Posted on Sep 11, 2016
Our Country Needs To Rekindle The Unity We Felt After Sept. 11, 2001
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Our nation only becomes unified when something immensely larger than our personal problems and issues happens SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL. We were unified after December 7, 1941 and after September 11, 2001. Our apparent national unity after the attack of Pearl Harbor lasted about 4 years while the unity after 9-11-2001 lasted months.
The greatest generation that fought or stayed at home supporting the national war effort had survived the great depression and had a better sense of what matters than many of those who were adults on 9-11-2001. Even though we were engaged in a world-wide war against terror many people were clueless about it because t did not directly affect them - no rationing, no draft, no lights out before dark, etc.
Those of us who were in the military services at that time had a more profound sense of the implications of 9-11-2001. We didn't know the depth, breadth or identities of our enemies but we recognized something had to be done. I am thankful that I was able to be mobilized to support the planning efforts for what would be current and near-term future operations in late 2001 - 2004.
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) CW5 Charlie Poulton SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT (Join to see) SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SGT Robert Hawks SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright
The greatest generation that fought or stayed at home supporting the national war effort had survived the great depression and had a better sense of what matters than many of those who were adults on 9-11-2001. Even though we were engaged in a world-wide war against terror many people were clueless about it because t did not directly affect them - no rationing, no draft, no lights out before dark, etc.
Those of us who were in the military services at that time had a more profound sense of the implications of 9-11-2001. We didn't know the depth, breadth or identities of our enemies but we recognized something had to be done. I am thankful that I was able to be mobilized to support the planning efforts for what would be current and near-term future operations in late 2001 - 2004.
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) CW5 Charlie Poulton SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT (Join to see) SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SGT Robert Hawks SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen F. well conceived response, with a lot of great points of interest. Thank you for your service and the BLUF perspective of now-times. Well said and articulately conveyed.
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SSgt Robert Marx
Well said, sir! The similarities of the two national instances of being attacked by another power, Dec. 7, 1941 & Sept. 11, 2001, were a citizenry galvanized for action but the leadership took radically different responses. The president & congress led us into a declared war against an evil empire in 1941 but the more recent tragedy we were told to go, live, and shop to keep up the economy. I think the unity of that terrible September morning might have been better directed.
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We were setting up in the motor pool above that little camp in Hoenfels. We had convoyed from Graf that morning. My LT walked up, gathered us together and said "first, does anyone have any relatives that work in the World Trade Center in NY or the pentagon'? I felt a sickness hit me. My Dad had retired by then but in that instant I thought "Shit, Dad"! My brother in law was an IT nerd and went to the pentagon once in a while. I just said "what happened Sir'. Everything changed in that instant. that's a good article. I need to take that advice. Get a beer go outside, watch people living and being.
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