Posted by OGE at pool-138-88-99-249.res.east.verizon.net on September 11, 2001 at 21:20:06:
Summary of todays events...
Terrorists hijack four transcontinental planes (with lots of fuel) to use
as tools in a massively coordinated strike that has destroyed New
York City's twin towers, Building 7 of the World Trade Center, and one
wall of the Pentagon. The casualties potentially rank in at over twenty
thousand dead. The condolances of us here in Virginia who were
near the Pentagon attack go out to every one who has lost loved ones
in the horrendous acts of hate that transpired over today. The United
States Naval Fleet has been mobilized to protect the Eastern
Seaboard. Israel is in a state of mourning. Palestinians celebrate in
the streets. My generation has never had a tragedy. Today we
experienced possibly the greatest tragedy in the history of America.
Death toll will rival that of the Battle of Antietam Maryland. All those
who are here to read this must rejoyce in the fact that we are alive
and strong. War is beginning. And god bless America.