Eighteen years ago I had a little spot off Pennsylvania Avenue extended in Capitol Heights, Maryland. I worked for a telecommunications company as an operator. Not sure how it works now, but back in those days we worked all kinds of tours. Three on, four off, four on.. not days, but hours. We called them split shifts. You would come in, work a few hours, leave for a few hours and then come back and complete your tour. Combine that with a weekly schedule in which you worked, Mon – (split shift), Tue- off, Wed – (split shift), Thur – (straight 8 hrs), Fri-off, Sat – (split shift,) and Sun – straight 8 hrs, and tours like 2pm-10pm or 6am -10am (leave, then come back) 2pm-6pm.. well as you can see, that’s why we got paid the big bucks. Anywho, September 11, 2001 was my day off. I was upstairs in my bedroom connecting my TV to some new speakers I had just bought. Now since I was under my desk fiddling with wires, I decided to try and get online. Back in the day we had modems that were about as big as a small tape recorder and them little suckers could get on your very last nerve and pluck that thing like it was Earl Scruggs playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown at the Ole Opera House in Nashville. At the time you could get online free. A company called AOL, sent out millions of disks that you put into your computer, follow the instruction and BAM, you was online. Well that’s how it was suppose to work. Usually just when you got to the part where you create your password, your modem would start blinking and you would have to start the whole 1/2 hour process again at 10 kilo bytes a sec.
Anywho, I was under my desk fiddling with the wires and I got a solid light. I’m like.. that’s right!! I get back into the chair at my desk and the familiar AOL logo comes on and it says welcome to AOL, then some legal stuff, and finally it says create your username. I start typing in my username and then of all things the phone rings!! Of course whenever you have the type of modem we had in those days and the phone rings, then you can say adios to your internet connection… that little sucker started blinking and plucking. I jumped up and ran to the phone cause I’m ready to cuss somebody out. It was my brother. I’m like, “Hey man, I’m trying to get online, I will call you back.” He asks if my TV is on? I said no, and then turned it on. I couldn’t believe what I saw. One of the twin towers was on fire!! My brother and I started talking about how many lives must have been lost in the accident. Then it happened.. another plane crashed into the other tower!! There was a few minutes of silence as we took in the unbelievable spectacle. My brother asked me to hold on, he was getting another call… (yes we had cell phones, they didn’t take pictures, but you could talk on them,) anyway his job was calling. He worked for Metro and they wanted him to come in. I told him, I would talk to him later, because I wanted to see about my family. So I called my mother’s daughter. She was at work and said they were sending everyone home. They were also dismissing the schools early and she would need to pick up the kids. I told her to call me when they got home. Even then I was a news junkie. For the next few days I would be glued to the television and be a witness to history.
The First News Reports On September 11, 2001
It’s been 18 years since that fateful day and our country has been a war ever since. We have borrowed over $2 trillion dollars to finance the war. That’s a bill of around $23,000 for every man, women and child in America, from sea to shining sea. Now I know I have gone over this before, but I’m a visual type of guy, so do me a favor and humor me pleeease… A trillion seconds ago was around 32,000 years in the past, a trillion minutes ago humans did not exist and a trillion hours ago South America and Africa were joined. The oceans were higher, so a large part of North America, Africa, and Europe was submerged and the part of land that wasn’t submerged? Well lets just say 115,200000 years ago dinosaurs were running around the earth like they were rats at a Kraft Cheese convention. It would take another 50 million years or 9.6 trillion hours before a meteorite would strike the earth and wipe them all out. So yeah, a trillion is a crazy number and 2.5 trillion is a bat @#$$! crazy number. Anyway that’s not the worst part of it. The interest on that money will top $8 trillion by 2050. So that $23,000 everybody owes.. multiply that 8.
Three days after the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, a severe President George Bush said, “I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.” I guess they wasn’t listening, especially when you attack Iran, a country that had nothing to do with the bombings. Out of 19 men implicated in the attack, 15 were citizens of Saudi Arabia. The mastermind behind the attack, Osama Bin Laden was from Saudi Arabia and Senator Bob Graham, who chaired the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence at the time the report said in his sworn statements that “there was evidence of support from the Saudi government for the terrorists.” So why attack Iraq and send advisors to Afghanistan? Well there was a lot of supposition as to why attack Iraq, with the main one being because George H.W. Bush was involved in an assassination attempt by Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush, his son, saw his opportunity to whack him and took it. Now although I personally believe the latter is partly true, we can’t ignore the fact that Al Qadi had a foothold in Iraq and had publicly stated that they were responsible for the 911 attacks. With that being said, the 911 Commission said in its report that there was no evidence that “Saddam Hussein” and Al Qadi had cooperated in the attacks or had any ties to each other.
Now the waters get even muddier when we throw in the Jewish Conspiracy Theory. This theory says the Mossad, the Israeli equivalent of our CIA, had advanced knowledge and that jewish citizens were evacuated from the towers before they were attacked. They did not share the information with the US because they wanted an American military presence in the Middle East to help with Iran if they got out of pocket. With America’s military superiority they figured we would just wipe up Iraq in a few weeks and then open shop. We didn’t have to worry about fueling our forces because we would take the oil from Iraq as payment for freeing them. Indeed, who could ever forget the infamous banner behind President Bush as he declared “Mission Accomplished.” Alas it would turn out to be the longest war in American history. Like I say this is all theory and conjecture. But it is not conjecture that 5 Israeli agents were detained that day. There has never been any public statements as to their purpose and we later find that they were released and deported to Israel. The report on what they were engaged in remains classified. Now like I said, there is a lot of stuff floating out there. Remember when candidate Donald Trump said, “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down and I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.” Candidate Donald Trump said this to an audience in Alabama during the presidential campaign. He was saying Arabs were cheering. Of course there wasn’t an iota of truth to the statement. There were people dancing in the streets in Palestine, but not in New Jersey. Like I say, it was out there.
So here we are 18 years later and still the truth behind the 9/11 attacks are just as fuzzy as the day it happened. You know, I went over to the Pentagon a few days after it happened. There was this big gaping hole in the side of the building. But to me the damage did not seem to reflect a 747 crashing into it. There was no aircraft debris, no smell of jet fuel and they let people over there a few days after the incident. There was no way they could clean that up that fast. So yeah I am listening and weighing all the rumors, but I am afraid I will be long gone before the truth comes out. As I said in the beginning, I had a spot in Capitol Height. About four doors down there was a lady who was killed in the Pentagon attacks. I did not know her socially, but when we saw each other we would say hello or wave. I never even knew her name. Someone told me it after we found out she died in the attacks, but over the years I have forgotten it. I have included a list of all the people who died in the Pentagon attack. I know she is on this list.
In Memory Of All the Victims Of The 9/11 Attacks And with Special Regard For My Dear Neighbor… ( List of victims inside the Pentagon)
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