No, I haven't posted in a long, long time but I read the posts on here all the time. I just had to chime in here. My husband is a firefighter who, thank god, did not die on 9/11. He does not blame Rudy for the problems that did exist on 9/11 and he as well as most of his FF buddies support Rudy. They will also vote for ANY republican over Hillary or Obama, regardless of what their union leaders want. (Not to keen on Huckabee though.)My husband says that what he saw in Rudy on 9/11 convinces him he is the right guy. It also struck us both how Rudy attended so many brave first responders funerals and spoke to us all and how our Senator Clinton was no where to be found in those long days and weeks after 9/11.
You must be very proud of your husband, what a horrible day that was, I cried and cried for those FF. Here is some good info on the communication probs, which they are STILL working on.
From reporting at National Review:
Since 9/11, when the problem of interoperability of first-responder communications systems became starkly apparent, NYC, NY state and the Department of Homeland Security have all spent goo-gobs of money addressing it, thus far with questionable success, mainly due to its technological complexity. Giuliani was mayor for eight years before 9/11, during which time interoperability, to the extent it was an issue at all, had to compete with various other budgetary demands. It has now been over six years since 9/11 and countless millions in federal aid, and despite the obvious urgency of interoperability and the work of lots of energetic people to solve it, it remains a problem. (See e.g., here, here, and here; see also remarks of DHS Sec’y Chertoff on, among other things, the challenges of interoperability five years after 9/11; see also January 2007 DHS Interoperability Nationwide Survey (remarking of NYC: “As noted by exercise evaluators, FDNY and NYPD command ‘are now using the same radios on the same frequency band, which is a commendable development.’”) We can hope it is worked out after all these years; we won’t really know until the system is tested under fire.
Hi everyone, No, I haven't posted in a long, long time but I read the posts on here all the time. I just had to chime in here. My husband is a firefighter who, thank god, did not die on 9/11. He does not blame Rudy for the problems that did exist on 9/11 and he as well as most of his FF buddies support Rudy. They will also vote for ANY republican over Hillary or Obama, regardless of what their union leaders want. (Not to keen on Huckabee though.)My husband says that what he saw in Rudy on 9/11 convinces him he is the right guy. It also struck us both how Rudy attended so many brave first responders funerals and spoke to us all and how our Senator Clinton was no where to be found in those long days and weeks after 9/11.
Thank you, MacMattico. Some here, and many across America, feel as you do. God bless you and God bless your hero husband. Thank God he lived through that horrible day. I notice that the poster who attacked Mayor Giuliani re 9/11 has not been able to respond to you. It is no wonder, because you speak from authenticity. You lived it.
Never forget.