http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35488-2004May18.html?nav=rss_nation
The above is an article about the 9/11 panel discussion that took place on May 18, 2004. First off, I would like to express my disgust about what was mentioned in this article. How can some people blame the rescue workers for the amount of people that died on that day? How can some people blame the city for not taking proper action? As the article states, FDNY, NYPD and PAPD saved almost 25,000 people from those burning Towers. They did their best under the worst conditions possible. They did not wait for authorization or confirmation to go into the Towers, they just went in because it was the right thing to do. They weren’t concerned if their radios worked or not or if they were going to die, they just went in to save a stranger’s life.
On another note, United States soil has not been attacked since Pearl Harbor, how can someone ever, EVER see this coming??? Yah, ok, this issue is more political than it really seems, and I have my own theories about it. Anyway, how can local authorities ever plan for this? Disaster plans are mostly reaction type plans, the most well designed disaster plans are the ones have been planned AFTER a disaster has struck. Who would ever think that someone(s) would hijack a plane and crash into a tower, let alone 2 of them. There are just too many variables out there to take into consideration. Even still, one can only plan for 99.9% of what may happen. Guess what? The missing .1% will hit you hardest and that is something that can never be prevented.
Quite frankly I’m sick and tired of all this bickering back and forth. I understand that people have lost loved ones, yes, I am part of that group. Yes, I was there walking the streets of New York the next day and rest of that week, going from hospital to hospital hoping that my cousin was brought in. What I’m trying to say is that we need to get passed all this bickering and help each other out. What will all this accomplish anyway? Are you going to place the blame on one agency or a group of agencies? You can’t… if you do this will take decades to accomplish, and even if that happens, someone will reopen the case and the whole cycle starts again.
Instead why don’t we honor our loved ones and leave their spirits in peace and not let this bickering continue any further. I feel that this bickering, blaming and accusations are the biggest dis-service we are doing to them.
We should also try help local and federal authorities on ways how to prevent something like this from ever happening again instead of trying to place the blame on someone or something.
Just my $.02
