Joshua Monfort

[Alex Rabb @AlexR64_]

Got Them Stumped

[4th & Stat @4thandStat]

Easy fix to get this FSU/SMU game going.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 25 Heroes of 9/11 You Don’t Know: #4 Orio Palmer

He was 45. Battalion Chief of FDNY Battalion 7. A 20-year veteran. A marathoner. The first man in the department to win its fitness award five times.

Orio Joseph Palmer lived in Valley Stream with his wife, Debbie, and their three children, Dana, 14, Keith, 12, and Alyssa, 9. At home they called him the Music Man. He made up fairy dances for his girls. He dedicated his first New York City Marathon to Dana on her first birthday.

He was also one of the department’s best students of high-rise fire and radio. He had an associate degree in electrical technology. He wrote the internal paper on how to use repeaters so a radio could punch through a tall building.

On September 11 he went first to the North Tower. After the second plane hit he crossed into the South. Most of the elevators were dead. He got a freight car running and rode it to the 41st floor. Then he climbed. Fifty pounds of gear. Floor after floor. Ladder 15 coming up behind him.

At 9:52 a.m. he reached the 78th-floor sky lobby. That was the impact zone.

His voice on the radio was out of breath and calm.“Battalion Seven. Ladder 15. We’ve got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that. 78th floor. Numerous 10-45 Code Ones.”

Dead civilians all around him. He still thought two hose lines could knock the fire down. His men freed people trapped in an elevator at 9:58. He kept calling for water and for a path up.

At 9:59 a.m. the South Tower came down. Orio Palmer was still on the 78th floor. He left behind Debbie, Dana, Keith, and Alyssa.

He is memorialized at the South Pool on Panel S-17.

Never forget Orio Palmer.

[The History Feed @HistoryFeed_7]

On September 11, 2001, 31 year old Mark Bingham was sitting aboard United Flight 93 when it was hijacked.

Then the passengers started making phone calls. They learned that the World Trade Center and Pentagon had been attacked, and that other hijacked planes had been used as weapons.

They realized their plane could be next.

Bingham and other passengers decided to fight back. At 9:57 a.m., they rushed toward the cockpit.

Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m. It never reached Washington.

Bingham was a businessman, rugby player, son and friend. On that morning, he became one of 40 people aboard Flight 93 who chose to act when they understood what was happening.

[Mike Lawler @lawler4ny]

I’m deeply saddened by the passing of FDNY Lieutenant Gerard M. Reilly of Ladder 22, who died on September 3 after a courageous battle with a World Trade Center-related illness.

Lieutenant Reilly dedicated 21 years of service to the FDNY and the people of New York City. His passing is another painful reminder that, 25 years later, we continue to lose the heroes who answered the call on September 11, 2001.

My deepest condolences and prayers are with Lieutenant Reilly’s family, friends, fellow firefighters, and all who knew and served alongside him.

We will never forget his service and sacrifice.

[Da hood c/A\t @thePawcAZt]

Best remote ever

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 25 Heroes of 9/11 You Don’t Know: #5 Welles Crowther

He was 24. An equities trader for Sandler O’Neill on the 104th floor of the South Tower. A volunteer firefighter with Empire Hook & Ladder in Upper Nyack since he was 16.

Welles Remy Crowther grew up in Upper Nyack. His father, Jeff, gave him a red bandanna when he was six. He wore it under hockey helmets and lacrosse helmets at Boston College. He carried it in the pocket of the suit he wore to work. That summer he told his father the desk would drive him crazy. He wanted the FDNY. A mostly completed application was later found in his apartment.

At 9:12, nine minutes after the second plane hit his building, he called his mother, Alison.

“Mom, this is Welles. I wanted you to know that I’m okay.”

He came down to the 78th-floor sky lobby. That is where the wing of Flight 175 had torn the building open. Ling Young, a state tax auditor from the 86th floor, was on the floor with blood in her glasses. Almost everyone around her was dead. She and a few others were waiting for help they did not think would come.

A young man in a white T-shirt appeared. He was carrying a woman on his back. Crowther told them: “I found the stairs. Follow me. Only help the ones that you can help.”

He took them to the one working stairwell. He carried the woman down 17 flights. At floor 61 he set her down. She could walk. He told Ling Young to keep going. Then he turned around.

“I’m going back up.”

When he came back to 78 the smoke was worse. The red bandanna was over his face. Judy Wein of Aon was there with a broken arm, three broken ribs, and a punctured lung. He found a fire extinguisher. He got people on their feet.

“Everyone who can stand, stand now. If you can help others, do so.”

He put Wein’s group on the stairs to get out and kept working.

Only a handful of people above the impact line in that tower got out. Ling Young and Judy Wein were two of them. They said they would have sat there and died waiting.

When the South Tower came down at 9:59, Welles Crowther went with it.

His body was found in March 2002 in the lobby wreckage, among the firefighters. He was one of two civilians in that pile. He had made it to the street level and stayed.

Survivors did not know his name for months. They only knew the man in the red bandanna. Alison Crowther read the Times, sent a photograph, and they said yes. That was him.

In December 2006 the FDNY named him an honorary firefighter. Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said, “For two hours he was a firefighter.”

He left behind Alison, Jeff, and his sisters Honor and Paige.

He is memorialized at the South Pool on Panel S-50.

Never forget Welles Crowther.

[Julia Morgan @Julia_Morgan3]

WTC - NYC 9.11.2001
Never Forget the rescuers with paws ! 🐾

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

INSPECTOR GADGET premiered 43 years ago today.

The show’s original pilot was “Gadget in Winterland,” but it was eventually broadcast as the 65th episode of the first season.

[Will Ojanen @WillsWorldMN]

Took this from TikTok.

[Cat 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 @AllAmericanGrl1]

This commercial by Budweiser aired only 1 time in honor of all those lost on that day. ❤️🤍💙

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

Nothing quite like 102,000 fans singing Dolly Parton together at Neyland Stadium

via @samgranvilletv

[AZ Band Cat Sports @AZBandCatSports]

🗣️ “U-OF-A‼️ U-OF-A‼️ U-OF-A‼️”

[AZ Desert Swarm @AZDesertSwarm]

4th quarters gonna be like

[Juan Serrano @Serrano_Sports]

WAKE UP TUCSON, IT’S GAMEDAY

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Martin Scorsese refused to remove the Twin Towers from the final shot of GANGS OF NEW YORK, despite the film being released after 9/11.

The towers were part of the New York the film was about & Scorsese felt erasing them would erase part of that history

[MCU Film News @MCUFilmNews]

Bruce Campbell sadly announced that he's been diagnosed with a cancer that is "treatable" but "not curable."

He says he has only five years left to live.

(via: https://t.co/YavCQIcRAk)

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

The lone juror after successfully stopping 11 retards from letting a murderer off the hook

[BearDownU.com @BearDownU]

Only 1 Day Until Arizona Wildcats Football Is Back! 😼 @thenoah_fifita1 https://t.co/PpKw4eTxOt

[Arizona Daily Star @TucsonStar]

Longtime Arizona radio play-by-play broadcaster Brian Jeffries is entering his 40th season as the voice of the Wildcats. https://t.co/5IqfN4OoDP