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Marine pilot returns to Afghanistan in command
It’s Sept. 12, 2001. The wreckage from the attacks the day before still smolders. An aircraft carrier with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit lies off the eastern shore of the United States. Several CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters with engines running rest on the deck. The flight lead is a young Marine captain, Alison Thompson. Her freckles and biting blue eyes are veiled by her visor and flight helmet. She wants to take off. “We had six 53s turning … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Marines, Military, Our Best: Military Women, September 11, War on Terror
Justice has been done – bin Laden Killed
Department of Defense Special Report: The Demise of Osama bin Laden In the early morning hours of darkness yesterday, about 35 miles northeast of Islamabad, Pakistan, dozens of U.S. special operations members and CIA agents readied themselves aboard military helicopters for the operation of a lifetime. U.S. intelligence officers had been gathering evidence since August that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was not in a cave along the U.S.-Pakistan border, as had become lore, but was living … Read entire article »
Filed under: Military, September 11, War on Terror
September 11 – links to websites
Here are some websites you might not have found that show the images and memories of the murders that took place on September 11, 2001. Army Corps of Engineers – WTC site Army Corps of Engineers – Pentagon site U.S. Coast Guard – oral histories site Department of Defense – special topic site National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States – 9/11 commission final report Library of Congress – Witness and Response, the Library’s collection of material related to 9/11 State Department – Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories debunked … Read entire article »
Filed under: September 11, War on Terror
September 11 – photos to remember that day
Photos above found at the Army Corps of Engineers site for the World Trade Centers The photo above found at the National System for Geospatial Intelligence site. … Read entire article »
Filed under: September 11, War on Terror
September 11 – more than we could bear
The following was first printed here on September 9, 2003. That night, my eyes and lungs still stinging, I walked up the Great White Way. It’s a section of road to which all others like it are measured, one which has made audiences laugh and cry for over a century. Tonight it was dark, but many of us came anyway, unsure what to do or say. We heard stories of the Pentagon, and the Heros who died in a Pennsylvanian field. It all felt far away, surreal, impossible. We heard Air Force jets overhead, and what seemed an endless cry of NYPD and FDNY sirens through the night, while we fought shock and horror. Giuliani said more would be dead than we could bear, and he was right. For months I walked … Read entire article »
Filed under: Other Bloggers, September 11, War on Terror
September 11 – Rick Rescorla
The following was first printed here on September 9, 2003. Lt. Rick Rescorla, Platoon Leader, B Co 2/7 Cav A hero for our time, England and Cornwall’s finest! Lt Rescorla survived that engagement and many others. He had grown up in a village on England’s southwest coast and left at age sixteen to join the British military. He’d fought against Communists in Cyprus and Rhodesia. He then came to America, he said, so that he could enlist in the Army and go to Vietnam. He welcomed the opportunity to join the American cause in Southeast Asia. He worked his way up through the ranks to Sergeant before being commissioned… After fighting in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and used his military benefits to study creative writing at the University of Oklahoma. Literary minded, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, September 11, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
September 11 – no ordinary day
The following was first printed here on August 27, 2003. September 11, 2001 dawned for me like many had that summer, sunny and warm. I was out of work for nearly a year, working a 4 hour per day temp job at the time. About 9 or so my boss came in and asked if I had a news station on my radio in the bookkeeping office. His daughter had called and said that a plane had hit a skyscraper in Manhattan. I turned the radio to WHAM, the local 50,000 watt Clear Channel talk station and sat in horror for the next three hours. I suppose I did something that morning, but I have no recollection. I called my wife at work and told her, and told her that I … Read entire article »
Filed under: September 11, War on Terror
That Day, That Damned Day!
Reprinted from August 2003 September 11, 2001 dawned for me like many had that summer, sunny and warm. I was out of work for nearly a year, working a 4 hour per day temp job at the time. About 9 or so my boss came in and asked if I had a news station on my radio in the bookkeeping office. His daughter had called and said that a plane had hit a skyscraper in Manhattan. I turned the radio to WHAM, the local 50,000 watt Clear Channel talk station and sat in horror for the next three hours. I suppose I did something that morning, but I have no recollection. I called my wife at work and told her, and told her that I would be going straight to the … Read entire article »
Filed under: September 11, War on Terror
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Murder – the Crime Is Murder
September 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Seven years have passed since the events of September 11, 2001. Lots of words have been used to describe those events but the one word, the most important word, that ought to be used is MURDER. A group of well-educated men plotted for years to commit murder. Some were wealthy, some were doctors, engineers, college professors. They had but two things in common, an overwhelming desire for power and the willingness to commit murder. Nothing that Americans did provoked these murders. The men who did them claimed that Islam told them to kill unbelievers. Their real motives were far baser. They hated the society that had given them all that they were. Their wealth, their education, their place in their societies all came as a free gift from the West, from America. They … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Original writing, September 11, War on Terror