Reply #26: For whom the wedding bells toll [View All]

[DulceDecorum]

OK, since you brought it up, I am going to go out on a limb here and say that a lot of the people listed as victims do not seem to have left much info about themselves BEFORE September 11, 2001.

Just for your own edification, count up how many times you encounter the assertion that the September 11 victim had only just started working there.
Cruel cynics might argue that this line is a great cover just in case regulars start saying that they never ever ever saw that person there BEFORE September 11 and have no idea who that person is.

Moody, 43, was one of three people in her office of 34 who survived the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon. She talked about what happened that day and what it's been like for her since.
"I came into work that day at 6:30," she said. "IT WAS MY SECOND DAY ON THE JOB, so I was still taking care of a lot of administrative things. I'd met LOUISE KURTZ in the personnel office that Monday. BOTH OF US WERE STARTING WORK THAT DAY. While we were talking, I learned she used to live in Rome, N.Y.
"Her husband was in the AIR FORCE and was stationed at Griffiss Air Force Base, where I had worked. SHE WORKED WITH A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT I HAD JUST LEFT TWO DAYS EARLIER. IT WAS REALLY STRANGE THAT SHE AND I HAD KIND OF TRAVELLED THE SAME CIRCLE AND THEN BOTH OF US ENDED UP AT THE PENTAGON STARTING OUT THAT DAY, AND THAT BOTH OF US SURVIVED AND ARE HERE TO TELL THE STORY.
http://www.defendamerica.mil/profiles/sep2002/pr091002a.html

BY 7:30 a.m., MOODY HAD COMPLETED THE LAST OF HER EMPLOYMENT PAPERWORK ALONG WITH KURTZ, WHO WAS ALSO A NEW HIRE. Kurtz, Moody found out that morning, used to live in Rome when her husband was stationed at the former Griffiss Air Force Base.
Moody and Kurtz chatted about mutual Rome acquaintances as they walked back to the accounting office together, and stopped for coffee.
About 9:40 a.m., Kurtz stopped by Moody’s cubicle to tell her that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, a suspected act of terrorism. Kurtz then walked to the nearby fax machine.
Ten seconds later, a Boeing 757 ripped through the walls of their first-floor office.
“A burst of hot air hit my face,” Moody said. “It was so powerful that I shut my eyes. When I opened them, a ball of fire passed right next to me. It was so close, I could have stuck my arm out and touched the flames.”
Still, Moody remained seated at her desk. After the explosion, there was only quiet and the stink of jet fuel, she said. Burning office fixtures created a trap — there was no obvious way out for the two women in an office where the fire’s temperature reached 1,600 degrees.
http://www.uticaod.com/news/specialreports/911anniversary/sept11/moody.htm

See what I mean?
But don't cry, Louise may have suffered tenth degree burns from 1,650 degree heat,
she may have lost her freckled ears,
and her fingers with the two carat diamond ring,
and they are most reluctant to give this woman early retirement,
but she did leave the hospital just before Christmas
and

Her hair is growing well, soft brown and feathered, with highlights, and most of the time it hides the place where her ears used to be, where now there is only a slender ridge of cartilage. In August, a specialist made her new prosthetic ears.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A59240-2002Sep9¬Found=true

Barbara Bracher FirstHusband Olson made the rounds all right.
She cut a wide swathe BEFORE September 11, 2001.
Pity she didn't decide to spend THE ENTIRE DAY in the general vicinity of her husband, seeing as how IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY.
Or maybe leaving was her way of being nice.

Either way, her bio appears to have been fitted by the same tailoring house that crafted the outfit of one Tommy Franks. And the Olson wedding seems (as far as I have been able to determine to date) to have been a quiet affair with no guests or witnesses.