Joseph Mecham was a 17 year old kid still living at home when the terrorist attacks happened on September 11th 2001. Still in his pajamas, just starting to get ready for school, his mom relayed the devastating news to him. That day impacted Joe on a level that no one could've ever known. Now 30 years old and happily married, Joe is still affected by those events. In the years following the attacks he enlisted in the army and has since served one tour in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. Serving as a specialist in an SFOD-D unit, Joe made sacrifices that he can never talk about, sacrifices that most of us could never bring ourselves to make. He has seen and experienced things that most people could not even fathom, and those images and experiences will be burned into his mind for the rest of his life. Lest we not forget, freedom isn't free.
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