Fort Jackson Remembers 9/11

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — While ten years have passed, the tragic events of September 11, 2001 are still in all of our minds. Friday morning, Police, EMS, Firefighters and Soldiers came together at Fort Jackson to honor those lost. “It’s still almost unexplainable to me,” says Barry Wall, Captain Police Supervisor, Department of Army Police at Fort Jackson. Barry Wall remembers September 11, 2001, very well. “When I went to turn on the TV, it was like disbelief,” says Wall At the time, he was serving at Fort Bliss, Texas. But, life would soon change. “They put us on full alert,” says Wall. Ten years later, he’s standing with fellow servicemen at Fort Jackson, laying a wreath for those lost. Mr. Hotz, a Purple Heart recipient, also recalls that day. “I remember the day, because I was going to a 3rd Infantry reunion,” says Hotz. He and his wife remember listening to the news on the radio. “Numb, shocked, unbelievable, this could happen in America?,” says Mrs. Hotz Now a decade later, they are at Fort Jackson, with so many others, to remember. “Our country and a generation of Americans, were changed in an instant,” says Major General James Milano, Commanding General at Fort Jackson. Yet, through it all, America is still home. “it’s the greatest country we have in the world,” says Mr. Hotz “Everything,” says Mrs. Hotz. “I’ve never seen a place that is better than what I can call home,” says Wall. So, the question remains, where were you on September 11, 2001? “Pause take a moment to remember where you were, what you saw, how you felt then and how you feel now,” says Milano.