Never Forget

9-11-01

[ambrose]

[gortklattu]

Darn, lets mail this to the DNC

[jwalsh07]

Never have, never will.

[cgk]

Bookmarked

[EggsAckley]

thank you.

[cgk]

Amen.

[cgk]

[VOA]

John Moran, 43, Rockaway, N.Y., USA
battalion commander, New York Fire Department
Reported dead, World Trade Center, at/in building

Free Republic's own: "BCM"
Seen in the photo montage at the end of the 9-11 Documentary done by the
two French brothers/filmmakers.
(IIRC, one of the Frenchmen is now a US citizen)

[ambrose]

Aren't you ever shocked at the short memory span of your average American??

I love how media talkingheads say how the prison story is going to make Muslims mad at us. They slaughtered over 3000 of our citizens and then danced in the street in celebration before a single prison nudie pic was ever shot!!!

[cgk]

Kind of like Ellis Henican on FNC a week ago complaining that Bush "irritated our enemies" by "invading Iraq." Uhm... they were ALREADY irritated, Ellis! Or did you think 9-11 was a dream?

[VOA]

John P. O'Neill Sr., 49, New York, N.Y., USA
former FBI counterterrorism expert and head of security, World Trade Center
Confirmed dead, World Trade Center, at/in building

"The Man Who Knew"
title of the PBS Frontline epsisode about O'Neill...who obsessed about Osama bin Laden
for six years while at the FBI.
His obsession about OBL didn't sit well, so he eventually left the FBI for
a good security job at...The WTC.
Probably will be listed as the greatest moment of irony in the WOT history books.

[humblegunner]

Thank you.
We will never forget. We will never surrender.

We will remain faithful.

And those who seek to destroy us will perish in shame.

By my own name and my own hand I swear it.

[cavtrooper21]

Never forget.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Never forget.

[leadpencil1]

I found this on the bottom of the HOME PAGE of Boston University. Check it out, and bring your kleenex. Boston University We Remember Site

[VOA]

"John William Perry, 38, New York, N.Y., USA
police officer, 40th precinct, New York Police Department
Confirmed dead, World Trade Center, at/in building"

Just the other day, I heard this policeman's story recalled on radio. Perry was filing his
retirement papers. When the news of a plane hitting the WTC came in, he grabbed his shield
and headed straight to the WTC.

http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=15820

[AngieGOP]

You will never be forgotten. God bless your souls.

[VOA]

Richard Rescorla, 62, Morristown, N.J., USA
security chief, Morgan Stanley
Confirmed dead, World Trade Center, at/in building, British

Last man out of the WTC at the 1993 bombing incident.
Saved countless Morgan Stanley employees because of his insistence to conduct
practice evacuation drills.
He was the soldier in the cover photo of the book "We Were Soldiers Once, And Young".
Holder of a masters degree and a law degree from The University of Oklahoma.

He was at work because he'd traded vacation days with a fellow employee
(who needed to be at a wedding, I think).

He was from Britain (Cornwall?)...but I'd be suprised if he wasn't a naturalized US citizen.

[Libloather]

Wow...

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Aren't you ever shocked at the short memory span of your average American?? "

This past anniversary of 9/11 PBS had a British produced documentary, where they interviewed eyewitnesses to the carnage.
Most had stories I had not heard before and many could not get through their recollections, without choking up.
One stock broker recounted what he saw in the courtyard, as he was fleeing the building.
The Port Authority police instructed the stream of people running out, to keep going and " not look right."
He said that human nature being what it was-he looked right.
The image that still haunts him is not the broken and charred and decapitated bodies, some still strapped in their airline seats.
The image that will remain with him forever, is that of a pregnant woman hitting the concrete, just as he looked over.
He said at that moment of impact, she ruptured " like a watermelon " and he could see the infant attached to the the umbilical cord, fly out.
And then he started to cry.
I imagine he would trade that image with that of a naked Iraqi wearing panties on his head, anyday.
The New York media has an entire photo morgue of 9/11 pictures so horrific, they refuse to release them.
And yet knowing that they have censored photos of 9/11 that could cause some to have nightmares for the rest of their lives, they continue to call the prison photos that we have seen so far- a " catastrophe ," a " disaster " and " atrocities ."