I too was glad I was not around the TV set for most of the day.
I avoided the news and skipped reading the days newspaper.
I didn't want to be overloaded with the memorial coverage.
I did think about the men I knew who lost their lives that day.
It truly was a long day, and rough to get through.
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"I fly this plane for my country, when it stops flying it's not my fault, it's the countrys." CDR Fred "Bear" Vogt. The Last Skipper of VF-33's, F-4's.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -- Author Unknown
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