This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.

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Your mission is ours.

The crew knew that it was time to go to war.

It was important to me to put this on perspective for these wonderful young men and women,

5,000 of whom were aboard that ship.

I reminded them that last time that America actually went to war to defend against an attack

on our homeland was exactly 60 years prior when a treacherous enemy conducted a surprise

attack on Pearl Harbor.

And during that attack, a different enterprise, the World War II, was actually at sea on

her way home, like we were.

And was ultimately the first response to Japanese aggression and the Pacific by attacking the

martial islands.

And I told them that ever since then that whenever America's gone to war, it's been to protect

freedom and our vital interests and those of our allies.

But we've not had to defend our own homeland for a long time.

But on September 11th, our enterprise was on our way home.

And tonight, our enterprise was going to again be an integral part of our nation's response.

This is the fourth in a series of episodes we are producing to commemorate the 20th anniversary

of 9-11.

In this series, we are interviewing a number of people about where they were, what they

saw and what they did on 9-11.

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