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9-11 · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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Speaker 1: We got a question for our American mamas. Dear Mama's,
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Speaker 1: is nine to eleven becoming less powerful to Americans every year?
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Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas, Mamma.
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Speaker 1: And joining us now our American mama's Terry Nudeville and
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Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlison. Look, I still remember that day so vividly.
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Speaker 1: My son was a month old. I was working in
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Speaker 1: news at the time, and on my way to the
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Speaker 1: TV station I had to talk myself out of not
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Speaker 1: going to the military recruiters off the arm recruiters office.
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Speaker 1: I really was, Oh boy, I wanted to go sign
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Speaker 1: up for the military. That day. Ended up covering that
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Speaker 1: night a vigil with at the at the Catholic Church
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Speaker 1: with the Catholic congregation, bath, the Baptist, Jewish, and the
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Speaker 1: Muslim congregations in town all at the same building that night.
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Speaker 1: Was one of the stories I covered on nine to eleven.
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Speaker 3: I mean, my memory is the same thing. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I remember that day like it was yesterday, every detail
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Speaker 3: of it. But I remember the feeling of absolute fear,
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Speaker 3: so much fear and uncertainty about what does this mean
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Speaker 3: for us? And then right after we've talked about just
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Speaker 3: the patriotism. Every house had a flag. You couldn't find
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Speaker 3: a flag. Our next door neighbor who is Iranian, came
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Speaker 3: over and said, please, do you have any extra flags?
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Speaker 3: You know, he was very nervous, and you know, gave
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Speaker 3: him a flag to put in his yard.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I remember going to get steel from school.
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Speaker 2: He was three, and I feel like that I was
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Speaker 2: glued to the TV for days because they were trying
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Speaker 2: to find You were watching these people trying to find
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Speaker 2: their loved ones. Yeah, and there was a song that
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Speaker 2: came out side of that. Alan Jackson did because it
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Speaker 2: resonated so fully because he talked about watching I Love
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Speaker 2: Lucy Reeve Runs, and I really was. I had to
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Speaker 2: get away from it because it was taking a mental
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Speaker 2: toll because I was scared. I was worried for these people.
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Speaker 2: I wondered how it could happen. And now, all of
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Speaker 2: these years later, every time we come around to this
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Speaker 2: time of year, I think about the families of those
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Speaker 2: that lost their loved one, whether in the building or
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Speaker 2: the firefighters and the police officers that went up there,
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Speaker 2: and they're heroics and tried to save people. Yesterday, Kevin
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Speaker 2: and I were watching he watches the Country Channel, the
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Speaker 2: Hunting Channel, and they were doing a lot of these
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Speaker 2: remember when, you know, just trying to remember when and
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Speaker 2: talk about that time in our American history. And now
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Speaker 2: that we know a little bit more about what happened
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Speaker 2: during that time, it changes the way that I feel. Actually,
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Speaker 2: I'm almost enraged that it was able to happen because
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of I know there's conspiracy theories, but
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that have been come out
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Speaker 2: and it's factual. And to think that things could have
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Speaker 2: been different had we had a government that took care
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Speaker 2: of business the way that it was supposed to. And
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Speaker 2: I won't go into further detail, but I will say
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Speaker 2: that I think about the children of those who had that,
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Speaker 2: the children who lost their parents, yeah that, and I
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Speaker 2: wonder how their life was so completely altered such a
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Speaker 2: demonic action.
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Speaker 1: Pete Davidson, I think you can you can say his
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Speaker 1: life was absolutely altered by that. And I think there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that he's gone through and is Yes,
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Speaker 1: I mey successful comedian, well known all this, but I
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Speaker 1: think you also go he's a guy who's admitted he's
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Speaker 1: had to deal with a lot of very very dark stuff,
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Speaker 1: in part because he lost his dad at such a
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Speaker 1: young age. Is dad, you know, a firefighter there at
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven.
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Speaker 3: One of my really good friends who are really close
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Speaker 3: friends to the Birdwells and Brian Birdwell. A lot of
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Speaker 3: people know he's a state senator in Texas and he
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Speaker 3: was in the pen gone and so he was burned
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Speaker 3: over ninety percent of his family over his body. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and now he speaks, He speaks all over and he
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Speaker 3: has very moving testimony just about his life and what
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Speaker 3: that went through. And then when we had our nonprofit
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Speaker 3: where we were helping military families, all of those service members,
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Speaker 3: that's when they signed up. It was that experience that
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Speaker 3: caused them to go sign up. So as we know
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Speaker 3: most of those people that served by six deployments, you know,
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Speaker 3: their lives are forever altered based on what happened there.
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Speaker 2: I think about Pat Tillman and his brother, Yeah, same thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: left NFL, one of the highest paid to join. The
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Speaker 2: patriotism was through the roof. And I remember feeling that
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Speaker 2: and I want that feeling back. And I wonder now,
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Speaker 2: in today's time, how would we respond. We're so divided now,
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Speaker 2: so divided, so much more divide.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we were divided in two thousand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that brought us together.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I just wonder what would happen. I pray to God
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Speaker 2: that First of all, I pray to God that would
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Speaker 2: never happen again, right, But if something we're to happen
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Speaker 2: where we needed to find unity and we needed to
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Speaker 2: find our love of country, I would pray that that's
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Speaker 2: what would take hold. I feel like it is. I
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Speaker 2: feel like when you if you look with your own
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Speaker 2: eyes on TV, especially when you see Trump and you
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Speaker 2: see Kamala. Trump has these you know, crowds, these massive
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Speaker 2: crowds of people with flags, and you can feel the
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Speaker 2: patriotism when they're being interviewed. Kamala does not have the
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Speaker 2: same thing. So I do feel like the majority of
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Speaker 2: the country is they are patriots. And I think during
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Speaker 2: this time every year, we should honor those who perish,
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Speaker 2: you know. Summer and I took a trip to New
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Speaker 2: York so that we could go see the tower where
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Speaker 2: the towers were. Yeah, the more and it is the
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Speaker 2: most life transforming experience because they have the pictures, they
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Speaker 2: have the videos, they have people, the way that they've
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Speaker 2: set up this museum. It takes you back to that
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Speaker 2: time in your heart is just it bleeds for your country.
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Speaker 1: of a Kimberly listen. Thank you so much.
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