Posted on 09/11/2008 7:45:42 AM PDT by doug from upland
My former son in law was aboard the ENTERPRISE. It is so tough on families to be separated for so long a period. My daughter was devasted that it would be even longer this time.
11 September 2001: Enterprise was beginning her voyage home from the Persian Gulf. Watching a U.S. morning news show live (although locally in the early evening) the crew saw the U.S. report that the Al Qaeda terrorist network has launched attacks on New York's World Trade Center and Washington D.C.'s Pentagon. The Enterprise was ordered to turn around and headed back to the waters off Southwest Asia near the Persian Gulf.
7 October 2001: the U.S. launched air attacks against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and Taliban military installations in Afghanistan. The actions were designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorist operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime. Over three weeks, aircraft from Enterprise flew nearly 700 missions and dropped hundreds of thousands of pounds of ordnance over Afghanistan.
Late October 2001: Enterprise left Southwest Asia. 10 November 2001: Enterprise arrived at its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, about two weeks later than originally planned. During its last day at sea, the ship hosted a live two-hour broadcast of ABC's's Good Morning America.
2 JANUARY 2001 Townhall meeting in Ontario, CA:
Yes, sir, back in the back.
DFU QUESTION First, sir, a message from the crew that just recently returned from the USS Enterprise. My son-in-law was aboard that. From the last man and woman on that crew, they are honored to call you their Commander in Chief. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Okay. (tears starting to come into his eyes)
Q And my question, sir, after you make Tommy Daschle go to his room for being bad(crowd laughter, Tommy deeply saddened while watching C-SPAN), tell us something about your plans to end our dependency on foreign oil.
Could we be about ready to hit Iran nuke establishments? We have been building a pretty big navy contingent there over the last few weeks.
It’s a Navy tradition that nothing bad ever happens in the middle of a deployment. It’s always at the beginning so you get to skip all of the liberty ports and rush to the gulf, and at the end so it delay’s your relief.
We could be there to give support to Israel doing it. We will know more on election night. If Obama is elected, Israel will have no choice but to strike before the Inauguration. They couldn’t trust him to give any support. If McCain is elected, we will have bought a little more time. But we can’t wait too much longer.
Uh....check the date of this post.
I think around 2014 or so, depending on the status of its nuclear fuel.
Between 2012 and 2014 according to Wiki (not sure how accurate)
Unknown what will be her fate though, museum or recycle.
B-chan
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
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I’m sorry.....but I am confused. Are you posting a historical piece from 9/11/01? Or...a current event?
From the responses to your post, it appears to be a current event. However, the dates on the news articles are from 2001.
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The date was in the headline. On 9-11-01, the ENTERPRISE was heading home. They had to turn it around and kick some terrorist *ss.
The first several reponses on this thread were treating this article as a current event. Guess you missed those.
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