9/11 flashback

[Jack Mehoff]

Never forget

http://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/Flash/heroes.swf

[Minjin]

No disrespect but I was expecting something over the top.





I am happy to say I was pleasantly surprised. What a good link. Thanks

[StarvingStudent47]

That was by far the most well-done, touching 9/11 retrospective I've ever seen. Most are cheezy and poorly-compiled. Not only was this one well-designed, but the quotes from the Founding Fathers give it a real historical weight that most lack. And it realized that "less is more" when it comes to carnage--show enough to remind us, not so much as to desensitize. Ten out of ten.

Oh yeah--bonus points for NOT using Enya's "Only Time" as background music.

EDIT--I think I might even add a link to that in my sig.

[Guttorm]

I agree with starvingstudent.

I'm not even american, and I always get touched by those things.

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I got the news.
And I fought hard not to cry when I saw the news...

[JiJoMacLE45]

Great site Jack.

[NcDeuce]

Nice

[Merik]

Loved it to the very end. The only thing I really didnt need to see was the pictures of those who jumped, just to shattering for me.

Salute!!!!

[Sierra]

Heres another. *very disturbing. shows people jumping*

http://www.unknowngeek.com/files/attack.php

[Beowulf]

http://www.grouchymedia.com/
I like these...

[Apogee]

I'm with Beo, Grouchy puts out some great stuff. But those other ones do hit me really deep down. Thinking about that day still makes me really angry.

[EvanL]

I'm with Beo, Grouchy puts out some great stuff. But those other ones do hit me really deep down. Thinking about that day still makes me really angry.
Try actually being there. Its the worst feeling ever. A feeling of helplessness not being able to do anything and wondering where your family is. It was the single most scariest day of my life.

[StarvingStudent47]

http://www.unknowngeek.com/files/attack.php

Emotional content: 7 out of 10. Powerful but melodramatic and heavy-handed.

Technical merit: 3 out of 10. Looks very amateurish.

Total score: 5 out of 10. One point deducted for using Enya's "Only Time" as background music (I am so damned sick of that song, and it's sappy and melodramatic as hell), so total score 4 out of 10.

[stuntman]

I'm with Beo, Grouchy puts out some great stuff. But those other ones do hit me really deep down. Thinking about that day still makes me really angry.
Try actually being there. Its the worst feeling ever. A feeling of helplessness not being able to do anything and wondering where your family is. It was the single most scariest day of my life.

Right on! I was in those buildings I had to carry my friend because she was frozen with fear once we got out and looked up! I was so Freaking scared ( I don't scare easily) and she didnt want to get up from crying and I had this feeling of leaving her there but I picked her ass up and left carring her for about a block!
So everyone/// never forget!
PLEASE..

[EvanL]

I'm with Beo, Grouchy puts out some great stuff. But those other ones do hit me really deep down. Thinking about that day still makes me really angry.
Try actually being there. Its the worst feeling ever. A feeling of helplessness not being able to do anything and wondering where your family is. It was the single most scariest day of my life.

Right on! I was in those buildings I had to carry my friend because she was frozen with fear once we got out and looked up! I was so Freaking scared ( I don't scare easily) and she didnt want to get up from crying and I had this feeling of leaving her there but I picked her ass up and left carring her for about a block!
So everyone/// never forget!
PLEASE..
What were you doing there? What company did you work for?

[usa320]

I grew up in the shadow of those towers, and i was in NYC the week before to visit friends. I left on Monday the 10th. THankfully i wasnt there on that day.

Unfortunately many were.

I indirectly know about 6 guys from FDNY that were in there. Cause my father worked as a firemen for years.

Heroes, all of them.

Heroes as well are the brave men and women who returned the favor where the enemy hides.

[papasmerf]

It's been a long time since I teared, this flashback makes me appreciate life more and realize how lucky I am to live in this country. God Bless America and it's heroes.

[NcDeuce]

http://www.nightstalkers.com/enduring_freedom/CrewChiefwings.jpg

By REX HALL JR.
Staff Writer


FORT CAMPBELL - There were nights and days in Afghanistan earlier this year when things didn't always go Staff Sgt. Mark Baker's way.

Times when members of his unit, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment based at Fort Campbell, struggled.

But Baker and his colleagues kept fighting.

Photos of family members, and in Baker's case, the medallion of an American Airlines flight attendant killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, served as constant reminders of what and for whom they were fighting.

Yesterday Baker gave the medallion with its engraved wings back to its owner, Mike Low of Batesville, Ark. Low's daughter, Sara, an American Airlines flight attendant, was killed when terrorists crashed Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Baker and the 160th, the ''Night Stalkers,'' presented Low with a framed black-and-white drawing signed by all of the unit. Sara Low's American Airlines wings also were preserved inside the glass-covered keepsake.

The scrawled messages to the Low family from the soldiers were as different as the men who wrote them. There was one that said simply, ''God Bless America.'' Another that read, ''Payback at its best.''

Baker, who learned just yesterday that Sara Low was an Arkansas native, said he wore the wings on the left breast of his uniform during his time in Afghanistan. He was dressed in fatigues and body armor yesterday as he recounted his thoughts about Sara and her family.

''She means a lot, and her parents mean a lot to me,'' said Baker, 27. ''When I figure out that I wanna do something, I do it. Hopefully, I gave them hope.''

The day was a special reunion for Low. He finally got to meet Baker, the man who honored his 28-year-old daughter.

Yesterday served as a sort of ending to the journey that began not long after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Mike Low wrote to the Pentagon asking if a soldier would wear the American Airlines medallion into battle.

''After 9/11 when there were so many unknowns … it was a shaky time,'' Mike Low said to the regiment. ''You do things for us that give us assurance.''

Unit members were asked last year who would carry Sara's memory into battle, and Baker didn't hesitate, said Col. Richard L. Polczynski. ''He was chosen because he spoke first,'' Polczynski said yesterday.

Low said he and his family struggled to focus on the positives of life after their daughter was taken from them, but the support of the regiment and American Airlines officials has helped ease their grief.

''You are heroes in the purest definition of the word,'' Low said. ''…You have given us a great gift of brightness during very dark times, and we are so grateful.''

[NcDeuce]

^ continued...

http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/SoundOFF/archives/SO2002/Jun06/images/WingsBaker-Low.jpg
Staff Sgt. Mark Baker, 2nd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) thanks Mike Low for the honor of wearing his daughter's wings in combat. - Photo by Heather M. Curtis

[stuntman]

I'm with Beo, Grouchy puts out some great stuff. But those other ones do hit me really deep down. Thinking about that day still makes me really angry.
Try actually being there. Its the worst feeling ever. A feeling of helplessness not being able to do anything and wondering where your family is. It was the single most scariest day of my life.

Right on! I was in those buildings I had to carry my friend because she was frozen with fear once we got out and looked up! I was so Freaking scared ( I don't scare easily) and she didnt want to get up from crying and I had this feeling of leaving her there but I picked her ass up and left carring her for about a block!
So everyone/// never forget!
PLEASE..
What were you doing there? What company did you work for?


I had class at the time (My college is in Brooklyn) and we decided to go to the gap in the lower level but I told her it was to early but it was open and thats why I was there. I don't know what I would of done if I was there in the upper levels working . If you (EvanLloyd) were close I bet you will never for get the boom of the hit. Although kinda muffulled down there it still sounded disconcerting (spelling?) It sounded like a poping boom sound! Crazy day, and like a ass I stoped at city hall because I didnt feel like walking uptown and I saw them fall and I was covered in so much dust, scary as hell!

[EvanL]

I'm with Beo, Grouchy puts out some great stuff. But those other ones do hit me really deep down. Thinking about that day still makes me really angry.
Try actually being there. Its the worst feeling ever. A feeling of helplessness not being able to do anything and wondering where your family is. It was the single most scariest day of my life.

Right on! I was in those buildings I had to carry my friend because she was frozen with fear once we got out and looked up! I was so Freaking scared ( I don't scare easily) and she didnt want to get up from crying and I had this feeling of leaving her there but I picked her ass up and left carring her for about a block!
So everyone/// never forget!
PLEASE..
What were you doing there? What company did you work for?


I had class at the time (My college is in Brooklyn) and we decided to go to the gap in the lower level but I told her it was to early but it was open and thats why I was there. I don't know what I would of done if I was there in the upper levels working . If you (EvanLloyd) were close I bet you will never for get the boom of the hit. Although kinda muffulled down there it still sounded disconcerting (spelling?) It sounded like a poping boom sound! Crazy day, and like a ass I stoped at city hall because I didnt feel like walking uptown and I saw them fall and I was covered in so much dust, scary as hell!

I remember watching the ppl on the buses covered in dust, buses so full ppl were standing on eachother and pressed against the glass, coming uptown. Seeing ppl walking all the way to yonkers from southern manhattan covered in dust and eyes and nose bleeding.
I remember seeing the fighter jets flying over the city and the row after row of construction vehicles blasting down the empty streets like they were a military column.

[NcDeuce]

:|

[memphiz]

i dont know if any one has seen this before but i thought it was a good pic

http://www.xbox-connection.com/hostedimages/!cid_000e01c3d8c4$e490cb70$69c54718@Lenin2004.jpg

[NcDeuce]

Cool image

[Frens]

good pic!

[memphiz]

thanks i thought you guys would like it

[usa320]

Heres another. *very disturbing. shows people jumping*



As disturbing as it may be, people need to see it. I think too many people forgot about what happened- the lives lost. THe evil that was unleashed...they had to get back to worrying about important **** like britneys **** or ben&jen.

:roll:

I never go a day without thinking of the poeple lost to terrorist acts and those who defend us from the terrorists.

[Frens]

[/quote] As disturbing as it may be, people need to see it.[/quote]

I'm 100% agree with you!

[Kitsune]

A bit odd is this:

http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

Mr. Bin Ladens entry on the Most Wanted Top Ten list of the FBI.
They still do not mention any involvement in 9/11...Could they have somehow forgotten it? Or is there no proof yet?

[usa320]

I dont think hes within the FBI's jurisdiction anymore.

Hes now #1 in the Afghan Most wanted card deck. Ace of spades.