OPERATION ENDURING SERVICE: STORIES FROM 9/11

While the work was challenging and, at times, frustrating, I went to work every day with the knowledge that I was making a difference and helping defend the US against future terrorist attacks.

Now many years later on this day America remembers, For the Home of the Brave was reborn from those embers

Later when they built the foot prints and museum at ground zero I was able to visit. A day I will never forget.

I tried to go to Operation Desert Storm in 1991, but I was in high school. I felt like I had to give something back for the freedoms we enjoy. Now was my chance.

I spent 15-plus months in Vietnam and never once did I feel as vulnerable as I did on 9/11.