Paula has her own 2996 post up:

Elaine Cillo.

On September 11, 2001, Elaine Cillo was a Vice President at Marsh Technology and Information Service, working on the 97th floor of the North Tower at the World Trade Center. I’ve read that she loved taking  photographs, but not being photographed; she had a twin sister, Lynne, with whom she’d recently traveled to Greece; and liked to play the guitar as a teenager.

Moonbattery has a stunning photo collection, from the moment of attack to the time of cleanup at the World Trace Center site in New York. Remember not to feed the Truther troll in the comment section.

Mark Steyn has a collection of posts about the day, including today’s feature post, Primal.

The full story of what happened on three of those four terrible flights will never be known. But we do know something about the final moments of United Airlines Flight 93, the decisive event of the day. Thomas Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham and others phoned their families to tell them they loved them and to say goodbye. Denied even that consolation, Todd Beamer couldn’t get through to anyone except a telephone company operator, Lisa Jefferson. He explained three men were on board and one seemed to have a bomb tied around his waist. She told him about the planes that had smashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Mr Beamer said they had a plan to jump the guy with the bomb. He asked her if she would pray with him, so they recited the 23rd Psalm:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me…

Then they rushed the hijackers.

Stormbringer brings a first-hand account of the terrible events that unfolded at the World Trade Center:

I heard a muffled sound like distant thunder but there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I leaned close to the window to look down to the street, but didn’t see anything. From above, office paper came floating down like a ticker tape parade. “What the hell” I thought and wondered if someone had pitched out a basket of paper from an open window. That couldn’t be because all the windows design not to open. When I saw the burning stuffing like material falling pass the window I knew something was seriously wrong.

Classical Liberalism is posting a chronological account of the day, as if it were today. Very disquieting.

Alison Jerabek has her 2996 post up:

LTCDR Eric Cranford.

On September 11, 2001, LCDR Cranford was struck down in his prime, 32 years old young. He is remembered as a talented aviator, as a dedicated Navy officer with a distinguished career and a keen mind, but he is also remembered as a husband and a friend. Born in the small town of Drexel, North Carolina, his childhood passion for school, church, country, and flying compelled him to choose to pursue his dreams via military service in the U.S. Navy. No slacker, he chose a double major (political science and economics) and the ROTC program at North Carolina State University as his route to getting a pilot’s wings. As a helicopter pilot, he spent two overseas tours flying missions in the Persian Gulf. After being assigned to the Pentagon, he continued to work towards a master’s degree. In light of his many years of service, he received several awards posthumously, both civilian and military honors, including the Order of the Long Leaf Pine (the highest service award given to civilians from his home state) and an MBA degree from the university he was attending.

Patriot Room reminds us why we fight:

Barack Obama can call today a day of national service if he wants to. The rest of us will always remember 9/11 as the day when more than 3,000 innocent men, women, and children were murdered in cold blood by Islamic fanatics. It will always be a day to remember our horrific, collective loss. It will always be a day to remember the heroes who plunged into the war zone, many in the face of near certain death, to rescue complete strangers. You see, years from now when Obama’s silly day of service is long forgotten and Obama himself is relegated to the history books, we will still remember 9/11 as if it were yesterday. And we will know why we fight.

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