nmah5398.xml

nmah5398.xml

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2003-01-09

I am a soldier stationed abroad in Germany. I had been flying in a force on force training exercise. I landed at the airfield and one of my NCOs approached me and said that an aircraft had been flown into the World Trade Center. I looked at him and scolded him for making jokes that where not at all funny. He said no honest, it is on the news right now come and see. We walked into our briefing room to view the T.V. as the second aircraft stuck the second tower. As I have a trained eye and new the weight and fuel capacity of an aircraft that size, I knew the towers would fall, prayed that they would not. When the towers fell we all stopped and said a silent prayer for those whom fell with the towers.

No. As a member of the Armed Forces for 22 years this merely illuminated to the public what the military has always been aware of and that is that people whom hate freedom hate the United States. The threat that is presented now has a clearly defined scope to those whom before the event held the misconception that human life holds the same value to everyone.

We need work very hard to take the fight to them, wherever it may lead. The past forgotten is repeated.

The Flag of the United States represents the efforts of the few, that stand before the many so that freedom lives. Always has, always will. I am honored to know that when I die I will be wrapped in the flagged of the country in which I lived a free man.