CINCINNATI — Serving his country was always part of Jason Snow’s journey, but doing that with the Ohio National Guard was never on the radar.

After graduating high school in 1993, he joined the U.S. Navy to get money to further his education. He served for four years, hanging up his service uniforms in 1997.

But the pull of duty would come back to him four years later, on Sept. 11, 2001.

Snow was working a forklift at the time in a factory.

“Someone came up and told me that a plane crashed into the Twin Towers," Snow said. "I said, 'Well, an air traffic controller must have really messed up on that one.' Then the second one. Then, I started to think, like what's going on? And then another co-worker said the Pentagon just got hit. And I said, 'Well, that's impossible. You can't get to the Pentagon.'

"I knew at that moment that we are under attack, and I need to do something personally.”

Four months later, Snow joined the Guard.

“I was mentally prepared, yes," Snow said. "Already having the military background and knowing what it takes to be successful and to lead. I had those already.”

And Snow’s nearly 20-year journey sent him all over the world.

“There's been a series of deployments, from Germany to Iraq, to Washington, D.C.,” he said.

Fellow Ohio National Guard member Dylan Stenski, on the other hand, has no memory of that day. He had just turned 21 months old.

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“I have absolutely no recollection of anything that happened," he said. "I don't remember anything."

While Stenski would learn the historical significance of 9/11 in school, he also learned that his father wanted to step up and enlist. It would prove to be a tall task with a toddler and another baby on the way.

Now Stenski is tasked with signal system support for the Ohio National Guard, in the same unit as Sgt. 1st Class Snow.

“It's an opportunity; it's a privilege,” Stenski said. “I grew up not having to worry about an attack on American soil because there were other people out there protecting me. So now there's me in that position. “

Sfc. Snow is the 1-174^th Air Defense Artillery Regiment’s battalion master gunner and readiness NCO.

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“That gives me the opportunity to get the soldiers ready for these higher op-tempo deployments that we have, you know, around the country and overseas, as well,” Snow said.

The Guard changed after 9/11. It is no longer just sent out on humanitarian missions domestically. Many soldiers spent months, if not years, overseas in Iraq or Afghanistan.

As Sfc. Snow reflects on 9/11, the day that pulled him back to duty, and Cpl. Stenski looks back to a day he doesn’t remember but feels its effects daily on his enlistment, each say it is both history and reality.

CINCINNATI — One Cincinnati mother’s fight for justice continued Saturday night – 10 years after losing her son to gun violence.

Lisa Marie Gould, whose 19-year-old son David Gould was shot and killed in a Madisonville apartment building in 2011 is calling on someone to come forward and pleading with the community to bring a halt to gun violence.

“I made this myself,” Lisa Marie Gould said, referring to a sign for her son. “I make on every year.”

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Although the apartment building where she lost her son has since been torn down, friends and family still gather across the street each year – to honor a missing loved one and to pray for answers.

“My son David was a ray of sunshine,” Lisa Marie Gould said. “He walked into a room and lit it up. He was very silly. He was very comical. My family and I, we love in and we miss him. And we want that killer to be found to justice.”

She is calling on other parents and other community members to stand up with her and do something to try and reduce gun violence in Cincinnati.

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“We’ve come this far, but faith,” Lisa Marie Gould said. “And this killing needs to stop. It doesn’t matter what color their shade of skin is, it doesn’t matter what their nationality is, we are all God’s children.

Although David Gould’s homicide has been unsolved for a decade, his mother still holds out hope his killer will be found. Anyone with information on the case should contact CrimeStoppers at 352-3040.