Remembering 9/11

5 years ago today I was attending a class on how to operate the (then new) FBCB2 equipment that was being fielded to my unit at that time.

One of the instructors entered the classroom and said a plane had it the World Trade Center. Folks paused for a second, mentioning things about an accident, terrorist attacks and a few other things...then we went back to work. A little while later the same instructor came back and said it had happened again. Soon after we went back to our units and began working on our response to this heinous act.

5 years later, there are people like that goofball at Loose Change who claim it was a set-up, the government was in on it and all other sorts of screwy ideas.

Mary Katharine Ham (blogger and hot INTERNET babe) has a great roundup of the "truthers" and the people who put them in their place.

It is beyond me why some people feel the need to try and manufacture conspiracies and plots and refuse to recognize the real enemy for what it is. Once again we are our own worst enemy...and that to me is almost as sad as all the people who were lost this day 5 years ago.