The Horse Soldiers of 9/11

The Daily Caller:

It was the news the world breathlessly waited for immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks: a report of the first American troops on the ground in Afghanistan.

All at once the world’s attention focused on an iconic photo of those Special Operations Forces doing something no American military had done in nearly a century: They rode horses into combat.

Their secret mission: secure northern Afghanistan by advising the warring tribal factions that formed the Northern Alliance. During the 2011 Veterans Day Parade on November 11, a new monument to these men — and to all Americans in uniform — will make its way down New York City’s famed Fifth Avenue on the way to its final home, a stone’s throw from Ground Zero.

Military men and women, along with New York City firefighters, policemen, emergency responders and other marchers, 50,000 in all, will escort the monument on its televised journey. The spectacle will feature members of the three original Special Operations teams — some on horseback, others walking alongside surviving spouses of fallen heroes.

Retired Army general and current CIA director David Petraeus will be among the parade marshals. Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer is producing a future movie about America’s “Horse Soldiers.”

5 Thoughts to “The Horse Soldiers of 9/11”

Emma

November 11, 2011 at 7:25 am

FABULOUS!

I love the tributes you post each year, Moon. Thanks for this one.

punchak

November 11, 2011 at 10:30 am

Agree with Emma! Thank you, Moon!

I have no one in my family or among my close friends who has a member in the military at this time. I don’t feel, in any way, that we are at war. Where’s the sacrifices? Whats more, was there a single question in the latest “debate” about the war?

It’s as if the war is taking place in a vacuum. I fell shame.