Posted on 01/25/2015 11:34:15 AM PST by lbryce
Everyone should respond thee way they feel. IMHO this may not be the best time to post, discuss what's on your mind. My reaction to seeing it was to just look at it, ponder the terrible, unbelievable irony, tragedy of what the future, fate had in store for all those involved and beyond.
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Where’s WTC #7...?.. the 47 story tower that “fell down!”
“Ten of thousands of hours to design, build, and furnish and just a few seconds to crash planes into and destroy.”
Yes, aside from the dreadful loss of life that was what was most frightening about it.
My mother worked for one of the first companies to move into the WTC. I remember how their move was always delayed, delayed, delayed because of course everything was taking longer than anticipated.
All the efforts of innumerable people, not just in building the buildings, but laying the carpets, moving the furniture, etc., etc. just wiped out, in literally less than an hour.
However, I think the designers deserve a lot of credit, far fewer people died that might have been expected.
I didn’t know that.
Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge once...
In fact, I have a beautiful leather bag I bought in Little Italy, just two blocks south of the bridge.
It was temporarily removed to Langley to rig it with explosives. /S
'W' could have stopped it, but he was too clueless and naive, and "his people" too PC to do what needed to be done. The government was too riddled with cancerous liberals to fight the enemy on all fronts. And they and half the country were perpetually emboldened by a man too selfish and power hungry to handle defeat with grace. We lost too much valuable time we can never get back. We sacrificed our military heroes to the altar of political correctness. (This from an administration who's VP said "help is on the way") And the demographics changed too much that De Tocqueville could no longer call us a good country, if he even said it originally.
Obama is the final nail in the coffin. He did what Bush did, only "better". The debt/deficit, demographic replacement, and big government all on steroids.
Every time he leaves the CONUS, we need to be on alert. Something tells me the weasel, his rookie, his children, his close friends, and his masters won't be around when the SHTF.
Not allowed to even mention, much less discuss what happened to the towers on 911. ONLY the fedzilla explanation is allowed here.
Where’s building seven?
I think it sucks that we can’t have iconic structures without them becoming targets, but the sand ******s can have tall buildings with no fear.
I say let’s take down their tall buildings — but give them a little warning so they can flea into the sandy hovel of their countryside.
I lived in Manhattan when the twin towers were around. I once visited to observation deck on the 110 floor.
I always thought of the twin towers as sentinels guarding the NYC. To me, that skyline was the embodiment of Reagan’s “shining city upon a hill.”
That 3,000 people and these powerful symbols of elegance, achievement, affluence and power were destroyed by throwbacks from the 7th century was an act of pure evil. To fully appreciate the magnitude of what was lost on September 11, 2001, one should not only think about the lives lost and terror created, but also of the beauty destroyed.
7 was not constructed until the 1980s.
An upside down black cube, just like the one in mecca.
Shrine to Satan, if you ask me.
Folks, do not think that the people who were murdered on 9-11-01 are the only victims of that day. I know several people who were first responders who are now sick. They are battling lung diseases, gastrointestinal problems, heavy metal contamination in their blood and organs, a dry hacking cough that will not go away, and cancers. They are sick, and the government is doing squat to help them. I know of two first responders who have died of cancer. Both of them spent months down at the site. Both were under 50 when they died. Both have no family history of cancer. There are hundreds of brave people who are now starting to see their symptoms manifest. It makes me so angry.
Point?
I do not know why it would be “not the best time to post”? What has happened that makes it inappropriate, in the minds of the overly sensitive?
It’s a nice pix of some men who worked on the towers. Sad, in a hindsight way, but not much else to say.
I believe the fellow on the right was the architect.
He was an unknown architect that won the design competition.
They loved his design because it hat a free span from the elevator shafts to the outside bearing walls. So no columns in the way in the office spaces.
Believe it or not, the outside walls were load bearing unlike the structural grid systems that were more common.
I see a team of designers and engineers justly proud of their project. I’ve always been quietly amused that the architect was afraid of heights, and he designed the windows to make people feel secure.
Muslims want to file suit for their peaceful pilots running into buildings constructed directly in the flight path of their mercy flights.
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