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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 »
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September 11 – what Oliver Stone left out
This item was first printed here on October 9, 2003. U.S. Army Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, Chief, Army Reserve, will present the Soldier’s Medal, the highest peacetime award for heroism, to Captain John Chovanes, an Army Reservist with the Army Medical Corps. The ceremony will be held today, 1 December 2003, at the Pentagon in Room 2B548 at 2 pm. In the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001, Captain Chovanes at risk to his own life, voluntarily rendered medical aid, and assisted in the rescue of a New York Port Authority officer. The officer was buried well below the surface of the collapsed buildings. Rescue efforts involved slowly digging free the buried officer due to debris being above and around the rescue site. Captain Chovanes administered … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Military, 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
When the Ambulance Comes
Here’s an article I wrote on the topic “What Happens After You Call 911″. LINK … Read entire article »
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Oliver Stone’s 9/11
The right-o-sphere has been agog about Oliver Stone’s new movie, World Trade Center. From all reports, it’s not a hatchet job. There is a pair of Marines featured in a part of the movie. Their names are now known, though one had been a mystery. That’s nice. God bless them! But I wrote about another military hero from Ground Zero on October 9, 2003. U.S. Army Chief of the Army Reserve Lt. Gen. James Helmly pinned Chovanes with the Soldier’s Medal for his deeds that fateful September day during a Pentagon ceremony Dec. 1. “Once again, we see heroes rise to the occasion,†Helmly said, explaining the meaning of the medal to 22 family members who came to watch the ceremony. It’s the highest award a soldier can get for putting his life on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Heroes, Media, Military, Original writing, September 11, WOT Heroes
Presentation of Soldier’s Medal for Heroism
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, Chief, Army Reserve, will present the Soldier’s Medal, the highest peacetime award for heroism, to Captain John Chovanes, an Army Reservist with the Army Medical Corps. The ceremony will be held today, 1 December 2003, at the Pentagon in Room 2B548 at 2 pm. In the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001, Captain Chovanes at risk to his own life, voluntarily rendered medical aid, and assisted in the rescue of a New York Port Authority officer. The officer was buried well below the surface of the collapsed buildings. Rescue efforts involved slowly digging free the buried officer due to debris being above and around the rescue site. Captain Chovanes administered lifesaving medical treatment throughout the night to the buried … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Military, September 11, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
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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 … Read entire article »
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