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Natalie Migliore, WOR street reporter interview. · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: All this week, Natalie Migliore is going to dedicate her
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  Speaker 2: Beat on the Street, of course, to 9-11 and the
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  Speaker 2: memories of 9-11 that still has scarred not only the country,
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  Speaker 2: but especially New York City. And this morning, Natalie, I
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  Speaker 2: understand you're talking to some young people who have memories
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  Speaker 2: of that day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this Friday marks 25 years since the September 11th attacks.
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  Speaker 3: And I ask anyone often over a certain age about
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  Speaker 3: that day. And I typically watch them get this far
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  Speaker 3: away look in their eyes and say, almost across the board,
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  Speaker 3: I remember that day like it was yesterday. And we
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  Speaker 3: often hear stories about the people who ran into the rubble,
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  Speaker 3: the people who escaped. But what about the youngest kids
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  Speaker 3: who were maybe in classrooms at the time? That's where
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  Speaker 3: we meet Will Feehan, a musician whose grandfather was first
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  Speaker 3: deputy FDNY commissioner William Feehan, who died during the collapse.
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  Speaker 3: Will says it felt as though he got picked up
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  Speaker 3: from school that day as soon as he was dropped off.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I was five, so I consider it my
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  Speaker 4: first memory, like at least my first full day that
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  Speaker 4: I remember. To speak on the feelings, you know, There's
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  Speaker 4: an ignorance of a little child where it's like commotion
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  Speaker 4: is exciting and you don't know what's happening. And I'm five,
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting picked up in a police car. And I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the cop is being awesome with me, giving
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  Speaker 4: me his police ID card and stuff. You know, so
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  Speaker 4: people wanted to make sure my emotions were high and
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't feeling it until the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm playing with my cousins out on the street.
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  Speaker 4: And then finally we go inside and it's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the family, you can feel it. You can feel the trauma.
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  Speaker 4: You can feel the kind of despair. So I remember
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  Speaker 4: all that.
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  Speaker 3: So these are sort of the first memories of a
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  Speaker 3: young child who's sort of realizing that this day is
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  Speaker 3: way more serious than it started out. Taking a police escort,
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  Speaker 3: Will told me, all the way from his school in
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey to New York City, where his grandfather lived
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  Speaker 3: at the time. And even with no direct connection, the
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  Speaker 3: day has impacted Cam, who's in her 30s now, a
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  Speaker 3: native New Yorker, who says if nothing else, If nothing else,
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  Speaker 3: first responders and those who serve our country deserve more
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  Speaker 3: respect than they've been given.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I was six years old when 9-11 happened.
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  Speaker 5: It was a really scary day. And I just think
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  Speaker 5: that it's important that we do honor it, that we
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  Speaker 5: commemorate it, that I think that it's not a day off. Like,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's also weird in America. The whole, like,
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  Speaker 5: Memorial Day thing is, like, not really a memorial. Like,
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  Speaker 5: there's some people do it, but it's also, oh, what
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  Speaker 5: are we barbecuing that day? And it's like, I'm Israeli.
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  Speaker 5: So for me, it's like Memorial Day is a heavy
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  Speaker 5: day in Israel. So I just think that, like, here...
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  Speaker 5: We need to treat 9-11 with respect. We need to
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  Speaker 5: show the world that we also don't forget what happened here.
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  Speaker 5: And here's how we're moving forward. And here's how we're
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  Speaker 5: trying to make the city feel safer for those that
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  Speaker 5: love New York City.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel listening to that?
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  Speaker 2: That was great. No, I was nodding my head as
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to it. Yeah, absolutely. She's unbelievably correct.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, they have the solemn occasion in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: followed immediately by the celebration of the Independence Day. So
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  Speaker 1: they go from complete depression. to complete exhilaration based on
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  Speaker 1: the independence of Israel and Ben-Gurion leading them as an
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  Speaker 1: initial country.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, we're going to turn back to 9-11, but as
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  Speaker 3: Will and Will sees the memory of that day fade
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  Speaker 3: for many generations who weren't born yet, and we'll get
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  Speaker 3: to that later this week when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: education and what we're doing about that, even those who
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  Speaker 3: were people around my age, people around his age, But
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  Speaker 3: he has a different connection to this day because of
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  Speaker 3: his grandpa.
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  Speaker 4: Even my closest friends that are New Yorkers, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 4: and even were in Manhattan at the time, don't think
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  Speaker 4: about it ever, you know, unless it's brought up. For us, it's,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to say 25 years later, I think
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  Speaker 4: of it every single day. I think of him every
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  Speaker 4: single day, but I don't think of it every day.
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  Speaker 4: But absolutely, it's an identifier in our family.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Because it comes with immense pride. You know, he absolutely
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  Speaker 4: would have wanted to be there. There's no, it was
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  Speaker 4: the greatest fire technically in the city, in the city's history.
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  Speaker 4: He wouldn't have missed that for anything. If he was retired,
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  Speaker 4: he would have went down there. Like that's the kind
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  Speaker 4: of guy he was.
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  Speaker 3: And that's, as I talk to people and throughout this
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  Speaker 3: whole week, you'll see that people who were there, survivors,
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  Speaker 3: people who were first responders, just like the first deputy commissioner,
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  Speaker 3: people say there was nowhere else to be that day,
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  Speaker 3: but down at the tower, his butt down and responding.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really interesting to see even this guy who
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  Speaker 3: was a kid at the time, he just, he's just
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  Speaker 3: so proud, even though his grandfather died, he's just so
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  Speaker 3: proud of what has, what that legacy was left. And
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  Speaker 3: so Will's family is actually very involved in keeping the
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  Speaker 3: memory alive because his mother, Beth and Anne McCartan, They
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  Speaker 3: work together on a podcast called Aftermath 9-11 Stories of
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  Speaker 3: Hope and Resilience. And that's sort of how we found
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  Speaker 3: a lot of these people. But it airs on our station.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been great to sort of meet these people
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  Speaker 3: and hear their stories in a different light.
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  Speaker 2: I had a long conversation with her. She is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And the podcast is absolutely amazing as well. What strikes
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  Speaker 2: me about all of the people you talk to, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's more than what we just heard, is
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  Speaker 2: they have memories. You know, I can't remember anything when
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  Speaker 2: I was six or even eight. I have no memories
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  Speaker 2: of that. But these memories because of that day are vivid.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Even mine is very vivid. And I wasn't that old yet.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's always shocked when I say that. But I remember
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  Speaker 3: that day.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I wish more younger people would have those memories. But
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  Speaker 1: we look forward to the rest of this week. and
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  Speaker 1: your interviews each and every morning in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: importance and the commemoration of 9-11 on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: That was wonderful. It was really good. Natalie Migliore is
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  Speaker 2: going to be back tomorrow morning. As Curtis just said,
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  Speaker 2: it's 7.50.