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10 hours ago, Jurassic Lancer said:

Remember September 12, 2001?

We were shocked... we were angry ... we were grieving ... we were raw.

But ...

We were gentler with each other ... we were tenderhearted toward each other ... we were kinder toward each other ... we were united.

May we grow back into that latter space.

I couldn't agree more. 

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10 hours ago, Jurassic Lancer said:

Remember September 12, 2001?

We were shocked... we were angry ... we were grieving ... we were raw.

But ...

We were gentler with each other ... we were tenderhearted toward each other ... we were kinder toward each other ... we were united.

May we grow back into that latter space.

Amen. 

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Amen and how soon we forget our differences make us stronger...

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More than anything else I remember being pi$$ed and resolved.  I shared in the 9-11 thread where I was when it started.  On 9-15 my ship served as the armed escort for several oil tankers headed into the Persian Gulf to pick up fuel for the naval force that was assembling.  Normally when you go thru the Straights of Hormuz you get harassed by small boats from Iran and Oman.  They point guns at us, get in our way, shoot flares, etc and we just ignore them.

But on 9-15 we were ready to light somebody up.  We took the tankers in at flank speed with our ship at battle stations.  We had all of our guns loaded, both helicopters in the air with hellfire and penguin missile, 2 F18s circling overhead and a P3 Orion flying next to us with Harpoon missiles loaded.  If someone took a crack at us it was going down.

On that transit, the Iranians didn’t even come out of port.  They knew it was the wrong time to play games with the American warships.  We actually got a bridge -to-bridge call from an Iranian warship (in-port) and all he said was “good job USA”.

 

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