Domestic Divapalooza

Domestic Divapalooza

• I don’t think Bush lied
  
  
  
  A President can only make decisions that are based on the information that is presented to them by those that are supposed to be experts in that field.
  
  I’m thinking that we should be more upset about the fact that the United Nations as a whole is not really doing the job that they were hired to do. Aren’t they supposed to make sure that the world remains safe?
  
  Why aren’t they being held accountable for all that hush money via the food-for-oil program as well as enforcing the rules that they voted on in the first place?
  
  If the United Nations would do it’s job the United States wouldn’t have to get in there and do it for them. I don’t want another September the 11th.. do you?
  
  March 2008
  

  
  

  
  
  
• No Mosque at Ground Zero
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HT: Jihad Watch: The Implications of a Mosque at Ground Zero
  
  Can you even in a million years believe we are even debating this possible mosque at Ground Zero 9 years after 9/11? I am disgusted just thinking about this entire mosque debate.
  

  
  

  
  
  
• We Were Paralyzed and Numb
  
  
  
  I was in my office at Finney HS. A guidance counselor, madly trying to straighten out student schedules the first week of school. We got a call from a coworker's husband. It was before internet access for us so we commandeered a transistor radio.
  
  We were paralyzed.. numb.. from it all.
  
  One of our students' dads commuted to and from NY City for work. Too far to go every day from Rochester so he had an apartment within walking distance of the towers. His lungs were damaged from all the soot and ash in the air. His emotions wrecked from the horror. Because of their story, it was more real than ever to us what had happened. Praise God that he wasn't in the towers!
  
  --Sinea P. of Ducks n' a Row
  
  Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life?
  

  
  

  
  
  
• 9/11 Hits Me Like a Ton of Bricks
  
  
  
  My wife and I were going to meet in Charlottesville that day for lunch. It was a quiet morning, up until my co-worker Wayne walked past in the hallway. “Hey, a plane hit the World Trade Center” and I said “yeah, right” and headed upstairs. A moment into the test department and I noticed Stacy was busy trying to hook up a portable tv set. “John, can you help me with this? Do we have cable?” “Yeah, hang on a sec,” as I pointed her to a coax outlet. A few moments and we were all watching the tower billowing black smoke. Just then, another plane hit – we all saw it. It was too surreal….”this is no accident, we’re under attack,” I blurted out. Mind you, I had retired from the Navy 18 months earlier. I just knew something was up. I could only imagine what was happening at the Navy Yard comm. Center and TOPHAND over at the Pentagon. Sheer pandemonium, I imagined. So here we were, two thirds of the company now in Test Department, watching this unfold before our very eyes.
  
  Shortly later, my wife calls. “Are we at war? The Pentagon just blew up,” she said, in tears over the phone. I couldn’t believe this. The Pentagon? At least my former crew were safely tucked into the inner ring. TOPHAND was the voice of the fleet. This was the comm center where we’d relay message traffic to ships and talk to them via narrow band secure voice over a satellite hop. I wished I was there helping them out, I thought to myself. So anyway, Jen and I went for a slice of pizza. It was news everywhere on all televisions; everyone was busy watching this nightmare unfold. Little did any of us know that day. And then we learned of the hijackings. But it was not over for me yet.
  
  Less than a week…around two days later, I get a call from my former Senior Chief, who sent me off in an awesome retirement ceremony at the Navy Yard’s chapel. “Hey man. I have got names,” he said to me. He was breaking down. “Got a pen?” I said “hang on, go ahead” and the names he read to me fired back like a big gun. Eight of my shipmates were murdered….one walked my mother down the aisle at my retirement ceremony. One sat at my desk one day and shot up as I walked into the room. “Sorry Rudy,” he said. “Not a problem, sit back down there, shipmate,” I told him. One of the gals used to make cookies for all of us. She was a single mom….I can feel it coming on…..”but they were at the inner ring, Mike,” I told him. “No,” he retorted. They moved to the outer ring after renovations….”
  
  And then came the criticisms for Bush flying out toward Offutt AFB, the press saying he was trying to avoid it….worried about getting hit. No, he was on his way to Offutt to prepare a command post and to possibly make a preemptive strike with nukes….at the time, we had no idea who attacked us.
  
  Needless for me to ramble on about this, but seeing their shadow boxes lined up with purple hearts inside, seeing and meeting their parents, some coming up to me and saying “Oh, he mentioned you all the time….” it was all too surreal to me. And seeing grown men burst into tears. But I should’ve been there to help…. my former CO, she met and grabbed me in the hallway before we went inside. “I really miss having you around….” With a big hug. “Well, I’m back home….”
  
  So, this 9/11 stuff really hits me like a ton of bricks. It’s supposed to help me move on, but it keeps on coming back. Each year, around this time, if I even see a symbol of the Pentagon, I break down. Each time I see an American flag, it hits me. One year my family couldn’t get over when I saw that big flag being shown at the American History Museum at the Smithsonian, my son realized for the first time the impact this has held on me. My biggest guilt was not being there to assist, and then being sent to a shrink and being diagnosed with PTSD….therapy ensued, but it hasn’t helped much. But my hatred against Islam and its followers must be fully understood before anyone can criticize me for being the way that I am. That will never change as long as I am alive. Anyway, that’s what went on with me on 9/11. Right now I am contemplating going to DC for the 9/12 protests. Who knows? I hope I can.
  
  --Steve H.
  
  Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life?
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Barack Obama Music Video
  
  
  February 5, 2008
  
  Do you think Barack Obama is living up to his promises as President of the United States of America?
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Barack Obama’s response to Bush’s Last State of the Union
  
  
  January 29, 2008
  
  Do you think Barack Obama is living up to his promises as President of the United States of America?
  

  
  

  
  
  
• The Recovery Starts November 2nd
  
  
  Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life?
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Flight 11's Attendent Betty Ong
  

  Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11, calls American Airlines from an air phone from the back of the plane. this is the final 8 minutes of a 20 minute call...

  
  
  
  Final 8 Minutes Of Phone Call From Flight 11 On 9/11
  
  Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life?
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Melissa Doi and Dispatcher Barnes
  

  MS. DOI DID NOT SURVIVE. From the evidence presented at the trial of Islamic terrorist Zacharias Moussauoi. REMEMBER WHAT ISLAM HAS DONE TO THE UNITED STATES. Recording of the telephone call between Ms. Melissa Doi and Dispatcher Barnes along with a photograph of Melissa Doi [This recording runs 4 minutes, 2 seconds, and ends in the middle of the telephone call. Listener discretion is advised.]

  
  
  
  Audio tape of call from World Trade Center Islamic Terror attack on 9/11
  
  Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life?
  

  
  

  
  
  
• The Day the World Changed
  September 11 News
  
  This web site, like the America Attacked web site, were the original September 11 sites that managed to capture almost ALL of it.
  
  Be sure and bookmark those two sites. These are the two sites I go through whenever I am thinking about what happened to us in 2001.
  
  Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life?