Novel: Fatal Illusions, Tenth Plague, Kill Order, Termination Zone, Death the Halls, The Last Time She Saw Her. Father, husband, child of God. #cleanreads #ACFW
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Novelist Adam Blumer retweeted
Most of the people critical of the new Narnia movie news will be firmly planted in their IMAX seats in February 2027, with their families of five and a tub of buttery popcorn.
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Konstantin Petrov worked the overnight shift as an electrician at Windows on the World in the North Tower.
Because the complex was mostly empty at night, he wandered with a camera and photographed stairwells, kitchens, offices, rooftops, and quiet corners of the Trade Center that few people ever documented.
His shift ended shortly before 9/11 began, and he made it out.
Petrov died in a motorcycle crash the following year. His photos became an incredibly rare record of the World Trade Center just before it disappeared.
Novelist Adam Blumer retweeted
“You will never understand Islam unless you understand the rationality of Islam.” A must-watch!
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She was 8 years old.
Her name was Zoe Falkenberg, and on the morning of September 11, 2001, she climbed aboard American Airlines Flight 77 with her mom, dad, and 3-year-old little sister, Dana.
To Zoe, this wasn’t a flight that would become part of American history. It was the beginning of an adventure.
Her family was going to Australia for two months while her mother, Leslie Whittington, completed a fellowship at Australian National University. Her father, Charles Falkenberg, had taken leave from work so all four of them could experience it together. They had talked about seeing kangaroos and koalas and exploring a place on the other side of the world. (ABC News)
Zoe sat between her dad and her little sister. Her mom was across the aisle.
She was tiny for her age, but one of the brightest kids in her class. She loved Girl Scouts, ballet, swimming, and performing. More than anything, she loved books. Harry Potter was a favorite. At home, reading was a family ritual. Her parents would curl up on the couch with Zoe and Dana every night, then after Dana went to bed, Zoe got to stay up for the longer stories. Sometimes Harry Potter. Sometimes Tolkien. (Naval History and Heritage Command)
And Zoe already had plans for when she came home.
She and her best friend Katie were going to have a Beanie Babies birthday party together. That detail gets me.
Because children don’t think about whether they’ll make it home from a family vacation. They think about stuffed animals and birthday parties and books they haven’t finished yet.
Just before the family boarded their flight, they mailed postcards to relatives from Dulles Airport. Those postcards began arriving after September 11.
Little messages from a family excited about the adventure ahead of them.
Messages that essentially said, “We love you.” Zoe never got Australia. She never got her Beanie Babies party. Dana never got to grow up beside her big sister. Their parents never got to watch either of their daughters become women.
At 9:37 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon. Zoe, Dana, Leslie, and Charles died together. Dana, only 3, was the youngest person aboard the plane.
Twenty-five years later, I don’t want Zoe remembered simply as one of the passengers on Flight 77.
Her name was Zoe Falkenberg. She was 8.
She loved Harry Potter. She had a birthday party waiting for her when she got home.
And she should have had an entire lifetime after it.
Novelist Adam Blumer retweeted
25 years later, I'll never forget 9/11/01. We remember all who lost their lives and the first responders who sacrificed to help others. I always stand for my high school teammate Ted Adderley, who was on the 93rd floor of the North Tower. We must continue to honor them.
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Forty voices. Forty lives. A story of courage that will never be forgotten.
Standing 93 feet tall at Flight 93 National Memorial, the Tower of Voices holds 40 wind chimes, each representing one of the passengers and crew members of United Airlines Flight 93.
When the wind moves across the Pennsylvania landscape, their voices continue to ring. We remember their courage. We remember their sacrifice. We remember the 40 lives lost 25 years ago.
ALT At Flight 93 National Memorial, the Tower of Voices rises on a grassy hill dotted with wildflowers under a partly cloudy blue sky.
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21-year-old Nicole Carol Miller, boarding Flight 93 on 9/11. She would be dead just a few hours later.
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This is from the 9/11: Voices from Inside the Towers documentary that aired on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 back in 2011.
Tom McGinnis was the last documented phone call to be made from the North Tower of the World Trade Center before it collapsed.
He left behind his wife Iliana and daughter Caitlin.
Novelist Adam Blumer retweeted
🥀We will always remember
❣️We will never forget
25 years now since our beloved friends
Jude Safi
Richard Caggiano
Robert Tipaldi
Lost their lives in Tower 1 on September 11, 2001
🇺🇸All three grew up together in BrooklynNY and died together in New York 🗽, keep Looking over us from heaven 🪽
Rest in eternal peace my beautiful friends 🙏🏼
Novelist Adam Blumer retweeted
In memory of Lloyd Brown Age 28 Mount Vernon, New York who died on Sept 11, 2001
Cantor Fitzgerald, Compliance Officer for Institutional Equities North Tower, World Trade Center
Lloyd Brown was a Navy veteran, a father, a student, and a young man still climbing. He was born in Jamaica, spent part of his childhood in the Bronx, and graduated from Evander Childs High School in 1990. After a few years of finding his path, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served from 1992 to 1996. He was stationed at Anacostia in Washington, D.C., and at Norfolk, including time aboard the USS George Washington. He earned a Good Conduct Medal and an inaugural medal. He received special clearance and served as a ceremonial guard at the White House. He was proud of that service.
His children were the reason he kept going. Jacinda was 7 and Lloyd Jr. was 4. They had recently moved to Texas with their mother. His apartment in Mount Vernon was full of their pictures. He talked to them every day. He was looking for a place in the Bronx so he could be closer to family. He liked basketball with coworkers. He liked computers. Relatives said he was like his father, always cracking jokes.
He enrolled at Fordham University. In 1999 he started at Cantor Fitzgerald. After hard work he became an equities manager and hoped one day to be a trader. Colleagues remembered him as someone who tried to make things work better for other people.
He was dating Monique DeJesus, who also worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. They had met at the firm and were building a life together. Ten days before September 11 he went with her to a family baby shower. He volunteered to take the group photograph. Relatives later said it became the first family picture they would treasure. That evening he and Monique danced on the deck while the rest of the family watched the sun go down.
On the morning of September 11 he was at work in Cantor Fitzgerald’s offices in the North Tower, above the impact zone of Flight 11. No one from those floors who was in the building survived.
Lloyd Brown was 28. He had already served his country, become a father, gone back to school, and started a career. He was still becoming what he hoped to be. He is remembered by his father Everton, his children, his family, his coworkers, and the people who saw him dance that September evening.
Never forget.❤️🙏
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Jennifer Howley was expecting her first child in 2002.
She was in the South Tower on 9/11.
Today we remember Jennifer, her preborn baby, and all lives lost in the Twin Towers.
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On this day 25 years ago, three 11-year-old Washington, D.C., sixth-graders were selected to participate in a National Geographic-sponsored field trip to California.
The students were Bernard C. Brown II, Asia S. Cottom, and Rodney Dickens.
Their teachers were James D. Debeuneure, Sara M. Clark, and Hilda E. Taylor.
They boarded American Airlines Flight 77 for the trip. That morning, the plane was hijacked and deliberately flown into the Pentagon.
Twenty-five years later, we remember their names, honor their lives, and stand with every family and loved one forever affected by their tragic loss.
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I'm deeply persuaded that the secret to a confident heart and a peaceful night of sleep isn't a secret at all. Rather, it's plain-and-simple theology. By that, I mean trusting foundational principles that God lays out in his Word. Here are five:
1. Accept The Chaos
We have a miniscule amount of control in a gargantuan universe. Each day will provide fresh trouble (Matthew 6:34). The more we try to manipulate the situations, locations, and relationships of life, the more we'll become exhausted and discouraged. Live responsibly and be wise, but recognize that you were not designed to govern this world.
2. Know The Facts
Even though I just told you to accept the chaos, the Bible actually declares that everything in the universe is managed with complete and specific authority (Acts 17:26). Nothing is chaotic in God's eyes; he is never confused or taken off-guard. When we tell ourselves otherwise, it makes sense that we'll be stressed and anxious.
3. Trust The Father
God is more than just a ruling deity, exercising his sovereign power of people and places. The Bible tells us that he is also good and will give his children everything we need and more (see Matthew 6:26-32 and 7:9-11). Your life is secure is the hands of a powerful and loving Father.
4. Pursue Spiritual Disciplines
In the midst of trials, it's very tempting to abandon the spiritual disciplines of your faith and try to make it on your own. Pray, fast, meditate on and memorize Scripture, and keep attending worship services and small groups. Immerse yourself in God, his Spirit, his Word, and his body of believers.
5. Know Your Limits
Too many Christians fret trying to decipher God's secret will for their lives. It's a secret, after all! Instead, we should rest within the clear limits of what God has made known to us. Let God be God, and let him establish our steps (Proverbs 16:9).
You and I can sleep because God is wise, loving, and powerful. He is in moment-by-moment control of every detail of our lives.
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Good Morning, X Family.
Today is September 11th.
For many, it’s a day of remembrance. For my family, it’s also deeply personal.
This is my cousin, Alicia Titus, a United Airlines flight attendant who lost her life aboard United Flight 175 on September 11, 2001. She was one of the innocent souls taken from us when the plane struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
Twenty-five years later, the pain of that loss never fully disappears, but neither does the pride of having known her.
Today, I ask that we remember Alicia, the nearly 3,000 victims, the first responders, and the countless families whose lives were changed forever that day.
Never Forget. 🇺🇸
#September11 #NeverForget #911Memorial #UnitedFlight175 #RememberTheFallen #PatriotDay
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The 'Man in the Red Bandana' finally honored for his sacrifice.
25 years after Welles Crowther gave his life saving others on 9/11, the 'Man in the Red Bandana' is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Crowther was just 24 when he repeatedly went back into the South Tower, helping as many as 18 people escape. Survivors remembered one unmistakable detail about the stranger who helped save their lives: the red bandana covering his face.
Crowther never made it out, but the people he helped did.
Now his mother and sister accept the nation’s highest civilian honor on his behalf, cementing a legacy born from the extraordinary choice to keep going back for others.
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On September 11, 2001, while aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which had been hijacked by terrorists, she managed to make one final phone call to her loved ones.
Her name was Honor Elizabeth Wainio. She was just 27 years old.
Knowing that she might not survive, she spoke to her stepmother and left her family with a few heartbreaking words:
“You guys are going to have a much harder time than I am.”
Shortly afterward, Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.
Everyone aboard was killed.
Honor was only 27.
Twenty-five years later, her final words still carry an almost unbearable weight.
September 11, 2001.
We remember Honor Elizabeth Wainio — and every innocent life taken that day.
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🚨HE OPENED HIS EYES SOMEWHERE IMPOSSIBLE 🕊️
Pasquale Buzzelli was descending the North Tower's stairwell on the 22nd floor when the building began collapsing around him.
He curled into a fetal position in a corner, thought of his 7-months-pregnant wife Louise and their unborn daughter, and prepared to die.
He fell nearly 22 stories as the tower disintegrated, "surfing" the collapsing debris. Hours later, he opened his eyes staring at clear blue sky, convinced he was dead.
"I thought this was the afterlife," he recalled. Then he heard a firefighter's voice.
He walked away with only a broken foot and minor burns, one of just two people known to survive a fall from the upper floors. 💔
25 years later. His survival remains one of the most incredible stories of that day. 🇺🇸🙏
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Among the 2,977 people killed on September 11, 2001, the youngest was Christine Lee Hanson, two and a half years old.
Those who knew her remembered a child who liked to help her parents, Sue and Peter, in the garden and who talked to the flowers, the vegetables, and the trees. When her grandmother Eunice Hanson broke a foot and wore a cast, Christine led her to a chair, said she would help, ran upstairs, and came back with a bandage that she stuck on the plaster.
Christine was on United Flight 175 with her mother and father when the aircraft struck the South Tower.
Twenty-five years later the official count is still read aloud, and her name is in it.
