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It was a long couple of days for me. My wife and I were living on Ft. Dix, but that day I was in Bristol, PA helping get the 465th Trans Co (US Army Reserve unit) get ready for an upcoming maintenance inspection. The Motor SGT got a call from his wife telling him about the first plane hitting the tower. He pulled out an old portable black and white TV he had stashed in his office. We were watching the news when the second plane hit. We were both dumbfounded, couldn't believe that we could be attacked in such a manner. I immediately called my wife and asked her if she was watching the news. She said she wasn't, so I told her to put it on. After a while she called me back, to tell me they had shut down Ft. Dix.

The two things that stuck in my mind that day (other than the attack itself) was the video of the Palestinians celebrating and dancing in the streets and news footage of New Yorkers in the street just an hour or two after the attack. There was this one guy, who had made a sign out of cardboard that said "bomb the Taliban". That guy had called it even before they had taken responsibility.

That day had changed Military life forever.


Ray
 
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God bless the troops, and I hope hell has a particularly hot spot for the politicians who spend their blood and sacrifice then throw everything they achieved away for nothing but political gain.
 
I still remember that morning 14 years ago.

I was at work, I was the early guy. One person called in to say they wouldn't be in.
Then another, as he was hanging up, he said - "You have no idea what is going on, do you?"
Being at work, I didn't.

I still get that uneasy feeling, something lost, tragic.

I am now more concerned than ever, that people want to give up their essential rights in the name of comfort. Tolerance does not mean never having to hear an opinion you don't agree with. Safety will never come from appeasement.

Life is dangerous. Life is uncomfortable. Life demands we remain vigilant - there is evil in the world. There is also Love in the world. Not some Yin/Yang balance. But both exist. In order to embrace love we must risk. In order to hold off evil, we must maintain the watch.

We cannot do either without our essential rights in place - our God given rights.
 
Before 9/11 America was cocky thinking that another Pearl Harbor couldn't happen here, or nobody would be stupid enoigh.
They had intel something was going to happen, but did nothing because it was outlandish, or they had several other things they heard and nothing happened.
After 9/11 things changed. Threats were taken seriously, and the FBI have been on the internet trying to find people willing to do these things. Many have been arrested, and the cells that were conducting training camps in America were shut down and the men put on terror watch list. Ie Bly, OR.

The Muslim extremeist got what they wanted. Their mission was accomplished. They wanted America to attack the middle east and have muslims rise together against evil America and give rebirth to the ottoman empire.
We see now it's gaining strength with isis, isil, al queda, muslim brotherhood, etc

We must never forget, never lose the fight against evil.

I remember 9-11-01 like it was yesterday. Listening to what was happening on the radio at work like a bad war of the worlds story. I couldn't put it together in my head, My brain couldn't process what was going on. Until the girl next to me leaned over and ask if I was hearing this?
I cried that day, watching the video over and over.
I've cried ever year since.
My birthday is 9/11. I've cried on my birthday every year for 14 years.
And I'm not ashamed of it.

I will never forget.
I will never forget Benghazi either. People need to pay for what they did to those Americans. And it's not the attackers, it's the politicians who will forever have blood on their hands.
 
One of the most inspiring things was the outpouring of patriotism that happened after that day.
I never seen so many people flying and displaying the American flag.
I still have a hard paper flag that was displayed in the newpaper boxes around Portland.

I remember they were filming a movie called "the hunted" in Portland after 9/11, I worked in down town Portland on the 9th floor and it was night time dark outside, and we heard this plane fly by which doesn't happen in ptown, then you could hear two fighter jets fly by come in hot. It was so scary, all of us looked at each other in horror.
Turns out they were filming a scene that night for "the hunted" using the plane to film without getting permission from the Feds.
They sent two fighters jets after it and escorted it back to PDX.
 
I was in AIT at Fort Gordon. We were all outside on break between classes and a Drill Sergeant came outside and yelled for us to get inside ASAP. As we filed back in, he said a plane had hit one of the WTC towers in NYC. The news was on in their break room, and I stood there watching in disbelief. I knew it wasn't a basic plane like a Cessna or a homebuilt from the amount of smoke and the size of the hole in the building. I was 99% sure it was no accident. Word came in the Pentagon was hit, and then we saw the 2nd plane hit. I knew we would be going to war, and soon. The Drill Sergeant's had that wry look on their face as they said "you better put that basic training ya'll got to good use, Bush ain't gonna play like that bubblegum Clinton". I smiled and nodded in agreement as Drill Sergeant Patterson stared at me and nodded approvingly.
That day was horrible, tens of thousands estimated to be dead and Arabs in the streets cheering. We sat in the day room watching the TV and wondering how many people were dead. Fellow Soldiers that had family in the WTC and the Pentagon trying in vain to reach them. It seemed surreal and made me angry. Payback was coming soon enough, just like payback for Pearl Harbor. I'm proud to have been a part of that payback and saddened to see the pullback this administration has orchestrated. So much was still left to be accomplished and our enemies are regrouping. Yet, I still stand at the ready waiting to go back again if called upon to do so.
 
My Mom woke me up early to watch the news, I got down stairs just in time to see the second plane it. Saw the buildings fall and then went off to the dentist to have my wisdom teeth pulled. I sat in the chair for almost 4 hours having my impacted teeth removed while listening to the news on head phones. No music on the radio that day.
 
I lived a couple blocks from an airport and one thing that still sticks in my mind was how quiet everything was that first week with the no fly zone in place.
Except for the occasional reassuring sound of American Power in the form of fighter jets roaring across the sky. I was working in Central FL. and they'd fly low and fast over our shop as we were in some sort of flight path.

It really made you proud to know they (the Military), were on the job protecting us!
 
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It was a pretty solemn occasion, but we did have a bit of fun. I was working for the FBO out at Mulino Airport. At the time it was still run by the Port of Portland. Since it was a somewhat "rural" airport they would send an employee out everyday to park on the taxi way to prevent planes from taking off. The guy would just park and nap all day. So we'd wait for him to drift off and tow a plane right up behind his truck then fire it up! Most excitement the Port guy ever got. I think by the third day the stopped sending him.
 
In Eugene on Friday an Interfaith Prayer service was held to mark 9/11. The central theme was for Americans to forgive those who attacked us on 9/11, and ask Muslims to forgive America for all its sins against them.

Forgiveness was what was asked of everyone. They said that forgiveness was the only way to achieve peace.

We apparently have to somehow learn to forgive Osama Bin Laden:

And we must ask forgiveness for all of the atrocities committed by the USA.


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14 year anniversary of the controlled demolition of the twin towers
If you say BS you have absolutely no mechanical of physical knowledge at all.
There is no way it wasn't a controlled demolition.
Swinging towers do not collapse in their own foot print
Impossible.
We needed a war and we got one
No i won't argue with you about it. if you are too stupid to see this then there is no help for you
 
The popular PBS Science program NOVA did a fantastic scientific analysis about the World Trade Center tower collapses. It explained how all of the thousands of gallons of jet fuel from fully loaded planes on coast to coast flights combined with the huge amount of paper stored in all of the offices to create an extremely intense fire, that then fatally damaged the buildings superstructure.

It really is quite a fascinating bit of scientific detective work, and well worth viewing. The World Trade Center was not at all built like your average high rise building. It had flaws that unfortunately made it vulnerable to this sort of attack.


 
The popular PBS Science program NOVA did a fantastic scientific analysis about the World Trade Center tower collapses. It explained how all of the thousands of gallons of jet fuel from fully loaded planes on coast to coast flights combined with the huge amount of paper stored in all of the offices to create an extremely intense fire, that then fatally damaged the buildings superstructure.

It really is quite a fascinating bit of scientific detective work, and well worth viewing. The World Trade Center was not at all built like your average high rise building. It had flaws that unfortunately made it vulnerable to this sort of attack.


Yeah, I've seen that a few times. At around 37 seconds it explains and shows the trusses that melted/bent due to the extreme heat. Not that I ever needed convincing but Nova explained it well.

Here's someone else's view to include tower 7. Also the Rosie Fire can't melt steel comment.
 
Surprised it took this long for the conspiracy theoriest to come out and claim it was detonation, blah, blah, blah. Non-sense.
All those still blaring about OP Northwoods crap.

It's an insult to all those that died.

And like Denzel said, "forgiveness is between them and God. I'm just hear to arrange the meeting"

Well the SEALs served that cold dish with two to the head.
 
I was mowing a large lawn outside of town here. I was doing allot of very noisy stuff away from people for over 4 hours. I finally stopped it was about 8am here. I noticed that there was no noise to be heard. Like the world went quiet. A guy drove up to me and told me what occurred. At first none of it made sense, I went home to see what was up me and the misses watched the TV and saw the events. To this day conspiracy or not does not cross my mind. What does each year is the many who died that day. The cause really doesn't matter they did not die for any good cause anyone could explain to me. My now oldest was just 10 and youngest just 7 then. I remember them coming home from school thinking America was ending. I look back now and realize they were more right then they knew. I tend to think a little bit of America died that day, why yes there was courage to be seen. I knew we would never be the same, American was no longer impermeable a kid growing up for decades of military in our family I felt safe and was hard that day to look at my kids and wonder would we ever truly be safe again. :s0042:
 
Yeah, I've seen that a few times. At around 37 seconds it explains and shows the trusses that melted/bent due to the extreme heat. Not that I ever needed convincing but Nova explained it well.

Here's someone else's view to include tower 7. Also the Rosie Fire can't melt steel comment.


I have long suspected that Rosie O'Donnell was secretly one of Bin Laden's agents.

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