WEBVTT 00:06.540 --> 00:08.730 Hi , I'm Captain Royal rife with 1/70 00:08.730 --> 00:10.508 infantry brigade combat team in 00:10.508 --> 00:13.090 Northern Afghanistan . I still remember 00:13.090 --> 00:15.860 where I was a senior in high school on 00:15.860 --> 00:18.330 September 11 , 2001 and the feelings 00:18.330 --> 00:20.530 that I had then now 10 years later , 00:20.530 --> 00:22.141 I'm very happy to be here in 00:22.141 --> 00:24.086 Afghanistan , working to make this 00:24.086 --> 00:25.919 country and the world safer from 00:25.919 --> 00:28.560 terrorism . So when , when 9-11 00:28.560 --> 00:30.504 happened , I was on my way to high 00:30.504 --> 00:34.380 school and and I just I just 00:34.380 --> 00:37.650 heard it , one plane crashed . I just 00:37.650 --> 00:40.040 thought it was pretty crazy just out of 00:40.040 --> 00:41.762 the blue , something like that 00:41.762 --> 00:43.818 happening and no one knew exactly at 00:43.818 --> 00:46.040 the time what was happening . So , so I 00:46.040 --> 00:48.262 want to with school , my first class is 00:48.262 --> 00:50.700 english classes . I remember going in 00:50.700 --> 00:52.920 there and they were just watching the 00:52.920 --> 00:55.230 news the whole time , just about a 00:55.230 --> 00:57.286 second plane crashing into and I was 00:57.286 --> 01:00.280 like , you know , that's it's pretty 01:00.280 --> 01:03.890 crazy . So a few years later after , 01:03.900 --> 01:06.122 after it got kicked out , everyone knew 01:06.122 --> 01:08.970 what exactly happened stuff . I 01:08.980 --> 01:12.310 remember I was just choosing whether I 01:12.310 --> 01:14.421 was gonna go to college or what I was 01:14.421 --> 01:16.532 gonna do with my life , whether I was 01:16.532 --> 01:16.170 going to work for my father or anything 01:16.170 --> 01:19.930 like that and you know , I decided I 01:19.940 --> 01:23.830 decided enlist and so I'll hear 01:23.830 --> 01:27.570 him now and in the army in Afghanistan 01:27.580 --> 01:31.180 trying to uh you know , trying to just 01:31.180 --> 01:33.402 protect freedoms of the United States . 01:34.840 --> 01:36.896 My name is Sergeant Vittoria Green , 01:36.896 --> 01:39.118 I'm currently at Mike Spann Afghanistan 01:39.180 --> 01:42.700 for 9 11 , 2001 . I 01:42.700 --> 01:45.550 remember being a freshman in high 01:45.550 --> 01:49.340 school and I saw that I saw the state 01:49.340 --> 01:51.870 of where our country was going . I 01:51.880 --> 01:54.020 didn't know how big the event it was 01:54.030 --> 01:57.090 until the new start reporting like how 01:57.090 --> 01:59.201 many people we had lost . That's what 01:59.201 --> 02:01.423 made me and listening to the army . And 02:01.423 --> 02:03.646 two weeks after I graduated high school 02:03.740 --> 02:06.510 um right now I am a unit supply 02:06.510 --> 02:09.650 sergeant for H . A . C . 1 75 B . C . T . 02:10.040 --> 02:12.760 And Every time I think about 9:11 , it 02:12.760 --> 02:14.927 just motivates me to continue to fight 02:14.927 --> 02:17.760 for our country . Thank you . My name 02:17.760 --> 02:19.982 is Specialist Dustin Sanchez in the U . 02:19.982 --> 02:23.710 S . Army . 9 11 happened . I was asleep , 02:23.710 --> 02:25.599 my mother woke me up literally to 02:25.599 --> 02:27.766 watching the use , couldn't believe it 02:27.766 --> 02:29.821 was actually happening 10 years down 02:29.821 --> 02:32.043 the line . I'm in Afghanistan . I'm a g 02:32.043 --> 02:34.266 special analyst in the 1 75 B . C . T . 02:35.340 --> 02:37.940 Um Captain Michael Hogan on September 02:37.940 --> 02:41.320 11 . I was driving out to my job as a 02:41.320 --> 02:43.500 geologist out in the pumpkin buttes 02:43.500 --> 02:46.590 area of near Gillette . Wyoming when I 02:46.600 --> 02:49.470 listened to the towers fall over the 02:49.470 --> 02:53.240 radio . That's six months later I began 02:53.240 --> 02:55.750 training as an officer , quit my job , 02:56.440 --> 03:00.180 left my dog , I left my truck and 03:00.180 --> 03:03.720 now I'm in Northern Afghanistan doing 03:03.720 --> 03:07.260 nothing related to geology at all as a 03:07.270 --> 03:10.660 liaison officer . Um my team and I 03:11.240 --> 03:14.140 help control close air support for the 03:14.140 --> 03:16.362 soldiers on the ground , make sure that 03:16.362 --> 03:18.362 they are safe and the people of the 03:18.362 --> 03:21.500 Afghan people are safe as well . When 03:21.500 --> 03:23.720 September 11 happened , I was at home 03:23.720 --> 03:26.020 getting ready to go to my university 03:26.020 --> 03:29.630 for schooling . Um , it was very 03:30.140 --> 03:32.362 serious and very emotional . That was a 03:32.362 --> 03:35.110 very emotional time for me . What I do 03:35.110 --> 03:37.610 now is I'm out here in Afghanistan 03:37.620 --> 03:40.790 providing maintenance for personnel so 03:40.790 --> 03:43.012 they can go out and do their mission so 03:43.012 --> 03:45.123 we can get our job done and come home 03:45.123 --> 03:47.234 safe . Hi , I'm captain James Peralta 03:47.234 --> 03:49.234 from camp span Afghanistan . On the 03:49.234 --> 03:51.401 morning of September 11 , I was waking 03:51.401 --> 03:53.568 up to go to high school and I left the 03:53.568 --> 03:55.850 news on the night before and I woke up 03:55.860 --> 03:58.250 just in time to see the second aircraft 03:58.640 --> 04:00.860 crashed into the World Trade Center . 04:01.440 --> 04:04.090 10 years down the road . I'm now in 04:04.090 --> 04:06.312 Afghanistan . I'm the future operations 04:06.312 --> 04:09.560 officer for 170th brigade , IBc T 04:10.240 --> 04:12.360 and just proud to serve my country . 04:14.140 --> 04:16.307 I'm staff Sergeant Jonathan Capitals . 04:16.380 --> 04:18.710 There Ain't September 11 , I was in 04:18.710 --> 04:21.190 history class in high school and a 04:21.200 --> 04:24.060 history teacher put on the news to see 04:24.060 --> 04:25.949 what was going on and it was just 04:25.949 --> 04:28.330 devastating and see to see the attack 04:28.330 --> 04:31.340 that terrorists did to us . Two years 04:31.340 --> 04:34.650 later , I joined the Air force and uh 04:34.660 --> 04:37.160 deployed a couple times . Now I'm here 04:37.160 --> 04:39.330 serving my country in Afghanistan , 04:39.340 --> 04:42.140 working our communications supporting 04:42.150 --> 04:46.000 the war on terrorism . when 04:46.000 --> 04:48.550 9-11 happened , I was in 5th Grade Mr 04:48.550 --> 04:52.250 Forrest Class and a principal walked in , 04:52.840 --> 04:56.010 told to turn it on the news . So we've 04:56.010 --> 04:58.232 seen the two towers got hit by planes . 04:58.640 --> 05:00.973 Really didn't think nothing at the time . 05:00.973 --> 05:02.990 So I was really young . About eight 05:02.990 --> 05:05.350 years later , I joined the military and 05:05.740 --> 05:07.980 here I am in Afghanistan and drive for 05:07.980 --> 05:08.560 second quarter .