Troops driven to serve by 9/11 now lead a generation that doesn’t recall the attacks
Featured September 10, 2021 Staff Writer 0
Corey Dickstein
Stars and Stripes
Daniel Maynard was just four weeks into Army boot camp training at Fort Knox, Ky., to become a cavalry scout in what he expected to be a peacetime Army.
Then everything changed.
In the middle of a first-aid lesson, Maynard’s drill instructors pulled the Army recruits out of the class and lined them up in formation outside. It was Sept. 11, 2001. The United States had been attacked, the older soldiers told them, offering few details about al-Qaida’s assault on U.S. soil that millions of other Americans were watching live on television.
Later that day, after the startled recruits returned to their barracks, their instructors provided more details — the World Trade Center in New York City had been hit by a pair of airliners and the towers had collapsed. A plane crash landed in Pennsylvania. The Pentagon, the military’s headquarters in Arlington, Va., had been hit too. Thousands were dead.
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