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It was 6am-ish on the West Coast. A ringing phone stirred me from sleep. The voice on the other end was a good friend, a retired Navy Command Master Chief, Paula.
She asked, "Are you watching TV?" "Hell no, you just woke me up." "Well," she said, "turn it on. We're under attack. They're evacuating the White House and we may go under Marshal Law."
By now, I had wandered into the living room and clicked on the TV. I was also holding a dead phone as she had hung up.
I stood there amazed at what I was looking at. As my wife came in, rubbing her eyes, she asked what was the matter. I pointed at the picture on the TV and said, "You see that building? That tower? There should be TWO of them!"
Shortly, the second tower fell.
My entire city suddenly turned into a ghost town. No one was on the streets who didn't have to be there.
Using weapons such as I saw that day, no one had to tell me that we were at WAR. A very different type of war that this country had never experienced.
It was the Day the US Changed.
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