9/11: Never Forget
Posted on | September 11, 2010 | 41 Comments
Thanks to Big Fur Hat for reminding us of this 70-minute documentary:
UPDATE: Joe at Valley of the Shadows reminds us how on 9/11/01, “At 8:46 AM, the world shifted on its axis.”
UPDATE II: Statement from Georgia 12th District congressional candidate Ray McKinney:
Nine years ago today, I turned on my television while getting ready for work, and the first thing I saw was smoke billowing from the World Trade Center. I learned that a jetliner had plowed into the building, and at that moment I knew we were at war. After three more jetliners crashed — one in the other trade tower, one into the Pentagon, and one into a field in Pennsylvania — 3,000 people died at the hands of Islamic terrorists. From Augusta to Savannah, Milledgeville to Vidalia to Statesboro — all of our families were attacked — and America changed forever on that day. Today, I join with the rest of the nation in honoring those who died that day and those who risked their lives to rescue people from the wreckage. And I honor the millions of Americans of all occupations, ethnic groups, religions, and political beliefs who responded to the attacks not with hatred, but with unity, turning to each other by showing acts of kindness. Unfortunately, nine years later, our nation is bitterly divided. But I have confidence that the American people can and will once again work together to get our country back on track.
UPDATE III: Never forget that, on 9/10/2001, feminists were insisting that the Pentagon devote its attention to a crucial nation-security issue:
After briefings from representatives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, [the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services] . . . issued a formal request for more information on what they deemed a matter of paramount military significance: breast-feeding.
As the terrorists prepared to hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon itself, our military leaders were directed “to engage in open dialogue” on lactation tactics.
UPDATE IV: Two very different headlines today:
Muslim Prayer Room Was Part of Life at Twin Towers
— New York TimesOne block between Ground Zero mosque and human remains
– New York Post
Via Memeorandum.
UPDATE V: Ace of Spades laments:
[The media] tends to sanitize things like this, to gloss it over as if it’s some abstract thing that happened in ancient history: “And we musn’t get those rednecks all flustered about these things … we must provide the filter and nuance since they don’t understand the subtleties of the matter. There are two sides to this story and both are equally valid. We must provide the narrative”
In other words, these journalists are not content to tell you what happened, but feel compelled to tell it in such a way as to condition your reaction — an effort to signal how you should feel about what happened.

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