So let me get this straight. Everyone else is being nice to me and for some reason thats bothering you?
Taliban?
I may not have been in Iraq or Afghanistan but I met Al Qaida before most of you guys knew they existed. I spent the day of 9/11 in Downtown Manhattan, from morning until night, as a volunteer paramedic treating injured cops, fire fighters, and civilians. I came home that night coated in white grey dust like a ghost. Watched people jump out of windows from hundreds of stories in the air to escape the flames. I had 3 buildings collapse within feet of where I was standing, both towers and building 5 later in the day. I had the hair in my arms scorched off from the heat of the flames when building 5 went down near me. It took me years to be able to drive down the west side of manahtten again. And even now my heart races when I get near the site.
My wife was in her 9th month watching the fires and collapses on TV and we had no communication as cell phones were down. Knowing me as she does, she was sure I was dead in one of the buildings helping other people.
I can go on but it tears me up inside to talk about it.
Soo... Taliban? I dont think so!
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