I watched the second plane hit the WTC from NJ. I remember wishing that I still wore khaki to work.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
A couple of months after September 11th, my boss looked at me one day and said, "You want your M-16 back, don't you?" Actually, it was my jet (or better yet, a nice attack plane that would kill Taliban in droves) I was yearning for, but he sure wasn't far off.