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QUESTION:
Is this what a hollow Boeing commercial jet looks like when it slams into a steel-reinforced concrete skyscraper ?
Like  "a bad special effect"  (Evan Fairbanks own words) ?
Or like transparently fake video ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mksti5xcT6E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCDu2V3yjS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQtSa-TZ6x8&feature=related

http://thewebfairy.com/911/2hit/newjetcrash.htm

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2357/1113357475496390/1600/z/15223/gse_mul

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2357/1113357475496390/1600/z/32095/gse_mul

ANSWER: I just need to warn you ahead of time, if you are going to jump on the "no planes hit the WTC on 9/11/01 bandwagon" then serious scholars and educated people are going to laugh at you for the rest of your life.  Of course you are welcome to believe any nonsense you choose but don't expect educated people to take you seriously ever again.

Good luck in the merry old land of Oz.

---------- FOLLOW-UP ----------

QUESTION: I said absolutely nothing about what did or didn't hit the Towers on 9/11.   I
merely asked what you thought about the video samples presented.   All of
these samples were broadcast by mainstream media networks (ABC, CNN,
PBS, MSNBC, FOX, etc.).    And it appears you have no reply to my question.     
Perhaps you're the one who is living in the Land of Oz.   And your "wizard
behind the curtain" is your government and lying media ?

Answer
Whew!!!  Maybe I misunderstood your intent.  I thought for a minute there you were one of those loonies that believes that no planes hit the towers at all.  Once you embrace that position no one with any e3ducation will take you seriously, so I'm glad I misunderstood your position.  I don't even carry on conversations with mental patients who believe the video footage was faked.

So what do I believe:

1.  I believe that two passenger liners struck the WTC towers 1 and 2 at exactly the time we were told by the video footage.

2.  I believe that ALL video footage is accurate and genuine (otherwise I would have to answer the question "What heppened to ALL the passengers that we KNOW were on those flights?"  We KNOW they didn't disappear into thin air and they are still unaccounted for.

3.  I believe the towers collapsed within the hour due to weakened structural fatigue just as Popular Mechanics proved beyond any and all reasonable doubt.

4.  I believe that people who think the videos are fake are fools who have been duped with phony science and that these are the SAME kind of lunatics who believe the moon landings were faked, and that Kennedy was assassination by several assassins, and that the WTC towers were brought down by controlled explosives.  I don't waste my time debating these nuts because they don't live in the real world, they checked out long ago.

I hope that clears up exactly what i believe.

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Any area of American History, EXCEPT military history or economic history, these are not strong points of mine. Areas of particular expertise include the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 19th century women's history, 1950s-1960s popular culture, 1920s, Colonial America, Jacksonian Era, migration west, immigration, ethnic history, presidential decisions, treaties, tariffs, causes and results of wars, and entertainment history since World War II (television, movies, and music.)

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Twenty-five years of teaching Advanced Placement American History, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in American History, thirty post-graduate hours in American History

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Member of Phi Alpha Theta--The History Honor Society (November 2001), California Teacher's Association

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American History Teaching Credential, Recognized by the University of Chicago as an Outstanding Educator

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