[Professional Engineer]

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks - we've been at war for 30 years but just didn't realize it until 9-11.

Not very long ago, I was reading something about events which happened waaaaaay back in the evil 1980's. That's when the realization hit me.

[colorado tanker]

I would go as far back as the attack in Munich at the 1972 Olympics, when they exported the terror war to Europe.