Life – Smoke Over The Water (Remembering 9-11)

Posted by kairospix (Singapore, Singapore) on 11 September 2007 in Business & Industry and Portfolio.

This shot of a column of smoke rising, across the Punggol beach, reminds me of that fateful day 6 years ago. Most people say because it was such a shocking event, you can even remember where and what you were doing years later. How true. I can still remember where I was and what I was doing – in my house in Japan watching the usual late night English news on TV but that night the news was different as it was focusing mainly on one major news and as I sat at the edge of my bed I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing videos of an airplane slamming into the Twin Towers. And then the collapse. How could one forget that?

Today, I would like to dedicate this shot in remembrance to the thousands of innocent people who died that day. Most died when the building collapsed but quite a few sadly because they jumped. Just imagine what it might have been like if you were one of them in one of those Twin Towers that day. They all died horrific and tragic deaths.

So I can understand the shock, pain and anger family members and friends of the victims must have felt to see such acts of terror. Most would think and probably many still do that it was an act by ruthless terrorists, but there are some family members and friends of the victims who think otherwise. It is interesting to note that the US government did not set up a commission right away after 9-11 to investigate how the attack could have happened but it only did so only after much pressure from the family members of the victims and this was only after almost 2-3 years later, after all the rubble, including all evidence, at ground-zero were all cleared away. Why did the government taking such a long time to set up a commission to investigate when previous ones took less than a year to set up? Were they trying to delay time so as to cover their tracks? A cover-up? A conspiracy?

I did come across some interesting conspiracy stuff about 911 about a year after 9-11-2001. Like for exmaple, that although the North Tower was the first to be hit, yet it was the South Tower that collapsed first or that another nearby WTC Building 7 not hit by any of the planes also collapsed mysteriously. Hmm... while these did raised my curiosity, I didn’t think much about it and thought it was probably a small case of over-zealous anti-Bush people claiming conspiracy based on weak or groundless circumstantial evidence which will eventually fade or get side-lined.

But was I wrong.

Recently I chanced upon some websites and realised that there is a growing truth movement by the family and friends of the 9-11 victims pressing for the truth from the government regarding many inconsistencies such as how the government claimed it didn’t know the attack was coming when actually there was more than ample warnings that it was. That movement is called the 911 Truth Movement and here is their official website.

If you still think that a 9-11 conspiracy theory or a cover-up is probably a lot of baloney, maybe you might like to watch some of the available research documentaries on this web site. Watch them with an open-mind and consider the evidence they have provided and then you decide if there was really something suspicious or not about the circumstances of the Twin Towers collapse (and the Pentagon crash) on 9-11. You may want to first start with “911 In Plane Site Director’s Cut” and then “911 Mysteries Part 1 Demolitions”.

Interestingly the smoke in today’s shot seems to have formed the letter “T”, a timely reminder to seek the Truth.

Camera - Canon Powershot G6
Lens - Canon 7.2 - 28.8mm (approx. 35 - 140mm)
Capture date - 18 Aug 2007
Aperture - f 8.0
Shutter speed - 1/20 sec
Shooting mode - aperture priority
Exposure bias - 0EV
Metering mode - Pattern
ISO - 50
Focal length - 28.8mm (approx. 140mm)
Stabilization - Hand-held
Lighting? - Outdoor Natural Light
Flash - Not fired
Post-processing? - PS LRoom processed
Cropped? - Yes

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