Kristen Breitweiser's ? why Bush sat in classroom on 9/11 is in print!

[RamboLiberal]

The story of her investigations in to what happened that day, her discovery of the film on the internet of Bush sitting reading with 2nd graders while the WTC burned and her husband died. Her questions on NORAD, FAA, Secret Service. Her discovery that Bush was briefed and knew. The stonewalling of the 9-11 investigation and refusal to meet with Kristen (the 4 widows from New Jersey) and Stephen Push. Their going after congress to investigate including one Repug who hid from them behind his door. The underfunding of the commission and how Bushie tried to appoint Kissenger to head the panel.

This story is all detailed in Gail Sheehy's new book Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Grief to Recovery

I used the index to just read the parts about Kristen's efforts. Too bad the book isn't just about this story but is instead a larger story of how one town was devastated by the tragedy. But still it was great to see it all in print.

I hope she, Stephen Push and the other survivors would sit down and put this in a book focusing on this.

Next time you're in the bookstore sit down with your favorite beverage and read those parts.

Also saw the story in Vanity Fair tonight about the WH okaying the fly-out of the Saudi's and bin-Ladens right after 9-11. Story also details Poppy and juniors ties to the Saudis, Harken, Carlyle Group, etc.

[wabeewoman]

1. New Yorkers ought to really be getting pissed

about now. What with the stonewalling on 9-11 and then overruling the EPA on air quality. The repug convention ought to be REALLY interesting (smile)

[aquart]

4. Yes, the convention should be interesting.

But I am a New Yorker. I live 32 blocks from Ground Zero. I don't seem to be smiling.

[SharonAnn]

2. Don't know if I can read it yet. I was in Middletown, NJ on 9-11

teaching a class at AT&T.

My 24 year old nephew in Stamford, CT. had died in a car accident on 9-10. I had been on the phone at every opportunity on Monday and Monday night until I found someone who would come and take over the class so that I could get to my sister in CT to help her through her son's funeral.

I'll never forget the guy from the exercise room running out into the hallway as I was getting coffee and yelling "there's a plane in the World Trade Center, it's on fire!" Then going back to greet the arriving class members and then finding out about the second impact. And I'll never forget the class of my panicked adult students who had spouses, neighbors, and family relatives who worked in NYC. Cell phones that started ringing because schools were being closed and their kids were being sent home. Wondering what they should do, where they should go, and they looked to me for answers and I had none.

And realizing that my substitute teacher wasn't going to be able to get to Middletown and I was going to be the only family member who could get to my sister in Stamford, CT to be with her. After the company decided to cancel the class we packed up quickly, sent everyone home, and I took off for Stamford, CT not knowing how on earth I would get there but I figured if I had to go North to Canada and come back down through Niagara that's what I'd do. My sister was alone, she needed help, in NYC people were dying and it was so, so awful. I got across the Tappanzee bridge to Stamford and spent until Friday there. Stayed at the Stamford Yacht Club, across Long Island Sound from lower Manhattan, so that I had a perfect view all week of the smoke billowing up and out to sea from Ground Zero. And the candle-light vigils along the streets every night as families were still hoping that loved ones would be coming home.

I not only will never forget the horror of that week, I don't think I've even begun to deal with it.

I have no idea why I'm even typing this but something about Middletown, NJ and 9-11 brought this on.

I went back a month later to finish the class and we successfully finished it - but we were all like the walking dead.

[RamboLiberal]

3. SharonAnn - What a story - I'm sorry for your loss

And for the loss of everyone in Middletown and throughout our country that day.

I can understand you would not want to read the book yet.

But I do hope that many of those who the Bush administration tries to scare in to voting for them will read how this administration tries to hide the truth of their failures for purely political purposes from those who lost so much that day.

[dmr]

6. SharonAnn

A great big hug to you (((((( SharonAnn ))))))

[blm]

5. Bump....

Great post.

I wonder if she'll speak at the Dem convention to give her side of the story.

[dmr]

7. Thanks for the heads-up on the book

When I finish with Franken's book, I'll try and find this one to read. Thanks.

[leftchick]

8. Kristen should be interviewed on the Sept. 11 Anniversary

It should be shown on every channel, letting her tell just what she and the other survivors are going through to get some truth. It is sickening to know the only thing on will be those phoney ceremonies by aWol and co. :grr: