Never Forget: 9/11 Families Share Memories of Their Heroes
Many 9/11 family members feel Americans have forgotten how it felt — seeing the Towers fall, the Pentagon burning, the United Flight 93 wreckage. Following are interviews with some family members, each one representing a cross-section of the American experience, each with a heartbreaking story.
Rick Rescorla
Susan Rescorla’s husband, Rick, died a true hero. He was an army colonel who fought in three wars. After retiring, he became the security chief for Morgan Stanley at their offices in the World Trade Center. After surviving the 1993 World Trade Center attack, Rick implemented a mandatory drill — every employee, including senior executives, regularly practiced his emergency evacuations. After the first plane hit Tower 1, Rescorla — following his evacuation plans and ignoring building officials’ advice to stay put — evacuated Morgan Stanley’s 2,700 employees from Tower 2. He died during the tower’s collapse, as he had returned to the building to rescue others. His remains were never found. Susan Rescorla, choking back tears, commented:
I am writing a book about Rick and my journey together. My husband and I were soul mates. It is so raw with me, even today. I get so emotional I have to swallow my tears. I am so proud of him.
I am not much better than I was nine years ago, except back then I wished I had died as well. I am still trying to understand all of this. What happened should be felt by every American. One way of doing this is to bring these numbered WTC steel pieces to every state in the union. These steel pieces are treated like a casket, wrapped in the American flag. They are significant because people can touch it, feel it, and it brings forth the spirit of the dead.
Joe Holland III
Joe Holland’s 32-year-old son, Joe Holland III, was not supposed to be in the World Trade Center. He was called to attend a meeting on the 102nd floor of Tower 1. Because of a traffic jam, the meeting started late, and he was there when the planes hit. He was alive until the tower collapsed, but was trapped because the conference room doors jammed.
Among those he left behind was his ten-day-old son, who never would know his father. Says Holland:
My son was murdered. I want Americans to understand that. The pain never goes away. As this day approaches it gets worse and worse.
Americans lived it on 9/11 and maybe a few years after, but I have to live without my son day in and day out. I had to do something to focus, so I built a memorial for the 2,983 victims of September 11. I want to make sure we never forget.
I have iron from WTC, tile from the Pentagon, sacred soil from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and also a five-inch shell from the USS Cole which will be included in the site.
Christopher Santora
Maureen and Al Santora’s son, Christopher, had found his dream job — New York City firefighter. He graduated in June 2001, and was assigned to Engine Company 54. All fifteen men in this firehouse died trying to rescue others from the World Trade Center.
Although his body was found three days after September 11, it was incorrectly identified as someone else. It was not until November that Maureen and her husband Al were notified of the mistake:
I was one of the lucky ones, in that I have my son’s body. There are still 997 people who never had ID. I have needed the time to adjust to the fact my son was murdered. We keep thinking each year will be better, but even nine years later it is so very difficult. We still have not healed. I come to tears when thinking about my son, which is constant.
“Many 9/11 family members feel Americans have forgotten how it felt…”
Uh uh.
I’m listening to recorded phone calls from the WTC, and reading about the attacks just like I do every 9/11.
I’m not ever forgetting, and I’m not ever forgiving.
I say no peace with Al Qaida until every last one of them is dead, dead, dead.
And, no forgetting as long as I have breath in my body.
Where their blood was shed is sacred ground and we will never forget. It is up to us to make sure that their names and their stories are never forgotten.
We have not forgotten.
My children will be brought up knowing and honoring the sacrifice so many Americans made on 9-11. They will know about the heroes of that day. They will visit our local 9-11 memorial. They will know why their father is at weapons qualifications this September 11th, with his National Guard unit. They will understand why we fly our flag, not only on September 11th, but every day.
We will not forget.
Until the moment I draw my last breath, I will never forget what happened and will do all I can to make sure no one ever forgets what happened and more importantly WHY it happened.
G-d bless the sacred memory of all who perished and their families.
And may G-d damn to the 9th circle of hell the ideology and its adherents who perpetrated this bestial act upon us.
Thanks to the author for the story, to the families for the remembrances. I haven’t forgotten and feel sorrow about those lives and the ones they were intertwined with. With warmest regards,
Clay
Al Qaeda is merely a group who are more active and open about their religion. Islam requires that its adherents establish Islam as the only religion. Islam is waging war around the world. Until Americans get this through their politically correct, thick heads, the lesson of 9/11 will not begin to be understood.
Tell them, Elise. that we will remember and there is no need of worry over that.
I knew or had links to three of the passengers on those planes. This day will never be a day of anything but pain and reflection, fire and steel, to me.
I don’t see how we can ever forget 911. Especially once the Victory Mosque is constructed. We should always make sure the grandkids know about it and make sure they know the non PC version of what happened. I don’t ever forget that there’s still people out there still dying a slow death from being in that airborne and other debris from the attack. An attack upon a sovereign nation and what is going on? Somehow I feel shafted. Many blessings to all those who were directly affected by the attacks on 911. And that goes to our servicemen and women as well.
What’s the PC version?
ISLAM/MUSLIMS ARE MAKING SURE WE NEVER FORGET WHO KILLED THE PEOPLE AT THE TWIN TOWERS WITH THE GROUND ZERO/VICTORY MOSQUE.
THEY ARE RUBBING OUR NOSES IN THE FACT THAT THEY KILLED OUR PEOPLE ON OUR SOIL AND HAVE BASICALLY WON IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AS WE HAVE CHANGED LITTLE THERE AND LOST MUCH.
IT APPEARS THAT AMERICANS ARE UNABLE TO FIGHT BACK. WE ARE ALLOWING THEM TO DO THIS TO US AND WE NEED TO STOP IT.. ISLAM IS OUR ENEMY AND THE MOSQUE WILL SIMPLY EMPHASIZE THEIR VICTORY OVER OUR LAWS AND VALUES AND EMOTIONS..
OK, just making sure. Thanks.
This is definitely the NON PC version!! thanks!!
I’m a Canadian. The PC types up here are the same as yours: they hate American exceptionalism. Not me. I thank God for “the land of the free and the home of the brave”. On my mantel this weekend, I’m “flying” my little American flag, beside the maple leaf.
Until we honour our own, Judeo-Christian culture, which has bequeathed untold spiritual, intellectual, and material riches to the West, especially in the USA, we won’t have the guts and perseverance to fight back—and fight back we must. The Pollyannas, who think we should just “make nice” and appease our barbaric enemy are living in La La Land.
I have not forgotten. I will not forget. If any country can beat the West’s descent into dhimmitude and barbarism, which happens every time we cave to Muslim bullying, it’s the United States. Those of us who love truth, beauty, and freedom are counting on you. God bless America!
Nicely put my friend.
I will never forget 9/11. My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones.
My rage will never subside for those who carried out this deed in the name of their god and the countries and people who cheered their accomplishment. Our enemies would be wise to remember that most Americans are not as weak as our current leader.
God bless the men and women who were murdered on 9/11 and their families along with the victims of the USS Cole. Forget never. Our government should be held accountable since the perpetrators of this Day of Infamy that we have in custody have not beentried and convicted.
Remember to always show the soles of your shoes to all muslims; It means you understand what they are going through.
Read their holy book and understand what they are up to. Everyone needs to read this book and be afraid. It is what they live by.
I’ll never forget the tragedy and injustice of the event. And I’ll never forget the unity and goodwill and opportunity squandered by small-minded greed and personal revenge.
Yeah, I know, Betty. All those people who turned against the President at that time, who was just doing what he thought was needed to keep America safe, just for transitory political advantage, really made me sick. Especially when they later turned around and supported the same procedures that they once denigrated.
don’t take her seriously..she is always “against” anything conservative, pro american, or sensible.
So turning his back on bi Laden in Tora Bora and choosing instead to invade Iraq instead, 5,000 Americans, 30,000 injured an maimed, countless family members devastated, tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi dead, trillions of dollars wasted. That was Bush’s idea of keeping us safe? Yeah, that made me sick.
Did you ever wonder why they let bin Laden go? I’ll tell you why, because that would have ended the war.
Your heroes are evil. Your philosophies are blind. Your principles are smoke.
“Did you ever wonder why they let bin Laden go? I’ll tell you why, because that would have ended the war.
Your heroes are evil. Your philosophies are blind. Your principles are smoke.”
And your conspiracy theories have just earned you a timeout. I’m sure your blood pressure will thank me.
Americans and others will NEVER forget the suffering and horrific deaths of our precious 3,000 brothers and sisters murdered without mercy by the followers of Islam. The pain, the grief and the anguish is greatly intensified by the wicked plan to build a victory mosque to honor Islam at sacred Ground Zero.
It can NEVER be forgotten that thousands of Palestinian Authority Muslims celebrated the cruel mass slaughter of our innocents – dancing in the streets, firing into the air and passing out candy. It cannot be forgotten that some Muslims also celebrated in America and other countries.
We must not dishonor our beloved 3,000. We must not dishonor this great nation with a trophy mosque at Ground Zero.
Normal Americans have not forgotten about those murders. And they will never forget. Tears are shed by those of us who did not lose a family member, for different reasons and at different times than the dear families profiled here. Thank you for putting their stories out, along with the photos of their loved ones who are our heroes. Dear people, we do NOT forget. We not let them “make us forget” by calling it “Patriots Day” (which was cooked up in a government office). What comes out of our hearts is anger at the attack, grief over your loss, sorrow for the United States of America and sheer fury at the fools in the obaMadministration and every department of government that somehow, apparently, wants us to behave, be quiet, keep our mouths shut and, whatever we do, never, never, never say that this was caused by islamists. We will not be quiet. We will not celebrate Government Patriots’ Day. We will grieve and remember. We will listen to the 911 calls and weep. We love you all and are so sorry for your loss.
So guys, what happened on the 9th of November?
1938?
Lots of things.
* 694 – Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
* 1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
* 1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
* 1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
* 1456 –Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, was assassinated in Belgrade.
* 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
* 1494 – The Family de’ Medici were expelled from Florence.
* 1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
* 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
* 1688 – The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
* 1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
* 1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
* 1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
* 1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
* 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
* 1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
* 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d’état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
* 1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
* 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
* 1857 – The Atlantic founded in Boston.
* 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
* 1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
* 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
* 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
* 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
* 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
* 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
* 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
* 1914 – SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
* 1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
* 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
* 1921 – Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
* 1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
* 1932 – Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
* 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
* 1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
* 1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
* 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
* 1945 – Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan is founded.
* 1947 – Junagadh is annexed as to Indian military intervention.
* 1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
* 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
* 1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
* 1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
* 1965 – Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
* 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
* 1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
* 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
* 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
* 1985 – Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
* 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
* 1990 – New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
* 1990 – Mary Robinson is elected Ireland’s first female President and the first from the Labour Party.
* 1993 – Stari most, the “old bridge” in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
* 1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
* 1997 – Montreal Screwjob
* 1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
* 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
* 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
* 2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
* 2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
Which specific event were you referring to?
These are the kind of people who want to build the Ground Zero mosque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMvgxL9qAJI&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-hqVOLEgec&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djb_oSoZLDc&feature=related
These men must be investigated. Charges must be pressed for any and all wrongdoing they’ve committed (we already know Rauf is a slumlord). That will put a stop to the GZ mosque and will be the best tribute to the 9/11 victims I can think of.
We will not forget.
Please visit
http://www.911familiesforamerica.org
They posted the complete list of names of the victim of the muslim attack against America.
I copied/pasted it into my blog and I ask everybody who has a blog to do the same.
That list is a prayer in and by itself.
And it is a very loud and very strong…
Let’s roll !
Thank you.
Also, I hope you will encourage everyone you know to read the koran and discuss it. That is one of the ways we will understand who muslims are and what they are doing.
I read your blog. Interesting, thank you.
I had never actually thought about “where does ground zero end”?..
We already lost the war to Islam. I expect to hear what the left is saying about Islam. The left adores Islam because they share a common bond, their hatred of Christianity and traditional America.
Unfortunately, the ignorance about Islam that I hear coming from the right is absolutely frightening. Talk show hosts, politicians, many bloggers are all totally oblivious to the Islamic texts and the evil commands of our eternal foe the False Prophet Muhammad. I can’t even listen to these dhimmi fools anymore.
This country is going to suffer a disaster because of its ignorance about Islam. Yes I meant to say Islam, the kind that Muhammad taught not some fictive thing called “radical Islam” or “terrorism”. Muslims are invading our country in record numbers and their threats of violence are going to increase exponentially in the not to distant future. We will never change our insane immigration policies to stop them from coming here.
They just scored another victory against United States by trumping our Constitution with Sharia law by forbidding an American citizen from burning a Koran (not Qur’an), a book that calls for our enslavement and/or death. The threats to this pastor came from the FBI, the President of the United States and a member of the joint chiefs of staff. They also did this with the full support of the new right wing media while never even mentioning the mass murder of Christians in Islamic lands.
Hey Hannity, Beck, O’Reilly, Rush, Geller, Malkin, McCarthy, and the rest, keep up the great work maybe we’ll move to Kabul where its really safe for us Christians.
Oh, Rush don’t forget your golf clubs on your next vacation to Dubai. Just don’t wear a crucifix on your gold chain, you might lose your head on the way back. Leave your Bible at home, if you have one.
The koran should be a “must read” for all all all Americans. We are entirely too sheepish a nation. We will be overtaken by these bastards if our politicians have their way.
In churches,
read a chapter of the koran then cleanse your mind and read your bible…soon we will get through it and understand exactly WHO muslims are.
It is important to read the koran. That way when Obama pukes out his crap you will be able to say, hey, these people believe this way, NOT what you are saying
Don’t burn the koran, READ IT !, prepare yourself. Never forget ..Don’t allow the current administration to fool you.
9/11: Brought to you by Islam…
…and all the MSM can say about it is how, since a handful of Muslims died at Ground Zero — Muslims: the creators of “suicide bombers” –that it is a day of mourning for Islam as well.
Show the footage of Muslims of Patterson, NJ dancing in the streets!
If an idiot hadn’t been elected in 2000, there’s a good chance there wouldn’t have been a 9/11. But even if 9/11 still happened, not having an idiot President would have at the least saved the utterly needless deaths by the thousands of American soldiers in Iraq, not to mentions the needless deaths by the 100,000′s (at least) of Iraqi civilians.
Nine years later and it feels like the world is more messed up and unsafe than ever.
In case you forgot, we had a freakin’ greedy moron and lunatic running against the despicable GWB. I’d take GWB in a heartbeat again. Yes, Gore was that bad. He was certifiable.
Now we have a Marxist, Farrakhan like double digit IQ racist duo in the White House who seem to follow the commands of the evil Muhammad while trashing our Constitution. Neither one of these boobs are even community college material.
BC, let me educate you on a little history that those of your ilk (Leftist I have to assume) seem to forget at a day’s notice. Vice President Gore tried to steal the 2000 election. Not President Bush. The Gore campaign only wanted to recount four Florida counties, which had heavy Democrat voting blocks. Because of Gore’s egoism and lust for power, the election wasn’t decided until the end of November 2000.
Now, being that I have read a lot regarding the goings on of the Clinton years in the White House, these folks were very bitter about having one of their own lose to the Bush team. The transition between the out-going Clinton White House and the in-coming Bush team, was messy to say the least. And if you are naive enough to believe that the Clinton administration was completely forthright in sharing intelligence (foreign and domestic), you have another thing coming. These Democrats, who just lost the White House, were very angry.
Once President Bush was in the White House (Jan 2001), it took him almost four months to fill his W.H. cabinet, because of Democrat obstruction. Remember, even though they didn’t explicitly say it, the majority of Democrats believed that Bush stole the election. Even though most know it wasn’t true, they will push the narrative nonetheless. They know the majority of media (T.V. and print) will back them up (nor question their statements). Same goes for their sycophantic drones. So President Bush finally had all his cabinet members in place around May 2001. That was about three months before the attacks. Since the Clinton White House treated terrorist attacks as law enforcement issues, the FBI, CIA, and NSA was complicated by red tape, relating to sharing information. Remember, President Clinton had the chance to take out Bin Laden, and caved.
All in all, Democrats are cowards. They don’t bother to take foreign policy seriously, because they really believe that talking your way out of problems works every time. This is the great delusion us Conservatives have to deal with. I thank the Lord every day that Al Gore was not successful in stealing the election. This individual is a certifiable narcissist. He actually believes and promotes that we humans can actually affect the weather patterns on this planet!!!! The height of moral ineptitude and arrogance. I’m glad this man never made it to the White House.
President Bush, even though he wasn’t a great Conservative in his governing, did fine during the September 11th attacks. The only issue I had was when he claimed that Islam is “a religion of peace.” It most certainly is not. One question I have asked myself several times is, what if the generation of World War II would have been around (and in power) when this happened? I can almost guarantee you that they would have dropped a nuke (i.e. the mountains of Afghanistan, Mecca, Medina, Tehran, who knows). This generation and our current rulers don’t have the stomach to do what is necessary. Political Correctness, Multiculturalism and Moral Relativism are a bane on our U.S. society.
good grief the man had only been in office a short time.. lay your blame elsewhere..perhaps an aspirin factory or such
Ah, I see that my comment has attracted some more badly misinformed, cognitive dissonance.
To Gunner57: No. While I’m not at all a fan of Gore, mostly for his gutless capitulation during the Florida recount (he actually did get the most votes in Florida, by the way, despite very confused news reports to the contrary), most if not all of the bad stuff you probably heard about him was just the usual right wing smear machine BS. But even if Gore was 10 times worse than what right wing numbnuts were claiming, since there would have been no Iraq invasion, that by itself would have made Gore at least 10x a better President than Bush. And if you try to claim that there would be no way of telling if Gore would have invaded Iraq or not, *all* of the “reasoning* (if you can call moronic policy that) originated with the malicious clown group at the AEI/PNAC, the members of which ended up dominating Bush’s cabinet.
To Sam: Me thinks you have been partaking of that legendary “Kool Aid” stuff that right wingers have been babbling about for years. No, the Democrats provided no real resistance to any of Bush’s idiot cabinet choices, including friggin Ashcroft. I don’t know about “<a href="http://www.civilrights.org/voting-rights/election-reform/civil-rights-leaders-hail-settlement-in-florida-election-suit.html"stole," but the the last reports had Gore getting the most votes, not that anybody really cared at that point. And that rumor about Clinton passing up a chance to get bin Laden was never more than some more right wing BS, and actually he went after bin Laden much more so than Bush, and it was the Republicans who were craven cowards
I suggest you stick to watching TVLand and forgetting about all this confusing political stuff — it might make your head explode.
To Anonymous: “Aspirin Factory”? Yeah, well while aspirin is a chemical, I think you should call a chemical factory that.
After the war of 1870 the statues in la place de la Concorde representing the lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were shrouded in black, and remained so for 48 years. To walk by them must have been to renew humiliation and rage each time. Say what you will about the French, when the time came to recover their honor in 1914, they were well primed. How odd that the Ground Zero mosque would serve the same function as those statues in black. So build it, you stupid bastards.
My heart goes out to all who were MURDERED on 9/11 by Muslim terrorists.
I see Obama and the PC among us would rather embrace “tolerance and diversity” to honor those “lost” on the “tragedy of 9/11″.
Hurricane Katrina was a tragedy. 9/11 was an act of war and jihadist murder. It seems the one outcome of 9/11 in Europe and America has been that offense to Islam is a greater crime than Muslim terror, and that the latter is always justified by their “oppression.”
I weep for the myriad of future victims to Muslim terror. The government is in full appease and apologize mode, we have no intention of winning a war against some undefined enemy, and at our airports, your 90 year old grandma with a hip implant will get a full body cavity search and your two year old will get a naked body scan, while actual Muslim terrorists have been allowed to board.
We are doomed. Muslims have attained more special privileges and more shariah accomodation after 9/11 than they could have before. THEY have become the victims of 9/11, while the actual 9/11 victims will be relegated to an underground memorial with no indication of where they died, who they were, or how old they were. You will learn more about the 9/11 hijackers than about the 9/11 victims at the memorial.
Read the book “Age of Tolerance,” where the 9/11 hijackings are referred to as “Resistance Attacks of 9/11″ and where suicidal political correctness results in a sickening surrender of all we hold dear to Muslim jihadists in the name of tolerance. We are not far from going down that road.
On 9/12/01, did you ever think that 9 years later, the politicians who have been content to let Ground Zero remain a hole in the ground, have been moving heaven and earth to shove a 13-story victorty mosque down our throats?
‘On 9/12/01, did you ever think that 9 years later, the politicians who have been content to let Ground Zero remain a hole in the ground, have been moving heaven and earth to shove a 13-story victorty mosque down our throats?”
I am sincerely unsurprised. The reasons for this are that I have spent (too much) time since that dreadful day reading about some of the connections between Western leaders and Islam, and because I have seen the people and politicians of the West resolutely fail to address energy problems and production while continuing to blame Israel for Islam. More specifically, I have doubts about the official story, none of which reduce my anxiety about the Islamic threat but increase my skepticism about the morals and behavior of Western big-wigs.
We will forget 9-11 2001?
I will not forget 1983 Marine Corp Barracks murder, the USS Cole, Korbar Towers, the Embassy’s in Africa, the Pan Am flight over Lockerbi, Scotland, the beltway moon god worshiping snipers, the soldier of Allah at Ft. Hood, the charities of Hubal being shut down for supporting terrorists, CAIR, and the Muslim brotherhood who are enemy’s of these United States. That is for starters.
ROPMA!
BC, It’s ignorant tools like you that cheapen all that is great and noble about our nation. You hate the very land that gives you the freedom to spout your cowardly lying drivel. If we ever lose to these Barbarians, fools like you will be the first ones to have their throats slit.
we will never forget. we will never forget the heroes. we will never forget there were no body bags, our brothers and sisters were pulverized. their remains and the ashes of the dead are scattered over a ten block wide debris field.
try building a mosque, filthbags, and see what happens.
as for the imam in the white house, he is beneath contempt and not worthy of comment.
9/11 was a false-flag operation committed by the US government. How do you explain how 15 people on Flight 93 called loved-ones on cell phones? I fly 50-75 times per year and have tried 5 different cell phones at different altitudes, have never gotten a call through.
Hint: they were called from a federal warehouse before they were executed by the CIA.
Of Birthers and Truthers, Part Two
. . . Now that the ninth anniversary of what is easily the most godawful day in American history, September 11th, 2001, has passed without the threatened Qur’an burnings in Florida–thanks to the persuasive words and strong arms of the FBI–we can sit back and await the momentous tenth anniversary which may see a mosque overshadowing Ground Zero.
One group of people won’t be sitting back, however. The 9/11 Truthers, aka 9/11 Skeptics, aka Truth Activists, rarely sit back.
They believe in their gut that the United States government and/or President George W. Bush somehow, in some way, planned/caused/executed/allowed/consented to (choose one or more of the foregoing) the hijacking of four American airliners and flying them into the World Trade Center towers, into the Pentagon, and into the ground at Shanksville, PA.
On face value, the Truthers’ case would have to be considered the most preposterous of all conspiracy theories, the most outrageous accusations against its government by its people, a reflection of a bitterness and cynicism so complete and sinister that they could conceive of their leadership murdering 3,000 innocents to accomplish their own Machiavellian ends.
I don’t buy it but I have to admit these Truthers raise troubling and still unanswered questions about 9/11.
I started out with ingrained opinions on the Truthers but, as with the Birthers, I try to be as objective as possible, one reason being that I promised a good friend, a closet Truther, that I would strive for objectivity. . .
(Read more about Truthers at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1895
Building 7 and the Truthers’ Case
. . . Today, the Truther side. The Truthers: In essence, based on video evidence and the vertical, symmetrical fall, “Building 7’s collapse showed all of the essential features of a controlled [precision] demolition” and could not possibly have resulted from debris damage from the North or South towers nor from burning diesel fuel.
Furthermore, ”fires have never caused the total collapse of any permanent steel structure” in the hundred-year history of such structures: http://tiny.cc/glwtz. (See that website for specific details of those findings.)
The Truthers also have an eyewitness on their side, that is they had an eyewitness, one Barry Jennings, an emergency coordinator for the New York Housing Authority. Jennings had entered Building 7 after the first tower was hit but while both towers were still standing.
He later said the building was crammed with NYPD officers and that he definitely heard explosions before he was ordered out. Jennings escaped with his life but died a mysterious death in 2008 at age 53.
As one Truther-friendly website explained, incorporating Jennings as a victim in the conspiracy, ”In every major cover up from the JFK assassination to Iran Contra, we can see one common thread. The untimely death of eyewitnesses. Barry Jennings was not only an important and most credible eyewitness, but he openly refuted much of the government, and media version of events. He was a liability:” http://tiny.cc/vkixx
Another notable Truther . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1898)
My name is Chelsea Chris, and I am a new recording artist who really appreciates and admires everything those amazing men and women did for us that terrible day. I’d like to share a couple of songs I recorded as a tribute to these amazing heroes. Please listen, share, and never forget <3
"You Were Running In"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLuNzV1bS8Q&feature=related
"Because of the Brave"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3dYu72_7Pk
“My Hero”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY78Az6Y0Jg