...In remembrance of
loss of life from Jihadi attacks on:
NY World Trade Center, the Pentagon
& Flight 93 : where America started to fight back
yet 9 years later...
stealth jihad against America continues...
About the buildings: "Ground was broken on August 5th, 1966. The project began with excavation six stories down to bedrock where the towers’ footings would stand. Crews dug around the PATH train tubes within the site, removing one million cubic yards of earth that would eventually form Battery Park City.
Site preparations were vast and included an elaborate method of foundation work for which a “bathtub” had to be built 65 feet below grade. The bathtub was made of a bentonite (absorbent clay) slurry wall meant to keep out groundwater and the Hudson River. Tie-backs were inserted through the wall and anchored at an angle in the earth behind them.
The foundation construction was just a fraction of many innovations masterminded by Yamasaki and team. Among them were the Twin Towers’ high-speed elevators, sky lobbies, and a “hollow tube” building model that distributed weight from the inner core across floor trusses to the exterior’s closely spaced steel columns. The load-bearing exterior also served as bracing against wind. Floor trusses and exterior-wall panels were prefabricated before being lifted and bolted into place, speeding construction.
The first tenants moved into 1 WTC, the north tower, in 1970, and two years later into 2 WTC. The Port Authority’s construction costs totaled more than $900 million."
the History channel has videos from lower Manhattan
... 5 year WTC memorial "tribute in light"
very moving to a still grieving America
The WTC memorial planned for NYC:... is still being built!
(... FINISH it NY!)
at the newly fortified Pentagon:
beams disovered on WTC site after the attack
...when search & rescue started
... eerily formed a cross
... which is now a memorial
The first Flight 93 memorial honors Todd Beemer
He was heard saying "let's roll..." as they took over
the flight & tried to get control
... they were the first Americans to fight back
However... the stealth Jihad continues
... has MANY people very upset
This is STEALTH JIHAD
NOW: 9 years later, a very shady Islamic imam
... has threatened America if his victory mosque
is not built on NYC's ground zero
... The islamic jihad against America
...continues
The one image burned permanently into my mind from that day is one that I saw live on TV at the time and have never seen again.
ReplyDeleteA man and a woman, jumping from one of the towers, hand-in-hand. It was the saddest and most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
I saw it live that morning and I've never seen it again. Other people who were watching it with me that morning saw the same thing, so I know I'm not nuts.
ABC, NBC, CBS (since they all use public airwaves) should be forced to run documentaries like History's excellent "102 Minutes" on this day every year as a reminder to the too-many people here in the US who refuse to admit what we're up against.
I watched the horrifying attacks on the WTC live as well in downtown Chicago 1 block away from the Sears Tower in a highrise office. We were glued to the TV after the 1st plane hit... when the 2nd hit, I looked out the window at the Sears tower and really feared for my life. I quickly headed to the train, with thousands of other Chicagoans and the Metra lined up all their regular commuter trains, re-routing so everyone could get out asap.
ReplyDeleteI ran into my sister waiting to board the train and we hugged amongst the quiet, scared commuters waiting for the doors to open...
My boss was in NY a couple blocks away from the WTC and left me an eery voice mail when it all first started "umm, I think a plane hit the trade center... I don't know, I gotta go..." She ended up having to flee the debris fall running in the streets with the others there. She and other Chicago co-workers rented a van and drove home... she was traumatized like coming home from a war, for sure.
The whole country was under attack that day... We must never forget the jihad against America still continues... even if the pretender-ususper IDIOT appeasement leaders WANT to forget and sing kumbaya to Islam.
The rest of us will not.
take care, Bubba