Still makes me angry

[*michaelsean*]

My wife is watching 9/11 stuff and I have to go out in the porch. The anger is still white hot.

[Goalpost]

I worked a lot of evenings back then. Simply stunning as I watched it unfold that morning from my house.

[BmorePat87]

I think anger is a perfectly valid response even 20 years later. We all have different emotions attached based on where we were and how it hit us.

One of my state delegate had just joined the Marines a few months prior, so he was posting his recounting of being informed while training at Parris Island. They were only given photos and articles. They didn't see the actual footage for weeks. I can't imagine how different it hit.

[Belsnickel]

(09-13-2021, 07:44 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I think anger is a perfectly valid response even 20 years later. We all have different emotions attached based on where we were and how it hit us.

One of my state delegate had just joined the Marines a few months prior, so he was posting his recounting of being informed while training at Parris Island. They were only given photos and articles. They didn't see the actual footage for weeks. I can't imagine how different it hit.

I was never in the armed forces because my myriad of health problems, least of all being my weight, would have prevented my joining. But I watched the attack on television sitting in my U.S. Army JROTC classroom. The instructors watched on, retired soldiers not knowing what would be happening. I'm sitting with other cadets, some of whom are seniors and enlisted in the ARNG, having completed their BCT over the summer. I was a sophomore, I knew that I wouldn't be going anywhere, but I knew those seniors would be impacted in a big way.

That unit deployed to Afghanistan in 2004. They had mobilized to Gitmo in 2002, which those seniors did not have to go to. In 2007 they deployed, again, to Iraq. That deployment sent many of my classmates to combat. I've seen many others go on in active duty. Some of those classmates and some of the folks I knew through Scouting went on to service academies. Some are still commissioned and have seen several tours. Being a part of the JROTC unit and being in Scouts, I knew that many of my cohort would be a part of what was to come.