Sgt. Maj. Allen Cartledge says everyone was ‘stuck to the TVs’
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Allen Cartledge looks through a scrapbook from one of his deployments in a shed he has turned into his workshop and “sanctuary” in his backyard. Cartledge was deployed in Iraq from 2009-2010 and in Afghanistan from 2013-2014. (Photo by Scoggins)
Twenty years ago, Sgt. Maj. Allen Cartledge was sitting inside the Georgia Army National Guard office on Calhoun Falls Highway when the first plane flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center …