I will never read of this without a tear in my eye.
God Bless America
Posted on 10/21/2001 3:27:50 PM PDT by jern
Any time that it appears that our nation's resolve to prosecute this war is waning, all the networks should replay the film of the WTC being hit - and interview people whose lives were directly affected.
Too, too real.;-(
Mr. Carty and Mr. Goodwin also were talking on the phone with Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, who was in a government command bunker with Vice President Dick Cheney.
Mr. Carty told Mr. Mineta that American was ordering all 162 of its planes out of the sky; United already had ordered its 122 planes down. About five minutes later, the FAA shut down the skies over the U.S. completely to all but military aircraft.
I had an uncle who worked for Delta for over 30 years, and I know from many years of talking with him that anytime there is a crash or any emergency, the entire airline grieves for weeks. My uncle was at DFW when there was a big crash in the early 1980s and it was like a death in the family to him. A woman who goes to my church is an American flight attendant and was best friends with one of the attendants on Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon. She is devastated.
People do not realize how hard ONE plane crash is for airline employees. It is almost impossible to fathom how devastated everyone at United and American must be, to lose two planes with all their crew and pasengers, the on top of that knowing that their planes were used as bombs to kill thousands. If the terrorists had only managed to crash four U.S. commercial airliners into the ground in one day, it would have been the most horrible thing to ever happen here.
I will never read of this without a tear in my eye.
God Bless America
When this is over, and these wretches have been taught their place and introduced to their limitations, we should keep an eye on them, from a position at arm's length from us.
Maybe in a thousand years or so will they be capable of living with honor. Until then they will remain our vanquished and humiliated would-be enemies... As powerless as common street whores... As low as mangy, sh!t-eating dogs.
I hadn't realized that these two airlines had decided to ground their planes moments before Mineta ordered all of them down. I think that action saved another 5,000 lives.
I had not seen this article, really chilling, and I appreciate the repost if that is what it was.
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