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to: Phil Payne
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2006-06-15 10:56:48
subject: Re: 9/11 shouldn`t have been

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Labor day is a Monday, always has been always will be.  It's the first
Monday in September.

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Glenn M.
"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:4491157e{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Why do you think it's a busy week? I would think mid january would be as
>> everyone is at work then, it's cold outside so everyone is inside,
> traffic
>> moves slow cause of snow, and firefighting is a bitch because water
> freezes.
>
> Because it's a holiday the rest of the world doesn't observe.  The World
> Trade Center was to a large extent exactly that.  With Labor Day on a
> Thursday, just about everyone took the Friday of and many the whole week.
> Thus there was a HUGE backlog of work to deal with.
>
> Also the timing - when all but two of the escalators were set to
"up" to
> get
> as many people in as quickly as possible and it was difficult to get out.
>
>

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