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Remember, America, and remember it well, what happened here that day, on a sunny summer morning when we were attacked
without provocation by foreign Islamic fundamentalist terrorists claiming the right to rule others, and claiming to speak
for a major world religion, both beliefs being fictions which existed, and still do exist, only in their own minds:
The Architect of the Attack, Still America's Most Wanted, Dead or Alive:
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Usama bin Laden, Saudi citizen
The Day Begins-
The plan of attack, showing the routes of the four planes on the East Coast of the United States:
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In New York -
The Night Before - The Twin Towers as they once stood, as the caption in French reads, 'lighting up the New
York sky':
The second plane approaches the World Trade Center:
And collides:
The WTC burns:
And trembles:
And burns:
The Human Toll -
Cut off from the collapsed stairwells and elevator shafts on the upper floors of the WTC South Tower, our
fellow Americans, men and women, jump to their known deaths rather than be crushed in the rubble of the collapsing tower they
see coming. We can only imagine the agony in their hearts at that split second of personal decision, as torn between the knowledge
of their certain fate on this earth entailed in the collapsing tower, and their Hope everlasting as to what their
fate would be in the next life, they made their decision. What is remarkable in afterthought is the similarity between their
decision on the South Tower, and the decision other Americans aboard Flight 93 would make later that same morning over Pennsylvania,
in charging a cockpit filled to the brim with murderous animals.
The message of all these Americans to us, though, is certain:
Remember Me.
Remember me, Mom, Dad, wife and kids, with the shining face of my youth.
And that, although I did not wear a uniform,
I was an American.
Remember what happened here that day:
The Scene on the ground Downtown, near the World Trade Center:
The Towers have collapsed:
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At the Pentagon -
The Pentagon as seen from the air:
The Route of Attack on the Pentagon by the murderers controlling the cockpit of Flight 77:
The Pentagon is hit:
The damage as seen from the ground:
THE FLIGHT THAT FOUGHT BACK:
UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93
On Septemeber 11, United Airlines Flight 93, originally enroute from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco,
California, crashed into the ground at Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Based on the available evidence,
CPT Jason
Dahl,
Flight Attendant Debby Welsh,
Flight Attendant CeeCee Lyles,
Richard Guardagno,
Lou Nacke,
Jeremy
Glick,
Tom Burnett (His last words
on his cell phone
to his wife, Tina:
"Don't worry, honey,
we're going to do something.");
Nicole Miller,
Alan Beaven,
Mark Bingham,
Elizabeth Wainio (Her last words on her cell phone
to her mother:
"Mom, we're rushing the cockpit now,
I've got to go.");
and
Todd M. Beamer
of Cranbury, NJ:
("Let's roll!"),
having recived sporadic information on their passenger and plane cellphones
that hijacked airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, attempted to fight off and retake
Flight 93 from Ziad Jarrah and the other three armed animals who hijacked their plane on 9/11. In the course of
that fight, these foreign animals slit the throats of our stewardesses with boxcutters.
These American heroes used the food cart to attack the cockpit ,
where the hijackers had attempted to lock themselves in, attacking single file because of the lack of width of the
passenger aisle on the Boeing 757.
We don't know exactly what each one of these individual heroes did
to take back Flight 93, and we never will, but we do know this: All of them, along with all 40 on board, were and are, real
Patriots, and Martyrs, and That They Will Never Die.
"No greater love hath man than this:
that he would lay down his life for his fellow man."
The last words spoken on the recorder taken from Flight 93:
"Shut up and sit down," Jarrah is heard to yell to the Americans
on the recorder, as if he was speaking to someone in the Muslim world state he and his kind are trying to set up.
One cowardly hijacker, speaking fearfully of the Americans coming at them, yelled: "Hold the door!"
An American patriot, charging, as heard on the cockpit's recorder:
"Get them!"
The very last words: "Allah is the greatest," one of
the animals yells.
The airplane is seen by a private pilot visibly rocking in the
air at 10 a.m., minutes before it crashed into the ground.
As to what actually did occur on Flight 93, the theory subscribed
to by the Association editors of this page, a theory which is accepted by many of those knowledgeable of airplanes and
airplane hijackings, is that the Americans did take back the cockpit, killed or rendered useless the animals who had seized
the flight, thus foiling their plot, but, in the course of what must have been a very heated struggle in a confined space,
and without a trained pilot among them, could not control the airplane.
None of he heroes of Flight 93 were soldiers. They were civilians,
simple Americans from different walks of life, different sexes, races and creeds. But they all wore the Cloth of the
American Nation. And they knew it.
That, and that alone, is what their story,
this story, is about.
America's honor does not lie in cowering under a bed
waiting for bombs to fall.
Editors Note:
Universal Studio's motion picture
United Flight 93, released in April, 2006, tells
the true story of Flight 93 in full, no punches pulled. If you are ready for the story above as we have told it, then you
are ready for the movie.
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On the morning of September 11, 2001 President George W. Bush was at the Emma E. Booker Elementary
School in Sarasota, Florida, preparing to speak to a group of second graders on the importance of reading.
This snapshot was taken at the very second White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispered to the
President that the attack on the World Trade Center had taken place. In this very human picture we can see the shock
that every true American felt at the moment we heard that we had been attacked, and the damage that had been done to our country:
MAY GOD BLESS OUR BELOVED LAND, OUR BELOVED AMERICA.
- from the men and women of the
United States Navy Veterans Association
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