story11652.xml
Title
story11652.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2005-07-31
911DA Story: Story
What was significant on September 11th would not be evident until almost a month later.
I was in our Estimating department of Hodess Building Company on the 11th of september. I remember an announcement coming over the PA that we were all to report to the board room as something has happened. An incident like this was the furthest from my mind. I thought something was going on in another country and we were involved. I reported as told and saw the gruesome scene of the Buildings on fire, smoke billowing out in thick black clouds. I was in shock. I could not believe what I was seeing. I went to my desk silently and started to pray for them.
It was around 23 days after September 11th when I began to piece together a puzzle that I would never have thought possible for my life. Before 911, there was a new hire down stairs in the MIS department. He would take the head of MIS and replace the old MIS person. Karl was telling stories to Luke about his sisters occupation. His sister, worked for NORAD as a Leutenant. She was in Florence, the headquarters responsible for monitoring and notifying in case of attack, more specifically, they were watching for airline hijackings as well as foriegn bombers, missiles etc. their job was to watch the skies against attack. They had failed.
Karl invited me into his office 23 or so days after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I viewed an email that his sister had written. In this email detailed everything that happened at their base on that day. she said that "they knew about the planes being off course" and they also knew they were hijacked. They did not react. They knew for 15 minutes. They had a squack 7500 emitting from the planes and failed to launch the airplanes to intercept the airliners or to escort them to a runway.
I suspect that Karl was under diress and his sister stalled the launch of fighter jets to save his life. I know that this sounds strange and surreal, yet, I cannot understand why they would not launch if they knew.
this secret has been robbing me of sleep and happiness. I am hoping that it becomes public so all of America will know how bad it really is and how weak we really were. We need to come together and prevent this from ever happening again.
Chris
I was in our Estimating department of Hodess Building Company on the 11th of september. I remember an announcement coming over the PA that we were all to report to the board room as something has happened. An incident like this was the furthest from my mind. I thought something was going on in another country and we were involved. I reported as told and saw the gruesome scene of the Buildings on fire, smoke billowing out in thick black clouds. I was in shock. I could not believe what I was seeing. I went to my desk silently and started to pray for them.
It was around 23 days after September 11th when I began to piece together a puzzle that I would never have thought possible for my life. Before 911, there was a new hire down stairs in the MIS department. He would take the head of MIS and replace the old MIS person. Karl was telling stories to Luke about his sisters occupation. His sister, worked for NORAD as a Leutenant. She was in Florence, the headquarters responsible for monitoring and notifying in case of attack, more specifically, they were watching for airline hijackings as well as foriegn bombers, missiles etc. their job was to watch the skies against attack. They had failed.
Karl invited me into his office 23 or so days after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I viewed an email that his sister had written. In this email detailed everything that happened at their base on that day. she said that "they knew about the planes being off course" and they also knew they were hijacked. They did not react. They knew for 15 minutes. They had a squack 7500 emitting from the planes and failed to launch the airplanes to intercept the airliners or to escort them to a runway.
I suspect that Karl was under diress and his sister stalled the launch of fighter jets to save his life. I know that this sounds strange and surreal, yet, I cannot understand why they would not launch if they knew.
this secret has been robbing me of sleep and happiness. I am hoping that it becomes public so all of America will know how bad it really is and how weak we really were. We need to come together and prevent this from ever happening again.
Chris
Collection
Citation
“story11652.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 7, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/12710.