I remember being able to go to the airport, check in your bags in about 10-15 minutes, and run to your gate with just a few minutes to spare. We used to be able to come to work and think that it would just be another day filled with the things that we did everyday. We did not have FBI agents breathing down our necks, barriers at the gates, or long 2 hour lines at the airports. We thought that we were safe for the most part. The economy was doing well because we had jobs and a sense of security.

However, on the horrific day, September 11, 2001, the life that we knew came to an end. Although, we have tried

Will we ever be able to go back to carefree lifestyle that we used to live? Will our children have to continue this battle? No one knows. However, I do know one thing, things will never be the way they were before.

Our once strong economy has now taken a blow not just from the fact that our freedom was attacked but because people lost jobs, stocks plummeted, and our troops went off the fight the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.

to put some normalcy back into our lives, it just has not been the same. I remember exactly what I was doing on that date. It was fall time and my unit was preparing for NTC in California. My wife and I had taken our children to their grandparents a month prior and she had already deployed to NTC as apart of the advance party. I was at home and getting up to start another day of moving vehicles to the railhead so that we could depart for NTC the following week. When I awoke, I turned on the television to see what w

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