Nine o’clock in the morning was 1500 and getting toward the end of the duty day in Europe, that day 21 years ago.
Children who hadn’t yet been born that fall are now adults. We have built memorials, fractured our country, changed laws, abridged human rights, and mourned the loss of family, friends, and colleagues.
It seems both so long ago and yet just yesterday to me although I have moved multiple times since then, changed jobs, retired from the military, gone back to grad school, traveled over much of the world. As I look out over the harbor of Kahului on the island of Maui everything seems quiet and distant.
The ship held a memorial service at 0900. I didn’t attend, but rewatched Exhibit 13 ….
