CAP Mission Sept 12 2001 Lt. Cols. Ratis and Feldman - NYC Ground Zero Photo Mission

[@SPboxcar67290l]

Thank you to the men who flew the mission and to the Museum for saving this aircraft for preservation. The potential hazard of the smoke occurred to me. I liked the part about the police officer demanding Captain Feldman's driver's license. I had attended the airshow at E-Systems (L3) on the Saturday before the attack. On the night of 9/11 I looked up at the empty sky and thought "the world will never be the same". I thought that airshows like the one i had attended would become a thing of the past. The thought of follow-up attacks concerned me. I also thought of how my grandparents must have felt on December 7, 1941.

[@USAFmuseum]

All thoughts which we hoped we would never had. Thank you so much for sharing! Resembles Dec 7, 1941 indeed!!!

[@MrScaldas]

Years after the 9/11 catastrophe I flew past the World Trade Center site on a different CAP mission with LTC Jacques Heinrich. Jacques looked down as we passed the construction site of the newly emerging Freedom Tower in its early stages, and got very somber and quiet. He then made one, short, terse comment which I won't print. I understood in that moment how deeply your mission on 9/12/01 affected him. Hats off to the three of you for your volunteer service to the country. Semper Vigilans!

[@Kelly-tt1sx]

Have nothing but respect for the Civil Air Patrol ❤

[@franktino6676]

My highest regards to members of the NYWG for crewing 44L and executing this all-important mission on that oh so sad day of 9/11/01. As a member of the NJWG Civil Air Patrol since 1966 as a Cadet Basic and continuing right up until now as a Lt Colonel and living for 60 + years both in NYC and in Northern NJ by the footprint of TEB Airport, did me proud that our organization of the USAF was tasked with this Mission and successfully completed it. This mission, as Maj. Gen. Regena M. Aye, CAP’s national commander/CEO stated, changed the way the Department of the Air Force and the Department of Defense and other agencies recognized the added value our volunteers bring to the table. On that fateful day of 9/11/01, I was fulfilling my sworn duty as a Police Chief along with my fellow Officers in a Department located in North Jersey, just off the George Washington Bridge area and we rendered assistance as requested and as assigned to those ground support efforts. It is good to see Cessna 44L in the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. It helps us to Never Forget what transpired that fateful day; one facet of which, was in my own backyard. RIP to all that gave their lives that day and to the hundreds more that have succumbed to 9/11 illnesses since then.

[@CAPDude44]

I was CAP for 6 years as a cadet, GLR-MI-176, Selfridge Composite Squadron

[@dedgar301]

Nice documentary.

[@LINJ638]

As Mr. Burns from Simpsons: "Ahhhh........ The little Cessna that could do. I was having second thought scrapping that insignificant plane, but when I read the story in full detail again, I better not do it for good intentions involved."

[@LINJ638]

Here is Steven Seagal's mile high interrogation on a Cessna: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJObqJ55lp5pb6s I'm really startin' to like this guy! Me too!!!!!!