ND Air National Guard on 9-11

As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the North Dakota National Guard reflects back on the previous 10 years and that day that is forever memorialized in American history. As terrorists struck the World Trade Center Towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, North Dakota Air National Guard pilots with the 119th Wing scrambled from their alert detachment with the North American Aerospace Defense Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and were soon flying over the Pentagon.
They were among the first to take to the air as military responders on that day.
Emotions ran high in the days following the attacks, but for most the initial reaction was simply one of shock. No one could believe that the U.S. had come under such an attack.

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