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Hello and welcome to the first theater

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sustainment commands Blackjack express .

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I'm staff sergeant Kimberly cooper

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Williams on this edition . We're

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remembering 9 11 for the 10th

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anniversary . We sat down and had

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troops take us back to that day and

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tell us their thoughts and feelings and

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this is what they had to say . Yeah .

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Yeah . My

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sergeant major that I was in the

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reserve with , he worked at redstone

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arsenal and he had told me that a

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plane had just hit the pentagon on that

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day . I actually was in my senior high

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school class . Um , it was the

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beginning of school and we watched it

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on the news . I was switching to

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channels and I just happened to catch a

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glimpse of one of the buildings on fire

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I thought was a movie and I just kept

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switching channels and then just took

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me a few minutes to realize it was

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actually really the morning of 9 11 , I

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was actually working for general motors

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as a design release engineer and um ,

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some of my co workers told me that I

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don't need to look at what's going on

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in the conference room tv . So I went

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into the conference room , watched The

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events of 9 11 unfolding and I thought

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that somebody needed to do something

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about that . So I decided the next

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morning I'd go down to the armory

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recruiter's office and enlisted in the

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army .

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Yeah . Mm hmm .

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Initially we didn't believe it was real

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until we turned on the tv and we got

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the planes going into the World Trade

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Center and it was just pure shock and

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disbelief . Well my reactions after

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seeing the footage on the news was

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this can't be happening . Yeah

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it was

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disbelief . It was hard to believe that

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an attack that of that magnitude could

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happen to us in this country . The

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outcome of what happened , people

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jumping from towers , buildings falling

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crashing down . It was also real to me

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I felt a lot of anger , frustration ,

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worried and some excitement because

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just automatically knew what we're

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going to war after something like that

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happened , you become far more aware of

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what goes on internationally . Yeah ,

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I think we're stronger on protecting

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our country . We've implemented more

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security and we've definitely come

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together as a nation . I believe that

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it brought us together . It brought us

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much closer as a nation . I felt that

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it changed us forever and it definitely

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raised our situational awareness . It

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did for me personally people didn't

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think this was gonna last this long and

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you know when you have your service

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members dying and you know you're gonna

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have people that's not very happy about

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that . So it changed a little bit but

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not not very much . I think we still ,

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we're still together as a nation . Yeah

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yup More than 2700

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lives were lost that day and the days

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following . But they will always be

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remembered . That's all the time . We

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have for now . Thanks for watching stay

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