NY RESCUE CREWS SEARCHING FOR A PILOT WHO WENT MISSING AFTER AN ANGEL FLIGHT CRASH ON FRI *

AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE CRASH IN EPHRATAH, ABOUT 50 MILES NW OF ALBANY *

IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH *

ANGEL FLIGHT IS A NONPROFIT GROUP THAT ARRANGES FREE AIR TRANSPORTATION FOR SICK PATIENTS FROM VOLUNTEER PILOTS *

PRES OBAMA CALLING ON THE NATION TO DO MORE FOR VETERANS ON MEMORIAL DAY *

IN HIS WEEKLY ADDRESS, THE PRES SAYS THE COUNTRY MUST MAKE SURE ALL FALLEN HEROES RECEIVE THE CARE AND BENEFITS THEY EARNED *

MEANWHILE, IN THE GOP ADDRESS, SEN JAMES INHOFE (R-OK) THANKED THOSE WHO ASSISTED IN RESCUE AND RECOVERY EFFORTS FOLLOWING MONDAY'S DEADLY TORNADO IN MOORE, OK *

UK AUTHORITIES ARREST A FRIEND OF ONE OF THE TWO SUSPECTS IN THE BRUTAL MURDER OF A BRITISH SOLDIER EARLIER THIS WEEK *

THE ATTACK LEFT 25-YR-OLD SOLIDER LEE RIGBY DEAD NEAR AN ARMY BARRACKS IN THE SE LONDON NEIGHBORHOOD OF WOOLWICH *

THE TWO MUSLIM ATTACKERS WERE SHOT BY POLICE AND TAKEN TO CUSTODY *

PRIME MIN DAVID CAMERON SAYS THERE ARE "STRONG INDICATIONS" THE ATTACK IS RELATED TO TERROR WHILE LONDON MAYOR BORIS JOHNSON SAYS IT WAS "OVERWHELMINGLY LIKELY'' A TERRORIST ATTACK *

ATTYS FOR MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO SAY THEY'LL APPEAL A JUDGE'S RULING THAT HIS OFFICE RACIALLY PROFILED LATINOS *

ACTION COMES AFTER A JUDGE SAID ON FRI ARPAIO'S OFFICE PROFILED LATINOS DURING IMMIGRATION PATROLS AND DETAINED THEM FOR UNREASONABLY LONG PERIODS *

ATTYS ARGUE THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS "NEVER USED RACE" IN LAW-ENFORCEMENT DECISIONS *

HUNDREDS OF RUNNERS JOINING VICTIMS OF THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBINGS TO FINISH THE LAST MILE OF THE RACE *

MORE THAN 3,000 RUNNERS AND VICTIMS TOOK PART IN THE EVENT THIS MORNING THAT STARTED AT KENMORE SQ AND CONCLUDED AT THE OFFICIAL FINISH LINE *

THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND MORE THAN 260 WERE WOUNDED IN THE MARATHON BOMBINGS LAST MONTH *

DEFENSE SECY CHUCK HAGEL CALLING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY TO BE STAMPED OUT *

SPEAKING TO GRADUATES AT THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY, HAGEL SAYS THE ASSAULTS ARE A "PROFOUND BETRAYAL OF SACRED TRUST" AND THE LATEST GENERATION OF WEST POINT CADETS MUST HELP STAMP OUT THE PROBLEM *

COMMENTS COME A DAY AFTER PRES OBAMA MADE SIMILAR REMARKS TO U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES *

NE GOV DAVE HEINEMAN (R) ANNOUNCES HE WON'T RUN FOR THE SENATE *

HEINEMAN SAYS HE WANTS TO KEEP "BEING THE BEST GOVERNOR" FOR THE CITIZENS OF NEBRASKA *

ANNOUNCEMENT COMES MORE THAN THREE MONTHS AFTER SEN MIKE JOHANNS (R-NE) SAID HE WOULD NOT SEEK A SECOND TERM IN 2014 *

LEADER OF LEBANON'S HEZBOLLAH SAYS HIS SHIITE MILITANT GROUP WON'T STAND IDLY BY WHILE ITS CHIEF ALLY SYRIA IS UNDER ATTACK *

SHEIKH HASSAN NASRALLAH SAYS HEZBOLLAH MEMBERS ARE FIGHTING IN SYRIA AGAINST ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WHO POSE A DANGER TO LEBANON *

IT'S THE FIRST PUBLIC CONFIRMATION THAT HIS MEN ARE FIGHTING AMID SYRIA'S DEADLY TWO-YEAR CIVIL WAR *

FRENCH SOLDIER STABBED IN THE THROAT OUTSIDE OF PARIS *

MILITARY SPOX SAYS THE STABBING OCCURRED ON SAT IN THE FRENCH COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF LA DEFENSE *

THE SOLDIER'S INJURIES ARE CONSIDERED NON-LIFE-THREATENING *

STABBING COMES JUST DAYS AFTER A BRITISH SOLDIER WAS KILLED IN A LONDON STREET DURING A SUSPECTED TERROR ATTACK *

HOWEVER, THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE LINK TO THAT ATTACK *

ONE PERSON KILLED IN HEAVY FLOODING THAT HAS PROMPTED HIGH-WATER RESCUES IN THE SAN ANTONIO AREA *

SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPT SPOX SAYS A 29-YR-OLD WOMAN WAS TRAPPED IN HER CAR, AND WAS SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD WATERS AFTER CLIMBING ONTO THE ROOF *

SPOX SAID FIRST RESPONDERS WERE SEARCHING FOR A SECOND MISSING PERSON TRAPPED IN ANOTHER CAR *

ABOUT 130 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM THEIR HOMES AND CARS *

WATER IS UP TO FOUR FEET HIGH IN SOME HOMES *

SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT RECORDED ALMOST 10 INCHES OF RAIN BY SAT AFTERNOON SINCE MIDNIGHT *

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TODAY is SEPTEMBER 11 – POST YOUR COMMENTS – YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THOSE WHO DIED AND THOSE WHO HEROICALLY HELPED IN THE AFTERMATH … WHERE WERE YOU AND WHAT WERE YOU DOING?

I will start: First, like you, I have a heavy heart.  We lost so many Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Children, Friends etc.  Words are inadequate.  All these years later, I remain in awe of those heroic First Responders and the thousands of others who pitched in….and of course our troops who have been fighting the war on terror for us and continue to do so.

No one who lived through 9/11 can forget that ugly day.  We all woke up expecting a routine day but it was anything but.  On 9/11, I was seated on an airplane on an active runway at the airport in DC waiting to take off to NYC when the news of the airplane crashes broke.  At first, as I read my blackberry and as we sat at the end of the runway waiting our turn to take off, I assumed  it was two small planes colliding.  Moments later our US Air pilot gave us the grim news.

  Our fight was immediately canceled and our plane returned to the gate and we were all told to disembark.   I quickly walked back to my car with my husband.  We were parked on the rooftop of the lot — about 4 blocks from the Pentagon. 

The air space around Reagan airport had been shut down because of the uncertain emergency so it was very quiet …actually it was eerie that it was so quiet.    Usually you hear the hum of a busy airport.  

Suddenly – out of no where – we heard a plane..I looked up in the air where you expect to see planes — but the plane was already down low below where one looks to see a plane.  I looked too high.

  We suddenly heard an engine speed up, rev up…then the loud explosion …and the black cloud shooting so high up into the air.  The cloud of smoke was jet black but had what seemed like sparkles in it. It was bizarre that such a black cloud could have bright sparkles in it.

  I later figured out that the sparkle was tiny particles from the skin of the plane that exploded into the air with the high speed collision with the Pentagon and the bright sun was reflecting off it and making a black cloud have a weird glisten and sparkle. 

We were unsure at the time what was going on – but we knew it was horrible.   We knew the Pentagon had been hit  and we knew it was on fire.  What we didn’t know was the magnitude of the horror – everything was very confusing.   We did already have the haunting thoughts of just seeing the 2 WTC on fire.  We had seen that terrible sight on TV’s in the airport shops as we walked down the tier at the airport returning to our car.  Of course you know the rest….









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