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9-11 Feelings · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American Mama. I still get very emotional on nine
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  eleven. What feelings are conjured up in you on this anniversary. Well,
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  let's ask our American mama. Mama, Mama and joining us now American Mama.
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  Terry Netterville nine to eleven. Man, I still remember exactly where I
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  was, what I was doing when when I first heard I remember the whole
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  day. Yeah, I was. I was a reporter in East Texas and
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  went and covered a whole bunch of stuff. But what about you? What?
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  What? What does this day bring up in you? It's one of
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  those things, you know, it's so somber. I think about all of
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  the children who lost their parents that are now you know, like you know
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  Todd the litz Roga. Yes, I think about today. I said to
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  Kevin's that baby in her belly would be twenty two. Yeah, And I
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  think about the children especially. So I find myself going to YouTube and I
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  want to find something in there because there, of course, as you and
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  I both know, there are a lot of conspiracy theorists that will put things
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  in your head that make you start to question even our own government. Sure,
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  I don't like that. It makes me sick to my stomach, and
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  it makes me worried, to be honest with you, So I found some
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  stories of heroism, found some stories that really touched me, and one of
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  them was that on that day, there were ninety five planes, no I'm
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  sorry, thirty something planes that were in the airspace that had to be redirected
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  to this place called Gander, and that's in Canada, okay, And so
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  so these became international flights. They weren't supposed to be interesting, right right,
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  right, and they landed in Gander. There were seven thousand people that
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  deplaned. They were from ninety five different countries. Lot of them didn't even
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  know what Gander was or even what Canada was. Yeah. So anyway,
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  throughout this it was an Australian sixteen minutes thing. You know, I love
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  to watch Australian sixteen minutes. And but what I discovered and this is just
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  so such a human nature beautiful thing. These people that came off of the
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  plane, they were deplaned, and they were stuck there for five days.
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  And you see video of them watching the TVs in the terminals and they're crying.
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  They don't know, you know, they see the planes going through and
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  we all like we all did, right, you know, just you know,
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  I went and got my kids from school and we came home and I
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  kept them under my wings and I just couldn't stop. Maybe the difference for
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  them is since they were in the air at the time it happened, it
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  could have been their plane. Oh you know that had to be going through
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  that happen. But here's what happened. In this town with less than ten
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  thousand people, there were seven thousand people six thousand something that came and started
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  helping volunteer and there they had. You know, it's like one of these
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  things where the ants build them, is all these people in the terminal.
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  There was food, like a long food line, and these people of the
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  town came in with all of their food. They were serving the people that
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  had been deplaying Wow. Then there is a Salvation Army church that bedded one
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  hundred and ninety eight of them. So they did this little piece about them,
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  and they all became family, and the townspeople would come and entertain them
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  at night like bands or shows, talent shows, things like that. They
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  all became so tight. They still remain in tag, they still remain in
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  touch, and so when they were talking to the people of the town,
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  the mayor, he said, this is just what you do. You know,
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  these people became family within five days that by the time they left,
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  everyone was sad. They were sad to leave each other because they became family
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  during that time. And you had basically the number of pastures from airplanes landing
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  in the town doubled the size of the town. Yes, absolutely, that's
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  what he said. But it just is another reminder that you know, we
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  talked about it, mister Rogers when he said as that when tragic things happen,
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  when tragedy happens, look for the good. Look for those people helpers,
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  Yes, look for the helpers. So whenever this time of year comes
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  around, it kind of soothes my heart a little bit to see these types
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  of stories. It's kind of like the stories of the firemen that kind of
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  quasi adopted their co workers children and became father figures or mother figures to these
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  kids forever, walk them down the aisle, you know, fifteen twenty years
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  later when they got married, right, you know, So I look for
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  that because if I wallow in the devastation and the trauma, and then on
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  top of that, I start listening to all of the conspiracies that surround this
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  time. Yeah, I can find myself feeling helpless and hopeless. And in
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  a time like this, all we have is our hope. All we have
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  is not even not just our hope in the Lord, but our hope in
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  the human beings that we share the planet with. Right that not everybody is
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  is evil, not everybody is yes. I have to believe that. I
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  know that to be true. Right, And so those are the stories that
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  I look for. And so Gander and Canada is kind of my story for
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  this for this year. The main story I covered that day in These Texas
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  was a joint church service between the Catholic Church, the Protestant Church, the
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  local mosque, and the local synagogue. Wow. All of them held a
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  joint service that had hundreds of people in it that night in East Texas.
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  Wow. So that's one of the that's one of the memories that comes to
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  mind, is what you're talking about, that people actually came together. People
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  that you normally would have thought of they're not going to get along. They
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  got along that day. I love that. If you like to ask our
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  American Mama question, go to our website American ground Radio dot com, slash
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  mama and click on the ask the Mama button. Tarnt Otaville, thank you
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  so much, Thank you,