September 11th, 2008

Is a sad day indeed. I will be going to a memorial at 11 am. While there is coverage on the morning TV shows,there was ONE atricle in the morning rag that comes here. It was an interview with one of the Cleveland Center controllers,who was assigned to follow flight 93.Good article,but N-O-T-H-I-N-G else. To the quiz: Flights 11,175 77 93. At 8:46 flight 175 hit the South tower. at 9:03 flight 11 hit the North tower. At 9:43 flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 10:10 flight 93 went down in Shanksville Pa. Flights 11 and 175 took off from Logan in Boston, 77 took off from Reagan in Va. 93 took off from Newark. The South tower went down at 10:05,at 10:28 the North tower went down. Not sure about the Pentagon partial collapse,close to 11:00am I think. Can't remember the chaplain or the DNCTV reporter. They most likely fired him for not blaming Bush while giving his report. Todd Beamer coined the words "Let's Roll. On the casualties, I think was just under 3,000 not including the animals who died as well.Seems like there were close to 7,000 injured.All this is just off the top of my head,so we'll see how close it is.

That was great for being off the top...I'll tell the reporter at the end...the Chaplain, too. I jsut did my first moment of silence...we're an hour earlier...

Was flipping around channels, EVERY morning show,with ONE exception,did a moment of silence. Matt Liar,NBC Today show,was COOKING something. F-ing GREAT. The anniversary of an attack that came damn close to him,and their stupid azs show could not take a moment to honor those fallen souls.Gotta make some kind of a GD cookie. JHC, WHAT A F-ING MORON, as well as the production staff of that pos sorry azs excuse for a tv program.And they WONDER why their audience is dropping faster than dog turds. Yes,Nee,I am a tad pizd.

I remember vividly where I was, which was at home, watching FOX (which btw showed all the memorial services going on this morning) Gos and I both watched as the names were read. It was Todd Beamer who said,"Let's Roll" on Flight 93.

One statement from John Scott on Fox has never left my head from that day, when the 2nd plane hit the other tower, he said, "this is no accident folks".

I recall standing in shock and horror with my empty coffee cup, not knowing what the hell to think. My mind couldn't get wrapped around it.

For nearly 2 weeks solid I cried almost constantly as no one was being brought out alive from that rubble.

All I kept thinking was life will now never be the same for us here in the US where we always thought we were untouchable.

The Great Consevative Blonde, Barbara Olsen, killed in the Pentagon Plane. She's keeping the Angels laughing! As she did many of us.

Rick Rescorla--Head of Security/Morgan Stanley/ South Tower/ Having gotten his 2-floors of colleagues out to safety, Rick returned to the Tower to help others and was killed in the collapse./He'd survived the horrors of the LZ X-Ray battle in Vietnam, Nov.1965--"We Were Soldiers Once, and Young"/Never Ever Forget You.

In all honesty, even at the time I couldn't have answered most of those questions. I guess I've always been one who's more inclined to look at the big picture rather than dwell on details. A strategy guy rather than tactician.

Very, very nice essay.

Another comment I wanted to make is I think a lot of people have forgotten already and don't want to be reminded. It's sad there are so many with such short memories.

Someone left a comment on my blog about Jefferson saying, ""the price of freedom is eternal vigilance".

I believe that vigilance is still going on in our government, but I think a great many people in this country think we are safe and that 9/11 was a fluke.

Like Peppermint2, I remember Fox News and "this is no accident folks".

I also lost an old friend in the Towers, a fellow engineer from my GE days in Schenectady during the 1970's.

In a few days, I will probably come out on the McCain/Palin ticket. The reason will be clear after tomorrow.

Check my site for new articles (one that I promised I would write 35 years ago).

Also, tomorrow check my site for an article about the oil fields in the USA.

What I will print tomorrow will blow the Dumbocraps out of the water and probably force me to support the McCain/Palin ticket.

My little town put American flags all over the place on the 11th, which was nice.

I still remember having a terrible stomach ache as I walked home in shock, looking at the smoke coming from a few miles south of where I worked in Manhattan. And funny you said, "F-ing terrorists" as a first response, I did too, well, in similar words. I said, "I bet it was that bin Laden guy with the anti-USA terrorist training camps. This is WAR!"

It seems that the mainstream media talked about that day, but did not mention terrorists, Islamic extremism, or the fact that we're still fighting them!

I didn't really forget but I feel kinda guilty b/c I spent last Thrusday unpacking at my new apt. Great post Nee!
I was just a kid in high school when it happened. I kept thinking to myself, "This isn't happening. I'm still asleep and pretty soon I'll wake up and none of this will be happening." But soon after I realized that this was happening and for the rest of the day all I could ask was, "Why?" I didn't cry until I got home from school.
I'll never forget.

New one up at the Island/Orphanage.

I think you can beat Sugar Daddy over the head with this one.

The Cowboy Junkies also did a version.
Irony of it is that the song is on an anti-war album.

of the election conundrum that we quit writing?

Shameless plug...new post on my blog re: the Constitution, which I have a copy hung by my front door.