Never Forget is repeated this time of year by well-meaning people and they are certainly correct. We as a nation should never forget that day and what it meant then, as well as what it means now. I was a young off-duty police officer that day and saw the second plane hit. I knew what that meant and went immediately to the site. I was near the base of the towers when the first one started to fall. I will never forget the things I saw that day but sometimes I wish I could.
That day was my last day of pre deployment leave.
Nine days later we were on a ship heading East across the Atlantic.
Two months later we landed at Camp Rhino.
“Never forget those who died; Never forget who killed them.”
-Pat Rogers
Thank you for your service. I don’t know that 9/11 is quite the same as Pearl Harbor (I mean that I really have no idea), but for our generation, it is probably the closest thing. It certainly changed my course. 21 years later though, and our country is even more divided. I guess that was true 21 years after Pearl Harbor as well.