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Love the fact that Chase is going to have to explain so much to Buddy

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i put a lot of effort into this one, and im actually really proud of how it turned out and looks

if you like my art, uhhh @choleracommissions $choleracommissions

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[floridapirate]

"She climbed into an unarmed fighter jet with orders to ram a hijacked Boeing 757—knowing she wouldn’t survive. She was 26 years old, and she had approximately eight minutes to accept her own death. Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. September 11, 2001. 10:00 AM. First Lieutenant Heather “Lucky” Penney was in the air on a routine training flight when the order came through: return immediately. America is under attack.

When she landed, everything had changed. Both Twin Towers were burning. The Pentagon had been hit. And more hijacked planes were still in the sky. Then came the worst part—there were no missiles loaded on her F-16. It was a training aircraft. No live weapons. Nothing capable of stopping a passenger jet.

Only one option remained.

“Penney, Sasseville—suit up. NOW.”

Within minutes, she and her commander were sprinting to their jets. Ground crews were still removing safety pins as intelligence came in: another hijacked plane, Flight 93, possibly headed for Washington. The White House. The Capitol. No one knew which. But someone had to stop it. As she climbed into her cockpit, a crew chief looked at her and quietly said, “Good luck, ma’am.” Neither of them said what they both understood. If they found the aircraft, they might have to ram it. There would be no second chance. No ejection that could save her. Only impact. On the radio came the order that defined everything: “Stop that aircraft by any means necessary.” She didn’t ask for clarification. There wasn’t time. Moments later, her F-16 roared down the runway and lifted into the sky. Within seconds, she was flying over Washington at supersonic speed—sonic booms shaking the city below like distant thunder.

Smoke still rose from the Pentagon. She searched the sky for a Boeing 757 she might have to destroy with her own jet.

But 200 miles away, something else was happening. Passengers on Flight 93 had already made their own impossible choice. They stormed the cockpit. At 10:03 AM, the plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. All 44 people aboard died—but Washington was saved. Heather never had to complete her mission.

She circled the capital for hours afterward, protecting a city that had already been spared by strangers who refused to be victims.

When she finally landed, the crew chief was waiting. He looked at her and said quietly, “I didn’t think I’d see you again.” Neither had she. "

[lotharleben]

RUF rodeo

[auroarua]

@slipnslideindustrialaccident got me a new blushieeeee 🥹🧸🐇🎀

[wokealqaeda2]

absolute heat being posted in r/911archive rn

[shotofstress]

Photo by photographer Percy Lam, showing Rodrigo Rojas De Negri.

Rodrigo Rojas De Negri (19) and Carmen Gloria Quintana (20) on 2 July 1986 in Santiago are burning alive after being doused with fuel and set alight by the military and Pinochetist civilians for participating in the national strike. Their smoking bodies are wrapped in blankets and loaded onto a truck by the military and civilian agents, then abandoned in a ditch to die on the outskirts of the city. Their smoking bodies are wrapped in blankets and loaded onto a truck by the military and civilian agents, then abandoned in a ditch to die on the outskirts of the city.

Photograph of Carmen Gloria Quintana speaking at a religious ceremony at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Sherbrooke, Canada

Carmen survived after weeks in critical condition with burns covering 60% of her body and broken teeth from the beating. Rodrigo died four days after the crime, after both had been rescued by farm workers who took them to hospital. Hundreds of people attended his funeral.

Funeral of Rodrigo Rojas De Negri

Rojas de Negri was a US citizen, a gringo, the son of Chilean refugees and exiles in the US and Canada. He had returned to Chile with the intention of photographing the protests against the dictatorship and publishing a book of photographs in the US, the same country that orchestrated the dictatorship in Chile and Plan Condor throughout South America. He was murdered, and the crime became known outside Chile, leading to protests against the US regime and elsewhere in the world. He was described as someone who did not measure his actions or their consequences, as he spoke openly in the street about being a communist and did not understand why people did not tell him where they lived. His yanki upbringing prevented him from grasping the gravity of a dictatorship and the situation in Chile and Latin America, as well as the fact that people were disappearing and being tortured for less than saying they were communists. His ignorance and his USAmerican status did not protect him.

Detail of the mural dedicated to Rodrigo Rojas de Negri in Washington, D.C.

The Chilean band Illapu dedicated the song ‘Para seguir viviendo’ (To Keep Living) to Rojas de Negri, which is part of their 1986 album of the same name. Quelentaro composed a song called ‘Rodrigo Rojas.’ The British group The Dream Academy dedicated the song ‘In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas)’ from the album ‘Remembrance Days’ (1987) to him. The Chilean band Tenemos Explosivos dedicated the song ‘Montreal, 400 negativos’ to him, included on their album ‘La Virgen De Los Mataderos,’ with several references to the crime.

In 2006, the Chilean Council for Culture created the Rodrigo Rojas de Negri photography award, but until then, no one knew about his work. This changed in September 2013 when Rojas' first exhibition opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago (MAC) and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH), both in Quinta Normal, featuring a selection of 60 photographs from a total of 400 negatives.

In 2019, an artistic group called Colectivo Musa created a mosaic in tribute to the young man. Verónica De Negri, Rodrigo's mother, requested that it be installed in Valparaíso, at the former Vicente Santa Cruz School, which for a time was called República de Bolivia and is now the Pablo Neruda School.

Mosaic created in tribute to Rodrigo Rojas, victim of the Quemados Case: now looking for a place to install it

In 2024, the Municipality of Estación Central, in pursuit of collective memory and justice in Chile, with Verónica de Negri in attendance, changed the name of Hernán Yunge Street to Rodrigo Rojas de Negri Street.

Also present were the Minister of Justice, Luis Cordero, councillors, neighbourhood and human rights leaders, residents, photographers and a public committed to historical memory and justice.

Artists such as Roberto Márquez from the band Illapu, the Coulon brothers from Inti Illimani, Víctor Hugo and the Chilean-Haitian band LA-FA-MI Band participated in this tribute. An exhibition of photographs from Rodrigo Rojas's work was presented, highlighting his artistic legacy and commitment to historical truth.

In the Quilicura district, located in the capital of Chile, a health centre, which is the only emergency service in Quilicura that provides 24-hour care, is named after Rodrigo.

It was renamed in recognition of and appreciation for human rights in our community, after Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, who arrived at this service in 1986 with burns on his body and at gunpoint. The civil servants who were present at the time were eyewitnesses to the cruelty that was prevalent in those years.

SAPU Rodrigo Rojas de Negri