Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
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INSIDE PUBLISHER’S PEN by JANICE BURTON This year is the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. For many, the somber remembrances of that day will focus on New York City, the Pentagon and a quiet fi eld in Pennsylvania. It is those hallowed spots where thousands of Americans died senselessly that pitched our nation into the War on Terror. While many will not understand it, our community and countless other military communities around the nation should also be a place of remembrance. For it is here, and at bases like Fort Campbell, Camp Lejeune, Fort Hood and Camp Pendleton, that the ultimate price has been paid. Our soldiers, seamen, airmen and marines have spent the past 10 years at war, and have paid the price of 9/11’s evil with their blood. Many, like myself, remember exactly what we were doing the morning of 9/11. We remember our shock when the fi rst plane hit the tower, and then the sobering realization that it was no accident when the second plane hit. We watched in horror as people ran from the building, and those without hope jumped. We prayed earnestly when we saw the Pentagon in fl ames and sobbed uncontrollably when the fi rst pictures of the downed plane in Pennsylvania showed up on our televisions. But the men and women in uniform did not have time to mourn or try to comprehend the evil that had happened that day. Instead, members of the 5th Special Forces Group, whose higher headquarters are here at Fort Bragg, huddled in seclusion as they planned their assault in Afghanistan. In weeks, a small group of hardened warriors took down the Taliban, while we cheered, and their brethren picked up their arms and joined them boots on the ground to fi nish the job. It is the soldiers of the 3rd and 7th Special Forces Groups, brave men and women of the 82nd Airborne Division and the Fayetteville’s Weather Forecast Fayetteville’s Weather Forecast Thursday May 12 Friday May 13 Saturday May 14 Americans celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden outside the White House. airmen at Pope Air Force Base, who said farewell to their families and marched into the breach. They are the ones who climbed inch-by-inch through the mountains of Afghanistan and the caves of Tora Bora searching for Osama bin Laden and the remnants of the Taliban. They are the ones who watched as their brothers died on mountainsides and on IED-laden roads. They honored their dead, bid farewell to their friends and kept on fi ghting, year after year – even now. This month, our community is celebrating these men and women. We are honoring them with events and ceremonies we call the 31 Day Salute. In the face of what they have done, what they have accomplished and what they have lost, it seems the least we can do. It seems fi tting that this month, when we memorialize all those brilliant young men and women whose futures were cut short way too early, that the man behind 9/11 was brought to the ultimate justice. I watched the celebrations in the streets in New York and Washington upon the announcement of Osama’s death. In that moment, I thought a few things: a truly evil man was dead; that too many of our neighbors, friends and families have died to rid our world of him; and that there would be someone else to take his place. Quick on the heels of that sobering realization was the reminder that as long as that kind of evil fl ourishes, there will be men and women who will stand up, leave all that they hold dear and put their lives on the line for our freedom. God Bless the men and women of our Armed Forces. 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