{"id":2288,"date":"2019-09-11T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2019-09-11T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:03:11","slug":"eighteen-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/eighteen-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">November 22, 1963<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I was six years old when John F Kennedy was shot in Dallas.&nbsp;&nbsp;My memories of the time are clear:&nbsp;&nbsp;released from school, something awful happened in Dallas.&nbsp;&nbsp;The teachers wouldn\u2019t tell us, so second graders were talking about monsters attacking the state. The staff wanted our parents to handle it.&nbsp;&nbsp;I fought on the way home, some boy said they shot the President, and I didn\u2019t believe him.&nbsp;Words turned to fists, a second grader versus a third grader.&nbsp;&nbsp;I think I won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I got home, Mom met me at the door, tears in her eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp;I wish I hadn\u2019t punched that kid; for the next few days it was grainy black and white television, first from Dallas, and then the funeral from Washington.&nbsp;The caisson carrying the flag covered casket, the rider less horse behind with the boots strapped backwards in the stirrups; the President\u2019s family stoic and brave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I guess if you were six on September 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2001, you would have some pretty clear images of what happened, even if, you didn\u2019t have much understanding.&nbsp;&nbsp;To put that in perspective, you\u2019d be twenty-four today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is amazing how quickly \u201cevents\u201d become history.&nbsp;&nbsp;What feels like just a couple of years ago, is now in an eighth grade textbook.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuesday Morning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday morning, September 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2001, I was in \u201crecovery\u201d mode.&nbsp;&nbsp;We had just completed our big home cross country invitational the previous weekend, I was looking forward to getting my team ready for the next competition, and to concentrating on my classroom.&nbsp;&nbsp;I taught senior American government class, and we were reaching the end of the first unit, trudging through the US Constitution and the Amendments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Watkins Memorial High School we started the day early, the first bell rang at 7:19.&nbsp;&nbsp;The school was under construction; 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the escort fighters must have been high above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next weeks were filled with questions and information.&nbsp;&nbsp;We learned about Al Qaeda and Wahhabism, the puritanical version of Islam they practiced.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Class studied the difference between that and the Islam worshipped by the Taliban, the group that controlled Afghanistan and allowed Al Qaeda to set up bases there.&nbsp;We learned history:&nbsp;&nbsp;of Afghanistan, of the Middle East, and that Islam didn\u2019t attack the United States, Al Qaeda did.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The class asked questions about how we should respond.&nbsp;&nbsp;These were seventeen and eighteen year olds (now thirty-six) and the question of war had tremendous immediacy to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;Several of the students in that class would end up in the armed forces, fighting in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan.&nbsp;&nbsp;They all came back, but many suffered injuries, both physical and mental, that they are still struggling to overcome today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eighteen Years<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t seem that long ago.\u00a0\u00a0On Friday of that week, I was in a car crash.\u00a0\u00a0My Suburban was totaled, my fault, but fortunately no one was hurt.\u00a0On Saturday my cross country team went to the Galion Invitational, and since I had to find a ride to school I got there early.\u00a0\u00a0That gave me the opportunity to have a long talk with our bus driver, the sweetest older man ever, Lester Kahrig (<a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/lester-kahrig\/\">here&#8217;s a link to his story<\/a>.)\u00a0\u00a0We talked about war, about what would happen to these kids on the bus.\u00a0\u00a0He talked about \u201chis 9-11\u201d when he was seventeen, Pearl Harbor, and about the war he fought in the Pacific.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those weeks were the best teaching I\u2019ve ever done.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were also the best learning my classes ever did.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were no tests, no matching \u201cOsama bin Laden\u201d to \u201cleader of Al Qaeda;\u201d there was no need.&nbsp;&nbsp;The kids wanted to know, needed to know.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don\u2019t remember any principal saying that I could take my class this direction, but they knew it was the right thing to do.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eighteen years since 9-11, it\u2019s time to let Afghanistan go.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of the things were learned in those weeks is that controlling Afghanistan is like holding desert sand in your hands, you might think you\u2019ve got it, but slowly, inexorably, it slips between your fingers.&nbsp;&nbsp;The harder you clench, the more slips away.&nbsp;&nbsp;Every conqueror from Alexander the Great, to the British, to the Soviets figured it out.&nbsp;&nbsp;America needs to learn the lesson too.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kids who weren\u2019t born on 9-11, shouldn\u2019t be fighting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 1963 I was six years old when John F Kennedy was shot in Dallas.&nbsp;&nbsp;My memories of the time are clear:&nbsp;&nbsp;released from school, something awful happened in Dallas.&nbsp;&nbsp;The teachers wouldn\u2019t tell us, so second graders were talking about monsters attacking the state. 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