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IT1 Robert Kelly . I'm a first class

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petty officer with the United States

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Navy reserves and I'm from boston

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massachusetts . A reservist .

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Back when 9 11 happened , I was

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actually in the fire department . I was

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boston , fire was a probie . I was

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actually going through the whole

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academy and everything . So boston was

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where the planes took off and they

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actually probably flew right over us .

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I was On the job about two months , so

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I'm a veteran for the fire department

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in boston and I'm also a reservist . So

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it actually affected me greatly . Uh ,

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we donated a bench , it had the site

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and everything and it's actually back

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in boston . It's a , it was quite

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moving . It was really crazy when the

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captain came down and told us the

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planes hit . At that point , people

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were questioning whether they want to

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be firefighters and stuff , but it was ,

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it was quite an experience and just

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hard to explain Being over here 10

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years later . It's kind of like it's

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come full circle , I've been in 20

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years now . So this is pretty much the

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end tour for me being in the navy , in

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the military , but at the same time as

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a first responder , it's , it's really

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moving , trying to be over here and

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help out and do what we can