I was inspired by this Fox News Report as part of series examining how Americans discovered and dealt with the events of 9/11-01.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395002,00.html

Here's a chance to talk about that day from your perspective. Here's my story.

Like every other day at the time I got up early and turned on CNN. Nothing was happening of note. I ate, showered, shaved and got dressed for work. I got in my car and started backing out of the garage. The radio was set to "Q95" and the "Bob and Tom Show", an Indianapolis based but nationally syndicated comedy talk show. It's normally very goofy.

As soon as I heard their voices I knew something was very wrong. They had such a serious tone. I soon heard that TWO planes had hit the WTCs. Both had hit between when I watched CNN and got in the car. My mind raced, quickly eliminating the possibility of accident. As I listened, I knew we were at war.

I ran back in the house and woke my wife up, telling her what happened. Together we turned on CNN again and watched the towers burn. After a brief time I decided to go to work. As I was driving in Bob and Tom (who were doing a great job of seriously reporting for two normally zany radio clowns) came in with the first confused reports about the Pentagon. I called my wife on the cell and screamed "THE F-ING PENTAGON?!"

When I got to work almost everyone there was huddled in one guy's office who had a snowy picture on a pathetic 9 inch portable TV. I watched that for a couple of minutes before going to my office and trying to get some work done.

Suddenly one of the Secretaries went running down the hall sobbing, hysterical. I jumped up and asked what was going on. She told me one of the towers had collapsed and was simply gone. I couldn't believe it as I calculated in my mind the potential deaths. I thought it could be nearly 10,000.

It was clear no work was going to get done that day. It wasn't long after that the news about the second tower raced through halls. Not long later the loudspeakers came on and building management announced that they were closing the building and asking everyone to leave.

I went home and saw on our TV, for the first time, the clear videos of the towers falling. I saw the sickening footage of the plane hitting the second tower. It was gut wrenching.

It was my older daughter's 18th birthday, really. We tried to call her at IU but it was mid-afternoon before we reached her. Stunningly, classes were going on as normal there and the clueless university students did not yet grasp the significance of what happened. When I told my daughter this was her generation's Pearl Harbor, and that we were going to have to kill a lot of people because of this, it began to sink in.

We sat in front of the TV most of the day simply in shock, and growing very angry. I'm still angry.


The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.

I awoke that morning as usual to prepare for work, with one exception. It was my son's 4th birthday and I spent time with him playing with the new toy train set we had given him. I remember vividly how excited he was. I kissed my wife and left for work thinking all was right with the world.

When I got to work, I went to the physical therapy department to have a cup of coffee with my friend Eric, as we usually did before patients started arriving. As I was sitting there with him another employee rushed in to tell us a plane had hit the WTC. I remember thinking "what idiot pilot woould be flying that close to such an obvious obstacle." We went to a small TV in one of the physician's offices and became aware that we were under attack. We watched events unfold crowded around that TV. When the first tower fell, I remember becoming overwhelmed with emotion at the thought of how many people were probably still in that building. I briefly departed the office in tears at the thought, exiting through the patient waiting area at the clinic. I remember seeing a woman sitting there in customary Muslim dress (an odd occurrence in South LA where almost everyone is Catholic). The emotions I felt at the sight of her varied from anger to sympathy. The rest of the people in the waiting area were glued to the TV in there. She sat silent and alone in the corner with her eyes downward. I don't know if she was afraid or ashamed. She was not happy.

I spent the rest of the day as most did, watching the events unfold until I got home. At that time I did all I could to preserve the joy of my boy's birthday and insulate him and his 2 year old sister from the horror we were all feeling. It was one of the most difficult things I ever had to do.

I AM SANE ONE SAYS:

OK, Keith. Here goes. Under I AM SANE ONE SN on AOL I posted what I saw that day and have been searching the Internet to this day to verify what I saw on 09-11-01. I don't care that I reveal that I posted under the SN I AM SANE ONE since AOL is barring me and probably many others from posting today, 5-6-09.

I have read your replies, if my memory serves me correctly, how you don't believe in a W conspiracy here.

Here goes.

I have two vivid thoughts from that day.

#1: W sitting there, reading My Pet Goat, and thinking his expression was: Dick C. really pulled this off; and,

#2: While following the network coverage, for the life of me, I can't remember which network, the network had an aerial view of one of the twin WTC towers rooftops in full view. I SAW A FOUR CORNER PERFECT EXPLOSION TAKE PLACE. My eyes don't deceive me, Keith.

SO SAYS I AM SAME ONE.

That is my true story remembering 9-11-01.

Brinkzs. Dang.

I AM SANE ONE says correction:

Not a perfect four corner explosion....a perfect four corner implosion. Sorry.

So says I AM SANE ONE.

Brinkzs.

Well Sane One, it is simply impossible that the WTCs were brought down by a controlled demolition. I simply could have happened that way. The demolitions could have not been placed. No demolitions could have reliably been placed to survive plane impacts and subsequent fire. The collapse initiated at the point where the planes impacted, not somewhere else. Any CDs would have created very audible explosions that would have been heard immediately before the buildings' collapse, and that did not happen. Litterally tons of explosive would have had to been preset over many weeks and many of them would have had to have been placed into partially precut beams. No way that goes on unnoticed.

It's simply an impossible theory.

"The world is a mess, and I just need to rule it." --Dr. Horrible.

Listen closely to the very last item Keith. It deals with what Ws government knew about 9-11-01 and when they knew it. Geesh. Brinkzs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZQYvPanf0Q&feature=PlayList&p=6EC3A55FD2181E3B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=122

Olbermann? Get serious.

Heather listen again....Orrin Hatch said the same thing on 9-12-01 on network news. The GOP put him (Hatch) for 18 months after his national comment. It was an inside job. Geesh. Brinkzs.

Open you ears.

Brinkzs, first what Michael Mukasey said does not undermine the reasons for the impossibility of C/Ds that I posted. It doesn't address it at all.

Second, Mukasey did not say they knew about 9/11. He said that a phone call, LATER determined to be related to 9/11 (in some unstated way) was made and that they did not know where it went.

There is no doubt the government failed to put various pieces together that could have helped prevent 9/11. However, that in no way proves a conspiracy. It's just evidence that there needed to be better coordination between widely disparate people and agencies.

You have to realize that because one person knew one thing and another person knew another and yet another knew a third thing, that this does not mean there was any one person who knew all three things and could see the puzzle clearly.


"The world is a mess, and I just need to rule it." --Dr. Horrible.