Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was still in law school when the Twin Towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, literally shaking Manhattan and claiming the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans.
As a Harvard law student in his early twenties, Cotton’s life took a big turn on that day. He had planned on being a lawyer. But like thousands of other Americans, Cotton set his own life plans aside after that day and patriotically joined the military in the War on Terror.