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Then, amid the horrified exclamations, comes a third, angry voice: "Don't take pictures of that!"

But pictures were taken. Video was shot

I really understand those who objected to recording the horrors of that day.

But I remember when Gen. Schwarzkopf hosted a 50th Anniverary of Pearl Harbor special
on ABC (just months after Desert Storm).
He said that the US government had seized press photographers film used
to photo garbage cans full of amputated limbs from the hospitals that took in the wounded
in the aftermath of Dec. 7th, 1941.
(I suspect this was to not offend the sensitivities of the American public...AND...
to make sure that all Japanese-Americans won't lynched en-masse in one night of
mis-directed revenge.)

Knowing how august, elite institutions including the likes of The Smithsonian Institution
like to re-write history...I then determined that no matter how hideous, history must be fully
and faithfully recorded.

Thanks to all the cameras and video-cams in the hands of professionals and amateur
citizens...there most likely won't be a successful revision of what happened
9-11-01.

If they took pictures of what I think they did its going to be very graphic. My co-workers had to walk around the bodies that fell out of the windows. The said the ground was full of blood and very slippery. Sorry for the graphic words but that is all we talked about when we went back to work.

SUBJECT: 9-11 Arab Terrorist Attack

Knowing how august, elite institutions including the likes of The Smithsonian Institution like to re-write history...I then determined that no matter how hideous, history must be fully and faithfully recorded. Thanks to all the cameras and video-cams in the hands of professionals and amateur citizens...there most likely won't be a successful revision of what happened 9-11-01.

Excellent point. We're lucky that today the truth resides in millions of hard drives around the country and not just in the hands of a few editors. One thing we can also do to retard "truth-melt" is to try always to call the 9-11 Arab Terrorist Attack, aka the Sept 11 Arab Massacre of Amercians, by its name.