Caught an Orioles game while I was in Baltimore last weekend. I’m so used to seeing a game at Fenway Park where most seats are filled even when their season is in the toilet. The Os won this game against Tampa Bay.
It is a recognized fact that, on September 11, 2001, five average Americans saved the United States Capitol Building from being partially destroyed. By special request, this is the story of that flight.
On Tuesday morning, September 11, in a country home near Cranbury, New Jersey, Todd Beamer woke up at 5:45 a.m. His wife said good-bye, pulled a pillow over her head, and went back to sleep.
As an account manager for Oracle, Todd had to make another business trip, this one to San Francisco for a meeting with a software company. Taking such trips was a regular matter for Todd.
Normally, he would have left the night before from the Newark, New Jersey Airport. But he and his wife had just returned from a weeklong company trip to Italy, and Todd wanted some time with 3-year-old David and 1-year-old Andrew. So he decided to take United Flight 93 the next day-September 11.
Among the hundreds headed to the Newark Airport that morning were five men who little realized the effect they would have on United States history.
In all, 37 passengers boarded the plane at Gate 17 that bright morning. The promise of a beautiful day was ahead. Thirty-three were headed to the West Coast for business meetings or a vacation. Four men had different objectives. Each of them carried a knife.
The Boeing 757 is a plane with a single aisle. On each side of it are three seats. Understanding this will help you better understand the events, which followed.
The lead man among those with the knives, Ziad Samir Jarrah, sat in 1B. the first seat on the left side of the aisle. If he had followed the instructions (entitled "The Last Night") from his ringleader, Mohamed Atta, the previous evening he had bathed carefully and shaved "excess" body hair; for he was getting ready to go to heaven the next day and spend eternity with 72 virgins, plus all the wine and food he could want. Hundreds of years before, the prophet Mohammed had promised it.
According to instructions, as he sat in his seat on the plane, he was also supposed to be silently praying a thousand times the sentence, "There is no god but Allah," He had been told to be "happy, optimistic, calm" because he was "heading for a deed that Allah loves and will accept." The letter from Atta also said. "This is the day, Allah willing, you will spend with women in paradise."
Of course, this was all part of the trickery to keep him from taking time to realize that he was foolishly going to kill himself.
Before embarking on the plane, this same Jarrah had written a note to his girlfriend back in Germany. "I have done what I had to do. I will not be coming home. You should be proud, because it is an honor and in the end you will see that everyone will be happy." At least he would; he was leaving one woman for dozens of them. Was that something for her to be proud of?
Just behind him, in seats 3C, 3D, and 6B all in the front first class part of the airplane sat Ahmad Al Haznawi, Saeed Alghamdi, and Ahmed Alnami. From their photographs, Jarrah and Al Haznawi appear to be in their thirties, The other two, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, look like they were barely out of their teens.
We owe a lot to five men. We can also thank the Newark International Airport. It was generally overcrowded, but this morning it was especially clogged. All flights were delayed this morning.
The Boeing 757 was to depart Newark at 8 a.m. It pulled away from the gate at 8:01, then sat on the tarmac for more than 40 minutes because of heavy traffic. Finally, it took off at 8:42 a.m.
Delayed for nearly 45 minutes. Flight 93 did not take off until 8:42, six minutes before American Flight 11 slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Investigators believe that the plan had been for all four planes to hit their targets within a few minutes of each other.
But, because of this delay, the passengers learned of the crashes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon-and decided to take matters into their own hands.
On a personal note (as pictured below) I wore a prop three-cornered pirate-like hat in my appearance on Hawaii Five-O. It would have been nostalgic to have been able to retain the hat itself as a memento, but it remained with the show and reportedly was on loan to the producers from a movie studio that had used it and some other costumes in a previous feature film, The Mel Brooks movie, "The Patriot." (This I learned of when an issue arose at the last minute as to whether the owner of the props from the film would allow them to be used on the Hawaii Five-O set and Costuming was getting ready to issue us completely new costumes to replace the ones for which we had already been fitted.)
I assume you meant Mel Gibson and not Mel Brooks. I don't remember too many slapstick moments in "The Patriot".
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Based on the tools..........I think you are talking about the fire pit
I like it
The anvil, Forge, and leg vice all came from the same estate. I buy and sell at my booth in an antique mall. So usually I just flip these. This group is going to get put to use.
From what I’ve already experienced. Nothing about this is easy
This Hulk skin die should do the halloween outfit just perfect, now mussels are gonna be a problem.
Hair will not be toned as per. Reason being im an Eagle fan hatched from an egg.
GO EAGLES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was looking for a gift for my wife's niece on Ebay, and ran into the Beauty and the Beast doll that resembles Justin Bieber. I had heard about it before, but this was my first encounter with it. I'm still a bit shaken up about it.
@PCGSPhoto said:
Took a selfie during a personal field trip to a nuclear plant today 😎 ☢️
Is that the San Onofre plant ?
If so is it still being decommissioned ?
nice selfy.
Yep. It’s still being decommissioned, and they’re in the process of unloading spent fuel from the pools to dry storage casks. Still lots to see, though.
The plant still retains its iconic appearance as seen in this classic film:
I wish more locals would visit San Onofre. The reactors haven’t been critical for several years, yet disaster fantasies surrounding the plant seem to be getting more widespread and ridiculous as time goes by. Anyway, they let me take photos there, and I may post some here.
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Is that Sydney ?
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Yes.
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WOW what a great show.
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Caught an Orioles game while I was in Baltimore last weekend. I’m so used to seeing a game at Fenway Park where most seats are filled even when their season is in the toilet. The Os won this game against Tampa Bay.
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. I’m so used to seeing a game at Fenway Park where most seats are filled even when their season is in the toilet.
I agree.
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Flight 93 Memorial
Solemn reminders. @mapleman
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10-6-16 Hurricane Matthew with a grizzly smile
Not to be to dreary but to add to what @mapleman posted, here is the Oklahoma City National Memorial:
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Indeed, it's the best word to describe the memorial and IMHO the visitors.
Happy Friday everyone!
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She's spotted a critter!
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Three different sunsets, a few days apart. from the same vantage point..
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
TGIF......Take it easy...
I know a member posted this before
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...shout out to the late Hero Todd Beamer on Flight 93...to this day, “Let’s Roll” is forever stuck in my daily vocabulary
What Happened on Flight 93
FEBRUARY 2002
It is a recognized fact that, on September 11, 2001, five average Americans saved the United States Capitol Building from being partially destroyed. By special request, this is the story of that flight.
As an account manager for Oracle, Todd had to make another business trip, this one to San Francisco for a meeting with a software company. Taking such trips was a regular matter for Todd.
Normally, he would have left the night before from the Newark, New Jersey Airport. But he and his wife had just returned from a weeklong company trip to Italy, and Todd wanted some time with 3-year-old David and 1-year-old Andrew. So he decided to take United Flight 93 the next day-September 11.
Among the hundreds headed to the Newark Airport that morning were five men who little realized the effect they would have on United States history.
In all, 37 passengers boarded the plane at Gate 17 that bright morning. The promise of a beautiful day was ahead. Thirty-three were headed to the West Coast for business meetings or a vacation. Four men had different objectives. Each of them carried a knife.
The Boeing 757 is a plane with a single aisle. On each side of it are three seats. Understanding this will help you better understand the events, which followed.
The lead man among those with the knives, Ziad Samir Jarrah, sat in 1B. the first seat on the left side of the aisle. If he had followed the instructions (entitled "The Last Night") from his ringleader, Mohamed Atta, the previous evening he had bathed carefully and shaved "excess" body hair; for he was getting ready to go to heaven the next day and spend eternity with 72 virgins, plus all the wine and food he could want. Hundreds of years before, the prophet Mohammed had promised it.
According to instructions, as he sat in his seat on the plane, he was also supposed to be silently praying a thousand times the sentence, "There is no god but Allah," He had been told to be "happy, optimistic, calm" because he was "heading for a deed that Allah loves and will accept." The letter from Atta also said. "This is the day, Allah willing, you will spend with women in paradise."
Of course, this was all part of the trickery to keep him from taking time to realize that he was foolishly going to kill himself.
Before embarking on the plane, this same Jarrah had written a note to his girlfriend back in Germany. "I have done what I had to do. I will not be coming home. You should be proud, because it is an honor and in the end you will see that everyone will be happy." At least he would; he was leaving one woman for dozens of them. Was that something for her to be proud of?
Just behind him, in seats 3C, 3D, and 6B all in the front first class part of the airplane sat Ahmad Al Haznawi, Saeed Alghamdi, and Ahmed Alnami. From their photographs, Jarrah and Al Haznawi appear to be in their thirties, The other two, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, look like they were barely out of their teens.
We owe a lot to five men. We can also thank the Newark International Airport. It was generally overcrowded, but this morning it was especially clogged. All flights were delayed this morning.
The Boeing 757 was to depart Newark at 8 a.m. It pulled away from the gate at 8:01, then sat on the tarmac for more than 40 minutes because of heavy traffic. Finally, it took off at 8:42 a.m.
Delayed for nearly 45 minutes. Flight 93 did not take off until 8:42, six minutes before American Flight 11 slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Investigators believe that the plan had been for all four planes to hit their targets within a few minutes of each other.
But, because of this delay, the passengers learned of the crashes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon-and decided to take matters into their own hands.
MUCH more to the story here including voice recorder talk
http://www.sdadefend.com/History/Flight 93.htm
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Happy Friday!
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Yep, more hummingbirds. My new kick.
I assume you meant Mel Gibson and not Mel Brooks. I don't remember too many slapstick moments in "The Patriot".
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Today, Raleigh, NC.
Today .....
I’ve sold a dozen of these over the years. I’m gonna keep this one and give it a whirl
@DNADave
Based on the tools..........I think you are talking about the fire pit
I like it
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The anvil, Forge, and leg vice all came from the same estate. I buy and sell at my booth in an antique mall. So usually I just flip these. This group is going to get put to use.
From what I’ve already experienced. Nothing about this is easy
Thanks @DNADave
https://youtu.be/X8LJ2EmUK3c
This might be of interest
What are you going to fabricate ?
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Took a selfie during a personal field trip to a nuclear plant today 😎 ☢️
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This Hulk skin die should do the halloween outfit just perfect, now mussels are gonna be a problem.
Hair will not be toned as per. Reason being im an Eagle fan hatched from an egg.
GO EAGLES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oop
s.
Is that the San Onofre plant ?
If so is it still being decommissioned ?
nice selfy.
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I was looking for a gift for my wife's niece on Ebay, and ran into the Beauty and the Beast doll that resembles Justin Bieber. I had heard about it before, but this was my first encounter with it. I'm still a bit shaken up about it.
Driving to a gig in Fort Collins and following...
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
Yep. It’s still being decommissioned, and they’re in the process of unloading spent fuel from the pools to dry storage casks. Still lots to see, though.
The plant still retains its iconic appearance as seen in this classic film:
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In some countries it is/was mandatory for school children to tour the active Nuclear Plants, it really lessened fear of the power source.
I worked/designed aspects of a couple and FWIW I worked at the "last nuclear reactor housed in a wooden framed building in the US".
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I wish more locals would visit San Onofre. The reactors haven’t been critical for several years, yet disaster fantasies surrounding the plant seem to be getting more widespread and ridiculous as time goes by. Anyway, they let me take photos there, and I may post some here.
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BOY THAT LOOKS LIKE MATER!
My favorite character from Cars.
Mater Rules
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West Chop (Vineyard Sound) a few hours ago. A lot of recreational vessels....
Todays photos
NYC
Penn Station Ceiling
WHERE IS THIS PLEASE?
Round, round, get around, I get around...