My Memory of 9/11

I remember getting in to work, turning on equipment and TV news and seeing the first reports. I called my husband and told him what happened and he said, 'there's no way it was an accident'. Shortly afterward, we received word the markets would be closed 'until further notice' so I packed up and went home. Once there, the kids started showing up (early release due to the attacks) and we all sat in the living room watching the horrific images and crying.

I remember telling the kids nothing would ever be the same in America but even then, I didn't realize how MUCH things would change. We've lost so much since the attacks; freedom, blood, lives, innocence, money and now....our Country as we knew it.

It boils my blood when I think about the political elite in America bending over backward to accommodate the barbaric Muslims. We should be treating them as enemies, not working toward changing the hearts and minds of Americans to accept them and their uncivilized hoards. I wonder, on the anniversary of this horror, how many Muslims have come to America since then. I never saw a Muslim before the attacks, now I see them everywhere.

I was at work in 18th FLTS, AFSOC, Hurlburt Field, FL. My supervisor came down the hall and asked if an airplane had ever flown into a skyscraper. I told him a light twin engine bomber flew into a skyscraper about the time World War II ended. They were flying in fog and low ceilings.

Then he asked me stupid question # 1 - What about clear weather? When I asked him to repeat the question for a stupidity check he realized what he had just happened; we both wore USAF wings.

When the second one flew in I turned him and said we are at war. He then asked him how long it would last - I told him between one and two Presidential election cycles. It would take that long for politicians to decide how to take advantage of it.

I would think that if they found shell casings, they could test for evidence of gas. That said, how many rounds would have been fired in a two year civil war? It could be like finding a needle in a hay stack. The gas shell casing(s) could also have been melted down to destroy the evidence.

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