Today is the 5th anniversary of the "terrorist" attacks on New York and Washington DC. If you haven't done so, please take a moment or say a prayer for those who suffered or died that day or afterwards. Once you are finished, please consider these oddities that occurred on the same day or was found.

1. All jetliners are equipped with flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) contained in "black boxes" designed to survive the most severe crashes. The 9-11 Commission says "The CVRs and FDRs from American 11 and United 175 were not found..." Yet, a passport, made from a fragile material known as paper, from Satam al-Suqami managed to survive?

ABCNEWS sources identify another hijacker as Satan Suqami, a Saudi national on American Airlines Flight 11, whose passport was recovered in the rubble.

Nicholas DeMasi, a firefighter who helped the recovery efforts claims in the book Behind-the-Scenes: Ground Zero,

"At one point I was assigned to take Federal Agents around the site to search for the black boxes from the planes. There were a total of four black boxes. We found three."

2. According to the 9-11 Commission, flight attendant Betty Ong placed a call from Flight 11 to American Airlines Nydia Gonzalez, an operations specialist. Although Ong talked for 23 minutes, the recording is only 4-1/2 minutes long. Ms. Ong did not sound like a woman on a hijacked plane. There was a big confusion where it was Flight 11 or 12. Click here for the recording

3. If the 78th floor of the South Tower was a "raging inferno" then how Chief Palmer reach the fire and request two fire hoses to put out, what he describes "two isolated pockets of fire"?

"Just two hose lines to attack two isolated pockets of fire. "We should be able to knock it down with two lines," he tells the firefighters of Ladder Company 15 who were following him up the stairs of the doomed tower.'

4. Why would Larry Silverstein, owner of the World Trade Centers, order the NYFD to "pull" the WTC 7 building, to "pull" is language in the construction industry meaning to bring it down, destory. On a PBS documentary, "America Rebuilds", Silverstein makes the following statement:

"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

Which pill would YOU the readers like to take, the red or the blue?
- Click on the red pill if you are curious for an alternative answer to the question "what happened on September 11th?"