| Re: 9/11 --- Tuesday, September 11, 2007 (0/1) |
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| Winged Messenger (Boy@flyinghigh.com) |
2007/09/11 10:08 |
"::darkshadows::" <bloody@mary.org> wrote in
news:1kvce3ha0aco0q1i2h8g5cok117hguu4o1@4ax.com:
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> 254th day of 2007 - 111 remaining
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> Tuesday, September 11, 2007
> 9/11
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> http://www.september11news.com/ Phones rang across the United States
> was 8:48 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. A passenger jet had just crashed
> into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
> Flames and smoke billowed from the tower. It was now 9:06. This was no
> real.
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> News bulletins came fast and furious. These were passenger jets, fully
> fueled: American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston on its way to LA with
> 92 people aboard and United Flight 175, same itinerary, with 65
> onboard. More news bulletins: 9:43 a.m. The Pentagon had just been hit
> by another jet airliner, American Flight 77 leaving Washington for Los
> Angeles with 64 people aboard. In the next 12 minutes, the South Tower
> of the World Trade Center collapsed. Sirens screamed. People were
> running, screaming, jumping out of the towers. Then the North Tower
> crumbled like a deck of cards. Gray, choking clouds filled the streets
> with debris, fireballs of airplane fuel, desks, computers, paper, and
> ash. More news bulletins: Nineteen minutes before the North Tower
> collapsed, a fourth jet airliner, United Flight 93 with 44 people
> aboard, on its way to San Francisco from Newark had crashed in a field
> in Shanksville, PA, some 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
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> http://www.september11news.com/USANewspapers.htm Terrorists had struck
> on U.S. soil. Air traffic to and from U.S. airports was halted. The
> horror was being played over and over on every TV channel and on every
> the fears. What we witnessed would forever change our lives, our
> country and the rest of the world.
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> 19 Muslim militants, all men, all in their 20s and 30s, members of
> the name of their religion: Islam. Almost 3,000 people died at Ground
> Zero, including 385+ firefighters and police who valiantly attempted
> to save the thousands in the WTC towers.
> http://wrench.ssl.umd.edu/pentagon.html One jet destroyed a section of
> the Pentagon, killing 189 people. On Flight 93, the brave souls aboard
> tried to regain control from their hijackers. Was their plane headed
> for the White House? They were determined not to let this happen.
> Their plane crashed in a field. There were no survivors.
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> 19 Islamic religious fanatics of Middle Eastern descent wanted to
> destroy what Americans stand for. They died in vain. But, the people
> they murdered did not. Americans are now prouder, more committed to
> stand together; united from Maine to Hawaii, from Alaska to Florida,
> determined not to let any country, religion, or people steal our
> freedoms. Americans will fight all evil-doers for the inalienable
> right to live in our democracy. The battle cry of the United States
> by an Airfone operator minutes before Flight 93 crashed.)
I am sure everyone knows exactly where they were at the time. I was
working in a pharmaceutical company in the Netherlands, and had just
returned from coffee break (What!!!!! not tea LOL) when the newsflash
came over.
Mercury.
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