Too many arguments on this site revolve around people not doing their research but believing what other people tell them.
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Too many arguments on this site revolve around people not doing their research but believing what other people tell them.
Too few paragraph as well :p
19 guys with box cutter managed to get norad to stand down all controlled from a cave in afganistan you couldnt right it
I was in the US...Portland Oregon in fact...on the 9th of September 01. In actual fact, as the crow flies...the UK was nearer than Portland Oregon to NYC.
I remember the US TV coverage. I remember certain things being reported once....and only once very early on in the day. One thing I do remember is someone reporting that the second plane wasn't a commercial plane. That one thing has stayed with me....and long before any of the sites on the net started talk of conspiracy.
As its been said here before, the USA went crazy that day. We were doing a gig in a club and hovering above us was a sky scraper...it was an FBI building. Some of the military and Men in Black stuff we saw that day was, upon reflection, comical and hilarious. I'm not for one minute taking anything away from what happened that day...but at that point in time the military and Men in Black didn't have clue what to do. They just seemed to be running about doing nothing.
I can remember a delivery guy coming into the club....and it looked as though he was on auto pilot. I found out later that both his parents worked high in the WTC. At that time it was assumed that he had lost both of them. Our bus driver had a son that worked there....it took until 5.00pm that day for him to find out that his son was OK. One of our US P.A. guys (from NYC) had just the week before...fallen out with his boss...so his boss had stuck him on our tour, instead of the nice cushy close to home P.A. job high up in one of the towers. He had a close escape....but the good news was that the guy that took his place had slept in...and was on his way to the WTC when the planes hit.
We had to load in and do our jobs...we couldn't get a line to call home. I managed to to use a internet text to mobile service to text Kim and ask her to call my folks just say I was OK. They didn't know where I was in the US. The band decided to go on stage that night and ask the audience if they should go ahead and play the gig. They had previously had to cancel a gig in Portland...didn't what to cancel...but at the same time, didn't want to appear insensitive to what had happened earlier that day. We had a minutes silence then did the gig. It was a weird gig...but the crowd i spoke to were glad that we had played. If nothing else we all escaped for a while from the reality of that day.
I flew to Chicago Midway through Minneapolis on the day that the planes started flying again. I missed my connection. I was going to Chicago after the tour to see a friend. Security was joke. After 4 days in Chicago I flew home from O'Hare...and again...security was a joke. When I checked in...and told the check in staff that I had some weird and wonderful bits of kit in my suitcase. They were not interested.
I had forgotten to post some postcards after going through into departure. I asked a Police officer if i could go back out onto the concourse again...she wasn't even interested. and just pointed towards an unlocked door!!!! When I came back through security...one of the security staff asked to see inside my laptop case. I smiled and said "you didn't want to see it two minutes ago!" and started to open the case. He stopped me and I thought "Oh No...me and my big mouth!"....but he said...."OK...you can go through" I said "I didn't say you couldn't look in my bag...I insist that you look in my bag!" He just waved me away.
I've been back to the US every year since. Security seems to have a higher profile...but in reality, I don't think it is any better. It should be.
I've been to Ground Zero a few times. It is eery. It is so sad what happened there. We did a gig in Battery Park last July 4th....and my hotel room had a view of Ground Zero. I sat for about an hour just looking at that view...how could anyone just pull the curtains on that view and go to sleep.
I have friends in NYC that saw that second plane. They always have tears in their eyes when someone mentions 9/11.
3000 people lost their lives on 9/11....but how many people have lost their lives since?
I was also in
WOW!.....n i said hubby was interminable!:eek::p:p:p;);):D
jeez I thought for a minute I had logged on to x5world.com:p
OK...here it is for the slow readers:Quote:
quote:Originally posted by sedgie
WOW!.....n i said hubby was interminable!:eek::p:p:p;);):D
Boom....Boom....JEEZ!...I won't forget that day
mark
ok saves me reading all that thanks mark for the condensed version
The BBC is pulling the theories apart pretty comprehesively....
They're making the guy who did loose change look pretty stupid
Yep, I'll go with the South Park version.Quote:
quote:Originally posted by Vidal Buffoon
The BBC is pulling the theories apart pretty comprehesively....
They're making the guy who did loose change look pretty stupid