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September the 11th
2001 I can't believe it's already been
22 years I remember it like it was
yesterday at the time I was already a
member of the Ohio National Guard and a
college student working a full-time job
I remember getting up for work that day
and hearing something on the radio about
a plane that had crashed into the World
Trade Center in New York City at the
time we didn't know what kind of plane
had crashed and everybody was assuming
it was a recreational pilot flying
through the city and made a critical
mistake the idea that we were under
attack was too far-fetched to believe I
rode a motorcycle to work back then I
remember getting on the bike and
thinking what a beautiful day this is
the skies were clear the temperature was
in the 70s it was
absolutely perfect I remember thinking
it might be one of my my last good
riding days of the year before the Ohio
Fall and Winter took over I got to work
and I found everybody watching the news
during my ride a second plane had
crashed into the second tower at this
time we knew this was no random act we
were under
attack the restaurant I was working at
made the decision to close for the day I
went home and immediately began packing
my my bags cuz I knew I would be getting
a call I remember going out to dinner
with a couple of close friends wondering
if we would ever have the opportunity to
do that
again soon thereafter I was called up to
active duty and off I went to
war I'll never forget how it felt back
then one day I was wearing my uniform
while pumping gas in my car people were
driving by honking in their horns and
yelling things like go kick some
ass the country was so United back then
everybody vowed they would never forget
everybody knew we were under attack
because of our way of life and everyone
promised not to change everyone promised
they would not forget what happened that
day and they would never
forget how they
felt when I look around the country
today I believe too many people have
forgotten we're hardly the United States
anymore look no further than our
elections that Teeter by 1% or less it
doesn't get much more divided than that
and a divided nation is a weak
Nation this is exactly what Osama Bin
Laden
wanted I love this country more than
just about anything else I've spent my
entire adult life defending her and I am
begging you
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please keep your
promise you promised you would never
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forget I had
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one oh
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International tourist Place lots of
people there's not a plane coming down
holy [ __ ] what the [ __ ] is
going boom oh man what the [ __ ] going
on
wow oh [ __ ] wow do you see this this
aircraft I've got it all yo what the
[ __ ] yo that's terrorist [ __ ] bro that
is it this is terrorist that's terrorist
this is terrorist sh you sawed playing
what's this other jet doing what's this
other jet
doing holy [ __ ] oh my God oh my God
Jesus [ __ ]
Christ Chris you go touch
it oh my
God oh my God
oh oh my
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God get my back get my back get my back
get my
back duck it duck
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it Anthony you okay
yeah pleas oh my
God oh my God watch out
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out is true
a situation that started
B
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Anthony you watch
me
I thought it was a
third the the top him off the whole top
him off and then the smoke all I seen
the smoke fou I was like I was standing
next to Lieutenant and I couldn't all of
a sudden I couldn't see him we were
under the we're under the we're under
the
truck came
Tak anybody need some water I expected 8
by 10
glosses where are we even going we got
to get you to the medical station so you
can get your eyes cleaned out and I can
go bed
I'm in ground zero I managed to get in I
have the most amazing pictures to take
you've never seen anything like this in
your
life there cars
burning all over the
place this is one one two World Trade
Center on the ground I'm level right
here Crown
level I'm going to try to take some
still photos
trees were rooted knocked down was
unbelievable dud this is worse thanl
Harbor fire trucks Windows blown
out buried and
debris
car just blew
up God Bless
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America I've never seen anything like
this my dear
Jesus this is the World Trade Center on
the
floor words cannot express what I feel
what has done has been done to this
country nobody will ever
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know the nation the nation sends its
love and
compassion to everybody who is
here thank you for your hard work thank
you for making the nation proud and may
God bless
America
tonight we come together for the first
regular season professional sporting
event in New York City since Tuesday
September 11th we return to our national
Pastime in part to show that America can
and will go
on but before we begin our game we will
pause to remember the victims of those
terrible attacks their families and the
thousands of rescue workers volunteers
and Good Samaritans who have shown that
America can be at her best in the the
most difficult of
times our colors tonight are being
presented by a joint Color Guard
consisting of New York's police
department dep fire department dep
Emergency Medical Service Court
Authority police and the New York State
Court Officers
Association five agencies that lost
rescue Personnel when the World Trade
Center towers
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collapsed
they are accompanied by the NYPD pipers
and a rifle team from the United States
Marine Corps sixth communication
Battalion based in Brooklyn New York New
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York
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now entering from center field our
groups representing many of the Brave
committed men and women who've been
working long difficult hours as part of
the rescue efforts going on at the World
Trade Center please welcome members of
the
NYPD
New York Fire
Department Port Authority Police
Department New York State Court
officers the San Francisco Fire
Department Station
W National disaster medical system
vort New York Hospital in
Queens St John's Queens
Hospital Mary Immaculate Hospital EMS
division and New York University
downtown
Hospital these rescue workers are
joining the midshipman around the giant
flag in the same way that Americans from
all walks of life have come together to
help in the wake of these tragic
events please remain standing for the
singing of the Star Spangled Banner
which was written by Francis Scott Key
187 years ago today our national anthem
will be performed tonight by Mark
Anthony can you
see by the dawn early
light what so proudly we
he at the t twilight last
cleaning who's BR Stripes at and bright
stars through the
perilous
fight or the ramp parts we
watched were so
gallantly
streaming and the rocket red
glare the bombs bursting in
air gave fruit
through the
night that our flag was still
there oh say do that star
spangled
B yet
way for the
land of the free
and the
home
of
great thank you thank
you
us us us us
us
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the
mighty
us
we
to
for
all
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us when
we our
pray
for
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all