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US Strategic Command official remembers 9/11 attacks 20 years later

By Jackie Ourada, Morning Edition Host & Reporter Nebraska Public Media

Sept. 10, 2021, 11 a.m. ·

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The old US Strategic Command building on Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Nebraska. (Photo Courtesy of US Strategic Command)

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Michael Wrobel, a Branch Chief Adversary at US Strategic Command, was stationed on Offutt Air Force Base in September 2001. He reflects on the day four planes were hijacked on 9/11, killing thousands of people.

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In an interview with Nebraska Public Media News, Michael Wrobel remembers his friend William Bailey who died from a roadside bomb. (Photo Courtesy of Michael Wrobel)



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