posted on October 26, 2001 10:09:52 AM
I've been musing about the events of 9-11, and I thought I'd turn here and ask for comments and theories.
First off, let me say my son has been called back into the military and is in training for cold weather mountain activities. I can only imagine what that means.
But my real reason for starting this thread is: What wasn't the West Coast attacked? Is is because, due to time difference, East coast planes took off first, and with the immediate grounding of all flights the terrorists just didn't have time to proceed there? We were told that Disneyland was a target, but at that time of the morning, they weren't open.
I was home sick that day, and my son called at 5:45 am and told me to turn on the TV. It was just in time to see the second plane, live on tv, hit the second tower. I believe that watching the events unfold live has a different experience on the viewer than hearing about it that night on TV.
Not my name on ebay.
posted on October 26, 2001 10:15:05 AM
It's hard to imagine a bigger symbol of America than the New York City skyline, plus reasons you mentioned. Disneyland getting attacked would be an enormous tragedy that wouldn't also cripple the economy like the loss of 30,000,000 sq. feet of downtown Manhattan office space. West coast bound planes are full of fuel and are heading out at that time.
posted on October 26, 2001 11:58:51 AM
That's where all the targets were grouped real nice and they could train and live altogether right up until they acted.
If the US Capital was in California they would probably have hit there.
If they keep up the bio - war I am sure they will get their turn sorry to say.
