Sept. 11, 2001. Like Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination before it, if you were alive that day you remember where you were. Our guest today remembers where he was as well. He was at the center of the US command control in a sealed bunker below the White House. Beside sat Secretary of State Dr. Condoleza Rice and directly behind him stood Vice President Dick Cheney. Lt. Col. Darling takes us step by step, blow by blow throughout all the shattering events that unfolded that day. The sheer volume of information flooding the bunker; how they discerned what was a real threat and had to be dealt with immediately; the real world order to scramble two F-15s to down Flight 93 heading on a collision course with the White House and the leaders of the free world. This is a story that non of us have had access to before. This is real history by a man in a command seat on the most horrible day in recent history. This is living history; it doesn't get anymore real than this...Podcast:
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