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Comment by Jim Love on September 4, 2011 at 9:57pm

Thanks for sharing this, Billie. Let us never forget 9-11 and "let's roll" toward a better America.

Comment by William Korach on September 4, 2011 at 2:06pm

Recollections and Thoughts on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11

 

Bill Korach

 

 

I remember exactly where I was on the day America was attacked. I planned to depart Boston for Seattle on 9/11/2001 on an American Airlines flight. I was engaged by KPMG Consulting to lead a team and assist Boeing Electronics on a planning project and expected to be in Seattle for a period of about 9 months, returning home to Salem, MA on weekends. However, Boeing wanted us there a day earlier so we departed on September 10^th.

 

I was tired from the long trip and went to bed early. I was awakened on 9/11by a call from my son in school in Los Angeles at 6:00 am Pacific time telling me that a plane had hit the Trade Towers. I was so tired I went back to sleep. He called 15 minutes later about the second plane. Then I was wide-awake with the realization that America had been attacked and probably by Muslim terrorists.  I joined my team in the lobby where we l watched the news and heard the confusion. Later we learned about another plane striking the Pentagon, and another about a plane crashing in Pennsylvania.

 

We watched the Trade Towers collapse-the building, and you could not believe how big they were. I had lived in NY, took my kids to the top for the view, dined there, attended meetings there, planned the 1986 Fleet week there and remember so many great times. I even have a plaque from the old Brooklyn Navy Yard with bronze relief of the Trade Towers.

 

Then my wife called with the news that my sister in law, Captain Ann Stencil, United States Navy, was in the Pentagon when it was attacked, she had stepped away from her desk-and that saved her life. But her entire staff was killed.

 

I learned that 28 fellow members of my club, the New York Athletic Club, were killed in the towers. Guys I knew from the squash court, toasted each other in the tap room-gone. The club, founded in 1868 had been a driving force behind the modern Olympic games. The NYAC hold more Gold and Silver medals that any club in America. What had these men and women done to deserve murder at the hands of Muslim fanatics? A neighbor who had been in the Trade Towers after the first truck bomb attack planned by the blind Imam was killed in the second attack.

 

I learned all of these things while in Seattle 3000 miles from home. My oldest son William was living near Philadelphia, my younger son Reed was in LA, my wife, Francesca in Boston. I felt helpless, I was no longer in the Navy Reserve, I wanted to protect my family, suit up and strike back, as I had done during Desert Storm But there I was stuck in Seattle, and unable to get home for weeks. My coworkers and I did go to the nearest church praying for America, the families of those killed and the coming justice that was coming to those who dared commit the 9/11 atrocity.

 

In the days after the attacked, I heard about flight 93, I heard there was a man named Todd Beamer who was on that flight, and somehow resolved to fight back. He said “ let’s roll” then no more communications. He lost his life stopping that wicked plan, and was the first American to hit back after that vicious attack against America and humanity. I felt that he had stuck the blow I could not-I felt he did it for me. I was so grateful for the chance to say thank you to David Beamer for his son’s heroism. I very proud of David Beamer for having the guts to speak out against the Obama administration for being afraid to speak the name of America’s mortal enemy “Radical Islam.”

 

Like David Beamer, I have been angered and saddened that the Obama administration fails to properly recognize the enemy and has caused so much division among the American people when there was once such powerful unity.

 

The scope of the attack, and slaughter was breathtaking, but from my experience as a form

Comment by Joanna B McDermott on September 4, 2011 at 1:18pm

Personally, I think, with David Beamer's Permission, the Tea Party Groups should take on the "Let's Roll" as their new mantra for 2012.  That should shake up the liberals!

Comment by LOTTO NICK ! on September 4, 2011 at 8:57am

 

Please take the time to watch this video ,thanks

 

The speaker is an Indian Muslim who is warning us to wake up. He has tremendous courage and pulls no punches on what is happening with Islamist fascism. Make sure you listen to the end of the tape where he says we now have three members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House (and names them). He is elderly and in a wheel chair recovering from cancer treatments - perhaps that's why he has the courage to speak out. This is probably one of the most important messages of our day. 

http://www.livestream.com/ideacity/video?clipId=flv_fd017d81-dc18-42cc-821a-18b86fdea840