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August 11, 2004
A Sailor's story of 9/11
Immediately after the two airplanes hit the World Trade Towers the USS Ramage pulled out of Norfolk. They headed north to act as "plane guard" for New York City.
One of the sailors on board, Jeremy Bol, relates a story of one of their encounters with a civilian aircraft in the days following 9/11:
Our job was to listen in on the different radio signals to see if we could hear anything special going on or as a second ear for the bridge when planes wanted to land in New York. (Lets just say we weren't too friendly about people flying around at the time..."This is U.S. Navy WAR Ship. State your name, call sign, .........". We didn't even say what ship we were. The response I remember most was some brit pilot scared half out of his wits saying " this is such-and-such airlines flight xxx-xxxx...umm...please don't shoot."
Read the whole thing. His website is called "American Warmonger" and I've added him to my blogroll.
Update 8/13
Jeremy Bol has clarified that he is no longer in the navy. As he says on his website, "Now it's time for me to indulge in what I swore to protect: FREEDOM."
Posted by Tom at August 11, 2004 5:29 PM
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