Recruiting a generation with no memory of Sept. 11

Military Times: This fall 18-year-old Cadi Herman will join the Navy. So will her 21-year-old twin brothers, Dominic and Maveric Herman.

Besides the unusual element of having all of the siblings from one family enlist together, there’s something else that sets them apart from the millennial-generation recruits who have signed up over the last decade: They have no memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

Cadi Herman was only 2 when the towers fell. Her older brothers were 5. The attacks didn’t inspire them to serve, even though the country is still on a war footing.

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