New Tapes Reveal 9/11 Drama

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[BenLurkin]

CBS/AP) In gripping, vivid accounts of individual heroism and organizational chaos, firefighters describe their response to - and escape from - the World Trade Center in 12,000 pages of oral histories made public today.

[madprof98]

Sounds like another distraction from that OTHER bit of news about the same date in history.

[G32]

So depressing.

And now there's clowns on there dancing on their graves too.

[Ciexyz]

Of to read the links.

[BenLurkin]

WHY WE FIGHT TODAY

NEVER AGAIN!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like another distraction from that OTHER bit of news about the same date in history.

Remember "Abu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu GhraibAbu Ghraib?"

Now it's our turn: "Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger Able Danger."

Paybacks are fun.

[BenLurkin]

ABLE DANGER bump!

[vrwc0915]

God Bless all those who made the sacrifice. There is nothing more honorable than to give ones life so that others may live!

[OldFriend]

By what right did the NYSlimes have to these tapes.

It would seem that they thrive on dancing on the graves of the innocent.

If the families want to have the tapes I have no problem at all with that......but the Slimes!

[the invisib1e hand]

I'm sorry, I just don't here "chaos." I hear calm and professionalism in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. Great timing of the release, though.

[BunnySlippers]

Archived here:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html Sorry, don't know how to link.

[BunnySlippers]

Here it is:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html

[DumpsterDiver]

By what right did the NYSlimes have to these tapes.

They took the FDNY to court. From the article:

Compelled by a lawsuit filed by The New York Times when the FDNY did not comply with a freedom of information request and ruling by New York's highest court, the department made public 15 hours of radio transmissions and more than 500 oral histories describing the rush to the World Trade Center, which saved an unknown number of civilians.

snip

[OldFriend]

Many families joined the suit too. They want to sue the powers that be for perceived radio failures.

[the invisib1e hand]

here's a moving excerpt:

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thanks.

[the invisib1e hand]

major collapse Tower Two...

can anybody hear me! I'm a civilian...I'm in the cab of your truck...save me!... I can barely breathe...!

...mobilize the Army...

Ladder 15, do you have a message?

(approx 26:30, file "audio 776227").

OMG. This makes my blood boil. All over again.

[BenLurkin]

Personally, I will never forget nor forgive.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Personally, I will never forget nor forgive.

Me as well.

[the invisib1e hand]

pure vanity here. i downloaded the audio and was listening while I did other stuff on the net. if you heard the audio, you heard the constant communication between dispatched emergency units and the dispatchers. I was listening to this on iTunes.

I wasn't prepared for this part. I'm listening to this drama (on this file, the towers hadn't come down yet -- the firefighters and emt's were still busy responding to dispatches to various rooms in the buildings), and suddenly (the file had ended) a woman's haunting voice wails, "beyond these shores, into the darkness..." as the next file on iTunes, a song called "Beyond these Shores" by Iona, begins.

I tell ya, I had to let that sink in.

[elbucko]

Personally, I will never forget nor forgive.

I agree, it's all too much. From the deliberate indifference and incompetence regarding the safety of the US by all those in the Clinton Administration, to the US government officials not doing their job such as the CIA, FBI, FAA, INS and to the Muslims and Islam itself.

Sept. 11th. 2001 is too big a hurt to forgive those complicit in the horror of that day.