Never Forget — A Hero’s Profile: Welles Crowther

September 1, 2009 By
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Sep­tem­ber 1, 2009.  We’re ten days from the eighth “anniver­sary” (I hate using that word) of 9/11.  I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been fix­ated by some of the accounts and lives of some of the vic­tims from that awful, awful day.  So I fig­ured that I’d do some­thing to remind every­one of what hap­pened that day, and why we should never become blasé about what happened.

I recently dis­cov­ered a link to the evi­dence from the trial of ter­ror­ist Zacarias Mous­saoui.  I urge you to visit the site.  Click on every link.  Look at every pic­ture, and lis­ten to every audio file — espe­cially if you’re one of those kook “con­spir­acy the­o­rists” who believe our gov­ern­ment was behind the attack.  I must warn you — it’s grue­some.  It’s hor­ri­ble.  But I believe that those of us who were not directly affected by the tragedy that hap­pened eight years ago need to see this.  We as a coun­try need to make it fresh in our minds again and real­ize that there are those out there who are hell-bent on our destruc­tion as a nation and as a way of life.  And guess what?  They’re win­ning. 

If you don’t believe that, you haven’t been pay­ing atten­tion.  Look at the politi­cians and what they’re doing.  They keep try­ing to drive that wedge between the peo­ple of this coun­try.  The cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion is oper­at­ing from a pre-September 11 atti­tude that ter­ror­ism is not an act of war, but a “law enforce­ment” issue.  I’m sorry, but that’s just not the case.  These fanat­ics will stop at noth­ing to kill inno­cents.  They don’t care about polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness, diplo­macy, or the Geneva Con­ven­tion.  Just ask the fam­ily of Daniel Pearl.  Just ask the fam­i­lies of all the peo­ple on the planes that were crashed into the World Trade Cen­ter, the Pen­ta­gon, and the field in Shanksville, Penn­syl­va­nia.  The only thing they care about is the mur­der of “infi­dels”.  It is a war.  It’s a war of ide­olo­gies and beliefs — between Sharia law and the law that every­one is born free and deserves free­dom.  But for now, enough of politics.

Let’s take a look at the real heroes of 9/11.

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9/11 — May We Never Forget

September 11, 2008 By
The World Trade Center as it used to be.
The World Trade Center as it used to be.

The World Trade Cen­ter as it used to be.

I think in the past few years, most Amer­i­cans have for­got­ten what hap­pened to this Coun­try and our Coun­try­men on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001.  I — for one — have not.  I never will.  I’ll never for­get the feel­ing of being told, “A plane just flew into the World Trade Cen­ter!”  At first, I thought they were telling a bad joke…Then I real­ized they were seri­ous.  I imme­di­ately thought, as prob­a­bly most Amer­i­cans did, that it was just an acci­dent.  But when some­one in our office yelled, “Another plane just flew into the Trade Cen­ter!”  I — prob­a­bly like you did — real­ized it was a hor­ri­ble attack on our country.

I tried my best to work, to get my mind off of what happened…You see, I had just started in June at the com­pany I was work­ing for.  I wanted to show every­one that I was a hard worker, that I could do my job with­out being dis­tracted by idle con­ver­sa­tion.  But when some­one told me they had the TV in an adja­cent office on, I ran to it.  I had to see for my own eyes what was happening.

Big mis­take.  About 15 of us stood in that office and watched both of the Twin Tow­ers fall.  It was hor­rific.  I was think­ing, “This is just a bad, bad movie…It’s not real.  It can’t be real…”  But it was…way too real.

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