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Video by Master Sgt. Andrew Sinclair

Never Forget

101st Air Refueling Wing

Sept. 8, 2021 | 13:03

Members of the Maine National Guard and Maine Air National Guard reflect on the 20 years since 9/11.

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray thanks Soldiers and Airman for their service during the D.C. National Guard's Awards and Decorations Ceremony on Dec. 4, 2011.

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Air Force Brig. Gen. Carol A. Timmons, director of the Delaware National Guard joint staff, talks to local media at a National Guard 9/11 media day event Aug. 30, 2011, at Joint-Base Andrews in Maryland. Timmons, who is also a commercial airline pilot, was aboard a fifth plane that some believe was to be hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, before air traffic controllers grounded all aircraft at Kennedy International Airport.

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Air Force Lt. Col. Rolando Aguilar, Fairchild RC-26 Metroliner program manager for the 147th Reconnaissance Wing, Texas National Guard, participates in an interview during a 9/11 media-day event at Pentagon crash site Aug. 23, 2011, in Arlington, Va. Aguilar was one of several Guard members who gave interviews about their involvement with the 9/11 attacks.

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Army Command Sgt. Maj. George Holmes, a Pennsylvania Army National Guardmember, participates as one of 13 specially nominated “local heroes” in the National 9/11 Flag Tour stitching ceremony in Milford, Pa., Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. Tour event manager Carolyn Deters (pictured) instructs visitors on the placing of their stitch in the traveling star-spangled banner, which once hung at the ground zero complex of the World Trade Center buildings and was severely damaged in the collapse of the towers.

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Launched from bases all over the United States, Air National Guard fighter and tankers moved quickly to protect America from further attacks on September 11, 2001. That morning 19 terrorists employed four hijacked airliners to destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and severely damage one section of the Pentagon. The attacks, which were executed by a shadowy radical Islamic group known as al-Qaeda, killed some 3,000 people during the bloodiest terrorist assault in U.S. history. American Airlines Flight 77, which had just taken off from Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia on a flight to Los Angeles, was seized by al-Qaeda terrorists and crashed through the Pentagon's western wall at 9:37 a.m. North Dakota's 119th Fighter Wing was stationed at the North American Aerospace Defense Command site on Langley AFB, Virginia. Shortly after the attack the 119th's F-16 fighters established a combat air patrol over the nation's capital. In addition to all the passengers aboard Flight 77, 125 people inside the Pentagon were killed and over 600 others were injured seriously enough that they had to be transported to local hospitals.

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