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Twenty-five years ago, a woman stood in the hole an airliner had punched through the North Tower and waved for a hundred minutes.
She is in dozens of photographs and several video clips. People have been arguing about her for a quarter century. Her name, almost certainly, was Edna Cintrón.
She was 46. She worked as an assistant billing administrator at Marsh & McLennan, on the 97th floor.
Flight 11 hit that building at 8:46 and tore open floors 93 through 99. It went through her company. Marsh lost 295 employees and 63 consultants that morning, more than any other firm in the North Tower.
Minutes after the impact, people on the street and photographers on rooftops started noticing movement in the gash itself. A woman had made it to the torn edge of the floor slab, where the aluminum had peeled the wall open and there was outside air. She was leaning against a piece of the ruined exterior column, and she was waving her right arm.
She kept doing it.
Here is the part that is hard to sit with. Nobody was coming. All three stairwells in the North Tower were severed at impact. The roof doors were locked and the smoke made a helicopter landing impossible. Not one person at or above the 92nd floor of that building survived, 1,355 people in total, and that was already true at 8:46, before she ever reached the opening.
She had no way of knowing that. So she stood there in the wind, 1,300 feet up, and signaled for help to a city that could see her perfectly and could not reach her.
Witnesses and footage put her still there, still waving, until roughly ten seconds before the tower came down at 10:28.
She was never formally identified. Her remains were never recovered, and the identification rests on video and photographic analysis and on the people who knew her recognizing her. Her husband William believed it was her. They had been through a lot together, including a period without a home, and she had carried him through his drinking.
So the honest way to say it is this. We are nearly certain who she was, and we are completely certain what she did, which was refuse to stop asking for help for a hundred minutes on the worst morning in American history.
Her name was Edna Cintrón.
I made a comment earlier that to me, the new Jules Naudet high-definition footage from 9/11 shows Bill Biggart in some of the final moments of his life.
Several people have asked me for follow ups and what exactly I meant, so I wanted to break this down further.
For context, and as you’ll see in this footage, Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer, his crew, and Jules Naudet (French documentary maker) just survived the collapse of the South Tower by escaping through the command post in the North Tower, over the pedestrian bridge crossing the west side highway, and into the world financial center.
After emerging from the world financial center, they take a look at the Marriott hotel that is now sliced in half, and begin putting the pieces of the puzzle together - the South Tower fell - they somehow survived.
A new command post is now set up on West and Vesey street to the northwest corner of the north tower, beside the Verizon building.
As they walk to the new command post; they pass an NYPD response truck, and a gentleman - dressed in all light colors, is collecting himself, dusting himself off, and seeking refuge from the south tower collapse that he just survived.
Go to 2:32 mark in the video where this begins.
The high definition video shows a clear visual of a man, who to me is Bill Biggart, who was known to be in this area given the last photos of his life that was collected from his camera that was found in the rubble. It appears he has a strap (camera ?) with him, some black piece of clothing near his face (a hoody?), and matches the general clothing and stature of Bill Biggart.
Now I’m not sure if this has already been a circulated theory. I haven’t seen anything. I’m just passing along my observations and reasonings, but I am happy and eager to learn more on this.
Rest in Peace Bill Biggart, and condolences to his family. His last photos provide a rare visual glimpse at the base of the north tower moments before the end.
Big development in the 9/11 archives
Over 11 hours of raw, extended high definition footage from the Naudet brothers was just released yesterday.
It not only provides never before seen footage, but much clearer film that was previously broken and incomplete.
This includes the firefighters all returning back to the station following the 9/11 attacks, what that first night looked like, raw conversations amongst the men, and working “the pile” as seen here.
It also provides what I believe is a clear shot of Bill Biggart in his final moments before tower 2 came down.
If you’re interested in raw, extended footage that shows the small details of what it was like to be there, I would recommend it.
This grainy footage filmed on an old pocket device is widely considered to be the only footage filmed in the south tower, showing what it actually looked like for evacuees.
You can see he pauses and films towards Liberty street, which I would say is the most haunting street out of any of the perimeters.
He then goes through the south tower lobby and towards the escalators leading down towards the underground mall.
Very real and some would say rare footage of 9/11.
It is testimony to the success of communist propaganda that it has been able to persuade so many people that fascism and communism are polar opposites and that there is a single scale of political ideology stretching from “far left” to “far right.” . . .[We must] see through that nonsense, to perceive what it is designed to conceal: the deep structural similarity between communism and fascism, both as theory and as practice, and their common antagonism to parliamentary and constitutional forms of government.
- Roger Scruton
The cultural suicide of the UK is astonishing to observe. It is hard to name a nation that has had more light, more blessing, from on high, than the UK. Her walls are etched with the names, and words, of great servants of Christ. Her law was once based clearly upon God's law. But there are few examples of how the true faith of Christ is not passed on genetically, not passed on through nominalism, more clear and compelling. Having rejected her Christian heritage, the UK seems utterly intent upon self-immolation, for what else is there to do? She is surrounded by her own history, her own monuments to Christian faith, and having come to detest that faith, she seeks to end her existence in self-deception and empty secularism. The level of evil now enshrined in LAW in the UK can only be explained in light of Proverbs 8:36 where godly wisdom cries out and says, "He who sins against me does violence to his own soul; all those who hate me love death." Hate God's wisdom, love death. The UK is now the very picture of the Culture of Death itself, and, not surprisingly, death will be her end. I pray for the remnant, believing church in the UK.
It’s not “your body your choice.” The baby is another human being who happens to be dependent on the woman for survival. That is true when the baby leaves the womb as well. Abortion is murder. The answer for avoiding unwanted pregnancy is to stop fornicating and sleeping around and get married and take responsibility for yourself and the children that result from having a sexual relationship. Unless this happens we are facing demographic apocalypse in the West anyway. Stop whining and complaining and blaming everyone else and demanding a legal right to murder the most vulnerable persons on the planet.
Frank Turek on Predestination, a Roman Critique of EOism as "Petrified," and Andrew Isker on Supporting the Murder of Fritz Erbe (and others)
Played a clip where Dr. Turek uses a form of Molinism to respond to a question on predestination. Before or after that (funny how it is hard to remember right after doing the show!) we looked at a graphic where a Roman Catholic says the Orthodox are "Petrified" as in fossilized in time, and what that might mean. Then we spent the rest of the time looking at my exchange with Andrew Isker on the imprisonment and eventual death of Fritz Erbe and others in the sacral period after the Reformation. A useful exposure of where Isker, and those allied with him, are really going.
Without a self-conscious return to Christ and the Word of God for family, church and state, the downfall of America, Britain the West itself is certain.
@HwsEleutheroi Wolfe’s position on “worldview” is fundamentally dangerous to apologetics. How could he possibly refute this trans city resolution if he thinks “worldview” is meaningless?
The best way to beat the Woke Right is to let them talk. There's no need or interest in censoring them. They know this too. It's why they delete so many of their older tweets and operate behind so many anonymous accounts. It puts them in a huge pickle.
Keep talking, boys.