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[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

Thankful for the support of family and colleagues at my swearing in ceremony for Forsyth County BOC! Honored to serve the citizens of D4 and Forsyth again! Thank you all!

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[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

@emiranda_writes @brushmastery2 @RickJacksonGA Your logic isn’t logical at all. He has nothing to prove. He has all the money. He gives most of it away to charity right now. He sees processes that aren’t helping people. He sees corruption under the gold dome. He wants a chance to make the system better. He’s a fixer.

[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

@brushmastery2 @RickJacksonGA I’ve met him at two different events and he has no cognitive issues. He’s extremely sharp.

[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

@oldguy_steve Whoever does the rules for banks really need to re-evaluate some of them. So many in our world has zero common sense.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A Hero That Trusted His Intuition.

The problem wasn’t that Morgan Stanley didn’t believe him.

Rick Rescorla had already been right once. After the 1993 basement bombing of the World Trade Center, the firm’s security chief walked the towers, studied the site, and reached a conclusion most people preferred not to hear: the World Trade Center was still a target. Next time, he said, it would not be a truck. It would be an airplane.

An airplane. In a 1993 report.

Executives listened. Then they looked at the lease.

Morgan Stanley was the largest tenant in the complex—twenty-two floors of the South Tower, thousands of brokers, and a trading infrastructure that could not be packed into boxes and wheeled across the Hudson.

They literally made it a trading center.

The contract with the Port Authority ran until 2006. Walking away from premium Manhattan space of that scale would have meant penalties measured in the hundreds of millions, plus the operational chaos of relocating an entire downtown machine. So the company stayed.

Rescorla adjusted. If they could not leave the building, they would learn to escape it.

He built a protocol and treated it like doctrine. Unannounced drills. No exemptions. Brokers who billed by the minute were pulled off their desks and sent into the stairwells two by two, starting from the top floors, leaving a lane for firefighters coming the other way.

People complained. He did not care. Practice, he believed, was the only thing that would beat panic.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower. From the 44th floor of the South Tower, Rescorla could see the fire. Then the Port Authority came over the speakers: the South Tower was secure. Stay at your desks.

Rescorla grabbed a bullhorn and ignored them.

He started the drill his people already knew by heart. Floor by floor, two by two, down the stairs. He sang as he moved—Cornish songs from childhood, then “God Bless America”—keeping the line moving, refusing to let the stairwell become a stampede. Seventeen minutes later, the second plane struck the South Tower.

By then, most of Morgan Stanley was already on the way out.

Of the 2,687 employees in the building that morning, all but 13 survived.

It was stunning.

Rescorla could have been outside with them. He went back up instead. Colleagues told him to leave. He said he would, as soon as he was sure no one was left behind.

He was last seen around the 10th floor, heading higher.

The South Tower fell at 9:59 a.m. They never found him.

He was one of the 13.

He was a hero in every sense of the word.

Remember Rick Rescorla, he remembered for us.

[Kelly Quinlan @Kelly_Quinlan]

On what was a very bad night for Georgia Tech's offense, Alberto Mendoza was a bright spot. He says they can and will do better moving ahead-his thoughts on his first game on the Flats.

https://t.co/YemH2cnCwe

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Madeline Amy Sweeney knew the plane had been hijacked. Instead of panicking, she started gathering information.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the 35-year-old American Airlines flight attendant was working aboard Flight 11, a Boeing 767 traveling from Boston to Los Angeles.

Not long after takeoff, something was terribly wrong.

The cockpit stopped responding.

Passengers were being attacked.

Crew members were injured.

The aircraft was no longer under the control of its pilots.

As chaos unfolded around her, Sweeney managed to connect to an American Airlines operations center using an Airfone. On the other end was supervisor Michael Woodward.

What followed would become one of the most important eyewitness accounts from inside a hijacked aircraft.

Sweeney didn't waste precious moments focusing on her own fate.

Instead, she began relaying information.

Carefully.

Clearly.

Methodically.

She described the men who had taken over the plane.

She gave their seat assignments.

She reported injuries among passengers and crew.

She explained that a passenger had been stabbed.

Every detail mattered.

Even as she faced the reality that she might never leave the aircraft alive, she continued feeding information to authorities.

According to later accounts, Woodward was struck by how calm and composed she remained. Her voice was steady. Her descriptions were precise.

Then she provided information that would later prove critical to investigators.

She identified Mohamed Atta as one of the hijackers and supplied details about the others involved.

As Flight 11 headed toward New York City, Sweeney stayed on the line, continuing to report what she could see.

At 8:46 a.m., the plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Everyone on board was killed.

Sweeney was just 35 years old.

The information she provided during those final minutes became some of the earliest and most valuable evidence available to investigators trying to understand what had happened.

She couldn't regain control of the aircraft.

She couldn't stop the hijackers.

She couldn't save herself.

But she could help others understand what was unfolding.

And she did.

Until the very end.

Madeline Sweeney left behind her husband and two young children—her son, Jack, who was four, and her daughter, Anna, who was seven.

They never saw her again.

Yet in the face of unimaginable circumstances, she chose to remain focused, courageous, and selfless.

Trapped aboard a hijacked plane with no way out, Madeline Amy Sweeney spent her final moments ensuring that the world would know exactly who had taken control of Flight 11—and what was happening inside it.

[A Gene Robinson @AlGeneRobi96834]

🚨 THIS YOUNG MAN IS A HERO.

Fourteen-year-old Acie Holland III was riding home from school, looking at his phone, when something felt wrong.

The bus had passed his stop.

Then it began accelerating.

Acie looked toward the front and saw the driver unconscious over the steering wheel. The moving bus, carrying 14 students, was drifting across the centerline toward oncoming traffic.

Acie did not scream.

He did not freeze.

He did not wait for an adult to save them.

This eighth grader ran forward, seized the steering wheel, guided the bus back into its lane, moved the driver’s foot from the accelerator and pressed the brake until that enormous bus came safely to the curb.

He could not find the parking brake, so he turned the wheels hard toward the curb to prevent the bus from rolling away.

That is presence of mind under pressure.

Then Acie checked on the younger students, told them to contact their parents, made certain 911 had been called and went to get his grandmother, Phyllis Holland, who is a nurse.

The driver regained consciousness and received medical care. Every student made it home safely.

Acie had worked on cars with his father and enjoyed go-karting, but nothing could have completely prepared a 14-year-old boy to take control of a moving school bus.

Something had already been built inside him: courage, mechanical understanding, responsibility and the instinct to protect others.

His classmates gave him a new name:

“AC-Hero.”

That name fits.

While the world spends enormous energy telling us what is wrong with young men, Acie Holland III reminded us what can be right with them.

Fourteen students reached home because one young man recognized the danger, stepped forward and acted.

May God continue to strengthen this remarkable young man.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[FOX 5 Atlanta @FOX5Atlanta]

An unauthorized Wi-Fi network appeared aboard Delta Flight 591 from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Aug. 10, prompting the crew to temporarily disable the aircraft's Wi-Fi. https://t.co/9XAdCM12NQ

[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

@WhatmattersinG @GA_Record @VoiceofRuralAm @WarRoomGeorgia @smalltownug @classebeats @insidegapol @FCRWGOPWomen @GAredWomen_hall @FultonRWomen @FultonGASpeaks While you’ve been digging, have you looked into Dolezal’s past? I would start at the gym on Majors Road and then on to the gym at Halycon.

[Debbie Dooley @Crimsontider]

➡️Greg Dolezal and his very unscrupulous supporters spreading false information about John Kennedy.

➡️Their attorney sent Kennedy a letter seeking to release information about a supposed complaint filed by a supposed victim.

➡️The victim pushed back and threatened legal action against the folks behind the 1st letter and strongly denied the allegations.

Read the second letter.

There are some extremely unscrupulous folks out there and Greg Dolezal is not worthy to be Lt. Governor…

I urge you to vote for John F. Kennedy

@johnfkennedyga @GaRepublicans @GASenatePress
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[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

@FOX5Atlanta As they should! Clean the swamp!

[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

@HeismanTrophy I want to vote for #HaynesKing

[CJMills @lilyycottagecor]

@ABC I have watched ABC News faithfully for decades but no more. You guys have lost your way. You aren’t about balanced fair reporting. You have went totally left and can no longer be depended on for balanced fair reporting. Shame on you.

[Under Armour @UnderArmour]

A New Dawn

Under Armour x #StingEm 🐝

[Georgia Tech Football @GeorgiaTechFB]

8️⃣/8️⃣ Day

Today we celebrate the life of Demaryius Thomas, whose kindness and strength continue to inspire.

The impact he made will never fade 💛

#LLDT 🕊️