After living overseas for about a year and a half, I was now finally home in New York. This time around I had landed a sweet apartment in Lower Manhattan. Situated about six blocks from the World Trade Center and just two from the South Street Seaport. I could stand on my balcony and see through the canyon of skyscrapers that lined John Street to catch a glimpse of the World Trade Center.
All in all, it was a great place to live — very quiet and peaceful, especially for Manhattan.
Except for the night before the attack.
That whole day I was restless. Work was a stessful and I couldn’t concentrate all day. I had decided to take my camera along and take pictures of the WTC/Battery Park City area at lunchtime, but I ended up stuck in a meeting all day.
At the end of the day, I was still quite anxious and tense. So much so, that I decided to walk around a bit before going home. I would have taken pictures but the rain that hit the area pretty much killed that idea. My digital cameras was anything but waterproof.
Even after getting home I was still restless, so I watched a little TV. Then things got wierder.
The intro to the show Third Watch contained a monologue about some guy talking about how fast things can go wrong in life and started mumbling about Chaos Theory. After that show was over, I turned to the History Channel which was playing a [surprise!] WW2 documentary. Suddenly, a few Normandy veterans started saying basically the same thing. They commented about how one minute their friend would be next to them and then the next instant they were dead.
Needless to say, this sort of stuff didn’t sit well with me. So I turned off the tube and went to check my email. Imagine my shock when I saw the Yahoo Question of the Day was about Chaos Theory. At this point, I called my parents to make sure everything was OK. I was certain something bad was about to happen, but I didn’t know what.
Confused, I decided to go out onto my balcony to get some fresh air. To my shock and amazement, I saw a kind of odd glow in the sky and a strange kind calm in the streets. At this point, I ran back in to get a my camera and got a few shots of this phenommenon. Later, I would try to get some sleep, but with all the odd vibes around me, how could I? I finally fell asleep around 1:30 AM only to awaken again around 3AM from a nightmare. At 5 AM, I fell back to sleep, only to be awoken at a quarter to nine, when a loud boom interrupted my sleep.
Frank LaVigne’s 9-11 photo diary
Joe Katzman at Winds of Change has collected dozens of links related to 9-11 and the aftermath.
Heros
Most of you know that I have a soft spot for emergency responders. Today’s post isin’t about them either though. It’s about the hero’s who flew, faught and died on United Airlines Flight 93.
http://www.gunstuff.com/america-attacked.html
7 Meg flash file but very well done.
Remembering…
September 11, 2001
I think this WTC ‘anniversary’ crap is getting boring now. Take a look at my comments on the matter: http://breadslice.blogspot.com/2005/09/its-911-tomorrow-yay.html
It’s only boring if you’re intellectually removed from the issue Stompie. You have no vested interest… that you’re aware of anyway… I would suggest that you do some more reading and gain an informed opinion. Cheers Amigo!
I think that it is extreme hubris to attribute “mystical” planetary phenomena to human events like 9-11. I mean really. We need to get over ourselves.
Stompie: or should I say, “Cigarette Butt from Rabbitpants, Azania.”
Seeing that the war that was indicated by 9/11 is far from over, I think it’s best we not forget about it just yet.
I was at the US Embassy in Ottawa this morning for a dedication ceremony to a memorial to those who died in the attacks on September 11. It was a very moving event. Even Paul Martin made a very nice speech. People deserve credit when they do the right thing. This morning he did. He gets credit.
I fail to see anything to celebrate.
As for anniversary, well it IS the anniversary of the world largest intelligence gathering machine’s FINEST HOUR: they snorted cocaine, wife swapped, whatever, drank coffee, and sat on their asses and ALLOWED 20 or so KILLERS to attack their own citizens with fully fueled jet airplanes.
And this was followed by playing along with the invention of WMD in Iraq.
No, no great memorial here, except maybe the 3.000 innocents who were expendable: all in the name of global (oil) control.
You don’t speak for me.
Have a great day.
BCL, I don’t know about the glow in the sky thing, but as for the premonition of danger, I suspect it was real. Perhaps we need to get over our certainty that we know how everything works.
“On Oct. 21, 1966 there was the famous Aberfan disaster, when a coal mine collapsed in the Welsh village Aberfan and killed 128 school children. The British Psychiatrist Barker assumed that since this event caused such strong emotions and a storm in the media, it was very likely that some people had dreamt about it before. So he requested people through the Media to contact him about this. Of 76 answers that arrived, there were 24 that had sufficient corroboration, and these 24 case Barker ranked by order of strength of the evidence for Precognition. One of the best cases was that of a 47 year old woman from Plymouth that dreamt about an old school building in a valley, and then there was a Welsh coal miner, and then an avalanche of coal down a mountain. Near the bottom of the mountain was a little boy with a large stroke of hair that looked scared to death, and then she saw various rescue operations and had the feeling that this boy was saved. Near the boy stood in the dream one of the rescue workers, who was wearing a strange pointed hat. This Lady described her dream in Church on the Saturday, Oct. 20, 1966 (one day before the disaster), and there were 6 witnesses who later corroborated this. The next day, on Sunday at 8.30 in the morning (still before the disaster occurred on that day) she also told about it to her neighbor, who also confirmed the testimony. And that day in the evening, the British TV report on the disaster showed this small child talking to a reporter, and a rescue worker with exactly the same hat as reported in the dream. This research on the Abrefan disaster was published on the British Journal of the Society for Psychic Research (vol. 44), 1967.”
Central Premonitions Registry
The Flight 93 Memorial
The design of the Flight 93 memorial is being criticized for resembling a Red Islamic Crescent. Michelle Malkin, Real Clear Politics and Little Green Footballs point out the uncanny similarity. One poster at the FreeRepublic claimed that the “Crescent of Embrace”, the principal visual feature consisting of a semicircle of red maple trees enfolding a central space, was oriented toward Mecca.
According to this site, the latitude/longitude coordinates of Mecca are 21.4234, 39.8262 and the coordinates of the Flight 93 crash site are 40.052, -78.8963. Using the calculator from this site, I determined that the azimuth between the two points is 124.80�.
Next I went to the Flight 93 National Memorial website and found the biggest overhead view of the memorial I could find with north oriented up.
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Now it could have been coincidence. I went to architect Nelson Byrd Woltz’s website and examined his portfolio. Many of his previous works emphasize the semicircular or crescent motif. For example, the Westminster Presbyterian Church Memorial Garden, Watercolor Park, Doris Duke Center and North Carolina Arboretum all seem to incorporate this semicircular theme. That brought me right back to the Flight 93 Memorial Site. If you look at the video provided, you’ll see that the orientation of the “Crescent of Embrace” is determined, or at least very strongly suggested by the contours of the ground. (The PDF map shows the same thing). The contours run right through the opening of the crescent. Unless you wanted the park visitors to climb up and down contour lines the opening was exactly where it had to be. So the simplest explanation it seems to me, is that the orientation of the Crescent of Embrace is coincidental.
But what a coincidence! Memorials are symbols above all and it may be inappropriate to commemorate Flight 93 with a Red Crescent facing Mecca.
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
4:53 AM
Dr. Sanity
Dr. Sanity said…
It could be coincidence. It could be deliberate. Or it could be a monumental “Freudian Slip” – that aptly demonstrates the unconscious motivations that drive many anti-American, “peace”-loving; appeasing; enabling; and unbelievably blind minions of the left side of the political spectrum.>>>> more
http://www.rapp.org/url/?3G3BJX5P
Narcissists: more>>> LGF:
monday, september 12, 2005
Degraded Art for September 11
Images of President Bush threatened with a pistol and self-refuting �artistic� complaints about the �death of civil liberties��now featured just in time for September 11, near Ground Zero in Manhattan. (Hat tip: Soccer Dad.)
An art exhibit that trashes the U.S. flag – and portrays images of terror on the streets of New York – is about to open near Ground Zero to mark the fourth anniversary of 9/11.
The show ridicules the war on terror, depicts the death of civil liberties – and features the image of a cocked pistol pointed at the head of President Bush in a work entitled, �Patriot Act.�
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Adds Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles, 51, was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, �These images will inflict needless pain to promote the careers of narcissists on a day when we should reflect on heartbreak and altruism.�