The Quiet

clipped from neoneocon.com …all escaped together to tell the tale. And what a tale it is! One cannot help but be impressed not only by the mere logistics of their survival as well as its improbability, but by the near-unanimity of the passengers’ stories of calm and mutual assistance. For a typical example, here’s a portion of the transcript of a Bill O’Reilly interview with survivor Fred Beretta: REILLY: Now, at this point was the plane still quiet as you were descending down or were people getting a little scared? BERETTA: It was still really quiet. I think everyone was just stunned. Sort of the reality of it was — people were just assimilating that. O’REILLY: Do you remember what you were thinking? BERETTA: I thought — I looked out the window and I thought there’s a good chance we’re going to die. And I did think about my family and started praying.