"We watched our child die, unaware," said Charles Berkeley, who'd been watching the terrorist attacks of 9/11 unfold on TV with his wife Pauline from their home in England.
"I am not a pacifist like my son," added his mother. "I believe in an eye for an eye. Turning the other cheek will not stop these barbarians. Every mother who has lost a child will feel the same. I hope Bush is the man he says he is."
The words are raw, 25 years old now, but they're the first I came across regarding Graham Berkeley, 37, who was murdered on Flight 175 along with all the other passengers and crew on 9/11. And I thought they needed to be reposted here.
Graham Berkeley was an IT consultant from Shrewsbury, England living in Boston on September 11, 2001. "He had music in his soul," his mother Pauline said of her son who'd played violin, viola and leading an orchestra at the age of 14 before moving onto his career in tech.
Berkeley was on a business trip to Los Angeles on Flight 175, hijacked and deliberately flown as a missile into the South Tower by Islamic terrorists Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, Hamza and Ahmed al-Ghamdi and all those who planned these barbaric attacks.
Graham Berkeley was among 67 Brits who died on 9/11. Never forget.
Definitely intentional. He knows who each one of those people standing there represent. Just like he knows what is in the 9/11 papers they are releasing. When he shows up at any memorial, it is not to reflect on the Islamic attack on this country, itâs to celebrate their victories and how much more they want to infiltrate.
9/11: Different Passports, One Ideology
The 9/11 terrorists came from different countries: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Lebanon. Zacarias Moussaoui, arrested before the attacks, was French of Moroccan origin. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind, was Pakistani. Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a key coordinator, was Yemeni. Bin Laden, their supreme leader, was Saudi.
Different passports. Different countries. Different cultures. What united them?
Islam.
What made them call America and the West the enemy? They didnât hide the answer. They spoke about jihad, the infidels, Muslim lands, martyrdom, Allah, and paradise.
What made young men willingly fly airplanes into buildings, knowing they would die with their victims? They believed death in jihad was martyrdom and that martyrdom would take them to paradise and its rewards, including the 72 virgins.
Three of the hijackers had even studied in Germany. Living in the West didnât erase their ideology. Education didnât erase it. Exposure to Western freedoms didnât erase it.
So please stop saying that âIslam had nothing to do with 9/11.â
The terrorists themselves said otherwise.
You can debate which school of Islam they followed. You can debate how representative it was. But you cannot erase Islam from the story without erasing the ideology the perpetrators themselves used to justify what they did.
That isnât analysis. Itâs denial.
There is no good and bad Islam. There is only Islam, which is both a religion and a political ideology.
When Constantinople fell, Muslims declared Jihad from the City. Jihad commanded the conquest against the infidels. You are a fool if you think they do not think about it. They have not changed. The last jihad declared publicly from Constantinople was in 1914, almost 100 years ago, against the Allied Forces and infidels. First picture shows the moment highest religious authority of the caliphate in Constantinople declares Jihad (Holy War) against the infidels of the West and the Allied Forces.
You know the rest. Millions of Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians were slaughtered in Anatolia simply because they would not convert to Islam. They were Christians. They could have become Turks merely by converting to Islam, and they would have lived in Anatolia in peace. They would have lived a lie, in a pseudo-nation, without identity and without history. But they refused to change their faith, and for that they had to abandon their ancestral lands or die.
The genocide was orchestrated by Mustafa Kemal & the Young Turks, & it was racially and religiously motivated in order to create their Islamic pseudo-nation.
Today Erdogan calls himself the "father of all Muslims" and praises Kemal.
This is Islam. This is the barbaric state of Turkey. It is not the politicians. These are the collective beliefs of the majority in Turkey. They hate us, and they are barbarians.
They showed their real face when they invaded Cyprus in 1974 where mass murders of civilians were carried out systematically by the Turkish army. Not only unarmed soldiers who had surrendered, but also civilians, including children aged from 6 months to 11 years old, women, and elderly people up to 90 years of age, even paralysed individuals, people with intellectual disabilities, and blind people, were killed by Turkish soldiers. This is history with documents from the Red Cross and other sources. According to the report, the Turkish committed mass and repeated rapes of Greek Christian women of all ages, from 12 to 71 years old, in some cases to such an extent that the victims suffered from haemorrhages (loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel) or were left as mental wrecks. All the women and girls were gathered in separate rooms of empty houses. There they were repeatedly raped by the Turkish troops. In some cases, members of the same family were repeatedly raped in front of their own children. In other cases, women were raped publicly in a bestial manner. In some instances, the rapes were accompanied by brutal acts, such as violent biting that caused serious wounds to the victims, banging of the head on the floor, and strangling of the neck almost to the point of suffocation. In several cases, attempts at rape were accompanied by stabbing or the killing of the victim. Pregnant women were also among the rape victims.
And among many other cases, a mentally retarded girl was raped in her home by twenty soldiers, one after the other. When the victim began to scream, they threw her from the window of the second floor: she suffered a spinal injury and remained paralysed.
There are documented sources from the women who survived and the Red Cross.
Genocide in Anatolia happened 100 years ago, Constantinople pogroms against the Greeks happened 71 years ago and the Cyprus invasion happened 52 years ago. This is part of our history, our generation.
This is Islam.
Any Muslim who tells you otherwise is lying. Islam commands: become a believer, become a slave, or die.
They want to destroy every Western nation.
They declared war on us before they got on that boat from their countries. They were born for this: to invade and destroy. That is why combat-ready young men come illegally to Europe and the West; otherwise they would stay in the East and Muslim countries. Conquest was the goal from the beginning.
They cannot wage open war with the West, so they turn their women into birth machines. They kill, murder, rape, steal, and destroy every value in your countries.
Resist, or you will disappear, just as every nation that did not fight for its survival disappeared. Act before you meet the Sumerians in the abyss of non-existence and become merely a page in the history books.
Never forget: No discussion or debates with the enemy, those who want you, your women, and your children dead or enslaved. No discussion with the traitors who help their plan either.
This is important.
Homer Pavlos
Welles Crowther, 24, was an equities trader on the 104th floor of the South Tower. Heâd carried a red bandana since he was six and volunteered as a firefighter as a teen.
On September 11, after the plane hit, he called his mother to say he was okay. Then he went to the 78th-floor sky lobby, covered his face with the bandana, and led people to the last open stairwell. He carried one burned woman down 17 flights, went back up, led another group out, and went up again.
The tower fell at 9:59 a.m. He didnât come back. Survivors later identified him by the red bandana and said he saved as many as 18 lives. His body was found in the lobby with FDNY firefighters. Heâd been planning to join them for real.ââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââââ
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"Let's Roll" --Remembering September 11
On Flight 93 they had minutes, butter knives, and a phone line.
Todd Beamer prayed the Lordâs Prayer and said, âLetâs roll.â Jeremy Glick (Jewish btw) told his wife they were going to rush the cockpit. Tom Burnett and Mark Bingham were in that same vote. Ordinary menâsales, PR, a new father, a church volunteerâdecided they would die on their feet so Washington would not.
Across the aisle were Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Saeed al-Ghamdi. They boarded with a plan: murder the crew, fly a loaded jet into the Capitol or the White House.
One side charged the door. The other side had already chosen slaughter.
In the ensuing struggle, the plane went down in a Pennsylvania field. The Capitol and the White House still stand.
Remember the names of the men who ran forward, Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Tom Burnett and Mark Bingham. âYea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.â (Psalm 23:4). May their memories be a blessing. "Letâs roll."
Lost his life at age 31 on flight 93 in the Pennsylvania field đ He rushed the cockpit with Todd Beamer heard on cockpit recording đ. RIP Necer forget
His wife gave him the information that changed everything.
Tom Burnett was aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, when he called his wife, Deena.
At first, he was trying to understand what was happening.
Then she told him about the planes that had already crashed into the World Trade Center.
Burnett realized something terrifying.
The people who had taken Flight 93 were not simply trying to hijack the plane.
They intended to use it as a weapon.
Burnett called his wife several times that morning.
He asked her to contact authorities and pass along what he knew.
Then came the decision that would define his final minutes.
He and several other passengers were going to fight back.
Burnett told Deena they were going to rush the hijackers.
He knew what that meant.
He knew there was a strong possibility he would never see his wife or his three young daughters again.
But the passengers had learned what had happened to the other planes.
They understood what was waiting for them if they did nothing.
At 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The passengers never reached the hijackers' intended destination.
The exact target has never been conclusively established, although the U.S. Capitol is widely considered the likely target based on investigative findings and intelligence.
Tom Burnett was 38 years old.
He had a wife.
Three daughters.
A career.
A home waiting for him.
And one final phone call that ended with words meant for the people he loved.
âI love you. I love the girls.â
He never called back.
The passengers of Flight 93 knew they were probably not going to survive.
They fought anyway.
And somewhere inside that final decision was a simple calculation:
If we are going to de, we are not going to let them choose who else des with us.
Tom Burnett's name is permanently connected to that moment.
But outside the memorial and the history books, many people have never heard it.
He wasn't a soldier.
He wasn't a politician.
He was a husband and father who learned that his country was under attack...
and decided to fight back.
**He had three daughters waiting for him.
He chose to protect a nation they would have to grow up in without him.** đşđ¸â¤ď¸
So many storiesâŚHis voicemail message brought tearsâŚ
The voice behind those steady, heartbreaking words belonged to Brian David Sweeney, a 38-year-old former U.S. Navy pilot, defense contractor, and devoted husband from Spencer, Massachusetts. On the morning of September 11, 2001, he boarded United Airlines Flight 175 out of Boston, bound for Los Angeles.
Brian was a man who lived with an effortless, calm warmth. A charismatic athlete and born leader, he had spent years flying jets for the military before transitioning into defense consulting. He loved the outdoors, loved his family fiercely, and was deeply in love with his wife, Julie, a high school teacher.
When hijackers stormed the cockpit of Flight 175 shortly after takeoff, forcing the plane into a sharp turn toward New York City, Brian didn't panic. Drawing on his military training and instincts, he made his way toward an Airfone on the back of a seatback.
At 8:59 a.m., he dialed home. Julie was at work, teaching her class, so the call went to their answering machine.
With quiet composure, knowing the nightmare unfolding around him, Brian didn't fill his final words with fear or anger. Instead, he stripped life down to its absolute essence: love, permission to be happy, and peace. He left that brief, three-sentence message, a testament to selfless devotion, before placing a second call to his mother, Louise, telling her that the passengers were considering storming the cockpit to retake the plane.
Minutes later, at 9:03 a.m., Flight 175 struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
In the years since, Julie Sweeney Roth shared Brianâs voicemail with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. What could have been a private tragedy became a beacon of grace under fire. His message stands as one of the most poignant artifacts of that day, a reminder that when faced with ultimate darkness, the final impulse of the human spirit is pure, unshakeable love.
@itsrosesm Heâs not the root. Heâs the fruit of the tree that was planted long ago. The roots go back decades. That tree grew and we were told it was harmless and didnât need to be cut down. That it would never produce fruit that was poisonous.
Can anyone tell me where else on Earth children are taught in kindergarten to kill Jews and Christians and become future terrorists in the name of jihad?
I only see it in Palestinian society.
Satan is not opposed to good morals.
Heâs opposed to Jesus Christ.
Read that again because most Christians miss this completely.
Satan doesnât care if youâre a âgood person.â He doesnât care if you volunteer at the food bank, recycle your trash, and help old ladies cross the street. He doesnât care if youâre kind, generous, and well-liked by everyone in your community.
He cares that you donât bow the knee to Jesus.
Hereâs the deception thatâs damning millions:
Satan has convinced people that morality equals spirituality. That being a âgood personâ is the same as being a Christian. That if you just live right, treat people well, and avoid the âbig sins,â youâre acceptable to God.
This is a lie straight from the pit of hell.
The Pharisees had impeccable morals. They followed the law meticulously. They were respected, disciplined, and religiously devoted.
Jesus called them children of the devil.
Why? Not because their morals were bad. Because their morals replaced Christ.
Satanâs greatest trick isnât making bad people worse. Itâs making good people think they donât need a Savior.
Think about it:
The atheist who feeds the homeless thinks heâs good enough without God.
The Buddhist who meditates and practices compassion thinks sheâs enlightened without Christ.
The Muslim who prays five times daily thinks heâs righteous without Jesus.
The moral Christian who goes to church, pays his tithe, and avoids scandal thinks heâs saved without surrender.
All of them are headed to the same place: eternal separation from God.
Because morality doesnât save. Jesus saves.
âFor by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.â Ephesians 2:8-9
Satan loves moral people who reject Jesus. Theyâre his best advertisement for the lie that you can earn your way to heaven.
Theyâre living proof that you can:
â˘Be kind without Christ
â˘Be generous without God
â˘Be disciplined without the Holy Spirit
â˘Be respected without redemption
And still be lost.
The most dangerous people in hell wonât be the murderers and rapists. Theyâll be the moral, upstanding citizens who thought their goodness was good enough.
Their morals became their idol. Their goodness became their god.
And Satan smiled because heâd accomplished his goal: Keep them from Jesus.
Hereâs what most Christians donât understand:
Satan doesnât need to make you do bad things. He just needs to keep you from doing the ONE thing that matters: surrendering to Christ.
If he can get you to:
â˘Trust your morals instead of Christâs sacrifice
â˘Rely on your goodness instead of Godâs grace
â˘Believe in your works instead of Jesusâ finished work
Heâs won.
You can live a moral life and still die lost. You can be a good person and still face judgment. You can avoid all the âbig sinsâ and still end up separated from God forever.
Because the only sin that damns you eternally is rejecting Jesus Christ.
âHe that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.â John 3:36
Not the murderer who repents and believes in Christ is damned.
Not the thief who turns to Jesus on the cross is damned.
Not the prostitute who washes Jesusâ feet with her tears is damned.
The moral, religious person who rejects Christ is damned.
Thatâs why Satan loves morality without Jesus. It sends people to hell with a smile on their face, convinced they were good enough.
Stop trusting your morals. Start trusting Jesus.
Your goodness wonât save you. Your works wonât redeem you. Your morality wonât justify you.
Only the blood of Jesus Christ can wash away your sin and make you acceptable to a holy God.
Everything else is just Satanâs distraction from the one thing that actually matters.