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A few things that nobody has mentioned:
First, McGuire Air Force Base is located roughly 50 miles from the World Trade Center. Fighters can move at roughly 1500 mph. That's roughly TWO MINUTES to intercept. Tack in another minute to accelerate, we're at three minutes. Yet this still happened. FOUR TIMES. I don't believe it.
Second, the news was reporting and the population still believes that the Pennsylvania plane (the fourth plane) crashed. They found plane parts miles from the crater. How would parts get scattered in a multiple mile radius if the plane hit the ground? The only logical explanation is that the plane was shot down in midair, and those pieces landed as they fell. The people on that plane were not heroes, they were victims. Furthermore if indeed there was a terrorist on board that plane, they were at fault for not stopping him.
The only people I truly feel sorry for for the loss of life are the people who died in the first tower to get hit, and the rescuers that died in the aftermath. The first tower to get hit had no way of seeing it coming, they didn't stand a chance. The passengers of all the planes did not try to stop the hijack. The second tower should have been evacuated by the time the second plane hit. The Pentagon is a military target. The firemen and rescue crews are heros for going in and pulling people out. That is brave and risky work and I cannot respect that enough.
I'd be curious to see if one of the victims' families in the first tower could sue passengers of the first plane for wrongful death due to gross neglegence.
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