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[💿G🅿️TD🏈 @Who_M3Cee_Dee]

HELL YEAH YE !!!

[Juanyeh Thomas @STG_Yeh1]

𝟒 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬…

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝟓… 𝐂𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 , 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 !!! 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐬. 𝐓𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐈𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐆𝐎𝐃 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞. 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 ? 𝐍𝐨… 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭 ? 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲… 𝐈 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝. 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝…

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞… 𝐈 𝐨𝐰𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 … 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐲… 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞 𝐮𝐩, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐥… 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬…

𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐍𝐎 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓!

𝐆𝐎𝐃 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧?…

𝐂𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫💙🤞🏽… 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐀𝐋𝐋…
#𝟗𝟒𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫

[Dallas Cowboys @dallascowboys]

a word from @RyanNumba9 🗣️

[THE T'Challa Stan @TChalla_1966]

CANCEL THE MOVIE. CANCEL THE MOVIE. CANCEL THE MOVIE

[The Marvelous Geek @marvelousgeek__]

Beast will reportedly not undergo the mutation that transforms his skin into blue fur in Marvel Studios ‘X-MEN’ reboot film.

He’ll instead have a more beast-like appearance while retaining a human look, with huge hands and feet.

(via: @JamesMackwl)

[Bridge to the Overman 🇦🇺 @OvermanBridge]

@DrewPavlou Anyone who has the courage to rush a terrorist (or mass shooter) should get a statue and their immediate family financially looked after for life by the state (if the hero is killed) in gratitude for demonstrating the utmost quality of character we should all aspire to.

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

My taxi driver tonight, Gurvinder Singh, was at the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11.

For the next 40 days, he gave hundreds of rides to any New Yorker who needed, and refused all payment.

He showed me the letter he got from Mayor Giuliani thanking him for his service to our city.

Gurvinder emigrated from India 35 years ago and encourages all his riders to fly American flags.

He asked that I share this message on the eve of 9/11: "love all people, respect all people. God bless you all and god bless America!" 🇺🇸

[CLOUT ADDICTION @CLOUT_ADDICTION]

Ouch 🤕

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Delta Flight 15 takes off from Frankfurt at dawn.

On board: 218 passengers. Families. Business travelers. A pregnant woman. Shirley Brooks-Jones, 65 years old, heading home to Columbus, Ohio.

Five hours into the flight, a note reaches the cockpit.

All U.S. airspace is closed. Land immediately.

The captain says nothing about why. He tells passengers it's a minor instrument problem. Privately, the crew already knows about the World Trade Center.

Gander International Airport. Newfoundland, Canada. Midday.

The plane touches down 400 miles off its route. Out the window, passengers count 38 other jumbo jets already parked on the tarmac.

By nightfall, 53 international flights sit grounded here. Nearly 6,600 people are stuck, with nowhere to go.

Nobody is allowed off.

For 28 hours, 218 people sit inside that plane. No real answers. No word on what's happening back home.

Here's what makes it worse: most of them don't yet know if their own families are safe.

Word finally spreads through the cabin. Two hijacked planes. The towers. The Pentagon. A field in Pennsylvania.

The plane goes silent.

Gander. Day two.

Passengers finally step off the aircraft. They're bused 45 kilometers to a town called Lewisporte.

Population: just over 3,300 people.

Lewisporte has no idea 218 strangers are about to double its guest capacity overnight. It doesn't matter.

The mayor puts out one call for bedding and food.

The whole town answers.

Schools close. Churches open. The Lions Club clears its hall and sets up cots by hand. High schoolers skip class to serve meals and translate for confused travelers.

The pregnant passenger is placed in a home across the street from urgent care.

Elderly passengers are welcomed into private houses, not shelters.

Phone lines are opened for free, unlimited, day and night.

When passengers try to pay shopkeepers back, the answer is always no.

Nobody in Lewisporte will take a dollar.

Local volunteers even bring out screech, the region's famous rum, and host a mock "screeching-in" ceremony to make the exhausted travelers laugh.

For three days, this town of fishermen and loggers cares for people it has never met and will likely never see again.

Brooks-Jones later calls it something simple.

She says: "the most beautiful experience I have ever had in my life."

Gander Airport. Three days later. Departure.

Flight 15 is finally cleared to fly home.

Before takeoff, Brooks-Jones asks the captain for one thing: permission to speak on the intercom.

He hands her the microphone.

She reminds everyone what Lewisporte just did for them. Then she asks for something back.

Pledge sheets start moving up the aisle.

Business travelers write checks. Strangers pass around pens. By the time wheels touch down in Atlanta, passengers have pledged $15,000.

Brooks-Jones doesn't stop there.

Back in Columbus, she calls the Columbus Foundation. An anonymous donor hears the story and matches it instantly, doubling it to $30,000.

In 2002, the fund gets a name: the Lewisporte Area Flight 15 Scholarship Fund.

It's built for one purpose. Send local kids to college.

More than two decades later.

The fund is still active.

It has sent more than 300 students from the Lewisporte area to college and trade school. Doctors. Nurses. Engineers. Teachers.

Some of them weren't born yet when Flight 15 landed.

Brooks-Jones has flown back to Newfoundland more than two dozen times since 2001. She still shows up for graduation ceremonies.

The friendships that started on cots in a high school gym are still going, more than 20 years on.

Most people who know this story didn't hear it from a history book.

They heard it from a Broadway stage. Lewisporte and Gander's kindness became a musical called "Come From Away." It has since played in cities across the world.

Few people watching that show realize the scholarship fund behind it is still cutting checks to real students, every single year.

[Flightdrama @flightdrama]

“I’ll take the cockpit.”
“I’ll take the tail.”

On September 11 2001, two F-16 pilots took off from Andrews Air Force Base knowing their mission could end with them deliberately crashing their own fighters into a hijacked passenger jet.

Lt. Col. Marc Sasseville and 1st Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney were scrambled as the attacks unfolded and United Airlines Flight 93 was believed to be heading toward Washington. There was one enormous problem: their F-16s had no live missiles aboard. There simply wasn’t time to arm them before launching.

So the two pilots devised an extraordinary last-resort plan.

Sasseville would ram Flight 93’s cockpit. Penney would strike the tail, destroying the aircraft’s ability to remain airborne.

“I’m going to go for the cockpit,” Sasseville told her.

“I’ll take the tail,” Penney replied.

Both understood what that could mean. Penney later described it as potentially a one-way mission.

They raced toward Washington and searched for the missing airliner, unaware that the passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 had already fought back against the hijackers. The Boeing 757 had crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, before the fighters were airborne.

Penney would later insist that the real heroes that morning were the people aboard Flight 93.

They had done what the two fighter pilots were preparing to sacrifice their own lives to do: stop the aircraft from reaching Washington.

#September11 #Flight93 #USAirForce

[🔥KLo @firestick_411]

A retired United Airlines flight attendant named Paul "Paulie" Veneto pushes an airline beverage cart into Ground Zero — and finishes something 25 years in the making.

Paulie flew United Flight 175 regularly for years.

He was off the morning it was hijacked and flown into the South Tower.

He knew every member of that crew.

"I flew with every one of these guys," he says.

The grief nearly ended him — 15 years lost to opioid addiction before he got clean in 2015.

Then he found his mission: honor the flight crews of 9/11, the ones he calls the "first, first responders," who faced hijackers with no warning and no weapons.

Since 2021 he's pushed that cart along every hijacked flight path.

Boston to New York. Washington to the Pentagon.

Newark to Shanksville.

Boston to New York again.

This year, for the 25th anniversary, he's doing it one final time — and he's not walking alone.

Extra carts, extra hands, entire towns shutting down streets to walk beside him.

September 11th, he pushes the last mile down Broadway into Ground Zero.

One man. One cart. Over 1,000 miles for people who never got to come home.

RESPECT. 🫡

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On September 11, 2001, as smoke, fire and confusion filled the Pentagon after American Airlines Flight 77 struck the building, thousands of people suddenly found themselves trying to escape damaged corridors with limited visibility. Among them was Marilyn Wills, a Pentagon employee whose actions that morning would become part of the many stories of ordinary people helping one another during one of the darkest days in American history.

According to accounts of her experience, Wills moved through smoke and darkness while helping coworkers find their way out. When breathing became increasingly difficult, she reportedly took off her sweater so it could be used to help protect people from the smoke. Instead of concentrating only on reaching safety herself, she continued assisting people around her as they searched for a way through the damaged building.

At one point, Wills encountered an injured woman who was struggling to escape. She helped carry her through the Pentagon, reportedly taking the woman onto her back as they made their way toward safety. Even after reaching the outside, accounts of Wills' actions describe her continuing to focus on others rather than simply leaving the scene.

The scale of what happened at the Pentagon that morning is difficult to comprehend. The attack killed 125 people inside the building, while all 64 people aboard Flight 77, including the five hijackers, also died. Hundreds more were injured. Firefighters, military personnel, emergency workers and civilians rushed to help, while people already inside the Pentagon assisted coworkers and strangers through smoke-filled corridors and away from the burning sections of the building.

Stories like Marilyn Wills' are an important part of remembering September 11 because history is not only the story of the attack itself. It is also the story of how people responded when confronted with extraordinary danger. Across the Pentagon, World Trade Center and Flight 93, people made decisions to guide strangers, carry the injured, provide medical assistance and remain behind to help others escape.

Marilyn Wills was one of those people. Her story reminds us that courage can appear in an instant, when there is little time to think and no guarantee of personal safety. On a day remembered for tremendous loss, her willingness to help others through smoke, darkness and fear deserves to be remembered as part of the human story of September 11.

[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

From Karl Streed -

I BET YOU DIDN'Y KNOW ABOUT THIS: AFTER FLIGHT 77 HIT THE PENTAGON ON 9/11, THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED.

A daycare facility inside the Pentagon had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do.

There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants who would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.

Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "Well, here we are, on our own."

About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow.

Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers.

The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac .

Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the Old West.

Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off.

Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children.

The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there.” There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted; could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon.

It's the military, not the politicians that ensures our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It's the military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.

If you care to offer the smallest token of recognition and appreciation for the military, please pass this on and pray for our men and women, who have served and are currently serving our country, and honor the memory of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice!

God Bless The USA!

Never forget!!!

[🦊The SLY Silver Fox 2.0🦊 @FreedomHasWon]

NY on 9/11 2002. Families gathered in the ‘pit’ to remember their loved ones.

[𝕏erias @xerias_x]

A true 9/11 survival story, as told by Brian Clark and Stanley Praimnath.

Two strangers, three floors apart in the South Tower.

Told as closely as I could to their own public accounts.

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Former Marine Dave Karnes was sitting at an accountant’s desk in Connecticut on the morning of September 11, 2001, when the second airliner struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

He told the people around him that the country was at war, walked out, stopped for a high and tight haircut, put on the uniform he kept from active duty, collected what gear he had, and pointed his car at New York. Roadblocks and closed highways did not stop him. He felt a calling to look for anyone still living in the wreckage.

At Ground Zero he found Jason Thomas, another former Marine who had thrown on his own old uniform and driven in from Long Island. The two of them moved into the unstable heap of steel and concrete, shouting “US Marines!” until faint voices answered from below. They had located Port Authority officers Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, trapped about twenty feet down. More rescuers arrived, and after long hours of digging, both men came out alive.

Karnes remained at the site for 9 days afterward, then went back and reenlisted. He served two tours of duty in Iraq. Neither Marine chased the spotlight. Their names spread later partly because of Oliver Stone's film, World Trade Center, which told the officers’ story.

25 years later, the lesson still holds. Training, duty, and the refusal to look away can still find someone in the dark. Remember the first responders, the civilians who ran toward the towers, and the two former Marines who kept calling until someone called back.

Never forget.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Honestly — this could only have been thought of by a woman. ❤️

[GT SD Jack’s 🐰🐰 @realredsd]

Port Authority Will Jimeno recalls being trapped under the rubble at Ground Zero.

We did see miracles come out of that horrific attack.

Thank You Will. 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️🇺🇸

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 The Stairwell That Should Not Have Been There

Ladder 6 left Chinatown that morning. The Pride of Chinatown. Captain Jay Jonas and five men: Sal D’Agostino, Matt Komorowski, Mike Meldrum, Bill Butler, Tommy Falco.

They went up the North Tower in Stairwell B. Gear on their backs. Twenty-seventh floor when the South Tower came down.

The order came. Get out.

On the way down they found a woman who could not take another step.

Josephine Harris. Fifty-nine. Bookkeeper for the Port Authority on the 73rd floor. A widow. She had already walked fifty-three flights on a bad leg. At twenty she stopped.

Tommy Falco looked at his captain.
“Cap, what do you want to do with her?”

They were running for their lives. They took her anyway. One step. Both feet. One step. Both feet. People behind them and had to squeeze past.

At the fourth floor her legs gave out. She told them to leave her.

They did not.

Jonas went looking for a chair. He was a few feet from the stairwell door when the North Tower started to come down.

It took thirteen seconds.

Jonas said the building peeled away around them like a banana. Above them, no one in that stairwell lived. Below them, in the lobby, almost no one lived. They were sitting in the only piece that held. Fourth floor to first.

Fourteen people were in that stretch of stairs. The six from Ladder 6. Josephine. A battalion chief. A Port Authority K-9 officer whose dog did not make it.

Jonas later said if she had been faster, they would have been in the lobby. If they had left her, they would have been lower, or gone.

They called her their guardian angel.

Josephine died in 2011. She was sixty-nine. The six men from Ladder 6 were her pallbearers. They lifted her one more time.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Remembering Betty Ann Ong.

She grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the youngest of four, the kid who used to watch planes take off at SFO and later made flying her life.

Friends called her Bee.

She collected Beanie Babies, visited seniors in Boston on her days off, and picked up extra trips so she could afford a vacation with her sister.

On September 11, 2001, that extra trip put her on American Airlines Flight 11.

She was not supposed to be on that plane.

From the rear galley she picked up an Airfone and became the first person to tell the ground what was happening: the cockpit would not answer, people had been stabbed, the cabin was filling with something that made it hard to breathe.

“I think we’re getting hijacked,” she said.

Then she stayed on the line for 23 minutes.

She gave seat numbers.

She answered questions.

Near the end she asked them to pray.

That call was the first confirmed warning that the country was under attack.

It helped controllers begin clearing the sky.

The 9/11 Commission later called her a hero.

A recreation center in her old neighborhood now carries her name.

She was 45.

She was doing her job until the last second.

Today is a good day to say her name.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Josephine Harris was 59, a Port Authority bookkeeper with a bad leg, walking down from the 73rd floor of the North Tower on September 11.

By the time the firefighters of Ladder

Company 6 found her in the stairwell, she was exhausted and crying.

They had just been ordered out.

The other tower was already gone.

They did not leave her.

Firefighter Bill Butler put her arm over his shoulder.

“Josephine,” he said, “we’re going to get you out of here today.”

Their pace became hers.

Lower down she collapsed and told them to go on without her.

They refused.

Then the North Tower fell.

Stairwell B held.

The building peeled away around them.

Fourteen people survived in that pocket: firefighters, a Port Authority officer, and Josephine.

People who had passed them on the stairs did not.

The men of Ladder 6 called her their guardian angel.

They believed she slowed them just enough.

Without her they would have been lower when it came down.

Without them, she would not have made it out.

When she died years later, those firefighters carried her coffin.

One of them named a daughter after her.

She was not trying to save anyone.

She was a tired woman who could not walk any faster.

That was enough.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Twenty five years later, we remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001, the families who continue to carry that loss, and all who responded with courage and compassion.

May remembrance move us beyond grief toward the work of healing humanity, rejecting hate, protecting human dignity, and creating the Beloved Community.

#September11