“On this day ten years ago, Islamists attacked America and repeated their declaration of war against western civilization and against G-d Himself.”
–Eliana
(thank you, Bunk, for the video link)
My whole life up until that day, my elders had told me that everybody alive in the U.S. remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing the day when the got the news that Jack Kennedy had been shot. I understood what they were all saying to me at the time, but the full impact of the statement was something I was spared until I was 38 years, 5 months, and 9 days old. That is a day which I will remember each and every moment in vivid detail. At the time, I was a retail manager working for Family Dollar Stores. I opened my store at 8:00 am every morning and spent the first hour alone. On a typical day, I would open the store and I would have about a dozen or so members of the local Arabic community entering the store immediately. The tradition had been to buy from my store, and then take it down to their little stores and sell it there. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I opened my store and was struck by the fact that I had nobody rushing to get into my store immediately. Looking up into the sky, I decided to take a minute and enjoy the beautiful day. Reentering the store, I worked up in the front, alone for the first hour, servicing the odd customer or two who would happen in to buy miscellaneous stuff. My morning crew arrived, both of them a little late, and both of them white faced and in shock. All they said was turn on the radio. The remainder of that day was surreal. If customers did venture into the store, they were unusually subdued. My boss called several times throughout the day to give me special instructions. I finally told him, around 3:00 that we weren’t going to get much in the way of actual labor from anybody on that day. My work day ended at 5:00. It was not until that time that I actually ventured across a T.V. Even though I was prepared for it, it still shocked me to see, not only planes flying into those buildings, but knowing that members of my species would actually do that on purpose, believing that whatever God they pray to wished this of them. In the days following, we heard the phrase never forget repeated often. I will never forget, as I doubt anyone could. But the events are not enough to not forget. We should have also reminded ourselves to remember who did this to us as well.
–Flyovercountry
I was running late, just gotten out of the shower, and the missus had the TV on in the bedroom. She said a plane had crashed into the WTC. I figured a Cessna pilot had lost control. I got dressed, kissed the wife and left for work.
I didn’t understand what had happened until a coworker brought in a portable TV and we watched the towers collapse. When I got home I watched the news replays showing people jumping to their deaths.
My kids were little then. They couldn’t understand why their dad had tears in his eyes.
–Bunk X
September 11, 2001 started out like any other day. Being a Tuesday, it was a work day, and seemed to be a rather unremarkable one at that. I was still single at the time, living in a duplex with a roommate who was a student at the local state university and was a member of my local church. Anywise, I was running a little late, and was on the interstate. I had the radio turned on, but the volume was set low such that I could only catch snippets of what was being said, and I really wasn’t paying it much attention anywise. I remember hearing the words “World Trade Centre” on a news report, but didn’t catch what was being said about it, and wasn’t much interested anywise. I got to work, in a pretty good mood. Came in the door, and noticed that all the people who should be in the front areas like the lobby and executive offices were not there. Seemed kind of odd, since I knew I was getting there later than I normally did, not earlier. So I start looking around for folks. Nobody in the lab area, either. Finally, I ran into one of the other chemists in a hallway, and started joking around with him about something or another. I remember to this day the somber look on his face as he asked me, “You haven’t heard the news yet, have you?” “No, I haven’t…” “You need to come to the conference room.” Of course, I’m thinking that maybe the company was going out of business, or we were being layed off or something. I get to the conference room, and the whole company (around 50 people, a small startup pharma company) is clustered around a big screen TV, watching the news reports. It was then that I notice the screen is showing the first WTC tower that was hit, with a huge, gaping hole in it pouring out smoke. I’m flabbergasted, but didn’t yet know what had caused it. I thought maybe a bomb had gone off. A buddy of mine named Joe siddled up next to me and told me that a 737 had rammed into the tower, and that the newscasters were speculating that it was deliberate. At this point, there were starting to be reports that one or more airliners had been hijacked, and that one of them had been used to purposefully hit the WTC. “Terrorism?,” I asked. He just nodded. We both looked back at the screen, sort of numb, trying to process what was happening. And then, right there in front of our eyes, the second airliner hit the other tower, right there being filmed going all the way in by the news crew…
–Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
To me, the most poignant moment of 9-11 that I will remember until the day I die was not the twin towers falling, nor the Pentagon being hit, nor the loss of the thousands of innocent lives, although I still get tears when I hear the relatives of those who died that day and think about the sheer terror those people must have went through, knowing that they most likely were going to die.
I first think about the passengers/heroes of flight 93, who, after having talked to (and saying goodbye) to their loved ones, who had told them what had happened in New York and at the Pentagon, decided that they needed to show these pieces of crap that they might die, but that it will be on their terms, NOT those of the muzz swine who hijacked their plane.
So they stormed the cockpit and caused their plane to crash in Shanksville, PA., killing the forty heroes, but saving hundreds, or maybe thousands of lives that would have been lost if the plane would have hit its intended target, the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
But, the most poignant, by far, to me, was what happened afterward, and that was the three firefighters raising our American flag on the pole at ground zero.
When our flag is seen around the world, it represents our country. And when those three men raised that flag at ground zero right after the towers fell, it showed the world that you can attack and kill Americans, and that they can knock down some of our most spectacular structures, even those that were built to represent American power and capitalism. But by raising our flag where the attack was centered, they show that we Americans will always rise up and defeat those who try to hurt us.–Bob
I was in the Newport business district in Jersey City that day. When the first building was hit, me and my coworkers came out and went to the walkway by the Hudson river. Within a few minutes, we saw the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower.
I was stunned and realized right there I had seen a historical event. I knew that history would never be the same. I was right!
I want revenge for these attacks!
–Rodan
The September 11 Digital Archive
I, 1389AD, am anything but an emotional person, but even now, it pains me to talk about this.
For those who are unacquainted with me, I am a Serbian-American, a practicing Orthodox Christian, and a passionately avid counterjihad blogger, both on Blogmocracy and on http://1389blog.com. Before the blogosphere came into its own, I ran a large pro-Serb/counterjihad email list. I have only one face. Even though, for security reasons, I do not reveal my personal identity online, those who are acquainted with me in real life can affirm that I deliver exactly the same message in person.
September 11, 2001, was not long after the Kosovo War, in which the Clintons fought on behalf of the Muslims, against the Orthodox Christian Serbs. I was an IT worker at a company where most of my colleagues, as well as my superiors, regarded me with intense suspicion, on account of my open support for the Serbian people.
When I first heard the news report of a plane colliding with one of the WTC towers, I figured that somebody must have accidentally flown a light plane into the building. But then, someone brought in a television tuned to a news channel; it became clear that a terror attack was in progress.
A co-worker asked me, “Did your people do this? They are pretty wild.”
Before I knew any details, I told him, “No. We are not capable of such a thing.”
No. We Serbs are Christians. This is NOT how we roll. I had been in contact with Serbs in the Balkans and Serbs in the Diaspora, and never had I heard any hint of revenge against the US for the Clintons’ war against our people.
As if all that were not enough, my sister-in-law told me later that one of her co-workers at a pharmaceutical company had been on the hijacked plane that struck the Pentagon. She had been traveling to Washington, DC to present the company’s case for approval of a drug to fight prostate cancer.
May God have mercy on all our souls, and give us the wisdom to do what is right.
–1389AD
I was working for a very small startup on September 11. I first hear of the attacks when our sales guy came running into the building and said “Someone just bombed the World Trade Center!” My response was “Cool.” and I though that we’d have a chance to see how a Republican responded to terrorism. It became apparent in just a few minutes that it wasn’t just another act of terrorism. The boss’ wife brought a small television down to the office, and we watched the rest of the day. We were watching live when the Towers fell. We were totally shocked. I guessed that it was Osama and his merry men before 9:30, and I wanted to nuke Afghanistan before noon. I reasoned simply: “It is well that War is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” Thus were Robert E. Lee’s words at Fredericksburg, while watching a stunning Rebel victory. Simply put, war isn’t terrible to our enemies, and they are very fond of it. We need to make war terrible for them again. We haven’t done that. We have cut off some of the Hydra’s heads, but the body (Islam) remains.
–Iron Fist
Let’s Roll
I woke up at about 7:30am at the TA truckstop in Porter IN right on I94 with a load delivering up by O’Hare International later that day. I had the radio tuned to WLS since I always listen to the traffic reports and the morning show after I have breakfast and coffee. The alarm went off and I turned on the radio and Don and Roma kept saying over and over in a monotone, “this is terrible, this is terrible” and I am thinking ‘what the hell is going on?’ So I got out of the truck and headed inside the truckstop.
When you walk in the front door, the restaurant is on your left and the fueldesk is on your right. I look over at the restaurant and there are probably about 15 to 20 drivers sitting there all staring at each other not saying a word, and if you have ever been around a group of truck drivers, half the time you can’t get a word in. At any rate, I looked over at the gal behind the counter and I asked her what the hell is going on and she told me to go into the drivers lounge where the TV’s are and see for myself but warned me all hell was breaking loose in New York cause a jet crashed into one of the WTC towers.
Now I’m thinking “Oh, right, feed me a line of BS, sheesh.” I walked down the hall to the drivers lounge and looked at the TV and I saw in realtime the second tower get hit by a jetliner. Right then and there, I looked at another driver and said to him, “We are at war, pal.” He nodded his head and said back to me, “Arabs, right?” I told him, “Hell yeah. They came back to finish the job they started a few years ago”.
Now at this point, I was thinking to myself, is Chicago next on the list for attack? Is there a jet enroute to the Sears Tower? Is O’Hare going to be blown off the map? What about Midway Airport? Is the old Zion nuclear powerplant a target? All these things are going through my head at a million miles an hour. I got on the phone and tried to get a hold of my fleet manager in Cedar Rapids to see if he knew about the attacks and what am I supposed to do with this load I have going to O’Hare since by this time, the Indiana State Police shut down all the roads heading into Chicago. I finally got a hold of Gary after trying for 2 hours to get a hold of him and he told me to park the truck until further notice, all the dispatch boards were shut down and no driver is to go anywhere and all the drivers were going to get paid a hundred bucks a day for sitting.
So I sat there for 2 days, itching to get the truck unloaded and take my empty all the way to NYC to try to help with the disaster. The head of my company told me that there were too many drivers heading out to Ground Zero and he didn’t want Manhattan to be overcrowded with tractor trailers. Was a shame cause I could have run nonstop from Chicago to New York in 14 hours. The feds at that time suspended the driving rules so if you wanted you could have driven from LA to NY as hard as you could and not worry about having to shut down for 8 hours to sleep.
The strangest thing and something I will never forget is not seeing any aircraft in the sky. I drove up to O’Hare 2 days later and parked at the side of I294 and stared at hundreds of aircraft sitting there with the engines off and listening to birds singing and no other noise. Very strange indeed.
Well, that’s my story. That’s the whole of it.
–Savage
Early on September 11, 2001 I voted in the New York City primary for mayor. My work schedule was 8:30 to 4:30 but it never mattered if I came in late. I got off at Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village around 8:40 AM and started walking to work. Five minutes later I was on La Guardia Place when an airline (which I later learned was American Airlines Flight 11 piloted by Mohammad Atta) flew low overhead. I turned to my left and saw it hit the North Tower. As I got to my office I saw people coming out of the building to look. I told several coworkers that I saw a plane hit the WTC and then my boss came in and said that she saw another plane hit the other tower and I knew it was terrorism and I also knew it was Bin Laden All the online news sites were inaccessible so I went on the international news sites and heard about a plane hitting Washington D.C. and another one going down in Pennsylvania. To say it was surreal is an understatement. I recalled being interviewed three years earlier at Canto Fitzgerald which was wiped out during the attack. One of the supervisors said the towers came down and I thought she meant the top of the buildings but it was the whole building. I walked to my friend’s house (who was stuck in New Jersey) as he asked me to take care of his dog and I heard the most awful rumors of around 50,000 people being killed. The next day I bought The New York Post (to save as a historical souvenir) and it took me a while to get back to Brooklyn but I will never forget the sense of unity and community that we all had that day.
–Speranza
I always tell people that I must have been one of the last people in America to hear about the 9/11 attacks. I was going to grad school in the evening at the time, and working graveyard shift, so I actually went to bed just before it happened. When I got up that afternoon to get ready for class, I noticed the message light on my phone was flashing, so I checked my voicemail, where I found a message from school saying that “Due to the events in New York,” class for the day was cancelled.
Needless to say, I was confused, since I was living in Santa Fe, NM at the time. I couldn’t think of much that could have happened in New York that would cause classes to be cancelled in New Mexico, so I turned on the TV set. By that point, of course, the networks were just rerunning the morning’s coverage over and over, so even after turning on the news, I still had to sit there for awhile to figure out what exactly had happened, since they probably assumed that everyone already knew about it by then.
–Lobo
The morning of September 11, 2011, I was in my study watching a rolling ticker of Dell stock trades. As I recall it was trading up moderately and then suddenly took a nosedive. I looked at all of the leading indicators and they, too, had instantly tanked. I clicked on a news feed and there were about 3 headlines that said a plane had just hit the WTC. I turned on Fox News just in time to see the second plane hit the second tower. I was glued to the TV for the rest of the day. Mrs. Funn was at school teaching her 3rd grade class so I called to tell her about and then gave her several updates during the day. The FAA had notified all air traffic to land immediately. I walked out on to my deck and watched as a lone airplane began it’s decent into Austin. I wondered to myself “could this be another hijacked plane”? The events of 9/11 were a call to arms.
–Huckfunn
September 11, 2001. EVIL attacked us that day.
I was at work for about a half-hour when word of the attack came down by way of word of mouth. The net was frozen, and no one was able to access it and no one could get any work done for the entire day. Most of us were just sitting around trying to make sense of it all. After noon our bosses just told everyone to go home, and so I did. When I got home I turned it onto CBS and watched Dan Rather warning everyone about the graphic footage and language. Yes, I heard the lady screaming “Jesus F***ing Christ!” and it was NOT censored. The first and only words out of my mouth were YOU SONS OF BITCHES! After that I didn’t say much for the next couple of days or so, I was as stunned as everyone else.Here are two photos from Ground Zero which I took just over one year later, during a quick visit to New York City. One is The Sphere which survived; the other is The Pit. These are terrible scars on the land and on our hearts. Though one scar is filled now with a Memorial, we must always remember what happened and who did this to us. To Hell with political correctness! To Hell with Islam!
NEVER FORGET.–Macker
Tags: Remembrance
Today is a day to Remember. Never forget. Never forgive.
I wrote up my remembrances and a Memorial last year.
http://kirls.blogspot.com/2010/09/memorial-9-11.html
that next day, classes at the local college were resumed, so back to work…
(fortunately, i had added a 21st century threats section to the syllabi, we had to jump to that section obviously)i used a lot of overhead video in my olectures so my notes arent fully wriiten in paragraph form
notes from the lecture i gave in my ’20th century america’ class 12 sep 01:
i wasnt too far off
Leave it to the Left to politicize this sacred day. Check out what this despicable piece of trash Krugman has to say about 9/11. That leaves me sick in the stomach!
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-years-of-shame/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
@ gulfloafer:
Telling.
Screw Islam and the pedophile it rode in on. My we someday rid the world of this plague.
@ Piglet-U93:
@ gulfloafer:
We still have much to learn.
Relativism has run amok among intellectuals. They thoroughly despise the acknowledgment that “good” and “evil” are real, and writhe almost reflexively when they are exposed to it.
I listened to a lot of disconcerting opinions by Americans that day and the weeks following. Gave me misgivings about how we would be now
pray for the enemy….that they come to know
the G-d of Israel and true salvation
@ gulfloafer:
Maureen Dowd isn’t any better and slightly more ignorant
@ Bumr50:
There’s 364 other days available in the year for politics. Why shove a stick in the eye of the country today? I seriously do not understand why people give a voice to this type of ugliness. If the NYT had any self-respect left Krugman would be blogging from the Democratic Underground as of today.
@ gulfloafer:
Dowd says 9/11 is stepping on Obama job speech; days apart
waldensianspirit wrote:
I didn’t hear that but after Krugman’s vile remarks today nothing these creatures say surprises me anymore.
@ gulfloafer:
The New Yorker has an article, apparently, where author Lorrie Moore claims that the ‘Harry Potter’ novels were the cause of the celebrations over Osama bin Laden’s death using the term “gruesomely cheering.”
You see in her eyes, there is no “good” and “evil.”
It is a complete and utter failure on the part of leftist academia (not to delve too deeply) that this attitude pervades our culture.
To the ‘moral relativist,’ there will never be an understanding of why and how the horror of 9-11-2001 occurred.
And so on this day, rather than curse them, I will pity them.
Good morning. Like everyone else, I remember where I was
the planes hit & when the Towers collapsed.
I took a morning bike ride this morning & people were different
biking , jogging or waliking their dogs on the trail.
It was just different.
Just needed to be repeated.
@ m:
Check yer mail.
Anyone else listening to Paul Simon?
Added.
@ Bumr50:
I agree. These people have an emptiness that is truly worthy of pity.
m wrote:
” Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees “
-Last words of Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
I for one do not intend to rest until the bodies of my enemies are littering the opposite river bank and are being picked apart by buzzards.
-Last words of Thomas ‘Stonewall Jackson”
@ John Difool:
Typo, strike the bottom part of that comment those are my words not T.J. jackson’s.
@ John Difool:
You should copyright it.
gulfloafer wrote:
Everything I write is intended for free-use, or free-ware if you will.
@ m:
Thanks. While I grieve for all of those lost, I’m truly angered by those who have turned the commemoration of that dark day into a politically correct “muzz-out-reach-day-of-service”.
does anyone know when bloomberg is going to give his speech at ground
zero?
I hope he gets hit with an amazing grace flash mob
Here are some pix of the 2,977 luminaria set up by volunteers at the Flight 93 Memorial vigil last night, one for each of the victims at all three sites.
I’ve recounted where I was, what I saw and what I felt before, so no need to repeat it here or anywhere else.
I will say this, though – I’ve only seen public anger like that once before in my life. During the Iranian Embassy Hostage crisis, when, if you had taken a popular vote in Oklahoma, Iran would essentially no longer exist.
rain of lead wrote:
I hope he gets hit with something, but it ain’t exactly ” Amazing Grace” unless you can count ” Amazing Grace” as being a five-gallon bucket of shit.
Well, I’m heading down to GZ now.
I’ll report back later.
huckfunn wrote:
I just got home after a 90 minute bus ride from work and turned on SkyNews to see how they were covering things.
Prince Charles gave one of his usual idiotic speeches, of course, calling for peace and forgivness.
The Christian World needs a new Jan III Sobieski. He hasn’t arisen yet.
The Other September 11th.
@ gulfloafer:
The title of Krugman’s bit is ironic: “The Conscience of a Liberal.”
If he had a conscience, it wouldn’t have allowed him to write such garbage.
lobo91 wrote:
Liberals practically consume irony for breakfast.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I think she may have finally gone over the edge:
lobo91 wrote:
MoDoDo-bird is evidently unaware of the fact that like the Bolsheviks of old our current administration and the Dems on Capitol Hill have decided to jump in bed with the labor unions to instill fear and wield thuggery upon the majority of the populace who want no part of them or their politics.
huckfunn wrote:
FNC is interviewing a Muslima named Irshna Manji.
She wrote a book, I beleive it’s “Allah, Liberty
& love”
She is saying all of the right things, but I guess that I
am just no longer open to it & buy into none of it.
@ RIX:
she is either lying or is an apostate of islam…
@ RIX:
I believe that she’s sincere.
I also believe that she’s on a fool’s errand, and is attempting to redefine a religion that is based in sin.
I give her credit for excoriating “moderate Muslims” who vilify the West, but she’s never going to make a difference.
coldwarrior wrote:
That.
She either just doesn’t know it or is unwilling to accept it.
@ m:
Minor correction needed:
“It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it”
Robert E. Lee
..or not.
@ lobo91:
Bolsheviks?! She’s officially lost her mind.
coldwarrior wrote:
One or the other & I think the former.
Where hs she been all of this time?
In memorium.
The falling man
http://ace.mu.nu/
Yes, Jonathan Briley might be the Falling Man. But the only certainty we have is the certainty we had at the start: At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on
September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky — falling through time as well as through space. The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away. One of the most famous photographs in human history became an unmarked grave, and the man buried inside its frame — the Falling Man — became the Unknown Soldier in a war whose end we have not yet seen. Richard Drew’s photograph is all we know of him, and yet all we know of him becomes a measure of what we know of ourselves. The picture is his cenotaph, and like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment.
lobo91 wrote:
Is it raaaaacist of me if I say I find that idea repulsive?
@ gulfloafer:
More like this:
@ coldwarrior:
Irshad Manji is a Muslim lesbian who grew up in Toronto and works in the TV business up there.
She’s not exactly someone who speaks for the majority of Muslims, even in the west.
Bumr50 wrote:
I have to credit you with being more open than I am.
Who knows, but how could an intelligent woman beleive
that Islam is open to reform?
If she is actually sincere, she is naive in the
extreme.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I don’t know, but it’s certainly absurd.
I have a five hour drive ahead of me , so I’m off.
God Bless America.
RIX wrote:
That’s not her first book, BTW. The first one came out several years ago:
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith
An Italian man reading the names at the memorial service just said it flat out, what needs to be said today:
We respect and our thankful to our military for keeping us safe …and remember, this was no accident. This was carried out by radical Islamists and they are still trying to kill us (as close to what I remember his words to be – the key words though were there). I only wish more would say same.
No PC Police on hand so I guess thats a good sign that he wasn’t whisked away from the podium. I have a feeling that whomever that man is, he, at the very least, reads here. Too bad he wasn’t applauded but people were probably so stunned hearing the truth for a change, the program had moved on before they had the chance to process it and respond.
Bravo, whoever you are …
@ lobo91:
it’s o.k. for the muzz to lie to the infidel, there is no such thing as moderate pisslam.
Ten years ago I was living in a nice, cozy, tumbledown third-floor apartment whose windows had a beautiful clear view of Lower Manhattan over the rooftops of Brooklyn.
On the morning of September 11, a beautiful clear morning, I was pottering around making morning tea when I got a call that one of the towers was on fire. I looked out of my kitchen windows and saw the pillar of smoke.
Then a plane came in, fast and low. I briefly thought, “that can’t be a rescue plane—how would it land?”—and as I thought this, the plane hit the second tower in the huge fireball everyone has seen on film. I watched the two towers as they burned, fascinated—one could not tear one’s eyes away—then, suddenly, first one and then the other dissolved in clouds of ash and debris and Lower Manhattan disappeared in the rolling grey cloud. The television went dead; the broadcast aerials had been on the towers.
The sky over my building was filled with sheets of paper borne on the wind. They fluttered down in the backyard; they fluttered down in the street when I walked out into the street, where everyone was walking around in shock looking at the falling paper.
Admins: Please fix my entry. I sent specific instructions on how to fix. Thank you.
look at your email…
@ gulfloafer:
One of the things I remember most in the days after 9/11 was the sense that the political divisions in America had melted away. I was a Democrat who wanted to see my Republican President on television all of a sudden. I wanted to know what would happen next and how the country would be protected.
We were all one people at that point. I wasn’t a Democrat anymore – I was an American. I wanted the people behind 9/11 to be hunted down and stopped. I watched all the news about our president’s response.
As the weeks and months went on, I was still apolitical when it came to my identification as a registered voter. I still identified only as an American.
However, I noticed my fellow registered Democrats starting to peel away from the unity as they were Democrats who needed to get back to their own agendas. I saw individuals I’d trusted for years as being on my side politically start to ask for the “root causes” of terrorism and blame America.
At that point, being American (to me) meant being a conservative (not a liberal) and I changed my party affiliation.
Suddenly, I was a stranger in a strange land (so to speak) who had to figure out what conservatives believe since they had me whether they wanted me or not.
When I looked into conservatism, I asked myself why I hadn’t been a conservative all along.
coldwarrior wrote:
Still not fixed. I supplied the link in the e-mail for your guidance on how the entry is supposed to look.
Damn, Cliff Robertson died.
@ Macker:
i put the photos on top because every other person’s is on top of theirs to aid in separation of the individual posts.
i changed your direction in the text to ‘above’ photos so that your entry would look like the rest.
but, since you insist. you can be different.
Two things- My GF at the time was in Connecticut doing an install for her company that day, and had to rent a car and drive back home, about 1200 miles.
I was channel surfing and happened across MSLSD, and their resident moron, well, all their hosts are morons, but Rachel MadCow was narrating a special on 9-11.
That dolt couldn’t even get 5 minutes into the show about the 9-11 attacks without bringing up Iraq and how we went to war in Iraq right after even though there was no proof that Iraq had anything to do with the 9-11 attacks regardless of what the White House kept telling us.
@ coldwarrior:
see..now it looks like huck wrote macker’s part…or is it just me an a case of bad eyes?
@ coldwarrior:
Disclaimer…. Huck didn’t write Macker’s stuff.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
5minutes, huh.
at least they went 5
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Right after?
As I recall, it was about 18 months later…
Further thoughts… On the same day of the attacks, I remember feeling that the hand of providence gave us President Bush, not President Gore. To extrapolate that thought further, our next president needs to be a leader who recognizes who are enemies are and that we need to reach out to our enemies with hellfire, not with vacuous platitudes and apologies. We need a leader who believes in American excellence and dominance.
Eliana wrote:
You obviously weren’t living in the SF Bay Area.
I could not believe some of the nonsense
I heard coming out of the mouths of some of
my coworkers at that time. That’s a good part of the reasons
I am now living in AZ.
@ The Osprey:
It was the same nonsense that took weeks and months to reach my ears, I guess.
When it did, I ran (not walked) to a voter registration place so that I could cast off my registration with the Democrat Party.
Found a link for the NFL games. It’s working for the Falcons at Bears-
http://www.vipbox.tv/sports/american-football.html
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Rodan, you might want to put in the NFL thread if you can.
Flashback: Illinois State Senator Barack Obama Contemplates 9/11. Hang on to your gag reflexes.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Carolina Girl put an NFL thread up right below this one.
I was working in the aviation insurance biz at the time- small planes only, nothing commercial. We’d just started our day when we started hearing news from other co-workers. Someone pulled up a feed online, and we just stood around in shock.
This date, this anniversary, is something we must never forget. We’ve got to work to destroy the mindset that would plan, carry out, and celebrate murder on such a scale.
I pray that God will work in the hearts of those who follow the ravings of that pedophile prophet, and that they’ll turn to Christ. I’ve got no problem with someone following any belief if they can do so peacefully, sharing their beliefs while being willing to be shared with. But when you’ve got a group of rabid dogs who can only resort to death & destruction, then there’s only one solution. You can’t negotiate with a mad dog. You’ve got to put it down.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Whether Iraq, or any other country, had anything to do directly with 9/11 is less an issue to me than their support for terrorism as a tactic. When a group provides funding for terrorism, they’re not any better than those who plant the bomb that kills & maims a dozen or a hundred or a thousand people.
According to SkyNews, the British Foreign Ministry has just issued a warning to their people to avoid the area of the border between Kenya and Somalia.
Umm…how stupid does someone have to be to go there in the first place?
mfhorn wrote:
Oh, I agree. My point was just that the swine at MSLSD, doing a show about the 9-11 attacks, couldn’t get 5 minutes into the show without bringing up IRAQ. Typical leftists pigs, led by that disgusting pig MadCow.
lobo91 wrote:
/Scratching Kenya and Somalia off my possible vacation spots.
lobo91 wrote:
They should take safe scenic tour and sail around the Horn of Africa.
@ huckfunn:
I hear North Korea is nice this time of year, too…
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Didn’t mean to imply I thought that was your belief. Sorry if it came across that way. I’m not at all surprised that thought process coming from people like MadCow.
@ huckfunn:
Tour guides are on the water to greet people.
mfhorn wrote:
No problem, I understood what you meant. We were both agreeing that MSLSD is a joke as a credible news operation.
Because my anger feeds me..
lobo91 wrote:
Ah, yes. The peasants grazing in the fields. A pastoral image.
lobo91 wrote:
like those three American hikers who accidentally wandered into Iran. Two remain imprisoned there. I don’t expect them to ever be freed. While I have sympathy and pity for them, i still think they were absolute fools for being in that part of the world in the first place. what the hell were they thinking???!!!!!
Good Post. I was just getting ready to go to work and delayed my departure to watch the news of the events.
It is something I will never forget. And don’t want to forget. I owe it to them. It hardened my view of Islam. Disillusioned me about any good coming out of that religion.
People died that day and every day since in the struggle for freedom and liberty against the lunatic legacy of a 7th century madman. Anyone of the Flight 93 heroes make Mohammad look like a piece of crap. The sooner we til his ilk under the soil the better for mankind.
@ Kirly:
They were all Berkeley graduates, as I recall.
“Thinking” wasn’t part of their curriculum…
@ 87 Kirly: yah why would an American go hiking in a war zone? They had to either be pretty naive and dumb or there for not a good reason. But we should insist they be released, and if not start blowing up a few Iranian bridges. The iranians actively IED our troops, they need some payback.
Kirly wrote:
I think that they had just come from Gaza or the West Bank where they had been on the St. Pancake Memorial Tour.
lobo91 wrote:
ah. the source of the problem. they are more fortunate than st pancake.
orangecrush wrote:
i would support this. release our people or have your cities crippled and starving one agonizing step at a time.
@ Kirly:
Hippie dippy idiots found out that kumbayah crap only works when dealing other lib types. If Gandhi’s adversaries had been the USSR, China or any other totalitarian regime, no one would have ever heard of him.
huckfunn wrote:
Also, the weather’s been nice, plenty of rain, so tree bark is really tasty this year!
lobo91 wrote:
Do you know Slammin’ Sam Kekovich?
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Bob, that sounds like the same show, maybe a re run, as the one I started to watch the other night on MSNBC. It was literally enough to make me sick. They found 2 or 3 Arab looking men, who they claimed were Iraqis, to back up their contentions that it was Bush/USA responsible for increasing the ranks of Al S*t Heads. No mention of Irans role in this whatsoever.
It was if these 2 or 3 idiots represented every Iraqi. Also, they met with Al S*t Head underground ‘commanders’, shaking hands, exchanging kisses … I’m sitting here watching in disbelief: “Now that you have found them, kill the sonofabitchs ! She and that blond punk co-host, crew should all be arrested for being traitors. If I were to be a traitor, I can’t think of any thing more to do than what they came up with. She should be …. I’ll end it here.
@ 4_Sticks:
I didn’t even get that far. I watched until they brought up Iraq five minutes into the show, yelled at MadCow, and changed the channel.
9-11-2001 was a busy day at work. We were getting ready for a big offshore job that had a lot of environmental concerns (extreme heat and pressure). But everything stopped and our co-workers were asked to witness something incredible on the big-screen TV in the rec room.
The surreal site of the first tower burning had everyone spell-bound. “Wow!” was the first re-action from all the guys. Then, from the side the second tower was hit and the wow turned to anger. The anger came automatically because there was no way two airliners malfunctioned. Immediately someone brought up the Trade Tower bombing from years earlier by the Muzzies. This was war.
We were little late for dock time but no one seemed to mind that time.
Peter wrote:
I slept through it until a woman I went to high school with in Phoenix called me 30 minutes after the second tower fell.
I was eleven years old at the time. All I can recall is overwhelming, engulfing terror while staring at the television.
@ Philip_Daniel:
I knew aught about the Religion of Peace at the time.
OT and forgive me if it has been mentioned already (been busy with the 9/11 Pork BBQ). Is there going to be a Podcast tonight, seems to me to be a perfect day!
@ Philip_Daniel:
I was angry, so very angry. I was a pretty scary person to be around for weeks after. I wanted to hit our enemy and hit hard. Had I been President we would have leveled the Mohammedan world.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
My father was given a written “guide” on how to deal with the Muslims; Deutsches Afrikakorps, 1943. Basically, it said to AVOID personal contact with them.
One I remember reading, “don’t look directly into a moslem woman’s eyes when speaking to her”, or something to that effect.
The Arabs were friendly to the Germans since they believed the Wehrmacht was going to free Egypt and British Mandate of Palestine from the west.
@ Iron Fist:
Iron Fist wrote:
I would have voted for you!
On Sept. 12, 2001 this quote from a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote in January, 1863 to General Joseph Hooker (the new commander of the Army of the Potomac came to mind
Peter wrote:
The Arabs were friendly with the Nazis because the Nazis were exterminating the Jews.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Bosnian and Albanian Muslims served in the Wehrmacht.
Rodan wrote:
They served in the SS which was different from the Wehrmacht. The SS had voluntary foreign divisions from many different nationalities. Since these were volunteers or mercenaries they were extra crazy.
The Wehrmacht was German or “Volksdeutsch” (people of Teutonic ancestry). The Wehrmacht was mostly conscripts.
And yet only 7 years later we elect a man raised in a Muslim Country with a Muslim middle name. He is busy sticking in the knife that started on 911, or rather back in the 70′s when a shithole nation was allowed to kidnap and hold our Embassy Workers.
It took ten years of wrangling over “memorials,” and all the B.S. to rebuild at the WTC site, yet during the darkest days of the Great Depression we built the Empire State Building in 18 months. I truly hope that 911 was the only wake up call this country needed, but it seems like we did not get it. Political Correctness has spread like a metastasizing cancer.
IMO we watched Israel fight terrorism since its inception, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering, but always aloof as if it was really just their problem. But it was always ours. Islam and its Bride (Secular Humanism) hates with a passion just two countries, two cultures: America and Israel, the people that gave birth to Christ, and the people that have housed Him in the earth. Satan’s rage knows no bounds when it comes to destroying anything of Christ, and anyone that had anything to do with Him.
911 was in some way God’s call to this country to get the hell off the pot and fight to the death if need be with our brethren…the Jews. Remember Hitler also targeted two groups, first the Jews, and secondly the Christians. Satan comes in nations and men, but he always has the same agenda…wipe out any knowledge or relationship to God.
I remember 9-11-2001 as a strange, disquieting day, a day to sit in the office and listen details of the attack on the radio beside my desk; a time when you looked up into the sky and saw no jet trails, as the planes had all been grounded. I have no desire to turn on the TV for memorial coverage. Grima Wormtongue is everywhere, and the West has slowly become King Theoden.
[...] Blogmocracy: September 11, 2001 [...]
Has anyone read this column by the new editor for the Associated Press? Regarding the remembrance of September 11?
Ted Anthony
Nowhere in the article does he address the underlying reasons and perpetrators for the “tragedy” as he calls it. He instead dwells on American optimism and the “Audacity of Hope”.
Americans and the free world should not celebrate September 11th, rather observe it with solemnity.
We are losing sight of common cause against the Jihadists.
Kirly wrote:
This is one of those rare instances where causation is equivalent to [Rachel] Corrie-lation.
texasam7 wrote:
The football games are on and I’m normally a fan. But I have a shrieking headache and can’t concentrate enough to watch. So I’ve been working on blog posts and commenting ever since I got back from church.
It was a horrorifing day for me. Watching what our enemies did that day to us. I felt a mixture of rage and sadness to me. All those poor people who were killed in the most horrofic way possible. I WILL NEVER FORGET!
httpV://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yVG3nX8MJI
@ Eliana:
The same happened to me. I’ve been a Democrat for 34 years, but that day I listened to Rush Limbaugh for the first time and he actually made sense. I was living in a Christian community called L’Arche of Mobile here in AL and it was my day off. I was watching Good Morning America when they reported a fire in Tower 1. Then Tower 2 was hit. I was watching TV with 2 other people from the Phillipines and from Ethiopia. I told them how many people were in each building and I was telling them how they were built. When they collapsed, I screamed,”No, no, no!” I thought there could be at least 20,000 dead. My relatives worked in downtown Manhattan. I thought they were dead. I went to a cyber cafe in Mobile and tried to e-mail my mom at work but all computers were down. The Verizon building had been damaged so there was no phone service, either. I wanted my mommy and I couldn’t speak to her for several days. Everyone in my family survived.
@ Lily:
Messed up the link….
I was doing my first day as a fire inspector, @ the fire dept. After that, I decided to stay on the floor as a fftr.
I want you to all remember who we were attacked by. Radical Islam, not radical Mormons, or Amish, or Baptists, or Catholics or Jews. For those of you that think we can deal with them, get your head out of your butt. They want to kill us, pure and simple. Deal with it. This is war, and they do not play by any rules. To try and rationalize them is trying to rationalize Satan. They are not ‘normal’. They are a cancer and to kill the cancer, you may have to kill healthy cells. TOUGH SHIT.
May God Bless the victims and never forget! EVER!
Predator drones send 9/11 commemorative message to the tolleybon. Roo-rah!
NEVER FORGET!
Evening all. Long 4 days in DC.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Evening NGU! Hope your trip went okay!
Lily wrote:
Well I just spent 4 days in Washington DC and all we talked about was how our Defense Budget is being decimated, How we are going to have to throw People out of the Navy ( and that means Marines also ), and how if you were looking to get promoted in the near future, well forget about it. But other than that, yeah i had a nice time
In our Conference in DC we had a Navy Chaplin talk to us for some time on Saturday about how Navy Medical members ( Docs, Nurses, Corpsman) are dealing with their own Post Deployment Syndrome. He came back today to lead a Service in Memory of 9/11 and all the Military Members lost since 9/11. Very nice. He mentioned, quoted, and showed about 5 clips of President Bush. Never even mentioned what’s his name. I like this Chaplin alot
@ Nevergiveup:
The people assembled for the ceremonies at Ground Zero
were admonished to remain silent before & after speeches.
They were silent after Obama finished, but applauded
President Bush.
It seemed very appropriate.
@ RIX:
I’ll bet that pissed Bloomberg and Обама off….
RIX wrote:
Yeah I missed all that. I guess I will catch some on the News. But glad to hear They applauded President Bush
Macker wrote:
No doubt & the Omamas & the Bush’s were seated together.
It was probably an awkward moment for the Obamas
& I hope that it was.
@ Nevergiveup:
It seemed clear, at least to me that the Obamas
are not particularly admired by that crowd.
RIX wrote:
He certainly wasn’t in the crowd I was with
Remember?
@ Nevergiveup:
I can imagine. You know that Obama disrespects our
military.
Although he claims that the reason that he didn’t enlist
is because ther was no war to go to at the time.
Rambo Obama!
Nevergiveup wrote:
That is terrible. Really bho needs to go …… good grief.
Macker wrote:
I certianly hope it did. Because it shows just how out of touch those two and their cronies are and people are noticing.
Ted Nugent’s 9/11 Address.
Also posted as a headline thread.
Requiem in C Minor by Jan Dismas Zelenka
In memoriam.
@ Jehu:
Great post.
Satan comes in nations and men, but he always has the same agenda…wipe out any knowledge or relationship to God.
And evil intensifies as his days, as he is well aware, are becoming short.
We’re in for a rough ride. Keep the faith.
Anyone else watching this BS on 60 Minutes on how bad America was with those detainees. And on the anniversary of 9/11/01 no less.
Tanker wrote:
Why the fuck would i want to watch that commie bullshit?
@ Tanker:
Haven’t watched See-B-S in years (except for football). Total waste of perfectly good bile.
I know, but my roommate has the damn remote…I’m stuck!
Tanker wrote:
Got a baseball bat?
@ Nevergiveup:
Boy, do I wish! Hell the VA doesn’t like the fact I have a computer!
‘Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.’
Captain Stephen Decatur USN
Nevergiveup wrote:
All of these years I thought that quote was
attributed to a Napoleonic officer, Chauvan,
ergo Chauvanist.
But indeed,it was Stephen Deactur.
Tanker wrote:
Man, that pissed me off so bad I had to change the channel. But what should we expect from CBS and 60 minutes?
Like when that libturd a-hole NBC anchor Brian Williams asked Perry about all the executions in TX and the audience applauded, and he looked stunned.
Those people, and I mean libs, are really clueless. They all live in their little world among other libturds and are shocked that anyone would disagree with them, when the fact is that the vast majority of Americans do disagree with them and can’t stand listening to them.
You think any normal American cares if some KNOWN muzz terrorist gets tortured?
And to show that today of all days shows how clueless those a-holes are.
@ The Osprey:
I could not believe some of the nonsense
I heard coming out of the mouths of some of
my coworkers at that time.
Neither could I. When I challengened them on their statements, they couldn’t really quantify anything nor did they know anything of islam.
I ended a couple of friendships shortly after and never looked back.
OK Cowboys vs My Jets coming up. Gonna go watch soon. Especially since it seems the Jets are gonna be the only real football team in NY/NJ this year. Not trying to disrespect the Giants, but with all the Injuries and all, well they are suck
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
“Clueless”…”A-holes” are relative mild terms considering what I was thinking!
Nevergiveup wrote:
I’ll be rooting for your Jest, bet you can’t guess why ?
John Difool wrote:
Oh I got a hunch
@ John Difool:
Could it be because the Jests are playing the Cowgirls?
Is there anyway they can both lose?
The U.S. and Turkey are discussing how to continue cooperation against terrorist targets in northern Iraq after U.S. forces leave Iraq in December, including the possibility of basing Predator drones in Turkey, a U.S. official said Sunday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The U.S. currently is sharing Predator surveillance data with Turkey as part of a joint effort to combat the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which the U.S. considers a terrorist group and whose fighters have launched cross-border attacks into Turkey from northern Iraq. The Predators, capable of transmitting full-motion video, are flow from bases in Iraq.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/11/us-considers-basing-predators-in-turkey/#ixzz1Xgzdsv00
So we are sharing intelligence with Turkey? Allowing them to massacre the Kurds while Turkey goes full Muzzie and starts a War with Israel. Obama’s a real peach of a foreign policy expert
AZOlddog wrote:
Well that and i have a soft spot in my heart for Mark Gastineu. Besides Dexter Manley and Charles Mann, has their ever been better Defensive Ends from the 80′s? Howie Long is way overated.
John Difool wrote:
Gastineu? You got to be kidding. The only reason he was any good is because it took 3 guys to block Joe Klecko
@ Nevergiveup:
Obama pulls for the other guys, I’m convinced.
Nevergiveup wrote:
True, but he held he sack record until Bert Forve allowed Reggie White to break it ….I don’t make the rules son, I’m just relaying the specifics…
John Difool wrote:
OK but more important is Faith Hill hot or what?
Nevergiveup wrote:
Is dat a trick question ?
Who are these yahoos singing the national athem?
Nevergiveup wrote:
Dallas Jets game starting now. If I as a jihadi were to attack anywhere today it would be at this game. New York, America’s team, American football, T.V.s everywhere watching. However I doubt the impotent bastards can pull it off, they are regulated to hoping some lone homegrown idiot can pull something off. Now a days we are in more danger from a run of the mill nutjob than from a soldier of Islam.
Rancher wrote:
And the President is there. I mean President Bush of course. My President
Rancher wrote:
The Jets are Ameurrica’s team ?
Nice try.
And even if you meant the Cowflops, keep in mind the only reason why God kept that old stadium open was so he could LOL once in a while.
If you don’t believe me, just think of Danny White.
Touchdown Dallas.
BTW Danny White was always a bridesmaid but if not for Joe Montana and the 49ers he would probably had two Superbowls.
@ Nevergiveup:
Hey while you were gone. Check out the headlines on the Turkey and Israeli Embassy in Egypt situation.
Rodan wrote:
Yeah I saw that. It was discussed in DC
@ John Difool:
The Giants season is toast. Eli has no receivers.
Well this game is certainly getting off to a shitty start
@ Nevergiveup:
I was going to email them to you, but I saw you on.
Glad you’re back!
Rancher wrote:
His unified Cowboys couldn’t even beat the Redskins scab team led by Babe Laufenberg in 87′ so I doubt it.
New thread.
@ Nevergiveup:
Bush got an applause, that was nice. Despite my differences with his polices, he was an American President. Not like Obama who’s some 3rd World Liberation Tranzi loon.
Rodan wrote:
More like his recievers have no quarterback. Why the hell do you guys continue to expect so much from infant waterhead?
@ John Difool:
He won a Superbowl. The problem is he has no one. He’s not Payton who can carry a team.
And the President is there. I mean President Bush of course. My President
was beginning to think it was just me
New Mexican local from Lordsburg, Brian Urlacher, kicked some ass today. Bears will be tough this year. Cowboys 10, Jets, Superbowl contenders, 7 in the first half. I accept that.
Touchdown Cowboys.
why does everyone call them radicals or extremists call them what they are true believers