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In reply to the discussion: My take on 9/11 [View all]Jenoch
(7,720 posts)28. What happens in situations like this is that
some people just cannot grasp reality. To them it is unthinkable that a bunch of idiots can get just enough training to steer an airliner and cause this destruction to our country. They are looking for something bigger. I remember people focusing on the melting point of steel. The steel in the WTC did not need to melt for the building to collapse, it just had to get hot enough to lose enough structural integrity to bend and then thexweight of the building did the rest. The OP suggested that ground zero be treated as a crime scene. As far as I remember, it was.
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No matter how horrific, chilling, and heart-breaking these dastardly attacks were, these attacks
indepat
Sep 2014
#1
It is no ct that the NYFD were never allowed to conduct the usual investigation of fire or that Bush
sabrina 1
Sep 2014
#48
I saw the plane, we heard the engine and it was way too close, we ran to the window and saw a plane
peacebird
Sep 2014
#52
You've obviously never been to DC. The traffic around the Pentagon never subsides. n/t
FSogol
Sep 2014
#24
we had a warning, unfortunately Bush reduced the staff and the translators had a backlog,
hollysmom
Sep 2014
#37
And yet, the Clinton Administration prevented many terror attacks. And we know why, thanks to those
sabrina 1
Sep 2014
#50
I think as long as we are going around the world acting like an Empire, there will be extremists who
sabrina 1
Sep 2014
#70
Well, of course it could have been prevented if the airlines would have spent the $$
mnhtnbb
Sep 2014
#60