4 minutes video – Flt 93 – phone calls from the passengers
Gripping and incredible report.
My 9/11 post – My friend Tom Knox – same post I’ve put up for 21 years
Like for most people today is a sorrowful day. Below is a posting I first put up in 2006. Tommy should be 55. The comments on his Legacy Tribute page are 100+ pages. I knew seven people killed on 9/11. But I only knew one of them real well. I knew Tom Knox (“Tommy”) because … Read more
“9/11 for Catholics; Especially Poignant”
From the Catholic League, and this is not to denigrate the terrible losses for people of other faiths, or no faith. The loss of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on September 11, 2001 in New York City, western Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. is something everyone who lived through that fateful day will never forget, and this … Read more
NFL: “Greatest Revenge Moment Ever”
If it’s not the greatest, it’s in the Top Ten. Steve Largent is in the Football Hall of Fame.
(King) “Charles welcomes the tapestry that explains why England needed France”
Haha. The Bayeux Tapestry – which I saw in France in my wanderings long ago. The tapestry is actually woven cloth and is 225 feet long. King Charles stood beside Emmanuel Macron at the British Museum this week and celebrated the return of the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain for the first time in nearly a … Read more
Short Essay: “Campus Keepers of the Faith”
This is an excerpt of a speech by the Catholic writer Mary Eberstadt and published in NR. Since NR (National Review) allows a limited number of free articles (don’t need a subscription; I got in without one) you should be able to access it. The link is the sub title and I have excerpted a … Read more