Opinion: The Challenge of Moving on From 9/11

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Jack D Segal
Jack D Segal
09/08/2011

Two years ago, General Stan McChrystal - then Commander in Afghanistan - addressed his troops in Kandahar, "I'll bet everyone here remembers what they were doing on 9/11." Incautiously, he turned to the nearest soldier and asked him whether he recalled what he was doing that day. The soldier eagerly replied, "Yes Sir. I was having the braces removed from my teeth." A new generation Today, we have armed forces full of kids who were wearing braces on 9/11. They're the shock troo...
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