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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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