(April 19, 2011 at 6:11 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'd like to answer that kindly but my father was inside the Pentagon at the time and we had to wait far too long to hear if he was okay as well as my great-aunt up in NY.
Also, I'd worry if the imagery of people jumping out of buildings and running away covered in dust and massive destruction didn't affect you in the least. I really hope you're joking.
Agreed. It was a very upsetting day for nearly all of us, I'd say. My cousin was a commander and Navy Chaplain who had been at the Pentagon earlier that morning, and was at Ronnie Raygun Airport when the plane struck the Pentagon. A week later, we received a letter from him. He had been attached to a British (SAS) special forces unit, and couldn't say where they were. All he could tell us was that they were "bugs on a wall". Reportedly, they were among the first to go into Afganistan. Frightening times, indeed.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
