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2007-09-11

Memories of September 11, 2001

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-09-11 01:03|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Here's a few first-person accounts of how Disney handled the evacuations of The Happiest Place on Earth.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-09-11 02:13|| 2007-09-11 02:13|| Front Page Top

#2 At the time, most thought that the worst was yet to come. I actually believed that Anthrax attacks were about to be launched.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-11 05:10|| 2007-09-11 05:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Here on Guam I was sleeping next to my sick father's bed - my former sister-in-law tried to wake us up to tell us America had just been attacked and was now at war.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-11 05:26|| 2007-09-11 05:26|| Front Page Top

#4 It really ticks me off that the dirt bags who ordered this are still alive and well in Pakiwakiland.

Paks should have provided their heads on a silver platter along with Khan's.

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-11 07:08|| 2007-09-11 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 It really ticks me off that the dirt bags who ordered this are still alive and well in Pakiwakiland.

Paks should have provided their heads on a silver platter along with Khan's

Dont forget the Saudis are up to their neck in it ALSO!!!!

See-http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,480240,00.html

http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com/

Posted by Paul 2007-09-11 08:26|| 2007-09-11 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 I won't forget the fact that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were the only 2 states that recognized the Taliban. In fact, every major Wahabi cleric fatwahed in defense of Taliban Islam. Shortly before 9-11, members of the Saud royal family were videotaped landing in Afghanistan for a hunting party. Al Qaeda videos reveal terrorist riding in Toyota pickups. Those were given in a Saudi aid project.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-11 10:03|| 2007-09-11 10:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's what DC-area radio listeners were talking about that week. Scroll up from the bottom for chronologic order)

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-09-11 10:50|| 2007-09-11 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I was sleeping in that day (between jobs and very late night athletic undertakings), the girlfriend woke me up with a phone call. It was in time to be watching the tube when the second plane hit the WTC. She worked near the WH - when it was evacuated, staff came and commandeered their offices, she walked up to my place in NW DC. Most beautiful fall day I can remember. We watched TV, I checked the internet and called a few friends, fulminated and paced. We went for a walk and I was stunned to see that a gasoline delivery truck already had a DC police escort as it arrived for a delivery at a station on Wisconsin Avenue. We walked over to the Veep's residence (Naval Observatory) not far away and Massachusetts Avenue was closed, security personnel in full, dark-colored tactical gear were on the street with their heaters, an armored vehicle sat astride the entrance. As we looked skyward at one of the CAP F-16s on the walk back, a couple paused and the woman said something as they looked skyward quizzically, I responded "they're ours, you'll be seeing those for a while". I still recall late nights, parking the car, hearing them circling overhead all that fall into winter.

It all brought me back into the game. After some false starts and a bizarre chapter involving an opportunity with the CIA that didn't inspire me, I clawed my way to Baghdad and had the most satisfying work I've ever had (notwithstanding the frustration). So 9/11 probably changed the trajectory of my little existence forever.

Only thing I'm tired of is the preposterous concept that people could be "tired" at this point, when their involvement usually ends at consuming a small bit of poorly done "news coverage" every other day. Geez.

Oh, the jaw-dropping behavior of the opposition -reaching new lows even this week - is something else I'm tired of. It's to the point that my view of many fellow Americans is starting to change the way my view of many foreigners has changed forever. Ugly and depressing.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-09-11 10:56|| 2007-09-11 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 As John Dryden said, beware the fury of a patient man. Lots of Americans have watched and listened as not just the left, but the whole US professional political class, has played patty cake over this. A day of reckoning is coming, and the muzz will have plenty of company in their misery. There will be tears, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in many a fancy Georgetown townhouse and on many a No. Va. horse farm...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-09-11 11:15|| 2007-09-11 11:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Verlaine: thanks for your service there in Iraq. And thanks also for answering my question a couple days back; I didn't get a chance to acknowledge that back then.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-09-11 11:33|| 2007-09-11 11:33|| Front Page Top

#11 9:59am EDST or 2:59PM GMT - I was sitting in a conference room in the City (London). Two Brits and my partner and I. One of my associates came in the room and told us that two planes had crashed into the towers and it looks like terrorism. The Brits excused themselves and left. All the Yanks and local Brits and our other international employees crowed around the big plasma screen TV in the big conference room and watched silently for an hour. I called my wife and told her. She already knew and was glued to the telly. Then later that night the BBC rigged a panel discussion hosted by David Dimbleby. They brought in a dozen or so hard Islamists including women who accused the US of bringing this on or even as an inside job. Our Ambassador was brought to tears (typical of a Clinton appointee). In the next few days, we had a memorial at St. Pauls. Ludgate Hill was chock-a-block with people shoulder to shoulder back to front all the way down to Fleet St. Quite moving but I'll never forgive BBC and it was then that it dawned on me that they were a pawn of the secular progressive humanist anti-Jew anti-America movement that has now been encapsulated into a treasonist cabal of the NYTimes/MoveOnn 5th Column.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-09-11 11:50|| 2007-09-11 11:50|| Front Page Top

#12 That morning is when I realized that the Crusades needed to be finished before they get a chance to bring down another Rome.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-09-11 12:16|| 2007-09-11 12:16|| Front Page Top

#13 A day of reckoning is coming, and the muzz will have plenty of company in their misery. There will be tears, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in many a fancy Georgetown townhouse and on many a No. Va. horse farm...

Amen! And elsewhere too, not just North Va. On both coasts and wherever the holier-than-thou leftists scurry off to, there will be a serious purge take place.

Posted by Natural Law 2007-09-11 13:47|| 2007-09-11 13:47|| Front Page Top

#14 I was in San Diego for a CTIA wireless industry conference, staying at a hotel right on the bay. I was down with 3 others and we were in 2 rooms. Just as I was getting up to take a shower the phone rang and it was one of my coworkers calling from their hotel room. "Turn on the TV NOW! Any Channel!!" That got my attention (despite a severe hangover) and I tuned in just in time to see the second plane hit.

We were completely freaked and just watched for an hour without saying much except "We're at war". As soon as we pulled ourselves together we realized we needed to get out of Dodge and try to figure out how to get home to Seattle.

The airports were already closed at this point. Luckily we had a rental car and made the decision to pack up and get on the freeway heading north as fast as possible before anything else happened or panic lead to traffic standstill.

As we were loading up the car we had front row seats to the Navy fleet seriously violating the no-wake rule in San Diego Bay as first a couple missle frigates and smaller cruisers went by, then a carrier and additional support ships - all hauling ass for the open sea not knowing if an attack was inbound.

You could see jets flying CAP over the fleet as they sped out. It was just surreal.

We made it home in two days, listening to the news and trying to make sense of it all. The entire trip we met others frantically trying to get home in rental cars after getting stuck with no return flights. We overnighted in Redding, CA with about a dozen others in the same boat keeping the bar open late so we could drink and talk and try to sort it all out.

Posted by spiffo 2007-09-11 14:32|| 2007-09-11 14:32|| Front Page Top

#15 I was awake and had the radio on when the first plane hit the WTC. When the second one hit, I woke M'Lady and said that we are being attacked. Once the facts started trickling in, I knew that things were forever changed.

Since that time, and after following events from various sources (RB being up there at the top), I have come to the following conclusions:

1. We should have declared war against those states and entities that attacked us, and provided support to those activities.

2. We needed to be rapid and brutal to our responses. That would be appropriate in our dealings with type of people. They do not respond to reason, love, compromise, and kindness.

3. The US has spent literally billions and I guess trillions on this problem, with treasure we do not have. Not doing no. 2 above cost us dearly in our financial resources.

4. We never go for the sources of the resources for terrorism. This means not dealing with the so-called Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, who does the majority of terrorist financing. Cutting things off at the source lets the others, like Pakistan, the Madarassas, various terrorist groups, etc etc die on the vine. Basic logic.

5. The reason we are wallowing around in this war is that too many of our leaders are financial 'hos of oil ticks, like the Saudis. Nothing is going to happen until we change our leadership. And that is where progress on the war really starts. Like a prerequisite before the college course.

The corruption of our leadership, as well as the Left has rotted and softened this country to the core, and leaves us vulnerable to attacks, like the body losing its immune system. There will always be diseases around, same with outlaws, criminals, and terrorists. If the body is strong, the immune system will neutralize or destroy the invading disease, but if it is weak, the disease will kill the host and eventually die itself.

9-11 brought out this old war against civilization into the open. The verdict is still out. I hope we win. We have a lot of work to do.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-09-11 14:38|| 2007-09-11 14:38|| Front Page Top

#16 This from my then-15 year old daughter, written September 12, 2001; if only 'we' still felt that way:

America Under Attack: this headline, among others, was displayed on our television screens throughout the day. The visions of planes crashing into the two World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon (as well as the plane in Pennsylvania) are forever etched into our memories. September 11, 2001...funny how this morning I woke up thinking today was just another day as I dragged myself out of bed. We ask our parents where they were when Kennedy was shot, and ask our grandparents where they were when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This is the event that truly began the new millennium...that will define our generation. Where were you on the day America was under attack?
Certainly this has invoked intense feelings of patriotism in the people of our country. No longer are we republicans and democrats...liberals or conservatives...we are simply Americans. No longer will we be embarrassed to stand up in class and say the Pledge of Allegiance with our hands over our hearts. This is our country. We can no longer afford to be cowards or to be ashamed. Over 10,000 people died today. Keep that in mind next time you're too busy trying to do your homework to stand and look at the American flag.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-11 14:54|| 2007-09-11 14:54|| Front Page Top

#17 fwiw

I recall thinking that the Moslem world would soon awaken to the danger of the extremists and marginalize them.

However it didn't happen this way.

Now I am stuck with realizing that:
1. Subsequent to 9-11, it has been the anti-violence moslems who have been marginalized, not the extremists. No serious and knowledgeable person disputes the fact that terrorism, violence, intimidation and discrimination have deep roots in Islam.
2. We have invested hundreds of billions in trying to stabilize two moslem countries and, although progress has been made, it will require many, many more billions to achieve this stabilization.

Posted by mhw">mhw 2007-09-11 15:22|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-09-11 15:22|| Front Page Top

#18 I was at work. My secretary told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and I actually waited for her to get to the punchline. Unfortunately there was none.

Left work not long after that to crew one of our rescue squad ambulances ready to go to the Pentagon or even PA - but we staged in vain. Too many dead, not enough wounded.

Never forget, never forgive. And keep your powder dry.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-09-11 17:07|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-09-11 17:07|| Front Page Top

#19 2. We needed to be rapid and brutal to our responses. That would be appropriate in our dealings with type of people. They do not respond to reason, love, compromise, and kindness.

I had just suited down and exited the CVD research clean room when a colleague ran up to me and said how a jet airliner had hit the WTC. There was a television in the cafeteria showing both towers burning. My supervisor wisely let us all go home for the day.

A week earlier, I had just returned from a reactor install in Taiwan. My home was being remodeled and my television was in storage. I knew then that I really, really did not want to turn it on and see repetition after repetition of those horrible pictures etched into my memory. I have yet to turn my television set back on.

At the time of the attacks, I participated at another online forum. In my fury, I suggested that we should carpet mullah Omar's home city of Kandahar. Numerous other posters chastised me for wanting America to retaliate against a civilian population.

I still wonder to this day whether Islam might have taken our anger a little more seriously if an entire city had disappeared into smoke and ash as a response to the 9-11 atrocities. I no longer have any illusions about Islam responding to anything but the most brutal and ruthless military force we can possibly apply.

I also have no doubt that Islam will continue to push the envelope of heinous mass-murder until the West's patience and restraint is exhausted and the entire MME (Muslim Middle East) is vaporized in high energy plasma. One thing the past six years of endless Islamic terrorism has taught me is that I shall not rue that hideous day.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-11 17:40|| 2007-09-11 17:40|| Front Page Top

#20 Who remembers the following? Teheran University cancelled for the first time, the post Friday Prayers demonstrations. Since the terrorists were given Iran by Jimmy Carter, those demonstrations were characterized by shouts of "Death to America!" Unfortunately, the next week, Teheran again acquired the confidence to start them again. I have always thought that the sickly sweet post-911 exhoneration of Islam, put steel into the enemy's back.

Remember Oprah's fraudulent "Islam 101" show? "Hijack" dogma, which attributed 9-11 to a tiny minority of extremists? The high profile that unknown groups like CAIR an ISNA were handed? Al-Jazeera's cheerleading for Taliban/al-Qaeda? The first "inside job" stories on the WTC collapse? The rush to sign armistices with Taliban-lite in Afghanistan? Saddam Hussein's $25,000 award to the families of suicide bombers?

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-11 23:12|| 2007-09-11 23:12|| Front Page Top

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