young man helped a girl to the window sill. Then he held her out, deliberately away from the building and let her drop. He seemed cool and calculating. He held out a second girl the same way and let her drop. Then he held out a third girl who did not resist. I noticed that. They were as unresisting as if her were helping them onto a streetcar instead of into eternity. Undoubtedly he saw that a terrible death awaited them in the flames, and his was only a terrible chivalry.That gives an explanation as to why folks jumped from the Twin Towers.Then came the love amid the flames. He brought another girl to the window. Those of us who were looking saw her put her arms about him and kiss him. Then he held her out into space and dropped her. But quick as a flash he was on the window sill himself. His coat fluttered upward—the air filled his trouser legs. I could see that he wore tan shoes and hose. His hat remained on his head.
Thud—dead, thud—dead—together they went into eternity. I saw his face before they covered it. You could see in it that he was a real man. He had done his best.
We found out later that, in the room in which he stood, many girls were being burned to death by the flames and were screaming in an inferno of flame and heat. He chose the easiest way and was brave enough to even help the girl he loved to a quicker death, after she had given him a goodbye kiss. He leaped with an energy as if to arrive first in that mysterious land of eternity, but her thud—dead came first.
This also came to mind when that idiot, Patrick Leahy, was screeching about how the terrorists' rights were being violated because we planned a military tribunal for them. BTW, I noticed that Leahy has kept his mouth shut tight about this objection ever since it first went over like a lead balloon.
The horror of dying in flames or diving 100 stories to certain death will not face us.
Those who were forced to make such a terrible decision must be avenged.
Lots of blood left to shed.
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