9/11/2001

On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, President Bush spoke from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska with his advisers in Washington, D.C., via videoconference. ” ‘We’re at war,’ Bush began. ‘We will find these people and they will suffer the consequence of taking on this nation. We will do what it takes.’ ”

 – Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 130