I think 09/11 raises more questions than answers.  In PA, where are 
the plane parts and wreckage, bodies, and luggage?  Pretty convenient 
that it landed in an open field?  In the Pentagon, why are the 
offices on either side of the hole not damaged?  Why do the towers 
look like they were imploded?  In the Commission report, where are 
the missing 29 pages?

earlier, VIRGIE UNDERWOOD, wrote:
>Great article Phil!  It is a privilege to be an American!  I love this land!
>Virgie and Hoshi
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 7:51 PM
>Subject: My 9 11 Contribution
>
>
>>I wrote this, obviously, a year after 9 11 but I feel the same today.  Yes,
>>I have a lot of doubts as to what really happen that day.  What I know for
>>certain, on the other hand, is what I have written below.
>>
>>Phil.
>>
>>A year ago, I was listening to the morning news at the report of
>>the first plane which crashed into tower number one.  When the
>>second plane crashed into the second tower, I knew then it was no
>>accident and that we were under some sort of terrorist attack.  I
>>even told my wife that day that we could expect more planes now
>>and in the future any place in the country.  You can't, after all,
>>read any of Tom Clancy's books or Steven Coonts without knowing
>>that their are people out there that hate our way of life and will
>>do anything they can to destroy what they hate.  They will even
>>kill themselves in the process.  I can easily say I probably
>>listened to at least 70 or 80 hours of TV and radio that week a
>>year ago.  I even awakened during the night and unable to sleep,
>>got up and listened for hours to all the reports.  A very good
>>friend of mine flies for United.  I believe it was the first plane
>>that crashed into the first trade tower that was the flight out of
>>Boston to Los Angeles.  My friend flies that same Boston to L A
>>route all the time.  I finally got up the courage to call his home
>>here in Denver to ask his wife if he was home or off flying that
>>week.  I was so relieved when she said, "He is home.  Let me put
>>him on the phone."  He flew over 200 combat missions in jet
>>fighters in Vietnam but my friend could hardly talk on the
>>telephone that day he was so shaken.  The first flight he was
>>assigned to fly when the airlines were allowed to fly again was
>>the return flight from L A into Boston.  At any rate, today I
>>listened to TV all day once again and all evening just about.  I
>>often think of my oldest son now living in New Jersey and how one
>>time his company flew him to New York and he had to go to the top
>>of one of the towers to teach company employees some new software.
>>In fact, he had a meeting scheduled for yesterday in the city but
>>the security was becoming so tight, everyone was canceling their
>>meetings so he canceled his.  I couldn't help think today, as I
>>did a year ago, my son could have easily been in one of those
>>towers.  All day today something was gnawing at the back of my
>>mind but I couldn't put my finger on it.  Yes, I cried several
>>times today listening to all the stories just like I did a year
>>ago and I prayed, too, for the families who suffered such a great
>>loss just as I did a year ago.  As I listened to how minute by
>>minute decisions were being made by our nationally elected leaders
>>and by the police and fire fighters and hundreds of others, I
>>suddenly said out loud, I sure am glad to be an American.  That's
>>what had been gnawing at me all day and when it finally came to
>>me, I literally spoke it out loud before I realized it.  I've
>>never fought in a war or carried a weapon or ever done anything
>>any more patriotic than fly an American flag outside my window.  I
>>can truthfully say that today, for perhaps the very first time in
>>my life, I honestly felt proud to be an American.  I wasn't just
>>proud of all the people who helped save lives a year ago as I
>>listened to the news coverage today and I wasn't just thankful
>>that it happened to somebody else and not me or my family.  I can
>>honestly and truthfully say today, fellow Americans and the way
>>they lived and died, made me proud I am one of them.  People died
>>in the air, on the ground, and in buildings and most died without
>>even knowing why.  We know why now.  they didn't die because they
>>were black or white or because they spoke English or Japanese or
>>Spanish or French.  They did not die because they were old or
>>young; male or female.  they didn't die because they were
>>religious or atheists.  They died because they were Americans.  I
>>believe I now have some understanding of what it really means to
>>be an American and I wouldn't have it any other way.
>>
>>Phil.
>>
>>
>>He's ready when you are.
>>www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
>

John