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Someone reading the names of the dead this morning in NYC, was wearing a shirt like this. My wife tells me that he was quickly stopped. Anyone else see that?
Posted on 09/11/2019 6:47:01 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
Where were you on 9/11/2001?
I was 8 blocks north in Tribeca. I watched 20 of my friends at Cantor, Liberty and other brokers die.
I miss my friends. They didn’t desrve that. Bush should have nuked Mecca and Medina the next day. But they were his family’s besties.
Instead we got a muzzie fake potus thanks to W.
I hate the Bushes and the Clintons. My friends are dead because of them.
.......more like he was lacerating her......”see, this is what your pals did”.....
I was playing in a golf outing near Annapolis. Everybody there was from the DC. Within 10 minutes of the plane crashing into the Pentagon, the entire DC area(50 mile diameter), became a parking lot for the next 6 hours. Just about everybody at the golf outing, stayed and played golf. When I drove home to VA at 7:00, the streets, highways and interstates were almost empty.
Patagonia.
Didn’t even know until late afternoon. Walked into a little place for a bite to eat, and the people were very insistent “we have CNN”. Baffled, we were like “ummm ok”. They only had their tv stream a couple of times a day and would not have cnn again for an hour so we ate, then walked into thebackroom with the tv not knowing what to expect, then spent the next hour slack jawed
I was at my fitness club for an early morning workout and ALL of the TVs were immediately changed to the news upon the first airplane strike.
When the second plane hit, I said “We’re at war” and my workout partner nodded her head in agreement.
I recall how surreal it all seemed.
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Someone reading the names of the dead this morning in NYC, was wearing a shirt like this. My wife tells me that he was quickly stopped. Anyone else see that?
Geesh me!
I’m retired USAF. I should know better... not a Liberator but a Mitchell!
B-25, not B-24...
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Yes ma'am.
That was the last time CNN was good for anything.
Attending a trade show at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Show cancelled after about 3PM, everyone stuck. Corporate travel people said “stay put we’ll get you home as soon as possible”, so I had a week to see all the great museums in Houston and the space center til I got out on Saturday. Very surreal.
Attending the services of people who were murdered was a nightmare. Sometimes 3 a day. Plus you had to work. How do you do that? Awful. But Bush kept us safe. Pigs.
I remember when the notion that the middle name of Barak Obama was HUSSEIN was only a RUMOR:
At that early point that rumor was like claims now that the US never landed on the moon:
“Come on! Shut up about that craziness...!”
I thought, nah..! So soon after 9-11, now REALLY? There is NO WAY a candidate for the US Presidency would have such a real name, certainly not so soon after 9-11.
It was still absolutely a scant rumor, not yet part of that silly children’s mind-numbed robot lefty song, where they trundled out the truth and LAUNDERED it, quite baldly, using kindergarten kids in a political ad.
HUSSEIN —it was a rumor.
But it was the truth.
Can you imagine right after Pearl Harbor having a President YAMAGUCHI, or something..?
I was in Scotland, stopping to check in to a small hotel. No one was at the desk so I followed the sound to the pub where the staff were watching live on the TV. I called my wife in from the car and she wondered why we were all sitting there watching a disaster movie.
That day and for several days we heard “sympathy” from Scots and variations on the theme that it really was our fault and we should not make things worse by retaliating but meekly take our lumps.
I told them all that we would shortly be kicking A$$ and taking names and stay out of our way. We did too at first until Bush bogged down in hopeless nation building with rag head savages. Mission Impossible!!
I have my long permanent written report, but since I wasn’t a direct witness, I’m sure it is boring to most. So trying to summarize:
Gorgeous day, working at defense plant literally next to the Baltimore major airport runway. Walked to our normal Tues-morning meeting outside in this by about 8:45. Had no idea of anything until one of our engineers went for a bathroom break @ 10 and his wife texted (Blackberry) that planes hit in different places. Boss immediately stopped the meeting.
I knew it was Moslems when I saw a TV and the tower collapsed. Black man tried to chastise me that we had no idea what kind of people it could be. (The first sign of PC denial for this!)
Surreal. Ultimately plant finally closed up, not before all planes were constantly coming into that runway while we walked back to our offices - what a noise. Then, *completely* quiet (on an idyllic day weather-wise) by lunch time. Neither was normal for an airport.
Went home finally after waiting for parking traffic to clear, eating lunch (I had been out to TRY to find lunch, during which the closure was announced). Chaos surrounding getting nephews and nieces home. So strange, no airplanes, no sky sounds - but parallel contrails down to DC.
Many more details but this is kind of the summary.
I wanted payback...and payback we received.
They killed 3000+ innocent people on that day. The days, weeks, months to follow...we and our allies took out 100’s of thousands of these radical satanic muzzies.
On 911, those evil people were successful in opening a huge can of good ol American whoop @$$.
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I was stationed at Fort Knox, KY. I was an OR Tech working at the base hospital (Ireland Army Community). Went into the break room and seen the first tower on fire. This was obviously before smart phones, so our primary way of information was tv, and the radios in the OR’s. When the second plane hit the tower we knew it was deliberate. After the Pentagon was hit, Fort Knox effectively shut down and nobody was allowed off or on post. Civilian workers were stuck on post until evening when outbound traffic was allowed.
I will say, as someone who was there and was living through it, the best thing in the world was Rudy Guiliani on TV. He was a rock and made us all believe it would be okay. God Bless him and his steadfast leadership.
He was amazing. Ask anybody who was there.
I remember the morning it happened. I had worked a 13 hour day the day before to finish up a job at US Tobacco in Nashville and slept in an hour. I was driving to work on I-40 and was listening to 99.7 WWTN talk radio. As I was nearing the Donelson Pike overpass, the news guy interrupted the host and announced that a plane had crashed into one of the WTC towers. I called Debbie and told her to turn on the news and told her what I knew. I went to work and the TV was on in the conference room and everyone was gathered around trying to figure out what happened when the second place hit the second tower. At that instant we knew that it was a terrorist attack. News came in of other planes being hijacked and one crashing into the Pentagon and one crashing in Pennsylvania. Many brave firefighters and police officers raced to the WTC to try to help evacuate the buildings.
People trapped on the upper floors by fire broke out windows and jumped to their deaths rather than be burned alive.
I remember when the order went out from the FAA for ALL aircraft to land IMMEDIATELY at the nearest airport that would facilitate their aircraft.
Then the first tower fell and a little while later the second tower fell. There were huge clouds of dust, people were coated in it and running away. It was horrible.
I remember the feeling of helpless ANGER that day, and the heart ache for the yet uncounted thousands who died (early estimates went as high as 20,000). I remember how I wanted to DESTROY whoever was responsible.
I will never forget.
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