I remember seeing a group of normally jovial, easy-going truck drivers standing around a tiny television set. The world's largest truck stop in I80
Walcott, Iowa, had gotten so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Tears were running down one of the driver's faces as they watched with shock on their faces. I would describe the looks as disbelief at best on all the people's faces.
My curiosity finally got the best of me. Sometimes curiosity is a cruel teacher.
I walked over to see what was so intriguing. What emotional trigger had affected these men and women to that point? That look on their face was soon joined by mine. I would express my look as total disbelief at the images bursting out of the screen. Images that burned into my very soul.
This had to be the special effects of some new disaster movie.RIGHT?
Again and again, the video played to the gathering crowd of the curious. Each person who joined the group became fixated on the shocking images, standing in total disbelief at what was being embedded into the minds, hearts, and souls of people all over the world. A billion plus are witnessing the act of true evil.
Then someone turned up the sound as the newscaster announced details of what we were looking at."The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were attacked by terrorists along with at least two other planes. Then the second plane crashed into the building. My eyes began to tear and run down my face as WE THE PEOPLE watched our fellow humans, Fellow Americans, being murdered by madmen.
The holocaust that was being presented took mankind to the very scene of the mass murder of innocent humans. The Fear and suffering in terror of thousands of people dying in mass.The fumes and furnace blasts of heat in a place that wasn't intended to ever become a death chamber. No different than the Gas chambers of so short a time ago.
The carnage did not stop there as those planes exploded into flames, killing some and trapping others. The heat was so hot that steel beams melted as if made of taffy. Then those huge structures full of terrified people who just wanted to work to support themselves and family collapsed in huge heaps of rubble.
Many rescued people were valiantly trying to help as many escape as possible. Many rescuers ran into the building as it fell. They gave their lives trying to save others. Those were the ones who died there on the scene. Other rescuers would die slowly and painfully as the poisons took their health. Then the poisons took their lives in the next few years. Concrete dust combined with gases and carcinogens finished what the homicidal maniacs started.
16years ago, I stood with others who watched in shocked silence. The twin towers crashed to the ground, killing thousands of innocent people. I saw then and still see what the people who could plan such atrocities would be and are capable of. I need only reflect on the many holocausts in human history to fully understand what hate, fear, and fanaticism do to some. It blinds the compassion that makes us human. It reduces us to
There has been much controversy over the last 16 years as to who or what is responsible. There have been equally many ideas about how it happened. Explosives in the underground garage, cheap construction, etc. I saw two planes crash into two buildings, going very fast with tons of mass.
It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that much force by that big an object is going to create huge damage in a very short time. There have been many video analyses since that time showing multiple explosive detonations on the floors from the bottom to the higher floors after those planes hit. We may never know who actually orchestrated the scenario of that wicked slaughter.
My curiosity finally got the best of me. Sometimes curiosity is a cruel teacher.
I walked over to see what was so intriguing. What emotional trigger had affected these men and women to that point? That look on their face was soon joined by mine. I would express my look as total disbelief at the images bursting out of the screen. Images that burned into my very soul.
This had to be the special effects of some new disaster movie.RIGHT?
Again and again, the video played to the gathering crowd of the curious. Each person who joined the group became fixated on the shocking images, standing in total disbelief at what was being embedded into the minds, hearts, and souls of people all over the world. A billion plus are witnessing the act of true evil.
Then someone turned up the sound as the newscaster announced details of what we were looking at."The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were attacked by terrorists along with at least two other planes. Then the second plane crashed into the building. My eyes began to tear and run down my face as WE THE PEOPLE watched our fellow humans, Fellow Americans, being murdered by madmen.
The holocaust that was being presented took mankind to the very scene of the mass murder of innocent humans. The Fear and suffering in terror of thousands of people dying in mass.The fumes and furnace blasts of heat in a place that wasn't intended to ever become a death chamber. No different than the Gas chambers of so short a time ago.
The carnage did not stop there as those planes exploded into flames, killing some and trapping others. The heat was so hot that steel beams melted as if made of taffy. Then those huge structures full of terrified people who just wanted to work to support themselves and family collapsed in huge heaps of rubble.
Many rescued people were valiantly trying to help as many escape as possible. Many rescuers ran into the building as it fell. They gave their lives trying to save others. Those were the ones who died there on the scene. Other rescuers would die slowly and painfully as the poisons took their health. Then the poisons took their lives in the next few years. Concrete dust combined with gases and carcinogens finished what the homicidal maniacs started.
16years ago, I stood with others who watched in shocked silence. The twin towers crashed to the ground, killing thousands of innocent people. I saw then and still see what the people who could plan such atrocities would be and are capable of. I need only reflect on the many holocausts in human history to fully understand what hate, fear, and fanaticism do to some. It blinds the compassion that makes us human. It reduces us to
There has been much controversy over the last 16 years as to who or what is responsible. There have been equally many ideas about how it happened. Explosives in the underground garage, cheap construction, etc. I saw two planes crash into two buildings, going very fast with tons of mass.
It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that much force by that big an object is going to create huge damage in a very short time. There have been many video analyses since that time showing multiple explosive detonations on the floors from the bottom to the higher floors after those planes hit. We may never know who actually orchestrated the scenario of that wicked slaughter.
Steel has a melting point that jet fuel would quickly reach in such an oxygen updraft area. There is a term that any firefighter knows and fears. It's when the interior of a room reaches a point, and everything flashes into a spontaneous ball of fire. That much heat at once creates incredible amounts of heat.
The information that I would hope one day will be brought to light is this. The people who orchestrated and planned the action. Those people on the plane may have been the strategic geniuses as claimed.
But would it not be better to release any and all the information, if there is any, to the general public? After all, we, like those people in that truck stop, and the survivors of the victims were all involved in a most traumatic way.
We have never been further into who and what were involved beyond that tiny bit of information the news media seems interested in. It won't bring those victims back who were slaughtered with so much forethought of malice. It won't undo the monstrous act that still haunts the world in a moment of silence.
It will let the victims who died rest in peace. It would finally find anyone else responsible.
9/11, may we always let this day remind us of the price we may pay for our way of life and our freedom.
WE THE PEOPLE must remain vigilant and always remember.
Till next time, friends
RJP
Update: Iran was blamed for the 911 massacre, or at least its followers of that sick regime. As of the current date, of 03/12/26.they are said to have murdered an estimated 30000 people who disagree with being treated like monkeys on a leash instead of humans with a brain to make their own choices in life. I rather doubt any God would agree with any self-appointed high muckety-muck having that right appointed to them. Only God can judge them.
May those fallen by evil minds Rest in Peace..
RJ Pickering
