I will never forget that day. I was in my barracks room at Camp Lejeune, NC and my CO and 1stSgt came busting in my door, I was one of the few barracks Marines that had cable and told me to run on the news. We sat there in disbelief. What was happening? After the second tower was hit I started packing my gear. My CO said "get ready" and a month later I was in Pakistan waiting for the orders to go into Afghanistan. I miss those days of camaraderie and esprit de corps.