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What Do You Remember About Sept. 11, 2001?
The day of the terrorist attacks is one many will never forget, and one that at least one local veteran credits with starting him on a new path. Share your story here.
10 years ago, no one knew what was about to happen in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. No one knew what changes were about to come for the United States.
Shortly before 8 a.m. central time on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, news went out that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Within 15 minutes, a second plane crashed into the second tower. Many television news programs, already covering the first crash, showed the second crash live.
As the morning went on, a third hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a field about 80 miles away from Pittsburgh.
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The country's air space was shut down, stranding President George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara in the Milwaukee area.
The attacks were the impetus for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They heightened racial and religious tensions. But they also saw people pull together in extraordinary ways to help.
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Marty Davis (right) watched the worst terrorist attack on American soil from his dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Now 29, he remembers how hard it was to focus that day. “For the first time, I was scared for my country.” With his dreams of being a football player recently shattered by a torn quadriceps, Davis joined the Army National Guard in early 2004 and served for more than seven years. Davis can trace his decisions over the past decade to Sept. 11, 2001, and believes, despite the impacts on his health, that his life changed for the better. “By understanding the way the world is really working, I think it benefited me because I kept my eye on my goals and the military made me want to be a better person.”
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What do you remember about Sept. 11, 2001? A decade later, how do you think the attacks are still being felt?
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