I normally would have been up cleaning up the breakfast dishes for my elderly father, but Dad was in the hospital for relatively minor complaints and being waited on hand and foot by the staff (he believed in tipping orderlies, so was always treated nicely) so I slept in.  My fiance called to ask when I was going to the hospital, but then said she had to go suddenly, someone at her work had some emergency. 

Then she called back and told me a plane had crashed into WTC and to turn on my TV (this was maybe 8:50 – 8:55) so I did, saw the fire and thought of the plane that got stuck in the Empire State Building years ago, how this one must have been bigger and carrying more fuel to cause a fire like that, and the impossibility of fighting a fire in a building that tall.  Realizing I was going to be up now, I put on a pot of coffee and came back to the TV just in time to see the second plane approaching.

I thought, man, that plane is low, surely the pilot isn’t rubber-necking, how irresponsible!  Then it slammed into the other tower and I jumped off the sofa.

Like much of America, I was glued to the set, alarmed by the news from the Pentagon, and despairing of fighting the fires in WTC.  Still, I thought, it was an amazing architectural achievement that they were still standing at all.

And then, they weren’t.  Among the most horrible things imaginable, happening live before our eyes.  I’ll never forget it, or who did it.

Glad that clip of the dancing ‘stinians survives, just in case someone disputes the facts.  I saw a song by an idiot truther the other day, some people are truly gullible.

“I know who the enemy is.” I can recall watching on TV as a ten or eleven year old boy when the PLO blew up the hijacked airliners in the desert, followed by a jubilant Arafat with the headscarf and pistol on his hip. I knew instinctively this man and his followers were the enemy of all civilized people. 

Stacey, Socialists have always tried to rewrite history. This Kipling poem is one I read as often as “The Gods Of the Copybook Headings”, and for similar reasons.

Memories
1930
“The eradication of memories of the Great War. -SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT ORGAN

The Socialist Government speaks:

Wisely, but yearly, filch some wreath-
Lay some proud rite aside-
And daily tarnish with Our breath
The ends for which They died.
Distract, deride, decry, confuse-
(Or-if it serves Us-pray!)
So presently We break the use
And meaning of Their day!

“The story went on from there, but I don’t know whatever happened to the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties and I frankly doubt anyone paid any attention to that article because it was published on the morning of Sept. 11, 2011.”

Wrong date.  Off by a decade….

Agreed.  I hope it is not offending our host’s good offices if I speak frankly here: everything I have learned about the Palestinians since long before 9/11 has convinced me that they are the cockroaches of humanity. They have produced nothing but bloodshed and misery for the past three or four thousand years.  I am frankly baffled why the European Left and self-hating socialist Jewry have adopted them as their mascots.  They are despised even by other Arabs and Muslims, and there must be a reason why.  I’m sure there are individuals among them who are enlightened, intelligent, humane and admirable in all respects, and certainly they have no monopoly on wickedness, but on balance they are a plague on all their neighbors. My sympathy for their plight is completely exhausted.

I was working and my nurse told me that an airplane had hit one of the towers. I told her not to worry, this had happened to the Empire state building back in the twenties and nothing much came of it. Later she told me they heard on the radio that it happened again and I thought the news people were just repeating themselves. Finally, she told me that it was jets, two of them, one for each tower, and people were jumping out of the windows. This is when I knew it was a terrorist act. I told her and the drug rep delivering samples that If I were the president, I would have leaflets dropped on Baghdad telling folks to get out of town for a twenty mile perimeter, because it won’t be there in four days, and then nuke it. Much cheaper than what we did and probably more effective.

There are also images of Iranians holding  candlelight vigils and openly crying with us.    But like you said, some people are truly gullible.

Bill White Imus’s Guest on Imus In The Morning Fox Business News.
Three Days after the attacks of September 11th 2001, Bill White and the folks at Intrepid, decided to change the view of what OBL would be viewing on his television. Turns out Bill White was right OBL, liked to watch the response to his handiwork. Bill White, we changed what he would be watching when he turned on his tv, it was like giving him the middle finger.I will never forget – I will never submit.September 11th, 2001 “A Room With A View”

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-11th-2001-room-with-view.html

Which is precisely why we needed to go into Iraq as the first step in cleaning up the whole area: geographically well located, with an oil supply we could get back on stream while the Saudis continued to supply Europe. Once we had Iraq to replace them, glass the Saudis, get them back on stream, then take out the mullahs in Iran. Or vice versa.

What we forgot to do is take out our Fifth Column first, so the disloyal opposition couldn’t interfere.