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Subscribe to RSSHundreds of construction workers stopped what they were doing Friday morning at Ground Zero to bow their heads at 9:08 a.m. Several air horns sounded off in unison at that time and the normally frantic pace of construction became quiet.
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Workmen at the World Trade Center site in New York unfurl a flag following the moment of silence observed by all the workmen on the site at 9:08 am on September 9. They will not be working on Sunday.
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Construction workers observe a moment of silence at 9:08am on 9/9 at the WTC site.
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Workmen at the top of the Freedom Tower observe the moment of silence.
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As early morning preparations were under way at the 9/11 Memorial, hundreds of workers observed a moment of silence at 9:08 a.m. The workers will not be at the site on Sunday so they took a moment to recognize the tenth anniversary on Friday.
People gathered at Ground Zero observe a moment of silence on Friday, to honor the victims of 9/11.
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God Bless America!
Yes, let's celebrate our FREEDOM.
Let me see some ID. Where are you coming from? What did you do there? Where are you going? What will you do there? What's in that bag? Up against the wall so you can be frisked.
Isn't freedom great? People died so we can be free, instead we are opressed.
What freedom we lost all our freedom to the patriot act. now you can be arrested held without counsel. all in the name of terrorism. If you question it your a freedom hating terrorist. come on America wake up the government is taking away your constitutional rights and your not saying a thing in fear of ridicule by closed minded people.
way cool, thanks for the photos-
It will be a great day when this government quits taking this country (except for those that have bought into this as a terrorist attack) for a bunch of retards and confirm the TRUTH as to what really happened. Those buildings were controlled demolitions and no plane wreckage found at any of the sites. Titanium engine parts, landing gears, seats, luggage, fuselage parts, wings, NOTHING. It all just "vaporized." Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I'm sorry for all our citizens who were killed...Just having a bigger trouble that our own government would have ever done such a thing....but then again....history does have a tendency to repeat itself. It wasn't the 1st time our government has done something like this--and sure won't be the last.
Take an arsenic pill and see me in the morning.
Your a dork.
Said same thing couple of days ago
Really? Seriously?
The only person(s) delusional is you….not any of the
thousands of people who were in the towers, on the three planes, and who were
on the ground on that terrible morning.
What a slap in the face of all who died, who tried to save and who are still
crying.
Chopswell...you are correct...too many things about that day, just dont add up.
from missing plane parts, to the way the towers fell, and of course Building 7, I'm not buying the fact that the govt. wasnt involved...from Bush to Cheney to Rumsfeld, they were involved, its just that no one can really put the facts together to try them in a court of law.
You mentioned how a govt. can do this, and get away with it. This govt., back in 1963, eliminated its own President. not assassinated, but eliminated. and got away with it. So this, shouldnt be a surprise.
And it will happen again, I'm very sure of that.
Obviously more than 1 village is missing its idiot.
ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH!!! Yeah, bad thing happened, no the real people behind it were ignored and yeah the govt. lies. I am sick of hearing about it. Enough.
Well said Oldwolf
I'm getting a little scared about all the self-delusion that seems to be accompanying this anniversary. I have listened to interviews with people who laud how we all came together and how we are a better, stronger, more united country for having gone through all this together. This is wishful thinking. We are a weaker, more divided, less powerful country than we were ten years ago and anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention is well aware of that.
If we don't get our heads out of the sand and our butts in gear to put some energy into rebuilding our country instead of just rebuilding "ground zero," if we continue to look behind us and spend all our efforts on deciding who is the villain of our last decade of governance, if we can't turn around and look ahead to where we want to go, then the terrorists have won and everyone who died on 9/11 and all the subsequent wars will have indeed died in vain.
I have had about as much of the media hype as I can handle. I want to commemorate and memorialize the heros and victims of this horrible day but I don't want us to jump in the national grave with them.
There are possibilities. The direction we, as a country, were heading into in 2001 may have been far worse than where we are; terrible as it is. On 9-11 most of the country did not have a clue. Who expected invited guests, treated honorably, to turn on, without warning, and kill their host in his sleep?
The more united part is a lie. If what I saw on the sites about the fires and flooding are true most Americans seem to hate most other Americans and wish them ill.
As we approach the anniversary I find it a very sad state of affairs that Americans would believe that their own government would coordinate a massive conspiracy to commit a black flag operation against its own citizens.
You know the simplest answer is usually the correct one. A bunch of Muslim extremists with boxcutters hijacked planes and crashed them into the WTC towers and the Pentagon. There are victims' family members who spoke with their loved ones on the planes before they crashed.
If it is some government conspiracy, it would be the biggest, most elaborate conspiracy concocted in recent memory. Our government can't even save NOLA from 5 feet of water and I'm supposed to entertain the notion they blew up their own buildings while managing to get extremists to fly planes into them too.
Sure...
A lot of people died, by blaming the government we do a disservice to their memories, especially the folks who died on Flight UA Flight 93, who stopped the hijackers from doing even more damage and murder.
I'm an atheist, but whatever happens after we leave this world, I hope the victims are at peace.
Voice of reason to be sure, honestly it wasnt too far fetched for a bunch of extremists to plan something like this over a few bowls of heroine, might be sort of hard for any jackoff to do something like that now, they would get mobed by the passengers on the plane,, this was not a conspiracy, just extremism close to home,,, We are much more cautious now than in the days leading up to this sad event.
Be vigilant
Be patriotic
Be safe
Stand up for yourself and your country and stop extremism before it takes the lives of someone you care for.
No,no, no...incorrect picture of those who planned and followed through with this horrible event. These are no mere extremists junking around talking a bunch BS....these are terrorists..who live, breathe, and die for the annihilation of our country. They want us dead...does no one understand that?
Yes I also give a moment of silence... Then I realize justice has NOT been satisfied yet and I must continue to share my convictions. Yes, I also believed the 9/11 official story for many years. What changed? I saw the video of WTC7 collapse. Remember this: We are all Americans, but some with a different view.
BTW: I am ex-military USAF, ex-steel structural worker and 9/11 truther.
You cannot say "I don't have the right". I served my country; to allow FREEDOM of SPEECH to continue unhindered. You may disagree with my convictions, you know what I say "that is OK, it's your American right to speak your mind". God Bless and Protect America!
I'm also ex AF. I assume you are referring to the many separate explosions. Which have been explained as diesel storage tanks for back up generators. There was extreme heat that was actually melting the face of building seven which caused the tanks to explode.
I watched a fire started by a gasoline tanker hitting a building. There were many explosions throughout the building when water hit superheated steel structural beams. That was just a 10 story building I think but those explosions were loud.
Yeah Chopswell, except I saw the second plane fly into the building. Moron
Just because you saw a plane crash into the building means nothing.
They've been able to remotely fly planes for a long long long time now.
But chopswell argument is there was no plane. Sounds like the Matrix. "There is no spoon."
This is the type of thing that makes America great- THE PEOPLE coming together.
Unfortunately these workers, like the first responders, the survivors, and the clergy are not invited to the politicians commemoration ceremony on 9/11. Did you know that the first responders were "given" their own commemoration ceremony on 9/8? Doesn't quite make sense, does it?? I'm guessing that the construction workers were offered today as "their day" for a reason as well.
Truth be told, I don't think that many "real" people will be interested in the politician's ceremony anyway. From what I've heard they are going to stand around and read poetry. Very tolerant of them, isn't it?
9-11 attacked our financial and military foundations. Perhaps, as a get-them-again type of attack, Al Qaeda may, this time, attack our higher educational institutions; MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cal Tech, Columbia, Univ. of Chicago etc.. Beslan in Russia, although a secondary school, might be a clue to their anaversary plans?
Well they'll be disappointed. Americans seem to go to college just so they can type nasty names at other Americans.
God, enough of this already! Day after day, more of the same. I had a friend who's husband died in an accident on 09/11/2001. Is he any less dead?NO. Did he deserve it? NO. Did his wife get 1.8 million to help her carry on her life? NO. I keep thinking if we can just get through this weekend, we will be free of it until at least mid August 2012.
Not me I get to commemorate a little tragedy here 9/15/2001
That's the same way I feel about Christmas.
Yeah it drives me nuts. The thing I've never heard anyone explain is how this happened and why it can NEVER happen again. Back in the late 60s, 70s, and even into the late 80s planes used to get hijacked to Cuba. Alot of planes. No one got killed, they let the perpetrators off in Cuba and came home. Remain calm and everything will be okay. That was the mindset. That's why they were able to take the planes with BOXCUTTERS. You couldn't take over a plane with uzis now. It will never happen again. Homeland security is the placebo offered by our government to make us feel better. We are no more or less safe than we were ten years ago. You want the honor those poor people and their families? LIVE WITHOUT FEAR.
Hasn't Mayor Bloomberg asked that "Ground Zero" needs to be retired and here we are one of the sites that broke that news using it. I understand why he asked too. Enoughs enough come up with another name. How about the new trade center site. Has a really good ring to it doesn't send people into PTSD fits due to the monicker. this is just low class by a news site to keep poking at a wound with a stick.
All i can say how some of you people are so ignorant we all watched everything that happend that day some where there some @ home when 1st & 2nd plane hit , And for some say the goverment did this ' Really' FIND SOMETHING USEFUL WITH YOUR LIFE!!!!
Thank you Mary, phz, Az. Finally someone with a level head. If you other idiots think this country, our government is so bad.....leave, we do not need you, you are useless and obviously lacking in any sympathy for those who suffered. God Bless America and thank you to the first responders.
Thank God, someone got to the heart of the matter!!!!!!!!!
Bottom line - YOU DON'T LIKE IT, LEAVE!!!!!!!! paiup is right ... we do not need you, you are useless. And, obviously really don't understand this Country, what we've fought for for hundreds of years and still fight to maintain. If you can't help in the fight for our freedoms - get the hell out!!!!!!
Yes!
I will record the events planned this weekend but will not watch them. The horror of that day is as fresh in my mind as if it happened yesterday.
All I have to do is close my eyes and see the the smoke pouring down the street as the towers collapsed, people jumping out of the windows to avoid death by fire, hearing the firemen's alarms going off constantly, watching as every body was removed. Seeing the panic and horror in the people's eyes as they were looking for loved ones.
I remember the country coming together as one with pride in America, flags flying everywhere. I wonder how many flags will be flying tomorrow to show our solidarity as a nation who will NEVER FORGET 9/11. I remember GW grabbing the poor fireman at the top of the rubble of wreckage for a photo shoot so it appeared as if he was there helping. It was at that point I began to despise him for trying to insert himself in the tragedy of that day like he was actively involved in the rescue. Instead he sent us to war against against Iraq looking for the nonexistent WMD,.
At the time I made the comment on a news chat that the war with Iraq would end up being worse than Viet Nam. I was booed off the chat as being to ignorant to understand war.
Well...here we are years later and trillion of dollars stolen and wasted on a war that will have no ending.
Bottom line here is EVERY ONE FLY YOUR FLAGS AND NEVER, EVER FORGET 9/11
The terrorist got more then they ever could have hoped for on 9/11. We played right into their hands these past ten years. The terrorist wanted us to get bogged down in a war, they've stated this over and over in their stupid videos. The last ten years have seen us spending like crazy thinking we can throw money and rockets at our problems and fears. The last ten years have been a wet dream for the people who were planning those atrocities that day. On September 11 I was just 11 years old and thinking we could fight this monster, how naive I was. I don't want to say the terrorist won but what do you call it when they got everything they asked for and more? Homeland Security/The Patriot Act didn't capture Osama. It was all pre 9/11 institutions that found and killed Osama. The last ten years have done nothing but destroy the American way of life. Not to say we can't get it back but to do so we got to open our eyes and our minds.
From the comments posted here - doesn't seem to be a chance of anyone opening their minds.
Just a lot of whining...