Reading an article in the April issue of the print edition of Army Magazine, I came across a double-page (double-truck as we say in the newspaper business) photograph of six M1 Abrams tanks. They belonged to the Third Infantry Division and were in line at an assembly area in Kuwait hours before they rolled into Iraq on March 20, 2003.
I had to use a magnifying glass to read what was stenciled on the barrels of their main guns. It was probably reported at the time but it’s news to me six years later. Usually, as in Vietnam, for instance, such barrel art is crude or rude. These were different. American Airlines Flight 11 was the wording on the barrel in the photo’s foreground. The other Sept. 11 airliners were commemorated on the rest.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
