I have felt this way before.....

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Comment by Ave Hurley on August 27, 2010 at 9:30am

There is a saying about not looking at the roaring lion, but at the ones crouching in the grass.The roaring lion is the one who is distracting the prey while his pride goes out and captures & brings down the prey.They bring it back to the roaring lion who then takes the kings portion and then they devour whats left.

I worked at the WTC in the 80's and have family members & former school mates that worked there up til 9/11 I remember the fire drills and bomb drills we had where we would have to walk down the stairs from the 96th floor where I worked, to the mezzanine at the 78th floor, where we would wait for the all clear announcement that we could go back to work, or if we had to leave the building.

The stairs were short steps so I would hang on tight to the stair rail to be careful not to fall. Walking downstairs after a dozen flights or so becomes rhythmatic but starts to give a cardio workout. As I would descend, like others, would think it was just a drill but wonder what if this was the real thing?

I remember my office overlooking the south seeing Staten Island, the Statue of Liberty and the Newark Airport. Even back then when looking at planes coming and going from the airport, watching them at altifudes below me.The building used to sway in the wind, 6 ft in every direction.

On windy days, the swaying of the building would make me queezy as it swayed on its 4 large sub-basement springs.I wondered about fires and planes, most did at some point or another.

I remember 9/11 as I was in a Pennsylvania hospital recovering from surgery. Breakfast was brought to me and I turned on the TV to see a view of 1WTC with smoke coming out. It was unclear as to the cause at the moment as it was caught on video from the direction of Staten Island. My heart ached.

I remember the 94 WTC bombing where my youngest brother, John Cosgriff, a new policeman in the NYPD , on the job for about a week, was stationed by the WTC and that my niece worked there as well.

As my brother approached the WTC, he saw a man, badly burned running from the smoke filled garage of 2WTC. He called backup for help and ran into the burning building, helping victims to come out of it. He continued battling the smoke and went up the stairwells as they were filling with black acrid smok. His flashlight beamed no further than 14 inches before his face since the smoke was so thick. He told people to hold hands as he led them down a dozen flight of stairs, out to safety as other rescue workers arrived on scene. He suffered smoke inhalation as he kept going back in to rescue more people. He was later featured on the cover of Newsweek and received a hero's award from the city

Now it was 9/11/01, 7 years later as I watched on TV from my hospital bed. Was he in the building this time ? Was my niece still working in the building? I got on the phone and called NYC - all phone lines were down. I stared at the TV and a second plane came and watched it as in slow motion, pierce the northwest wall of the upper floors of 2 WTC and then it was clear.

We were under attack~ I began to cry, seeing those stairwells in my mind from years before. Seeing the crowds trying to rush down the stairs in that thick black smoke, as others in non smoke filled stairways were wondering if it was another drill or if it was for real, knowing that only those on the floors that were hit would know what was happening ~ that there was a real fire and that those who were on the floors where the plane pierced the building, would have seen as they died. Announcements were being made for people not to panic, some even thought it was just a drill so they waited too long to leave their offices.

I could hear their screams when they encountered crumbled floors and smoke filled halls, echoing in my mind, as I wept. The phones still were off line, as they remained offline for the rest of the day. I couldnt even get through to any of my family on Staten Island, so didnt know if more planes were crashing.

Then the Pentagon was also hit. Then they announced Flight 93 was hijacked. I know the military was scrambling as our nation was under attack. It was so surreal as I lay there in my hospital bed, worrying about those in the WTC that were fighting for their lives and watching in horror as some jumped to their deaths.

The flames grew, the ground was smoke filled. People were running from the buildings with blackened faces, gasping for fresh air. My brother in law John, a firefighter stationed in lower Manhattan was there as he worked stationed in lower Manhattan.. My brother Chris, another NYFD captain, was on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge at headquarters when it occurred.

He and his men put on their gear and ran across the Brooklyn Bridge against the tide of panicking people, who were making their exodus from Manhattan, fleeing for their lives. Running against this overwhelming tide of people hindered getting to the scene, but may have saved his life.

By the time the time he and his men arrived, along with hundreds of other firefighters, who had already arrived were in the building helping evacuate the people from within, they began doing what NYFD does, saving lives and fighting fires. This was different though. It was of an enormous scale.

My brother was outside the building when it began to collapse. My brother in law had been on another fire call up town when it happened and was also now en route to the WTC. My youngest brother John of the NYPD was on the Staten Island Ferry on his way into work. He was told only the night before that it was his turn to come in late as they had staggered work hours, so he was an hour later than usual. Others in his unit were killed as the towers crumbled.

As people desperately began to jump off the building as the flames grew and they couldnt be saved, their bodies began hitting the pavement and those on the ground with all t he smoke became targets of living missiles. A priest who hung out at the fire halll my brother in law works at, was struck by a victim who had jumped to their death, killing him as well.

As the first building collapsed, an inverted cloud of smoke and ash flooded the streets and was choking those who were fortunate enough to escape. Firefighters continued to work pushing through the smoke and debris as they rushed to save more of the people trying to flee from the second building before its collapse.

The 2nd buidling came down faster than the first. After the thundering roar and the inverted plume of smoke that flooded the streets surrounding the WTC complex, a white ash covered everything. There was a surreal silence met with a strange tweaking sound like mechanical birds. The tweaking was shrill and constant. It was the autoresponders on each of the firemen who were trapped and crushed during the collapse. Every tweak was sounding off from each of the more than 340 firemen that died that hour along with numerous civiilians, police and rescue workers that died so valiantly trying to rescue the victims of the attack.

More than 50,000 people worked in the WTC and estimates of how many were killed was initially upwards of 10,000 and miraculously later with accounts made was reduced to just under 3,000. That means those rescue workers efforts saved up to 7,000 people that day~!!

How can America or the world forget? How can any elected official even consider allowing the placement of a mosque near Ground Zero?? How can moderate muslims continue following allah and their imans who support acts of terrorism? How can we as a nation elect someone whose national birthplace is still a mystery? How can more than 400,000 Texans decide to convert to islam after 9/11 ? How can Dearborn Michigan become like the new western Mecca? How can a Buffalo muslim radio station owner enforce Sharia Law and murder his wife because she wanted a divorce? How can it be that America is such an entertainment oriented society that our youth have basically spent the last several years becoming more apathetic and gullible and self serving that they profess not to care about what is going on in Washington and are convinced they cant make a difference when Obama was able to rally students and liberals to vote him in allow him to ascend to power?

While islamic jihadists may be the minority in the muslim religion and while there are many good decent muslim moderates in the world, their religion is controlled by hate for Jews, hate for Christians, hate for the West and hate for all who are not muslim.

This is a war without borders.This is an imperialistic religous war to conquer the world. It has been waged since Abraham cast out Ishmael and it will continue to the end of time. Now this imperialistic enemy officially declared war on America, hitting what is considered to be the god of America, our financial empire~ thus they hit the WTC - twice - in 94 and now in 2001.

These jihadists have been doing their terrorism for centuries and are the 'religious zealots' of islam~ While they have leighway in interpreting the laws of islam they get validation from imans who bless their efforts in killing the infidels they encounter. They are encouraged to use any means necessary to further their agenda for world domination.That means they will lie cheat steal deceive and do anything conceivable to defeat those they consider to be enemies.they will say 'allah is love' which is not true~ allah is a demonic entity that hates human life and hates God. allah wants to be god and claims to be god and so those who serve allah experience an soulful sense of satisfaction when killing the infidel or any who break Sharia law.They are convinced that they are serving allah and that allah is the god of the universe. They are deluded and deceived and most dangerous since they hold no value over human life and to die for allah to them, is their ultimate sacrifice -

Jihadists dont fear dying and are motivated to kill as many they consider to be infidels that that can kill.This is why they can not be totally stopped or reasoned with. They will pay lip service only when they dont have the power to be in control. Once given mutual rights with the country's hosting infidels, they then continue on to effect changes that will enable them to gain an upper hand such as through using national laws to gain entry that then gives them the foothold they need in order to conquer their enemies from within and without.

Less than a year before 9/11/01, I was back visiting in NYC at a family reunion and brought my grown children and grandchildren to the WTC as I was showing them the city. WE walked through the undergroundWTC mall from building to building and considered going to the top. It was $13 a ticket at the time. I had brought them there when they were younger, but since our group Sept 2000, as no one expected that a year later it would all be gone.

The aftermath of 9./11 will never escape me nor lessen its impact. How it has lessened in impact for others is beyond me. This is a war on terrorism and it has hit our shores, but goes on daily around the world.

I am not against muslims.They are born into their national religion just as everyone is. They dont know any better. I am against the demon they serve, who lurks in the shadows enraging the hearts of the jiahadists.
I am not fooled by their Qu'uran that cloaks its words with inuendo and lies.

It is the islamic's goal to dominate the world and eradicate all others that dont become part of them.

They are a parasitic wandering nation and a global threat. They are dispersed world wide settling in other nations and have been intermingling with infidellic people[ & converting them to islam] to gain acceptance and clout~ to become part of the nations they intend to conquer.

They use their own muslim people as sacrifices to effect a shield for themselves as they plan and plot their moves. Any of their own people that convert to other religions or just want to reject islam, become targets of retribution by Sharia Law, they become like the infidels and are rejected by their families, communities and natioon. Islamics will destroy and do kill their own..

They use their moderate members as a buffer to gain acceptance while the ones in control, the jihadists are encouraged and sponsered by their imans who run the mosques and collect the donated money from the moderates in order to fund more terrorism.

So to put a mosque up at or near Ground Zero is, in itself another attack on the WTC~

Ave

Communities where they propagate, they increase in population and then form gangs that keep pushing others out of the community so that they can control the section of each city or town they occupy. They claim the area and put up a mosque~ which becomes their headquarters and a symbol of their victory over those they consider to be their enemies.

Anyone who is not one of them, is an enemy. Anyone that doesnt obey Sharia Law is an enemy . Anyone who is not one of them is an enemy.

Now as we approach 9/11/11 , 9 years after their devoted jihadists sacrificed their lives to allah and blew up the WTC, Pentagon and were responsible for Flight 93 being shot down, have declared victory over the US since while we were occupied focusing on the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, they have been busy funding propaganda within the US , brainwashing youth and liberals, put a blood muslim into the Presidency who is lobbying for the muslim cause, by socializing America and bankrupting the government.

We have a chance to save America and need to beat them at their own game. We need to educate and wake up America and vote out all those who are influenced by their islamic roots or deceived by the message of islam into being complacent and letting islam's foothold to grow here in America, as they plan on populating and gaining footholds in politics and counting on American apathy to vote them into office and turn America into a socialist regime, which they then can introduce Sharia Law to become the new law in America and worldwide.