
Army veteran, Senate candidate Jake Bequette says after 9/11, he 'felt the call to wear the uniform'
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U.S. Army veteran, former NFL player and Arkansas Senate primary candidate Jake Bequette said the global war on terror was "omnipresent" throughout his "formative" years, telling Fox News he "felt the call to wear the uniform" as a result of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and the years following.
"I was in my seventh-grade English class. We had a substitute teacher, and she walked into the class and told us the World Trade Center had been bombed," he explained. "None of us had any idea what the World Trade Center was, but we knew it was in New York City." Bequette recalled being dismissed from school early and returned home, surprised to see his father there. Bequette said his father worked in a skyscraper in Little Rock, Ark., and that his building was evacuated.More Related News