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How can Americans best remember the events of 9-11-01 on it's anniversary? What did Americans do right after those catastrophic events in communities across the U.S.? Strangers gathered in public places, including many highway overpasses and bridges waving flags and banners of unity and pride. No government agency sanctioned those events and no one was told to be patriotic. What better wayt to pay tribute to those who died than to capture that same spirit of 9/11, what some have called grassroots patriotism. In that tradition the LAFAYETTE FLAG BRIGADE of Lafayette, CA. will be remembering 9/11 with an OVERPASS...

Dear Freeper prayer warriors, please keep Ernest_at_the_Beach and his wife in your prayers. From Ernest_at_the_Beach | 08/28/2003: Just to let you know that my wife (Kathy ) is now in her final days. Her pain in the last few months from the cancer was constant and unrelenting . The last several months had been very difficult as she was unable to eat well and not able to eat at all for the last several weeks. God will be merciful soon and relieve her of the misery of the dreaded disease! Prayers would be appreciated!

NEW YORK, Aug 28, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- After a plane struck the first of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, callers from the top floors of neighboring tower were told by Port Authority police to remain where they were. According to transcripts made public Thursday, a male caller from the 92nd floor of the second tower told a Port Authority police officer, "We need to know if we need to get out of here, because we know there's an explosion." The officer asked if there was smoke on the floor, and the caller replied...

VIEWS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE SITE IN NEW YORK This is a composite of seven photos assembled to show a wide view of the site of the World Trade Centre, in New York on Tuesday, as construction continues prior to the second anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001. Pleas of "mayday" made by officers just moments before their deaths in the tower complex appear on heart-wrenching transcripts to be released on Thursday. REUTERS/Chip East September 11 transcripts recall horror of attack NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pleas of "mayday" made by officers just moments before their deaths in...

Some Fear Media Will Seek Graphic Details; Others Say Public Should Hear NEWARK, N.J. -- Depending on whom you talk to, there is dread and support for the Thursday's release of transcripts of emergency calls made from the World Trade Center towers during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A state judge in New Jersey ruled Friday that the transcripts of emergency transmissions must be released by 5 p.m. EDT Thursday. The Port Authority, which owned the trade center, argued it was trying to protect the privacy of victims' families by preventing the release of the transcripts. They cover radio transmissions...

Freepers, I've seen a couple of 9/11 sites. Some are pretty good. I want a site that a) comes up pretty quickly; b) doesn't have a long drawn-out intro; c) includes the horrible pictures. This is for students in college. I want them to remember, but I do have limited time, and can't have a 10-minute intro. Also, I'd prefer it not to be too preachy, but to let the images/music do all the talking. Suggestions? Thanks.

This is a small collection of links, organized into four consecutive categories:1- A look back from now. 2- The 9-11 attack "as it went down, live..."3- The aftermath.4- Remembrance.As with all such posts, there are links within links within links, and to fully remember and inform yourself, you need to follow them all- but be warned! Some will take you to gruesome pictures and disturbing stories, so tread carefully.I honestly believe that most Americans need to view these things, and never forget, or forgive, what was visited on defenseless and innocent people on that black day.Use your own judgement, but...

I thought this was very interesting...A piece of our history, frozen in time. http://web.archive.org/web/20010914224114/freerepublic.com/perl/latest

BreakingNo names released yet...Pentagon is briefing reporters now..

Photos Prove Connection Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Terrorists March 14, 2003 About 20 minutes before show time, we posted satellite imagery of Salman Pak - home of the terrorist training center in Iraq we've been telling you about. I want to thank Gary Napier and his whole staff from Space Imaging, Inc. for these images from their IKONOS satellite. It's not in geo synchronous orbit, so they can move it to map, measure and monitor anywhere on earth. The third of the three shots zeros in on what looks like a Boeing 727 fuselage to me. Everyone says it's...

The Iraqi-Bin Laden Connection News Reports on Iraqi-Bin Laden Connection Iraq’s State Sponsorship of Osama bin-Laden and the al-Qaeda Terror Network 1999 Article: Iraq tempts bin Laden to attack West Al-Qaeda Big Confirms Terror Ties to Iraq White House Says it Has Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties The Iraq Connection: Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?World Trade Center Attack Complaint (Iraq named as plaintiff)Complaint (PDF) Lawsuit claiming a 9/11 link between Iraq and al Qaeda. Sept. 3, 2002Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view (Iraq believed to be behind 9/11)Iraq and al...

History expands. Terribly. In 1914, two bullets fired at an automobile driving through the streets of Sarajevo killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophia, his wife. Their deaths led to World War One.In 2001, two massive jet aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center in New York killed ... the numbers are so far unknown, but it's likely that thousands are dead. Another hijacked jet, aimed at the Pentagon, killed untold others. Yet another jet, also under the command of terrorists in league with the attackers of the World Trade Center and Pentagon, crashed in Pennsylvania, killing all on board.The...

WHAT DID HAPPEN TO FLIGHT 93? RICHARD WALLACE, US Editor, examines riddle of hijacked jet as he visits crash site THE unmarked military-style jet swooped down at high speed through the valley, twice circled the smouldering black scar where Flight 93 had careered into the ground just seconds earlier and then hurtled off over the horizon. GRIEF: Victims' relatives visit a makeshift memorial at crash siteAt least six eyewitnesses saw the mysterious aircraft on the morning of September 11 last year. But the US authorities deny it ever existed.So when George Bush laid a wreath yesterday at the crash site...

(original publish date, September 1999) In response to a number of inquiries from the media concerning the report "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism," which was mounted on our website on December 14, 2001, the Federal Research Division (FRD) offers the following background: < snip > Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress September 1999 New Forms of Terrorist-Threat Scenarios The number of international terrorist incidents has declined in the 1990s, but the potential threat posed by terrorists has increased. The increased threat level, in the form of terrorist actions aimed at achieving...

The following is a mostly complete set of Associated Press articles, news alerts, bulletins and flashes that ran on the morning of September 11, 2001 - BC-APNewsAlert,0018 NEW YORK -- Plane crashes into World Trade Center, according to television reports. (Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) (New York-AP) -- There's word of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center in New York. (Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) AP-Plane Crash-World Trade Center URGENT, take 2 C-N-N quotes a witness as saying that it was a twin-engine plane that flew right into the trade...

In the wake of the attacks it's become necessary to lament the fact that America lost some of its innocence. The same thing was said after Oklahoma City, the Viet Nam War, and the assassination of JKF. Each of these events has been cited as the moment America lost its innocence. Webster’s defines an innocent as a very naïve or simple-minded person. Anyone who fears the events of September 11th have stripped America of its innocence need only look on our college campuses to find simple-mindedness alive and well. Something Frivolous I suppose it was predictable that as the shock...

VENICE (Reuters) - After last year's attacks on the United States, President Bush ( news - web sites) declared "You're either with us or against us." But film directors exploring the world's reaction to Sept. 11 say things are not that black and white. Almost a year after suicide hijackers killed more than 3,000 people and brought down New York's World Trade Center towers, the Venice Film Festival is abuzz with discussion about "11'09"01 September 11" -- 11 directors' responses to the day America came under attack. Some of the short films have been accused of anti-Americanism, linking U.S. foreign...

<p>Capt. Jim Hosking is stunned as he reads the message from the cockpit printer aboard United Flight 890. On most days, messages sent to the Boeing 747 are ordinary: maintenance items or reports of bad weather. On this day, Sept. 11, before sunrise over the Pacific Ocean, the warning is unlike any he has seen. Hijackings? Terrorist attack? Taking off from Narita, Japan, just hours before, Hosking, 56, looked forward to heading home to Los Angeles, where his wife would be waiting. But reading the message, sent at 9:37 a.m. Eastern Time, the pilot of 34 years wonders: What the hell happened down there? And then, even more chilling: What's going to happen up here?</p>

The FBI has an undercover tape that captures the chaos and terror of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the Daily News has learned. The recording was secretly made by an informant wearing an FBI wire in a broad-ranging probe of city tax assessors. It is believed to be the only known uninterrupted audio recording of the entire attack on the World Trade Center, from before the first plane hit to shortly after the impact of the second plane. "That was an explosion," says Stephen McArdle, a tax consultant who, cooperating with the FBI, was taping a...

Lost Voices of Firefighters, Some on the 78th Floor http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nyt/20020804/ts_nyt/lost_voices_of_firefighters__some_on_the_78th_floor&e=1 Sun Aug 4, 3:31 PM ET By JIM DWYER and FORD FESSENDEN The New York Times  A lost tape of lost voices, ignored until recently by investigators studying the emergency response on Sept. 11, shows that firefighters climbed far higher into the south tower than practically anyone had realized. At least two men reached the crash zone on the 78th floor, where they went to the aid of grievously injured people trapped in a sprawl of destruction. Until the building's final minutes, one of the two firefighters, Battalion Chief Orio...