The Metropolitan Baltimore Fire Emerald Society is a non-profit, benevolent organization promoting Irish culture & tradition in the fire service & community.
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AS THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE OUT IN FULL FORCE FOR THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11
All 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were Muslims — all Islamist Muslims — from Middle Eastern countries.
Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda openly claimed and celebrated the mass murder of nearly 3,000 civilians. That is the documented record, not a “narrative.”
These were not “militants,” “freedom fighters,” or “people with grievances.” They were Islamist terrorists, just like Hamas, Hezbollah, IRGC, etc., who weaponized passenger jets to slaughter Americans in the name of their ideology. Bin Laden did not distance himself; he bragged about it. The perpetrators were selected, trained, and dispatched by a jihadist network that explicitly framed the attack as religious warfare against the West and “infidels.”
Any attempt to blur those facts by soft pedaling the religious identity of the attackers, treating bin Laden’s celebration as irrelevant, or shifting focus to unrelated geopolitical complaints… is evasion. The men who flew the planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field were Muslims acting on Islamist doctrine, and their leader claimed the victory. That is what happened.
A picture a day before 9/11
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The jumpers started at 8:46.
Networks had the tape. They hid Americans choosing the air over the fire.
Then they spent 25 years treating the word Islam like a crime. The footage was “too graphic.” The truth was forbidden.
This day is stamped in my heart forever...
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Live broadcasts on 9/11 reported and showed people jumping from the WTC towers in real time. Networks later limited graphic replays out of sensitivity; the events were not hidden.
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Posting some clips this week from the Naudet brothers’ documentary “9/11.” This one shows Engine 7 Ladder 1 Battalion 1 checking up on a routine gas smell at Church and Lispenard Streets. They see American Airlines Flight 11 fly overhead and strike the North Tower at 8:46 am. After seeing the first plane strike, these men were among the first on the scene and set up the command post in the lobby of tower 1. Naudet, who went along to practice his camera work on uneventful calls, stayed with them and kept filming their documentary. If you’ve never seen their documentary before, it’s on YouTube for free.
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There is now an entire generation alive which doesn’t have its own memories of 9/11
This video is for them. It shows what it looked like when Islamist terrorism arrived in the USA
Never forget…
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These are some of the final recorded FDNY radio communications from inside the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
In the final minutes before the tower collapsed, firefighters were still climbing toward the impact zone, searching for survivors and calling for more men to come up.
Battalion Chief Orio Palmer had reached the 78th floor. Lt. Joseph Leavey of Ladder 15 was climbing toward him. With barely two minutes remaining, Palmer called Battalion 9 Chief Edward Geraghty and told him they had access to the floors above.
Geraghty's response: “All right, I'm on my way up, Orio.”
Seconds later, a Ladder 15 firefighter radioed that he was trapped in an elevator shaft: “We're chopping through the wall to get out.”
The radio signal disappeared shortly afterward. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m.
Orio Palmer, Joseph Leavey and Edward Geraghty were killed that morning. They were still going up while others were trying to get out.
Note: Some images used in this clip are unverified. For the sake of accuracy, I have not attempted to identify those individuals.
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🇺🇸 The Boatlift That Was Bigger Than Dunkirk
At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a Coast Guard lieutenant named Mike Day keyed a radio in New York Harbor and said the only sentence that mattered.
“All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island.”
The boats were already coming.
The bridges were closed. The tunnels were closed. The subways were dead. South of the towers, hundreds of thousands of people had nowhere left to walk. Some jumped into the Hudson. Some stood on seawalls that were never meant to be docks and waited for anything that floated.
Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 Allied soldiers off a beach in 1940.
On 9/11, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 vessels moved as many as 500,000 civilians off Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that held two people. The largest water evacuation in history.
NY Waterway did not wait for the official call. After the second plane hit, the whole fleet moved. Captain Rick Thornton nosed his ferry against a seawall that was not a slip and started taking people off. Some of them he pulled out of the river. His company alone carried about 158,000 people to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Brooklyn, and Queens.
On a normal Tuesday they carried 34,000.
The Staten Island Ferry moved more than 50,000 people and came back the other way with water, bandages, and men who still had work to do in the dust.
The old fireboat John J. Harvey, already retired, tied up near the Museum of Jewish Heritage, took civilians off the seawall, then pumped water when the hydrants downtown died.
Lt. Day later admitted what the day required. “I broke more rules that day than probably I’ve enforced in my whole Coast Guard career.”
In raw numbers it was bigger than Dunkirk. No boat went down. By nightfall the southern tip of Manhattan had been emptied by people who were not on anyone’s list of heroes when the morning started.
They were tug captains. Ferry deckhands. Pilots. A lieutenant with a microphone. Ordinary boats answering one sentence.
All available boats.
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2026 DCFD Emerald Society Crab Feast is confirmed!
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Why has Christianity become the one religion society is allowed to openly mock?
In this Hot Question, I sit down with Catholic priest and exorcist Father Chad Ripperger to examine why Christianity is increasingly attacked, removed from public life, and treated differently from other religions.
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Honor Our 9/11 Hometown Heroes
We’ll never forget that tragic day & those who were there to serve. Now through 9/11, you can support them with the 9/11 NEVER FORGET Hometown Heroes Cup. A portion of every purchase is donated to Police, Fire and First Responders in your community
Happy 250th Independence Day to the greatest country the world has ever known! May God continue to bless the USA!
