Originally posted on September 11, 2006 @ 8:35 am
Five years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil, families of some of the nearly 3,000 victims gathered this morning at Ground Zero for a solemn ceremony.
The commemoration included four moments of silence – two for the times that hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center towers and two for when the burning towers collapsed into mountains of rubble, killing thousands of people working there and first responders who were trying to rescue them.
The ceremony included the reading of the names of the 2,749 victims at the trade center site by about 200 of the victims’ spouses, partners and significant others.
The first moment of silence came at 8:46 a.m. ET, the moment American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the trade center’s north tower; others followed at 9:03 a.m., when United Airlines Flight 175 struck the south tower; 9:59 a.m., when the south tower fell; and 10:29 a.m., when the north tower collapsed.
Souce: CNN.com
Dylan Avery, the creator of Loose Change headed to New York on September 8, 2006 and had the following to say on his Loose Change blog about the trip:
I’m leaving for NYC in two hours… hope everything goes okay, I’m a little nervous, I’m not going to lie to you. There’s going to be troublemakers there, let’s be realistic.
I wonder how the distribution of the Loose Change 2nd Edition DVD’s is going? I hope people are being respectful.
Even though there is a lot of evidence to show things happened differently then what we were told 5 years ago, we still need to be respectful of the family members who are at ground zero to remember the loved ones that were killed, still missing or unaccounted for.
I’ve been giving out free copies of the Loose Change DVD to family, friends or anyone that I know who would talk to me about the events of 9/11.
The creators of the film, myself and others have stated “we encourage you to research this information yourselves and come to your own conclusions” which everyone should do.
I will never forget what happened 5 years ago and either should you. Do your own research, ask questions, demand answers.