ProRodeo Sports News - September 17, 2021

REMEMBERING 2001

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Steve Gray

Cowboys remember 9/11 attacks 20 years later Not Forgotten Firemen carry an American flag into Globe Life Field at the 2020 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Arlington, Texas.

BY TRACY RENCK T revor Brazile was at the

26-time PRCAWorld Champion. “I was in a trailer asleep in the infield grounds of Umatilla (Ore.). I was rodeoing with Tommy Guy, and we got a call from Tommy’s mom that we were under

Pendleton Round-Up fast asleep in his trailer on the famed grounds in Oregon when he heard the news.

attack and to turn on the news. We didn’t know if it was two planes or if there were war planes coming after that. Nobody knew what was going to happen. It was a wake-up call for America, for sure. Before that, the thinking was that can’t happen here, and it was real sobering. It was a numbing situation.” The death toll of the attacks was 2,996. Saturday, Sept. 11, marked the 20th anniversary of those, and the events of that tragic day are fresh in the minds of cowboys who were competing on the PRCA trail.

The highjacked Flight 11 crashed into floors 93 to 99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City at 8:46 a.m. (ET). Flight 175 struck floors 77 to 85 of the South Tower 17 minutes later. It was part of a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the U.S. On Sept. 11, 2001, the world changed forever when the World Trade Center in New York City collapsed. “Heck, yeah, it is something I will never forget,” said Brazile, the

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