Ten years. Where'd they go?
It's been a blink of an eye and a lifetime all at once. Thousands and thousands of soldiers have sacrificed their lives for you, for me. The country is different, there's no doubt. Yet as we spend this week reflecting on the events of 9/11, those amongst us who truly love this land will stand tall, screaming from mountaintops, I'm proud to be an American.
September 11, 2001. It was pitch dark outside as I crept through a cluster of cabins in a northern Minnesota fishing camp. Dropping air temperatures had the largemouth bass on a ferocious early morning topwater bite. I was making the venture alone that day. Grandpa just didn't feel up to it. We'd learn why a month or so later, when the doctors diagnosed his death sentence.
Most young men had grown beyond taking trips alone with their grandparents by my age, but as a child, it had been these ....