Let's Roll!!!

[Suvorov]

Few words have more meaning.

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[Le Français]

My department is going to the range today. That seems appropriate.

[RJ]

I was working at a job in Warminster UK on the Sunday.

We heard over the comms that planes had struck the towers. I went out to the rental car and listened to the coverage on the BBC.

Driving out of the base after work, we passed out the gate through a couple of Warrior IFVs with their turrets pointed outward. Pretty sure their RARDEN 30mm cannons were loaded hot.

We had dinner in the pub, watching the coverage in the bar.

[Jackdog]

I am flying today. Ready to rock.

[voodoo_man]

I work with a guy who volunteered to go up to NY the week after the attacks. He always takes off and goes up to memorial, every year. He doesn't really talk about it, he just says it was one of the worst things the has ever seen, and he's been through some stuff.

I think I'll just relax today, have a drink in honor of those who should still be among us.

[Al T.]

I think I'll just relax today, have a drink in honor of those who should still be among us.


Friend of mine's younger brother worked at Lehman Brothers. Sad day.

[farscott]

My wife and I are watching the Today Show broadcast from 9/11 on MSNBC, one of the few times a TV in our home is tuned to that channel. It is synced to the minute from that horrible Tuesday. That broadcast, fifteen years later, is chilling.

[Paul Sharp]

I am flying today. Ready to rock.

Be dangerous brother.


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[Suvorov]

I am flying today. Ready to rock.

I always feel guilty when I'm not flying on this day. You be safe!

[HCM]

I always feel guilty when I'm not flying on this day. You be safe!

Same here.

[HCM]

http://www.911memorial.org/blog/tribute-papd-k-9-officer-sirius

PAPD K-9 Sirius and Officer Lim worked at JFK Airport when I worked there in the late 1990's.

RIP Sirius.

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[voodoo_man]

Friend of mine's younger brother worked at Lehman Brothers. Sad day.

Guy I was sitting next to in highschool was from Manhattan. His brother, father and two uncle's were all in the towers. I remember him trying to call out on his cell and it just getting a "all lines are busy" line. We were all dialing the numbers he wrote on the board to see if anyone can get through but no one did. He didn't know about any of his family for about two hours until his cousin emailed him saying they couldn't find just his one uncle, I believe he said he worked for an insurance company in tower two.

I remember him being happy and sad at the same time and it wasn't until three weeks later did he go back to go to the funeral.

Telling the stories of these Americans is important, especially to our youth. We have to pass on the knowledge that we are targets in the world because we are free, and we have to do everything in our power to keep freedom alive.

[Lon]

That morning me and a couple buddies were at a high risk warrant hostage rescue course at Blackwater. Two of our instructors were LAPD D Platoon guys and a former SEAL. Right after one of our entries the SEAL (Woody something????) got a call on his cell phone. We could tell something bad happened from the look on his face. When he hung up he told us we were at war.

One of the other SEAL Teams (8 maybe?) was doing a training rotation at Blackwater at the same time. They were told to be ready to go on a moments notice. I called my Dad that night to talk to him @ what had happened since he had just retired from United (he was a Captain). I asked if he was glad he retired when he did. He said yes. Then he told me the United flight that hit the Tower was the route he retired from and that woulda been him if he hadn't retired.

[Corey]

I don't personally know anyone who lost someone in the attack. However, at the time I was working for Chase Manhattan Bank in deceased accounts. A couple other people and myself got pulled off the regular accounts to work exclusively on 9/11 accounts. The bank handled those differently. I was reading death certificates every day for months and had to talk with the surviving family to make the arrangements for the accounts. That started to wear us down after about 4 months of it.

At one point I had a stack of death certificates about 1" thick that all said exactly the same thing. Manner of death: homicide. Cause of death: physical injuries, body not found. Those were some hard times for our group.

[JohnO]

My niece was christened in Northern NJ on Sunday 9/10/01. That evening I drove my aunt, uncle and cousin home to CT. As we drove up past the Meadowlands the NYC skyline was on our right. It was a beautiful evening and the Skyline was majestic. Little did we know that in hours the Twin Towers we were looking at would be gone.

[Malamute]

I wasn't close, though years later and halfway across the country met two people that were. One had an office in the towers, and was late to work that day. Another was an electrician that was working on a rooftop nearby and saw the planes as they came in and impacted.

[TCinVA]

let us remember John P. O'Neill. After the first WTC attack then Special Agent O'Neill and some others in the FBI tried their level best to do something proactive about the growing threat of islamist terrorism. Their efforts were continually frustrated by the political appointees in the DOJ like Jame Gorelick...nicknamed "Dr. No" by personnel within the FBI for her penchant for disallowing the collection of even open source information on organizations and links to islamic terrorism. The same Jamie Gorelick who was inexplicably on the 9/11 commission. And who went on to earn at least 20 million dollars as a board member of Fannie May. You know, the organization that underwrote a shitload of dumb loans?

The Clinton administration, you see, had decided that terrorism was a "right wing" phenomenon and insisted that the FBI and other agencies spent their time looking for the next Timothy McVeigh. Hard looks at islamic terrorism was not allowed.

Those who tried had their careers ruined. And so John O'Neill, disgusted with the obstruction he found in the Clinton DOJ, left for the private sector. And Special Agent O'Neill died trying to save people from the very attack he had tried his best to prevent from happening.

Do not kid yourselves: We are making the exact same mistakes today. We have TSA kabuki theater where our genitals get touched, but fundamentally nothing has changed. We keep electing idiots who prefer to push a politically correct narrative to actually doing the work that truly protects the public.

[Cookie Monster]

I always remember Todd G posting Never Forget on this blog.

Walking out of the Gravel Springs Hut on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. Spent days walking south and listening to my little radio about it. Still have not seen the TV footage. When I finished in Georgia it took this long hair ragged looking sketchy dude 5 separate security checks to get on a plane home.

We've lost a lot of good folks in all this. God Bless them.

I've got a lot to teach my two 1 year old boys about God, Country, and doing what is right.

[HCM]

Let us also remember Rick Rescorla. Rick served in the UK and Rhodesia before emigrating to the U.S. and volunteering to fight in Vietnam. He served with the Air Cav in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley.

On 09/11/2001, he was the director of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at the WTC.



Hard Corps One-Six left 'Nam with a Silver Star and a Bronze Star, got a law degree in Oklahoma, taught Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina, and retired from the Army reserve in 1990 with the rank of Colonel. He later got a job as director of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, where he was tasked with ensuring employee safety for one of the world's largest financial institutions.

Rick Rescorla died almost exactly 10 years ago today. He was at his post on the 44th floor of World Trade Center Tower 1 on September 11, 2001, when a psychotic madman flew a passenger airliner into the building. When the Port Authority came over the loudspeaker in the building and ordered everyone inside to stay put, Rescorla muttered "Bugger that Blimy Poppycock" (or something equally British) under his breath, and flipped his brain right back into Commanding Officer mode. It wasn't his first time dealing with a terrorist attack on his place of employment – in 1993, when a truck bomb went off in the basement of the Tower, Rescorla had evacuated his offices, helping everyone out until he was the last man to leave the building – and he wasn't taking any chances this time either. He grabbed a bullhorn and personally ran up and down the 22 floors that encompassed Morgan Stanley Dean Witter headquarters, quickly and calmly getting everyone out of their cubes and down the stairs. Rushing up and down the building despite the fact that he was 62 years old and dying from terminal bone marrow cancer, Rescorla didn't even consider slowing down until all 2,700 of his co-workers were safely out of the burning building. When he saw how terrified the men and women he worked with were, he went back to his old standby of singing British folk songs to try and cheer them up.

He was last seen on the tenth floor of the World Trade Center, headed up. Of the 2,700 people he had been charged with protecting, all but 6 survived the terrorist attack.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rescorla.html

[Rex G]

At roll call Saturday night, the Sergeant reminded us of an ongoing assignment to pass by a particular consulate more frequently, and be more attentive for suspicious persons and items. I interrupted, politely, and reminded everyone that September Eleventh would begin in about two hours, and that we have an Israeli consulate in our area, too, and should be mindful of it.

I remember.

I have been mindful of the Israeli consulate since a rookie, thirty-two years ago, and particularly so for the past fifteen years. Fifteen years ago, today, September Twelfth, I worked a second shift, posted in front of 24 Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas, a day eerily without the usual jetliners on a flight path to William P. Hobby Airport. On most days, I would have had trouble staying awake, after working all night, but this day, I had no trouble being alert. Sleep would be difficult, for days; we were at war. With planes grounded, we figured the next phase would be truck bombs, or suicide teams on foot.

I remember.

On the morning of September Eleventh, 2001, we were doing a bit of extra overdue house-cleaning, as the garbage truck was late, and the city-issued containers were not full. Usually, I would be asleep already. A neighbor, Howard Miller, walked outside and told me two airplanes had crashed into two buildings in New York. My first thought was not a mid-air collision, but terrorism. In my World History class in high school, in the late Seventies, during a class discussion, we had predicted terrorists would not just hijack jetliners, but fly them into large buildings. I never forgot that. (It was an advanced-study class, for students who took history very seriously.)

I remember.

[AMC]

At the 9/11 rememberance ceremony yesterday, our fire departments entire command structure turned out.....plus a ton of their personnel. Like 200 people. This was at the new public safety building. The PD was represented by the Chief, the former Chief.....and one cop. Not kidding. But si CE my departments attitude has always been the 9/11 was just something that happened on TV back east....and they would never hurt our town 'cause we're squishy soft liberals.....I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[Moonshot]

Was out of town yesterday, just saw this today. Well worth reading, more than once...

http://www.chicksontheright.com/meet-the-female-combat-pilot-who-was-prepared-to-give-her-life-on-911/

Nice counterpoint to the multi-million dollar celebrity assholes who can't manage to stand properly for the National Anthem.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Ditto on the Anthem.

They say that the chances of terrorism affecting you are rare. My daughter had taken a friend from Europe to see the Towers a month before. Also, she went to France for a study program. She had to take the train from Lyon to Paris to fly home when it was over. The next week, terrorists put a bomb on that train. NYC was my home town and I worked on Wall Street for a bit. All these programs make me cry. My wife and I listened to a story from the head of Kantor-Fitzgerald and how he survived as he took his kid to the first day of Kindergarten and how he pulled it together (he was under a car when the buildings went down) to save his company. His sister had a call from his brother who was in the office before he died. We both teared up.

Deplorable isn't?

[RoyGBiv]

Was out of town yesterday, just saw this today. Well worth reading, more than once...

http://www.chicksontheright.com/meet-the-female-combat-pilot-who-was-prepared-to-give-her-life-on-911/

Nice counterpoint to the multi-million dollar celebrity assholes who can't manage to stand properly for the National Anthem.
Got a little choked up reading that. thanks.

I wonder how they were supposed to accomplish this unarmed?

Sasseville and Penney spent the rest of the day clearing airspace and escorting the president.

[voodoo_man]

Was out of town yesterday, just saw this today. Well worth reading, more than once...

http://www.chicksontheright.com/meet-the-female-combat-pilot-who-was-prepared-to-give-her-life-on-911/

Nice counterpoint to the multi-million dollar celebrity assholes who can't manage to stand properly for the National Anthem.

Wow.... Learn something new everyday.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

I saw her interviewed a few years ago on PBS. It was chilling. BTW, I used her as a discussion point for a gender section of intro psych when I asked the class to discuss women in the armed forces.

Here's some more pilots: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230

Note the folks who said they were going to be decoys for MANPADS for Air Force One.