8 Things You May Not Know About Our Air Defense on 9/11
BY Katie Lange
It’s been 18 years since Sept. 11, when terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and flew them into New York’s iconic World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in rural western Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 U.S. citizens.
Whether the events of that day were etched in your memory forever, or you were too young to understand it at the time, it’s a day all Americans know changed the course of our daily lives.
Thanks to the Internet, you can easily find accounts of what happened on 9/11 from survivors, first responders, the victims’ families and officials who investigated what happened. Two New York Air National Guardsmen who were at the Northeast Air Defense Sector (now just the Eastern Air Defense Sector) in rural Rome, New York, give a glimpse into the military's role that day. NEADS was tasked with searching for the missing planes and scrambling fighter jets in response to the attacks.
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