September 11, 2001, is a date that will forever be known simply as 9-11. As we reflect on the day we think of those we lost in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington DC; and we remember the courage and bravery of the heroic first responders. We will never forget.
I was living about as far away as you can be from NYC and still be in NY … Dunkirk. I worked very late the day before and slept in and when I turned on the TV news, there were the burning Twin Towers. My first thought was … Is this “Die Hard”? When I realized it was the news, happening in real time, I also knew it was terrorism, what with BOTH Towers being hit and I instantly guessed Osama Bin Laden was responsible.
instantly? you must have been reading the newspapers and watching television.
Before 9/11 I was well aware of who Osama Bin Laden was and what he was capable of. He was responsible for the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Africa and he had many ties to the Blind Sheik. On 9/11, Bin Laden was already on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. I used to devour the NY Times, Time, the New Yorker, US News and World Report and occasionally GQ, Atlantic Monthly and Esquire. In my lifetime I’ve gotten almost zilch from TV or radio news. I prefer to read something than hear it. I did enjoy Playboy for the articles too, especially the interviews.
I was teaching with a first hour prep period. The janitor came in to my room during 1st hour and told me that someone flew a plane into the WTC. I asked him what was the punchline…and then went to the teacher’s lounge to realize the horrible thing that had taken place.
2nd hour I was the teacher that broke the news to my students. I started by asking if anyone had heard what happened…no one had heard. I apologized to them because whatever happened the rest of the school year, they would remember me as the one who told them the news…and that for generations people will ask you where you were when you heard about the WTC.
That night or maybe the next night, I attended a community prayer meeting. Leaving the prayer meeting, there were 3 contrails high up in the sky. I knew that it could be only Air Force 1 flying with two wingmen. I prayed again.
I was at home (WA State) homeschooling our two children, when my husband called home and said to turn the TV on. We watched as the first-hit tower burned, and incredulously watched as the second tower was hit. It was shocking, watching and listening, esp. as the third airplane’s fate hung in the balance. I’ll never forget.
there actually were supposed to be four but whatever hit the pentagon was almost certainly not a two-engine passenger jet as the hole was too small to admit it, the flight pattern was too extreme to be flown by such a plane and certainly not by amateur, at best, pilots, and only a single small engine was taken from the rubble, not two large engines.
and the target in the pentagon was the forensic accounting department which was supposedly chasing down the missing trillions of dollars announced by donald rumsfeld the day before. the effort was being overseen by dov zakheim, the israeli rabbi pentagon controller who was an equity partner in the israeli firm that sold “anti-hijacking” devices that could control a plane from the ground which were installed on the 9-11 planes. never heard much about why they didn’t prevent the hijackings did you? oh and dov didn’t show up for work that day. neither did larry silverstein who leased the wtc on a shoestring seven weeks before 9-11, when he insured it against terrorist attacks specifically (it had been attacked in ’93) for $3.2 billion. he collected $4.55 billion. he’s good at that kind of thing.
cui bono?
Do you have a link for your “anti hijacking” device claim? So you think {{{ THEY}}} had something to do with 9/11?
I was on my way to work in downtown Manhattan – I took the PATH train from NJ into NYC’s WTC – when my boss said, turn on the news. The rest of the day was surreal, standing in a park on the Hoboken waterfront, watching the smoking buildings and then seeing them collapse, first one and then the other. All of us standing there along the Hudson were silent. You would think screams and howls, but we were numb with shock.
From there, I saw ambulances lined up outside the PATH station, presumably to take the wounded into NJ hospitals, but, they stood empty. Later, we realized how few survivors there were. But towns across the region had sent in teams and were prepared.
Cairo Egypt on active duty setting up a tactical base for the Bright Star exercise. I was the night shift Comms Maintenance Sergeant in charge. The mission changed to control influx of materials to the Middle East. I was supposed to be there for 3 weeks and it turned into 10 as the Air Force built up Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait to take over what we were doing.
I had a deal with my manager and HR where I worked. I had over 160 hours of comp-time and they were going to keep my pay going while I was deployed with my Guard unit for the 3 weeks. While I was gone 10 weeks they kept my pay going the entire time. When I got back I went strait to HR where they told me to keep all of the money and they set up an interview where they wanted a picture of me in uniform. I provided some pictures of me and others setting up a satellite dish. I was the poster child for my company’s support for the military and the USA.
Never, never will forget. Waking up trying to focus on the picture on tv left on from the night before…what, what is that, then knowing, then seeing that second plane fly right into building 2. Disbelieving my own eyes. The shock of what was happening.. even though 3000 miles away in California, the horror we all watched made us one with New Yorkers. These were our American Kin, family, fellow citizens. Then it seemed it could’t get worse and we hear of the Pentagon, then the flight 93.
The strange thing was the utter eerie silence in the sky’s in our high desert valley. You see we lived a mile from Lockheed airport in Palmdale Ca. Edward’s Air Base was only 20 minutes north, and we had another small local airport too, our sky’s were always filled with planes, the SR71 spy plane flying around was a weekly occurrence. The the B1B bomber and the stealth fighters few in ours sky regularly. This silence was the felt across our nation as all planes were grounded as our military were trying to figure out if there would be more attacks.
Yes it was weird, the silence, like it marked that day of our generation’s day infamy.
We couldn’t take our eyes off the tv, the news, the New Yorkers, our fellow Americans running for their lives, and the brave first responders and citizens running into harms way to save others.
We must never forget, our President must make sure that our children are taught the truths of that day. It is so important, and why we must never ever forget !
the truths of that day are fairly elusive if one’s sources are much of the “legacy” media. perhaps if crossfire hurricane is fully prosecuted and the perps sentenced to serious prison, enough citizens will understand that if a coup of this magnitude and duration could be directed against donald trump for some reason, perhaps an even larger, more evil conspiracy that would execute israel’s yinon plan, feed the military industrial complex, and vastly increase the government’s control over the citizenry would also be possible.
My wife snd I were in Eastern Europe visiting the country of my birth. We going to have dinner with my cousin’s family. When she answered the door bell and told us the news for a second I thought that it was really tasteless joke. After realizing that it was for real, my first word were, “It’s a mooslime terrorism.”
We weren’t quite sure if and when we’d get back home to Texas but 10 days later we got back.
Sorry for all the typos. Should proof read before hitting that post button. G-r-r-r.
I was at the Print Show in Chicago, it took a miracle to get back to SC and pick up my children and make the long drive home to Idaho.
CONTEXT and TIMING are everything people! Like many Americans, I was righteously angry and sad at the terrorist attacks on 9/11. All 4 major US broadcast networks did a telethon to raise money for the NYFD and NYPD widows and orphans. It was called, “America: A Tribute To Heroes”, and it was broadcast on Friday, September 21, 2001. I watched from the beginning and it was one groveling, “please don’t hurt me again … we deserved it … can’t we all just love one another.” crap fest after another. THEN came Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers who showed the World what men were born in the United States! He stood tall, proud to be an American. I will go to my grave forever loving Tom Petty . Then the “Tribute” went back to it’s SJW groveling. The 1st link is the ACTUAL performance. The 2nd link shows the surrounding disgraceful groveling. itinerary. from the Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America:_A_Tribute_to_Heroes
You can stand me up at the Gates of Hell but I won’t back down.
No, I’ll stand my ground, won’t be turned around.
And I’ll keep this world from draggin’ me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won’t back down.
Well, I know what’s right, I got just one life.
In a world that keeps pushin’ me around
But I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
Hey Baby, there ain’t no easy way out ….
Was ill home from work that day. Dog woke me up insisting it was time for a walk and wouldn’t take no for an answer. I’m Full of cough syrup so my recollection may be a tad fuzzy. Heard jet engines screaming. Ran out of the woods into the open to see a big four engine plane coming toward me out of the west only a couple thousand feet up. (I was raised near Wright Field so I have spent a lot of time watching the sky) . Black smoke pouring from the engines. She was in one big hurry not at all worried about fuel burn. Then noticed a ’16 on each wing! WTH?
Eventually dawned on me it was AF1 as she flew directly overhead!
Ran to the house and turned on TV to see with horror what was going on …..
I was working on a horse farm in North Carolina when the phone rang.
A friend from New Jersey was calling and she could see the towers from her apartment.
She only said eight words and then hanged up…
“Turn on your TV…I am going there.”
I watched for just two minutes and then called her back. I had a feeling that the attack was not over yet and wanted to warn her but she had already left.
Fortunately she called me back later saying that she could not get close and since she did not have any special skills the Troopers turned her around on the bridge.
With tears in my eyes I am happy she lived to ride again 🙂 Another Friend who worked in tower number two, I have never heard from again.
God rest their souls and people, please REMEMBER them.
I was at work, Orlando area. I happened to check the news on the web just after the first plane hit. I told others what had happened and we were watching the news as the second plane hit. Meanwhile I was frantically trying to make sure it wasn’t a Delta plane since my sister is a flight attendant and was flying that day. Since I worked in a corporate park filled with military and military contractors we were sent home quickly as we were potentially a target. My mother was visiting to celebrate my oldest daughter’s 7th birthday on the 13th. I called her again as I went to pick up the girls at school – she was being stoic but both us of were worried about my sister. I spent the rest of the morning trying to watch the news but not scare the girls. We eventually found out my sister was safe and her plane had landed in Baltimore. My mother was very quiet even after we knew my sister was safe and I found out later that she was thinking of all the other mothers of the flight attendants who didn’t make it that day.
I had a harder than normal time with anniversary today – I guess chalk it up to everything else going on this year. All the young men who rushed out to volunteer for the military the next day and lost lives or limbs or are now psychologically damaged from the war – they weighed heavy on my mind today. And on the flip side I kept thinking about all the rioters hating police. My younger daughter told me tonight that many younger people (she’s 23) don’t have the same views about 9/11 we have and think Afghanistan was for nothing.
Building 7. We heard the crash
and could see the gash in Tower 1. with black smoke billowing up and paper floating down. Once out of the building we walked north by Stuyvesant High School then to Chelsea Pier, where we caught the Spirit of NY operating as an emergency ferry to Weehauwken.
building seven is an interesting perspective on the 9-11 attacks. it fell at free fall speed into its own footprint without a plane collision (remember no modern high-rise building has fallen due to fire alone). its destruction was announced twenty minutes early by the bbc. the nist study of how it happened ruled out the possibility of explosions being involved before the analysis was begun.
suspicious cat is looking sideways.
Rock, meet hard place.
I have seen a similar reality in my youngest daughter.
History not learned from or remembered *may* be destined repeated.
Days like today *may* cancel such destiny 🙂
Even Tom Fitton laughs at the evidence…. watch till the end
puts what to rest? that video doesn’t even establish that a plane was involved. it’s a streak to a fireball. the hole in the pentagon wall was too small for a two engined jet passenger plane to make, the flight path was too extreme for that kind of plane and absolutely impossible for amateur, at best, pilots, and only one small engine not two large engines were taken from the rubble. in fact this event is the most suspicious of all the four crashes. also the black box was unavailable. in all prior and following history no more than two black boxes were unavailable per year, and that seldom. on 9-11-01 either three or four (four really, what proof is a transcript of an audio?) black boxes were lost or destroyed. never before or since, like the buildings’ destruction.
it’s a tell.
Yawn…
My brother was working either in D.C. or on the border (I forget which – it’s been too long). Later that day we spoke and he said that American flight 77 (the 757 that went into the Pentagon) flew over his office so low and loud and fast that it shook the windows and everyone thought that a plane was crashing into the building – but it was gone in a blink, Then they saw the pillar of smoke form their windows almost immediately after.
He didn’t see the jet, but I remember at the time that he said that he and his co-workers checked the the trajectory and timing as soon as that info hit the airwaves, and all had no doubt that the hijacked jet had streaked over their office just before hitting the Pentagon.
I never have and never will buy the Pentagon conspiracy, ’cause my brother is not a BS-er. At least I will say that SOME large jet buzzed his office at the exact moment to have been flight 77. Now…. if someone saw this jet pull up over the Pentagon and disappear,into the distance or into a wormhole, then show me the evidence. There would have been quite a few witnesses to such an aerobatic stunt.
I wasn’t anywhere near the towers that day but had been in the north tower working two weeks prior and was supposed to be in it again on that day for a 9am meeting, which was deferred the week prior to the week following 9/11, which obviously didn’t occur. I still have my security badge from the late August visit. Some of the people I worked with went down with the tower, some were on the street when the first plane struck. One was getting off the Path train from New Jersey, across the Hudson River. She said she had gotten off the train, was walking toward the exit, when throngs of people were running toward her (away from the towers) so she turned around and ran with them. She made it but still lost a lot because many of her friends didn’t.
Veterinary school, Ross University, St. Kitts. Lab animal medicine class. Saw the 1st tower hit between class. Many of the students were from NYC and had family members working there. The locals were dancing in the streets. Clueless that the tourism economy from the US was about to collapse. And it did. Serves the MFrs right. I’ll #NeverForget
On a group phonecon with a Navy intel Captain, an Army CI warrant officer, a Navy SSO and another Army intel analyst discussing how it had to be AQ as we worked AQ and OBL for years before that in our NEO/NISH planning. Later that day I was on the phone with my career manager as he’d called to tell me (and the Army CI warrant) to tell me to get a bagged packed and expect orders calling me back to active duty.
I was at my civil service job that morning, the 1st report came over my radio and I turned on to the streamed NYC news on my computer. I’d remembered the stories about the B-25 that crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945 but this didn’t seem anywhere near like that. I was on my phone with my SSO when #2 hit and she initiated the conference call. Later that morning the Center director said that we could all go home with pay (the emotion of it and all) but a few of us stayed to keep our sections functioning.
Y’all remember those little flags almost everyone had flying from the gutters on their card? Mine flew on miner until n AF friend took it to fly over Afghanistan early in the war and it went with an Army friend on the initial surge into Iraq. It’s mounted with a full sized American Navy friend took with to ‘rural’ outposts in both Iraq and Afghanistan as he protect US Chaplains from Moslems whop wanted to kill them. Them’s my 911/GWOT souvenirs.
ever heard of the yinon plan? seven countries in five years?
Far as I’m concerned they can push their borders west to the Atlantic, east to the Indian border and south to Antarctica. They can’t help but gentrify the neighborhood.
It was a crisp sunny fall day in central New York.
I was investigating a minor car crash.
One of the involved drivers was a member of the New York Air National Guard, who was on his way to work at Hancock Field in Syracuse.
I was just finishing my report when he told me that he had just received a call ordering him to get to the base immediately.
He said that a plane had crashed into the WTC.
I drove back to my barracks, where I found the captain and a couple of sergeants glued to the television.
We watched as the second plane hit and then as the towers collapsed.
As I walked back to my patrol car, I watched jets from the 174th Attack Wing scramble out of Hancock Field heading southeast toward NYC.
It had been years since I had heard a sonic boom.
Terrified people began calling the 911 center reporting hearing explosions.
Within 24 hours, I was standing at Ground Zero in stunned disbelief.
I was part of an NYSP detail sent by the governor to assist the NYPD.
It was absolutely surreal.
Little did we realize that the ash, which was everywhere, would still be claiming lives years later.
had nanothermite in it too. makes you wonder where that came from.
Visiting with my mom in Florida. Her friend called to say the tower had been hit. Watched the second one hit on tv. Watched it all unravel all day and the days thereafter. Time stood still.
The sky was such an incredible color of blue…I was standing in my cube at work, on the phone, looking at an aerial photo of the Pentagon when I got the news (I work for a defense contractor in the Balt/DC area)….we were evacuated from the building & sent home…it was so quiet that day on the roads…I think it was 8 months before I heard a car horn again…forever we changed…now when something happens, we look for the 2nd hit…a huge psychological shift in our country…
almost like a new pearl harbor (copyright project for a new american century).
We were working at 28th & 1st AVE when we heard some idiot flew into the WTC. We joked
about them giving any drunken stumble-bum a flying license. Than the 2nd plane hit. There was
no joking after that. News got worse hour after hour. Sirens everywhere.We watched as orderlies started pushing their gurneys out onto 1st AVE. They heard the news & expected 1000’s of incoming patients. They stood there & waited & waited looking down the Ave for incoming that
never came.
Next couple of days we had our toolcart plastered with missing person posters. They were everywhere. Sad, sad time.
some three thousand people died in the u.s. from the attacks, supposedly by nineteen disaffected arabs, mostly from saudi arabia. over the next fifteen years the u.s. killed two million arabs, none of them in and very few of them from saudi arabia.
I was stationed at the Pentagon at that time, but I was across the street in temporary office space while my office was being renovated. I saw the smoke rising from the far side and remarked that it looks like a plane hit the building…it was meant to be a wisecrack, sadly, since I had no idea of what was taking place. Took me 6 hours to get home that day, but many of my fellow Pentagon colleagues did not…I shall never forget that day or these heroes
BTW, the plane went thru the office space I had previously occupied…there for the grace of God go I
So what are your and your coworkers feelings of whether or not a jetliner hit the Pentagon ? That part of the day doesn’t make sense to many,
I do not know anyone who worked there that day who thinks it was anything other than American Airlines Flight 77 out of Dulles
another part of the day that doesn’t make sense is that the pentagon is perhaps the most surveilled place on the planet and that one second video above is all they can muster? what about all the surveillance video from businesses across the street that the fbi, under bob mueller, seized and never released.
well i guess there’s no way bob mueller or the fbi could be corrupt.
I was in my apartment here in Las Vegas getting ready for work. My best friend called and asked if I had the TV on, so I grabbed the remote and clicked it on. I think I tuned in in time to see the 2nd plane hit the tower, but I’m a little fuzzy on that because I was struggling to grasp what I was seeing. Then the 1st tower came down. Then the 2nd. I was still trying to understand what I was seeing. It wasn’t until I heard that all air traffic across the U.S. had been halted that the enormity of what was happening really struck me.
I went into work and started hearing that there might be other targets and Las Vegas might be one of them. I was in a middle management position and the GM was out of town, so my counterparts and I were told by corporate to stand by in case we had to shut the operation down and evacuate the building.
Once that potential crisis passed, I just remember watching a lot of news and crying a lot of tears for many weeks, and every year since then on this day or anytime I see footage of the planes flying into the towers, the towers coming down, or any mention of Flight 93.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was living in California and had a 2 year old daughter and 4 month old son, whom I was still nursing.
When I woke up, there was a note on the kitchen counter from my husband at the time that said, “There has been a major terrorist attack on the east coast, I need to get into the office, I’ll call you later”. He was in finance and had friends and business associates in the towers.
While I was feeding my son, my sister called me from Chicago and asked me how I was doing. I remember saying to her how sad I was and how I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. She then said, “well I have something I have to tell you”. She told me that our mom passed away early that morning.
After the airspace opened up again, I was on one of the first flights out of LA to Chicago.
To this day, I still can’t be on anything but a pause on 9/11. Everything stops and I mourn the death of my mom and all of the lives lost on that horrific day.
“A Boeing 757 is nearly 125 feet from wingtip to wingtip, more than 155 feet from nose to tail, and almost 45 feet from the ground to the top of the tail. However, the actual hole in the Pentagon wall was only 65 feet wide. These dimensions do not remotely correspond, making it a physical impossibility for a Boeing 757 to have been the aircraft that crashed into the Pentagon. National Geographic attempted to explain the discrepancy using a computer simulation showing the aircraft’s wings breaking off before slamming into the building. This does not explain why, then, the wings weren’t found on the lawn outside the Pentagon where the plane hit. There are several versions of events of the attack on the Pentagon that demand to be sorted out.
Pilots and engineers affirm that it is aerodynamically impossible for a plane the size of a Boeing 757 to have made the necessary 270-degree turn into the Pentagon while maintaining flight speed and a distance of less than 20 feet from the ground before crashing into the building. Witnesses on the ground reported seeing a much smaller aircraft – possibly even a Global Hawk drone – flying into the Pentagon on 9/11, but certainly not a passenger airliner the size of a Boeing 757. A drone is a plausible explanation for the precision with which the plane hit the Pentagon, the lack of wreckage found at the site, and the smaller hole made in the Pentagon wall.
Every single defense protocol – including the Pentagon’s own missile-defense system – that would normally have been deployed in a hijacking scenario (let alone the invasion of airspace around the building) failed on 9/11. The magnitude of this failure undermines the defense department to its core, yet this astonishing breach is all but ignored by the media cartel. NORAD failed to intercept the planes after it was notified of the hijackings. But prior to 9/11, NORAD had completed 67 successful interceptions, so clearly it had the proper training for such crises.
Air controllers along the flight paths of all four planes reported the hijackings, requesting military response to no avail. There was mass confusion about where planes were and weren’t, evidenced by the recorded tapes of numerous air-control calls and conversations that day.
Military response was sluggish because all bases had new orders to stand down relative to hijackings unless approval came directly from the Pentagon, specifically Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who could not be located the morning of 9/11. Coincidentally, three months before 9/11, the standard protocol for immediate military intervention in the event of a hijacking was replaced with a protocol that required permission from the Pentagon before taking any action. This short-lived protocol was reversed following 9/11. Interestingly, Rumsfeld was photographed carrying debris from the crash site at the Pentagon later that day.”
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/forensic-evidence-contradicts-official-story-911
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/199-news-media-events-60-structural-engineers
well thank you very much. it was feeling rather lonely but then that’s where it matters most. i will say that the conservative treehouse is one of the very few places on the internet that what is called 9-11 truth is not immediately censored and its poster banned. thank you sundance and all others involved.
thank you. and thanks conservative treehouse for allowing a freer discussion of this vital topic than almost anywhere else on the internet.
That’s why we’re f’d….. if conservative media acted as one voice to expose bs, we would not be where we are.
If that plane did not hit the Pentagon, what happened to it and all the people on it?
Did you see a plane?
Not my question. If it was a missle or something else, where is the missing passenger jet and all the people onboard?
Start with what can be verified to be bs. It is not my job to have all the answers. Do you need yo have all the answers to acknowledge that there was some major BS? Their evil and deception is not MY problem, this is all on them.. ….. check it out! … ……
https://www.citizeninvestigationteam.com/faq/flight-77-passengers-and-crew
The issue with airliners, and airplanes in general, is that they are very flmsy. Just because they fuselage might be 13 feet wide, it doesn’t mean it will make a 13 foot wide hole. Most of the fuselage will simply fold onto itself like an accordion.
The only parts that will hold intact are the jet engines. Those are kinetic missiles.
The tail? pfftt… that thing will not go very far into a building. Even as p=mv, and the velocity is high, you just can’t get over that the mass is very low. Not much momentum.
The walls of the Pentagon look nothing like the glass walls of an office high rise with its core built deep away from the walls.
Indeed. Aircraft are virtually aluminum balloons. Worked on them and recovered their remains for the better part of my life in the Air Force. Crashes produce amazing oddities that sadly feed the imaginations of Civilians bent on weaponizing their ignorance.
But they can bring down the twin towers?
Contrast your points with the damage done to the twin towers. Or maybe review the links. So we can’t protect our own pentagon nor do we have any legit camera footage. You are very faithful.
The damage to the towers was striking due to the nature of the glass facade and their coming down was due not to direct physical damage but to the effects of the burning fuel upon the steel structure. Surely you aren’t an acolyte of Rosie O’Donnell who believes that fire can’t melt steel? In this case, it merely had to soften it to the degree it couldn’t support the burden it bore.
“ but to the effects of the burning fuel upon the steel structure. Surely you aren’t an acolyte of Rosie O’Donnell who believes that fire can’t melt steel? In this case, it merely had to soften it to the degree it couldn’t support the burden it bore.”
Ok, contrast that with the damage done to the Pentagon. Why not similar effects? Shouldn’t the Pentagon have been decimated by the effects of the burning fuel? At least to a much, much greater degree.
“ World Trade Center Towers
Jet fuel burns no hotter than 1,200 degrees. Consequently, the fires caused by the plane crashes could not possibly burn hot enough to melt the core steel structure of each floor, let alone to collapse the entire building(s). This dispels the official story that the steel trusses’ joints melted from jet-fuel fires, “pancaking” the floors on top of one another – leaving completely ignored the question of what then happened to the 47-beam grid in the center of both towers.
Molten steel girders were found in the debris at Ground Zero. The damage to the steel itself was notable – deformed, twisted, but curiously not cracked. The only substance capable of creating the heat necessary to cause this kind of damage to steel is Thermite, which must first be detonated. Residue from nearby buildings that were in the path of the huge smoke/debris plumes created when the buildings collapsed was extensively tested, revealing that Thermite was abundantly present in the dust that covered Ground Zero and its surrounding blocks.”
“ The Pentagon
Not a single body or body fragment, piece of luggage, or identifiable piece of the plane – including the fuselage, engines, wheels, wings, and seats – belonging to American Airlines Flight 77 was found at the Pentagon crash site. The official story claims that the fire from the crash “disintegrated” the plane, along with everyone and everything in it. Twenty minutes after the crash, the roof collapsed above the crash site, revealing all the floors, computers, desks, etc. completely intact around the plane’s point of impact. Yet the 8,600 gallons of remaining jet fuel should have reduced the impact site to rubble, but there was very little heat or smoke damage to the structure adjacent to the impact site.”
Troof On, Dude. ?
So you aren’t skeptical and curious why there is no footage of the pentagon crash? Why don’t you want to take a closer look?
My sons birthday is Sept 10. He turned 8 years old that year and we celebrated by flying from NC to Orlando and Disney a few days before. While there I got word my dad had a medical emergency and his doctors did not think he would live very long. We got our flight moved up to the morning of the 11th.
Walking through the airport we saw a tv screen at a food place displaying BREAKING NEWS and a small crowd. We stopped to see what was going on and saw the first plane flying into the tower. I remember thinking I don’t know what is going on but I have to get on our flight, I have to get home and tell my dad goodbye and I love you before he dies, I have to!
We went directly to board. The plane filled up and we were ready to taxi out. The pilot informed there would be a 10 minute delay. After 10 minutes we were told it would be an hour delay. There were some people with phones getting info of more planes flying into buildings, etc. Then we were told to get off the plane, get our bags and get out of the airport. Very chaotic. We practically ran to baggage and the to car rental, getting one of the last rentals. As we went through the airport all of the tv screens were blacked out. For me that was scary.
So surreal, so sad driving home that day thinking of all the lives lost, how the world will never be the same, grieving for my dad, when the day before we were at a restaurant where the waiter stood my son up on a chair, announced to the restaurant it was my sons birthday and all the diners and staff twirled napkins in the air as they sang Happy Birthday To him.
I was driving to work listening to the Bob and Tom radio show. I’ll never forget how professional Tom was that day. He stayed on the air all day Here in Indy covering the events. Quite a thing for a rock station DJ.
When all of this happened I was asleep as I was working nights in a warehouse at the time. I remember my roommate at the time coming in, waking me up and sitting in front of the TV for several hours until it was time to get ready for work. Work was kind of tense that night, they actually checked our ID’s for a change when we were entering the warehouse. Then as if the day wasn’t bad enough the alternator went out in my car on the way home and cause going home to take several hours. But, I can remember that there were thousands of people in New York and Washington that probably wished that they had such a nice day.
Was in a Genovese Drug store, just south of Columbus Circle in Manhattan with a Genovese (Eckerd) buyer when we were summoned by my manager back to the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. We watched the collapse of the towers in utter shock and horror. We tried to help at the collapsed buildings, tried to donate blood, but what folks needed was our hotel rooms for the relief effort.
We had dinner in an almost deserted city and departed at 3am to take our team members with young families back to Florida. We did not know if it was the end of the world or what was going on. Disturbing
I was at a training event in Kansas City. We had just returned to the class and waiting for it to start when someone came in and said a plane hit the World Trade Center. I too thought a Cessna likely in foggy conditions.
I remember reading in USA Today (free hotel paper) a couple days prior about a guy named Massoud being assassinated in Afghanistan.
The whole class emptied out and went to the breakroom to watch on the TV. The facility offered training to others, and it just happened some kind of LEO event was going on. Several came down to the break room and watched for a few minutes, then disappeared quickly.
It was absolutely stunning to see the towers collapse.
Class was dismissed and we were told to go back to the hotel and wait. Perhaps they might start class again in a day or two.
We went back to the hotel and just watched TV until evening when we went down for supper, and a few beers at the bar in the hotel. Many just went back to their rooms to watch TV.
I will never forget a 20 something group at the bar complaining that all channels were still broadcasting what happened, and that whatever sports game they wanted to watch was not on. Stewardesses and other airline employees had been in the same bar the night before, with one group flying to Boston the next morning.
The next day or two we spent in the hotel watching TV and waiting. The airport had been shut down, and I recall some giant tents were set up on the grounds nearby. We were told passengers were staying in the tents who could not get out.
Our class was canceled, but we were told to stay in the hotel as long as we needed, or try get home however we could.
Rental cards were non-existent, even moving trucks were being rented to get home.
On the third day, a buddy from Michigan managed to get a rental car, so he, another guy from Michigan and I drove home together, with them passing through Wisconsin to drop me off.
Still stunning today. And so disgraceful how the left is acting compared to then encouraging attacks against the police.
Posting this late, kind of a coda to the thread
Semper Fido.
With all due respect to Marines and our amazing canine friends.
I was at work doing software support. My twin called me from Georgia and told me to get fox news on my computer. We were talking about it was probably not an accident when the 2nd plane hit. I told him we were being attacked.Then the 3rd plane hit the Pentagon and I told him we are at war!
My daughter called later in the day as she was due to have my grandchild any day. She said ” I don’t know if I want to bring a child into a world where this can happen.” That grandchild will be 19 on the 20th.
Was getting ready for work with the radio on in the background. Reporter said an airplane had hit the World Trade Center and all I thought was one of those little airplanes had run into the building; I remember hearing how a small airplane had hit the Empire State Building years earlier.
Went and turned on the TV, saw smoke pouring out of a gaping hole and knew the damage was not done by a small plane.
Stood there wondering how a plane could hit that particular building — whether it was a purposeful act or freakish set of unbelievable mechanical troubles that caused the calamity that morning — and was mindful the entire time of how the World Trade Center had been bombed years earlier.
Destruction as a purposeful act seemed to win out in my mind.
And then, as I stood watching the billowing smoke pour out of one tower I saw what thousands of others witnessed in person or watched live on TV and gasped in horror; the second plane flew into the frame, turned and then definitely, purposefully, flew into the second tower.
I remember the world became quiet.
Our little country church that sat not far from the largest airport around became even more quiet upon hearing military jets taking off the first Sunday after the attacks.