9-11-2001 We Will Never Forget
Through blurred eyes we find the strength and courage to soar beyond the moment. We look to the future knowing we can never forget the past. God Bless America.
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I remember as you do where I was that Tuesday morning. I was stationed out in Ft.Lewis, Washington with the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, US Army. I had just woke up and was getting dressed for morning P.T.(physical training), and fired up my computer. I clicked on Yahoo as I did every morning before going out to P.T., NEWS ALERT, A plane had just flown into the World Trade Center Building. So I ran into our day room (where all the Rangers would meet to watch football on the widescreen T.V.) and turned on Fox News. I yelled for the other Rangers down the hall to come see the news. Just then the second plane flew into the other World Trace Center tower. The rest of the day was an activation blur. Blur because eyes were blurred all day and the whole Fort was on high alert. That day I knew I was in the right place to help settle the score. I am proud to have been in 2nd Ranger Bn. 75th Ranger Regiment. It was nice to be able to get some pay back.
There were 2,974 deaths, excluding the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. An additional 24 people remain listed as missing. All of the deaths in the attacks were civilians except for 55 military personnel killed at the Pentagon. More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2007, the New York City medical examiner's office added Felicia Dunn-Jones to the official death toll from the September 11 attacks. Dunn-Jones died five months after 9/11 from a lung condition which was linked to exposure to dust during the collapse of the World Trade Center.
NIST estimated that about 17,400 civilians were in the World Trade Center complex at the time of the attacks, while turnstile counts from the Port Authority suggest that 14,154 people were typically in the Twin Towers by 8:45 a.m. The vast majority of people below the impact zone safely evacuated the buildings, along with 18 people who were in the impact zone in the south tower. 1,366 people died who were at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower. According to the Commission Report, hundreds were killed instantly by the impact, while the rest were trapped and died after the tower collapsed. As many as 600 people were killed instantly or were trapped at or above the floors of impact in the South Tower.
At least 200 people jumped to their deaths from the burning towers (as depicted in the photograph "The Falling Man"), landing on the streets and rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below. Some of the occupants of each tower above its point of impact made their way upward toward the roof in hope of helicopter rescue, but the roof access doors were locked. No plan existed for helicopter rescues, and on September 11, the thick smoke and intense heat would have prevented helicopters from conducting rescues.
A total of 411 emergency workers who responded to the scene died as they attempted to rescue people and fight fires. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) lost 341 firefighters and 2 FDNY paramedics. The New York City Police Department lost 23 officers. The Port Authority Police Department lost 37 officers, and 8 additional EMTs and paramedics from private EMS units were killed.
Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., an investment bank on the 101st–105th floors of One World Trade Center, lost 658 employees, considerably more than any other employer. Marsh Inc., located immediately below Cantor Fitzgerald on floors 93–101 (the location of Flight 11's impact), lost 295 employees, and 175 employees of Aon Corporation were killed. After New York, New Jersey was the hardest hit state, with the city of Hoboken sustaining the most deaths.
Weeks after the attack, the estimated death toll was over 6,000. The city was only able to identify remains for about 1,600 of the victims at the World Trade Center. The medical examiner's office also collected "about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead". Bone fragments were still being found in 2006 as workers were preparing to demolish the damaged Deutsche Bank Building. -courtesy of Wikipedia
For a complete list of the September 11, 2001 Victims Click Here
If this page gets your blood boiling. Do something about it. Get your own payback - join the US Military today. I recommend joining the US Marines or the US Army Airborne Rangers. Today May 1st 2011 Osama Bin Laden was killed by US Special Operations Soldiers. Hoorah and Hooah! Semper Fi!
Freedom is not free. Remembering my Fallen Brothers and the sacrifices they've made. I will never forget.
"THE GREATEST HONOR IS TO KILL THE ENEMY"