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9-11: Where Were You On 9-11-01? Our Stories Are How We Never Forget. · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: 25 years since 9-11. What we now just commonly refer to.
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  Speaker 1: It's a figure of speech. 9-11. Where are you? 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: Remember 9-11? 9-11 was terrible. Now it's just a... But
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  Speaker 1: think back, and I invite you to, and I have
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  Speaker 1: a request for you, to think back to 9-11, 2001,
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  Speaker 1: and think about where you were. Because I just discovered
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  Speaker 1: something recently, a few weeks ago, this past summer over
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  Speaker 1: a summer trip, where I kind of came to the conclusion...
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  Speaker 1: that nobody's forgotten. I used to be one of those
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  Speaker 1: guys that says, oh, we forgot. Look at recent events. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we totally forgot. We love to say we'll never forget,
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  Speaker 1: but we forgot. I used to say that until recently
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  Speaker 1: because I came to the conclusion that everybody remembers 9-11-2001
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a couple of years after that in some
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  Speaker 1: different events because this is an event that changed everything
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  Speaker 1: and is ongoing. It really is. I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 1: changed for me to say that. Everybody has a story
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  Speaker 1: about where they were. And this was at a family
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  Speaker 1: gathering where people were talking about people of all different ages,
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  Speaker 1: where you were on that specific day, that specific morning.
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  Speaker 1: I know where I was. I'll tell you here in
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  Speaker 1: just a minute as we get into it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: really important, I've realized, is to keep these stories together
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  Speaker 1: and talk about it. This is how we truly never forget.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't forget. Because I found in my life in
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  Speaker 1: the past 25 years, very few people have a foggy
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  Speaker 1: memory of that day. Right? If you're of adult age
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  Speaker 1: of any age, especially if you're in your 50s like
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  Speaker 1: me or maybe even 40s as you were a kid,
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  Speaker 1: older for sure, everybody remembers and has some sort of
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  Speaker 1: a distinct memory of that day, where you found out
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  Speaker 1: about it, what you were watching, what you were doing
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  Speaker 1: at the time, the first calls you made. Remember that?
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  Speaker 1: And that's how we don't forget, and we should never forget, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: That's the obvious conclusion here. But think back for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do that over the next couple of minutes and
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  Speaker 1: think back to where you were 9-11, 2001. Because it
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  Speaker 1: all puts it in perspective. We'll get into it. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for being here. I appreciate you, by the way. Very
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  Speaker 1: somber day, obviously. I thought for years what this day
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  Speaker 1: would be like. Years. What will that 25th anniversary be like?
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  Speaker 1: What will it be like? And here we are. A
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  Speaker 1: lot has changed. A lot hasn't changed. But where do
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  Speaker 1: we go from here? That's the big question. Anyway. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for finding Wicked Radio, the live stream, 8 a.m. Eastern Time,
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  Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, and the replay on X YouTube and Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: and the audio podcast will be uploaded shortly after the
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  Speaker 1: live stream. Let's go back to it and just some memories. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we all still have these images of this.
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  Speaker 1: And I encourage you to. There was a while there
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  Speaker 1: where I'm like, I can't watch another 9-11 commemoration. You know,
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  Speaker 1: every single year they would show the replay and the documentaries.
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  Speaker 1: I encourage you to still watch them. And it's not...
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  Speaker 1: It's brutal to do, and you've got to figure out
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  Speaker 1: in your own family what's age appropriate. You do. It's important.
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  Speaker 1: Like if there's little kids or little grandkids around, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to temper this a little bit. I encourage you, though,
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  Speaker 1: truly to share this with your family members, the younger
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  Speaker 1: ones that weren't alive then. I truly do. It's another
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  Speaker 1: piece of how we don't forget. We all remember video
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  Speaker 1: scenes like this. People just couldn't believe what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting to me. And media technology plays a
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  Speaker 1: big part in this whole thing of how a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these, a lot of what we see now, 25
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  Speaker 1: years later, we didn't see these video clips until four
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  Speaker 1: or five years after the fact. Yeah, it's wild to
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  Speaker 1: me because media is so different now. We all have these.
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  Speaker 1: We all have cell phones. We all document things in
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  Speaker 1: real time all the time. That was different back then.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big part of this. Remember things like this?
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those pieces of videotape that got
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  Speaker 1: unearthed like maybe 2000. 2005-2006, and it was a big
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  Speaker 1: deal when ABC showed it, but you remember this? Somebody
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  Speaker 1: happened to catch, on a VHS recorder, remember those? The
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  Speaker 1: plane hitting, the second plane hitting.
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  Speaker 2: I had one.
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  Speaker 1: Another reason why that's wild to me, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: that would be sitting in somebody's camcorder for a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe, I don't know, maybe some of the networks
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to show it. The emotion was too raw.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But there's an example of how things
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  Speaker 1: have changed for sure. This would have been reported and
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  Speaker 1: documented so differently these days. Think about it. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess this is where I kind of go into like
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  Speaker 1: where I was at the day. So as you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a radio background, so I'll never forget where
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  Speaker 1: I was. I'll never forget the sound. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: this sounds so archaic. 25 years ago. So I was
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  Speaker 1: working morning radio. It was, of all things, a country
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  Speaker 1: music station at the time. I'll never forget the sound
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  Speaker 1: of an AP, Associated Press, newswire machine going off down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. This is before anything's happening. This is the
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  Speaker 1: first alert I got. And I'm going, let me go
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  Speaker 1: see what that is. Of course, you know, late in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, pretty much wrapping up the morning show. People
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  Speaker 1: are already arriving at work. And I go down to
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  Speaker 1: the hall and I rip off, this is how I
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  Speaker 1: used to do it, a dot matrix printer. Again, it
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  Speaker 1: was a long time ago. I rip it off and
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  Speaker 1: I read the thing. I still have this news copy,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. I kept it for some weird reason.
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  Speaker 1: And it says, I'll never forget what it said in
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  Speaker 1: that block letter writing, a small commuter plane possibly has
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  Speaker 1: hit one of the World Trade Center towers. This is
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  Speaker 1: after people, that clip I just showed you, people had
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  Speaker 1: already seen it happen. If that had happened today, You'd
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  Speaker 1: have it on X. You'd have it on the major
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  Speaker 1: news networks. People would be streaming live. It was such
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  Speaker 1: a delay in finding out what had happened at the time,
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  Speaker 1: which goes into, so you go in there and you
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  Speaker 1: kind of talk about that. You may have heard about this, guys.
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  Speaker 1: AP is reporting that a small commuter plane possibly may
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  Speaker 1: have hit one of the World Trade Center towers in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. We'll give you more details as they come.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we were. This is already most likely after
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  Speaker 1: most of the damage had already been done on that
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  Speaker 1: one tower. This is how different media was, information was
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  Speaker 1: 25 years ago. So we're talking about it. Then at
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  Speaker 1: that point, obviously, you know, well, we better turn on
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  Speaker 1: the monitors in the studio. We better see what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here. And you're looking at it. And then the
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  Speaker 1: news channels and then the New York City metro traffic helicopters,
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  Speaker 1: which is where we got a lot of the footage
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  Speaker 1: that we look at now, started to zoom in on
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  Speaker 1: this thing. And we're walking, we go. And then more
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  Speaker 1: people get interested because the question started to arise that
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  Speaker 1: that's not it. Remember, at this point, they're telling us
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  Speaker 1: a small plane possibly may have had an accident. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like any kind of damage a small plane
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  Speaker 1: would do. That doesn't look like that. And then more
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  Speaker 1: people kind of gathered around, and just like in your office,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, more people looked at it. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of damage. And we saw the damage, and then we
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  Speaker 1: saw the fireball, and then we saw this building, and
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  Speaker 1: then we saw the second plane hit. And that's probably
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  Speaker 1: the moment That's what we did see live on broadcasts
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  Speaker 1: across the world. That's when everybody freaked out, and it
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  Speaker 1: was unbelievable. For me, I was trying to straighten out
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  Speaker 1: all this misinformation that was happening at the time, and boy,
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  Speaker 1: was there a lot. Go on the air. It wound
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  Speaker 1: up being, just personally, as we all share our own stories,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was 16 straight hours on the air. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is radio. This is where a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: were getting their information, trying to decipher throughout the day
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. We tend to forget, speaking of that,
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  Speaker 1: What we didn't know during that entire day, right? So
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  Speaker 1: kind of talking people through it, talking them through it,
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  Speaker 1: understanding what's going on. Here's what we know so far.
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  Speaker 1: Try to bring in some people, any contacts you have
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  Speaker 1: in New York, let's put them on the air. What
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  Speaker 1: do you know without hyping people up? What do we
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  Speaker 1: know so far? Of course, we saw the towers fall down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you were watching it too, because we did
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  Speaker 1: see that live. By that time, all the cameras were
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  Speaker 1: set up. Can you remember the moment of rage you felt?
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  Speaker 1: I remember being so incredibly freaking angry when, well, first
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  Speaker 1: tower obviously fell down, which the second one hit, but
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  Speaker 1: the other one too. And just the impossibility of that
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  Speaker 1: actually happening. So feeling like this, Another piece of video.
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  Speaker 1: These were people gathering in Times Square watching this happen live.
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  Speaker 1: This is when the plane first immediately hit, and people
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  Speaker 1: just flabbergasted that this should actually happen. I think these
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  Speaker 1: were guys heading to their Wall Street jobs.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? That could be a suicide. Couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't believe it. And then, of course, we all know
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  Speaker 1: as it got worse from there, I've always thought about
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  Speaker 1: this story, too. It was somebody I worked with at
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  Speaker 1: the time in that station who popped into the studio.
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  Speaker 1: And when this was the disastrous scene, I mean, this was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, after towers were collapsing and we knew exactly
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  Speaker 1: what happened, or we thought we knew what happened. People
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  Speaker 1: running down the street. Fucking Christ!
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  Speaker 2: My God! Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's more video we didn't see until after the fact. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: it was a different media age. This guy walked into
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  Speaker 1: the studio, and I thought it was such a bizarre,
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  Speaker 1: inappropriate comment at the time, but I've thought about this
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  Speaker 1: comment a lot over the years because I think it
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  Speaker 1: speaks to where we were at the time. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: his thought when we saw the towers fall, the first
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  Speaker 1: one anyway, he said, my God, did the disaster movies
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  Speaker 1: get it right? I remember turning around looking at him going, well,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. Who the hell says that? I
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  Speaker 1: thought about it. What he was actually saying was we
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  Speaker 1: had to this point never seen anything like this. This
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  Speaker 1: is why it took so long to wrap our heads
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  Speaker 1: around it. That's what he was actually saying. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: trying to be inappropriate. He was saying it's like a
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  Speaker 1: disaster movie. It's like nothing. we've ever seen that's what
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  Speaker 1: he was actually expressing and he was exactly right and
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  Speaker 1: then of course you remember where you were going through
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  Speaker 1: that entire thing you're wondering his I was I was
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  Speaker 1: you know personal stories I'm on the air trying to
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  Speaker 1: talk people through this thing gathering bits of information as
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  Speaker 1: we go as we all were sharing it with your
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  Speaker 1: friends and family members and Then we heard about the Pentagon,
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  Speaker 1: of course. And then, if you recall, we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: at the time if this was a worldwide thing, if
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  Speaker 1: they were going to major capital cities. We kind of
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  Speaker 1: spec the Pentagon crash or the Pennsylvania crash where we
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  Speaker 1: know the Flight 93 fought back. We didn't know whether
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  Speaker 1: that was headed to New York as well or Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: We found out later that they did have plans for that.
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  Speaker 1: And we found out all this stuff. But that day,
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  Speaker 1: that day was a lot different. And you've got a
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  Speaker 1: story too. You were either at work, you were at home,
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  Speaker 1: you were doing something. But everybody remembers. And that's what's
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  Speaker 1: changed for me. We truly shouldn't forget, obviously. And that's
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  Speaker 1: how we don't forget. Express those stories. Talk about the time.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the fear. Talk about what happened. And talk
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  Speaker 1: about too, make this part of your story. Talk about
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  Speaker 1: the heroism. I tend to forget about this. This was
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  Speaker 1: one of the most successful mass evacuations in world history.
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  Speaker 1: A document, and I'm talking about the ferry boats. There
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  Speaker 1: were 500,000, I think plus, but 500,000 they can account for,
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  Speaker 1: people evacuated from lower Manhattan and all of Manhattan through
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  Speaker 1: 150 boats. I don't know if you ever saw this documentary,
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  Speaker 1: but the Coast Guard reached out to all the ferries,
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  Speaker 1: all the transportation boats, all the... tourism boats, and they
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  Speaker 1: all said, anybody that can, please help evacuate these people.
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  Speaker 1: And they did all day long. Lower tip of Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the boat was going to flip over because
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  Speaker 2: so many people were trying.
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  Speaker 1: To get on. And as I looked behind, they were
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  Speaker 1: just 10 deep. That's kind of what gave us the idea.
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  Speaker 2: We decided that this has to get better organized and
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  Speaker 2: we better do it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we did.
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  Speaker 2: So we decided to make the call on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard
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  Speaker 1: or the pilot boat from New York. Anyone want to
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  Speaker 1: help with the evacuation of lower Manhattan, report to Governor Violent.
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  Speaker 1: And boy, they did. It was amazing. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: over 500,000 people, 150 boats volunteered and got those people out.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's other people, and I have family members
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  Speaker 1: who have this story too. They were there just, they
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  Speaker 1: literally walked all day long. No one knew where to go.
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  Speaker 1: They got to safety, anywhere, maybe Jersey, you know, Walking
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  Speaker 1: along just in a circle, nobody knew what to do.
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  Speaker 1: And cell phone technology in 2001 was not what it
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  Speaker 1: was today. Believe me on that one if you're new
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  Speaker 1: to this. To try to keep in touch with your
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  Speaker 1: loved ones, that was a tough haul. That's another thing
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  Speaker 1: that would have been changed recently. People calling, cell phone
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  Speaker 1: service would have been absolutely flooded. We did not have
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  Speaker 1: that to the extent that we have it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Here's something else that changed, and this is the big thing,
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  Speaker 1: and this is why we should never forget. Never forget
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  Speaker 1: the other positive part of something that happened after that.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't last forever. I always put it at like
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  Speaker 1: a two- to three-week period where this country, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: in my lifetime, had never been more united, ever. We
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  Speaker 1: did come together. We truly did. Until the politicians got
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  Speaker 1: involved and divided us again, but we truly did come together.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember, too, how bizarre it was from the
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  Speaker 1: days after that when there was a flight ban where
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  Speaker 1: there were no planes in the sky, Remember, it's striking
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  Speaker 1: me is how weird that was to not hear planes.
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  Speaker 1: You just take it for granted now. It was just
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  Speaker 1: so strange. But then you saw more patriotism. You saw
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  Speaker 1: more people coming together. The very first bumper stickers or
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  Speaker 1: T-shirts of We'll Never Forget started to come out. We
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  Speaker 1: were united. And then it got divided by politics, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Because here's one of the things that happened. Here's another
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  Speaker 1: thing that happened. They were quick to call it terrorism
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  Speaker 1: right away. And then all of a sudden the major
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  Speaker 1: news networks stopped calling it terrorism. Kind of changed since,
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  Speaker 1: thank God. But then all of a sudden, you weren't
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  Speaker 1: allowed to blame at all, because we're still looking to
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  Speaker 1: see who did this. You weren't allowed to blame terrorists
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  Speaker 1: or radicalized Islamic terror. Oh, that's not. And then everybody
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  Speaker 1: that did criticize it or dared to even ask the question,
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  Speaker 1: this is why you always have to ask questions, they
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  Speaker 1: were called Islamophobic. Remember that? The terrorists knew that. They
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  Speaker 1: knew that we'd be divided over this. We wouldn't understand
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  Speaker 1: what direction to go in. That was possibly the most
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  Speaker 1: damaging thing they did, believe it or not. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they did. So that's a little bit different now, thankfully.
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  Speaker 1: Here's something that's going on this morning. This already happened
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  Speaker 1: about an hour ago. This was outside the Pentagon. Beautiful
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  Speaker 1: ceremony as they unfurled a giant American flag over the
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  Speaker 1: edge of it, obviously to commemorate. Never forget. Never, ever.
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  Speaker 1: Then we have what's going on here with the other
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  Speaker 1: events that are coming up this morning. I think Fox
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  Speaker 1: News' Eric Carle did a pretty good job on this one.
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  Speaker 1: But it's interesting how he says it. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: maybe this is just Fox News that called it terrorism.
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  Speaker 1: The other ones are too. That's something that's changed as well.
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  Speaker 1: We've gone back to that, and I think that's actually
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  Speaker 1: a good thing to call the problem what it is.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Here's a little preview of what's coming up this morning
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  Speaker 1: and throughout the entire day.
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  Speaker 2: A quarter of a century, and it does not seem
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  Speaker 2: as if one day has gone by. This milestone of
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  Speaker 2: 25 years resonates especially because of the passage of time. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we will witness the emotional ceremony that is so familiar. Today,
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  Speaker 2: Vice President J.D. Vance will be here as long as
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  Speaker 2: with the former president. four former living presidents and their wives,
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  Speaker 2: the officials and family members, marking those who were killed
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  Speaker 2: by radical Islamic terrorists of Al-Qaeda.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting that he does say that. But what's even more
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  Speaker 1: interesting to me is he wasn't the only one. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to go to ABC's news on this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's news in their own story where I actually got
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  Speaker 1: this clip and their description of that event where they
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  Speaker 1: unfurled a flag over the Pentagon this morning about an
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  Speaker 1: hour and change ago they said a flag unfurling ceremony
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  Speaker 1: at the pentagon commemorates 25 years since the september 11
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  Speaker 1: 2001 terror attacks as americans across the country pause to
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  Speaker 1: remember there was a long period of time there where
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  Speaker 1: abc news would not have called them terror attacks it's
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  Speaker 1: true that's that's very true if we're back to calling
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  Speaker 1: it what it was and what it is you got
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  Speaker 1: to identify the problem that's i take that as serious
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  Speaker 1: and as somber as a story as it is i
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  Speaker 1: take that as a positive sign because it could go differently.
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  Speaker 1: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation refuses to call them terror attacks.
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  Speaker 1: That's a whole different topic for a whole different day.
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  Speaker 1: That's Canada. But our main media networks aren't, and that's good.
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  Speaker 1: So the takeaway is, let's get out of here, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll wrap up so that you can go and watch
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  Speaker 1: some of this stuff. And again, I do encourage you
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  Speaker 1: to watch this, the commemoration, not just this year, but
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  Speaker 1: next year too. It's true. And just to reiterate, I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that anymore that we forgot. I don't. It
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  Speaker 1: was kind of life-changing for me over the summer and
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  Speaker 1: talking to people, and I made that realization. I came
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  Speaker 1: to the conclusion that everybody still has this, of adult age,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: everybody still has a story of where you were on 9-11-2001.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of American speech now. You say, 9-11. How
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: are you going to remember 9-11? Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: be in New York for 9-11? But that specific day,
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  Speaker 1: where you were and what you felt is what we
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  Speaker 1: should all take away from this thing. And again, make
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  Speaker 1: it age-appropriate. But for younger ones in your family, whether
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  Speaker 1: they're kids or grandkids or younger cousins, siblings, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: share those memories with them so that this never, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever happens again. And make sure when you're telling your
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: story about where you were on 9-11-2001, talk about the
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  Speaker 1: positives too and how we did, for a short time,
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  Speaker 1: come together stronger than ever as a country. Talk about
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the amazing heroic efforts of those firefighters. Talk about the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: amazing heroic efforts of those Coast Guard and ferry boat captains.
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  Speaker 1: who rescued 500,000 people. It was a massive evacuation at
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  Speaker 1: a lower Manhattan. It was amazingly successful. Talk about the
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  Speaker 1: positives as well while we're remembering. And don't fall into
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  Speaker 1: the trap that I did, that we forgot. We didn't forget.
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  Speaker 1: We really didn't. Because everybody of adult age has a
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  Speaker 1: story of where they were that day. What's changed? Lots changed.
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  Speaker 1: Airports have changed. Flying has changed. Everything has changed. But
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  Speaker 1: we came together We shouldn't ever forget that we have
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  Speaker 1: the ability to do it again. We just got to
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  Speaker 1: get these politicians out of the way, but whenever. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get out of here so we can
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  Speaker 1: all watch, and I encourage you to do it too.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Some of the events, some of the commemoration of that day,
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  Speaker 1: because I think so far they're going to do a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Oh, by the way, this is one of
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  Speaker 1: the things. I don't know if you caught this last night.
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  Speaker 1: This is mostly just a visual thing, so I won't
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  Speaker 1: play it, but an amazing amount of drones happened last
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  Speaker 1: night and over the past couple of days in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. It was incredible. ahead of the 25th anniversary, 2,977 drones,
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  Speaker 1: you know why that number, lit up the sky over
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  Speaker 1: New York, representing a life lost on that day. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the drones, because they can do that in visual shows now,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: they kind of recreated the Twin Towers. It's an amazing
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  Speaker 1: thing if you can check it out. So that's another
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  Speaker 1: reason why we will never forget. All right. Don't ever forget,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: always remember, but remember the positives too and how we
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: did come together. It is possible. Have a wicked awesome day. And.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and watch some of these observations because it's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you Monday.