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| Shanksville, PA 20 years after 9/11... |
| 2021-09-10 |
| [USAToday] SHANKSVILLE, Pa. – It is late, and Karl Glessner calls his wife. He says: I'm up at the fire hall. There's a journalist here. He's writing a story about 9/11. I really think you should talk to him. Karl looks at me. The journalist. I cannot hear Donna Glessner's words, only her tone. Every sentence ends in a downward cadence. I know her answer is no. I understand. How many times can a person give and give and receive nothing in return? . . . The terrorists drove United Flight 93 into the field at 563 miles an hour. The plane hit so hard, the ground swallowed it up. Then the FBI came, and the ATF, and the NTSB, and every other agency with a shred of jurisdiction. Thousands of people. FBI agents sat on their knees and combed the ground with their fingers. They excavated the crater down 40 feet. They removed every scrap of steel, every piece of flesh. They tore this place apart. Then they paved it over with dirt. Then they left. |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #1 Good people in a difficult situation behaving selflessly. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-09-10 19:13 |