Amid all the partisan bickering between Republicans and Democrats over how each party presented the supposed gaffs of the other during the commemoration of the twenty fifth anniversary of 9/11, a historic memorial ceremony marked by a rare sense of unity was held in New York City on September 11th by an elite group of Green Beret Special Forces and CIA operatives. As in the past, when I have been invited by this remarkable brotherhood of warfighters who made history by leveraging local Afghan Uzbek horse warriors to provide America with a proxy force to overthrow the Taliban in 2001, I was invited to commemorate September 11th at what is one of the most powerful memorials to that tragedy; the America’s Response statue overlooking the Reflection Pools in Manhattan. Tourists who visit the nearby 9/11 Museum and Reflection Pools or go up the new World Trade Center often miss this 16-foot dramatic bronze statue of a horse mounted Special Forces soldier built on a promontory overlooking the hallowed grounds of the square. But on this crisp blue afternoon that was eerily reminiscent of that fine day shattered by planes flying into buildings a quarter of a century ago, the tourists could not fail to notice the activity on the knoll as scores of soldiers dressed in dress uniforms and the legendary Green Beret gathered for a historic event to honor their own.