Today is Patriot Day; 9-11. Fourteen years ago for many of us life changed. I had been an Army National Guardsman. In fact our monthly drill had been the previous weekend. In sixteen days I would be called to active duty and be gone for sixteen months. It would be the first of many long absences over the next years.

In 2009 I was in Afghanistan with my Battalion. On 9-11 our Division held a Remembrance Ceremony. Our colours (on the right) would be on a Divisional Parade for the first time since 1966.