Category Archives: Terrorism

09.01.2001: Heroes of Flight 93

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Stella

9:39 a.m. — Passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93 begin calling 911 and loved ones after the plane is hijacked. The Boeing 757 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco. Passenger Lauren Grandcolas calls her husband, … Continue reading →

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Today’s Twitter pick – 9/11 humiliation

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Stella

The humiliation of having the Taliban inaugurate a government on 9/11, twenty years later to the day, full of the FBI’s most wanted list is hard to overestimate — Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) September 9, 2021

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09.01.2001: Attack on the Pentagon

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Stella

As we all watched/listened in horror, the attacks on our country continued. 9:12 a.m. — Passengers and flight attendants on board American Airlines Flight 77 call loved ones to let them know their Boeing 757 has been hijacked. The plane … Continue reading →

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09.01.2001: Now we knew it was a terrorist attack on our nation

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Stella

Remembering September 11, 2001. 8:50 a.m. — President George W. Bush’s advisers inform him of the crash while he was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla. He was there to promote his education reform package. Reporters traveling … Continue reading →

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09.11.2001, as it happened: The towers are hit

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Stella

As the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001 approaches, let’s think about it each day this week. 8:46 a.m. — American Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, striking between floors 93 and 99 while … Continue reading →

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Built Back Better?

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Stella

Terrorism, that is.

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Lara Logan: ‘How can they stand and lie on this scale?’

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Stella

Lara Logan: “American weakness is a problem for every American.”

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Proverbs 6 – Warnings against folly

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Stella

It deserves to be repeated (and needed). So I am repeating it!

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President G.W. Bush Speaks To The Nation, September 2001

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Stella

The following video incorporates an audio recording that was made by a Detroit radio station, WOMC FM,  in October 2001.  It contains excerpts from two speeches – President Bush’s oval office speech the evening of September 11, 2001, and the … Continue reading →

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Memories of Sept 11, 2001

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Stella

What I mourn most deeply is our loss of  innocence and unity. The thing that really stands out in my memories of Sept 11, 2001, is the astonishing unity of the majority of Americans – sadness, love of country, enormous … Continue reading →

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