World Trade Center

[Timebuilder]

A special on the History Channel tonight at 8 PM:

World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon

I watched it being built from my window at NYU, and like most of you, I saw it fall.

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

Wasn't born when they were built but ive been to the tops, and watched them fall while sitting in a classroom at ERAU DAB. One of the worst days of my life. WAtched our country get attacked and watch my flying career for the next 5 years hit the **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**s!

Still one of those things that goes through my head everyday.

 

[FR8dognit]

as a furloughee I know what you are feeling but the second I realized things arent so bad in my world was when I saw the moms and the dads and everyone with their pictures of the missing persons...that was the worst part of the whole thing. Havent cryed since I was a kid...but I cryed when I saw that.

 

[PilotoHalcon]

The Cpt, FO and myself had a three day layover at EWR starting 16 Oct of that year. We all did vollunteer work in a kitchen there. I saw people from all over the world, I met a Japaneses movie actress, a French nuclear engineer, and a Jewish lady frying bacon with me. We were all working there. There was a 17 year old girl from Chile who came to visit her sister working with us. Her sister was working in tower 0ne when it went down. She was there trying to find her sister and working with us at the same time. I met some awsome folks those three days. Since I was a cop at one time some of New Yorks finest showed me "the site". (New Yorkers do not call it ground zero) and all I remember was the smell. Yes I cried, we all did. I met some of the finest people when I was there. It gives you a good feeling about the human species when we needed it most. In one respect it was the best experience I could have had (Knowing those people) but at the same time I wish it was not possible. And let us never forget what happened that day.
j

 

[LR25]

Pilotohalcon, thats an awsome story.

I have family that live in NJ accross from Manhattan, and one of them worked around the WTC. I like many others Im sure felt the urge to do something, somehow to get up there and help.

My brother was on the ferry from NJ going to work when they saw the 2nd airplane running down the skyline.

Ill never forget, non of us will.

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

I cant even imagine being there at that time. I watched it all unfold on CNN. Being at Riddle, i was like, **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** there goes my career and **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**, there go some fine american who showed up for work and were murdered by the biggest pussies to walk the earth.

I got a huge scare myself that day, my father was flying from OMA to ORD to catch a flight to LAX to catch a flight to Hong Kong. **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**ing CNN's wonderful reporters decide to speculate on **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** and say that the plane the crashed into Penn. was a flight leaving ORD for LAX. Now i know they did an excellent job reproting that day but when you hear that a UAL flight from ORD to LAX hit PENN and my father was on it, you get scared and then you get really angry that they **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**ed up. Sometimes i hate the media.

Then to top things off, a friend of mine at riddles dad flew for UAL, he was based out of DC flying 757. Anyway, he had many routes from IAD to LAX on the 757. We sat with her that day and she new her dads schedule. he was supposed to fly that morning to LAX. A few days earlier i guess he traded the trip with someone else for some reason. That was his flight. He traded it from what info i got from her. Anways, that was a really **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**ty and scary day. I hope we never have to go through anything like that again.

 

[Draginass]

Never forget who murdered nearly 3000 people and did huge damage to our economy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work. . . . . . . mostly Saudi Arabian muslim terroritsts.

Never forget that the objective of these terrorists and their supporters in this country and around the word is to kill us and destroy our way of life. There is no compromise, there is no peace with them, there is no substitute for victory.

 

[Chunk]

The longer this thing goes on, the more I truly believe that the west is at war with Islam. I've been reticent to say it publicly for fear of being perceived as a bigot or redneck or whatever, but the more I dig, the more I think that our way of live is threatened by this religion that is intolerant of *anyone* but the "faithful".


Anyone else getting this feeling?

Chunk

 

[Timebuilder]

I believe that Islam is at war with the west, so we will rise to the occaision, I'm sure.

Eventually this will become bad enough that even the Woody Harrelson's will say "enough!"

 

[Chunk]

There will always be the hard left that are apologists.

 

[PilotoHalcon]

Well, I guess I am a "Redneck" Then. But I agree with you all. This is a threat to our way of life and what we believe in. All we can do now is educate our kids the best we can. And I do not mean just in the schools, but from us. I am a little nervous.
j

 

[Huck]

Two memories I will take to my grave:

- The Queen's Guards playing our anthem at the changing of the guard; and

- A few month's later, some UAL people ran across America to symbolically complete those hijacked flights. A deceased pilot's children were there at LAX at the finish line, and one little girl was wearing her dad's UAL uniform hat. I was jarred for days by that image.

Let us NEVER forget the first eight people killed that day - next time someone denigrates this profession, give it back times ten, in memory of those dead pilots!

 

[EagleRJ]

Two memories I will take to my grave:

- The Queen's Guards playing our anthem at the changing of the guard; and

- A few month's later, some UAL people ran across America to symbolically complete those hijacked flights. A deceased pilot's children were there at LAX at the finish line, and one little girl was wearing her dad's UAL uniform hat. I was jarred for days by that image.

Let us NEVER forget the first eight people killed that day - next time someone denigrates this profession, give it back times ten, in memory of those dead pilots!

Another memory I will also keep from that day is the Palestinians dancing, laughing, and passing out candy in the streets.

It was just a little ironic, since that was the day their cause died.

 

[dmspilot00]

A special on the History Channel tonight at 8 PM:

World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon

I watched it being built from my window at NYU, and like most of you, I saw it fall.

I think this show is on all the time, so if you miss it, it will probably be on again.

There was a really good one on TLC (The Learning Channel), I think it was called Anatomy of the Collapse. It will also probably on again sometime. Anyway, it gives you a bit of a different perspective than the other shows, and it did a really good job of explaining the design flaws of the buildings--what really made them fall and why people could not find escape routes. They interviewed several experts along with the original head engineer of the towers...I felt bad for him; he obviously was having a hard time dealing with it.