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NPR’s Here and Now: A ‘Volatile’ Veterans Day In A Divided Nation: Iraq War Vet Shares National Security Concerns

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode
01

Paul tells his 9/11 story in full for the first time on the show. from quitting Wall Street the week before to linking up with his New York National Guard unit

02

Searching the Winter Garden and the shattered base of the to. Searching the Winter Garden and the shattered base of the towers, with truck horns signaling possible collapses

03

“I’m not from the 82nd Airborne. We live here.”. the citizen-soldier reality of that first week

04

“The worst thing I’ve ever seen. And the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”. Paul on what unity actually looked like


 
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