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It’s the 23rd anniversary of 9/11

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Hard to believe, isn’t it? And yet easy to believe, because in many ways it seems a distant memory. Children who were born that day are turning twenty-three.

But the main reason for the feeling of distance, I think, is that it’s no longer shocking that 9/11 happened. At least, that’s how I feel.

Here are a few videos I’ve found in which people talk about what they experienced on 9/11.

RIP to all who suffered and died on 9/11, and comfort to their families. And may our nation and the world emerge into better times than we’re experiencing now.

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It’s the 23rd anniversary of 9/11 — 25 Comments

  2. I was overseas on that day, and flew home two weeks later. My thought then was, who could possibly think of doing such a thing? An ideology which endorses and encourages this kind of barbarity is entirely evil.

  3. 23-years…Jeez!? Pearl Harbor was a shock – 911 was a shock. Next one will probably also be a shock. Decided to get into politics because of the attack. Fanatical Democratic boss/friend came up and said it meant we were at war—couple years later he had forgot what he said.

  4. It took both the Republicans and Democrats at most a week or ten days following 9/11 before some of them started to think “how can we use this to our advantage? We can pass new laws, spend A LOT more money, and spy on people, all under the guise of keeping them safe. This might work out OK after all!”

  5. Greenfield’s link down thread as well yesterday’s link about kamala’s team, tells us a sizable cohort has not learned this was part of my response to cheney’s dereliction of duty, last week

    john o’neil rick rescorla were on record warning what would happen, and yet they weren’t listened to,

  6. So I watched all three videos. I’d never seen the testimonies of Messrs DiFrancesco and Dittmar, both deeply moving accounts. Nor had I ever realized quite how much I despise Nora O’Donnell. To never see or hear her speak again would be a blessing.

  7. back of the book section,

    https://www.floridabulldog.org/2024/09/new-evidence-narrative-9-11-lawsuit-toxic-for-saudi-arabia-fbi/

    getting past the emotion, they were in the country since 2000, operating under their own names, they felt that confident, were they protected from the sister service privilege,
    the Courts who find problems with standingwho limit discovery, even 17 years laterthe late senator bob graham who was moredecent than the current horde that runs the democratic party, had lasered in on this matter,

  8. I remember. I was at work, went to an area that has the TV’s on (Energy area, watching electricity cost and availability). As I walked in the First Tower was collapsing. I watched the second one collapse.
    I am almost 78, been through way too much – Kennedy, watched live Oswald being shot, RFK, MLK, two other Presidents shot at, and now a former one too. The Wars, the domestic problems. Hard to be positive about the future.

  9. SHIREHOME:
    Quit complaining. None of those bad events happened to you. Not even close.
    I agree our national future looks mighty poor, but that has nothing to do with the killings you list.
    We are a nation of fools, increasingly looking to government for sustenance. Ahh, what’s another $2 trillion deficit?

  10. As a Navy and airline pilot, 9/11 cut pretty close to the bone. I’d been retired eight years when it happened. After the second airplane hit the tower, it dawned on me that it was intentional; and the crew had somehow been overpowered.

    We had a protocol for hi-jaclkings after the D. B. Cooper hi-jacking. It basically entailed cooperating with the hi-jacker(s) and getting the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. No one seemed to believe that a hi-jacker would want to use the airplane to commit suicide. A big wake up call.

    My wife and I were doing a lot of traveling in those days, and we had to get used to the TSA and baggage checks as well as being prepared to fight ala United 93 if we ended upon a hi-jacked airplane.

    It could have been much worse than it was. The ATC system and the airliner’s that were in the air at the time could have created other bad accidents. Fortunately, quick thinking and professionalism helped them overcome the many issues that arose.

    I’ve recommended this book, “Touching History” by Lynn Spencer, before.
    https://www.amazon.com/Touching-History-Untold-Unfolded-America/dp/1416559264
    It details all the many problems that arose when the national airspace was closed, and all airplanes were commanded to land immediately.

    It also covers the mission flown by the two F-16 drivers. It’s an amazing story.

  11. JJ , I would also recommend that book highly. I found it at Costco and was riveted by her story. There was also a flight from Detroit, as I recall, that was delayed in taking off, then by the airspace closure. Four Arab men in first class got off and disappeared.

  12. Thanks for the recollection, Mike K. There may well have been other hi-jackers who didn’t succeed because things were shut down so quickly.

  14. neo:

    Thanks for remembering.

    For me 9-11 was like the second JFK assassination, an event which took over everyone’s lives … for a time anyway.

  19. Dealing with some insurance that afternoon. Called the regional office of a company based in NYC.
    “Heard from New York?”
    “No”.

    Chilled to think that some or much of our economy, arrangements, might have become headless. On the other hand, the regional office was carrying on. So…resilience.

    Didn’t know what to think about the next, say, five years in the mundane world(s) of our daily lives.
    International? Figured there’d be some seriously earthquake level happenings in various places we could name.

    Hard to accept the amount of grief and rage the day required except in small doses over weeks.

  25. @ T J > “REMEMBERING The Falling Man, photograph. In Esquire 3 years ago.”

    Thank you for linking that very insightful essay.
    I’m somewhat surprised Esquire printed something that runs so counter to the Media Narrative then and now.

    Although the reason given by most of the media for suppressing the publication of the photographs of The Falling Man and others who jumped to escape the inferno of the towers was their concern for the privacy and feelings of the victims’ families, IMO the primary motivation was that the pictures were far too powerful as a reminder that those who died in the attacks were murdered by Islamic terrorists, who most definitely did not represent a “religion of peace” but who did have connections with entities and individuals that the government (Bush? Deep State neocons?) had no desire to disclose.

    (See my prior comments with links to current stories, but most of us here probably remember what was being hushed up at the time.)

    Far more desirable to memory-hole the most emotional connections to that event, and not get the narrative derailed from where the government wanted to go.

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