All 7 Uses of
9/11
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Fearless
- "During peacetime, pre-9/11, it wasn't a popular decision to join the military to protect your country," says Mark Kramer, "so my decision was sort of validated that day.†
p. 150.89/11 = September 11, 2001; when suicide bombers hijacked US airliners and used them as missiles to kill about 3,000 people
- After 9/11 it was a blur, but I remember Adam saying that he was going to be fighting for us, for our way of life.
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- In fact, I was getting used to being proud of Adam instead of worrying about him, but 9/11 changed all that, and there I was worrying about him again, worried that he was going to war.†
p. 155.5
- In addition to fighting these insurgents and jihadists and providing security for the newly formed Afghan government, the U.S. military's priority mission remained the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, the archi tect of the September 11 attacks on American soil.†
p. 161.0September 11 attacks = when suicide bombers hijacked US airliners and used them as missiles to kill about 3,000 people
- That's what all the outstations, forward operating bases (FOBs), command outposts (COPs), and observation posts represented: footholds in the uphill battle being waged in Afghanistan seven years after 9/11.†
p. 214.59/11 = September 11, 2001; when suicide bombers hijacked US airliners and used them as missiles to kill about 3,000 people
- "These guys are so good at what they do," says an officer who oversaw Adam's squadron, "because they have an op almost every night, sometimes more in a single night than guys did in their whole careers pre-9/11.†
p. 233.9
- At the time, Rick was producing a documentary about a Special Forces A-team of Green Berets, ODA 574, based on my book The Only Thing Worth Dying For, which chronicles 574's mission into southern Afghanistan in the weeks after 9/11.†
p. 319.7
Definitions:
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(9/11) September 11, 2001; when Al Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs to destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and to attack the Pentagon; about 3,000 innocents (mostly civilians) were killed
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, 9/11 can refer to any September 11th.