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Former Marine Dave Karnes was sitting at an accountant’s desk in Connecticut on the morning of September 11, 2001, when the second airliner struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
He told the people around him that the country was at war, walked out, stopped for a high and tight haircut, put on the uniform he kept from active duty, collected what gear he had, and pointed his car at New York. Roadblocks and closed highways did not stop him. He felt a calling to look for anyone still living in the wreckage.
At Ground Zero he found Jason Thomas, another former Marine who had thrown on his own old uniform and driven in from Long Island. The two of them moved into the unstable heap of steel and concrete, shouting “US Marines!” until faint voices answered from below. They had located Port Authority officers Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, trapped about twenty feet down. More rescuers arrived, and after long hours of digging, both men came out alive.
Karnes remained at the site for 9 days afterward, then went back and reenlisted. He served two tours of duty in Iraq. Neither Marine chased the spotlight. Their names spread later partly because of Oliver Stone's film, World Trade Center, which told the officers’ story.
25 years later, the lesson still holds. Training, duty, and the refusal to look away can still find someone in the dark. Remember the first responders, the civilians who ran toward the towers, and the two former Marines who kept calling until someone called back.
Never forget.