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I started this article at 7:45 am EDT on September 11, 2021. Twenty years ago, I was in my office
as commanding officer of the Coast Guard’s Research & Development Center in Groton,
Connecticut with two senior staff discussing strategy for implementing our next fiscal year’s R&D
agenda. Tragic events within the hour would turn our priorities, indeed the Coast Guard’s and
nation’s priorities, upside down as a terrorist hijacked airliners were about to hit the World Trade
Center in New York City and crash into the Pentagon. Another was headed towards Washington
for the Capitol or White House before heroic passengers forced it to crash into a field in
Pennsylvania. America was under attack.
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