On September 11, 2001, the World shifted from what it was to what it is.
Of course, like most people on this planet, I remember it like it was yesterday when it was actually eight years ago. I remember walking out of my car at about 8 am eastern time from the parking lot of the engineering firm outside Philadelphia where I was working. I remember taking the steps up to the back entrance of the office. I also remember pausing for a moment. With obviously no knowledge of what was about to occur and forever change the World, for some reason, I paused and looked up at the sky. I thought to myself, what a beautiful day.
And it was. It was a spectacular day. Now, I'm not one to stop and gaze in wild wonder of nature too much, but something was just a little bit different here. The sky was crystal clear and it was one of those summer days where you could feel the fall air starting to creep its way in. We rarely get days that clear in the northeast, but if it would happen, September is probably the time.
By about 9 AM an admin came up to the upstairs office and asked if we heard what happened to the World Trade Center in New York. She said a plane hit the building. My first thought was that it was a private plane that went out of control, which does happen from the time to time, but once I clicked on CNN.com and saw the inferno that was the World Trade Center tower I knew this was far from a miscalculation by a private pilot.
Shortly after watching two of the most famous and symbolic structures in the World crash to the ground, all I could do was stare out the window in sadness and disbelief about what was happening to our country.
Since that day our World has never been the same. But I feel like by now people are finally starting to get over the shock and terror of the situation and start to think about what exactly happened, why it occured, and what we can do about it. This has certainly been done before but now there are several websites like
http://www.ae911truth.com/ that are pushing for more answers about what happened.
But does it really matter? Does it really matter what technical reasoning is behind the near perfect collapse of the two towers as well as WTC building 7? I'm not sure, but there are people out there that feel that they deserve the truth and will not stop until they get it. And frankly, there are probably enough unanswered and poorly answered questions about what happened on 9/11/01 to warrant some furthur explanation.
So let's assume that all the planned demolition and explosive theories are hogwash, and two jetliners did in-fact bring both towers perfectly to the ground even though the melted steel theory probably could not have happened - but say it did. There is a question that still burns hotter than any jet fuel could.
Building 7, evidently greiving from the loss of his two big brothers, decides to collapse pefectly into its own footprint. Building 7 was located clear across the street with WTC building 6 in between. The National Institute of Standards and Technology attributes the collapse to fire melting a "critical" column that sparked a cascade of floors pancaking on one another bringing the whole thing violently to the ground.
If there is some kind of cover-up going on and it someday becomes exposed, building 7 will be the kicker that foiled anybody's diabolical plans. It would be like those meddling kids on an episode of Scooby-Doo, because the explanation of its collapse makes less sense than the BCS bowl system.
Heck, maybe the owner of the building, Silverstein Properties just thought the building would be too much of a pain in the ass to repair and decided to "pull" it, to collect insurance money.
The conspiracy theories going on about 9/11 are vast and they range from somewhat legitimate to completely absurd. Some unanswered questions I have, beyond how the towers in New York fell, are as follows.
-How does a plane crash harmlessly into the farmland of Pennsylvania after some apparent "struggle" in the cockpit?
-Why was the WTC cleaned up so quickly leaving little steel for testing?
-If we can see in your bedroom window from outerspace, how can we not find Osama Bin Laden in some Batcave?
-Why did the US start a bizarre search for WMD and an invasion of Iraq shortly after 9/11.
-How did cell phones work on the planes?
-What were the details of the hefty insurance policy bought by Silverstien properites when they aquired the WTC buildings in mid-2001?
The bottom line is that we will probably never know exactly what occured that day or what occured leading up to that day, and at this point, I don't really care that much. I may sign the occasional petition and tune in to CNN when somebody makes some confession on their deathbed, but otherwise I'm going to live my life, be grateful for what I have, and hope to hell nothing like this happens again.
For those that feel they deserve more answers and in-fact deserve the truth, I cannot blame them. While any answers provided will do nothing to erase what went on and could be more hurtful than satifying, in many, the curiousity burns. Those who want the truth have the right to seek it - and it should probably be provided.
What really happened on September 11, 2001 and do we really need to know?
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