9/11

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https://x.com/BarnabyHistory/status/2098426346103800312

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🇺🇸 The Stairwell That Should Not Have Been There

Ladder 6 left Chinatown that morning. The Pride of Chinatown. Captain Jay Jonas and five men: Sal D’Agostino, Matt Komorowski, Mike Meldrum, Bill Butler, Tommy Falco.

They went up the North Tower in Stairwell B. Gear on their backs. Twenty-seventh floor when the South Tower came down.

The order came. Get out.

On the way down they found a woman who could not take another step.

Josephine Harris. Fifty-nine. Bookkeeper for the Port Authority on the 73rd floor. A widow. She had already walked fifty-three flights on a bad leg. At twenty she stopped.

Tommy Falco looked at his captain.
“Cap, what do you want to do with her?”

They were running for their lives. They took her anyway. One step. Both feet. One step. Both feet. People behind them and had to squeeze past.

At the fourth floor her legs gave out. She told them to leave her.

They did not.

Jonas went looking for a chair. He was a few feet from the stairwell door when the North Tower started to come down.

It took thirteen seconds.

Jonas said the building peeled away around them like a banana. Above them, no one in that stairwell lived. Below them, in the lobby, almost no one lived. They were sitting in the only piece that held. Fourth floor to first.

Fourteen people were in that stretch of stairs. The six from Ladder 6. Josephine. A battalion chief. A Port Authority K-9 officer whose dog did not make it.

Jonas later said if she had been faster, they would have been in the lobby. If they had left her, they would have been lower, or gone.

They called her their guardian angel.

Josephine died in 2011. She was sixty-nine. The six men from Ladder 6 were her pallbearers. They lifted her one more time.

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CHILLING: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his CIA interrogator that America would be beaten by immigration and its own liberties, not another airliner.
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James Mitchell, the psychologist who questioned the 9/11 plotter after his 2003 capture, put that warning in his 2016 book and on Fox News. He was paraphrasing what KSM said in custody, not reading a public speech.
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Mitchell said KSM called U.S. civil liberties, openness, and cultural guilt "gifts from Allah." In Mitchell's telling, those were weaknesses planted so the country could be defeated from inside.
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The practical path, KSM said, was immigration. Jihadi-minded men would enter, live on welfare, wrap themselves in American rights, spread their message, and rise up when they were strong enough.
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"You're going to protect us with your civil rights, and then, when the time is right, we are going to rise up and attack you," Mitchell recalled him saying. He also quoted KSM saying America would "expose her neck for sl*ughter."
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Those lines come from an interrogator describing a captive, not from a courtroom verdict on every later plot. The 9/11 attacks themselves k*lled nearly 3,000 people.
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A country that forgets what its enemies said out loud is volunteering for the next chapter. Honor the de*d by taking the warning as seriously as the planes. It's time to wake up, America.
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#September11
#911

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[Baz]

Originally Posted by dad911

Aired only once at the request of the Budweiser company out of respect for 9/11 because they didn't want to make a profit from it or the tragedy of 9/11.

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Volunteers in St. Louis, Missouri planted over 7,500 American flags across Art Hill as a tribute to those who lost their lives on 9/11, and the soldiers who defended our country afterwards. Drone footage captured the incredible and emotional sight.

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Originally Posted by Racerbvd

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I'm guessing the photo on the left was taken in GITMO.

Did they supply dye for his beard?

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https://youtu.be/1kxm3-jOS7Q?is=Ju0oJtbxcfBLWbiR

This really got to me.

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