许多军人家属表示，在JD·万斯、皮特·赫格塞斯等人发表贬低军人的言论后，特朗普政府“理应向我们道歉”。
Military families say Trump officials ‘owe us an apology’ after disparaging remarks by JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and others On the morning of 11 September 2001, Perry Chalmers was running drills for the Royal Canadian Regiment’s specialised mortar platoon in New Brunswick when he heard the news: America was under attack.
2001年9月11日上午，佩里·查尔默斯正在新不伦瑞克省为加拿大皇家步兵团的迫击炮排进行训练，这时他听到了消息：美国遭到了袭击。消息迅速传遍了整个基地。
Word quickly spread across the base. “I went inside to watch the news,” the former corporal recalls.
“我立刻进屋看新闻，”这位前下士回忆道，“当时我的心情简直无法用言语形容——天啊，到底发生了什么？”
“And there was a huge feeling of – and you’re going to have to excuse me – holy shit. What the fuck just happened?”
查尔默斯随即给妻子打电话，妻子告诉他，上午10点半刚过，世贸中心第二座塔楼也倒塌了。
Chalmers called his wife, who informed him that, just before 10:30am, the second of the World Trade Center towers had fallen.
随即，他的部队接到了命令：由于北美空域全面关闭，他们需赶往附近的机场协助迫使民航飞机迫降。加拿大士兵们赶紧去取回背包及其他必需品，以备随时执行任务。正如查尔默斯所说：“一切都开始迅速运转起来。”
With that, his battalion was put on notice: dispatched to nearby airports to assist in the forced landings of commercial aircraft after the shutdown of North American airspace. The Canadian troops went to retrieve their rucksacks and any other necessities, should they need to spring into action at a moment’s notice. As Chalmers recalls: “Things started to happen really quickly.”