I lost a little innocence on 9-11-01. I watched in disbelief as two planes crashed into the Twin Towers, and another hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. I am not immune to the fortunes of war as I had friends who were killed or seriously wounded in Viet Nam. But this was not a declared war and was in some ways more dastardly than the attack on Pearl Harbor. At least at Pearl Harbor most of the victims were in the military. The victims on this day were mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and sons and daughters. They went to work with no intention of doing harm to anyone and no clue to the horror that they would experience. I could not watch the videos today without recalling my range of emotions that I felt eighteen years ago. I hope that the young people who were not yet born have learned about the actions of the radicals and the heroic actions of so many ordinary Americans.
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