I worked with a man whom I respect deeply. I won't mention names or positions or even branch or department. I prefer this person remain anonymous for the purposes of this column.

But, suffice to say that he is a conspiratorialist (is that a word?).

In 2001, we purchased a new Hyundai Elantra. I twisted the dealer's arm to include a 10 CD changer for free. They installed a Kenwood changer. However, they neglected to give us the remote control for it.

Now that I have wrecked my car and inherited my wife's old 2001 Elantra, I decided that I want the remote control... to go with the remote starter that she gave me for Christmas and the installation of the new radio with the MP3 CD player in it that I salvaged from my wreck. It has a remote too!

So I went online to the Kenwood website and called them to see about buying the remote. It is only available through a web site call www.replacementremotes.com. So I went to the site and they had an advertising banner for "THE NEWS YOU WON'T SEE ON TV". This lead to a site called www.govcoverup.com.

This site has 24 "theatres" of video on how 9/11 was part of a government conspiracy to protect Enron by destryoing the evidence against it which was stored in the World Trade Center. In it, there are allusions to the Kennedy Assasination and how he was killed by a bullet in front of him, to his right, from the grassy knoll, and NOT by Oswald alone. Remember the movie JFK? "Back and to the left, back and to the left".

Now I have always thought that there was more than one gunman that killed Kennedy, even though many books have been written which substantiate the Warren Commission's conclusions. At the time of this writing, there is a book by Vincent Bugiosi called Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a 1612 page book which supports the one gunman theory. Remember JFK's brain disappeared from the National Archive. Perhaps it has evidence of a third shot from a second gunman's rifle.
But we'll never know the truth.

When flight 800 crashed over the Great South Bay on July 17th, 1996 (a day after my 46th birthday!), my wife was working for a dentist who was a medical examiner. He, and a dentist who was, for a short time, my general dentist, identified the bodies recovered from the crash. I was in my dentist's chair and after my treatement was done, we discussed the 800 disaster. Both of these men were absolutely convinced that the 747 was shot down by a missle (Note: My wife's ex-boss passed away). My dentist said they were doing their exams in the hangar one day, when these FBI guys, in black suits and ties, came in with a woman's body on a stretcher. She clearly had some sort of metal plate in her chest. He said everyone was told to vacate the hangar. When they returned, the woman's body was gone. They never were asked to identify THAT particular body, and she never showed up again. Again, she may have had evidence of a missle which shot down Flight 800. Check out www.twa800.com or www.whatreallyhappened.com. There is a lot of very convincing evidence there. Here is an interesting article written by Joe Brancatelli, a veteran business journalist based in Cold Spring, New York, (North of my home on Long Island) writes weekly on business travel for TheTrip.com. He also has written for a wide range of print publications, including the Los Angeles Times and Fortune magazine.
But we'll never know the truth.

I have been watching The History Channel a lot lately. Which is a miracle in itself because I hated History in High School. I even cut it a few times. And got into DEEP trouble with the good Franciscan Brothers... but that's a topic for another column sometime.

Anyway, they have a show called THE UFO FILES. (Click the link and then scroll down to the letter "U".) Every episode shows witnesses and video evidence of the existance of UFOs and alien life. But our government stonew alls it, offers more plausible explanations and says UFOs don't exist. WHY? According to the History Channel, our astronauts have seen UFOs from their days as jet pilots right through the Space Shuttle flights (see www.ufoevidence.org). Included in this topic are crop circles and cattle mutilations. Our government denies all of it. Evidence disappears when sent to Washington.
But we'll never know the truth.

So, dear reader, now 9/11 is added to the list of government conspiracies.

I can't say what's real, what's perceived or what's untrue. But it's amazing to me how many things we want to know as a society that are never fully explained to our satisfaction.

But we ARE owed the truth. Too many people saw a puff of smoke from the grassy knoll. Too many people have seen UFOs and the like. Too many people saw a missle leave the ground and head for that jumbo jet. Too many people heard a third explosion at the World Trade Center before it collapsed.

Maybe my friend at work is right. I know I can't just swallow the government line.

Maybe we'll never know the truth; we'll never know WHO DONE IT.

PS: READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN.