Some days leave even a grumpy Bavarian-Texan like me without Schnodder or jokes. September 11, 2001 – that was one of those days. Kein Bier, kein football banter, just silence, shock, and a world changed in an instant. Texans on the Front Lines What many forget – Texas did not sit on the sidelines. Right after the towers fell and the Pentagon burned, rescue teams rolled out. Texas Task Force 1, based in College Station, deployed to New York within…