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Called to Serve, Called to Coach
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Mike Viti still remembers the impact that dark day had on him.
He was a high schooler when a plane hijacked by terrorists crashed into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania field about 200 miles away from his hometown of Berwick, Pennsylvania.
Earlier that same day, two other hijacked planes had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. Another had slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
A grieving nation spent days, weeks, months and even years mourning the 2,977 Americans killed on September 11, 2001, and Viti, who at the time was playing high school football and starting to think about his future, felt called to action during a visit to West Point.