Sept. 11 galvanizes US troops in Afghanistan

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/11/09 | Heidi Vogt - ap

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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Many of the troops at this sprawling U.S. air base were in their mid-teens when they watched the planes hit the World Trade Center's twin towers on television and vowed to join the military.

Eight years later, many of those who enlisted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are now part of a massive military effort in Afghanistan that some are saying has no clear exit.

Remembrances of the attacks started at dawn Friday, with more than 1,000 service members donning shorts and sneakers to run exactly 9.11 kilometers (about 5.5 miles) to commemorate the day and remember troops who have died in the fighting since.

[NormsRevenge]

Sic 'em.

Semper Fi

Taliban militants are seen in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan in a photo released to Reuters May 9, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

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are they doin’ their national day of service?

sarc

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Recent opinion polls in the U.S. suggest Americans may be tiring of a conflict that some say is unwinnable and now seems far removed from the effort to find bin Laden.”....

You forgot the barf alert! Yahoo is always playing this “on the other hand” game. 9-11 was a galvinizing moment?....I think it was more of a call to arms!