Have you forgotten?
Contributed by Bill Faith
5 years. It seems like yesterday.
It's still Sept. 12, and it will be for quite a while. 
On 9.11.2001 I was the webmaster over a departmental bulletin board/knowledge base site at a company in the Dallas area. On the morning of the 12th Kelvin Reed emailed me this and I immediately posted it. The website was supposedly "for company business only" but I never heard a word about it:
On Monday
On Monday there were people fighting against praying in schools
On Tuesday you would have been hard pressed to find a school where someone was not praying
On Monday there were people were trying to separate each other by race, sex, color and creed
On Tuesday they were all holding hands
On Monday we thought that we were secure
On Tuesday we learned better
On Monday we were talking about heroes as being athletes
On Tuesday we relearned what hero meant
On Monday people went to work at the world trade centers as usual
On Tuesday they died
On Monday people were fighting the 10 commandments on government property
On Tuesday the same people all said 'God help us all' while thinking 'Thou shall not kill'
On Monday people argued with their kids about picking up their room
On Tuesday the same people could not get home fast enough to hug their kids
On Monday people picked up McDonalds for dinner
On Tuesday they stayed home
On Monday people were upset that their dry cleaning was not ready on time
On Tuesday they were lining up to give blood for the dying
On Monday politicians argued about budget surpluses
On Tuesday grief stricken they sang 'God Bless America'
On Monday we worried about the traffic and getting to work late
On Tuesday we worried about a plane crashing into our houses or places of business
On Monday we were irritated that our rebate checks had not arrived
On Tuesday we saw people celebrating people dying in the USA
On Monday some children had solid families
On Tuesday they were orphans
On Monday the president was going to Florida to read to children
On Tuesday he returned to Washington to protect our children
On Monday we emailed jokes
On Tuesday we did not
It is sadly ironic how it takes horrific events to place things into perspective, but it has. The lessons learned this week, the things we have taken for granted, the things that have been forgotten or overlooked, hopefully never will be again.
On Monday - pray and be thankful
On Tuesday - pray and be thankful
On Wednesday - pray and be thankful
On Thursday - pray and be thankful
On Friday - pray and be thankful
On Saturday - pray and be thankful
On Sunday - pray and be thankful
September 11th - Live on Radio
Hear the voices of the American people responding to the events of the day.
Poster exhibit of 9/11 victims via Moussaoui trial exhibits. Click photo for hi-res larger image. (H/T)
I Just Called to Say I Love You
The sounds of 9/11, beyond the metallic roar.
Peggy Noonan
*** Never forget: American Airlines Flight 11
Michelle Malkin
From the 9/11 Commission report:
The Hijacking of American 11
American Airlines Flight 11 provided nonstop service from Boston to Los Angeles. On September 11, Captain John Ogonowski and First Officer Thomas McGuinness piloted the Boeing 767. It carried its full capacity of nine flight attendants. Eighty-one passengers boarded the flight with them (including the five terrorists).22
The plane took off at 7:59. Just before 8:14, it had climbed to 26,000 feet, not quite its initial assigned cruising altitude of 29,000 feet. All communications and flight profile data were normal. About this time the "Fasten Seatbelt" sign would usually have been turned off and the flight attendants would have begun preparing for cabin service.23
At that same time, American 11 had its last routine communication with the ground ....
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*** Never forget: United Airlines Flight 175
From the 9/11 Commission report:
The Hijacking of United 175
United Airlines Flight 175 was scheduled to depart for Los Angeles at 8:00. Captain Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks piloted the Boeing 767, which had seven flight attendants. Fifty-six passengers boarded the flight.40
United 175 pushed back from its gate at 7:58 and departed Logan Airport at 8:14. By 8:33, it had reached its assigned cruising altitude of 31,000 feet. The flight attendants would have begun their cabin service.41
The flight had taken off just as American 11 was being hijacked, and at 8:42 the United 175 flight crew completed their report on a "suspicious transmission" overheard from another plane (which turned out to have been Flight 11) just after takeoff. This was United 175's last communication with the ground.42 ...
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Never forget: American Airlines Flight 77
From the 9/11 Commission report:
The Hijacking of American 77
American Airlines Flight 77 was scheduled to depart from Washington Dulles for Los Angeles at 8:10. The aircraft was a Boeing 757 piloted by Captain Charles F. Burlingame and First Officer David Charlebois. There were four flight attendants. On September 11, the flight carried 58 passengers.52
American 77 pushed back from its gate at 8:09 and took off at 8:20. At 8:46, the flight reached its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. Cabin service would have begun. At 8:51, American 77 transmitted its last routine radio communication.
*** Never forget: South Tower collapse
New Yorkers at Ground Zero are now marking the third moment of silence marking the collapse of the WTC's South Tower at 9:59 am Eastern. This says it all for me: ...
*** Never forget: United Airlines Flight 93
The time of notification of the crash of United 93 into a field at Shanksville, Pa., was 10:15 am Eastern. Who can forget: "Let's roll!" United 93 passenger and crew list in extended entry:
UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93
United Airlines Flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania, with 45 people on board.
*** Never forget: North Tower collapse
The last moment of silence of the day marks the collapse of the North Tower at 10:29am Eastern. Burned into memory: ...
And because I believe there should be no flinching today, here is footage of workers forced to jump from the towers in the jihadi attacks. Don't click if you don't want to watch: ...
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9/11 pledge: "I will not submit"
The above phrase in Arabic is "lan astaslem." It means "I will not surrender/I will not submit." (Thanks to Rusty, Laura, and Daveed for translation help.) This is the last line of my 9/11 column and it's my 9/11 anniversary message to the convert-or-die jihadists.
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Don't miss Mrs. Greyhawk's excellent photos from that day: 8:45, 9:03, 9:43, 10:05, 10:10, 10:28
*** Video: 9/11, as it happened -- Update: Amateur video added
Allahpundit
I culled about 27 minutes of footage from the first six and a half hours of CNN’s coverage that day. I’ll post them here in three parts. The actual attacks themselves end about halfway through part two, but watch them all. Part three is arguably the most important, as it includes a phone conversation with pilot Tim Timmerman — who saw Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon with his own two eyes. I’m going to cut his clip separately later along with a clip of another woman who saw the plane hit and a report from CNN correspondent Jamie McIntyre on the scene and upload them separately.
*** 9/11 Video Memorial From Flopping Aces
In honor of this day I present some video’s that will honor the sacrifices made by those who died that day and those who went to war afterwards…..
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