💬 Opinion 3d ago · Mark Hertling

A Letter to Myself on 9/11

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A Letter to Myself on 9/11
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(Photo Illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)THE ADVANTAGE—AND PERHAPS THE BURDEN—of looking back across a quarter century is knowing how little we understood then about how profoundly those few hours would change the country, the military, my family, and millions of other Americans. I wish I could tell that version of myself what I know now.I was one of a very few Americans whose 9/11 story began before September 11, 2001. In the late summer, I was a

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