Tag Archives: September 11
Moral Muslims Don’t Want A Memorial To The Terrorists At Flight 93 Crash Site
I don’t have anything to add to this great essay about the Islamic-style Flight 93 Memorial; Velvet Hammer covers it very well. I am just glad that we are still having this discussion, however quiet.
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9/11 Victim Identified
More than seven and a half years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, the city medical examiner identified the remains of yet another victim. Manuel Emilio Mejia, 54, was a worker at the Windows on the World restaurant, which was … Continue reading
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Ice Age Remnants Discovered At Ground Zero
I am weary of seeing the gaping maw in the center of Manhattan – but this story makes me feel a tiny bit better about our utter lack of progress with the 9/11 memorial. Construction workers digging at ground zero … Continue reading
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FDNY Statistics For September 11
343 firefighters were killed. 91 FDNY vehicles were destroyed. 213 members of the senior command were lost to retirement in the weeks after 9/11. $104 million was paid out in death benefits to the families of firefighters. 500 firefighters are … Continue reading
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FDNY Perspectives On September 11
I got tied up yesterday and didn’t get to post some things I wanted. I asked two friends, both with the FDNY, to write something about 9/11 for me. These are their replies: (John – FDNY) The other day I … Continue reading
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Exclusive September 11 Photos
A friend who works at Goldman Sachs, One Liberty Plaza, right next to the World Trade Center, took these photos a few days after September 11. After seven years, they bring back the texture of that terrible day.
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Love In A Time Of Danger
[I post this every year on September 11. Since 2004. I guess you could call it a tradition.] Sean does not like it when I call him a 9/11 Victim. He tells me he’s not a victim. His coworkers who … Continue reading
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Snowplow
[A friend wrote this for me two years ago, and I think today is a fine day to re-post it.] It was late on a cold Saturday night in mid-December, 1987. There was about an inch of powdery snow blanketing … Continue reading
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The Documentation You Need
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Sean watched his building collapse. The second building held his wife, and it collapsed too, literally while he was watching it; he was on the phone with her. After the call disconnected and … Continue reading
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CSI
The sticker is difficult to read but it says, “In Memory of the Police and Firefighters Who Died In New York and Washington DC On September 11, 2001.” It was touching, but also a bit strange to find on a … Continue reading
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Conspiracy Mind
My friend David sent me a link yesterday to a conspiracy website. It basically said that there was no way a plane could have struck the Pentagon because the NTSB report on the crash says the last received ping from … Continue reading
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