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You said — I’m sorry to hear that. I’m sure the moment is stuck to your memory like it happened yesterday :(

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I wasn’t right in front of it, and so didn’t see it up close and personal, but was over by the Texas Schoolbook Depository building and nearer the corner — so I was on the very same street and just a bit “up the street” from where the motorcade had already progressed. And also, I was a kid, in grade school, there with my parents and so, it’s not as traumatic as one might think. In fact, at the time I just didn’t know what happened. Of course, it didn’t take long for the news to get out, but that was a little bit later, for me to know about it.

Of course, I’ve been back several times and the last time I was there, the white picket fence was still there (over by the railroad parking lot). And I walked on the tracks over on the overpass where one of the other shooters was seen by another person, loading up his gun in a bag and walking off...

I walk around there and look around a lot, when I’m there. And I’ve been there numerous times. It’s also only a couple of blocks from the Dallas Amtrak Station and I’ve gone out of there a number of times, too. The Amtrak goes right over that overpass...

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You said — When 9/11 happened, I knew instantly Bin Laden was responsible. My coworkers asked “how do you know that?”. I told them I just knew. I was informed enough to know. I drew that conclusion in about 20 seconds ;-)

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Yeah, on that one, I didn’t see it “live” on TV. Didn’t have it on at the time. It was my brother who called me on the phone and said, “You better turn on the TV!” So, I did, and by that time, it had already happened.

HOWEVER, the interesting thing was that I was already “involved” — so to speak — with the Islamic threat and also in regards to Osama bin Ladin, having seen his “Declaration of War” on the United States (along with several others signing the document). So, I knew that he had done that, but (at the time that I saw it) I didn’t really consider the threat viable and something that he was *able* to carry off here in the United States. I knew that the threat was real and serious, but I didn’t think he had the “capability” to do it.

I had also been familiar with the Congressional hearings on the threat of terrorism at the time and how many people were simply dismissing it as a “non-story” (a few years before the 9/11 attack). No one really took the threat of terrorism in the United States seriously. The public sure didn’t — although I was aware of Stephen Emerson’s Jihad in America (or something to that effect, can’t remember if that’s the exact name of the video).

You can even see some of my previous posts on Steven Emerson’s video on Free Republic, saying that people needed to see this. It’s still there..., if I can even find it... LOL...

But, anyway..., the