hrscowboy
10-01-08, 09:36 PM
Ever wonder why we never see things like this in the main stream media?
from a recent memorial ceremony for the victims of 9/11. LTC (Chaplain) Robert Leivers let the group in a ceremony, he relayed this little-Known story from the Pentagon on that horrible day:
"During a visit with a fellow chaplain who happened to be assigned to the Pentagon, I had a chance to hear a first-hand account of an incident that happened right after Flt 77 hit the Pentagon. The Chaplain told me what happened at a daycare center near where the impact occurred.
"The daycare had many children, including infants who were in cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do; there were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants that would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.
" Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked if they needed help. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, this Marine ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "well, here we are on our own. About 2 minutes later, this young Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow. Each of the grabbed a crib with an infant, and the rest of the Marines started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then helped the Marines take all the children out of the center and toward the park close-by the Potomac and the Pentagon.
Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped at in the park, and then did a fabulous thing--They formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons of the west. Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off. Outside this Circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waited for instructions. There these Marines stayed until the parents of these children could be notified and came to get there children after the director confirmed these where the parents of the child.
The Northcom chaplin then said- I dont think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there."
I must say--there wasnt a dry eye in the room. The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted--could we expect any less of them? It was one of the most Touching stories about "that day" I've ever heard...
from a recent memorial ceremony for the victims of 9/11. LTC (Chaplain) Robert Leivers let the group in a ceremony, he relayed this little-Known story from the Pentagon on that horrible day:
"During a visit with a fellow chaplain who happened to be assigned to the Pentagon, I had a chance to hear a first-hand account of an incident that happened right after Flt 77 hit the Pentagon. The Chaplain told me what happened at a daycare center near where the impact occurred.
"The daycare had many children, including infants who were in cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do; there were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants that would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.
" Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked if they needed help. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, this Marine ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "well, here we are on our own. About 2 minutes later, this young Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow. Each of the grabbed a crib with an infant, and the rest of the Marines started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then helped the Marines take all the children out of the center and toward the park close-by the Potomac and the Pentagon.
Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped at in the park, and then did a fabulous thing--They formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons of the west. Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off. Outside this Circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waited for instructions. There these Marines stayed until the parents of these children could be notified and came to get there children after the director confirmed these where the parents of the child.
The Northcom chaplin then said- I dont think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there."
I must say--there wasnt a dry eye in the room. The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted--could we expect any less of them? It was one of the most Touching stories about "that day" I've ever heard...