9/11 images on Diet Pepsi Cans in Afghanistan

There are no coincidences in life. The graphic image on the side of Diet Pepsi cans being served to American troops in Afghanistan bears more than a passing resemblance to the 9/11 terror attacks on the Twin Towers, with smoke coming out the top of one of the towers and a plane flying above.

FLORIDA: Retired NYPD police officer ordered to take down his commemorative 9/11 flag by his Homeowners’ Association

Richard Wentz, who lost many fellow NYPD officers and helped victims out of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, has been told he has just days to take down his flag or face possible legal action.

FOX NEWS ) (H/T RevereRidesAgain)  “That flag means the world to me. Other than my children, that flag means the world to me,” said Wentz. 

A letter from the Fairways at Heron Bay association said the flag detracts from the aesthetic harmony of the surrounding properties. Wentz said he was confronted by Patricia Favata, president of the property’s board of directors, according to the station. No one was at Favata’s home when WPLG Local 10 tried to talk to her. 

Wentz said he ran into Tower 1 and started pulling out people before the building collapsed. He said he lost 43 friends and colleagues that day. Wentz says he now has cancer, from breathing in all the particles during the cleanup of Ground Zero. 

“I will not take that flag down. That flag will remain up. I don’t care how many fines they want to give me, how many notices they want to give me, I refuse to take that down,” Wentz told the station.

9/11 BOATLIFT: “A hero is a man who does what he can”

Sorry I didn’t get to this before 9/11 but thought you would enjoy seeing it now anyway.

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Muslim Man’s hamburger comes with a ‘HAPPY SEPTEMBER 11th’ message on 9/11

On the 10th anniversary of September 11, a Muslim man going by the name of Tarek G. claims that he received an unwelcome surprise when he ordered a burger from Petrol Station, a local restaurant in Houston.

The Blaze  On the outside of the styrofoam to-go box that his food arrived in, there was a hand-drawn picture of an airplane heading toward one of the Twin Towers. To add insult to injury, the image also had text that read, “Happy September 11” (in the picture, the “11” was cleverly portrayed by what appears to be the two World Trade Center buildings).

Now, we must emphasize that this entire incident is based on allegations that Tarek posted on Yelp purportedly following the incident. Eater Houston provides an excerpt of his “review“:

I decided to order a burger to go and take home to finish watching the Cowboys game. When the burger came out, “Happy September 11th” was written on the box, with the “11” being the WTC and a plane flying towards it. [...] I asked him [the bartender] to please take the burger away and give me a refund. He sort of scoffed and proceeded to speak with his manager, and within earshot, called my friend and I “assholes” for complaining about what he clearly thought was funny. To be fair, the manager came over and provided me with a refund, but no apology or explanation. A bit stunned, we finished our beers and left it at that. Before leaving, I asked to get in touch with the owner so that I could voice my concerns – the manager asked me to leave my information, at the same time confessing that the “joke was f&$cked up“.

But it didn’t end there. Tarek continues:

As I walked out, I heard from behind the bar “Allahu Akbar…” ["God is the greatest"] repeated several times.

REGRETTABLY, in the end, the employee was apparently fired and the restaurant is attempting to ease tensions. Below,  some of the Tweets that were sent out by the restaurant, apologizing for the incident:

(And this from the Daily Mail) Mr Fullelove said his employees would be receiving sensitivity training as a result of the incident. BARF!

NEVER FORGET 9/11: The Islamic world gave us the terrorists who did this and the terrorists did this for Islam

TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN SPIRIT: Only shown one time.

9/11 PHOTOS: The People we must never forget

Most of these photographs will never be shown by the mainstream media. But they should be emblazoned in every American’s mind.

9/11 NINETEEN MUSLIM HIJACKERS

9/11 VICTIMS & FIRST RESPONDERS

THE PENTAGON:

9/11 Jumpers from HELL

Banned by the US media, this should be shown in every home in America on the anniversary of 9/11 each year.

It is estimated that at least 200 people jumped to their deaths, far more than can be seen in the photographs taken that morning. The jumping started shortly after the first jet hit at 8:46 a.m. People jumped continuously during the 102 minutes that the north tower stood. It took just 10 seconds to fall but it wasn’t fast enough for the victims to lose consciousness before they hit the ground.

Here’s the link in case you can’t view this here: 9/11 JUMPERS

9/11 THE MUSLIM RESPONSE

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9/11 The little remembered first responders

A tribute to the unsung canine heroes of 9/11.

NY POST  She was a 3-year-old golden-haired beauty when she got the call to respond to her first disaster. Now, stiffer, slower and a bit gray, 13-year-old Bretagne is one of just a handful of World Trade Center rescue dogs still alive.

“We arrived on 9/12 and started working right away,” said Bretagne’s handler, Denise Corliss, a search-and-rescue volunteer with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Bretagne had spent more than a year learning how to find survivors in concrete rubble, but her Cypress, Texas, training site was nothing like Ground Zero.

She clambered up ladders to get on top of the huge debris piles, padded across broken glass and twisted steel beams, wiggled into small spaces and crawled into dark holes, all the while sniffing through mounds of pulverized concrete searching for clues that would lead her to survivors. Like all the rescue dogs, she worked without a leash or a collar.

The dogs also didn’t wear protective booties, despite the crushed glass everywhere — they needed their claws for traction. Every night, she was given a decontamination bath. Her eyes, ears and mouth were rinsed out, and her abraded paw pads gently cleaned.

“It was her first mission, but she worked it like a pro. She didn’t get cut up or fall or get hurt,” said Corliss. But Bretagne had a couple of near misses. One day, sniffing along an elevated steel beam, she lost her footing.

“It was real wet because the fires were still smoldering and the water spray was everywhere,” Corliss recalled. “She just kind of slipped, but she used her paws to pull herself back up and kept on going. That was the only time I was a little unsettled.”

Bretagne was also a magnet for distraught firefighters searching the site for fallen comrades.

“A lot of times, firefighters would come by and pet her, talk to her and tell her stories,” said Corliss. One firefighter bonded so closely with Bretagne that he recognized her years later at a 9/11 memorial.

The gregarious golden retriever has seen several national disasters since 9/11 — she responded to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, going into flooded areas to find those unable to evacuate. She’s retired now, but has a hard time accepting it, said Corliss.

When Corliss heads out with her new search dog, Aid’n, Bretagne always wants to go along. “I bring her to the training site sometimes and let her run a few drills — she’s still got it,” said the proud handler.

Like Bretagne, the majority of 100 or so FEMA dogs sent to Ground Zero stayed only about 10 days.

Thirty-three NYPD K-9 dogs took over recovery operations — sniffing the rubble for remains — for eight months. All of those dogs have since died. The last one, Charlie, a longtime K-9 unit member, passed in January, just a few months shy of his 13th birthday.

All told, about 300 dogs contributed to the rescue and long-term recovery effort at Ground Zero, said Roy Gross, a Suffolk County SPCA agent who ran the mobile hospital that cared for the animals.

“Besides the FEMA and NYPD dogs, you had therapy dogs, brought in to help the rescue searchers, and dozens of volunteers who showed up at the site with their dogs, too,” said Gross.

A decade later, the vast majority of all the 9/11 dogs are gone, according to the book “Dog Heroes of 9/11,” which tracks the canines who worked at Ground Zero and the Pentagon. Only about 14 of the original FEMA dogs are still alive — including Kaiser, 12, a German shepherd from Indianapolis, and Tuff, 12, from Ashland, Mo.

Kaiser was bused to Ground Zero with his handler, Tony Zintsmaster, and arrived late at night on 9/11. He was immediately assigned to the 12-hour night shift.

As he climbed down from the pile on the morning of his second day, he badly sliced his right front carpal pad, probably on a sharp piece of steel, said Zintsmaster.

“There was no vet there yet, this was early on the 13th, so we found a medical-team doctor who stitched him up. Later, some vets arrived, and we got him bandaged and wrapped, and he was back to work that night.”

The smoky, smoldering pile was especially difficult to navigate after dark, but Kaiser relished the challenge. In the daytime, the dog would de-stress with a visit to the free massage and acupuncture table set up for first responders by the School of Oriental Medicine. Kaiser particularly liked getting acupuncture, said Zintsmaster.

Off the pile, his ebullient personality was a soothing balm to grieving responders. Early one morning, a firefighter walked up to Kaiser, knelt down and hugged him for a long time, in silence. Then he stood up and walked away, said Zintsmaster. Another time, a group of four firefighters decided the hot and thirsty German shepherd needed a drink.

“So one firefighter cups his hands together and two others are trying to pour water into his hands so Kaiser can lap it up, and meanwhile, the other one’s saying that Kaiser’s dirty, so that firefighter starts cleaning and rubbing his back and his muzzle. Kaiser’s real social, so he loved the attention and it was OK — it was what [the firefighters] needed,” said Zintsmaster.

Kaiser, a “live-find” dog, never gave the alert to indicate he had located a survivor during his 10 days at Ground Zero. But several times, he expressed interest in a scent he’d picked up.

“His training was good. He didn’t alert, which meant whatever he smelled wasn’t alive, but he reacted enough so that I’d know to bring over a cadaver dog,” his trainer said. “It’s always hard when you don’t find survivors.”

The hardworking German shepherd, who will be 13 in October, just retired last year. He’s in good shape, but no longer has the endurance for fieldwork, Zintsmaster said.

Some of the 9/11 rescue dogs have been incredibly long-lived. Tara, from Ipswich, Mass., got to Ground Zero the night of the disaster and stayed eight days. She was one of the oldest survivors, until she died last year at age 16.

9/11 “Can you see me, Daddy?”

“We had your favorite dinner tonight. I ate it all up, even though I don’t like carrots. I really, really miss you, Daddy. I try not to cry. I know you don’t like it when I cry. I sleep with the light on in case you come home to kiss me goodnight.”

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9/11 The Falling Man

Long, in-depth, moving account of the personal stories that happened on that fateful day.

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FLIGHT 11: BETTY ONG, American Airlines flight attendant, and the final 8 minutes of the flight on 9/11

Betty Ong as she talks to American Airlines headquarters from the plane in the moments before impact with the World Trade Center.

Simulated re-enactment of Flight 11

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9/11 “I can barely breathe. I can’t see. I’m not ready to die. Please hurry, I have young kids.”

Kevin Cosgrove’s last call to 911 from the 105th floor of the South Tower.

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UNITED 93 that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on 9/11

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TRANSMISSION

Lorne Lyles about the cell phone call he received on 9/11 from his wife, CeeCee Lyles, who was a flight attendant on United 93

CeCe Lyles’ phone message

Mark Bingham’s call to his mother from Flight 93

Mayday! Mayday!

Eye Witnesses

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