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Text of Flight 93 Recording
September 11, 2009 | Morgana Leslie

Posted on 09/10/2009 9:13:27 PM PDT by Morgana

The following is a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder aboard United Airlines Flight 93. All times are in EDT on Sept. 11, 2001. Text in parentheses was translated from Arabic. "Unintelligible" indicates that the tape couldn't be transcribed.

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09:31:57 — Ladies and gentlemen: Here the captain, please sit down keep remaining seating. We have a bomb on board. So sit.

09:32:09 — Er, uh ... Calling Cleveland center ... You're unreadable. Say again slowly.

09:32:10 — Don't move. Shut up.

09:32:13 — Come on, come.

09:32:16 — Shut up.

09:32:17 — Don't move.

09:32:18 — Stop.

09:32:34 — Sit, sit, sit down.

09:32:39 — Sit down.

09:32:41 — Unintelligible ... (the brother.)

09:32:54 — Stop.

09:33:09 — No more. Sit down.

09:33:10 — (That's it, that's it, that's it), down, down.

09:33:14 — Shut up.

09:33:20 — Unintelligible

09:33:20 — We just, we didn't get it clear ... Is that United 93 calling?

09:33:30 — (Jassim.)

09:33:34 — (In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most compassionate.)

09:33:41 — Unintelligible.

09:33:43 — Finish, no more. No more.

09:33:49 — No. No, no, no, no.

09:33:53 — No, no, no, no.

09:34:00 — Go ahead, lie down. Lie down. Down, down, down.

09:34:06 — (There is someone ... Huh?)

09:34:12 — Down, down, down. Sit down. Come on, sit down. No, no, no, no, no. No.

09:34:16 — Down, down, down.

09:34:21 — Down.

09:34:25 — No more.

09:34:26 — No more. Down.

09:34:27 — Please, please, please ...

09:34:28 — Down.

09:34:29 — Please, please, don't hurt me ...

09:34:30 — Down. No more.

09:34:31 — Oh God.

09:34:32 — Down, down, down.

09:34:33 — Sit down.

09:34:34 — Shut up.

09:34:42 — No more.

09:34:46 — (This?)

09:34:47 — Yes.

09:34:47 — Unintelligible.

09:34:57 — (One moment, one moment.)

09:34:59 — Unintelligible.

09:35:03 — No more.

09:35:06 — Down, down, down, down.

09:35:09 — No, no, no, no, no, no...

09:35:10 — Unintelligible.

09:35:15 — Sit down, sit down, sit down.

09:35:17 — Down.

09:35:18 — (What's this?)

09:35:19 — Sit down. Sit down. You know, sit down.

09:35:24 — No, no, no.

09:35:30 — Down, down, down, down.

09:35:32 — Are you talking to me?

09:35:33 — No, no, no. Unintelligible.

09:35:35 — Down in the airport.

09:35:39 — Down, down.

09:35:40 — I don't want to die.

09:35:41 — No, no. Down, down.

09:35:42 — I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

09:35:44 — No, no. Down, down, down, down, down, down.

09:35:47 — No, no, please.

09:35:57 — No.

09:37:06 — (That's it. Go back.)

09:37:06 — (That's it.) Sit down.

09:37:36 —(Everthing is fine. I finished.)

09:38:36 — (Yes.)

09:39:11 — Ah. Here's the captain. I would like to tell you all to remain seated. We have a bomb aboard, and we are going back to the airport, and we have our demands. So, please remain quiet.

09:39:21 — OK. That's 93 calling?

09:39:24 — (One moment.)

09:39:34 — United 93. I understand you have a bomb on board. Go ahead.

09:39:42 — And center exec jet nine fifty-six. That was the transmission.

09:39:47 — OK. Ah. Who called Cleveland?

09:39:52 — Executive jet nine fifty-six, did you understand that transmission?

09:39:56 — Affirmative. He said that there was a bomb on board.

09:39:58 — That was all you got out of it also?

09:40:01 — Affirmative.

09:40:03 — Roger.

09:40:03 — United 93. Go ahead.

09:40:14 — United 93. Go ahead.

09:40:17 — Ahhh.

09:40:52 — (This green knob?)

09:40:54 — (Yes, that's the one.)

09:41:05 — United 93, do you hear the Cleveland center?

09:41:14 — (One moment. One moment.)

09:41:15 — Unintelligible.

09:41:56 — Oh man.

09:44:18 — (This does not work now.)

09:45:13 — Turn it off.

09:45:16 — (... Seven thousand ...)

09:45:19 — (How about we let them in? We let the guys in now.)

09:45:23 — (OK.)

09:45:24 — (Should we let the guys in?)

09:45:25 — (Inform them, and tell him to talk to the pilot. Bring the pilot back.)

09:45:57 — (In the name of Allah. In the name of Allah. I bear witness that there is no other God, but Allah.)

09:47:31 — Unintelligible.

09:47:40 — (Allah knows.)

09:48:15 — Unintelligible.

09:48:38 — Set course.

09:49:37 — Unintelligible.

09:51:27 — Unintelligible.

09:51:35 — Unintelligible.

09:52:02 — Unintelligible.

09:52:31 — Unintelligible.

09:53:20 — (The best thing: The guys will go in, lift up the) ... Unintelligible ... (and they put the axe into it. So, everyone will be scared.)

09:53:27 — (Yes.)

09:53:28 — (The axe.)

09:53:28 — Unintelligible.

09:53:29 — (No, not the.)

09:53:35 — (Let him look through the window. Let him look through the window.)

09:53:52 — Unintelligible.

09:54:09 — (Open.)

09:54:11 — Unintelligible.

09:55:06 — You are ... One ...

09:56:15 — Unintelligible.

09:57:55 — (Is there something?)

09:57:57 — (A fight?)

09:57:59 — (Yeah?)

09:58:33 — Unintelligible. (Let's go guys. Allah is greatest. Allah is greatest. Oh guys. Allah is greatest.)

09:58:41 — Ugh.

09:58:43 — Ugh.

09:58:44 — (Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh the most gracious.)

09:58:47 — Ugh. Ugh.

09:58:52 — Stay back.

09:58:55 — In the cockpit.

09:58:57 — In the cockpit.

09:58:57 — (They want to get in here. Hold, hold from the inside. Hold from the inside. Hold).

09:59:04 — Hold the door.

09:59:09 — Stop him.

09:59:11 — Sit down.

09:59:13 — Sit down.

09:59:15 — Sit down.

09:59:16 — Unintelligible.

09:59:17 — (What?)

09:59:18 — (There are some guys. All those guys.)

09:59:20 — Lets get them.

09:59:25 — Sit down.

09:59:29 — (What?)

09:59:30 — (What.)

09:59:31 — (What?)

09:59:36 — Unintelligible.

09:59:37 — (What?)

09:59:39 — Unintelligible.

09:59:41 — Unintelligible.

09:59:42 — (Trust in Allah, and in him.)

09:59:45 — Sit down.

09:59:47 — Unintelligible.

09:59:53 — Ahh.

09:59:55 — Unintelligible.

09:59:58 — Ahh.

10:00:06 — (There is nothing.)

10:00:07 — (Is that it? Shall we finish it off?)

10:00:08 — (No. Not yet.)

10:00:09 — (When they all come, we finish it off.)

10:00:11 — (There is nothing.)

10:00:13 — Unintelligible.

10:00:14 — Ahh.

10:00:15 — I'm injured.

10:00:16 — Unintelligible.

10:00:21 — Ahh.

10:00:22 — (Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh gracious.)

10:00:25 — In the cockpit. If we don't, we'll die.

10:00:29 — (Up, down. Up, down, in the) cockpit.

10:00:33 — (The) cockpit.

10:00:37 — (Up, down. Saeed, up, down.)

10:00:42 — Roll it.

10:00:55 — Unintelligible.

10:00:59 — (Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.)

10:01:01 — Unintelligible.

10:01:08 — (Is that it? I mean, shall we pull it down?)

10:01:09 — (Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.)

10:01:10 — Unintelligible.

10:01:11 — (Saeed.)

10:01:12 — ... engine ...

10:01:13 — Unintelligible.

10:01:16 — (Cut off the oxygen.)

10:01:18 — (Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen.)

10:01:34 — Unintelligible.

10:01:37 — Unintelligible.

10:01:41 — (Up, down. Up, down.)

10:01:41 — (What?)

10:01:42 — (Up, down.)

10:01:42 — Ahh.

10:01:53 — Ahh.

10:01:54 — Unintelligible.

10:01:55 — Ahh.

10:01:59 — Shut them off.

10:02:03 — Shut them off.

10:02:14 — Go.

10:02:14 — Go.

10:02:15 — Move.

10:02:16 — Move.

10:02:17 — Turn it up.

10:02:18 — (Down, down.)

10:02:23 — (Pull it down. Pull it down.)

10:02:25 — Down. Push, push, push, push, push.

10:02:33 — (Hey. Hey. Give it to me. Give it to me.)

10:02:35 — (Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me.)

10:02:37 — (Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me.)

10:02:40 — Unintelligible.

10:03:02 — (Allah is the greatest.)

10:03:03 — (Allah is the greatest.)

10:03:04 — (Allah is the greatest.)

10:03:06 — (Allah is the greatest.)

10:03:06 — (Allah is the greatest.)

10:03:07 — No.

10:03:09 — (Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.)

10:03:09 — (Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.)

1 posted on 09/10/2009 9:13:27 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Lest we forget.


2 posted on 09/10/2009 9:20:23 PM PDT by beagleone
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To: Morgana

It’s 12:22 AM 9/11/2009.

Prayers up to those who lost their lives, the heroes, and their families of 9/11.


3 posted on 09/10/2009 9:22:01 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Morgana
Never Forget September 11, 2001.
They didn't know it at the time, but those brave men and women aboard Flight #93 were the very first soldiers in the war against terror.
We will always recall their brave American spirit and their bold sacrifice.


4 posted on 09/10/2009 9:24:12 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Morgana

Thank you for posting this.


5 posted on 09/10/2009 9:24:16 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Morgana

RIP.

And, (profane comment removed by self) Allah (profane comment removed by self).


6 posted on 09/10/2009 9:25:01 PM PDT by 506Lake (You can't fake awesome... Palin's awesome.)
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To: All

After reading this transcript........would anyone be offended if I said anything bad about Islam/Aller?

I did not think so........

Religion of Peach my Ass.


7 posted on 09/10/2009 9:25:19 PM PDT by Morgana (No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting)
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To: beagleone

Never, never, never. NEVER AGAIN!!!!


8 posted on 09/10/2009 9:26:03 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins.)
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To: Morgana

And yet the President apologizes, bows to the Saudi King, and calls us all liars, racists, bigots, hate mongers.


9 posted on 09/10/2009 9:26:13 PM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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To: Morgana

That is one crap religious cult.

Muhammad was a terrorist so I guess we shouldn’t expect anything else of them.


10 posted on 09/10/2009 9:26:31 PM PDT by boycott
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To: beagleone

I never forgot.


11 posted on 09/10/2009 9:26:49 PM PDT by FrPR
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To: Morgana

allah is satan you f*cknuts!


12 posted on 09/10/2009 9:27:07 PM PDT by Falcon28
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To: Falcon28

Obama: “Ramadan is great - let’s celebrate!”


13 posted on 09/10/2009 9:28:14 PM PDT by Falcon28
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To: beagleone

In tears!!
I will never EVER forget!!!


14 posted on 09/10/2009 9:28:56 PM PDT by pollywog (staying...... " Under His Wings" Psalm 91:4)
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To: Morgana

Breaks my heart to read those words, feel those emotions.

I will NEVER forget.


15 posted on 09/10/2009 9:31:47 PM PDT by Busta Rhymes
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To: All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmNwJIwO9jI

http://www.milaircomms.com/audio_ua93.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmdDRyD2R0


16 posted on 09/10/2009 9:32:24 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Falcon28
Empire State Building Lit up green to celebrate muslim holiday of Ramadan.
17 posted on 09/10/2009 9:33:54 PM PDT by Falcon28
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To: Roselani; merry10

never forget ping


18 posted on 09/10/2009 9:36:03 PM PDT by Mrs.Liberty (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot.)
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To: Falcon28

From 2007

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York’s iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.

“This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah,” according to a statement

http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2007/10/empire-state-building-to-go-green-for.html


19 posted on 09/10/2009 9:36:27 PM PDT by Falcon28
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To: Morgana

Should be reqired reading for some on FR.
They think if we cut and run in the war, we will go home
and the enemy will think we are just swell for doing that.

If the war is lost in the Middle East, it emboldens the Millions of Muslims living in the U.S. not to mention the tens of Millions living in Western Europe.


20 posted on 09/10/2009 9:36:59 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: All
Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic "On this occasion, we celebrate the holy month of Ramadan and we also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture in ways both large and small." Barack Hussein Obama.
21 posted on 09/10/2009 9:38:27 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: patriot08

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Barack Hussein Obama has banned the National Day of Prayer from the White House, now get a load of THIS!!

ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 - islamoncapitolhill.com
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html

Alarming! Infuriating!!
Does THIS leave any doubt as to what we have sitting in the White House?
Be sure to read every page!
Every page ends with ‘OUR TIME HAS COME’!!

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22 posted on 09/10/2009 9:39:24 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Morgana

May God Bless all aboard FLIGHT 93 and their families, and those of us who will never forget them. Lets Roll!!


23 posted on 09/10/2009 9:39:41 PM PDT by sissyjane
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To: All

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Let us NEVER forget those nearly 3,000 innocent Americans who were murdered by the Islamists.
Don’t let Obama desecrate the memory of those Americans who were murdered by his fellow Muslims. Send this video to everyone you know.
Every American should view this video made by a New Yorker who lived through the attack:

http://attacked911.tripod.com/

This video has been viewed by untold millions and is now in the Smithsonian.
(Sadly, the New Yorker who made this video has since succumbed to lung damage sustained during the attack)

The video includes the planes crashing into the buildings and victims jumping. There are pictures of many of those who lost their lives, and president Bush’s aftermath speech set to the haunting background music, ‘Only Time’ by Enya. It is truly awesome.
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24 posted on 09/10/2009 9:40:40 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: All

Don’t forget to lower your flag tomorrow too.

“By a joint resolution approved December 18, 2001 (Public Law 107-89), the Congress has designated September 11 of each year as “Patriot Day.” On this day the American flag is to be flown at half-staff on all federal buildings. Many citizens of the United States observe Patriot Day with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and remembrance services, display the flag at half-staff from their homes, and observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 a.m. eastern daylight time to honor the innocent Americans and people from around the world who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001”


25 posted on 09/10/2009 9:40:52 PM PDT by Chief_Airframer
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To: Morgana

And now look who we have who hates America like those terrorist...oppsss...we have one in the WH now.


26 posted on 09/10/2009 9:40:54 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: All

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They’re coming, America.
With their fellow Muslim in the white House, they are emboldened.
Obama protects and coddles them. He has opened wide the door to ‘Muslim immigrants’ to flood into America.

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

Nation % Muslim
United States 1.0%
Australia 1.5%
Italy 1.5%
Norway 1.8%
Canada 1.9%
China 2.0%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Nation % Muslim
Denmark 2.0%
United Kingdom 2.7%
Germany 3.7%
Spain 4.0%
Thailand 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States).

Nation % Muslim
Switzerland 4.3%
Philippines 5.0%
Sweden 5.0%
The Netherlands 5.5%
Trinida and Tabago 5.8%
France 8.0%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris –car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

Nation % Muslim
Guyana 10.0%
India 13.4%
Israel 16.0%
Kenya 10.0%
Russia 15.0%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

Nation % Muslim
Ethiopia 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Nation % Muslim
Bosnia 40.0%
Chad 50.1%
Lebanon 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Nation % Muslim
Albania 70.0%
Malaysia 60.4%
Qatar 77.5%
Sudan 70.0%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Nation % Muslim
Bangladesh 83.0%
Egypt 90.0%
Gaza 98.7%
Indonesia 86.1%
Iran 98.0%
Iraq 97.0%
Jordan 92.0%
Morocco 98.7%
Pakistan 97.0%
Syria 90.0%
Tajikistan 90.0%
Turkey 99.8%
United Arab Emirates 96.0%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: Nation % Muslim

Yemen 99.9%
Afghanistan 100.0%
Saudi Arabia 100.0%
Somalia 100.0%

Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
– Leon Uris, “The Haj” Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threats


27 posted on 09/10/2009 9:43:18 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Falcon28
Well Obama can do that!! I will celebrate Hanukkah and I am not even Jewish!!!!!!
28 posted on 09/10/2009 9:43:23 PM PDT by Morgana (No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting)
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To: Morgana

Let’s Roll!


29 posted on 09/10/2009 9:43:44 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; Morgana; All

30 posted on 09/10/2009 9:43:48 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: All

Excerpt from Steve’s essay, ‘That Day’:
(author of video, America Attacked 9/11 http://attacked911.tripod.com/)

‘....and there was that plume coming straight for me, I turned and went another way but it was still coming at me. From all ends. I must’ve turned down a small alley-like-road where the buildings stood end-to-end because no matter what door I tried to seek shelter, it was locked. The Plume was overtaking me.

There was an older lady screaming in the middle of this alley/street and the monster was about to get her. I grabbed her and shoved her to the back end of a DHL van that was parked. I threw my suit jacket over her head. “Lady, we’re gonna be alright. Take 3 deep breaths and hold it.” I curled up by the Van. The debris hit.
It was humid, sticky, hot. It was white-grey-black in less time than it takes to read this line. I was holding my breath but I hadn’t closed my eyes. They felt like fine grade steel wool, 0000 strength were in them. I couldn’t see. I had my hands out but couldn’t see them. I must’ve looked like I was imitating Helen Keller.
I couldn’t hold my breath anymore. I let it out and gasped for breath. My mouth was immediately filled with the foulest tasting stuff you couldn’t ever imagine. For the moment I couldn’t breath.
I threw up. Cleared my mouth and took another breath. I threw up again and then pulled my shirt over my face and then breathed. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Or suffocate. For a long while I just leaned there, trying to regain some composure.

I kept blinking my eyes. My vision was blurred but I started to be able to see through the darkness and I felt my way around. The lady was gone. So was my jacket. I laughed. It was a new suit. Oh well. maybe it helped her live. I hope so.

I was pushed this way and that way by cops, fireman, people with colorful vests on. I was walking through body parts. Shoes with feet still in them. Arms, clumps of matter. The paper was everywhere, more than I have ever seen and I’ve been to my share of ticker tape parades in this city.

I don’t know when the north tower came down. I just know that it did by the sound and the activity and the second plume of debris. I was covered in ash. It didn’t dawn on me until later that some of the stuff I was covered in was the remains of incinerated bodies. I have showered many, many times trying to get clean again. The thought that some of the hijackers remains covered me is more for me to be able to bear.

I got down to Broadway, near City Hall but not quite on Park Row. There’s a park attached to City Hall. It’s about 3 blocks from the twin towers. I got near the tip of that park when I was grabbed by a female EMT. She kept screaming at me to look at her. She had a flashlight and was trying to put it to my eyes. She was wearing a mask. She washed my eyes out. Her partner took tweezers and while she held my head he removed stuff from my eyes.
My left eye was blood red. My right eye was almost swollen shut, but I didn’t know it. I don’t know if they used saline or water but it stung like hell whatever they used. Very much like one of the pictures except that there was no ambulance there; they were just working. I don’t even know where they kept their supplies.
They worked on me for a few minutes or a year. I don’t know which. After each time they worked on me, they would shine the light and ask me to tell them how many fingers they had and who was the President. I told them they each had 10 and the President of what? They said it’s good I had a sense of humor but that they needed to know what I could see. How many fingers were they holding up.
I got it wrong the first couple of times and they went back to work on me. My eyes now started to feel a little better but stung like hell. They felt like sandpaper instead of steel wool. When I got both questions right, they told me to get to NYU Hospital or if I was feeling up to it my own doctor. They gave me a bottle of water. I left.

I made it to my office but scared the hell out of everyone there. I looked like I was badly injured. I washed some of the stuff off my face but it started to cake into mud. I had to get home. I left. Manhattan was closed down. There were thousands upon thousands of people in the streets but there was no subway, no bus. My car was in a garage that might no longer be standing for all I knew. I followed the crowd, helping some who were giving up and just sitting there. We managed to come out of the cloud that was covering the Brooklyn Bridge.

When we got out of the cloud we stopped to look back and could see nothing. A photographer tried to snap my picture as I leaned against one of the steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge, lighting a cigarette believe it or not, and looking back toward Manhattan. I slapped his camera away and it fell off the bridge. He didn’t even curse me out. I mumbled sorry and I moved on.

I got into downtown Brooklyn. Trying to make the subway was useless because hundreds of thousands of people were going into the subway. I knew it would be chaotic. I walked further downtown and a gypsy cab beeped his horn. As in transit strikes, I asked how much to go to Sheepshead Bay, maybe 15 miles away. 140.00. Deal.

I got home and looked in the full length mirror. I looked scary. The thought crossed my mind that had I been the cabdriver I wouldn’t have picked me up and I certainly wouldn’t think that I had the 140.00. I wasn’t even mad at him. I took a shower. Long. Hot. I scrubbed myself. I let the water run on my eyes. The stinging felt great.

I turned on the news. I grabbed a drink. A stiff one. Why did they do this to us? My phone rang and it was family to make sure that I was OK. I could not make calls. I felt very isolated. I listened to the news almost all night. I caught a couple hours of sleep and drove into work the next day using my nephews car. I didn’t get into work until noon.

I started tallying the friends that I had at the trade center. 16, 17, 18... 30. My cousin. As strange as it sounds, I was able to make some calls from my office. I called my cousin Charlie’s house. Carol told me she hadn’t heard from him since right after the first plane hit. He called to tell her that some idiot ran a plan into the tower and that he was evacuating.
He’d call her when he got out. That call never came. He had worked for Euro Traders.

The same with my friend Elkin. (His picture is in the montage.) A friend of Elkin’s called his own wife. She heard Elkin’s voice in the background. He was saying, “We have to punch through this wall; we can’t get through the door. Make sure she calls Cella to tell her I’m OK and getting the hell outta here.” His friends wife called Cella and relayed the information. No other call came. He worked for Carr Futures and he leaves his wife and 3 year old daughter Nicole. He loved being a daddy.

Over the next few days things were very chaotic. That guardsman that you see in the montage with his M-16 pointed to the ground, he was stationed at 23rd and 5th which is my building. For the first few days you could not go further south than 23rd Street. Then they moved it to 14th Street. You look down the block and you see the shell of the twin towers (the photo with the arrow pointing to the shell). Since I have dealt with the government on the POW/MIA (Prisoner of War/Missing In Action) issue for the last 30 years, my aunt and uncle decided that I was the one who would deal with the city on Charlie.
I brought his toothbrush and hairbrush to the Armory and filled out the 8 page questionnaire.

Then I found that more friends, firefighters, had been taken as well. My friend Bronco had come to my office a week before the attack. He was wearing this fire-retardant sweat shirt and I told him it was a cool shirt. The Thursday before the attack, he came back to my office and tossed a shirt at me. Just like his with my name on it. He was lost on Tuesday. I haven’t been able to wear that shirt yet.

A firefighter came and stood next to me but I hadn’t noticed him until he said, “You got that 10,000 yard stare going on.” (A reference to those in a warzone.) We started talking. After a while he asked me if I wanted to go down to ground zero. I told him that my badge (color coded) would be spotted and they wouldn’t let me further. He took off his coat and draped it around me and then handed me his helmet. We walked down together. Seeing it, I don’t know how I possibly survived.

The fires burned for 20 days at full force. The city was covered in smoke and ash. The smell has hung over us to the point that we are almost used to it now. And part of that smell was incinerated bodies.

My personal death toll reached 1 cousin, 36 friends. Of them, 20 are “missing.”
Pulverized or incinerated. My hope is that they never knew what hit them.
I know that Charlie did and I know that Elkin did.
We buried a piece of Elkin’s jawbone.
Charlie has never been found.
We have to live with their horror and think about their last thoughts as they fought to find a way out of that hell. This has come close to breaking me and I am usually a strong individual. For the last 7 weeks I have been going to funerals and memorials. I just got back from the Memorial at Ground Zero. I am thinking that this should be my last for my own sanity.

I still have that sensation of shaking inside. My hands are steady and I am still seething, still angry and still hurt. I suppose with time that sensation of shaking will subside because I know, also, that we will overcome this blow that we took. But I don’t want to overcome it to the point that we forget. Overcome it, but not forget it. And that’s the whole reason why I did the page and continue to maintain it.

And that’s my story.
As much of it as I can tell or as much as I care to tell. There are images that I will never forget; the husband and wife holding hands as they jumped into oblivion,
the other jumpers.
The guy that was shimmying down the grid used by the window washing apparatus, we were all cheering him and then some debris hit him and he fell headfirst. He’s one of the pictures, hands behind his back. I only hope whatever hit him knocked him out first.
Those that jumped turning not to flesh and blood but grey-brown matter.
The plane going into the building and being swallowed. The tower coming down as if someone turned on a faucet and drained it from existence.
The emergency personnel running, driving, dashing up to and into the World Trade Center while the rest of us were doing everything we could to get away.
Look at the picture of the lone firefighter running up the stairs while a sea of people were going down.

I guess we should be thankful that more than 30,000 people inside the buildings were saved. Another 15 - 20,000 saved from the other buildings that came down. A 57 story building also came down, but you hardly heard about it. And there were the hundreds of thousands of us on the ground that surely would have perished had those buildings fallen over rather than imploded straight down.
Like I said, I guess we should be grateful, but all I feel is numb and seething and anger and hurt all at the same time.

Every day when I get to work, I look where the twin towers used to stand proud, magnificently thinking that any moment I will wake up from this horrible dream and we will be back on September 11th.’
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/InStevesOwnWords.htm


31 posted on 09/10/2009 9:44:11 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: potlatch

Two of those IslamOfascists Flight 77 lived around 6 miles from me here in San Diego. One was in the 2000 phone book


32 posted on 09/10/2009 9:52:05 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: SoCalPol; devolve

That’s scary, huh! We never know what’s in the mind of our neighbors.


33 posted on 09/10/2009 9:55:20 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch; All
Thanks for posting that!!!!!! Mohammed Atta was suppose to be the mastermind. The rest.....were just a bunch of goons they talked into this. How we will never really know. It was said some of them did not know it was a suicide mission, only hijacking. When you study their faces Attas' looks evil the rest...well look like that person at the local 7-11 on the Simpsons.
34 posted on 09/10/2009 9:58:43 PM PDT by Morgana (No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting)
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To: SoCalPol

So which two goons lived near you????


35 posted on 09/10/2009 10:01:30 PM PDT by Morgana (No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting)
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To: Falcon28

Irony in light. It's sacreligious they'd do that in same city with these lights:


36 posted on 09/10/2009 10:02:59 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (To err is human, to think is Vulcan)
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To: Morgana; devolve
[Thanks for posting that!!!!!! ]

It's a good reminder and I agree that some of them ‘may’ not have known it was a suicide mission.

Lol, they look like the people who run most of the convenience stores!

37 posted on 09/10/2009 10:02:59 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: patriot08

Just watched it, and sent it to everyone in my family. I doubt it they will watch. Never Forget is not in their vocabulary. If something else happens I’ll let you know.

How can anyone for get this???HOW!


38 posted on 09/10/2009 10:03:53 PM PDT by sissyjane
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To: potlatch

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They laugh at US and use our system against US

You cannot leave baby Coral snakes or rats when you face the future


39 posted on 09/10/2009 10:06:22 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . never whack them with a 2x4 if 4x4 is handy . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: Morgana

I am going to go shit all over a koran now. I am sorry for the profanity but screw these sand trash aholes.


40 posted on 09/10/2009 10:08:16 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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To: Morgana

0bama may have his own little speech to the Muslim world for Ramadan, but here is mine:

لن ننسى! كل شيء أحتاج أن أعرف عن الاسلام علمت في الحادي عشرة من سبتمبر

We will not forget! Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11!
41 posted on 09/10/2009 10:08:27 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (To err is human, to think is Vulcan)
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To: Morgana

trying to think of the names,
first two and might have ben one other.


42 posted on 09/10/2009 10:09:04 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: devolve

And the USA still has allowed them to come in by the thousands, especially as students!

Half the doctors around here are Islamic!


43 posted on 09/10/2009 10:09:39 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: All

In the tapes, the person saying “no no no” or “please no” was flight attendant Deborah Welsh (sp?). She was pleading for her life before they slit her throat in front of the passengers.


44 posted on 09/10/2009 10:10:18 PM PDT by ak267
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To: coon2000
The bathroom is the second door on the left.....you can't miss it....koran toilet paper roll Pictures, Images and Photos koran Pictures, Images and Photos
45 posted on 09/10/2009 10:12:31 PM PDT by Morgana (No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting)
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To: potlatch

15 Saudis, 2 Emiratis, 1 Lebanese, 1 Egyptian. 19 evil scumbags.


46 posted on 09/10/2009 10:12:57 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (To err is human, to think is Vulcan)
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To: G8 Diplomat; devolve

[19 evil scumbags]

“Evil” doesn’t sound bad enough for them, does it!


47 posted on 09/10/2009 10:15:42 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

No, it doesn’t. There aren’t any words bad enough to describe them and what they did.


48 posted on 09/10/2009 10:18:17 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (To err is human, to think is Vulcan)
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To: G8 Diplomat
لا إله الله ، واسمه محمد كان الطفل المتحرش الموت للإسلام. العودة إلى ديارهم المسلمين
49 posted on 09/10/2009 10:18:50 PM PDT by Morgana (No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting)
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To: potlatch

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Because of Bill Clinton and his pick for FBI Director: hat idiot Louis Freeh - who had no interest in computers and instant info and image transmissions to FBI District Offices - those photos of the Muslim skyjacker terrorists - were sent by FedEx and arrived a day later on 9/12

My liberal NYC sister was at work in Manhattan and the phone lines went out there after I watched on live TV the 1st jet hit the WTC

Yet my dinky circa 2000 RCA WebTV Plus email did screencaps on my WebTV email page and I was able to send photographs to my sister in NYC and even captured the 2nd jet hitting the 2nd WTC tower

The FBI had expensive PCs and allegedly trained FBI staff - but they could not send a simple photograph on their PCs like I did on my WebTV on 9/11


50 posted on 09/10/2009 10:25:12 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . never whack them with a 2x4 if 4x4 is handy . . . . . . . . . . .)
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