Thread by @ARetVet

On the Anniversary of 9/11 I am watching Official Secrets, everyone should watch this movie... It’s a true story.

#NeverForget

Estimates of Iraqis Killed in the first four years of the Iraq War range from 151,000 to over 1 million. Countless more wounded. Over 4,600 US & British Soldiers died, more than 37,700 were wounded.
#NeverForget

A total of 2,977 people were killed in New York City, Washington, DC & outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania by 19 Hijackers. Fifteen of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one from Lebanon, and one from Egypt.

None of the Hijackers were from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Philippines, Libya, Syria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali or Niger.

#NeverForget
#NeverForget911

As someone who spent 20+ in the military, w/ a family of iron workers who built WTC, who personally saw bodies being carried out, deployed to the ME & redeployed from then until becoming a civilian w/drones & in person, I will #NeverForget that day, & what we’ve been doing since.