1 I was living in D.C. at the time. I remember driving home early from work (everybody did) with my head half out of the car window, searching the scarily empty skies for another plane.

2 ÒToday, we gather to be reassured that God hears the lamenting and bitter weeping of Mother America because so many of her children are no more. Let us now seek that assurance in prayer for the healing of our grief stricken hearts, for the souls and sacred memory of those who have been lost. Let us also pray for divine wisdom as our leaders consider the necessary actions for national security, wisdom of the grace of God that as we act, we not become the evil we deplore.Ó - Rev. Nathan Baxter, Dean of Washington National Cathedral from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/remember_9-14.html

3 ÒTerrorism against our nation will not stand.Ó - George W. Bush Ð Remarks at Emma Booker Elementary School. Sarasota, Florida Ð delivered 11 September 2001, 9:30 A.M. EDT ÒTime is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. Ò - President George W. Bush, November 11, 2001 "Our enemies have made the mistake that AmericaÕs enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat." - George W. Bush, President of the United States ÒNow, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. ItÕs a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. ItÕs also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friendÐeven a friend whose name it never knew. Ò - President George W. Bush, December 11, 2001

4 God Bless America

5 No surrender. No retreat. No negotiation.

I still want their blood - the people who do it, the people who support it, the people who celebrate and pass out candy when it happens.

Cluster bombs, fuel/air explosives, blockbusters, bullets, bayonets.  I don't care.  Their "culture" must be crushed.

6 Goof Morning Gabe and all the other M&Ms. Up kinda early this morning Gabe?

10 years ago when all this went down I was at work. Believe it or not we were doing an Emergency Plan drill and I was acting as the Plant Operations Director (POD). I started getting these non-drill related reports of attacks on the ETC. Discussed halting the drill with the Security chief. We brought it up to the Plant Manager who said no we had to finish the drill.

The thing I remember most about it, besides the event itself, was when I went to replace my flag for the holder on the front porch none were to be had anywhere.

It is a damn shame that that sentiment did not last long. We are back to bickering and caving in to PC bullshit.

7 Left Coaster here.  My alarm always goes off at 05:30 and I hit the snooze button a couple of times. About the time I was forcing myself awake, I started to hear radio news bulletins about a small plane hitting the WTC.  I turned on the TV and had enough time to think, "how could a small plane do all that damage?"  Then I saw the second plane hit the other tower. 

I remember how 'quiet' that day was.  Not much traffic, no airplanes, even people were quiet - just kind of standing watching TV's in stunned silence.  Time doesn't seem to have muted my feelings, I'm finding it more difficult to watch footage now than I did then.
  

8 I was up unusually early for me (8:30) that morning.  Read the news & checked the weather online.  Didn't notice Yahoo update any headlines, though it might have been there.  Girlfriend (now ex) receives a phone call ~9:30 & turns on the TV. I heard the concern in her voice as she's on the phone so I walk over to see what's going on as the TV comes on.  They're showing the towers & then replay the video of the 2nd plane hitting the tower.  I said something to the effect of "f*cking Bin Laden!"

I recall falling to my knees when the first tower collapsed, partially in shock & partially in anger.  Spoke to my father on the phone who said something along the lines of "I had hoped that you would never have something like this in your lifetime" (he was 14 when Pearl Harbor happened).

9 I had just started a new job the week before 9/11, in a Philadelphia skyscraper. I remember going out for a smoke break and a taxi driver had his doors open and was blasting the radio news updates. When the 2nd tower was reported as collapsed, my office closed and sent us home. I'll never forget the mass exodus from Center City, rush hour at 11:15 am. I went to my father's house, where my daughter was, and just held her. She's 12 now, and has no memory of that day.

10 In Chicago, I'd just arrived at work, a little before 9:00 CDT, when I heard the news about the first plane. I thought was that it was an accident, like when a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. Then the second plane hit. And then the buildings came down.

Our office looks south, over the glide-path into O'Hare. Normally, you'll see an airliner heading in every few seconds. It was eerie when they disappeared; only a few Illinois Air National Guard F-15s circling over the city.

That evening, there was a memorial Mass at our parish. The church was packed. Many people in our parish work at the CBOT and the CME; a couple had been on a conference call with their colleagues in the home office, in the WTC, when the first plane hit. None of them survived.

P. J. O'Rourke said, with regard to the Cold War, "We are fools if we fail to defend civilization." There were a lot of fools back then, and they're still with us today.

11 5 No surrender. No retreat. No negotiation.

I still want their blood - the people who do it, the people who support it, the people who celebrate and pass out candy when it happens.

Cluster bombs, fuel/air explosives, blockbusters, bullets, bayonets.  I don't care.  Their "culture" must be crushed.
______________________

Revenge will be ours, and it will not be the apologetic hand-wringing revenge of women and cowards.

12 For me this isn't, and maybe never will be, a day of reconciliation but is one for remembering who the enemies are and all those that coddle them and pander to them. I smolder on 9/11.

13 It was an unusual morning in that I did NOT turn on the TV at home or radio in my car before getting to my 930am (AZ time) doctors appointment. In the waiting room, I could only make out bits and pieces of the radio talk over the tinny ceiling speakers. Not sure of what I was hearing, I asked the receptionist "Did I hear something about the Twin Towers falling?" She said "Yes, both"  I so not wanted it to be true. I remember the surreal experience of getting mamogram, doing what I would do normally, listening to the radio because I didnt know what else to do. Later, at a friends house, I saw the images for the first time and audibly screamed.

However, if any good for me came out of it, it was to shake me out of my liberal daydream and "holier-than-thou" cynicsm and let me believe in America.

14

My mother woke me up with a phone call that morning.  "Happy birthday, turn on the TV."  I was still half asleep when I turned on the news and saw that the second plane had just struck the tower.

 

15 I was working at home at my desk that looks onto the trees of Kensington Gardens. I jumped in the shower at lunchtime, had to jump out to answer the ringing landline. "Turn on the tv". I turned on BBC1 news for what I did not know would be the last time. In front of the footage some leftie wanker was saying "the reason this has happened is because America is an arrogant insensitive imperial power ..." seriously deranged bullshit. I turned over to Sky. Have not watched BBC news since and won't let it be on in my presence. Later I lit at candle at the Carmelite monastery across the road and sobbed on my knees - just for a little bit. Because I got angry. I'm still angry.

16 I slept in a bit late that morning (work from home) and Dad was in the bathroom...I was not prepared for seeing the TV in the kitchen with the news of both towers being destroyed and the images of them coming down....seemed like a nightmare. Couldn't believe my Dad hadn't awakened me. My Mom was still alive then, and we woke her and said, you are not going to believe this...I remember watching news for the next 12+ hours til I couldn't stand it. We all would cry off and on. Seeing some poor young girl holding a picture of her Dad, and how she was looking for him, had anyone seen him??? Still makes me well up...
And down the road, the left turned all the hatred they had in them not on radical Muslims, but on.......George Bush????

17 From AT by: Stella Paul

Alas, the destruction that Obama wrought may ultimately dwarf the wreckage of 9/11.  As we are now relearning, there are no man-made gods; only the All Mighty who never tires of teaching us that the road to freedom has no shortcuts.

I am in the camp that believes in the wreckage of the JEF and other like minded treasonous POS.

18 From the Marginalia at AD

Political Dementia Increases in Oval Office: Surprise! Today is "National Grandparents Day!"

Presidential Proclamation -- National Grandparents Day | The White House

19 I was doing my Weight Watchers routine dancercize that morning, with music on the computer and ignoring the ringing phone.  After I'd had a shower, I finally picked up the phone to hear my husband telling me to turn on the news.  I watched it all day - CNN, which kept up the most infuriating vagueness for as long as they could.  I remember the anchor even tittering (with nervousness, probably) as he speculated that this was all just a big accident.  We were in Boston at the time, and I remember how odd it was that there were no planes in the days after - just military jets, and you noticed them because they were all alone.  Ever since that day, I never look at an airplane landing or taking off (and I live near an airport) without thinking of 9/11, and watching to see that it gets away safely.

20 I had just moved from NYC (where I worked in the Municipal Building a few blocks from the World Trade Center) to DC just a month previously, and was interning on the Hill for the Ways and Means Committee in the Longworth House Office Building.  As I get into the work the television is showing scenes from the WTC, and we all assumed that a commuter plane had accidentally hit the tower.  Then, as I'm watching, I see what appears to be an explosion in the other tower.  I soon realized that another plane had hit the building, and just like that we all figured out that we were at war.

Amazingly we tried going on with our day.  I had some computer training session downstairs.  After about 15 minutes we got the call to evacuate.  That's when we found out that the Pentagon got hit.  So I grabbed my things and walked back to my place in southwest DC near the river.  That was the longest walk of my life.  Rumors had begun floating of all sorts of horrible things.  The Mall was supposedly on fire.  Other planes were circling.  Not true, of course, but who knew?

I get back to my place and my roommate - also a native New Yorker - and I just stared at the tv for most of the day.  I couldn't reach any of my family on my cell phone to let them know that I was all right.  I think my emotions kept fluctuating between fear and rage.

At some point I just had to go outside.  I walked to the corner and saw the smoke plumes from the Pentagon, and again I just stared at it, numb to it all.  I finally went to get something to eat, and there were no cars - no one outside.  It was like that scene near the end of the Devil's Advocate. 

I do remember listening to Opie and Anthony either that day or the next, and they played "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica.  I think that changed my outlook to one of sadness to one of "let's get these fuckers."

21 Gabe

Yes, it was a gorgeous morning...one of those pristine days you get once you feel the first chill of autumn.  I was headed to my jobsite in Elizabeth, NJ, directly under the Goethals Bridge.  As I was crossing into the port area, I first heard a news report saying that "what was believed to be a small plane had hit one of the Towers.  So, I stopped to call my wife, and not yet realizing the magnitude of what was happening, made mention of the world coming to an end.  When I got to the job location, a group of workers at the terminal were watching from a clear vantage point, when someone said another plane just hit the other tower.  The world got a lot colder, and felt like it was about collapse.  You could see the smoke just pouring into the Manhattan sky.  Then came reports of the plane hitting DC.  At this point, the usual misinformation and speculation was rampant.  Talk of dozens of planes, ready to strikes all of the major buildings across the country was heavily discussed.  I called my wife again after the second plane hit...by use of a payphone.  My work partner that day and I attempted to complete our work for the day, but, since we were located so close to the Goethals Bridge, all you heard were the sirens of first responders and local police racing around the area. I heard a small pay-as-you-go cellphone at the time, and attempted to call work, but, by that time, the cell signal had been disrupted.  For about an hour or so, we were cut off from or families and our work.  My job took all over the tri-state area, so, my family had no clue where I was at that point.  Sometime after 11 AM, we were finally able to contact work, who basically said, just come back to the shop, and everyone would be excused for the day.  As I was leaving. I could see that traffic on I-278 heading into Staten Island was at a stop.  No one was allowed into NYC except for essential personnel.  The NJ Turnpike heading south from Elizabeth to Exit 11 (Woodbridge) had never been that desolate in all of my years of traveling.  I went home and curled up in a ball and watched cable news endlessly that day.  I called my father and was in tears.  What I remember most vividly was the dirty yellow hue over Manhattan that day, which remained for the next few weeks.  I found out a few days later that an old high school friend, someone who had been at my wedding, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, had died that day.  Like many, I had the veiled pulled from my eyes that day.  I had realized how uninformed I was,.  I did not originally vote for W.  But, his words and actions made me very thankful that he was in office, and not Gore.

22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvP97Z_bvIs

23 Sorry, thought that would also have the title Jack Buck's 9-11 Poem read a few months before his death.

24 Political Dementia Increases in Oval Office: Surprise! Today is "National Grandparents Day!"

Presidential Proclamation -- National Grandparents Day | The White House


I normally I would say you're f***ing sh**ing me if it was three years ago..

Today..  not so much.

One more piece of evidence to suggest the man hates this country and wants to destroy it from the inside out..

25 That morning was much like this morning: clear and quiet. I was in L.A.; my then-girlfriend called before 6:00 a.m. local (unusual for her). I turned on the TV and didn't turn it off for days.

This morning the sky is empty of airplanes, just as it was that day and many days after. The silence was eerie and painful.

I am still angry, still wish the United States had responded with the force that morning called for. Many of the foul murderers who supported and worked on the attacks are still alive and thriving, ten years later. That should not be.

I grieve as I did that day. I still wish for revenge.

26 Both of us were working home that day; we were living in our first home, that had an office down in the basement. I will always remember walking to take a break, and seeing some sort of building fire as the TV first came on. I gradually recognized that it was the WTC. In those first few moments all I could think about was, Can the damage to the building be repaired? It didn't even register yet that people's lives were involved. The reporters were all speculating about various scenarios explaining what might have happened: could it have been malfunctioning navigation equipment, etc.? Then the second plane hit. I saw it live, on my TV screen. And of course then the whole world knew what was happening. We watched the rest play out on TV: the Pentagon getting hit, Bush's comments from that school room, the fact Air Force One was on an emergency run and the President of the United States was in hiding. That was probably the most disturbing even of the entire day for me - not the attacks themselves, not the deaths... all that was horrific of course, but what sticks out in my mind to this day was the fact that the President of the United States could not return to the White House because the nation's capital was not safe. The President of the United States of America, the Most Powerful Man in the World, the Leader of the Free World... was forced to take refuge in a bunker in Omaha, Nebraska because he was on the run in his own country. What a day. What a national trauma.

27 Presidential Proclamation -- National Grandparents Day | The White House

Posted by: sTevo at September 11, 2011 07:12 AM (VMcEw)

^{NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 11, 2011, as National Grandparents Day.  I call upon all Americans to take the time to honor their own grandparents and those in their community.}

I am so sickeningly stunned by this that a response has taken me several attempts to write and none capture the new, deeper contempt I have for the creature in the WH.  I call on real Americans and all that stand with her to remember what September 11, 2011 is really about.

28 I had just moved to Calgary two weeks before. I was miles away but watched everything on tv. It was so surreal. Everything seemed fake that day. It all seemed too big. God bless America.

29 9/11 is to be National Grandparents Day? Is Obama insane?

30 I just looked it up and I guess Grandparents Day is always set for the first Sunday after Labor Day. But you'd think they mint have had enough sense to move it this year.

31 2 degrees of separation from the Taliban.

Dr Little attended the little church in Kinderhook NY that we used to attend back in the day. Although I never met him, we used to pray for there safety often. His mission was to provide eye care to the Afghanies.

The Taliban obviously doesn't want its minions to have corrected vision.

32 29 9/11 is to be National Grandparents Day?

Is Obama insane?

As my wife just to me, if you're a grandparent, do you really want your day of remembrance to be 9/11?

It is so hard to tell sometimes if this administration is doing this deliberately, or is just this stupid.

33 9/11 is to be National Grandparents Day?

Is Obama insane? Posted by: CoolCzech at September 11, 2011 07:47 AM

You have to ask? Knowing what this treasonous snake said while the WTC wreckage was still smoldering? Knowing how much he has tilted the balance in favor of terrorists and America-haters?

What is "insane" is that an enemy of the United States -- one who has never been vetted or questioned, to boot -- has been elected president.

34 The weather is one of the things I remember, too. Maybe because it is a little thing for the mind to seize on as a bit of relief from big horrible things.

That gorgeous weather seemed to go on for weeks as the wreckage at GZ and the Pentagon was searched.

35 My brother had left for a vacation so I was in his driveway trying to get his dog to the vet.   The car radio was on  (I was hoping to catch Shadow Traffic) when the news girl came on and said "I don't know how credible this is but we are getting reports that a missile has hit the World Trade Center.

The dog missed his appointment.  

36

So help me God, I feel less miserable this 9/11 then I have in many years.

I remember the lefties going apeshit each 9/11 aniversary, seeming to go out of their way to piss all over everything, blaming it on us, our culture, Bu$hHitler, etc....

At least this year they don't seem to be flinging so much shit.

Maybe it is because Barack is president, and that's all they needed to settle down.

Hypocrital?  Surely.

But I'll take that today as a small favor.

 

37

I worked in Radio on 9-11.  As I walked into the building housing 6 stations, the receptionist was coming around her desk, headed for the news room to see what was going on after a report of a plane hitting the WTC.  I followed her and discovered everyone, including air personnel were in the room watching every monitor and every cable news station at once.  Suddenly, the guy standing next to me yelled "a second plane" and then we saw the explosion.  There was shocked silence, 16 people and not a peep.  Then one of the air guys just blurted out..."Fuck, it's Terrorists!"  And the urgent activity started. On Air staff turned all frequencies to monitor live Cable News with  break-ins every few minutes to give more wire updates.  I've been in the business for 28 years and never had to go through a lock down before.  All studio's were lock with one jock on the mic, another on stand-by. All non-essential personnel had to evacuate the building and it was then locked up tighter than Fort Knox. Engineers were assigned to transmitter sites, and since every single one are ex-military, armed I am sure. 

This is how the Midwest people handle a threat....as we were leaving the building, we heard the Pentagon was hit. Talk was of going home and cleaning guns and getting ready for these SOB's.  The anger was red hot, the horror of knowing our fellow Americans suffered unimaginable terror and painful deaths, produced an automatic response of Patriotism and Preparedness. Ready to defend whatever needed to be defended.  I will never forget the feeling as I realized the people I worked with and lived by in my neighborhood revealed their strength of character and moral code.  An enhanced sense of community commitment and  moral purpose prevailed.  It reaffirmed my belief in my countrymen and women.   

38 Amen. God Bless America.

39 I just looked it up and I guess Grandparents Day is always set for the first Sunday after Labor Day. But you'd think they mint have had enough sense to move it this year.

Thanks for looking it up. I didn't realize it is a moveable feast but it makes sense to have it on a Sunday so rugrats can spend the day with their grandparents.

One of our moron grandparents (irongandpa, maybe?) comments regularly about taking his grandkid fishing and such. Not a bad way to spend part of today.

40 America's chickens are coming home to roost!!!

41 Nice feed on Fox right now of Bush and Barky walking around the memorial at GZ.

42 I was at work - at a Fleet Readiness Center, where I am a civilian sheet metal mechanic on Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. Hubby and I had been married almost a month, worked in the same shop but were on different aircraft that day. I turned up my radio so I could hear it over the sound of the rivet guns and hydraulic carts. I expected to hear John Boy and Billy. Instead, I heard an unfamiliar news feed from New York City - something about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center.

Man, I thought. That's horrible. What an awful accident.

Then, several minutes later, the announcer said another aircraft had flown into the other tower of the World Trade Center.

No accident. No way. Not twice.

I ran down the maintenance stand and headed down the aisle to find my husband. Everyone in the hangar, in the whole facility, was milling around, asking questions, huddling around radios in stunned silence. The Commanding Officer had the closed circuit televisions turned on and tuned to CNN, which had never happened before. We gathered around televisions and, well, stared. Outgoing phone calls were impossible - all official lines were secured, and the commercial phone lines were overloaded. I tried to call my mom from a pay phone, finally got in touch with her, she was nearly hysterical because she couldn't reach my uncle, who lives in Manhattan.

Management released us on a staggered schedule - the whole base was shutting down, as my husband drove out the gate the MP's were locking the inbound gates and pushing concrete barricades in front of them.

I will never, ever, ever forget that day.

43 I, too, was living in DC.  The most vivid memory I have is of the day after--the surreal site of Washington being mainly a ghost town with no air traffic except for the occasional F-16 flying CAP.

44 Posted by: Retread

Are you kidding me?

45 What is Grandparents day really?

Is it a ploy to grab at the heart strings of the weak-minded by the greeting card industry?

Do we really need a Grandparents day?

In light of the JEF death panels, maybe we do. All my Grandparents have passed so I will have to prod my kids to call the grandparents today because the JEF sanctioned it.

46

I paid a call on my schoolÂ’s building services office after my first-period class on September 11, 2001, a picture-perfect September morning here in NJ.  The secretary in the office had a horrified look on her face, and she said that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center.  I pictured in my mind a Cessna hitting one of those huge towers and bouncing off, no biggie.  I went back to my classroom and found internet service down; I didnÂ’t have a tv in my classroom but switched on a radio Â… and then I heard.  I went to colleaguesÂ’ classrooms and told them what was happening; shortly afterwards we were all summoned to our (private) schoolÂ’s chapel to be briefed on what was happening and then distributed to various locations around campus to watch events unfold on tv.  The scenes looked surreal initially, like I was watching a movie.  But that quickly gave way to grief Â… and then rage at those responsible for the destruction and slaughter.

One of my former students was in the North Tower that morning, a 26-year-old young man who was an ice hockey player, an adrenaline junkie, and an irrepressible spirit with a contagious energy and optimism.  On 9/11/01 he was employed as a bond trader with Cantor Fitzgerald, engaged to a beautiful woman, and living his dream.  His was one of the first bodies recovered in the aftermath of the attacks. 

 

Later that afternoon the crystal-clear blue skies were eerily quiet without any air traffic except for the military jets that flew overhead from time to time.  The smoke from the twin towers rose like a cloud from the horizon.

 

I still feel the same shock and horror when I see video footage of that morning, especially shots of the second plane hitting the south tower. 

 

Never forget.

47 If you want to spend time with the rugrats, then at least teach them something about what 9/11 means.  I have no tolerance today for seeing it as just another day to have a feast.

48 Sitting outside as I type this is the Boston 'burbs. It's a little chilly, and there's not a cloud in the sky. Very reminiscent of 10 years ago in that respect.

49 They're showing Obama greeting family members now, with Laura Bush right next to him! What must be growing through her mind, as the man that so slanders her husband at every turn stands so close to her? As always, she is classy - a dignified, compassionate smile on her face, as opposed to the scowl we have all come to associate with Michelle. Happily, I don't see Michelle anywhere, wearing God-only-knows what hideous garment to make herself the subject of derision attention. You know what is most hideous about this anniversary? Watching the very same liberal politicians that began to plot on 9/12/2011 their return to power on the back of national tragedy through exploitation of the inevitable war weariness to come NOW stand there in front of these families, pretending to be something more than the political jackals they are.

50 Are you kidding me?
Posted by: dogfish

Which comment? Grandparents or GZ?

51 I sometimes wonder if the terrorists didn't "win," after all. If it wasn't for the wars that followed 9/11, would a Socialist ever been elected to power?

52 Sometimes when I'm drunk enough, I say my family came here from South America and claim to be an African American.. pasty white skin and all. Posted by: Johnny (John E.) at September 11, 2011 01:55 AM (nRTou) Haven't you heard about the Arab American kid that put down "African American" on his school application, since he came from Egypt? The school was not amused that he did not realized that "African" is just a polite way of saying "black," and kicked him out after they realized his "error."

53 As always, she is classy - a dignified, compassionate smile on her face, as opposed to the scowl we have all come to associate with Michelle.

Laura Bush is the absolute definition of a lady.

54 I was getting ready for work when my late father called to see if I had the news on.  I said no, why?, and he said that a plane had just hit the one of the WTC towers.  My Mom and Dad were both born on Long Island, and even though we had lived in Texas for thirty years by then, they always referred to New York as "back home," and Pop in particular still followed back-East politics and sports.

As I stood in front of the TV talking on the phone with him -- what kind of plane was it... they don't know yet ... how do you miss a building of that size? ... I don't know, maybe there was a mechanical failure or the pilot had a heart attack or something --  we watched the second plane make that fatal turn and crash into the other Tower.  The explosion was unbelievable, and the entire scene was surreal, like a movie but unfortunately all too real.

"Jesus Christ," he said.  "That's got to be terrorism, huh?" from me.  I told him I had to go, because I work at the top of a downtown building and I have to start getting in touch with my people because we were responsible for many others.  He asked me not to go to work, but I had to, and we shut it down early and released everyone who wanted to leave, which was pretty much everybody since the Pentagon had already been hit, Flight 93 had crashed and the Towers were coming down.  For as much damage as they did and as many people as they killed I kept thinking, what if they had done this even an hour later?  How many more people would have died?

Just thinking about it all seems like yesterday. 

55 Just thinking about it all seems like yesterday. 

Posted by: Blacksheep at September 11, 2011 08:23 AM (6eMKY)

It does, doesn't it?

56

God Bless America

NBC, on the other hand, can go to the devil. They wheeled in an 827 year old Tom Brokaw to tell us that the attacks changed America. No shit, Sherlock. Then Bri Williams took a stroll wif Barry outside the White House so King Puttz could tell us where he was. Buraq almost came off as human.

NBC can go jump in the lake.

57

I was taking my first night of call for a new practice in a new city in the west.  It was a stressful and disorienting night, traveling to several different hospitals to admit sick people.  The radio was keeping me company.  The report first came that a small plane had struck the World Trade Center. 

When I walked into our city's largest ER, there was a strange silence, every TV in every room tuned to the same scene.  People were stopped mid-task, staring mouths agape.  No one was moving, no one was talking.  Nurses were gathered in clusters staring in at the TVs hung in patient rooms.  If you've ever spent much time in a busy ER, you can image what a strange sight this would be. 

In my post-call night haze, I was still trying to wrestle with what kind of error would allow this to happen when one of the ER docs spoke prophetically "A lot of Americans are going to be dead by the end of the day and alot of Middle Easterners are going to be dead shortly after that."

I left my work, ran home to be with my husband and kids.  Nothing seemed more important at that moment in time.

 

58 God, it was such a beautiful morning that morning. Just perfect. And not just on the east coast, but all the way to Los Angeles. So beautiful. Pristine. Like a gorgeous photograph. And the . . . insanity to come. God, how could we have known? How could we have NOT known? There were stories in the media about the growing potential for huge terrorist attacks for at least a decade before 9/11. There were the embassy bombings. There was the USS Cole. No, the signs were there. We collectively chose to ignore them, because it was the easiser path. Just like we ignore nuclear Iran and North Korea today. I hope those chickens don't come home to roost in Our Time.

59 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2011 08:26 AM

Family member was -- and is -- watching NBC this morning. I saw part of the Brokaw and Williams/Obama segments.

Had to walk out of the room. I have not felt so much rage since 9/11/01.

Did we really "win" the war on terror? Right now, my answer is "no." When my blood pressure drops back down, I may change my mind.

60 I was getting breakfast for my kids, who were already sitting at the table, looking at the little TV on the kitchen counter. 

My 4-year-old was already a veteran pre-schooler, but it was the first day for the toddler, who was two and a half.

Once it was confirmed as a terrorist attack, it hit me that my youngest would not have  one day of school in her lifetime that we didn't have to worry about anything so bizarre as a terrorist attack.

61 I think nearly everyone had the same thought when the first plane hit "Oh God, what a horrible accident, that poor pilot and the air traffic controller must be about to eat a bullet."  Then the second plane hit.  I was watching the news when the second plane hit with about five other people at work and all of us said that same thing "It was bin Laden, it has to be." 

I remember the weather too.  Like Gabe said, it looked like a photograph.  When the towers fell, it looked like a movie.  There was a part of me that kept going "I'm asleep.  This is a dream.  This has to be.  This cannot be real.  Please, God, please let me be dreaming."

62 I still want their blood - the people who do it, the people who support it, the people who celebrate and pass out candy when it happens.

The funny thing is that the people who cry," let us understand them" believe that they are more compassionate than you.
Where is their compassion for the victims? They want us to treat terrorism like natural disasters and ignore the fact that it is murder.
Anger was the only proper response to the murder of 3000 of my fellow Americans.
And it still is.

63 When the JEF was elected, I took down my American flag, which I had normally flown daily.  I got a new one and put it away, vowing to fly it again when my countrymen came back to their senses.  I will make an exception and fly it today to show respect and remembrance to those who perished.

64

Morning everyone. For some reason this year it has make me think more about what happened, It's hard to find words for how I feel. On one side I am pissed, on the other side i'm  proud of the way America came togeather.

 

65 God Bless America.

66 There goes Mayor Blooming-idiot, fancying his political hack "words of wisdom" an adequate substitute for a Christian benediction.

67 I'm trying to watch the 102 minutes special that the A&E networks are showing.  It feels like penance. 

Every demand that we understand, every request that we tolerate and respect the members of that insane death cult, is spitting on the graves of those who were murdered. 

68 Now we know why Bloomy did not want clergy at the memorial ceremony.  The Reverend Barack is giving an invocation/Bible reading.

69 I had been up all night and was about to go to sleep (about 6 am west coast). I lay in bed, turned the radio to listen to Howard Stern and tried to doze off. I got sleepy and then got confused. It sounded like they were playing a replay of some old show - talking about hijacked planes. It didn't make sense. I kept listening and slowly waking up. What the hell was going on? I woke up, turned on the TV. It was a new world.

70 I was home in suburban Philadelphia with my young son. He was assigned to an afternoon kindergarten, and we were preparing to enjoy the beautiful morning. My husband called to tell me to turn on the television, that there had been an accident in New York. I was in time to see the second tower hit. I'd once worked in the WTC, on the 71nd floor, and had often gone for drinks with friends at Windows on the World. So the geography and layout of the Towers were familiar to me. I suddenly realized that my brother had had plans to be there that day. Called my sister in law who had had no word from him. She had seen the towers fall from her window. We spent the rest of that long day doing two things: shuttling people who could not get around because of the closure ot the train system to their homes, and frantically worrying about my brother. He finally emerged late that night, having escaped from the Towers but having to walk out of the city along with so many others via the Brooklyn Bridge. The immediate effect on me was galvanizing. I'd been politically active in my 20's but had set it aside to raise a family, earn a Ph.D, and teach. But on that day I vowed to not rest until these monsters had been brought down. I've never gone backwards from then.

71 While SCOAMF and his treacherous comrades seek to whitewash and make Americans forget the enemy, this 10th anniversary will thwart most of their efforts as the video footage brings it back.  Wonder if this administration thought that they'd be successful in cowing or finessing media outlets for today's remembrances?  The Lord does indeed work in mysterious ways.

72 As several commenters have reminded me, flags were difficult to come by right after 9/11. I managed to find one of those cling things that is a flag with under it the words 'We remember 9/11.' I put it in the window of the truck were it still is today.

73 That poor woman that just named her "beloved son.". I'm losing it... Just too sad.

74 Never Forget

75 Anybody else hear something about Bloomberg "considering whether the names of the victims need to be read at any more memorial ceremonies at GZ, since the names are on a plaque and all"...? (Which sounds almost criminal to me - yeah, the names are inscribed on the memorial. So? Read 'em anyway. Can't you spare even that much compassion, asshat?)

76 62 Posted by: kdny at September 11, 2011 08:43 AM (KxHDw)

Look no further than the reaction by the media to the audience regarding the question to Perry about executing 234 prisoners.  The left does not understand the concept of justice. 

77 76
Yeah, a lot of my friends who were reservists got calls that day, didn't see some of them again for a year or more. One of my husband's buddies was Chemical/Biological Weapons instructor for the Air Force Reserves, he was gone the next day.
Hubby had retired from the Marine Corps in 1998, he waited by the mailbox for a month for a recall letter. Never came - just as well, he hadn't run a pft in a while, if you know what i mean.

78  They want us to treat terrorism like natural disasters and ignore the fact that it is murder.

Posted by: kdny at September 11, 2011 08:43 AM (KxHDw)

I was about to say the same.  The memorial shows are all talking about this like it was an unavoidable natural disaster.  This was not an earthquake.  This was not a tsunamic.  This was the purposeful murder and mutilation of thousands of innocents because of a twisted death cult.

A dealth cult that hates women, Christians, Jews, Westerners and vows to destroy civilization.  A death cult that still sells Africans into slavery, still denies women basic human rights, still worships an evil god who demands human sacrifice.

9/11 was not an natural disaster.  9/11 was not an accident. 

This was not even the clash between two civilizations.  It is the clash between Civilization and the complete lack of civilization.

We do no favors to the victims of 9/11 or to the future victims of islamofascist ideology when we ignore the basic truth.

79 National Grandparents Day?

Who among us would intentionally show that much insensitivity?

What a Cold-Hearted Prick.

80 I love NYC, or at least the first responders who did make it there today. They just cheered for W, while they stayed silent for SCOAMF.

81 I was home sick from work that Tuesday. I had just finished watching an old "Time Tunnel" episode on SciFi (the Alamo one) and was going to watch the local weather report before the "Today Show" came back on. The image on the TV was fire coming out of the side of one of the towers. They were talking about how there were unconfirmed reports of a commuter plane hitting the tower. While they were saying this the second plane came into view.

82 National Grandparents' Day? Are you fucking kidding me? What a SCOAMF.

83 In loving memory.......................

84

Our response was and is too low-keyed for me. Afganistan should be glass. Pakistan should be a provence of India. Iraq, Iran, and the Arabian penisula should be occupied. Israel should be much bigger.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at September 11, 2011 08:59 AM (bZ8J6)

Amen, Beefy, Amen.

85 I might as well just bring the box of tissue to my desk....just getting one or two isn't cutting it....

86 My only wish was to see Bin Laden's head on a stick..

Thanks to SCOAMF, he was given a burial at see with honors.

I hate that man.   (you decide who I'm referring to)

87

PBS right now is featuring a segment on the widows of 9/11 who are raising money to help women in Afghanistan.  The rationale these women have is that "we are all women who have been terrorized by the Taliban."  They've built a community center that allows women a safe place to socialize, has some paying jobs (weaving), gives education and health care.

That is the response of a Christian nation. 

I'm still waiting for a convincing apology or outreach from Muslims appalled by radiacal islam's murders. 

** crickets chirping  **

88 Our response was and is too low-keyed for me. Afganistan should be glass.

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that Afghanistan should be a glittering glass bowl.. 

89

My wife was in Cleveland with her parents in early September 2001. They were supposed to fly back to Albany on Monday the 10th, but they delayed it a day. About 9:30 on Tuesday, we spoke on the phone. I remember saying "I don't know" many times, but in there I said something like "What I do know is that we're at war, a for-real war. Expect chaos at the airport. You might be waiting for hours, if they even let you fly home at all. Keep your rental car. You'll probably be driving home, and it's going to be a long trip."

The only other things that stand out from that day, personally speaking, are people I enountered at the store where I worked. One was an older lady, old enough to have gone through all of this before with the Nazis and the Japs. She was utterly confused. I tried to reassure her. Again, lots of I don't knows, but I said, "We're at war again. In wars nowadays, we spare the innocent -- but there will be hell to pay for whoever did this. I promise." I was in no position to make such a promise, but I did it anyway and I still stand by it.

Then there was a young couple who wondered out loud why it took so long for this to happen to a country that so deserved it. Not in the mood to fight fellow Americans that day, I kept my mouth shut. That's when I realized we had two wars on our hands.

God bless everyone lost that day. There must be a special place in Heaven for those who were going up the stairs to save people. A special Thank you to the heroes of 93.

90 @87: that they treated Osama's carcass with dignity according to Sharia law was disgusting. His remains should have been treated like Hitler's or any executed Nazi's: NO ceremony, just disposed of as human waste.

91 Liberal Progressive teach-in now underway at the World Trade Center site.  Michael (Bloomberg) row de boat ashore.  Kumbaya.

Meanwhile, let the rest of us pause to remember all those who died in that inferno, and give our thanks to all the rescue workers, the policemen and firemen,  the EMTs, the volunteer searchers, who worked there. 

92 While all the alphabets are showing the commemoration ceremony in NY, some of the other cable stations are showing something called 102 Minutes that Changed America. It is a compialtion of video from the time the first through the collapse of both towers.

The touchy-feely stuff is fine, but this is is what everyone should remember

93

Some of the notable images, at least to me, of this morning's coverage was the close-up of W holding Laura's hand, and when Mark Bingham's name was read, they squeezed their hands even tighter.

Also, an elderly woman in a wheelchair watched while a younger man made a pencil rubbing of one of the names engraved near the waterfalls.  He completed it, stood back to look at it with the woman, handed it to her and then hugged her.

94 It is a compilation of video from the time the first jet hit through the collapse of both towers.

FIFM

95
  Like a bunch of others, I was at work that day.We watched, transfixed, the events unfold.All the adults in our family during the following days donated blood, it was ALL we could DO to help.

 The intensity of emotion has never dwindled, it's always just below the surface. No way, no how will there be forgiveness or forgetfulness Don't want to rant, and I lack the vocabulary to adequately express myself here. 

  Not gonna post further, the banhammer would come out.

   So just have the best day possible, good people, catch y'all later on..

96 >> The touchy-feely stuff is fine, but this is is what everyone should remember Yes, that's on the History Channel(s) right now. I switched over to it around 9am.

97 God, we have to win. We have to.

I share this sentiment.  And it makes me angry that much of the problem with achieving victory is that so many, whom we would expect to be on our side of it, don't even recognize there is a conflict - let alone have the ability to identify just who it is that must lose.

98

As long as it's National Grandparents Day --

My great uncle was a Doughboy. I'm unclear on the details, but he did something that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, posthumously. Upon hearing what had happened, his younger brother (my grandfather) lied about his age so he could join the Army and kill Germans. Then the war ended and he never got the chance to avenge his brother.

They were both immigrants from Eastern Europe -- yet, no one who ever lived was more American. This is a truly great country.

>> God, we have to win. We have to.

Amen.

99 For me, the World Trade Center existed for six days. The first time I ever saw the towers was September 5. It was the end of the line for the E train, my subway stop for the first five mornings of my freshman year of high school. New country, new city, new school. I came up the subway stairs, looked back over my shoulder, and saw the biggest object I had ever seen in my life. Looked again, and there were two of them.

There was a buy-one-get-one-free Pizza Hut commercial running on TV at the time, where the punchline was a salesman telling Japanese investors that if they would buy one tower, they'd get the second for free. So all five times I came to school, my first thought when I looked up was "Buy one, get one free."

I was in first-period American History when the first strike rattled our windows. It wasn't until the second plane hit that they swept the school, pointed us north and simply and calmly told us to walk. Look after one another and walk. Don't stop, don't turn back, don 't look back. Walk. The most important thing you can do to help is to keep walking.

100 I'd thought I'd lost all the tears I had to shed over 9/11....  I was wrong.

Always Remember

101 Did they pass JOBS yet!!! Come on people! Jobs! Presidunce said we needs jobs passed - post haste!!

102 I have a new 3 month old daughter now, and as I'm watching the coverage I wonder; how do I tell her about this someday? How do I tell my child that psychopaths decided to slaughter 3,000 people because they lived in this country? How do I tell her that regular people were crushed, burned, or splattered when they chose to jump to their deaths? How do I tell her that millions of people hate her not because of who she is, but because of the country she was born in or the faith she was born into? Jesus Christ.

103 I'm watching the 120 Minutes special.  It is utterly, utterly devastating. 

I still want to do things that the Romans would find appalling in response. 

104 Yes, that's on the History Channel(s) right now.

I switched over to it around 9am.

Posted by: Andy at September 11, 2011 09:24 AM (z6jMn)

The shot they showed just a minute ago of people leaning out the windows of the upper floors is wrenching

105 Mark Steyn's article talks about how two firefighters that were among the first to get to the scene were killed by falling bodies.

Witnesses said they "exploded"

106 They reached out and snatched the heart right out of me. The helpless rage that was born that morning fills that place. And then they twisted the knife as they gathered in the streets and cheered and laughed and praised Allah for the great victory that he had given them. Fair enough then. I will start to forgive my enemies, and do the other things that we are admonished to do in the good book, right after I see the cities where those celebrations occurred burned to the ground.

107 My heart breaks and I'm angry all over again.  Yup, a box of tissue is required today. 

And to all of our Firemen, Police, men and women of our armed services, to all the volunteers and to the people who fought to have the memorial built at this site in NYC, Pennsylvania and DC, thank you.  Thank you. 

108 Jade, I may be a committed Christian - but the Muslims keep digging down towards my black Scots-Irish heart that smoked out Torys, exterminated the Cherokee, stood in long grey lines and bayoneted our cousins, and stood ADM watches on the Fulda gap - God help them if they find it.

109 I was living in LA at the time (transplanted NY'er), having coffee and checking e-mail. My dad called and I had never heard the tone of his voice so distressed. "Turn on the TV; a plane just hit the World Trade Center." I thought Cessna, but when I saw the gaping hole 5 stories wide I physically recoiled. So many thoughts; freak accident, crystal clear day, couldn't have been a private plane, they'll repair it in a few months. Then I watched as the second plane came in and screamed "war." Ironically, I had been in the city the week before for a family event. Every time I go, I act like a tourist and need my fix of the city before heading back to the wasteland of LA. I take the E train from Queens to the WTC terminal - and I always used to refer to it as "Ground Zero" since I walk from there up towards the Village. 9/4/01 - I got out at Chambers Street and for some strange reason felt compelled to look up at the towers, something most jaded New Yorkers would never do. I stared at them for about a minute, then turned and walked away. 9/11 was the worst day of my life. May we never, ever forget and to paraphrase Bull Halsey after Pearl Harbor: "When we finish with them, the only place Arabic will be spoken is in hell."

110

Jade Sea, 79: This was not even the clash between two civilizations. It is the clash between Civilization and the complete lack of civilization.

Very well put.

111 I remember coming home from college classes and Dad was home, because the FCC had closed. I asked for an update and he told me both towers had fallen. I remember those were the bitterest tears for people I didn't even know. "I still want their blood - the people who do it, the people who support it, the people who celebrate and pass out candy when it happens." - 5, Russ I have said those words almost verbatim, my brother.

112 a perfect day destroyed by muslim terrorists....families lost members on that day that will never be replaced....it is not something to ""get over" as some useful idiots think....it is something to avenge and prevent from happening again....

113 God, we have to win. We have to.

The thing I find most unforgivable today are the ROEs foisted upon the military by the politicians.

114 The shot they showed just a minute ago of people leaning out the windows of the upper floors is wrenching

The 911 calls from inside the Towers are.  I don't have the words.  I cannot imagine being the person at 911 taking those calls and trying to give hope in a hopeless situation.

God, there was a clip of guys saying they were joking around about did the Yankees win the Series again because there was so much paper it must be a ticker tape parade and then they looked out the window and saw what happened.

115 I just remembered the joyful look on the crowds of Palestinian faces as they celebrated the attacks that day. I hope their entire lives will be spent amidst the squalor of the slums of Gaza City that they so richly deserve.

116 115 The shot they showed just a minute ago of people leaning out the windows of the upper floors is wrenching For God's Sake, were there absolutely NO rescue helicopters available? You would think the city with the greatest number of skyscrapers in the world would have a fleet of those ready to go.

117 Insane hack Paul Krugman released a short column (linked on Drudge) saying that Bush, Giuliani and others "cashed in" on the 9/11 horror, and we should all know that in our hearts.

He won't allow comments to his screed, however, "for obvious reasons".

Eff you, Paul Krugman.  If you can't take the heat from the fire you start, put away the freakin' matches.

118 If our rage needs stoking, if you think all this claptrap with Bloomberg, Osama Obama and the rest of the "hey, it was rough, but let's move on" is somehow a worthy commemoration of the day, go see what that great patriot and all-around genius, Paul Krugman, writes.

WARNING: it's a New York Slimes link.

http://nyti.ms/puxmKs

On some occasions, my twisted little heart long for a reapplication of the "Alien and Sedition" laws. Some people simply need to be punished for the hatred they express. Especially when they are paid to advocate against our country.

119 Do you know how America commemorated the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, ? They didn't, this whole thing is getting maudlin. Just an excuse for a lot of people that have learned nothing about 9/11 or are willing to do anything about it to pretend it means something, fake being upset and wallow in victimhood. Ten years later and liberals haven't seen the truth about Islam but have further embraced it.
Good day to get some work done.

120 118 Insane hack Paul Krugman released a short column (linked on Drudge) saying that Bush, Giuliani and others "cashed in" on the 9/11 horror, and we should all know that in our hearts. This, from the American Left that so disgustingly exploited 9/11 beginning on 9/12 to eventually seize power in this country. I guess projection is the only thing that keeps them feeling human enough to keep from literally slithering on the ground.

121

Our memorials will mean nothing if we don't have the courage to stand in the face of one of the greatest evils in human history:

More people killed by islamists in 1 year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.*

Over 350 people killed by islamists in the last 2 months alone. *

The crimes done in allah's name in the last two months alone include shooting a 3 year old child (Iraq), slitting the throats of Christian parents in front of their children (Egypt), gang raping then murdering a Hindu woman (India), shooting workers at a rubber plantation (Thailand)), shooting a Christian parent and 10 year-old in the head and hacking to death a family of 9 including 7 children (Nigeria), bombing churches (Iraq and Egypt), bombing an opera house killing 26 (India), bombing a mosque killing 56 and injuring 126 more (Afghanistan), firing upon a wedding party (Afghanistan), hanging the 8 year old son of a dissident, beheading 2 hostages, kidnapping and raping Christian girls (multiple countries). *

This is not going to be over until it is over. 

This is madness all in the name of a god who demands human sacrifice. 

I do not believe it is a coincidence that the central theme of Judo-Christian religions is God's provision of the only acceptable sacrifice, sparing Abraham's son first, then sparing us all by the work done at the Cross.

All three are blood religions.  It's just a matter of whose blood needs to be shed.

*For references on the above data: religionofpeace.com

 

122

Today should have been an official Day of Prayer and Rememberance. For our president, it may be Grandparents' Day, not an unnoble sentiment, but it could have been postponed until next weekend.

The range of emotion I felt that day is still hard to put into words. What still enrages me is the words and actions of those "leaders" who would capitulate to our enemies.

I would hope that if we are ever hit again, the Middle East recieves a crushing blow that will show them they've awakened a sleeping giant. We could, if we chose to, send a message to our enemies that if you attack us, we will strke back in a way that will serve as a reminder never to do it again.

We could, if we chose to, end this War on Terror very quickly and restore more peace to the world. Our enemies should fear us, and this war will continue until they do. Force is what they understand, and until we show it as we've shown it previously to others who sought world domination, we are emboldening them.

We will continue to have terrorism with us until we decide we've had enough. Why shouldn't we execute every Guantanamo "detainee?" We are well within our rights to do so under the Geneva Conventions, dealing as we are with non-uniformed enemy combatants who target innocent civilians. The fact that we aren't doing this is a dereliction of our duty to the world.

Where is our will to win and to defeat a barbaric enemy who has shown itself to be far less than human? Why must we tolerate evil when it can be handily defeated? "It brings us down to their level" is the popular, effete, typically leftist pacifist response. And that sentiment makes sense, how again? Are you sinking to the level of the robber in defending your home and family? I rather doubt it.

123 Good day to get some work done.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 11, 2011 09:40 AM (GZitp)

You could have gone and done some work without ever posting that.

124 I was living in Chicago and had the local cable news channel on while getting ready to go to work.  When they mentioned a plane ad struck the WTC I switched to Fox just in time to see the second plane hit.   

That evening it was eerie.  My view was looking north over lack Michigan.  Every clear evening I could see plane after plane descending to land on the east-west runways at O'Hare.  That night the sky was clear- and completely  empty.

125 Watching the Lifetime Movie Net HD, The 102 Minutes That Changed America.

It's awful, but well done.

I remember.

I will NOT forget.

126 Some people simply need to be punished for the hatred they express. Especially when they are paid to advocate against our country. Posted by: MrScribbler at September 11, 2011 09:39 AM (YjjrR) EXACTLY. Aren't Liberals down with prosecuting Thought Hate Crimes, after all?

127 Posted by: Tami at September 11, 2011 09:42 AM (X6akg)

Thank you, that's far better than how I was going to respond. 

128 Posted by: TXMarko at September 11, 2011 09:39 AM (bdZR3 I read it. Wow, things must be really BAD in Krugman's world right now. And we know they are.

129 Sorry, I'm still fuming that the Midget Mayor and the Emperor Obama banned all the first responders and any clergy from today's events. There were "more important" people they had to accommodate, apparently.   And Shep Smith jabbering on Fox?  Travesty.  Thanks for the tip on the History Channel program, by the way.  I hope they allowed all the family members who wanted to attend into  the memorial park, and not just a select few.

130 130 Sorry, I'm still fuming that the Midget Mayor and the Emperor Obama banned all the first responders and any clergy from today's events. All I can figure is that they wanted to downplay 9/11 as an act of war, as opposed to a natural disaster of some sort. The fewer uniform the better in their view.

131 You know what's maddening...Jamie Gorelick allowed this to happen.

...then she went on to become vice-chairman of Fannie Mae, a job for which she had no training or experience,  where she made $26 million...and she allowed the blow up of the economy to happen.

There is a definitely a link there

132

You could have gone and done some work without ever posting that.

Posted by: Tami at September 11, 2011 09:42 AM (X6akg)

What it's the American way to cry and wring my hands? Since when? I know what 9/11 was, mass murder brought to us by Islam. So I'm supposed to listen to a bunch of speeches telling me we can't speak ill of these people? That's how we commemorate those murdered?

133 Posted by: Tami at September 11, 2011 09:42 AM (X6akg) heh, heh, heh.

134 Really Krugman? How did they "cash in" on 9/11 compared to how you profited from Enron, you self-loathing miserable fuck? Making a self-serving ass out of yourself on this day is a new low point; but one I'm confident you'll soon exceed.

135 121 This, from the American Left that so disgustingly exploited 9/11 beginning on 9/12 to eventually seize power in this country.

Agreed.  They happily stood on the Capitol steps, wrapped themselves with the flag and sang songs whose words they cannot understand, much less remember without help.  Scumbags.

136 I week before it happened i was in NY visiting my family, walked the Brooklyn Bridge with them rested for minute looked up at the Twin T's, I didn't have a good feeling and prayed. I was at work, heard on the radio then coworker mentioned TV news it didn't look right, and then I watched second plane hit, i knew terrorist. As a former Brooklyn, NYer I was shocked and peeved. Unfortunately a family friend was in one of the towers and perished that awful day. Unbelivable

137

What it's the American way to cry and wring my hands? Since when? I know what 9/11 was, mass murder brought to us by Islam. So I'm supposed to listen to a bunch of speeches telling me we can't speak ill of these people? That's how we commemorate those murdered?

Posted by: lowandslow at September 11, 2011 09:47 AM (GZitp)

You are not required to listen to anything...you aren't required to come here and shit on people who want to listen who want to remember, however painful it might be.  So go....quit posting...you apparently have work to do, go do it.

138 A military buddy of mine made an interesting point; that as terrible as the attacks were, they most likely saved lives in the long term. Without the 9/11 attacks, the Bush Administration probably would have focused on a domestic agenda and not overhauled our national security. The attacks prompted Bush to more or less unleash America's security apparatus and let the military rip al-quaeda a new one. That may well have prevented something even more catastrophic. That is no consolation to victims' families, of course, but if one is going to strain to find something good to come of it, that may be it.

139 124 Good day to get some work done.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 11, 2011 09:40 AM (GZitp)

I was thinking lowandslow meant wet work.  But that is just me....

140 Wow..I have never seen most of the video in 102 Minutes ...amazing and heart-breaking

..that guy with the look of pure terror, completely covered in dust, running up the steps to his GF or wife..or sister whatever...OMG

141 unfortunately i did not pray long enough.

142 "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hand, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats" --H.L. Mencken.

Aces banner reminds me everyday that the bastards responsible for 9-11 have yet to have their throats slit.

143 @ 132   There is definitely a link there

Yep -- every institution we have has become infested with America-hating radical leftists, a triumph of their Gramscian long march through the institutions.   It's a situation not even the Orkin man would touch at this point.

144 141 Wow..I have never seen most of the video in 102 Minutes ...amazing and heart-breaking

I havent either. The whole morning has been heartbreaking to me and I have a tuff old heart to break.

145 I was working at a golf course up here in South Western BC on Sept 11, 2001. As mechanic I worked in the maintenance building. A little after 5 am I started hearing reports on the radio about the situation in NY and I relayed the details over the work radio to the crew out on the course. After a while I noticed that there were no planes flying over any more -- except for two F-18's on afterburner. They are normally not allowed to go supersonic over the city, but I found out much later that they were dispatched to escort a passenger jet into CYVR that had some sort of problem and very nearly got shot down. I did not actually see what had occurred until later that day when I came home from work and turned on the TV. I just sat there and wept like a baby. Still brings tears to my eyes to think of that day. I found out a day later that my cousin was in tower 2 when the plane hit, but got out ok. She has been a wreck ever since. My prayers are with the victims and all of my American brothers and sisters who mourn their honoured dead. God bless the United States of America.

146 Mr. Krugman uses this day to indict his hated "capitalists" and bemoan the lack of national unity. He then prevents any comment to his healing words. Does the NYT have no shame? They are cowards and thieves. They wish to steal the objective message of 9/11 for their 1930s utopian dream. Very progressive.

147 I was on line that AM. The leftists were the first to blame the Jews and/or Bush. My disgust with the corrupt modern prog democrat left will never stop.

148 We didn't get to go home, expecting patient transfers in order  to make room in hospitals out east.
We were sent home that evening. There were no patient transfers coming, they were all dead.

149

Beautiful day also on the East Coast of Florida. I was working from home and saw Yahoo newsline re: "small" plane hitting WTC. Blue skies, I thought it odd. My husband's uncle has a high-rise apt in Battery City, a couple of blocks from the WTC. I thought of him and did not want to wake my mother-in-law (who is a chronic worrier) in the Rockies, so I called my sister-in-law on Mountain Time and said, turn on tv, let us know when you know if uncle is impacted by this, etc. While we were talking we saw the second plane hit the WTC. I immediately said, "I have to go now and call husband, this is war." I had no idea who the war was with, but felt it was the same as the attack on the U.S. Cole, etc.

I called: husband (who came home by the time the next plane hit the Pentagon), my college son three hours away (and told him to stay home from classes that day....youngest son was safe in high school that day); and then I called my Dad, WWII Marine South Pacific. I asked Daddy if he was watching tv and he said yes. I then said, "I now understand." I understood what their generation felt after Pearl Harbor.

I will never forget this day, the heroes, and the short-lived spirit of unity of the USA. I will also never, ever, forgive these savage barbarians who are now burning in the bowels of hell. We will defeat radical Islam.

The impressions that will live with me forever are the second plane hitting the tower in real time; the first tower collapsing (my knees buckled: this was too much to bear...the thought of tens of thousands dying before my eyes); and the NYPD and NYFD heroes rushing inside these buildings prior to collapse. Prayers. When word came of the Pentagon: shock.Then word came, after my husband was home, of "missing planes." Fear.

Anger followed the shock and grief that same day. Pride---huge pride in how Mayor Guiliani and President Bush handled the attack. Tears witnessing Congress sing "God Bless America." I cried off and on for days when my son was not around. I'd just started getting back to the "new" normal after a day or so when I saw a news show of the rescue dogs (we had a golden at the time who took a piece of my heart when he died). Anyway, the sight of those rescue dogs, who were getting depressed not finding survivors, and the doggies wearing booties to protect their paws from the burning towers, brought fresh grief.

Here in Florida, during the first day, our hospital was prepared to receive the wounded. Massive triage was planned. All across America other hospitals waited for the first mass casualties who would not come. That is something many of you may not know, the country was waiting, quickly, to help, not just in sending rescue workers, or blood drives, but in receiving the wounded.

May God always bless the United States of America, and may our merciful God protect our military in harm's way today and always. May God protect America from futher attacks. May God bless President Bush for his leadership during that time. And may God comfort those who lost loved ones that day.

That day did change America. It changed me profoundly.

 

150 I hope their entire lives will be spent amidst the squalor of the slums of Gaza City that they so richly deserve.

Video of the Palestinians celebrating 9/11.  There are no words.

151 One of my strongest memories of that day is seeing shots of the doctors and nurses and other medical personnel waiting for all the casualties that never came. 

152 Really today is grandparent's day. Wow, a a trifecta for my mom, it's also her birthday (and yes I will call her in a few minutes).

I was and still do work in downtown NYC. I remember getting out of the subway by Federal Plaza and as I walked to my office, I could smell the burning building which, given how beautiful it was out, it made me look up and I saw a huge gash in the WTC where the first plane had hit moments before and papers blowing out of the gash in the WTC.

153 I remember the time before the attack, Islam was not our friend then, more-so is the hatred they feel towards the West now.

Personally, if they all disappeared today it would still not be enough to wash away the pain and suffering that religion and its adherents have brought  to the world.

But today is a day to remember those killed in the attacks on that day, so remember and do not forget who killed them.

154

Anti-capitalists should not be allowed to partake in capitalism. They should all give up ALL modern conveniences and wander into the wilderness until dead.

155  I know what 9/11 was, mass murder brought to us by Islam. So I'm supposed to listen to a bunch of speeches telling me we can't speak ill of these people? That's how we commemorate those murdered?

Posted by: lowandslow at September 11, 2011 09:47 AM (GZitp)

I know how you feel.  I don't think that the politically correct should keep the rest of us from remembering in the way we chose, however.

Without the 9/11 attacks, the Bush Administration probably would have focused on a domestic agenda and not overhauled our national security. The attacks prompted Bush to more or less unleash America's security apparatus and let the military rip al-quaeda a new one. That may well have prevented something even more catastrophic.

Posted by: UGAdawg at September 11, 2011 09:50 AM (H6JHE)

We'll never know this side of heaven how things would have been otherwise. It's a blessing that Libya turned over its nuclear program and allowed destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles under Bush in 2004. What was happening in Irag is probably the only reason for the sudden cooperation.

  Not that they didn't lie and try to hang onto weapons - just the less the better given the chaos going on there now. 

156

Ugh. Have to relive the horror of that day, which is bad enough. Open up the paper and have to relive the horrors of all the hackneyed liberal tropes about the war on terror.

Droppedtheball, iraqhasnothingtodowith911, warwillonlymakemoreterrorists, et al.

All the self aggrandizing wankery from these turds cant change one basic fact. Not ONE single significant terrorist attack on american shores since 9-11.

Not ONE. God bless the US military. And God bless George W. Bush. If he hadnt been president on that day, who knows where the fuck we'd be now.

 

157 Irag= Iraq dammit

158 My google-fu isn't strong so I can't find the story to refresh my memory of the details but there was a dispatcher who refused to let the trains stop at the WTC very soon after the first plane hit. He insisted they had to continue on and then soon stopped letting them run at all. He was later credited with saving thousands of lives, those who didn't enter the towers because the trains didn't stop and those who were not trapped underground on trains.

159 Oh and if anyone hasn't switched search engines yet, check out google and then check out bing. 

Krugman can go fuck himself. 

160 Much as today really ought not be about politics, well, the asshole brought it on himself...

Douchebag + Coward == Paulie Krugnuts

DIAF, Krugman. Slowly. Painfully. And then enjoy your well deserved afterlife in hell, scumbag.

161 CNN had a special last night where they got the reactions, as they recalled them, of various people "related" to the event like Guliana, Bush, the fire chief etc.

They also felt the need to include "celebrities" for some reason.

One of them was Rosie O'Donnell....no shit

162 Paul Krugman could flat out call Obama a n!gg*r and still have a job the next day. Every institution in America that contributes to our greatness, our decency, our sense of fairness and opportunity............is DESPISED by the left. You can get angry over what Krugman wrote, but imagine yourself in his shoes. How shitty and desolate must your life be to wake up this morning......the 10th anniversary of 9-11............and have Krugman's thoughts running through your head? I'd much rather be where I am.

163 @153

Yes.  

...And all those gray, ghostly people, covered with ash, walking dazedly up the West Side Highway (I think it was), and the dead priest (sorry, I forget his name) being carried out of the building -- he had been in their giving the last rites to the firemen and other rescuers as they ran up the stairs..

164 Oh and if anyone hasn't switched search engines yet, check out google and then check out bing.

I won't even bring up the Google home page. I quit using them a long time ago

165 Does anyone know if 102 minutes will be on later or on youtube, missing it and can't find it on TV later?

166 You know what's maddening...Jamie Gorelick allowed this to happen.

...then she went on to become vice-chairman of Fannie Mae, a job for which she had no training or experience,  where she made $26 million...and she allowed the blow up of the economy to happen.

There is a definitely a link there

Posted by: beedubya at September 11, 2011 09:46 AM (AnTyA)

No one is ever held responsible.  For anything.  I thought of the irony yesterday when President Pant Load said we owed thanks to W and Ebola for keeping us safe this past decade.  I was screaming at the TV:  Because YOU let the ball get rolling with your pansy-ass response in Mogadishu and the first WTC bombing? 

And if you missed it, there was a report on the (radio) news the other day that the thinking is that Gorelick's wall needs to be strengthened.  Can you believe it?  I thought I was living in an alternate universe. That woman needs to be hounded about this until her dying day.

167 Not if Paul Krugman has anything to do with it:

Krugman writes this morning:

Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons."

168 164.   Apologies for typo.  Should read  "he had been in there giving.."

169 153 One of my strongest memories of that day is seeing shots of the doctors and nurses and other medical personnel waiting for all the casualties that never came.

I remember the first reports saying as many as 50,000 may have been killed murdered

170 Does anyone know if 102 minutes will be on later or on youtube, missing it and can't find it on TV later?

Posted by: jaimo at September 11, 2011 10:08 AM (L5Jes)

My Cablevision guide shows it being repeated at 9pm.  But the History Channel has programs on all day long about 9/11.

171 Does anyone know if 102 minutes will be on later or on youtube, missing it and can't find it on TV later?

It's repeating on History Channel at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) and I think it's up on youtube as well. 

172 I wonder how long Slim the Mexican will allow Krugman to soil his American investment?

173

NBC needs to die in a fire. Talk about politicizing an event. I mean, I knew they would but it's still too much to take.

They need to show those people jumping out of the building. They showed it that morning and then never again. I know some people might have a problem with that, but it needs to happen. People need to see that to have the horror burned into their brains. Hiding the horror makes people forget about it.

Death to America's enemies.

174 Paul Krugman is obviously a gifted attention-whore.

175 No surrender. No retreat. No negotiation. I still want their blood - the people who do it, the people who support it, the people who celebrate and pass out candy when it happens. Cluster bombs, fuel/air explosives, blockbusters, bullets, bayonets. I don't care. Their "culture" must be crushed. Amen x 100. I used to say we just have to wait for a President who will draw the sword for real, and then it's over. But now I want us to do it ourselves, somehow, because the government never will.

176 Thank you alexthechick.  Appreciate it.

177 Jaimo@166: 102 Minutes reruns at 9pm and again at 1am on History Channel..

178 #163 Well put, Spiker; that asshole is projecting how "we" must think because he knows he's running an unsustainable con and rationalizes that everybody else is. Pinch's ship of fools is circling the bowl and doomed to ultimate failure. That cocksucker has a higher net worth in strictly monetary terms than me but I wake up in the morning not hating myself and I look forward to the future with optimism, no matter how bad things are under the SCoaMF.

179 I can't remember who attacked us.  I was hoping after watching the services this morning, that I would hear.  But, so far... nothing.

180

That priest they carried out was Mychal Judge, if I remember correctly, an admitted homosexual - celibate but having admitted to close friends a homosexual orientation.

If he had lived in Iran, they would have hung him from a lamp post.

In America, after a decades of service, he gave his life delivering last rites to fallen comrades, trying to comfort and help during one of the worst tragedies in our history.

Two world views.  Two outcomes for a human life.

To me that is what 9/11 is all about.

181

And if you missed it, there was a report on the (radio) news the other day that the thinking is that Gorelick's wall needs to be strengthened.  Can you believe it?  I thought I was living in an alternate universe. That woman needs to be hounded about this until her dying day.

Posted by: RushBabe at September 11, 2011 10:09 AM (tQHzJ)

...and Gorelick was actually on the 9/11 Commission Cover Up ...INVESTIGATING OTHER PEOPLE!!!

182

Thanks Little Miss Spellcheck.  I was really moved by your "six days experience" with the World Trade Towers.

I've lived on the east coast all my life and haven't been that close to them.  Only saw from a distance.

183 I was in college. Woke up, saw lots of people hanging around the TV, thought nothing of it. When I learned what had happened, I wanted to join up. The next two months of libtards on campus doing their usual thing taught me that it wasn't worth it.

184

Yeah, Gorelick was on the Commission. That right there was evidence that the government wasn't going to take this seriously. We've been playing patty cake with the thugs ever since.

It's time to take the gloves off and deliver a killing blow.

185

9/11 was only good for us in one respect......it's aftermath showed which people in this country were Americans, and which were the Democrats.

 

I will never forget those former Americans who declined to stand with us in the aftermath.  They stood with us for 10 minutes when the political winds forced them to, and acted the craven as soon as they could.

 

If they think I'll ever stand with them again, no matter WHAT happens, they're incorrect.

Think I'm lying?  Come ask me my reaction after the next blue state suffers an attack.  To my mind, attacking a blue state is like terrorists attacking France. Not my problem.

 

186 Apologies if this has already been said, but it bears repeating:

Paul Krugman can go fuck himself with a rusty chainsaw! What a horrible person!  (Check out the sidebar).

187 153 One of my strongest memories of that day is seeing shots of the doctors and nurses and other medical personnel waiting for all the casualties that never came. Posted by: alexthechick at September 11, 2011 10:00 AM (Gk3SS) Exactly. One of several images/scenes that most haunt me. Also the people jumping out of the towers, and the posters of the missing and the desperate families days afterwards. Looking out my window now at the new tower, not even a mile away. That was the worst day of my life.

188 I happened to be a passenger on my husband's retirement flight from Paris to Chicago. Diverted to Newfoundland for 5 days.  Stuck on plane for security reasons for 12 hours.  Only had BBC audio feed on the plane (no video). Finally saw video at 2am. The first sight of the planes hitting was like getting  punched in the gut and having all the air sucked out of the room.  Still is to this day.  God Bless all of our troops who've brought the fight to them. And may He continue to Bless America.

189 Oh and if anyone hasn't switched search engines yet, check out google and then check out bing. 

Krugman can go fuck himself. 
Posted by: alexthechick

Jeeze Oh Petes..

Bing gets it right..

And that could never be said enough about krugman..

190

Think I'm lying?  Come ask me my reaction after the next blue state suffers an attack.  To my mind, attacking a blue state is like terrorists attacking France. Not my problem.

I've considered this too. You can't save people who can't, or won't, save themselves. You really shouldn't try because it only reinforces the bad behavior.

The problem is that there are plenty of good people who have to live in those places because of family or work. Real Americans, and loyal patriots. I don't want to write them off just because they happen to live in a liberal cesspool (although I wish they would move out here!).

191 #120  I am 100% with you on that. But we need to remember that we fought total war in those days. We didn't step around smashing the will of our enemy. I would be overjoyed if we were considering some kind of Marshall Plan for the Islamic world today, 10 years after we had systematically destroyed the ability of our enemies support networks to flush a toilet, cook meat, light a room, or find an un-rubbled spot to put down a prayer rug. They say we have gone insane, that we are mean to one another because of this thing. Well, yes, needing to stomp them like a bug and not doing that will tend to make one, or all, just conflicted as hell.

192

PS- I'll give Barack credit for one thing:

 

ON THIS DAY, I AM VERY HAPPY THAT SCUM BIN LADEN AND MANY OF HIS COHORTS HAVE BEEN PUT IN THE GROUND.

 

LETS PUT SOME MORE IN...........especially those Palistinians whooping and passing out candy on that day.

193 186

9/11 was only good for us in one respect......it's aftermath showed which people in this country were Americans, and which were the Democrats.

---

Pretty much what I've always thought, but more about Bush.

Bush succeeded in outing the enemies within.

194 Shut up, I explained.

Speech for me, but not for thee.

195

The problem is that there are plenty of good people who have to live in those places because of family or work. Real Americans, and loyal patriots. I don't want to write them off just because they happen to live in a liberal cesspool (although I wish they would move out here!).

 

 

>>> Fair and true.  In that time I will have to mourn for those good people, and not give a thought for the rest. But if that unhappy day ever comes, not a single cent, not a single soldier, not a single breath of recrimination will I support to be used to avenge another blue-state attack.

 

Let the libs clean up their own mess.

196

Remember this?  I think it looks like bin Laden.

 

197 Krugman is an evil little yard gnome, and I hope he gets raped to death by a mountain lion.

198 9/11

A day with skies of Robin's Egg
And higher up the Cobalt burned
Standing in the windowed sky
She watched the fatal, final turn

The light reflecting from the wings
Shielding glass that held their faces
Eyes were met as death approached
Frozen, in fate's final places

Quickly Prayers escaped the lips
And in the hearts of these so bound
God's Will the moment soon divided
With Spirits leaving mortal ground

They watch us now, the dear departed
And those who Satan's will employed
Released the Genie of despoilment
The aim, all freedom be destroyed

We will endure this newer fight
And in the end of all man's time
Escape the grasp of evil tyrants
Our resting place the true sublime

199 Posted by: UGAdawg at September 11, 2011 10:31 AM (H6JHE)

Why would you wish that on that poor mountain lion?

200 History Channel is now showing the Miracle of Stairway B.

201 And Krugman moves down to the Jane Fonda list ...

202 I live less than 2 hours away from Shanksville, Pa., almost on the Maryland line. There is a TACAN tower just a few miles from my home on top of the mountain which is a guidance tower for aircraft, so naturally there are a constant stream of contrails both east to west (and back) across the sky. After it was announced that a 4th airplane was heading towards DC, I climbed on the roof of the house with binoculars and watched the western sky for any sign. It was then and especially the next week or so that I noticed no contrails in the sky for the first time in my life. Having served in the Marines, Army Reserve and Pa. Nat'l, Guard, I was confident who was behind the attacks and felt miserable for being too old to go back in. And it was the lonliest feeling standing there....no air traffic, knowing what was about to become for the newest generations of Marines.

203 The stupidest fucking attack on Bush was the whole "My Pet Goat" thing. To me, it showed incredible backbone and control of his emotions. He thought to act as if nothing happened to keep the kids from getting upset.

There was nothing he could do anyway.

He acted according to protocol. The first action of the Secret Service was to assume the POTUS was under attack. They had him in a building and situation that they had already vetted and there was a ring of protection around that.

They then had to determine if there were any threats immediately outside that zone before they could move him....and then progressively all the way to the "bunker".

..but John Kerry...Mr.Danger himself , was one of the biggest loudmouths about the infamous seven minutes Bush spent keeping the kids calm, but he said he was panicked, frozen, paralyzed and couldn't think for forty minutes after it happened.

204 I lived in Baltimore at the time. Most of my friends' parents worked in Washington DC. The media had stories about bombs at the NSA, CIA, and of course reporting on the towers and pentagon. Very crazy. We had strict rules in our high school on cell phones, but those went out the window. School ended up shutting down within 2 hours of the announcement. Cell phone lines still jammed. It was incredible, but almost like a slow-motion panic.

205 [Paul Krugman is a demented, less-than-human, pathetic piece of shit. Not that it really needs to be said, but saying it is fun.)

On 9/11 I was working away in my office in Bethesda, MD, just outside of DC. We didn't have access to a TV, so we sat together huddled around a radio listening to the coverage like they might have in 1941...WTC destroyed, Pentagon burning, rumors of a truck bomb at the State Department and the Capitol, rumors of more hijacked planes on the way, fear and confusion everywhere. The air filled with military helicopters, some on patrol, but many headed back and forth to Bethesda Naval Hospital right down the street, bringing in casualties. When the Metro re-opened in the afternoon and I was riding back home in Virginia, I saw the plume of black smoke rising from the Pentagon. I saw the video from NYC when I got home.

I hate them: the barbaric, devil-worshiping filth who planned and carried out the attacks; the Muslims who continue to act like it wasn't their "relgion's" fault and act like they are the true victims; and all the alleged American citizens who blame their own country for 9/11, the Truthers, and the Muslim-fondling apologists. I hate them, I won't forgive, and I'm not sorry.

206 I think we need to categorize SCOAMF, kind of like Emmys or Golden Globes.
Paul Krugman and Hanoi Jane should have their own categories for medals.

207

Earlier comment said more applause for President Bush than The one when they arrived at the WTC Memorial by firefighters in crowds near the memorial. That may be the reason the first responders were not allowed by Bloomberg in audience? They wouldn't want Barky to feel slighted, I guess. Still cannot figure out why Bloomberg would not allow clergy.

I am reading memorials here and a few other places but will only watch the Bush special on National Geographic later tonight. In the past I saw the 911 film by the two independent French guys who were with the NYC fire company. That was heart-wrenching enough (the police Lt in the film is a distant cousin of my husband's, the Lt's own brother was killed and there is a brief shot of the two of them shaking hands in the WTC). My husband had three first-cousins that day who should have been on duty in NYC: one a police detective, and two firefighters. The did go in after the attacks,and phone lines were so bad that it took over 48 hours to know if they were safe.

I simply cannot watch the current president, but will watch President Bush's speech today Miss 80's Baby linked to last night (at the Flight 93 Memorial yesterday). As others have said, thank God for President Bush.

208 "I was on line that AM. The leftists were the first to blame the Jews and/or Bush. My disgust with the corrupt modern prog democrat left will never stop." While scanning the web for news that morning, I went to slashdot to see if anyone had posted firsthand accounts of what was happening. The handwringing had already started when the towers collapsed. I reviewed some of those comments this morning, and the seeds of the anti-American vitriol of the next seven years are there.

209 Unless they dig up his body, I missed the boat with Che..

But I can always shag Paul Krugman so I have that going for me. 

210 I was sleeping in because I had taken the day off to pack as my husband and I were to leave the next day for a 2-week vacation in Maine. I was awake, still in bed and listening to news radio when I heard them report the first "accident". I called my mother and told her I didn't think it was an accident. I turned the TV news and watched when the second plane hit.

My company had the 3rd most casualties in the Towers and although I worked out of another office, I knew those in my group and I had just been to their offices in the South Tower a month before. My husband & I drove to Maine a few days later to try to salvage some sort of vacation but there was a dark cloud (literally & figuratively) over us the entire time. The sun did not come out once, I never found out if it was ash from NYC. I ended up spending several hours of each day in the public library using the internet, searching for word of my Aon friends. None of them made it. We ended up coming home after 6 days, we were both so depressed & anxious.

Prior to 9-11, I hadn't read a newspaper or watched TV news in 15 or more years. Since that day, I haven't missed a day of news now via the web. Prior to 9-11, I had been an avid novel reader, reading 2-3 novels a week since I was a young girl. Since 9-11, I have read exactly 9 novels. There is something inside me that makes me feel like this happened because I wasn't paying attention, that if only I hadn't been filling my mind with trivial things I could have prevented it. Of course, I realize it's nonsense but it is what it is.

211 The stupidest fucking attack on Bush was the whole "My Pet Goat" thing. To me, it showed incredible backbone and control of his emotions. He thought to act as if nothing happened to keep the kids from getting upset.

Shockingly, I think it was Yahoo News that yesterday ran a feature about the kids who were in that classroom that day.  Ten years later, they all said they were grateful for his ability to remain calm, finish the story and take his leave without getting upset or upsetting them.  Wonder how the libs liked that?

212 The attacks really opened my eyes to a lot of things. I was a naive 16yo who thought death and destruction on that scale was something that happened to other people. That all changed as my friends and I watched the second plane hit and (later) the Towers fall. At that time, over 30,000 people were thought to have died and over a dozen airplanes were supposedly missing. It was so obviously deliberate and my heart just hurt for my country and those who had lost their lives. The entire experience opened my eyes to a lot of things and I'll never forget the stories of sacrifice and the lessons about Islam.

213 One thing that always gets to me when I watch reruns of the Sopranos is the opening. About 6 seconds into it Tony looks at New York, through his eyes you see the Towers............ The later seasons you see it through his eyes and they are gone. That mkes me think of this day everytime.

214 A very simple realization came to me this morning while I was reading the comments here.  This is why we have to elect Rick Perry, not Mitt Romney.  And it's not because of where they come from, but of the type of men they are.

215 One thing that always gets to me when I watch reruns of the Sopranos is the opening. About 6 seconds into it Tony looks at New York, through his eyes you see the Towers............ The later seasons you see it through his eyes and they are gone. That mkes me think of this day everytime.

Whatever Spiderman it was that was opening in 2002 I think had released a trailer a few weeks before that showed a helicopter getting caught in a web strung between the Towers.  Obviously, that was yanked as fast as possible. 

216 My sister called and woke me up and said the World Trade Tower just collapsed.  I turned on the tv and saw the second plane hit the second tower and the world shifted on its axis and nothing will ever be the same.

RIP, those who perished that day.

May God grant comfort to their families and loved ones.

We will never forget.






And Paul Krugman is an abomination.

217

Do you all remember at the end of the reading in the classroom, when Bush got up, all the press in the back of the room started going apeshit and Bush waved his arm at them to shut the F up until he could get to a makeshift press room.

Other than the towers coming down, the one picture that stays with me is the look on Bush's face after Andy Card whispers in his ear.  I think that look of anger sums up how I still feel 10 years later.

 

218 9/11 didnt shake my faith in America, appointing Jamie Gorelick to the commission did.

219 Well, we had to have Jamie Gorelick there, she had to protect Bill Clinton's ass.  Who, in my opinion, in hindsight, is most culpable in this tragedy.

220 Aces banner reminds me everyday that the bastards responsible for 9-11 have yet to have their throats slit.

OBL - fish food.
AZ - still on the to-do list.
KSM - @Gitmo til his turban rots off.
Tens of thousands of AQ(etc., etc.) dead from a long list of US capabilities and bad hygiene but mostly JDAMs.

God, we have to win. We have to.

We are, we will.

221

I wasn't sure if I could do it this year or not, but I did a blog post - mostly for my children, who are now old enough to be told what their mom was feeling that day:

http://is.gd/GAjosm

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years.....

222

Posted by: alexthechick at September 11, 2011 10:53 AM (Gk3SS)

I'll take your word on that. But in a fight who would you rather have on your side?

Tony,Sil, and Pauly, or Spiderman.........its kinda like a longbow/crossbow thing.

223 "God, we have to win. We have to." I agree completely. But even on this day of days, I'm still thinking about Obama and his minions when I say that.

224 My mama called me up to tell me a plane had just crashed in to the WTC in NYC, and that they thought it was an accident, but it didn't look like an accident to her, and I'd better stay home for the day. (I worked at the WTC in Long Beach at the time)

I waited til 9 o' clock to see if the WTC in Chicago got hit, and went in anyway. The president of our company called in and was horrified that a few of us had showed up, and told us to go home immediately.

I can remember hearing that a small plane had crashed on the lawn at the Pentagon, and telling my husband it was ironic that it happened on the day of a  terrorist attack on NYC; didn't even occur to me that it was part of the attack.

I am still angry. I get angrier every year. The contrast between the man in charge then and the tool in charge now doesn't help any.

But I take a great deal of comfort knowing that Americans haven't let this shit change our way of life, over reaching security measures and laws aside.

And through my tears, I watch and listen to the stories of American Flight 93 and realize that those people gave us what I think is America's finest hour; that they embody everything that makes us uniquely American...the courage, the refusal to back down EVER, and the sheer cussedness, ingenuity and can-do spirit that allowed a group of people looking at certain death to look around and decide to take on a bunch of armed, raving lunatics with nothing but some boiling water and a food cart.

God bless us all today, we could sure use it.

225 OBL - fish food.
AZ - still on the to-do list.
KSM - @Gitmo til his turban rots off.
Tens of thousands of AQ(etc., etc.) dead from a long list of US capabilities and bad hygiene but mostly JDAMs.

Whenever I hear about 'weaponized body fluids' coming from Gitmo, I think we need to sent them back and airdrop all the detainees without parachutes

226 We didn't know what had happened on 9/11 until our neighbor, a WWII vet stopped by to tell us to turn on our tv. I was homeschooling our children. We watched the news the rest of the day. My youngest was 7. The screensaver on his phone now is him holding the newspaper with the headline screaming "Bin Laden Dead" One legitimate use of federal government power is to protect its people. It failed on 9/11. Our response should have been so devastating that would be attackers would fear to even contemplate another attack. Thoughts and prayers for those that mourn. May God bless the USA.

227 We were stationed in Ft Carson,Co at the time and lived on base by the gate to hwy 50-gate three. I had an early morning(8:30) appt that day in downtown Colorado Sprgs and my husband and I got into a fight because he was almost 20 minutes late with the car(we only had one)- I remember telling him to fuck off just as I slammed the car door and backed out of the garage. I turned the radio on just as I exited the gate to post and heard about the first tower-it was probably right about 9 and then a few minutes later the DJ said "there's another plane-my God why is it so low right before it hit"-the DJs were crying and yelling- someone said this had to have been an act of war and in my shock, the sound of high speed jets hit me from up above and over to my immediate right was NORAD- it dawned on me that a plane could try to hit there too. I was driving away from base but in what seemed like instantaneously,ALL traffic in the opposite lane just FROZE. Just immediately. I was only 28,had lived a blissfully ignorant life,had never heard of Bin Laden,just couldn't compute.Facts made my way through my stunned brain-my two children were in school on base,literally right beneath NORAD and Cheyenne mountain-their school was actually called something like Mountain Side. They were only 6 and 7 years old,my first thought was to get to them and yank them out so I drove to a shopping center and turned the car around to get back into the other lane and the line was just frozen in what must have been 10-15 miles long. No one answered the phone at the school,there was a hurriedly made message telling parents that no children would be released to parents until the school had decided upon the best course of action. Realization also hit me that my husband's unit was on red cycle- they were already slotted to leave for Kuwait for a training exercise in Dec anyway. I knew from other people that if  they were locked down there would be no contact allowed. No answer on the phone to the units,no answer on my husband's cell phone. I now know they were worried about NORAD and unsecured phones being intercepted so the guys weren't allowed to have their's on. i waited in line to get back on base for four hours without any word from anyone other than my mother and father. Finally,freaking out about my kids, I left my car in the street and walked to the fence that stretched for miles between the road and  base housing and climbed over it. The fact that I could so easily do that scared me-our house was only about 1000 feet from the fence.That fence is no longer there, was replaced by a much taller one with concertina wire  right afterwards.My two kids had been released from school-they told all the kids to walk home and if no one was there to come back but mine didn't they just sat by the porch wall until I showed up.A six and a seven year old-just another unreal fact of an unreal day.

228 Yes, it was a glorious day in Chicago, as well. It only heightened the surreal quality of the attacks and what we were seeing on the television. And then there was the silence. We live adjacent to the holding pattern for Midway landings and the sound of aircraft is pretty much omnipresent. There was unnerving silence from the skies until the F-16s starting patrolling later in the day and you knew that was no ordinary plane.

229 oops meant to say immediate LEFT was NORAD.

230 228. So what happened between you and your husband, Carrie?

231

I remember standing in front of the TV when they announced that another plane suspected to be involved had just crashed in a field somewhere in Pennsylvania.  That's all the information they had at the time, but when I heard where it had taken off from, I turned to my sister and said, "They fought back."  I knew that was the truth of it, and at that moment I felt such a profound connection and attachment, enhanced by intense feelings of pride, love, and joy for those people, those Americans.

 

I am constantly grateful those people were on Flight 93 and I am constantly grateful and proud those selflessly brave Americans killed those miserable cowards that day.

 

Even though that day was filled with so much unimaginable tragedy, it was those Americans who managed to get out the first response to the terrorists' evil, immoral intent to expose the weakness of America:  In the name of liberty, you will never succeed.  In the name of justice, you will die.

 

God bless George W. Bush, and God bless America.

232 I had a close friend who was a in the Jersey guard on 9/11.  Along with some FEMA folks, some Port of Authority folks and other guardsmen, they were in a state out west at a FEMA conference about bioterrorism. They couldn't fly out of there after the attack, so the military drove them all  the way back from there --- it was a very long drive.  His family lived right outside of New York.  He couldn't get in touch with them.  He had several friends in the Pentagon and Port of Authority in New York.  He couldn't get in touch with many of them either, only to find out later, some were dead. O n 9/13/01, he was sent to New York to film the devastation for documentation purposes.  A month later, after funeral after funeral, he still hadn't slept.  It was so sad.  We haven't been together since 2012, but I received an email a couple weeks ago.  He said, to this day, he can still smell that horrible smell of death. 

Not only do I pray for the families of those lost - but the survivors and those that have struggled to live with what they dealt with. 

233 212 The stupidest fucking attack on Bush was the whole "My Pet Goat" thing. To me, it showed incredible backbone and control of his emotions. He thought to act as if nothing happened to keep the kids from getting upset. This. America in her worst crisis since Pearl Harbor, week to week all of us wondering when the next shoe would drop, fear of anthrax stalking the land like a medieval plague. And those Sons of Bitches were already laying the groundwork for the hysterical shrieking that would bring them and the Socialist Organizer to power, at a time of national trial... over six minutes spent, while the President's security was being assured, to appear that he was not panicking. The hideous thing about it is, if he HAD suddenly gotten up and left abruptly, the filthy creeps would be assaulting him today for panicking everyone.

234 @232-his unit was locked down until the next morning- I didn't waste my time trying to drive over there because I knew they wouldn't let us in.My parents drove up from the Western slope to pick up my kids and take them back home for a few days until we knew what was going to happen. I remember asking my dada-"who could have done this and why?" and he said "Osama Bin Laden, he considers us The Great Satan" I was just shocked. I come from a political family and did a lot of work as a teenager, but marriage and kids and being an Army wife just took the place of that. I rarely watched the news,didn't even know there was a Fox news and lived in complete ignorance. 9-11 changed all of that. I never again took for granted that my husband would just magically be there when I got home or that we had the luxury of being complacent. My husband did end up going to Kuwait-instead of the two months we had initially planned for it turned into a six month deployment, and then he was deployed to Iraq for the initial invasion as part of the 3rd ID. Deployment became a way of life-he was deployed again and again until an injury made him undeployable. I'll never forget 9-11,like a slap in the face to shake me out of my own stupidity.

235 Good morning, moron nation.  I've been sidelined with a migraine, but I caught the beginning of the NYC ceremony.  Here's what struck me: Obama is afraid of George Bush.  I say this not because of my utter disregard for Obama, but simply because when I saw the ceremony and how carefully they managed Bush - from his entrance to the podium, to the odd reading they gave him, to the Obamas ushering them away from the event - it struck me that Obama was deathly afraid of George Bush's presence at that event. 

As for ten years ago, I don't think I really understood then how damaged our country would be by that event.  I thought we would fight back, and we did for a time and of course many brave men and women still do, but we as a country at this moment in time really seem intent on trying to follow the Europeans'  lead and bury our heads in the sand.  And I blame the "liberals" for that, but I don't have any anger in me today to deal with it. 

I hope everyone has as good a day as they can today.  Good bless you and your families.

236 I was teaching an adult Cisco class in a high-rise just across the river from the towers on the Jersey side.  I was setting up when a student told me a plane had it the towers.  We cranked up a network feed and saw the second plane hit.

Up to the roof we went and watched for a couple of hours.  Many of the students were from the city and were frantic to contact family and co-workers. 

The thing that stays with me, oddly enough, was the sound of the low circling jets at full military power.

I have no desire to forgive or forget.  Nuke 'em from space, it's the only way to be sure.

237 I had just finished having a Bible study for Christian wives of Muslim husbands. 80 women had been in my home, praying reading the Bible, singing and fellowshipping. My husband called from work and said the kids are coming home early-the school they were at had had threats. We watched the Palestinians singing and dancing and passing out candy. We had just moved to this Muslim country, and didn't have TV/Cable yet, so I went to a friend's house with my kids, so we could sob together, and worry about what was coming. My husband then spent four of the next ten years fighting that war. I did my part in between taking care of the kids. I weep today, for what happened then, and what for DIDN'T happen. Stopping this incursion. Halting the threat of sharia, dhimmitude and the Caliphate. Because we haven't. When New York officials can support a mosque being built near ground zero, but refuse to allow an Orthodox church that was destroyed be rebuilt, the terrorists have won. As Mark Steyn says in After America, the fact that there is still a hole in the ground, after ten years and a billion dollars, the terrorists have won. That's a crying shame. But to all of you who have pulled up your boots, gotten your gear and went into the sand, the heat, the frozen mountains and the IED strewn roads, God bless you. To those who have stayed behind while their loved ones went, God bless you. You have stood between us and the enemy. You have stepped up and given your lives for our country. I am grateful. The vast majority of those who post on Ace are grateful. Semper Fi.

238 I hereby declare next Sunday, September 18, National Grandparents' Day, as the SCOAMF should have done, if he and his advisers had one brain between them.

239

I was in the Air Force at the time, but was in London on leave with a couple of my dipshit liberal friends visiting from Chicago.   It's noteworthy how people often state that there are effectively two historical epochs in their lifetimes:  pre 9/11 and post 9/11.  Pre 9/11, I didn't like liberalism but could tolerate liberals; post 9/11, I realized that liberals couldn't be extricated from their thinking. 

I couldn't get back to base for several days--during that time, important missions were being drawn up, roles were being assigned, and leaders were being tested...and I was babysitting.  And my friendship with these guys, who even as the buildings were falling were blaming the US, effectively ended.   

240 In the afternoon, I heard Peter Jennings on TV  whine several times about not knowing President Bush's whereabouts (comments that were later denied). I switched channels and have not watched  network news since.

241 Allright, my experience(s) 10 years ago: I worked for Morgan Stanley back then and my office was on the 44th floor of 2 WTC. I was talking to 2 guys about the pitiful performance by the Giants the night before in Denver when the plane his 1 WTC @8:45. Even in the other building, we felt it and the lights flickered. After about 20 seconds of everyone doing a "WTF was that?" we saw the cloud of debris (mostly paper) appear outside the window, then began smelling SOMETHING burning. We all knew something exploded, so people started preparing to leave. I made the decision to leave a few seconds after that, leaving my breakfast at my desk and grabbing my backpack. People were heading to the express elevators, but I reminded them elevators in a fire (we thought the fire was in our building) and told them to find the stairs. So that's what we did. Down we went. Very little was known what was going on, the towers acted like giant Faraday cages, blocking radio and cellphone signals. All I could make out on my radio was that something hit the north tower. I guessed some JFK wannabe in a small plane, not a 767. About 12 minutes later, I made it down to the lobby. It was serene, a lot of people didn't even know there was an incident. I ran into a co-worker exiting the subway, totally clueless and warned her to not go upstairs, something was going on. At this moment, the 2nd plane hit us. The earth shook, glass broke and the power went out. I grabbed her and dived into the train station she just got out of (the stop on the #1 line that was totally destroyed) thinking it was some debris falling off the OTHER building. Soon to be dead cops and firefighters came in and ordered us all out. We walked through the darkened lower level concourse and out the exit at 5 WTC on Church and Fulton. I then looked up and saw both buildings burning. That's when the shit got real. I knew people were dead, possibly trapped and remembering The Towering Infero, not much could be done. We were ordered to keep walking east on Fulton. At Broadway, I saw what I later realized was a severed leg, with it's shoe still on. Nobody's cellphone was working. People on the street started to tell us what happened. 2 planes. Deliberately rammed into the buildings. There was very little panic, people were shocked and angry, but things were orderly. I could not call my wife (who I knew was home sick and probably watching this on TV, freaking out). Around 9:30, near City Hall, I decided to get out of Manhattan and go home. No one was going back inside, and I thought the worst was over. The fires would be put out, and we'd have to work elsewhere until repairs were done (like in '93). So I hopped on the #3 train at Park Place, looking for any way out of lower Manhattan. People I talked to on the subway were also unaware of anything going on. Some did not believe what I was saying. At 14th St I decided to switch to the L train, to get to Brooklyn so I could get the J train home. I made it to the Lorimer St. station in Williamsburg when the word came from Giuliani to freeze the entire system. Apparently this was just after the south tower collapsed. Still unaware of this, I decided to get out of the train at this station and walk the half mile north to Broadway to get the J train there. Finally above ground and away from skyscrapers, my Discman's radio finally worked, so I turned to 1010 WINS to get the latest info. Totally stunned to hear that a tower collapsed. TOTALLY. When I got to Broadway, I found the J line also frozen. Then I heard a flash on the radio that the Pentagon was attacked. Totally in a daze, I began walking home, following the elevated J line through W'burg, Bushwick and ENY. I'll never forget the way the woman on 1010 WINS announced the collapse of the north tower, almost without emotion, as if it was to be expected, a polar opposite reaction to the south tower collapse. All I wanted to do was go home, so I concentrated on getting there. At ENY, I found a bus line still working, so I took that home to Queens. Arrived home shortly after 1 PM, and I walked into my own funeral. My wife, my mom, and about 20 family members were watching television, convinced I was dead. The reaction was what you'd expect. After all the hugs and handshakes ended, I sat down and watched the broadcasts of the plane hitting my building, and the towers collapsing. The adrenaline was wearing off and I became physically ill. Ran to the bathroom and barfed. The rest of the day consisted of me sending e-mails and making phone calls to people wondering about my safety. Around 6 PM a friend stopped by and gave me a bag of weed, which I proceeded to smoke out back. The rest of the evening gets fuzzy after that. The 8 beers I drank also didn;t help. It took 3 of my wife's Ambien to get me to go to sleep, sometime around 2 AM. The next day my boss called me and informed me all those in my office were accounted for, except for 2 people that I could account for (saw them on the street). I was told to report to a contingency area in Tribeca the next Monday. That Monday I found out who did NOT make it, including 5 people I personally knew in the Security Dept (including Rick Rescorla) and a secretary on the 59th floor who was missing (and pregnant). I remained with Morgan Stanley for the next 6 weeks before accepting a buyout MS was offering to workers in lieu of layoffs (which were still carried out in early 2002). To this day, I avoid the area, only when I have to take the PATH train to NJ do I go downtown. To this day, I will punch any truther that gets in my face.

242 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

243 Chris R, Thank you for sharing your story.

244 246 You're welcome. The only day of the year I do.

245 Chris, glad you made it out.

Carrie, thanks for your service to the country.

I don't have an interesting story. That day was a beautiful, cloudless, breezy low-humidity day in Texas too. Last weekend the weather broke here and we had a beautiful, cloudless, breezy low-humidity day.

It gave me a sense of foreboding it was so much like september in 2001. 9-11-2001 was dominating my thoughts, but then the fires started. The low humidity and breezes brought on fires that've destroyed 1700 homes since last week. I feel like a whole bunch of weird shit has been happening all decade.

246 Chris, glad you escaped. Thank you for your story. I have no words of comfort, but know I pray for that and peace for you and others who survived.

247 #37, Daily Dish: you reminded me of the response the Southern men in my parents' congregation had on the Wednesday after the attacks. They had a church service, which was packed, and afterwards all the men gathered in the parking lot, in a modern echo of the ancient Anglo-Saxon "weapontake", talking about who the enemy was and how we could strike back; what they as citizens could do. The older ones were grim, reminded of Pearl Harbor. The younger ones were itching to fight.

I saw it with my own eyes, from my roof in downtown New York: I live 20 blocks from the WTC. I saw the first tower fall on TV, started yelling incoherently, told my cousin (on the phone from Atlanta) that I had to go, and ran upstairs to the roof.

Thousands of us stood in mute witness to the obscene absence of the South Tower. The utterly incredible absence of the biggest damn skyscraper: it was GONE. We could see tiny bits of what we thought was debris, but later learned was people, falling, falling. . . . Smoke was hellishly intense. The cloud from the collapse was 40 stories tall. Then, after half an hour, the other Tower's smoke seemed to intensify: I almost turned away, and then it happened: that stupendous, sickening, catastrophic implosion, with the TV tower pointing skyward as it collapsed, and a long, rumbling BOOM you could feel in Boston. Think of the sound of summer thunder, basso profundo and endless: that's what it sounded like, but it shook the earth, those billions of pounds of concrete and steel and bodies hitting the ground.

My knees buckled and I collapsed, crying out, "Oh, my God, those poor people, those poor people!" I literally fell, like my strings had been cut. I remember, even then, wondering why all the New Yorkers on the roofs around me were still silent --surely this called for weeping and wailing and cursing the fiends who perpetrated this monstrous evil. But they were silent.

I will say this: seeing it with your eyes, not on a TV screen, is ten orders of magnitude worse.

People we knew were missing for days: refugeed south to Jersey, most of them. But not all. I went to one of the funerals, for a fireman I knew, at St. Patrick's. Grown men weeping, honor guard lined up in the street for blocks in either direction. He'd died in the North Tower, leading his men up the staircase, calling out, "Let's go, we've got a job to do." Department legend, hero of many rescues.

His old man was a hardbitten alcoholic, a real son of a bitch. But when they handed him the folded flag from his son's coffin, he broke down and wept.

May God smite our enemies, foreign and domestic. May they rot in hell.

248 I went to Ground Zero this afternoon, around 4:30, after President Pant Load had left. It would have been nice to see the Bushes, though.

There were scads of tourists, lots of cops standing around at sawhorse barricades, and a few random "Repent Now!" religious nuts.

But mostly -- mostly -- there were the 9-11 "truthers." Those bastards were everywhere, holding forth to apparently interested onlookers. I couldn't stand it, so I left. I took the Cortlandt Street R station, for the first time in ten years (it just reopened this weekend; that's how long it took union workers to fix the damn thing) and rode back to Prince Street.

I much fear for our future.

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