September XI, MMI-In Nomini Patris, Et Filli, Et Spiritu Sancti, Amen

Requiscant In Pacem:

In Memorium;

In Paradisium;

It was a beautiful, sunny, 72 Degrees Fahrenheit Day in Late Summer in NYC. People were just getting into Downtown Manhattan, going about their business, around 8:30AM;

Meanwhile, in the skies between Boston's Logan International Airport & Albany, NY, there was fear in the sky, as American Airlines Flight 11, bound for Los Angeles International Airport(LAX), & United Airlines Flight 175, also bound for LAX, were hijacked, around 8:20AM, by Muslim Terrorists, who were Saudi Citizens, BTW. These Terrorist Suicidal Murderers, were with Al-Qaeda;

A NYC FD Company was with a French Film Crew, checking for a Gas Leak. Then a plane, AA Flight 11 was hurtling out of control to The North Tower. The ONLY Tape of Flight 11, was from the French Film Crew. Then, there was a crash & a fire was started;

& life as we knew it in America, came to an end, @ 8:46AM-ET;

17 Minutes Later, in what was a Surgical Strike, United 175 veered into the South Tower, causing explosions & fires to race rapidly to the top of South Tower, @ 9:03AM-ET;

One Eyewitness, saw the Suicides from those towers. He also witnessed Severed Heads on the street, from which he has never recovered. This poor guy saw his wife & children mowed down by a drunken driver, in 1980;

We were Under Attack from Evil People, whose concept of reaching paradise, involved Murder & Suicide & the Promise of a Carnal Eternity(72 Virgins), for a Reward;

The two planes were hijacked & their pilots turned off the transponders, so no US Military aircraft could follow the path of these flights;

@ 9:39AM-ET, The Pentagon had a jet land & crash, broadside into the Side of the building, on a flight out of Newark International Airport;

@ 9:59AM, The South Tower of The World Trade Center, so badly Burned, collapsed, as if a bananna was being peeled, or a volcano was erupting. @ 10:29AM-ET, The North WTC Tower collapsed in similar fashion;

In Shanksville, PA, on a Flight out of Dulles International Airport, United Flight 93 Crashed, despite the Heroic Efforts of Various Passengers. This flight was trying to crash into the White House;

One Report from JFK International Airport, unconfirmed, found that Hijackers were trying to board a flight, with box cutters, to fly the plane into the United Nations Building. That was stopped at 9:10AM-ET;

In Memorium;

343 Uniformed Members of the FDNY, 23 Uniformed Members of The NYPD, 80 Uniformed Members of the Port Authority PD, & Countless Others, going to work that day;

In Memorium Et In Paradisium;

These two, I knew, as two of the 343 FDNY Uniformed, Personally;
Captain Patrick Waters-Special Operations-Middle Village, Queens, whose older son, is in 1st Year of College & younger is in 3rd Year of Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens. Currently, the Parish of Sacred Heart-East Glendale, has a recreation evening called "The Pat Waters Family Fun Night", every year in his honour;
Firefighter Scott Larson-East Glendale & Parishioner of Sacred Heart-East Glendale, whose children are approaching the teen years & latter stages of Middle School;

Kaylee, a Red Sox Blogger, now living in AZ, lost her Aunt Aboard one of The Flights from Logan, in Boston, into the WTC. Kaylee is recovering from Serious Health Issues of her own;

Also, by extension, was NYC FD Firefighter Mike Weinberg(Our Lady Of Hope-Middle Village);

& Joyce Carpinetto, Friend & Colleague of NOTED Red Sox Writer, John Quinn. John's Father is a Retired FDNY Lieutenant;

Baseball Resumed on Friday, September 21st, 2001, in NYC @ the Site of The Emergency Volunteer Center, Shea Stadium, with the Mets Beating The Braves, on a dramatic 2 run homer by Mike Piazza;

Kyrie Elaison;

Pax Vobiscum;

Mike-RSN-NYC-Queens