United Flight 93 on A&E

John Herreshoff said:
That's what you get for running this forum. You could always turn the reigns over to me and Chris if you need a break :)
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LOL, instead of the MikeD Safety Symposium we could have the John and Chris Bickerfest :D :rawk:
 
Speaking of 9/11...

Has anyone read the 9/11 Commision Report. I am just finishing it up now. It has been a good read for sure.
 
JEP said:
Has anyone read the 9/11 Commision Report. I am just finishing it up now. It has been a good read for sure.
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Yeap - i read about 3 chapters of it.

I've been reading it online. Cool, for once, i dont have to pay to read a book!:rawk:
 
Bigey said:
Yeap - i read about 3 chapters of it.

I've been reading it online. Cool, for once, i dont have to pay to read a book!:rawk:
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It's been a few years since I lived in California, but don't they have libraries anymore? :D
 
JEP said:
It's been a few years since I lived in California, but don't they have libraries anymore? :D
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Library?!

What's that?!

Actually, i supposedly have a "missing book" that i for sure returned, but they lost it. They told me i had to pay 110 bucks for the book (and no, dont remember the name, some text sort of book) so they can buy a new one. No way in hells am i going to pay 110 bucks for something i didnt lose. So no more library card for me!
 
JEP said:
It's been a few years since I lived in California, but don't they have libraries anymore? :D
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You don't remember Proposition 13? :)
 
Bigey said:
Actually, i supposedly have a "missing book" that i for sure returned, but they lost it. They told me i had to pay 110 bucks for the book (and no, dont remember the name, some text sort of book) so they can buy a new one. No way in hells am i going to pay 110 bucks for something i didnt lose. So no more library card for me!
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Geese, it's people like you who ruin society by blaming the government on everything and place the government in debt. If it weren't for people like you, the govt would be perfect and we wouldn't have a multi-billion dollar debt. :sarcasm:

You know, technically the library can send your debt to a collection agency and they can ding your credit (or in this case, parents credit). But only poor cities do that, and considering how many books libraries loose to people with falsified documents, I doubt they care.
 
AlexF said:
Geese, it's people like you who ruin society by blaming the government on everything and place the government in debt. If it weren't for people like you, the govt would be perfect and we wouldn't have a multi-billion dollar debt. :sarcasm:

You know, technically the library can send your debt to a collection agency and they can ding your credit (or in this case, parents credit). But only poor cities do that, and considering how many books libraries loose to people with falsified documents, I doubt they care.
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Whatt?

Well for the past 5 years, nothing has popped up on parents credit? I guess im in the clearing.:rawk:
 
Doug Taylor said:
You don't remember Proposition 13? :)
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Wow, 1978, that's a loooong time ago!

As far as libraries go, California shut those down after they determined ~3/4 of the school children can't read at an eighth grade level.

Doug, curious do you actually watch the Boondocks?
 
I have no desire to see a recreation, with many things that are portrayed as "fact" highly speculative.

None whatsoever.

And I say let the dead rest in peace. Please.

As for forgetting about September 11, you never forget, but time heals the wound. And that's healthy. Otherwise, we wouldn't be driving around our Hondas, Toyotas, Nissans, BMWs, Mercedes, and Volkswagens.
 
So what you're trying to say, is that sushi wasn't a popular American staple back in the 40's? :)
 
question about the content in the movie- is it known how exactly the passengers rebelled (with the drink cart, and the seat cusions)? or did the producers/director, etc. make the scene of what the public think happened?
 
Doug Taylor said:
Perhaps I'm over-sensitive, but I only hear "OMG!!!! 9/11!" when someone:

a. Wants money.
b. Wants votes.
c. Wants to 'borrow' my rights.
d. Wants to excuse a SNAFU.

See, dangit, now all ya'll got me verklempt when I'm supposed to be calling Bogberto back and working on vacation! Aeigh!
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Ha, I love when you try to talk Jewish
 
flyhigh said:
question about the content in the movie- is it known how exactly the passengers rebelled (with the drink cart, and the seat cusions)? or did the producers/director, etc. make the scene of what the public think happened?
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I read in different websites that the passangers never made it to the cockpit.


Also, I am more for the idea that the F-16s shot the 757 down than the terrorists themselves flew it into the ground. They had the clearance from the president, they were 15 min away from DC, the secret service said to keep the aircraft away from DC at ALL costs, I think they went ahead and did it.
 
MQAAord said:
I think a great majority of the general public has forgotten.

Not me. I'm reminded every day I wake up and don't have a job to go to. It's VERY real and it's not that I don't think about it, or that I don't want to pretend it doesn't exsist or never happened. Those were MY co-workers, MY airline's airplanes, believe me, I remember. I remember every day that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach as I suddenly realized my life had changed forever. I would only come to realize in the months afterwards just how much. Watching other AA F/As at the airport, they're going about their day like nothing has changed (though in retrospect, their lives have all changed too), while I sit on the street furloughed after 7 years of service to AMR.

So no, I CAN'T ignore it, I DON'T pretend it never happened, and believe me my little world is anything but happy right now.

I just don't want to watch a movie about it. Ask me again in 10, 20 or 40 years, and my answer may be different. But not right now.
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Agree with you on the statement that the general public has forgotten about 9/11. I can count many times back when I was working at SkyWest when people would "give me attitude" when I ask for photo ID for checkin. True story. I checked in one pax, asked "Good Morning sir, photo ID and final destination please." As the pax was shuffling through his wallet he took his ID out and slapped it on the counter and said "you know this is really overkill Im in your computer aren't I! I was so upset and just disappointed that someone would really ask this. Oh well, thats the "general public" for you.

Or when I would screen the flight I would walk up and down the line reminding pax to take off shoes, jackets, laptops out of bags, etc, and then would always hear sighing, and whining on "why do we have to do this." It would make me so upset I just wanted to yell at people and ask them "do you remember what happened 5 years ago?!"

Also, I get to experience 9/11 memories all the time too, indirectly. My bro who is an F/A for UA is always telling me how bad it is at work. I dont really know what to say to him sometimes. I just tell him to hang in there and tough it out, but I know it must be hell to deal with pax and admin everytime he goes to work. Everytime I see those movies/recreations I relive that morning. Plus, to make things selfish...9/11 is my birthday, my "sweet 16" on 9/11/01. So I relive the day quite frequently, but I keep my head held high and try not to dwell on it, but I will NEVER forget it.
 
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