History

Left-wing documentary filmmaker and ’round-the-clock Donald Trump critic Michael Moore posted an essay to his personal Facebook page…

Alistair Urquhart, who has died aged 97, was a prisoner of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945, surviving both the infamous Death Railway and the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki; his memoir, The Forgotten Highlander, became a bestseller in 2009.…

Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy illness. He was 76.… “Chicago 7” .…married actress Jane Fonda .… lost campaigns for U.S. Senate, governor of California and mayor of Los Angeles.… served a total of 18 years in the Assembly and state Senate…

Robert De Niro went off…

Shimon Peres, the 93-year-old former president and prime minister of Israel, died in his sleep early Wednesday morning surrounded by family members… Over a seven-decade career, the elder statesman of Israeli politics and one of the country’s most admired symbols has held virtually every senior political office, including two stints as prime minister and extended terms as foreign, defense and finance minister. He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in reaching an interim peace agreement with the Palestinians.…

While we take time this day to remember each in our own way 9/11, we should note that this is also the fourth anniversary of the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead: Christopher Stevens, an American ambassador; Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, former Navy SEALS; Sean Smith, an embassy aide.

…Graphic video for educational purposes only. Most footage never aired on TV or only on that day. …

Inside 7 World Trade Center Moments Before Collapse.…

…When I started interviewing these veterans of my regiment decades later, I was struck by the emotions Rescorla’s men still felt for him. … Over time, I came to believe that they would have followed Rescorla in an assault upon the gates of Hell, for he did not order, he led.…

WHEN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, Rick was there. .… Various employees of Morgan Stanley report his presence across all 20 floors occupied by the company. Just as in combat, he was everywhere — calm, jocular in the face of panic, reassuring in his personal presence.… When it appeared that everyone was out, he went back in, heading up those stairs with the rescue workers.…

…A veteran of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces who understood Arabic, [Danny Lewin, 31,] appears to have immediately understood what was happening and challenged the terrorists, who were armed with box-cutters and knives. It was an act of extraordinary courage which was to cost him his life. As the former commando fought with Satam al-Suqami, one of the five who had taken the plane, he was fatally stabbed.…

Nick Swainston still remembers what it smelled like.

Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest foreign attack on the United States. Swainston was the operations chief with the Tulsa Air National Guard and a Tulsa firefighter when the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.…

When he was able to make it to New York in November, he said he had never seen anything like it.

"Even working in Afghanistan and Baghdad, it was just so much of it in one area," Swainston said.…

What do I think about when I think about that day? The firemen who climbed “the stairway to Heaven” with 50, 60 pounds of gear. The people who called from Windows on the World and said: “I just want you to know I love you.” The men on the plane who tried to take the cockpit of Flight 93 before it went down in a Pennsylvania field: “Let’s roll.”

And I think about Welles Crowther, the man in the red bandanna.
…Welles Crowther had already called his mother, Alison, and left a voicemail: “I want you to know that I’m OK.” Only one stairwell was clear. He found it. Most people would have run for their lives, but he started running for everyone else’s.

“Phyllis Schlafly spent an astounding 70 years in public service of her fellow Americans,” said the Eagle Forum in a statement. “Her focus from her earliest days until her final ones was protecting the family, which she understood as the building block of life.

… She had a pie smashed into her face and pig’s blood thrown on her, and feminist Betty Friedan once told Schlafly: “I’d like to burn you at the stake.” She was chastised in a 1970s “Doonesbury” a framed copy of which hung on her office wall.

“What I am defending is the real rights of women,” Schlafly said at the time. “A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.”

Thirty-five states ratified the (Equal Rights) amendment, three short of the necessary 38. Schlafly said amendment supporters couldn’t prove it was needed.

“They were never able to show women would get any benefit out of it,” she told the Associated Press in 2007. “It (the U.S. Constitution) is already sex-neutral. Women already have all the rights that men have.”

Dozens of brains and other body parts were discovered at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich, Germany, when the building was undergoing renovations.

The remains of the bodies are reported to have belonged to victims of the Holocaust who were subjected to Nazi experiments, including children, the mentally ill, and the physically disabled, the Max Planck Institute said according to a report by Israel’s Army Radio.…