Sarah Kanowski
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We run into a room where the medic that was on duty was there.
And she has a small TV playing in the corner there.
And we watched with horror as the second plane flies into the Twin Towers in New York.
Not to me initially, but then one of the older guys said, he was an instructor, he'd served in war zones, and he said, men, we're all about to go to war.
But I wasn't a man yet.
I was 17.
Absolutely.
I was like, there's no way they'll send me.
And I was frustrated by that.
I was like, this has happened in my first year and I'm too young to go.
I'm too inexperienced.
Like I've missed my shot.
But I got a text message the next morning.
They let us go to sleep.
They knew something big was coming.
We'd graduated with our final eight.
And I wake up to a text message on a mobile phone that I bought a month before, the first of my life.
And the text message says, get to King's Cross, essentially.
You're joining HMAS Sydney and you're deploying.
And my initial feeling was I couldn't believe it.