My personal memory of 9-11.

[Timothy]

Never forget!

[PegLeg45]

MSNBC is replaying, in real-time, the events as they occurred on 11 Sept 2001.

[Timothy]

I don't care for this President one bit but, the Secret Service manages to put the POTUS at the WTC, Shanksville, PA and the Pentagon in a single day which is no small feat!

For those men and women of the Secret Service, I salute you for a job well done!

[tombogan03884]

I don't care for this President one bit but, the Secret Service manages to put the POTUS at the WTC, Shanksville, PA and the Pentagon in a single day which is no small feat!

For those men and women of the Secret Service, I salute you for a job well done!

I have to disagree Tim.
They have now put him back in Washington and that we could have done with out.

[Timothy]

I have to disagree Tim.
They have now put him back in Washington and that we could have done with out.

Leave it to the resident optimist to be a negative slant on the post, though I'm not in disagreement with you young Sir!

 

My post was about a group of men and women who, for the most part, have put the country above themselves!  No less then the Military men and women who fight our battles daily in more than two theaters of operations.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

They are Giethner's minions.
The Presidential detail may seem impressive, but the Secret service are no better than ATF or IRS.

[Timothy]

True enough Tom!

I, for one, am living proof that you can manage to do your job IN SPITE of what the boss wants or directs!

I ignore the idiocy of what my boss wants daily, dating back to my military years!  I'm an American!

My charter in life is to question authority in whatever form....maybe I'm naive.

I do my job, if my boss doesn't like it, he can kiss my ass!  I think there are still a few in the government that feel the same!

[tombogan03884]

I'm not so sure about that.
They tend to get weeded out.
Notice they still haven't prosecuted the Black Panthers for voter intimidation.
It wasn't the FBI that blew the whistle on Gunrunner.
They only care about their pensions.

[crusader rabbit]

To get this thread back on track...

I happened to be at the gym on an elipitical trainer.  This one was equipped with a TV and I had my headphones on listening to the TODAY Show. Matt Lauer put his hand up to his earpiece and leaned forward with a quizzical look on his face.  Then he said a plane had hit the WTC.  My first thought was that a civilian pilot had really screwed the pooch, or had just committed suicide.  Either way, I was interested, but not terribly concerned.

That continued until the second plane hit.  By that time there were cameras on the scene, and I saw the second plane hit.

I remember stopping my training and turning to another gym rat on the machine next to me.  "That was no accident," I said.  "We're under attack and that may have been the beginning of Armageddon."

I then grabbed my gym bag out of my locker, double-checked to make sure my Glock was there, and drove home to Bunny.  The rest of the day was spent in front of the TV and on the Internet.

Like most everyone else who posted, I'm still not over it.  But, life goes on...

[Ping]

Great posts.

I was at work at Chrysler building transmissions. I had just bumped from afternoon shift to day shift and was working different areas on the assembly line. Went on break and heard that a plane hit the World Trade Center. Smoked a cigarette and went into the break room and they had CNN playing on the television. I had entered just in time to see the second plane hit the second tower. I was in shock. At that point I knew this was not an accident. Then we heard on the radio that the Pentagon had been hit. The hair on the back of my neck stood on end cause I knew we were going to war. We just did not know with who? I remember going outside and looking into the sky. We have an Air Force base just 15 miles north of us. Not a plane was in the sky. Eerie feeling looking at all blue and no trails from the jets.

I had not been prepared with bug out bags or any survival gear. At home I did have a couple of Glocks, a Bushmaster AR-15 and Chinese SKS and plenty of ammo. Called and made sure my two sons were alright. Left work and went and got them from the babysitter. Was wondering if we were having a "Red Dawn" moment. We went back to my apartment and watched the news as they slept on the couch. Cried my eyes out when we realized that people were jumping from the burning buildings. Absolute tragedy and the feeling of helplessness that I never want to experience again.