The End Time iconThe End TimeSep 11, 2026 ~8 min source read

My 9/11/2001 Memory, Part 2: The End of the World

Elizabeth Prata recounts the facts, the confusion in the immediate response, and the emotional and religious reaction she and others felt on September 11, 2001.

My 9/11/2001 memory, part 2: The End of the World

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The attacks used passenger planes as weapons, an unexpected tactic that overwhelmed existing air defense and FAA procedures.

Passengers on United Flight 93 prevented a fourth attack by reclaiming the jet and crashing it in Pennsylvania.

Operational confusion in agencies like the FAA, NEADS, and NORAD slowed effective military response.

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THE FACTS I wrote yesterday in part 1 of my personal reflections about that terrible day known as 9/11. Their intention was to honor Allah and to perform a 'death to America' act of evil by flying the passenger planes into high value targets. The passengers knew they were to die but they would not allow the terrorists to accomplish their mission.

How it works

  • The documentary made it clear just how unique and unexpected the use of passenger planes was at this given moment.
  • After 9/11 Woods called the FBI, who showed up on his doorstep at 7am on Sepotember 12 door, woke him up, and interviewed Woods on the details.
  • How the 9/11 Boatlift became the largest waterborne evacuation in history THE EMOTIONAL PART And here we have the fallout.
  • From a sermon: " How does the world as we know it end and what will be the signs?

What to take from it

Because of this, the Muslim terrorists' goal in that respect was accomplished. It will be REAL Armageddon at the end of a time period of trouble unlike the world has ever seen. So the world will fall into darkness because neither the sun nor the moon shine on the earth.

Example or evidence

  • The day was so crystal clear and bright, surely a pilot would have known the building was there…was it a small commuter plane with an inexperienced pilot?
  • The plane, United 79, was re-commandeered by the passengers and forced into a field in Pennsylvania.
  • Since the news cameras were all aimed at the North Tower, when the Muslim terrorists flew the second plane into the South Tower at 9:03, we knew instantly.
  • The Muslim terrorists had gained the cockpit and turned off the locating transponders of each plane.

Details worth keeping

Twenty-five years have passed…the pain is still real. The first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46AM. Nor did any tourist accidentally capture the event.

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  • Newyorker: It became immediately evident that this was terrorism on an unexampled scale. The twentieth century had ended, and the twenty-first had begun.
  • Kidotalkradio: Twenty-five years ago, I watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center and rushed to the radio station for a day none of us had prepared for.
  • Endtime: Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, one question Irvin Baxter asked years ago deserves another look: Did 9/11 start World War III? Nearly 3,000 people were killed when terrorists hijacked […]

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My 9/11/2001 memory; Part 1
The End Time iconThe End TimeSep 10, 2026

My 9/11/2001 memory; Part 1

By Elizabeth Prata In March of 2001 I started a newspaper. It was a weekly community paper where I’d determined to cover our local government. I was fiercely committed to our First Amendment rights, especially a free press and the right to assemble. The local community had a newspaper already but it had drifted from […

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