What do you remember about Sept 11, 2001?

[georgephillip]

I have stood underneath 767s and watched fuelers put 30,000 gallons of jet fuel in that sucker along with ridiculous amounts of cargo and baggage. That aircraft flying at over 500 mph at sea level is a huge mass hitting those buildings. I am impressed with how long they stood.

These weren't old style skyscrapers, they were 2 of the first with a completely different architectural design. The Empire State Building is built with huge I beams every 16 feet all of the way up to the roof, the trade center 2 main buildings had a central core and the outer skin for the vertical structure, the horizontal structure were space frames made of relatively light steel triangles that were tied to the central core and the outer skin. The building's strength came from everything working together. I understand architecture enough to not doubt what I saw.

What does your understanding of architecture tell you about the 2.25 seconds of documented free-fall experienced by WTC7, the one steel-framed skyscraper untouched by aircraft?

It tells me that the building had already collapsed behind the facade that had 2.25 seconds of freefall......

It tells me that generations of future Americans will look back at those of us who were alive on 9/11/2001 and see a continental collection of cowards.

 

[sitarro]

What does your understanding of architecture tell you about the 2.25 seconds of documented free-fall experienced by WTC7, the one steel-framed skyscraper untouched by aircraft?

It tells me that the building had already collapsed behind the facade that had 2.25 seconds of freefall......

It tells me that generations of future Americans will look back at those of us who were alive on 9/11/2001 and see a continental collection of cowards.

I don't believe anyone was killed in WTC 7, who gives a shit how it fell, it was severely damaged by the falling of the main towers and would have been knocked down either way.

 

[georgephillip]

Anyone without shit for brains would wonder what caused WTC7's 2.25 seconds of free-fall:

"The best alternative to NIST’s WTC 7 theory is the controlled demolition theory.

"This theory states that additional sources of energy other than fire and gravity were used to bring down WTC 7. The strongest theories contend that these alternate energy sources included explosives and incendiaries.

"It is common knowledge that shaped charges can cut through steel support columns.[5]

"If all remaining support columns of WTC 7 were rigged with shaped charges on both sides, on each story for eight stories and were set off in the correct precisely timed manner, they could remove all remaining resisting support for WTC 7 allowing it to free-fall for 2.25 seconds."

A Scientific Theory of the WTC 7 Collapse

 

[Zebra]

If you care to, please share your thoughts and feelings about that day.

What were you doing? Who were you with? What did you feel? What did you think?

There will be no politicizing this thread, simple as that. I don't care what ideology you are, where you come from, or who you are. I will move your post, and if you want to continue politicize it after I asked you not to, expect consequences. - Modbert

Second Edit:

Alright, I'm done playing nice with this. I have given enough freebies and I'm tired of moving bullshit.

I have just banned one person for a few days for not listening to me on this after I gave them a warning. No more. Now, if you do it, three day ban. Simple as that. I don't care who you are. If you have a problem with what someone is saying by politicizing the thread, report it.

Hint: Don't bring up Osama Bin Laden, Bush, Obama, or any topic such as that. This thread is to remember what YOUR day on that fateful day.

I don't want to come back to this thread and have to start swinging the banhammer, I really don't but I will if I have to. - Modbert

asking once again,!

 

[Zebra]

I recall that I was in medical school, working in an outpatient office seeing patients. I had no access to TV.

A rumor started circulating that a plane had crashed into the WTC...I immediately assumed it was a small plane and it was an accident.

Then I heard about a second plane and realized this was something serious.

A staff member was listening on a radio and relaying the information.

Then I heard about the Pentagon. Then there was a rumor that the State Department had been bombed.

I was trying to look this up on CNN, but all the sites were flooded until they got rid of their HTML graphics.

Then we heard about the collapse. I had no idea what it looked like since I had no TV.

I felt numb. I felt like I was in a dark room getting repeatedly punched from all directions.

At lunch, I returned to my apartment and saw the footage.

Prior to the attacks, I recall how beautiful the weather was.

impressive!