[CaptainCrunch]

A couple of things, when 9/11 happened. I was a dozen years out of the Military, but the questions started echoing through my brain. If things go to crap, am I still able to be recalled? What's the response going to be?



I got a call from a friend that was still in at the time, he eventually went over to Afghanistan a couple of times, and he classed his time there as a absolute nightmare.



I got calls from friends and family members that were freaked out in the days that followed. What did I think the American response would be, who was responsible. I laid it out, I doubted that there would be a monstrous and immediate response. People were worried that the Americans would drop a nuke on Iran if they were implicated in or Iraq, or even Afghanistan.



A lot of people thought we were in the end of days. Its weird, I know. But I knew that American response would be heavy.



Watching over the days and weeks after 9/11 we saw a lot of different things. American's came together especially in New York. At the same time we saw the worst of things. A lot of angry Americans targeting Muslims. But we later saw cracks forming in the great American Empire, and they widened over the next 20 years until we have a fractured America today.



I remember a after 9/11 and the firefighters were leaving. Their trucks were covered in trucks. The Firefighters looked exhausted and disheartened and shattered. But people stood on the sidewalk and cheered them. And I'll be the first to admit that I cried and cried hard.