Newly Released NYFD 9-11 Attack Records Remind Us: NEVER FORGET & NEVER AGAIN (updated with links to tapes)
By Andrew Cochran
The NYC Fire Department's release of thousands of pages of oral histories and emergency call logs from the September 11 attacks should remind freedom-loving people around the world of why we fight Islamic extremism worldwide, which groups and leaders constitute that menace, and the stakes if we ignore them, as we did during the 1990s. The tapes and call logs recording the voices of hundreds of firerfighters, paramedics, and EMTs are the "raison d'etre" and should be the inspiration for a sometimes tired and distracted American populace to keep going. MSNBC has posted all of the unedited tapes, and I've posted the link to that site permanently in the Counterterrorism Library in the left sidebar. The New York Times has text files and oral tapes on its website (free registration required). The Washington Post has the audio of the second plane hitting the WTC and the collapse of the South Tower (free registration also), and I will post more permanent links to selected files on this site soon. And if you still need more motivational text to put the conflict in the right context, read Victor Davis Hanson's NRO column, in which he quotes recent declarations of Al Qaeda leaders and other terrorists.
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