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Looking Back On 9/11 · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American Mamas. Dear Mamas, does
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  Speaker 1: 9-11 hit differently for you this year? Well, let's ask
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  Speaker 1: our American Mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us now, our American Mama, Terry Netterville.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know about for you, but for me,
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  Speaker 1: it definitely did this year. And maybe it was the
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  Speaker 1: drone show over New York. I've watched that several times,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes me tear up every single time. But
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  Speaker 1: has this year been different for you?
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  Speaker 3: It has.
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  Speaker 1: How so?
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  Speaker 3: Well, a couple of things have changed.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, every year I do this, I go
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  Speaker 4: back to where I was during that time.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I remember dropping steel off in preschool, and then
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  Speaker 4: someone called me and told me about it, and I
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  Speaker 4: was home.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember waking Kevin and just finished the night shift.
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  Speaker 4: And I woke him up and I said, something is
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  Speaker 4: terribly wrong is happening in New York. So I got
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  Speaker 4: back in my car and went and got, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know why I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Steal back home. I just want everybody back at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you, you, it was just an uneasy time.
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  Speaker 4: And to think 25 years later, every year I go
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  Speaker 4: back and I rewatch the timeline again.
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  Speaker 3: I listened to all of the clips, the news clips.
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  Speaker 4: Right. I immersed myself back into it. But here's what's
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  Speaker 4: different this year. There's a new Netflix documentary, and it's
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  Speaker 4: the reunion, it's the 9-11 reunion, where people are reunited
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  Speaker 4: with those who helped them get out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Who helped save them that day.
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  Speaker 1: Like the man in the red bandana, who obviously was
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  Speaker 1: just honored by President Trump, but there's several people that said, look,
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  Speaker 1: the man in the red bandana saved me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there are so many.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Think about the firemen and firewomen that went.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know if they're firewomen, but the firemen
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  Speaker 4: that went up knowing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They probably were not going to make it out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. But they have story after story after story. And
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  Speaker 4: so this year, I am filled with so much gratitude
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  Speaker 4: for the heroes among us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to read something to you because I
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  Speaker 3: want to take you all back.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the majority of what we saw.
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  Speaker 3: And now we're hearing these stories more and more and more.
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  Speaker 3: But you all remember Todd Beamer. Oh, yeah. Let's roll.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to go back.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the flight that crashed in Shanksville, and
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  Speaker 1: there's the story that came out about him, but he
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  Speaker 1: was on his phone with his wife, and they were
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  Speaker 1: planning to take over the plane because they knew that
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  Speaker 1: the other attacks had happened, and Todd Beamer said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's roll, and then the plane crashed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I want to take you back because he was
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  Speaker 4: on the phone with a lot of people don't give
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  Speaker 4: credit to those who took the calls, the 911.
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  Speaker 3: Calls, keeping them calm.
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  Speaker 4: So this woman that answered Todd's call was named Lisa Beamer.
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  Speaker 4: And Todd was a father, a husband, and a hero.
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  Speaker 4: So Todd says to her, hello, operator, listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: I can't speak very loud. This is an emergency. I'm
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  Speaker 4: a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our
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  Speaker 4: plane has been hijacked.
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  Speaker 3: She says, I understand. Can they see you?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: There are three that we know of.
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  Speaker 4: They have knives, razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced
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  Speaker 4: from the cockpit there was a bomb.
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  Speaker 3: It sounded fake. She says, your name? Todd.
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  Speaker 4: Todd Beamer, United Flight 93. They killed one passenger in
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  Speaker 4: first class. They forced most of us back. 14 of
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  Speaker 4: us are here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the
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  Speaker 4: bomb ordered us to sit on the floor. She says,
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  Speaker 4: are you okay? We're going down. Wait, no. We're leveling off.
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  Speaker 4: We changed directions. We're flying east again. He said, a
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  Speaker 4: guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two
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  Speaker 4: planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
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  Speaker 4: She says, I have to tell you the truth. It's
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  Speaker 4: very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit
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  Speaker 4: the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I'm afraid your
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  Speaker 4: plane may be part of their plan. He says, oh, God, Lisa,
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  Speaker 4: will you do something for me? Call my wife and
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  Speaker 4: my kids. Promise me you'll call them.
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  Speaker 3: She says, I promise.
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  Speaker 4: He says, our home number is. You have the same
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  Speaker 4: name as my wife, Lisa. We've been married 10 years.
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  Speaker 4: She's pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her.
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  Speaker 4: I'll always love her. We have two boys, David.
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  Speaker 3: He's three. Andrew's one.
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  Speaker 4: Tell them their daddy loves them and is so proud
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  Speaker 4: of them. The baby's due January 12th. I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know what it is yet. Lisa says, I'll tell them
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  Speaker 4: I promised Todd. And then an agent comes on. Todd,
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  Speaker 4: your plane is on course for Washington.
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  Speaker 3: Best guess? Is the White House or the Capitol? Todd says,
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  Speaker 3: I understand. I'll be back.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone knows this isn't a normal hijacking. We have decided
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  Speaker 4: we will not be pawns in this plot. Lisa says,
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  Speaker 4: what are you going to do? Todd says, four of
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  Speaker 4: us are going to rush the one with a bomb.
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  Speaker 3: Then the cockpit.
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  Speaker 4: A stewardess is getting boiling water. We'll take them out.
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  Speaker 4: Todd says, would you pray with me? So he and
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  Speaker 4: Lisa pray the Lord's Prayer. And then he says, yea,
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  Speaker 4: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
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  Speaker 4: I will fear no evil for thou art with me.
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  Speaker 3: Todd says, God, help me. Jesus, help me. And then
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  Speaker 3: he turns to his friends and he says, are you
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  Speaker 3: guys ready? Let's roll.
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing that the heroism and the point of
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  Speaker 1: we will not be pawns.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: In this plot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I have to believe that had passengers on the
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  Speaker 1: other planes had the opportunity to know, certainly on the
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  Speaker 1: first plane, they had no idea. Second plane, probably no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Even the one that hit the Pentagon, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: they knew.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Had they known, I feel like there would have been
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  Speaker 1: some Americans who would have had that same level of
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  Speaker 1: courage and said, we're not going to be pawns.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what else I love about it?
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  Speaker 4: Every time I watch one of these clips from that
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  Speaker 4: time talking to the people who were there, every single
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  Speaker 4: one of them say that in those moments they were
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  Speaker 4: talking to God.
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  Speaker 3: They were praying to God. They were asking God to
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  Speaker 3: hold them.
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  Speaker 4: One of the sisters, the man that was caught Jumping
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  Speaker 4: out the window.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: His sister said, I just know that God caught their
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  Speaker 4: spirit before.
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  Speaker 3: They hit the ground.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question,
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  Speaker 1: the Ask the Mamas button. Terry Netter, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.