Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01

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[Starrgaizr]

Upon request, I have collected links to many of the earliest threads from September 11, 2001 below. I reviewed threads from the very first FR report (http://www.freeRepublic.com/focus/fr/520255/posts)through thread number 520326. Feel free to add other significant threads, including photo archives. Bumping this thread periodically instead of the original threads will also avoid scaring people with the headlines.

Bookmark this thread, and bump it from time to time when the nation and the press seems to forget why we need resolve in the face of evil. Forgive some of the early misinformation and broken photo links, and recall the horror and fury.

World Trade Center

*** PLANE CRASH - WORLD TRADE CENTER ***

Plane Crashes into World Trade Center

SECOND PLANE FLIES INTO OTHER TOWER!

2nd Explosion in other World Trade Tower Building - 2nd Airplance =Terrorist Attack?

AP: 737 PLANE WAS HIJACKED AND CRASHED INTO WORLD TRADE CENTER

President Bush calling this a Terrorist Attack

First Wire Reports on World Trade Center Attacks

Possible Explosion at Pentagon - NBC News

Third plane? Also Pentagon hit!

PALESTINIAN FRONT CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY

Flash - Another explosion next to World Trade Center

TOP OF WORLD TRADE CENTER JUST COLLAPSED!

WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSES!!!!

BBC: Palestinian Groups takes "responsibility"

UNCONFIRMED: Another hijacked plane

Second Tower just went!!!

FReeoples Bar & Grill // Thread 165 -- EMERGENCY THREAD

Hijacked plane crashed

US TERROR BOMBING PHOTOS - (slow-many images)

Please pray for us

[Catspaw]

I was second, by about a minute. HalfIrish was the first to say "Osama bin Laden."

[wimpycat]

OK I think I remember now that this fact was established months ago. You're right. Still, you were the first one on that thread---LOL!

[hispanarepublicana]

bump

[Howlin]

It's as fresh as if it were yesterday...

[kjenerette]

...good for class research.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

AMERICA - The Right Way - September 11, 2001

[Starrgaizr]

9-11-bump

[Sungirl]

I hope those threads are all locked? Those are keepers...and shouldn't be disturbed...IMO.

[lds23]

Prayers for the killed and wounded and their families. Prayers for our country.

[Djarum]

BTTT

[L.N. Smithee]

Thanks for this. No video, radio report, print story or memoir tells the horror of varied and sundry Americans' reaction better than these threads.

[Wyatt's Torch]

With the disparate personalities, opinions, and geography, there is not a single news reporting and analysis service better than Free Republic. Just amazing going back through those threads.

[Palladin]

Bumping this in honor of Eunice Stone, Patriotic American.

[WillaJohns]

bttt

[Starrgaizr]

Extremely graphic photos posted here. Remember and be outraged.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/790905/posts

[VOA]

A "lest we forget"..."I got here via a link from another 9-11 thread someone bumped today"...bump...

[Starrgaizr]

It's funny that you posted today, I just happened to reread some of the threads today before your post, thinking about the war, and as always, I had to wipe my eyes dry.

"Why we fight" -- people can't see that we are in a world war. Can you imagine peaceniks in 1942 going to Berlin to stand with Hitler? We have thousands of Jane Fondas now. And they are all so hopelessly clueless. We are once again in a war not of our choosing, but one we must win. The way to win this war is to remake the Arab world. Afghanistan was simply a radical Arab outpost. If the Arabs (and you can toss in the Persians) don't become civilized, there will be nuclear war in the future, because too many of them cannot be deterred.

If not now, then when? This is the moment, and this president sure seems to have "the vision thing" his dad lacked.

Just my rant of the day.

[Starrgaizr]

It's funny that you posted today, I just happened to reread some of the threads today before your post, thinking about the war, and as always, I had to wipe my eyes dry.

"Why we fight" -- people can't see that we are in a world war. Can you imagine peaceniks in 1942 going to Berlin to stand with Hitler? We have thousands of Jane Fondas now. And they are all so hopelessly clueless. We are once again in a war not of our choosing, but one we must win. The way to win this war is to remake the Arab world. Afghanistan was simply a radical Arab outpost. If the Arabs (and you can toss in the Persians) don't become civilized, there will be nuclear war in the future, because too many of them cannot be deterred.

If not now, then when? This is the moment, and this president sure seems to have "the vision thing" his dad lacked.

Just my rant of the day.

[VOA]

I just happened to reread some of the threads today before your post, thinking about the war,
and as always, I had to wipe my eyes dry.

(in a friendly, chiding tone) Stop it, you're going to get me drippy too...

"Why we fight" -- people can't see that we are in a world war.

From all I can see, radical Islam has replaced Communism.
It has become the ideology (note, NOT a religion) for those who simply refuse to get
onboard with the 21st Century.
And have decided there are good reasons to kill anyone who does.
At least they've simplified the situation: We kill them or they kill us.
Unfortunately, some Westerners haven't caught on yet.
I suspect all of them are among those who DIDN'T lose a friend or loved one at the WTC
or the Pentagon.

If not now, then when?

You'd think that position would resonate even with the Hollywood Leftists.
But I guess they are so confident that other people will do their dirty work in the
US Military and keep their homes in the Hollywood Hills secure...they don't care if the
fight happens on their "watch" or that of this or any succeeding generation.
Kinda' makes me wish that Dubya would sound a Patrick Henry tone of the sound of battle
already in the air and that we won't get stronger by waiting...during his State of The Union
speech...

Sorry I've got to run.....just had to put in my $0.02 of rant before I left for the day....