not that anyone noticed

20 years ago today the World Trade Center in New York was attacked....the first time....(for the record I was living in Spring Lake and took the Path Train from Newark into the World Trade about 6 hours prior to the blast) . Today there will be masses and rememberances across the Nation and the rally cry NEVER FORGET will be shouted in the streets, we will renew our vow to punish those responsible for this act of terror and oh...OH...wait a aminute...Anne hathaway wasnt wearing a Bra at the Oscars and Ben Afleck had lunch at the Ivy and blah fuckin blah....nobody cares.......

on the saddest note, if Egypt wasnt in turmoil, obama was going to free the blind sheik omar that was the mastermind of this plot....i kid you not....he will do it before this term ends....if it ever ends......as one of our readers in Westlake Texas warns...get ready for a 3rd term.




this is from the Port Authority Home Page.

12:18 p.m.


The World Trade Center is attacked for the first time when terrorists detonate 1,500 pounds of explosives in a van parked in the underground public lot of the WTC, two levels below the southern wall of the North Tower. The attack kills six people, including a pregnant woman, injures more than a thousand, creates a five-story crater beneath the towers, and results in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.


Less than a month later, the WTC opens again for business and a yearlong, $250 million recovery plan commences.



The first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center took the lives of four Port Authority employees, as well as an employee of Windows on the World and a visitor to the WTC. We remember them now, and always.



Robert Kirkpatrick

Stephen Knapp

William Macko

Monica Rodriguez Smith and her unborn child

Wilfredo Mercado (Windows on the World)

John DiGiovanni. (Visitor to the WTC)

The memorial that commemorated their lives was destroyed on September 11, 2001. During the rescue and recovery effort, Port Authority police discovered a fragment of the original memorial. It will become part of the permanent collection of the new National September 11 Memorial & Museum.