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Remembering 9/11 – In Honor of Flight 93

Friday, September 11th, 2026

Never Forget these fine people who were taken from us by evil men. Let’s honor the heroes of Flight 93 who made a fateful decision that they weren’t going to become pawns in a crazed attempt to decapitate our government. They took the enemy on, firsthand. They will always have our respect.

Let’s Roll!

The Crew
Jason Dahl
LeRoy Homer, Jr.
Lorraine Bay
Sandra Bradshaw
Cee Cee Lyles
Wanda Green
Deborah Anne Jacobs Welsh

The Passengers
Christian Adams
Todd Beamer
Alan Beaven
Mark Bingham
Deora Bodley
Marion Britton
Thomas E. Burnett Jr.
Willam Cashman
Georgine Rose Corrigan
Patricia Cushing
Joseph DeLuca
Patrick “Joe” Driscoll
Edward Porter Felt
Jane Folger
Colleen L. Fraser
Andrew Garcia
Jeremy Glick
Lauren Grandcolas
Donald F. Greene
Linda Gronlund
Richard Guadagno
Toshiya Kuge
Hilda Marcin
Waleska Martinez
Nicole Miller
Louis J. Nacke II
Donald and Jean Peterson
Mark “Mickey” Rothenberg
Christine Snyder
John Talignani
Honor Elizabeth Wainio
Kristin Gould White

We will not name the hijackers. May they forever be dishonored.

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9/11 Remembered – 25 Years On

Friday, September 11th, 2026

It’s been 25 years since the world changed. In a commitment to remember our dead and all of my brothers and sisters who gave their lives to right that wrong over that last quarter of a century, we made a commitment at SSD to commemorate that day every year.

Everyone should look back on where they were that day and what they were doing; the day of the world changed.

I want to embrace the feeling of helplessness I experienced that day. I want to remember it because I don’t ever want to have the feeling again. I was on leave that day and watched the second plane hit the tower. I immediately put on a uniform and reported to my squadron. I was the senior Intelligence officer and my commander wanted answers I could not give. The Intelligence community didn’t understand what was going on as it happened and consequently, the only source of information we had was what we saw on television. I pray America is never left so unprepared again. That is part of the reason I publish every day.

The death toll is unconscionable. There were 2977 innocents killed on September 11th, 2001; the vast majority, civilians. The untold cost is to their family and friends. The world will never be the same for them.

Something inside of me changed as well. I will never forget the people who cheered that day, celebrating an attack on America and the deaths of so many innocents. I can still see them as plainly as I see those poor victims falling to their deaths. To add insult to injury, our nation elects politicians who claim we deserved 9/11.

The crisis remains. Every year we lose more and more amazing people to issues caused by those events. Victims and rescuers alike suffer life threatening medical conditions due to the exposure to toxins during the attacks and continue to succumb to these lingering wounds. As a country, we must stand by them.

The toll…it weighs on.

Never Forgive, Never Forget

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9/11 Memorial – As It Happened – 1720

Friday, September 11th, 2026

Later that day, at 1720 – 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building, collapses.

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9/11 Memorial – As It Happened – 1028

Friday, September 11th, 2026

1028 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

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9/11 Memorial – As It Happened – 1003

Friday, September 11th, 2026

1003 – United Airlines Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers as passengers try to retake the plane over Somerset County, Pennsylvania. There are no survivors.

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