but don't take my word for it.
Go find a list of victims.
Select a few. Try to chase them down.
Try to find out ANYTHING about their lives BEFORE September 11, 2001.
Search especially for info that did NOT come directly from
the family member
or the company
who were both handsomely rewarded for their loss.
In some instances you may find a college reporting attendance,
but in many cases even that record is suspect.
Take the case of Victor Saracini,
who is alleged to be the pilot of Flight 175.
I am only picking on him
since some of these particulars have been posted here
on another thread within the past 48 hours.
Many other 911 people have even more perplexing timelines.
Ellen Hildebrand Saracini says:
Victor Saracini also possessed a life-long love of learning, she said. He served in the Navy, where he trained as a pilot; he earned a bachelor's degree in general studies from New Mexico Tech in 1976; and he took engineering, science and music classes while at Louisiana Tech.
"Victor was very intelligent," Mrs. Saracini said. "He would have been a student his whole life long if he was able to."
She chose Louisiana Tech to sponsor the scholarship because she wanted it to be associated with a four-year degree program.
Plus, she said, "He enjoyed flying and teaching there" at Tech.
She herself had earned a two-year associate degree in science and aviation technology from St. Petersburg Junior College before enrolling at Tech with plans to obtain her flight instructor's rating.
One of her flight instructors from Florida, Pete Maniscalco, had since become an instructor at Tech and introduced her to Victor Saracini.
"I met Vic and I guess we both fell in love pretty quickly," she recalled. "He got a job in Pennsylvania, and we both moved there."
He was a New Jersey native; she, a New York native who moved to Florida at an early age.
http://www.latech.edu/newspublisher/news/news-archive-august-2002.shtml Victor Saracini, the pilot of United Airlines Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower, was a student at Tech in 1982.
According to the Sept. 21 issue of The (Monroe) News-Star, Saracini was at Tech for several quarters in order to build up flight time that allowed him to become a commercial pilot. Saracini did not graduate from Tech, however.
"No one (in the department) knew about (Saracini being a former student) until alumni told us," Dale Sistrunk, head of the aviation department, said. "He came here in 1982, before I got here."
http://eb.journ.latech.edu/archives/fall01/1004/output/n-7.htm No, no, Dale.
You got it wrong.
Victor Saracini was TEACHING at Louisiana Tech......
Saracini was a flight instructor at Louisiana Tech from 1980-82. His widow, Ellen Hildebrand Saracini, said she established the scholarship to commemorate his love of flying.
http://www.tnonline.com/archives/news/2002/08.27/911.html .... BEFORE he enrolled as a student at Louisiana Tech.
Victor worked as a flight instructor at the university. While he was a student in the aviation program in 1981, he and Ellen fell in love. They have two daughters, Kirsten, 15, and Brielle, 12.
To donate to the Victor Saracini Flight Scholarship, contact Dale Sistrunk at the LTU Professional Aviation Department, P.O. Box 3181 TS, Ruston, LA 71272.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-09112003-157577.html.... and everyone agrees that he LEFT sometime in 1982.
Please also note that Louisiana Tech has to quote
the Sept. 21 issue of The (Monroe) News-Star
as being the source of theis information.
One would suppose that
the school maintains records and that
Victor Saracini should appear in these records.
One would also suppose that
the taxman maintains records for
the income Victor Saracini received from teaching.
One can suppose all they want but these records,
and others like them
simply do not appear to exist.
New Mexico Tech says:
Victor J. Saracini (76, Bachelor of General Studies) was the captain of United Airlines flight 175 that was taken over by hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001, and crashed into one of the World Trade Center Buildings. After Vic graduated from Tech, he served in the Navy, where he trained as a pilot. He worked for United for about 16 years.
http://infohost.nmt.edu/mainpage/alumni/sept11.htmlJack G. Schachtman of Yardley, PA says:
Vic, Billy, and I completed our NFO training in June of 1976. We received our wings at a ceremony held in the Naval Aviation Museum on N.A.S. Pensacola. After seeing many of our fellow students wash out during all phases of our training, we were so proud to finally get our wings.
From that point we all moved on. I moved to San Diego and became a Tactical Coordinator on an S-3A. I lost track of Vic and Billy.
http://www.victorsaracini.com/u_s__navy.htmTed and Lynn Clough say:
Lynn and I have some great memories of Vic. I first met him when we were going through S-3A training at VS-41 in San Diego in 1976.
http://www.victorsaracini.com/u_s__navy.htm So Victor Saracini managed to attend New Mexico Tech at the same time that he was enrolled in Naval Flight Officer training in Florida and graduated from both programs in the same year.
Victor also manged to lose track of a good and lifelong friend when they BOTH moved moved into the same Navy training program in San Diego.
Victor Saracini then moved to the USS Saratoga where Charles Frank Burlingame III of Flight 77 was also stationed. There does not appear to be any record of the two having met and the USS Saratoga has VERY VERY LITTLE to say about Vic.
Please do not ask me how this came to be.
All I am saying is that the stories of the 911 people BEFORE September 11, are very very odd.
Barby the Harpy claimed to have been a professional ballerina
BUT
there is no ballet company
that will admit that she ever represented them
seeing as how she moved with all the grace of
a three-legged cow with hemorrhoids.