Re: OT: Never to forgive, never to forget this day

On Sep 12, 7:32 am, topaz <topazgal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 12, 7:13 am, Fattuchus <fattuc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Sep 12, 7:04 am, topaz <topazgal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 11, 5:16 pm, Donna <tom.r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

topaz wrote:

Thanks for sharing this video.  I saw the event LIVE  on TV and I saw
the second plane hit etc.   Words cannot describe all the feelings I
had when I witnessed  all that LIVE  on TV.   We must never forget.

I didn't see it live.  I had just sent my child off to school, and was
home watching a videotape when the planes hit.  When the video was over,
there was nothing but snow on my TV, so I thought that my antenna had
somehow fallen.  Through the skylight upstairs, I looked to see that
this wasn't the case.  Through the static and the snow on the TV, I
could barely make something out on the UHF station.  I saw what appeared
to be two smokestacks.  I didn't even know that I was watching a news
report.  Slowly, I started to realize what I was actually seeing.... but
surely it couldn't be.

The internet was also down and the phones had no dial tones.  I turned
on 1010 Wins radio for the news.  I heard the announcer talking about
the twin towers and then she said that the Pentagon was hit.  It was so
incredibly surreal.... alone in the house, hearing that my country was
under attack.  Just then, before I could even absorb what I had just
heard, the announcer started screaming that one of the towers had just
fallen.  I didn't picture it collapsing onto itself, but falling across
city blocks.  At that point, my knees literally buckled and I fell to
the floor.

Outside of my home, smoke from the fallen towers blew across the sky.
My husband was working in the city.  He was finally able to get in touch
with me, but he didn't arrive home until the middle of the night.  A
very good friend of mine was missing for most of the day.  She was
completely covered in ash and somehow made it uptown by foot.  One of my
other girlfriends was in a smoke-filled subway car.  A good friend of
ours was the security guard for 7 WTC, and he evacuated the building
before it collapsed.  He said that he was stepping over body parts as he
pushed people out.  He only started his job a week earlier.  I have
other friends and family members who were right there and witnessed the
horror.  One of them was supposed to be up at the top floor at Windows
on the World that morning, but his meeting had just been cancelled.
Another friend came down to the concourse level for a cup of coffee just
when the plane hit.  All of his co-workers... the ones who he had just
left minutes earlier... perished.  I was with his wife that day, and she
was a mess.  The poor man suffered with survivor's guilt for a long
time, as did a few of the others.

I lost a childhood friend that day, a firefighter who bravely went to
help on his day off.  His wife and I have known each other as long as I
can remember.  Another childhood friend lost her husband that day, a
firefighter from the same station.  My friend lost her first cousin.
Another friend lost her brother-in-law.  My husband lost one of his
friends, and the brother of another friend.

Nine years later, and it's still very hard to accept that human beings
could do this to one another.  It was pure evil in the hearts of man.
Just pure evil.  I'll never understand it.

Thanks for posting this Donna. I sympathize with your many painful
memories.  So many who died that day were heroes.  To me it is so
clear why a mosque should not be built anywhere near that site
especially by a Iman who is sypathetic with Sharia law  and who will
not declare Hamas a terrorist organization.-

To be fair, this imam has softened his views in recent days. He did
declare Hamas a terrorist organization and has said he opposes
terrorism, IIRC.

It should also be known that when the Jewish reporter Danny Pearl was
murdered in cold blood by Muslim terrorists, this imam spoke movingly
at Pearl's funeral.- Hide quoted text -

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Do you have a clip on the internet where the Imam said Hamas is a
terrorist organization?   I heard a radio show where he would not say
it, he was asked 3 times and refused to answer.- Hide quoted text -

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I will try to find it . . . . it was quite recent, IIRC. When was the
radio show you mention?
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