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I listened to phone calls on talk radio on 9/11.

DNA is STILL being matched.

Over 29000 separate body parts have been found and tagged.

At one time, Air Force One was the only plane in the air, and escorted by 4 jets.

One guy described how his brother was right out front of the WTC in a cab. Fire from the fuel dropped on it. The guy doesn’t know how he got away.

One person described how small airports made room for big jets.

One guy was stuck in Hawaii on business. (rough)

One guy, his wife and child escaped across the river on a small ferry. They WATCHED ‘hundreds’ of people jumping.

As for Pearl, if you haven’t seen the official film, find it. The roar and reverberation from the Arizona blast brings grown males to tears. Even foreigners are quiet at the monument. Every American should see that monument. In the previous generation, many people refused to buy Japanese after WWII until the day they died.

The roar and reverberation from the Arizona blast brings grown males to tears.

Stormin' Norman was a narrator of a Pearl Harbor 50th annual
commemeration show (on CBS, I think).

IIRC, he mentioned that some photographers at Pearl Harbor had
their cameras grabbed and film ruined...so that the photos they
took of barrels behind the hospital full of amputated limbs
wouldn't be published.

The real motive for this war-time censorship wasn't given, but
I couldn't help but think of two reasons for keeping the photos
out of circulation:
1. Not have people faint and have heart attacks by seeing this
in the local paper
2. Not light a fire under the average American that wouldn't be
put out until they killed about every person of Asian extraction
in the USA.

Sadly, since 9-11, I realize there might be third (and best) reason:
3. Not give the isolationists/defeatists a graphic image they'd
use when pushing appeasement/"accomadation"/SURRENDER, as in
"our boys have suffered enough and we shouldn't put any more in
harm's way".

Every American should see that monument.

The United State Army gave my father a free year-long trip to
Pearl Harbor in the mid-1950s. (He drew a two year hitch standing
guard during The Cold War).
He said there were still unrepaired bullet-holes in the Schofield (sp?)
Barracks.

In the previous generation, many people refused to buy Japanese
after WWII until the day they died.

My father worked with one of those fellows...that survived
The Bataan Death March.

BUT he finally came to terms with his experience with the Japanese,
he did buy a Japanese car.
When my dad told my mom that this fellow finally bought a Japanese
car, she shrewdly asked:
"For target practice? Or to drive?"