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And I say.....even though Free Republic is strong on 'trust but verify'......how can we doubt the veracity of these accounts?

As you say. It's crucial that the details be scrutinized to see what makes sense, what doesn't or needs to be further explained: that's the strength of FR. It's what brought us here in the first place and makes sites like this so important as the OM continues to let us down.

Even if some of the details we're looking at in an email are not correct (they are, after all, a single person's recall), it doesn't negate that something odd (in the least) happened on flight 297.

We know why we're not seeing this in the news. We need to be outraged by that as well as by the lack of coverage of the original story. If we are not ... then we are losing our edge.

This is also the topic at http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/12/so-was-this-a-language-misunde.html as was mentioned on a prior thread.

comments from last night:

(comment #1) @ 5:49 PM Thu, Dec 03, 2009
I'm putting this in hoax category unless they're willing to go on tv. And if things happened the way it did, they would have been on TV by now. But there was something weird going on, just read the article.
Why would the crew just leave if it was a dry-run. Wouldn't they have stayed on after it was explained? And for the person who said that stewardesses are not allowed to leave the plane, well this one did. And the article said she was in tears about something. This was not just a disorderly guy. Something went down but they don't want to say.
You do not have the crew, a stewardess and 12 passengers just get up and leave because some guy would not shut off his camera/phone.
Nothing happened in the end and maybe it was all nothing. But it still stinks.
(comment #2) @ 10:23 PM Thu, Dec 03, 2009
One of them has, Mr. Petruna has been warned by his superiors at NASA that if he continues to speak out about this he will be fired.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/AirTran-e-mail-stirs-up-Internet-firestorm-78474802.html

I'm not saying it shouldn't be scrutinized!....I'm very proud Free Republic doesn't rely on knee-jerk responses, but challenges each report, news item, etc with 'trust but verify'....verify....verify.

I'm just saying if someone, anyone had ACTED on the huge red flags with the Fort Hood terrorist, it may have been prevented.

Free Republic is scrutinizing every jot & tittle of this information...and thank goodness Canada Freepress is as well...

..certainly OUR mainstream media aren't.

It seems like enough... albeit anecdotal... accounts have been given to accept this as close to fact, close enough.