9/11 Taft: Why the Oregon Air National Guard Are My Heroes

September 11, 2011

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I was awakened with the story of the World Trade Center attacks in my ear on the radio station I was listening to. I immediately turned my TV on.

The morning wore on as if in slow motion. There were kids to get up for school. I called my oldest daughter’s school and said she wouldn’t be in because she went to school near a federal building. I took my youngest to school to keep her away from the coverage.

At school the adults just looked at each other and shook their heads.

Back home my 14 year old daughter and I sat on the couch and watched it all.

I lived under the flight path of PDX at the time. The skies went silent. It was caucaphonous.

When I heard the screams of the Oregon Air National Guard F-15’s scrambling some time later, I ran out of my house and waved my arms shouting, “Thank you! Thank you for protecting us!”

I know it was silly. They couldn’t even see me. But it was just a reflexive response.

And then we went to war. It took George Soros, John Podesta, the MoveOn.Commies and Code Pinkos about two minutes to start going after George Bush for “War Crimes,” “Lying Us Into War.” The Michael Moore movie, “Farenheit 9/11” was timed to throw the election in favor of John Kerry in 2004.

The left had forgotten they were Americans too. All America is to them is power and politics.

Treachery.

Years later at a Tea Party in Vancouver. The Oregon Air National Guard did a fly over. I was so moved that I told that 9/11 story. I laughed and said, “I know they couldn’t see me.”

Later a woman approached me and said her husband was in the Air National Guard. She said, “He saw you.”

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