Twenty Years ago I was the Active Duty Manager for a Texas Air National Guard Special Operations Weather Flight. – I had just gotten back to the office from our Ops Group weekly meeting. I heard on the radio that there had been an explosion at the World Trade Center. I remember the last explosion and wondered if it was another Terrorist bombing. I went down to storage and pulled out a small TV from one of the Team kits. I had it set up and tuned in just in time to see the second plane hit live on TV. I called the Boss at his job and said “We are at war” He had been watching as well and we started discussing plans for the next two weeks. I hung up that call and started the Recall Roster… I notified my unit members to tell their employers to prepare for their absence, and to pack their bags, triple check their gear, and prepare their families. I then called AFSOC and notified them that all unit members are accounted for and prepared for 72 hour deployment as required. My first team went out the door in December 2001, our unit had at least one person deployed in support of OEF and OIF from 2001 until I was medically retired in 2010. While I was in Kabul in 2003 the backstabbing POS that I voted for in 2000 changed the ROE to handcuff the Heroes who won the war, and installed Islam as the government of Afghanistan, AND started the purge of our military leadership to install the Pro-Islam brigade that runs it today. I was NOT surprised when bush voted for Hillary or when he voted for biden.
We as a Nation have forgotten 911… The proof is that we have actual Terrorist sympathizers elected to congress, AND We have a Dictator that actually said for the record that he is losing patience with Law Abiding American Citizens, And we haven’t Tarred and Feathered him and Strung up those who are controlling him.
Just imagine a World without Islam, THEN we could forget 911... without getting a reminder like the one Dictator biden just set up and paid for...
America has forgotten (until the next one) But I can't forget
Big part of that is so many who were around when this happened are gone, while so many around now weren’t around then. I wasn’t alive on Dec 7, 1941, but, having grown up in different times amongst those who were, I understood the gravity of that event. I can tell you exactly where I was on Nov 22, 1963, in April 1981and in February 1993 when they tried this the first time. The vast majority of people in this country today, IMO, weren’t alive, weren’t here, or were associated with the bastards who caused this. Their give-a-shit factor is less than zero. In today’s society, 20 years is ancient history.
My sister flies for American Airlines. She lost friends in those airplanes. My brother was in the air en route to DC for work. I watched my mother worry herself sick until he managed to get ahold of us and say he was okay. We’d buried her mom 3 days earlier. I was scheduled to fly home that afternoon. I worked for a guy who built those towers. Every time I see that picture I’m taken back to my parent’s family room in Upstate NY, watching it happen and thinking “My God...there has to be twenty thousand people in those buildings...”
Twenty Years ago I was the Active Duty Manager for a Texas Air National Guard Special Operations Weather Flight.
ReplyDelete– I had just gotten back to the office from our Ops Group weekly meeting. I heard on the radio that there had been an explosion at the World Trade Center. I remember the last explosion and wondered if it was another Terrorist bombing. I went down to storage and pulled out a small TV from one of the Team kits. I had it set up and tuned in just in time to see the second plane hit live on TV.
I called the Boss at his job and said “We are at war”
He had been watching as well and we started discussing plans for the next two weeks.
I hung up that call and started the Recall Roster…
I notified my unit members to tell their employers to prepare for their absence, and to pack their bags, triple check their gear, and prepare their families.
I then called AFSOC and notified them that all unit members are accounted for and prepared for 72 hour deployment as required.
My first team went out the door in December 2001, our unit had at least one person deployed in support of OEF and OIF from 2001 until I was medically retired in 2010.
While I was in Kabul in 2003 the backstabbing POS that I voted for in 2000 changed the ROE to handcuff the Heroes who won the war, and installed Islam as the government of Afghanistan,
AND started the purge of our military leadership to install the Pro-Islam brigade that runs it today.
I was NOT surprised when bush voted for Hillary or when he voted for biden.
We as a Nation have forgotten 911…
The proof is that we have actual Terrorist sympathizers elected to congress,
AND
We have a Dictator that actually said for the record that he is losing patience with Law Abiding American Citizens,
And we haven’t Tarred and Feathered him and Strung up those who are controlling him.
Just imagine a World without Islam,
THEN we could forget 911...
without getting a reminder like the one Dictator biden just set up and paid for...
America has forgotten (until the next one)
But I can't forget
MSG Grumpy
Big part of that is so many who were around when this happened are gone, while so many around now weren’t around then. I wasn’t alive on Dec 7, 1941, but, having grown up in different times amongst those who were, I understood the gravity of that event. I can tell you exactly where I was on Nov 22, 1963, in April 1981and in February 1993 when they tried this the first time. The vast majority of people in this country today, IMO, weren’t alive, weren’t here, or were associated with the bastards who caused this. Their give-a-shit factor is less than zero. In today’s society, 20 years is ancient history.
ReplyDeleteMy sister flies for American Airlines. She lost friends in those airplanes. My brother was in the air en route to DC for work. I watched my mother worry herself sick until he managed to get ahold of us and say he was okay. We’d buried her mom 3 days earlier. I was scheduled to fly home that afternoon. I worked for a guy who built those towers. Every time I see that picture I’m taken back to my parent’s family room in Upstate NY, watching it happen and thinking “My God...there has to be twenty thousand people in those buildings...”
I won’t forget it.