Remembering 9/11

[KLHJ2]

For all intents and purposes I was on my way to the bank early in the morning to first union bank right off of Prince William Parkway in Dale City VA. While standing in the bank line I got the news...at first they said that a helicopter had crashd into the Pentagon.

I was at home on leave at Birchdale Ave. I was in between duty stations from Ft. Stewart GA. heading to Hanau Germany. At the time my father worked at the Pentagon. I wanted so bad to go back to my unit and deploy with them to Afghanistan,...but I could not. On Sept 18th I flew from BWI to Frankfurt Germany. On the way we passed over NYC. The pilot turned hard right and banked hard left so that we could see ground zero on the left. The smoke was still smoldering from the disaster. I wept...and I swore that from that day forward I would do everything I could to prevent from that happening again...