A sense of decorum. Bush's at work and play! Dignity! Self-Control! We lost "Role Models"!

Death On a Casual Stroll...Tredding Upon The Fallen..the sacrificial victims of Chevron, Halliburton, KBR, Mitre

This is a "meme" of dead civilians. "Meme" is a new "measurement" of dead people. It means "an inconvenient quantity", in a "War Without Reason".

Senator Larry Craig, "Two-Ball Cane" Player! "Man Hole Lover", We lost Discretion

Dignity of White House, Common Decency

We Lost Class! Warner, ex-husband of Michael's Jackson's best friend, Elizabeth Taylor refuses to return to the "Cess Pool" of the Senate!

Mark Foley

Senator Mark Foley proves a "red tie" and the "flag" do not make a "sow's ear" out of a "whole ass". We lost our confidence in "look-good" Republicans who say "Jesus" and have prayer groups! asks 14 year old pages if they are horny. Sexual Harrassment. Can't keep Ego In His Pants!

Bush's 1st Cousin, John "no mercy" Walker, US Court of Appeals, 2nd District, struck and killed a Connecticutt policeman named Picagli, on October 16, 2007. No charges were filed because he's a Bush! Duh!

This is officer Dan Picagli.

This is "ex-Senator Joe Lieberman. This photo is taken at the Picagli funeral. Lieberman said "Life is so terribly fragile...". zorro was there too! zorro said, "For Bush Comes Death".

This is Mitch Daniels, "Manager of Macy's Hoosiery Dept.". Bush calls him "Mitchey". No, seriously, he looks like a harmless dumb ass but he is mostly responsible for "destroying the lives of 8% of America's children". How? You should know that the he was just elected Indiana Governor...he's the "Hoosier Daddy?"

Before that, Daniels was Bush's Director of the Office of Management and Budget...when 9/11 hit. The OMB director is also a member of the National Security Counsel and Homeland Security Division. Bush chose him because Daniels sat on the Board of Directors of Eli Lilly with George Bush, Sr. when Eli Lilly approved "Thermiosal"..a mercury laced poison..to be put in all childhood vaccinations.

Just before he "resigned" in 2003 to be repalced by "Bolten", Daniels was solely responsible for the insertion of a "provision" in the "appendix" of the Homeland Security Act...exempting Eli Lilly from liability for all damages resulting from Thermiosal poisoning.

The day before 9/11, Daniels sat with Ashcroft agreed to refuse the FBI's request to hire Arabic translators. After 9/11, Mitchey refused to budge. In fact, he cut the FBI, post-9/11 Budget from $1.2 billion down to $594 million...for fiscal 2001. To put this into perspective, Daniels cut the FBI budget request by 60% the same year the Federal Budget deficit ballooned by $900 BILLION dollars.

Bush doesn't say he's sorry for devastating 11,000,000 childrenin America, his only job is to cover his Dad's ass. But, you should also know that Daniels appears to have been hiding with Bush on Air Force One on 9/11. But, of course, Daniels would have gotten the same warning that Bush and Warren Buffett got.

After the 9/11 attacks were over, Daniels reported to a Florida Newspaper that Bush's only comment was: "Hey, Mitchie...look at me! I'm the luckiest..I just hit the "Trifecta." When pressed to explain Bush's comment Mitchie refused to rat. According to sources, the "trifecta" after 9/11 means.."I'm still alive, I'm still the President and I rich beyond belief".

Ethical Tony Snow only lasted a year at the job of Bush Primary Enabler. Scott Mc Clelland, vomited for 8 months after he resigned, then wrote a book about the "Bush Black House!"

Nebraska Senator Chuck Hegel won't run for election! Quits! We lose experience!

Bush Agriculture Chief Resigns after only 1 year!

Pete Domenici, head of the Ways and Means..controlling every cent that Bush stole for 20 years. is retiring from the Senate. to spend more time with his money! He looks like Larry King, BEFORE the Heart Surgery! (bless you Larry!) His Secretary of State was unaware that Electronic Voting Machines had to be stored in a "temperature" controlled environment or it voided the Guarantee of accuracy. Domenici wasn't looking for accurate vote counts, he just needed the numbers!

THE "MANN-HEINIE-STEAM-ROLLER" TRIO...gone! a-lass! Craig, Lott and the Murderer of the Mel Carnahan, Governor of Missouri.

Bob Graham of Florida resigned 2005.

Mel Carnahan, Governor of Missouri..dares to challenge Ashcroft for Senate seat..ends up dead in a plane crash! October 16, 2000 (yes, it was 40.07)

Tom Delay, Common Criminal

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Brian J Dole, White House Homeland Security Advisor, arrested for solicitation of a minor. This sounds bad but at least it was a she!!??]]

Paul Wellstone. Jewish Senator from Minnesota. Voted against the Iraq War on October 11, 2002. He was "dead" in a small plane crash 14 days later, October 25, 2002. A day that shall live in infamy. We lost all liberty that day. (Latitude 40.07 if you're keeping track!)

Norm Mineta, Transportation Secty, the only Democrat in Cabinet Resigns. He personally witnessed Cheney refusing to stop the Aircraft that hit the Pentagon! We Lost our Sense of Safety! (July 17, 2006)

Bush, a little "Oral" In the Big "Moldy" Easy! The T-Shirt reads, "My President Went To New Orleans And All He Got Was This Lousy Photo Opportunity." Too bad! If Bush had "shopped around" a little he could have found a girl "with" a T-Shirt he could understand!

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Cynthia Miller Mc Kinney.

Only human with guts enough to say Bush was behind 9/11! Not Osama bin Laden. Right or wrong, Freedom of Speech is quickly

vanishing as

unpatriotic display

Treasury Secty Paul O'Neill resigned because he insisted on telling Americans "facts" about the "economy" instead of myths! Only 1 year in office.

Greenspan (aka "UK Pondscum") explains how many dollars the average working family saves each week, under the Bush "Huge Torrent of Cash & Oil Profits Rushing Upward" economics! "Oil Prices Trickle Down" Energy Policy! We Lost EVERYTHING! Greenspan, the smartest economist on earth, couldn't predict that an a "lack of regulation" in any "consumer" market, is an invitation for criminal activity and "destroys consumer confidence" in a "Free Market"! Middle CLass loses American Dream! For Greenspan to say he couldn't have anticipated the Mortgage Crisis is like Bush saying he couldn't have anticipated planes crashing into the WTC, despite he fact his own VP was participating in a drill that very morning, simulating planes crashing into the WTC, White House and Pentagon.

One mile long "Fantasy Embassy" in Iraq! Bush Sticks it in Iraq..refuses to pull It out. Since the US Senate "authorized" Bush to conduct unlimited "hostilities" in Iraq but NEVER issued a formal "Declaration of War"...I think our continued, presence deep inside the inner regions of of her country sides, consent that was secured by force and fraud, should be re- characterized as "Date Rape".

Bush is motorcade Mass-Murderer! Bless this poor man and his family, Steve Favela Honolulu, Motorcycle Police! I don't think Favela drew his weapon, but the Secret Service got the drop on him!

another Brave Motorcycle Officer murdered by the Bush Motorcade in New Mexico. (For 60% of California High School graduates, that's in the United States. His name is Germaine Casey, 2004. He deserved a much better government!

The Gonzales Family "twins"! Gone! While pretending not to notice the "juice-faced-leaderless-fearer"..aka 500 pound drunk gorilla at the table. I know that "stupor look" My Uncle "C" used to get it on his 18th beer, every Christmas. Then he's start chasing the "little girls". YUKQ@

Spencer Abraham

Spencer Abraham, Bush's Energy Secretary resigned the same day as Colin Powell. Abraham was never able to speak when Bush was present. Abraham was Bush's "Castralto" in singing Chevron's Energy Praises! He also presided over the Enron debacle, California's Energy meltdown and a massive power outage..all without saying a word of any value. We lost "consumer power in the energy marketplace, vanished"

The Blackout of the NorthEast 2003. WE all lost power!

Space Shuttle Columbia "melting" over the Bush Ranch in Texas. We lost "purpose"!

Colin Powell was Fired For Refusing

To Lie Anymore! It's troubling that the man

who gained his "cred" in Vietnam by

incorporating "collateral damage" as a

"target" opportunity, couldn't stomach

the Bush, lack of concern!

I understand no one has seen these Gentlemen since the Senate renewed the "Pat-Riot" Act. They look pretty grim! They may be "gone" but they aren't fog-rotten!

Image: President Bush, Karen Hughes

Bush's "Brain" was Karen Hughes..not Rove! Bush quipped that Karen Hughes taught him how to speak "English". How? With Short Wave Radio? We lost compassion, sensitivity, intelligence in the White House.

Senator Fred Allen, History!

This is how our Police/Miltary FEMA Prison Guards handle an unarmed 8 year old boy. They have nothing to fear except losing a clip. This is how we should get rid of Condoleeza Rice. We should hire this man!

Bush's Economic Adviser Resigns. He was also Bush #1 Fund Raiser! Allan Hubbard. We didn't lose anything. That was "win win"!

Bush Authorized Domestic Spying

Post-9/11 Order Bypassed Special Court

By Dan Eggen

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 16, 2005; Page A01

President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States, despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying, sources with knowledge of the program said last night.

we Lost our Privacy!

This is Jeff Gannon. Fake White House Newspaper Reporter:

"Jeff Gannon" (sometimes cited in news transcripts as Geoff Gannon) whose real name appears to be James Guckert was a White House-credentialed fake news reporter "Jeff Gannon" from fake news agency. Below is Jeff Gannon at his day job as Bald Headed "not gay" White House News Reporter.."Dark Kent!"

A Right Show of Gratitude This

We lost all hope Bush would ever stop the games!

This is Bush embracing Gannon after a Press Conference.

Orphans, thousands, starving to death in Iraq, TODAY!

If you can't see it...Kroll can quote figures and say the Violence is down. It's not down..if this is YOUR Wife's blood! Bush...?

It's Thursday...do you know where your next meal is coming from?

Lewis " Scooter" Libby

This above all..do no harm! Scooter Libby the Innocent Man!

Is Bush just a "whore"? or a "unfaithful sweetheart?

I'm sorry, but Laura's "tits" are much bigger than Abdullah's balls! I can't see the attraction. I've never seen men do this ANY WHERE in the world, except San Francisco and I been around it a few times! Not on the mouth! We Lost all Modesty! (really, wouldn't you rather our President kiss the cigar that was up the "missouri" of a sexy jewish page..than the mouth of the bastard that paid for 9//11! (Get a Burka!}

New Orleans, entire city GONE!

"IN CURVE-BALL WE TRUST".

This is "curveball". Bush ignored everything the CIA said he lied to the Senate and the UN and declared war...on Iraq? The Constitution says that the President shall go to war ONLY with the Advice and Consent of Senate. Apparently, Bush no longer needs the US Senate the CIA or FBi or NSA! We now have the next best thing to the US Senate and the US Constitution. Hell..we don't even need faith in GOD! or Truth...we have "CURVE-BALL"

Hunter, Killer, Wounder, Face-Shooter, Heart-Less, why won't he just go away!

Arthur Anderson's accounting office in Houston just as the Investigators of Enron found it. In Ken (De) Lay's 1st interview, his comment was..."we have nothing to hide". Judging from this photo, it's looks like there wasn't anything "left" to hide!

good riddance Turd Blossom. Do you really know what a Turd Blossom is? Just ask Larry Craig, he's seen a few!

Bush's BEST BUddy, Ken Lay..Dead but everyone assumes he's not gone! He's just outlasting a 50 years sentence.

This is Skilling, Enron CEO..24 year sentence!

If Bush had never "met" Abrahamoff...? Then Bush is just a little Slut!

and to think..this photo "pissed off America". I think we've all grown since then! Come on Al...come back please! You shudda gone for 2nd base dude! We're all stuck watching re-runs of "Mc Cain's Navy".

Brownie...you did a "Turd-Blossom-Level" Job. Chertoff aka, "turn the other check"! I never saw a crime Chertoff couldn't ignore. Although Bush presented Chertoff as an "Stallion Rancher" from "Broker Back Mountain" and "Arabian Horse Milker", as a Giuliani Prosecutor in the Southern District of New York..Chertoff spent a career strategically ignoring the Mob, Government Corruption and Al Qaeda's #1 assassin, in Manhattan. He ignored the head of Al Qaeda. The perfect pair to turn their back on New Orleans!

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Damn it..the Daily Mail gets all the good pix! This is Ronald Mac Donald without make up..posing patiently for his Latex Balloon fitting, for the Macy's Thanks Giving Day Parade!

US President George W Bush greets a crowd in Bratislava, Slovakia

Isn't this the lady that "stole" his watch? in Slovakia? "No, mam. I'm not the one that saved your nation from the Milosevich's death squads. No, that's not me. You're confusing me with "Bill Clinton". He's the one that got impeached. He was the one that was a criminal. Not me. Wanna, get together later?"

Tony Snow (gone) and Dan Bartlett, counsel for the president who jumped ship without a parachute, soon after this was taken. what you see in Tony Snows eyes is "sheer rage". There was a rumor that Bartlett, know affectionately around the White House as "Bush's Twin"...forget to bring the "Cell Phone" the entourage needed to signal the "Green Zone" of their approach. In other words, Snow was expecting to be detroyed by a US RPG round any second.

any time you have a "power crisis"..just have a Republican overthrow the valid elected leadership! Someday zorro will tell you the story about who Arnold was with on 9/11/2001. Seems like some Saudi Royal Family will soon publish a "Kiss & Sell All"..about Aw-nuts favorite "bi-hideaway" in Tampa.

Hastert Gone and soon forgotten. My only regret is that he didn't leave sooner. Don't worry, Hastert gets the corner New York office for the British Petroleum, his first love! Actually, Hastert was born the corporate love slave of several UK- based corporations including the British East India Company, P-Lorillard, British-American Tobacco, Anaconda Aluminum, Rio Tinto Mining, Peabody Coal, Kennecott Coal and Barrick Gold Mining.

what no kiss? Notice Bush's "Bull-Shit Horn" is very close to his "brain"!

Gone but still fighting the good fight. When is this guy going to EVER tell America what's really going on? Hey, Dan! When I was 18, zorro sent you a letter suggesting you "Stand Up" when you deliver the news to the American people.

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have alot to say...bomb, bomb, bomb...her majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have alot to say..bomb, bomb, bomb,...someday, I'm gonna to tell her i love her alot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine...her majesty's a pretty nice girl, someday I'm gonna get drunk and make her mine. (come on! My Dad's a Sir!--I'm a "legacy"!) (give us a tumble!)

GEORGE W. BUSH AND BONO

Dude! What could you have been thinking. They already "whacked" one Senator named Bono! I'll bet YOU NEVER got your Aids For Africa Money, did you? Didn't you get my Email?

Bono is Knighted! March 31, 2007. "Sell Out"? "Hopeless Romantic"?

Please don't do that minmunchken...I know where that mouth has been.

Bush and Putin

it's rare that two men could love each other so much...especially with so much in common. After the meeting Bush said: "I've looked into his soul, I can see him, what he really is..and I trust him".

Babies can sense it..when do we stop trusting our own feelings and 1st impressions?

Knighted By Queen Elizabeth for Service to Great Britain! Bill Gates, officially "Knighted" by the Queen, while his lovely wife, Melinda, Protege' of Warren Buffett looks on.

Sir Rudolph ("The Long Nose") Giuliani, with his Order

of the Garter..Sir Ruddie! Now, tell me again..what did you do for England on 9/11? Not

divulge the real killers? Never "prosecute" a single individual for 3,000 murders in your district?

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This is John Scarlett, the head of the British MI6..precisely 37 minutes before he was "Knighted" by the Queen in December of 2006. He was Knighted for his success in setting up British Petroleum as an MI6 "vendor" for the purpose of "undermining" regimes in the Soviet Union and other nations abroad.

Whoa there little fella..you not the right color for a Kiss! I'm gonna have to "quit" you before we start!

Chevron named an entire CalTex ship the Condoleezza Rice. What did she do? I wonder who she "kissed"? "Kiss & Sell Out"..that's the pattern!

Loss of credibility! Perspective, Objectivity! This is NOT a doctored picture.

This is "Silent Dick" (richard) Stickler, Bush Appointee as US Mine Safety. During the Crandill Canyon Mine disaster, Silent Dick, never made a single public opinion or statement on the saftey of miners. Instead, he deferred to place the Public Confidence to the drunken owner of the mine...make dozens of appearance and explain US Mine Safety Policy. GONE But Just Not Here!

FEMA Camp "visitor" in Guantanamo Bay! His Rights Have Been gone for the better part of a decade! chiao! (gee, I hope he's not a US Citizen!) Don't worry about water-boarding. He has his swim trunks on underneath and the life guard is in the tower at upper right!

General Meyers..Lying, Wimp! Coward served only 4 years as Chief. Then Quit rather than admit his battle plan murdered 2,000 more of our sons than necessary.

Bush Kisses Lieberman goodbye. Quitting Each Other, was especially hard for Hillary, she's so used to watching Congress screw others!

Infrstructure is gone, with Congress taking no steps since 1-35 blewup! for no reason!

Karzai of Afghanistan, former Chevron Engineering Consultant turned benevolent Democratic dictator who now hates Bush. Isn't gone but it's not for lack of trying. Special Warfare forces of somebody's army have attempted to kill him 5 times!@

Soon to be gone!

Greenburg, Kansas is gone! Bush never ducks a chance for more "oral"!

I think this is the Classic Federal Definition of "Sexual Harassment"! Get off her! The "least unwanted contact of a physical or sexual nature"!

Gone! White House dirty little tricks operator, Scott Jennings, sweating bullets before US Senate. It's so hard to lie when every word is being recorded. IT's like walking a tight-rope, 40 feet off the ground, with no toes! It's Physically HARD! I firmly believe "two syringes of pentathol" should accompany EVERY Federal Subpoena! I LOVE, Pent! Secondly, it works! Thirdly, WHO NEEDS TORTURE OR OATHS!

Good Riddance to Ted Stevens..The Man Who Sold All Of Alaska's Oil To British Petroleum In Return for A Bridge NOT FAR ENOUGH! The moron behind him is the Senator from Kentucky. He's also the "condom supplier to the Kentucky Tobacco companies".

George W. Bush drinking

Looking VERY Pre-Presidential !

Bush

"no, wait minute! all hannsssss on dicccccck"..hick! no, wait! wait, i can do this..all diccckkss in handddd..no..wait..where's laura..somebody blow meee. er i mean that whistley thinggg. pump that...oh wiat.. yeah.. "all hands on deck"! see..."mission disaccomplishded"

Bush toasting

they call me bussh....james bush! I like mine shkanky, not slurred!

George W. Bush

the pretzel trick! I told you all, i was practicing carrier landings on the coffee table!

George W. Bush

Laura cold "cocked" him! Right HOOK!

Faster than a speeding Global Hawk. Made a "aircraft" traveling at terminal velocity execute a perfect 360 degree sloping turn, while descending 11,ooo feet by a pilot who had never flown any thing larger than a cessna, clearing "suburban obstacles"(such as light posts"..highway bridge") that wouldn't even be discernible to the eye of the most experienced military pilots, flying aircraft 1/100th of the weight, with virtually NO ground evading radar or assistance, by a pilot, with no experience. striking the "front" door of a pentagon that had just recently been reinforced! BANG-FREAKING DEAD CENTER! Mans' GOOD!

Condoleeza Rice, Director of Chevron (18 years), interim Secty of State (7 years). She's not gone but she sold her soul decades ago. She's a zombie. "The Proudest that George Bush ever made me is when he stood up and lied to the whole world." That sort of committment to Chevron is rare!

Bush, counting on one hand, while stone cold sober! Yeh, not easy is it!

This is the Bush "equivalent" of Nixon's "Chequers Speech". Well, ok...this is the "Bush Equivalent" of a giddy "Kennedy-esque" banter with the Press! word's fail him because they are made up of letters! It's easy to exress yourself using "numbers" and colors! (Red is for GOP!)

This is a shoe. The human being inside is "vaporized"! We don't care what his name is. We don't ask where his children will stay! We don't ask who killed him! We don't ask why he was killed! We don't care when he was killed! We don't care what city he was killed in! We don't care about his father and mother!

We don't care about his pets! We don't care about what his religion is! We don't care who he called in the United States last week or the fact that his cousins live in Detroit! We don't care a SHIT about any of them! That's why he's dead and gone! That's the difference between "war, justice and murder". Never ask questions it's war! Ask questions before, it's justice! ask questions after..it's murder! I'm sorry, I wasn't listening...what was the question?

Hold Hands First! It's the Larry Craig method! Then get in bed with him!

"The Joker" from Bat Man! Keith Ledger is dead!

President Bush Glad Hands with Victims of His Foreign Policy

These brave patriots. Courage is an act of Love! Cowardice Is an act of disdain! I don't know if you realize it or not..but they are trying to comfort Bush! Their legs are gone!

all credibility and trust are gone! all good will is gone!

The "King" Mum" flashing the Sign of Satan! Sure loves her little pecker!

More "ForePlay"! I've lost count.

bushbust76.JPG.jpg The Truth!

"I swear to you, Iran has no homosexuals...just Saudi Arabia!"

There never was a "mission" statement!

Bush's 15 minutes of "lame". Bush sat, refusing to sound any alarm to America that we were under attack. Until someone told him to do it! Failure To Warn can be punishable by the Federal death penalty...same as Mossaui!

Fine Tuning his Pre-Presidential investigation tools while Governor of "Texas". Bush looking for "Osama bin Laden". Maybe he should turn around!

"Two Men On A Horse"..Gemini, Ga-Henna! The "Stars" Of Heaven! The "Two Gates Of Hell!"

Still so in love after all these years!

This one's gone!

more "hand jive".

the Saudi's proved they could even sink our sturdiest craft with a "raft". FBI then warned to not investigate for fear that Abdullah would stop dating Bush!

Has George Bush ever once even said the world "poverty" since taking office? This map shows a new meaning for "red states".

Collector's item! Postage Stamp! WITH THE FLAG! These are going fast! This is your commander in chief! how in the hell can 32% of us support him?

What happened to "Compassionate Conservative?" What happened to US AID? What happened to Kroll International? Global Poverty!

Bush and Abramoff. Bush claimed he had never met him!

Eagle was put on endangered species during Bush, Sr. term. He spared the turkey's and killed all the Bald Eagles!

Vannevar Bush was awesome! Helped Prescott Bush steal US nuclear power. He always invented HTML and the "internet" for the Pentagon. he did exist! He's gone!

gone up in smoke since Bush took office!

A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA

By ANDREW C. REVKIN

Published: February 8, 2006

George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

Global Climate is Going!

Bush silences "Rocket Scientist" The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming

THE FOLLOWING PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWS ALL OF THE NEW YORK FIRE FIGHTERS WHO WERE MURDERED ON 9/11 TO MY KNOWLEDGE NO ONE HAS EVER STARTED A SINGLE MURDER INVESTIGATION OR SECURED AN INDICTMENT FOR ANY OF THEM! WHO MURDERED THESE MEN?

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091101rescuers.html

GEORGE BUSH MURDERED JUSTICE FOR THEIR FAMILIES!

Honoring the Rescuers

Joseph Agnello, Lad.118	Lt. Brian Ahearn, Bat.13	Eric Allen, Sqd.18 (D)

Richard Allen, Lad.15	Cpt. James Amato, Sqd.1	Calixto Anaya Jr., Eng.4

Joseph Angelini, Res.1 (D)	Joseph Angelini Jr., Lad.4	Faustino Apostol Jr., Bat.2

David Arce, Eng.33	Louis Arena, Lad.5 (D)	Carl Asaro, Bat.9

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By DEAN E. MURPHY

Listen to the survivors who escaped down the staircases of the doomed World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, and expect to be overwhelmed by the aching appreciation for the faces on these pages. For thousands of horrified office workers who fled the terrorist attacks, the most remarkable sight during their descent was the wave of determined firefighters advancing toward the burning sky.

"One fireman stopped to take a breath, and we looked each other in the eye," said Louis G. Lesce, who was on his way down from the 86th floor of 1 World Trade Center, the first tower hit. "He was going to a place where I was damn well trying to get out of. I looked at him thinking, 'What are you doing this for?' He looked at me like he knew very well. 'This is my job.'"

In all, 343 firefighters were reported missing or were identified among the dead. The number of casualties was staggering. Entire companies were lost. The previous biggest loss of life for the Fire Department was in 1966, when 12 were killed in a fire on East 23rd Street.

But the numbers tell only a fraction of the story. The faces and names say far more. A father and son. A chaplain. A commander. A rookie. Strangers to most of those they passed on Sept. 11, but heroes to them all.

"They were perspiring profusely, exhausted," said David Frank, a salesman who escaped from the 78th floor of 1 World Trade Center. "And they had to go all the way to the 90's - straight into hell. This was not lost on the crowd. We all broke out into applause at one point. It was a wonderful moment."

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