9-11-01 : Where Were You ?

[SouthwestRanger]

I remember it as if it was yesterday.... [img]redface.gif[/img]

I was sitting down at my desk with a Green Mountain Coffee & Donut emailing some friends about the great Stevie Nicks concert I attended that past Saturday in Reading, PA when one of our staff ran in and told us to put on the news since her husband phoned her and said a plane just hit the WTC.... [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

We thought it was some guy in a private plane hot dogging with his girlfriend who made a bad turn...

Then we heard that another plane struck the Tower...

With that everyone started calling their friends and family to check on their safety, radios and tvs were put on and even Howard Stern dropped his format to do an all news program....He even warned his merry band of pranksters not to make any phoney phone calls since this was NO LAUGHING MATTER...

Even his former member Stuttering John said he was getting ready to break down and cry... [img]frown.gif[/img]

At 10:30 am we were told to evacuate the building and everyone started heading for their cars and going home....

I called my brothers and their families to check on them...My parents were down in South Jersey at a Antiques Fair for Seniors when they heard the news...

Later that night It was eerie hearing no planes in the sky...

It was the end of the innocence...

Where were you ? [img]mad.gif[/img]

[Sportyfan]

That morning I was asleep from working the midnight shift at the local steel mill. My mom called and woke me and at first I thought that I was hearing her wrong. I spent the next several hours watching it unfold.
Yesterday (sept 10), I rode my motorcycle out to Shanksville to see the Flight 93 site for myself. I've been to several places that command respect, but this living memorial was tough to be around. It reminded me of the loss and sacrifice of all the victims that day. Below are a couple of the pictures I took.
This first one is of the fence that people leave momentos at.



The second is the painted angels. One for each crewman or passenger



The final one says it all



There are other markers there from different organizations. But that fence with messages from those that went there to see and try to understand for themselves brings a lump to your throat. There was about 200 of us on motorcycles that went there and I saw very few dry eyes.

[Hilljayne]

I was living in Atlanta and had slept really late. I had gotten up and was getting ready for work and turned on the TV. There was nothing but news coverage on. At this point the first WTC had just been hit, then I witnessed the second one (on TV) as it happened. It was devastating. On my drive to work the streets were empty. It was a surreal day.

[SouthwestRanger]

Another ironic thing is that before 9-11-01 I took a Labor Day Road trip to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and three of the most ominous things occured...

As I was crossing from NJ into PA I noticed a Flat Bed Truck carrying a white hearse carriage...Later I found out it was the one that carried Aaliyah's (Who died in a plane crash in August 2001)body in the NYC Funeral procession earlier that morning...

When I was going through the R&R HOF's Special John Lennon exhibit there was the constant buzzing from fighter jets zooming past as part of a special military exhibit that was taking place on the Cleveland Waterfront

On the way back home I decided to stop over in Niagra Falls, Canada...As I was going through the Canadian Customs Check, I told the Border Guard I had a pocket knife, nail clipper, and hunting knife in my baggage and asked him if I had to turn it over for confiscation before entering Canada...

He said no since no harm could come out of that...

After 9-11 that surely changed... [img]confused.gif[/img]

[tim52160]

i was hauling diesel fuel to coal mines in southern indiana. when some first told me , i thought it was a joke. then wondered what we had down to some country that the govt didnt tell us about.friends in the military have told me theres always something going on. then security got tighter since i haul fuel. the govt tells us that the "terrorists" have had plans to use tankers like mine to "bomb" places.of course all of the so called security measures where just meant to inconvenience people and give the illusion that the govt actually cared or would do something that would help.anyone in the industry could tell you how full of holes their measures were. so now i have to spend a hundred bucks when i renew my cdl to prove i'm american, and when i go to deliver or pickup loads at an airport the guy checking me in can barely speak english. lol to me it seemed like something that happened in a foriegn country ,being it happened in new york didnt seem real to me till my dog died at the ripe old age of 20 years about one month and 11 days later.probably shock like a lot of people. it just seemed surreal.

[SouthwestRanger]

Bush Tacitly Implies WTC Controlled Demolition?
Makes strange 'explosives in U.S. buildings' reference during torture speech Friday

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 18 2006

During his speech Friday in which the President argued for the gutting of the Geneva convention and the legal classification of torture, Bush made a strange comment about explosives and their placement in U.S. buildings. Was this a tacit admission of 9/11 controlled demolition?

Here's the quote in full from the White House website .

"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out."

"That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."

The onset of both towers' collapse began at high points in the buildings. Is Bush implying planted incendiary devices were responsible for their destruction?

Comments on the meaning of what Bush said varied on the 911 Blogger website .

"There is no way to spin this around to say, "yeah, we knew all along that there were explosives in those buildings." But I'd sure like to see him try it! Imagine all the left gatekeepers who have openly scoffed at the "bombs brought down the towers" theory, suddenly trying to come back around to support the new government spin!"

"I think Bush is being set up to take the fall for 911," writes one, fearing Bush will be used as a higher level patsy to placate the burgeoning 9/11 truth movement.



Ben Fountain and Scott Forbes, who both worked in the twin towers, are on the record as saying that there were numerous evacuations and power-downs of the twin towers in the weeks leading up to the attack - more so than would be usually expected for a high profile building.

"How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on," Fountain told People Magazine .

In an online interview , Forbes said that the power down which took place the weekend before the attack was "unprecedented" and required a shutdown of the top 50 floors of the south tower - the reason for the shutdown was given as "re-cabling."

"The power outage meant that many of the 'ordinary' building features were not operating, such as security locks on doors, cameras, lighting, etc."

Forbes said the sight of strange men in overalls going in and out of the building with tools was highly unusual and that the "coincidence" of it occurring days before the attack was highly suspicious.
There has been some speculation within the 9/11 truth movement that the evidence for controlled demolition having been used on both the towers and building 7 is so overwhelming that the government will eventually be forced to spin a whitewash and formulate a "limited hangout" that Al-Qaeda somehow managed to rig the buildings with explosives before the attack.

In May 2002 the New York Daily News reported that Mohammed Atta was in Manhattan in the days before the attack and other outlets have also carried claims that the hijackers were in the twin towers asking directions and casing their target before September 11.

Forbes is adamant that the "men in overalls" performing "re-cabling" operations were ethnically diverse and by no means largely Arab as would have to be the case if the government went with this story.

Though Bush's quote is certainly interesting it is unlikely to represent an entree into a change of tack whereby the government admits controlled demolition but then pins the blame on its erstwhile patsies.

To concede such gargantuan ground would undo the work of several massively funded government studies as well as the 9/11 Commission and it would only undermine further the credibility of the entire official story.

The hubris and arrogance of the Bush administration ensures it does not do 'retractions' and you won't see one here. The survival of the official lie depends solely on its constant repetition and any deviation from that mould would result in catastrophe for the collaborators and conspirators who carried out 9/11.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/sep..._in_speech.htm

SR: And anyone familiar with THE X-FILES recalls the unsuccessful spinoff series THE LONE GUNMEN featuring the adventures of Agent Mulders conspiracy geek pals ...

The series is now rarely seen even on the SCI-FI Channel especially the first episode in which Froikhe was trapped aboard a Jet Aircraft programmed to CRASH INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER...

Even more eerie it was first aired Several Months before 9-11-01 ! [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]