United Flight 93 - Lest We Forget
Sep 13, 2021 11:06:26 #
Seems all here are patriots! Have you seen the news today? A high school in Washington state cancelled a 911 tribute at a football game because it was insensitive and might offend someone. Taking Johnny Carson slightly out of context, "May the Bird of Paradise fly up someone's nose and reside there until after defecation."
Sep 13, 2021 11:54:04 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
Heroes: Quiet men doing what needed to be done despite being terrified. Men who'd rather die fighting on their feet than on their knees in subjugation. These are the Americans we used to be. What has happened to this once great country and her people?
Sep 13, 2021 11:57:15 #
Sep 13, 2021 12:16:29 #
Sep 13, 2021 12:22:58 #
Unbelievable courage. Very, very special people.
I was scheduled to fly from SFO to JFK the morning of September 11th, on business. I had an office in Manhattan, and NJ, where I had meetings on Wednesday and Thursday. My routine was to fly back home Friday morning from Newark airport.
A week later as I was filling out my expense report for the prior week, I included my unused airline ticket and itinerary document, when I noticed my return flight the morning of September 14th was United flight 93.
I have chills to this day, thinking about it.
I was scheduled to fly from SFO to JFK the morning of September 11th, on business. I had an office in Manhattan, and NJ, where I had meetings on Wednesday and Thursday. My routine was to fly back home Friday morning from Newark airport.
A week later as I was filling out my expense report for the prior week, I included my unused airline ticket and itinerary document, when I noticed my return flight the morning of September 14th was United flight 93.
I have chills to this day, thinking about it.
Sep 13, 2021 12:27:47 #
Bridges wrote:
If you can read this and not tear up, you most likely are not human!
or a terrorist that needs to be turned into a screaming quadriplegic.
Edit... upon thought I was compelled to change "raghead" to terrorist.
As there exists Islams that are peaceful honourable souls that
do not believe in the oxymoron of "holy war".
Sep 13, 2021 12:46:41 #
Sep 13, 2021 12:59:00 #
Sep 13, 2021 13:14:20 #
JRiepe wrote:
This darn near brought tears to my eyes. What a sad day.
It did bring tears to my eyes, as did a visit last year to the Flight 93 Memorial. Anyone visiting that memorial that does not get some emotional response is a heartless creature. The passengers on that flight were the true heroes of that day.
Sep 13, 2021 13:31:31 #
Brave folks and they're to be commended for what they did.
One thing I noticed yesterday was that the dead at the Pentagon didn't get much mention in all of the various news stories, memorials and such that I saw. I realize more died in NY and that the folks on 93 were brave and prevented more deaths…but was kinda surprised that the Pentagon was so lightly mentioned. Maybe it was just the ones I saw or read though…
I worked post Navy retirement as a defense contractor in Crystal City nearby at the time and when the plane hit the Pentagon the radio reported a helo had crashed over there. We took a look out of the window on the NW corner of the building and saw the smoke plume…maybe a half mile away as the crow flies…and immediately knew it was something much larger than a helo based on the size of the smoke cloud. I was a sysadmin at the time and except for a last minute change of plans would have been in the Penguin albeit in the basement on the opposite side from the impact so I would have been fine. We spent the rest of that day and night pulling computer equipment, switches, routers, and the like out of the Pentagon since it was thought the entire building would burn to the ground initially…it's an asphalt roof and the fire got up into the mezzanine and that's like trying to put out a pile of tires on fire…very hard to get it extinguished. We actually let work about 4 days later…spent the entire time doing emergency network installations so that the DoD staff would have a place to do their jobs. Bent a lot of classified material rules along the way…but in what was essentially a tactical situation you do what you need to do to git 'er done.
One thing I noticed yesterday was that the dead at the Pentagon didn't get much mention in all of the various news stories, memorials and such that I saw. I realize more died in NY and that the folks on 93 were brave and prevented more deaths…but was kinda surprised that the Pentagon was so lightly mentioned. Maybe it was just the ones I saw or read though…
I worked post Navy retirement as a defense contractor in Crystal City nearby at the time and when the plane hit the Pentagon the radio reported a helo had crashed over there. We took a look out of the window on the NW corner of the building and saw the smoke plume…maybe a half mile away as the crow flies…and immediately knew it was something much larger than a helo based on the size of the smoke cloud. I was a sysadmin at the time and except for a last minute change of plans would have been in the Penguin albeit in the basement on the opposite side from the impact so I would have been fine. We spent the rest of that day and night pulling computer equipment, switches, routers, and the like out of the Pentagon since it was thought the entire building would burn to the ground initially…it's an asphalt roof and the fire got up into the mezzanine and that's like trying to put out a pile of tires on fire…very hard to get it extinguished. We actually let work about 4 days later…spent the entire time doing emergency network installations so that the DoD staff would have a place to do their jobs. Bent a lot of classified material rules along the way…but in what was essentially a tactical situation you do what you need to do to git 'er done.
Sep 13, 2021 13:34:45 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
Lest we forget. br br Todd: Hello… Operator…list... (show quote)
Theres one thing that bothers me about flight 93, they pulled in a TV in the break room of my job the day this happened. They interviewed a guy in Penn. supposedly a retired Marine Captain , he said he was outside mowing his grass and heard a boom, saw flight 93 fall from the sky and 2 F16's almost literally fly trough the smoke of the falling plane. As far as I know the guy was never interviewed or publicly heard from again. Not questioning the bravery or determination of the passengers but the circumstances of the interview and its disappearance always struck me kinda strange.
Sep 13, 2021 13:37:36 #
SteveFranz
Loc: Durham, NC
Alafoto wrote:
Heroes: Quiet men doing what needed to be done despite being terrified. Men who'd rather die fighting on their feet than on their knees in subjugation. These are the Americans we used to be. What has happened to this once great country and her people?
We still have them. They are serving in our military, police departments, fire departments, paramedics....
Semper Fi brothers & sisters!
Sep 13, 2021 14:14:07 #
It is proof of what we can accomplish when united and not so completely divided.
Sep 13, 2021 15:13:31 #
Sep 13, 2021 17:31:10 #
If I can see to type this..I was in my second day of training as a Foreign Service Officer. We were at the Foreign Service Institute, part of the State Department, but in Arlington VA. We were sent home (many had kids in school) and I watched television all day like all of us did. We returned the next day without interruption; no one dropped out. The passengers and crew of Flight 93 were heroes.
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