Desperation forced a horrific decision

USA Today ^ | September 3, 2002 | Dennis Cauchon and Martha Moore

[Lazamataz]

Yo mooselimbs: better button down your rags, boys. Lady Liberty is on the way, and she is PISSED.

BS. We barely did a thing in retaliation, except draw up some laws that will ultimately negatively affect Americans.

No offense intended; I just want you to be realistic about your expectations. Nothing will happen to Islamics and Wahabbists. Not a damned thing.

[habs4ever]

There was no baby being held out the window.If you examine the photo closely, it is a fair haired man in a white shirt and dark pants, pressed up against the window frame, and most of his body is obscured by another arm holding onto the frame.This arm gives the appearance of holding onto the head.It's an optical trick, but those were two adults in that frame, not a woman holding a baby.

I hope we can put this urban myth to rest.

[knighthawk]

BUMP!

[Gritty]

We don't need to "celebrate diversity". We don't need "tolerance". We don't need "understanding". We don't need to "examine root causes".

What we need is a "reckoning"!

Then, when the perpetators and ALL their allies and sympathizers are stone, cold dead we can talk about "healing" the wounds that remain. Until then, there should be no further discussion.

[Martin Tell]

He was talking about Flight #587...

You're right! I shouldah checked the geography first. Mea culpa!

[kayak]

Thanks for posting this. As horrific as it is, we need to know this and REMEMBER!!!

I recently saw an interview on tv with one of the survivors. He was a remarkable man (though, sadly, I don't recall his name) who said that he preferred to see the glass as half full. He called those who jumped heroes who did not give their lives in vain; he mentioned the fact stated in this article that those on the ground had to move back because of those jumping ..... and therefore were not smothered and crushed when the building collapsed.

I don't know if that would be any consolation at all to the families ..... but those people unwittingly saved many lives as they sacrificed their own!

[alnick]

I'm sorry for the rant, but the tinfoil-hat crowd is as worthless sometimes as the Left.

Worse, in my opinion.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

There are things I never told anyone since then of what was going through my mind at the time.

While I can't speak for everyone, I'd imagine that their are many of us here who still remember vividly the thoughts going within their mind on that day.

I'm sure some, like you, like myself, feel the time is upon us to venture out and attempt to explain, to do what we can to make sure that day, those emotions are not ever forgotten...

[Pippin]

Yes, That's it!

[exnavy]

Very well said, the piece leaves me breathless.

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you for the ping Linda. I will never forgive these horrible people , air is too good for them.

[Aracelis]

Never forget! Never forgive the evil, callous, unregenerate bast*rds who caused this to happen on our soil, to many of our citizens!

[Joe Brower]

If people think this is bad, wait until the Islamakazis glass one of our cities. Maybe at that point America will really start to wake up.

Maybe.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Bubba-san, you better make sure that good decent folk ain't underneath those peaceniks. "

Just as long as we don't have to warn the other peaceniks.

[Beach_Babe]

Nothing like shoving it in our faces....

"Islamic Awareness Week"

Sept 10-12, 2002

"Islam: the Religion of Tolerance"

[Freee-dame]

As we threw about our ideas, our media friend exlaimed: "The media do not re-play images that do nothing but shock and enflame negative passions!" Just then, our waitress overheard us and said: "Oh, you mean like the Rodney King video?"

It is a very hopeful sign when our waitresses are informed and vocal. Reading more than the local liberal rag, maybe?

[Freee-dame]

As we threw about our ideas, our media friend exlaimed: "The media do not re-play images that do nothing but shock and enflame negative passions!" Just then, our waitress overheard us and said: "Oh, you mean like the Rodney King video?"

It is a very hopeful sign when our waitresses are informed and vocal. Reading more than the local liberal rag, maybe?

[gitmo]

Never forget. Dammit.

[SkyPilot]

Thanks for that link: it was so sad to read how that woman was tortured and disfigured for "honor."