Democracy is over, the world is coming to an end, the germans are going to win, and we in the United States better adopt fascism and get rid of democracy if you want to survive. He said this publicly in a news paper so he wasnt going to get elected and he knew it. Had they ever considered using a different plane for a very explosive mission, it seemed like it was a very not well constructed for what they were wanting to do. What was the rationale for using the plane that they did . The air force, they did something that was even riskier, they used war were warriors, that means planes that have been through a lot of combats but were not combat worthy anymore. They loaded them with explosives. The pd for why one, that the the navy used was pretty much brandnew, the reason it was used, both of these at aircrafts quite sturdy, but the real reason was it was the biggest thing they had. You could just pilot full of explosives. One of the problems they had was that these planes werent intende
Back home that early that saturday. Join the cspan conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. So the commanders had given the vast ma yortjority of the fulltime force, which was really not that many folks at the time, a pass for monday to be able to reconnect with their families. So tuesday was really the first time that we were kind of getting back to work. All of our traditionals who had been deployed were back off doing their normalcyville cy rilivilian jobs, so we were really just kind of planning the week. So that morning was just an average morning, getting up, eating my cheerios, driving in to work. It was really just very normal. At about a quarter to 9 00 when the first reports came of a plane hitting the first of the two World Trade Centers, what was your reaction . I was in the middle of a longrange scheduling meeting with the other five fulltimers there at the Fighter Squadron. So we were planning out the week and really planning out the month as well, looking
Many folks at the time, a pass for monday to be able to reconnect with their families. So tuesday was really the first time that we were kind of getting back to work. All of our traditionals who had been deployed were back off doing their normal civilian jobs, so we were really just kind of planning the week. So that morning was just an average morning, getting up, eating my cheerios, driving in to work. It was really just very normal. At about a quarter to 9 00 when the first reports came of a plane hitting the first of the two World Trade Centers, what was your reaction . I was in the middle of a longrange scheduling meeting with the other five fulltimers there at the Fighter Squadron. So we were planning out the week and really planning out the month as well, looking at what our training priorities would be, our check ride priorities, looking at our range times, transitioning the jets into a new phase of training and a new phase of flights. We were working out the Administration Det
Stephen harding targets an american soldier and the final flight through japan in the book last to die. Publishers weekly calls the book a meticulously researched tale. While harding expresses a commitment as a journalist and historian to remaining objective and not emotionally attached to the individual stories to be told, he admits to his personal connection with tony from his service in the vietnam war to his detailed journalism of American Military affairs, harding is very well suited to share tonys legacy of patriotism. Stephen harding is the author of eight previous books including the New York Times bestseller the last battle, he is a longtime journalist, for nearly two decades, he was on the staff of u. S. Soldiers, the initial newspaper of the u. S. Army. Currently, he is the editor this chief of military history magazine. His contributions on defense topics in aviation, military and maritime history, have appeared in the San Francisco chronicle, air and space smithsonian, wor
Weve got some pretty big changes on the way for sunday. All right, moderate changes. Stay tuned. Ill have that for you with the sevenday forecast in a few. Thank you, lisa. Breaking news this morning. A desperate search is on for a boeing 777 that disappeared from air Traffic Control streams over waters between malaysia and vietnam. Just within the past 30 minutes a report that Vietnam Air Force planes have spotted two oil slicks in the water. The slicks were spotted off the southern tip of vietnam stretching between six and nine miles long. Air Traffic Controllers lost contact with the Malaysia Airlines flight over the South China Sea last night leaving the fate of 239 people in doubt. Reporter Malaysia Airlines flight mh 370 with 239 aboard broke radar contact in midair bound from kwa a la lamb purr to beijing. The airline says it lost touch with the boeing 777 200 aircraft about two hours after takeoff reportedly over vietnamese airspace. The ceo of Malaysia Airlines made the grim a