Lessons from 9/11, 2023 edition, Part 1: who really destroyed the Twin Towers

I wrote the below on September 14th, just a few days after the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Although I'll say more in a part 2 (and a part 3) on this topic, I'll say that 9/11 hit me harder this year than it has for a long time, in large part because, starting on the 10th and going through much of the week, I spent a lot of time watching videos of what happened this day, and the memories flooded back. Not only so, but I started to feel God downloading a lot of lessons for me, which began with what I wrote below, and hasn't stopped since. I'm hoping to be able to catch up and share it in a faithful manner.

One word of warning: this post contains graphic photos of planes hitting buildings, buildings being on fire, and buildings collapsing to the ground, so please skip through the rest of this post if these images make you uncomfortable.

Title: Main points in remembering 9/11 this year, part 1

(These points are not in order, but rather stream-of-consciousness. There is some mild editing in the first parts, as I had to do further research to prove my point a little better.)

1.) I actually don’t think the US government destroyed the towers, like some conspiracy folks have indicated. I think the Islamic terrorists did. See picture of the south tower’s “not-so-precision” fall.

Unlike Flight 11 which hit the north tower on a direct hit, Flight 175 which hit the south tower, hit at such an angle that it veered off toward the side (in this case, toward the east side of the building). The below image shows how, at the point of impact, Flight 175 was banking hard left in an attempt to try to make a direct hit:

By the grace of God, however, the hijackers failed at least to accomplish that. The results of this flight show that the projectiles of the plane landed in such a spot that showed that it had veered off to its right. From the perspective of the below picture, the plane in question is approaching from the top-left and hitting the tower that is on the left. From this particular perspective it ended up hitting more toward the left (as this is from a backwards perspective) which, if you look back to the first photo in this post, this drawing would correspond more directly with it in terms of directionality:

The result was, despite the fact that people in the South Tower had less time to evacuate due to the lower point of impact vs the North Tower, there was still one stairwell open:

I got the above image from this blog. I don't know the person who wrote it. I found it because I found the photo in an online photo search and it directed me to the blog. As of this writing I've only perused a couple of his posts. Certainly thought-provoking albeit rather emotional. To each their own, though. I really wanted to use the above photo, so I find it only right that I also reference his page.

I share this graphic stuff because one of the things I began to believe in the intervening years was that 9/11 perhaps was a hoax, or at least an inside job by the US government. Watching these videos and seeing these images has helped to disprove that (at least in my eyes) and once again re-prove the original truth that, yes, this was the work of Islamic terrorists. The key argument that I heard was that any “inside job” was predicated on explosives that were already planted within each of the towers, and that each tower fell in a perfectly “precision-drop” manner. As the first image in this blog post shows, the South Tower did not fall straight-down. It fell in a vertical manner, for sure, but it shows (to me) that the impact of the plane's collision combined with the explosion of fire is what played a role in its fall, not any explosives that were supposed to have been planted in the buildings already.

Also, this report shows in much more detail its findings, also supporting the fact that airplanes crashing into each tower (plus the raging explosions and infernos that ensued) caused the collapses. 

Usually I would have included a Bible verse (or a few) by now, but because this has become a three-part posting series, it will wait until the later parts. Come back tomorrow for Part 2.