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Within moments after Flight 93 hit the ground here 21 years ago, locals, some on foot, others on tractors, and some on ATVs, dropped everything they were doing and hurried to the scene to see how they could help. To their great horror, all they found was a crater in the field near the edge of the trees spanning 30 feet in both directions still smoldering from the impact. Within six days, bales of hay were laid down at the reclaimed coal mine to create a base for a makeshift memorial for the family members who were brought here to...

I haven't forgotten: What a beautiful fall morning it was Driving into work and hearing that a plane had hit the Trade Center Watching on TV at work as the second plane hit. Calling friends and family, and rushing home. Watching the smoke plumes from a hill in NJ On TV, watching people waving out windows in the upper floors for help Watching people dive out the building choosing a quick death rather than die in the fire. Todd Beamer's "Let's Roll" that saved untold lives. Losing a good friend who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, who liked nothing more than...

9/11/04 - MY THOUGHTS Today is the third anniversary of September 11, 2001. Much has happened in the past three years to the world and to us, individually and collectively, as Americans. On that beautiful autumn day we were attacked and we trembled. We were blinded by our fear and we cried out. We rose up from the smoke and rubble and responded with the strength of unity. The towers crumbled, the Pentagon was in flames and Flight 93 was forced to the earth with the words, "Let's Roll!". There were no survivors on those planes that were turned into...

Don't forget who Dan Rather is!

As America pauses to reflect on the memory of the victims of 9/11, let's not forget the reactions of others in the aftermath of that terrible day.

Here is an account of September 10, 2001, 12 hours before the first plane hit. I was at a rally to support the flying of the American Flag from the telephone poles down Main Street in Amhert Mass. What happened that night was quite profound!~