Tienanmen Sq-I can't remember where I was

OJ- In our travel trailer watching it on tv

9/11- Shining my shoes preparing to go sign retirement papers

Shock and Awe-At work watching it start on tv news. A female customs officer went, "oh my God, it has started". She was really afraid.

I'll never forget the talk of all the peaceful muslims just like all of today's peaceful rioters.

(09-11-2020 01:06 PM)Kruciff Wrote:   The Donald sinks to new lows.

Quote:The Trump administration has been accused of siphoning almost $4m from a program that treats New York firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses.

The Treasury Department stopped payments almost four years ago to the FDNY World Trade Centre Health Program, according to reporting by The Daily News, with no reason given.

Payments to the program were authorised by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, but the Treasury began to keep some of the money.

Dr David Prezant, the program’s director and FDNY’s chief medical officer, told the publication that there has been no official explanation as to why the payments were stopped and no notification that it was going to happen.

You would think the ignoramus in chief would learn his lesson after being convicted of stealing from a child's cancer charity.

Independent.co.UK

Strong Left Bias
Not a very reliable source

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mediabiasfa...ent/%3famp

(09-11-2020 01:45 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Tienanmen Sq-I can't remember where I was
OJ- In our travel trailer watching it on tv
9/11- Shining my shoes preparing to go sign retirement papers
Shock and Awe-At work watching it start on tv news. A female customs officer went, "oh my God, it has started". She was really afraid.

I have a story for each of these.

Tienanmen Sq-I had an IT consultant working for me who did really fantastic work. In particular, he was amazing under pressure. When I gave him his review, I mentioned that. He said, "Let me show you something." He pulled up the photo of the lone student standing down the tank, "That's not me," he pulled up a shot showing a group of students standing a few yards further back, and pointed to one, "But that is."

OJ-The day of the Bronco ride, my son and I went to the Brazil-Netherlands quarterfinal game of the World Cup in Dallas. We parked in my office garage, took a cab to the Cotton Bowl, cabbed it back, and decided to go to Dalt's (one of his favorites) for dinner. We had not listened to a radio. When we got to Dalt's, nobody was in the restauarant part. Everybody--customers and staff--was in the bar, watching on TV. It took us a few moments to figure out what was going on.

9/11-My mother had cataract surgery that morning. She got a friend to drive her. When she came out, she looked at the TV and asked her friend, "What movie is that, I've never seen that one." The friend had to explain that it was not a movie.

I have a personal story of 9/11 that is a bit longer.

Shock and Awe-I kept hearing how impressive it was going to be. I thought it was a bit of a dud. After Saddam fell, Geraldo Rivera had just gone over to Fox and he did a short feature where he toured Saddam's palaces. His point was to show the opulent lifestyle. My reaction was, "Why weren't these the first places knocked down." To overthrow a tyrant, you blow up his palaces and the secret police. I thought a bit, and realized that we were in there to be an army of occupation, and we wanted those as residences for our top people.

My 9/11 story is that I realized I had paid more attention to what was going on in the world than most. I was supposed to fly out that afternoon, to Phoenix IIRC, and was at home polishing up the presentation I was going to give the next day. Our office administrator called to ask if I was okay. I asked why and she told me. My first response was, "Osama bin Laden."

Earlier that summer, we had flown British Airways from London to Singapore, enroute to Australia. I was very aware of terrorist rumors. Two things I remember about that flight. One, there was this big brawny guy in he flight attendant crew. He looked like Li'l Abner, his uniform didn't fit very well, and when he tried to make coffee he didn't know how to operate the coffee pot. I figured he was commando or MI-something, on there for security. Two, I fell asleep for a while, and when I woke up the map thingy said we were between Kabul and Peshawar. I thought, "I'm glad I'm on a British-flag carrier instead of a US one."

On the trip home, we flew Qantas to LAX and Southwest home from there. A lot of the rumors had suggested LAX as a possible target. As soon as we got to LAX, my mind reverted to my Navy counter-insurgency training--eyes constantly moving, thinking about what I'd do if I saw something unusual.

(09-11-2020 01:47 PM)hoopfan Wrote:  I'll never forget the talk of all the peaceful muslims just like all of today's peaceful rioters.

Liberals - Cant judge all Muslims by the actions of a few

Also liberals - All cops are racist


Just think, 19 years after 60 NYPD heroes gave the ultimate sacrifice helping their fellow New Yorkers, the city now has a communist piece of shht mayor who has defunded them. What a guy!

For the dog video: https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status...7097892864

(09-11-2020 01:31 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 01:17 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 01:12 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 01:06 PM)Kruciff Wrote:   The Donald sinks to new lows.

Quote:The Trump administration has been accused of siphoning almost $4m from a program that treats New York firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses.

The Treasury Department stopped payments almost four years ago to the FDNY World Trade Centre Health Program, according to reporting by The Daily News, with no reason given.

Payments to the program were authorised by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, but the Treasury began to keep some of the money.

Dr David Prezant, the program’s director and FDNY’s chief medical officer, told the publication that there has been no official explanation as to why the payments were stopped and no notification that it was going to happen.

You would think the ignoramus in chief would learn his lesson after being convicted of stealing from a child's cancer charity.

Here's one who wouldn't unite. He would claim it was a plot by DJT to win reelection.

I don't know what the big deal is, more people die annually to the flu than in 9/11


Oh wait wrong argument, we're not talking about COVID



Maybe you should take a look at why people hate Trump (this being a perfect example) instead of accusing others of hating America for not kowtowing to this President

Proving my point.

Ignore the troll. Even on a day as somber as 9/11 some can't help but let hatred overrule them.

(09-11-2020 02:57 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 01:31 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 01:17 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 01:12 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 01:06 PM)Kruciff Wrote:   The Donald sinks to new lows.




You would think the ignoramus in chief would learn his lesson after being convicted of stealing from a child's cancer charity.

Here's one who wouldn't unite. He would claim it was a plot by DJT to win reelection.

I don't know what the big deal is, more people die annually to the flu than in 9/11


Oh wait wrong argument, we're not talking about COVID



Maybe you should take a look at why people hate Trump (this being a perfect example) instead of accusing others of hating America for not kowtowing to this President

Proving my point.

Ignore the troll. Even on a day as somber as 9/11 some can't help but let hatred overrule them.

Typical Democrat Liberal Leftist.

I almost forgot to put out my flag.


After nineteen years that British rendition of our National Anthem still brought tears to my eyes. I'll never forget.

I was going on a guy's trip to with my Dad, brother-in-law and nephew. So I was at home with the TV on. Saw it all.
My Dad who worked for an airline thought we would just be delayed. But then they grounded everything.

Had a friend in NY living 2 blocks from the towers. I called and couldn't get ahold of him. Talked to his brother-in-law who lived locally and had reached him. I told him I was afraid the building would fall and hit his building (I didn't know they were designed to pancake). This was before anyone was talking about the buildings falling. His thought, having served in Vietnam, is that the streets were unsafe. The Viet Cong would get everybody out in the streets where they had a powerful bomb to kill maximum people. In this case, all the damage was inside the buildings. My friend was at home on a conference call and felt one of the planes shake his building as it flew low over. His building did suffer some damage from debris and was closed for a year. He walked all the way to midtown later than morning and never moved back there.

Recent years I've thought it's time to move on & stop acting like it happened yesterday. But now after seeing rioters burn our cities down & yell 'F the police', I don't think that anymore.