World Trade Center

Love him or hate him, Oliver Stone knows how to make a memorable film. He especially knows how to make a controversial one. One of my trusted friends walked out of the theater during "Natural Born Killers" because of the sometimes senseless killing committed by the film's protagonists. After Stone's "JFK," Congress passed the Assassination Materials Disclosure Act, which allows the public access to records pertaining to JFK's death, presumably to debunk what were seen by some as blatant conspiracy theories presented by the movie.

Dear Editor, Mr. Roger Bowman, who writes to The Advocate-Messenger about George W. Bush, is right. Bush has failed to level with the American public about the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and told an outright lie about what he knew and when he knew it. In a report sent to him on July 1, 2001, two months before the World Trade Center, he was told by the Congressional Intelligence Committee these exact words - the report is on file with the Congress of the United States: "Based on a review of all source reporting over the last five months, we believe Osama bin Laden will launch a significant terrorist attack against us and or Israeli interests in the coming weeks.

Dear Editor, I think the people should know what the United States government (the postal service) is doing after all that has been done to us. After the 9/11 attacks on us, and after all of the people who have died here and overseas, the United States Postal Service is selling stamps celebrating the Muslim New Year this Christmas. They have EIG on them and they're blue and gold. I even talked to a person who works for the postal service, and they also agreed with me, saying that it would be a slap in the face for all the people who have died in the 9/11 attacks, World Trade Center, and the men and women who have died fighting for our country, and the ones who are still there fighting for us back here at home.

Wow five years. I was working in Lexington as a purchasing agent for an electrical contractor. I was on the phone with a radio station getting directions because I just won a book. When the DJ told me he needed to go - a helicopter or something crashed into the World Trade Center - I didn't think much of it. I turned the TV on in the office and couldn't believe my eyes! I watched, but it seemed unreal. I was thinking of all the times I was there. (I grew up in the northeast.) When the tower collapsed, that's when it really hit home - my brother works for The Port Authority of New York New Jersey!

There are plenty of reasons to favor the re-election of President George W. Bush: He will appoint federal judges who believe in strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and will stem the tide of legislation by the federal bench. He will push for reform of the legal system to reduce the horrendous malpractice insurance costs that force doctors to give up such high-risk areas of practice as obstetrics and otherwise increase the nation's health-care costs. He has a fundamental belief in the ability of the free-enterprise system to provide the best quality services of all kinds, including health care, at the lowest cost.

When I was 17, I thought the world was centered around the eight miles of Kentucky Highway 1044. I lived there my whole life, and all the important people in my life lived there - my best friend, Erica, and my entire family. That was the year I wanted Abercrombie clothes and my own car. I thought riding the school bus was a fate worse than death, and I frequently thought my parents might be trying to punish me. On Sept. 11, 2001, I was in Mr. Cash's A.P. U.S. History class.

Sept. 11, 2001, is one of those dates - much like the day Kennedy was shot - that you will always remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you first heard the news. I was at work but had just received a call from my daughter, Becky, who was manager for American Airlines service in Columbus, Ohio. She called to tell me that she had worked until after midnight the night before working on her budget for the coming year and was going in to work late. She had called just to let me know that her budget woes were the reason we had not talked for a couple of days.

Most Americans who were old enough remember where they were when they heard about Pearl Harbor. Sept. 11, 2001 was a day like that. It was the first time in 60 years that there had been an unprovoked attack on American soil. On that clear fall morning, two hijacked airliners were flown into the World Trade Center in New York, collapsing the buildings and killing 3,000 people. Another plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, and a third plane was brought down in a field in rural Pennsylvania after passengers struggled with their captors.

Happiness still shines through a framed picture of Ben Ehmen, 83, and wife Jeannette Davis, 77, during their first joint trip to New York City. Ehmen scoops his wife off her feet in the photo edited to look like he's balancing on a tight rope between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The pretend peril livens their certain smiles because, there, enveloped in a symbol of American prosperity, they assumed they couldn't be safer. Handwritten on the back of the photograph is the date - Sept.

Many Americans spent the weekend remembering those lost in the horror of the Sept. 11 attacks. While the TV screen was full of those who were closest to the destruction of the day, and recounting the losses of loved ones and honoring them, it was hard for anyone with a heart not to feel pain at their losses. I, too, did like most others and thought of where I was that day, and the fright I felt in Winchester. I had just come into work for the day at the Walmart pharmacy, and as I went to check on a person's prescription, I heard it announced on the radio a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center in New York City.

When I was 17, I thought the world was centered around the eight miles of Kentucky Highway 1044. I lived there my whole life, and all the important people in my life lived there - my best friend, Erica, and my entire family. That was the year I wanted Abercrombie clothes and my own car. I thought riding the school bus was a fate worse than death, and I frequently thought my parents might be trying to punish me. On Sept. 11, 2001, I was in Mr. Cash's A.P. U.S. History class.

Happiness still shines through a framed picture of Ben Ehmen, 83, and wife Jeannette Davis, 77, during their first joint trip to New York City. Ehmen scoops his wife off her feet in the photo edited to look like he's balancing on a tight rope between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The pretend peril livens their certain smiles because, there, enveloped in a symbol of American prosperity, they assumed they couldn't be safer. Handwritten on the back of the photograph is the date - Sept.

While citizens reflect on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, state and local emergency service providers are still mindful of threats that face even rural communities. Gene Kiser, executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, said no specific threats have been identified in correlation with today's 10-year anniversary of 9/11, but his office has been keeping track of where celebrations will be happening and how many people plan to attend. “There's always a concern about what somebody might do,” Kiser said.

The memories remain as clear as the day that made them. The shock, the smoke, the screams. The unnatural words - war, attack, terror. The empty explanations - politics, religion, revenge. Millions of answers to the question “where were you?” formed, all unique in setting yet universal in sentiment. Here are a few from our community:   Angela Johnson, former principal of Danville High School Angela Johnson, 65, was taking care of hundreds of children she called her own as principal of Danville High School.

Generations mark the passage of time by significant events. The oldest generation among us can recall Pearl Harbor or VJ-Day. Subsequent generations remember the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and younger baby-boomers will recall where they were when they heard the Berlin Wall had fallen. All of these milestones marked the end of the world as the reminiscer knew it. The end of US neutrality in World War II, the end of Camelot or the end of the Cold War. What ended on 9-11, the newest milestone and a first  for our youngest generation was the end of our nation's immunity from terrorism.

Paper needs better proofreading Dear Editor, I was just wondering if anyone ever proofreads any of the stories that are printed? It used to be fun when Winchester had its own paper to catch misspelled words. Now it's hard to get through the paper and find a story that's right. It seems to me the paper has gone down so far it will never make it back to where it was before it sold. James Mann's pictures are still great. Jean Brody and Betty's Babblins are about the only things from the old paper that are still good.

There are only a few events that I can tell you with absolute certainty where I was at that time. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of those times. I was in the Chicago area for an Inland Press Association digital media conference. As news spread of potential attacks on the towers, conference participants, many of whom were responsible for news on their websites, cleared the room to contact their respective papers. While we were responsible for updating others on the events, it still seemed unreal at the time.

Three days after the Al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., President George W. Bush stood with firefighters on the ruins of the World Trade Center and offered words of encouragement. He told those gathered that Americans were “on bended knee, in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn …” A rescue worker shouted: “I can’t hear you!