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Many millions of Americans are recalling a terrible day that dawned 18 years ago today.\u00a0It didn’t start out that way, but it got dark in a major hurry.<\/p>\n

They’re remembering where they were when they heard the news. Me? I was at work at the Amarillo Globe-News.<\/p>\n

My colleague walked into the office and stuck his head in the door: “Did you hear the news. Someone flew an airplane into the World Trade Center.”<\/p>\n

I asked two questions: How big was the airplane? How was the weather? I don’t recall my colleague knowing it was a jetliner. He did say the weather in New York City was beautiful.<\/p>\n

“What kind of moron would fly into a building?” I asked with all the appropriate derision.<\/p>\n

I turned on a small TV I had in my office. I watched one of the towers burning. Then — in real and horrifying time — the world watched the second jet liner crash into the other tower.<\/p>\n

In that moment, we knew what we had: an act of war!<\/p>\n

The Pentagon was hit by a third jetliner. Then we heard about the Shanksville, Pa., crash involving a fourth<\/em> hijacked airplane.<\/p>\n

We would go to war in Afghanistan. We would toss the Taliban out of power in that remote land and then launch the hunt for al-Qaida terrorist leaders who masterminded the hideous attack.<\/p>\n

I will admit to being frightened in the moment. Anger? Absolutely!<\/p>\n

I wanted the nation to fill with resolve to defeat the bastards who committed this horrific deed. Sadly, I fear our nation has lost some of its collective resolve. We’ve been torn asunder by a war that President Bush launched against Iraq, telling us that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had “something” to do with the terrorist attack \u2026 when he didn’t.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I remain puzzled on how we “declare victory” in this war. Or if we can ever actually make<\/em> that victory declaration.<\/p>\n

However, the fight goes on. It must<\/em> go on.<\/p>\n\n

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Many millions of Americans are recalling a terrible day that dawned 18 years ago today.\u00a0It didn’t start out that way, but it got dark in a major hurry. They’re remembering where they were when they heard the news. Me? I was at work at the Amarillo Globe-News. My colleague walked into the office and stuck … Continue reading 9\/11 still seared into our memory<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[95,223,1899,2334,3544,4501,5177,5300],"class_list":["post-38816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-95","tag-al-qaida","tag-george-w-bush","tag-iraq-war","tag-pentagon","tag-taliban","tag-war-on-terror","tag-world-trade-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38818,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816\/revisions\/38818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}