I remember vividly exactly where I was and what I was doing when it happened. I was at a SAREX working with an A-10 Reserve unit at Belle Chase NAS in New Orleans and was in the process of mission planning for that day's flights. Larry Munz me called into the ops center to "check this out", I walked in just as the second plane went into the WTC. The first thing I said was "we're under attack." That was before the plane went into the Pentagon. A number of the pilots there were AA pilots in their civilian job. It was sombering moment and there were a lot of pissed off professionals there who knew the rulebook had just been tossed out the window. We instantly knew it was no longer business as usual. I now understood how Americans felt when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Makes you wonder what the hell the USPS is thinking when reissuing for the 5th time the EID Muslim 1st class postage stamp, just this month????
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