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00:00:27>> THIS IS A CBC NEWS SPECIAL
00:00:30PRESENTATION.
00:00:37>> IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU WERE, WHERE YOU LIVE, IT DOESN'T
00:00:41EVEN MATTER IF YOU REMEMBER THE
00:00:45MONDAY STRESS CITY OF THE 911 TERROR ATTACKS.
00:00:47THAT HELL CHANGED THE COURSE OF
00:00:49ALL OF OUR LIVES FOREVER, AND IT
00:00:52TOOK LESS THAN TWO HOURS TO DO
00:00:54THAT, TO DO THIS.
00:01:01FOUR HIJACKED PLANES, TWO RAMMED
00:01:05INTO THE TWIN TOWERS.
00:01:06ONE DRIVEN INTO THE PENTAGON.
00:01:09AND THE LAST FORCED INTO A FIELD
00:01:11IN PENNSYLVANIA ONLY AFTER THE BRAVEST OF PASSENGERS DID THE
00:01:15BRAVEST OF THINGS, STORMED THE
00:01:17COCKPIT TO TRY TO WRESTLER
00:01:19CONTROL OF THE PLANE FROM THE
00:01:22HIJACKERS.
00:01:25TAKE A BEAT, OUR HEARTS ALL NEED IT.
00:01:29AND MAYBE YOURS WANTS YOU TO LOOK AWAY.
00:01:32BUT SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO STARE
00:01:33AT A BEAST TO COME TO TERMS WITH
00:01:37IT. >> I HOPE I LIVE. I HOPE I LIVE.
00:01:41IT'S COMING DOWN ON ME. HERE IT COMES.
00:01:44I'M GETTING BEHIND A CAR.
00:01:50IT'S INCREDIBLE. OKAY, I HAVE TO GO FIND PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP.
00:01:53>> THIS FOOTAGE FROM Dr. MARK KEITH.
00:01:55YOU CAN HEAR HIM ASKING IF ANYONE NEEDED HELP AFTER THE
00:01:59TOWERS COLLAPSED.
00:02:01>> ANYBODY NEED A DOCTOR?
00:02:04SO MANY WERE READY TO HELP.
00:02:07STRETCHERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS
00:02:08LINED UP, WAITING FOR THE WOUNDED WHO NEVER CAME.
00:02:12NEW YORK STREETS FILLED WITH THE
00:02:14POSTERS OF THE MISSING WHO NEVER
00:02:17CAME HOME.
00:02:20THE SMOKE AND DUST THAT CHOKED THOSE STREETS AND SKIES, WE NOW
00:02:24KNOW HAS CONTINUED TO KILL AND
00:02:26KILL FAR MORE THAN THE NEARLY
00:02:293,000 MURDERED ON 9/11.
00:02:33SO MANY LOST, YOU CAN GET CAUGHT
00:02:35UP BY THE NUMBER AND BYPASS THE
00:02:37STORY OF ALL THOSE SOULS.
00:02:40THIS DAY IS FOR THAT, FOR THEM,
00:02:43INCLUDING THE 24 CANADIANS KILLED.
00:02:46TODAY, WE HONOUR THEM. WE TALK ABOUT THEM, AND WE TALK
00:02:49ABOUT WHAT HAS BECOME THE WORLD SINCE THE DAY THOSE LIVES WERE
00:02:53STOLEN BY TERRORISTS.
00:02:55THIS IS 9/11, 25 YEARS ON.
00:03:04>> GOOD MORNING, FROM LOWER MANHATTAN. I'M ADRIENNE ARSENAULT.
00:03:07WE ARE HERE ON HALLOWED GROUND
00:03:10AS PEOPLE GATHER AROUND THE 9/11
00:03:14MEMORIAL. THIS IS WHERE IN ABOUT HALF AN
00:03:16HOUR, THE COMMEMORATION WILL
00:03:18BEGIN, AT THE MEMORIAL'S HEART,
00:03:22MASSIVE, DEEP, EVER-FLOWING
00:03:23POOLS IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF WHAT
00:03:26WERE THE TWIN TOWERS. AND ALONG THE EDGES ARE CARVED
00:03:29THE NAMES OF ALL OF THOSE WHO
00:03:31DIED ON 9/11, AND THE SIX WHO
00:03:33DIED IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE BOMBING IN 1993.
00:03:37SOLEMN, AS YOU SEE THESE PEOPLE GATHERINGS SOLEMN ISN'T A BIG
00:03:41ENOUGH WORD TO DESCRIBE THE DAY, TO DESCRIBE THE PLACE, TO
00:03:44DESCRIBE THE MOMENT AMERICANS AND, FRANKLY, MUCH OF THE REST
00:03:47OF THE WORLD ARE THINKING ABOUT TODAY.
00:03:51INCLUDING THE FAMILIES OF THE 24
00:03:54CANADIANS WHO, ON A BEAUTIFUL
00:03:56TUESDAY MORNING, JUST WENT TO
00:03:58WORK AND NEVER MADE IT HOME.
00:04:01SO THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE, AND DAY.
00:04:04THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL SOUL JOINING US TODAY, PAUL HUNTER.
00:04:08WE WERE BOTH REPORTING ON 9/11. I WAS BASED IN WASHINGTON, SO
00:04:11WAS THERE WHEN THE PENTAGON WAS HI. YOU WERE IN OTTAWA, AS CANADA
00:04:15FIGURED OUT WHAT TO DO. YOU DID REPORTING HERE, YOU WENT
00:04:18TO AFGHANISTAN. I KNOW THIS DAY HAS COURSED
00:04:22THROUGH YOU FOR A LONG TIME, AND YOU'VE BEEN OUT ON THE STREETS
00:04:25IN THE LAST FEW DAYS. WHAT STRUCK YOU?
00:04:29>> BLINK, FIRST OF ALL, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS?
00:04:31IT FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY TO ME, I'M SURE TO YOU, AND EVERYBODY
00:04:35TO THAT I'VE BEEN CHATTING WITH LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. I STEPPED OUT OF THE HOTEL THIS
00:04:38MORNING AND I LOOKED UP AT THE SKY.
00:04:40HOW CAN YOU NOT? IT'S CLOUDY TODAY, UNLIKE THAT
00:04:44BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKY THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT 25 YEARS AGO.
00:04:47BUT AT THIS MOMENT 25 YEARS AGO, THE FIRST OF THE JETS TO BE
00:04:51HIJACKED HAD JUST TAKEN OFF. AND YOU LOOK AT THE SKY AND YOU
00:04:54THINK THAT WAS THE MOMENT THE WORLD WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE.
00:04:57TALK TO NEW YORKERS AND IT IS
00:04:59STILL RAW, IT IS VISCERAL, IT IS
00:05:03PAINFUL. EVERYBODY IS EFFECTIVELY
00:05:06SPEAKING -- EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMEBODY WHO KNOW BE SOMEBODY.
00:05:09IT'S RIGHT IN THE FACE OF EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT
00:05:12PARTICULARLY IN THIS CITY. IT'S -- IT'S REMARKABLE TO BE
00:05:16HERE 25 YEARS LATER. >> AND YOU TALK ABOUT EVERYONE
00:05:18KNOWING SOMEONE, EVERYONE KNEW THIS PLACE.
00:05:21IT'S HARD TO TALK ABOUT AN ABSENCE. PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE TWIN
00:05:24TOWERS SOMETIMES AS THE PHANTOM LIMBS OF NEW YORK.
00:05:28THEY FEEL THAT THEY'RE STILL THERE, BUT THEY KNOW THEY ARE NOT THERE.
00:05:32AS WE WATCH PEOPLE GATHER, PAUL, AND I'M JUST LOOKING AT THE FULL
00:05:35FEED THAT YOU ARE SEEING ON THE RIGHT OF YOUR SCREEN HERE.
00:05:39WE'VE SEEN RUDY GIULIANI, I THINK ANDREW COMEAU WAS THERE
00:05:43YOU ARE GOING TO SEE WHO WAS THE GOVERNOR.
00:05:45>> HOWARD LUTNICK, CURRENT
00:05:48SECRETARY, KEY PLAYER IN THE CANADA-U.S. TRADE DISPUTE ONGOING.
00:05:51HE WAS CEO OF COUNTERFEITS
00:05:54GERALD, NORTH TOWER. THEY LOST HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.
00:05:57>> INCLUDING HIS BROTHER. >> INCLUDING HIS BROTHER. HE WAS DELAYED THAT MORNING, HE
00:06:01WAS TAKING ONE OF HIS KIDS TO
00:06:04KINDERGARTEN, IS THE REASON THAT HE, HIMSELF, WASN'T THERE.
00:06:07HE'S IN THAT CROWD TODAY.
00:06:11WE EXPECT OF LIVING X-PRESIDENT,
00:06:15ADRIENNE, BILL CLINTON, GEORGE
00:06:18W. BUSH, BARACK, BIDEN.
00:06:22JD VANCE WILL BE HERE FOR DONALD TRUMP WHO HAS CHOSEN TO BE AT
00:06:26THE PENTAGON INSTEAD, MUCH CONTROVERSY, THERE SOME REPORTING THAT IT'S BECAUSE HE
00:06:30CAN'T SPEAK, THERE IS NEVER MEANT TO BE POLITICS IN THE
00:06:33EVENT HERE IN NEW YORK. BUT, YEAH, A NUMBER OF DIGNITARIES.
00:06:37BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED IN
00:06:41THOSE TERROR ATTACKS, ADRIENNE,
00:06:44WILL BE REALLY THE MOST OF THE PEOPLE WILL SEE ON THE GROUNDS
00:06:48THERE TODAY, IN THOSE -- THE
00:06:51GHOSTS OF WHAT STOOD HERE 25 YEARS AGO, BE THE FAMILIES OF
00:06:54THOSE WHO WERE KILLED. >> I JUST WANT TO POINT SOMETHING OUT TO EVERYONE.
00:06:58AS YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE OF THE
00:07:00POOLS, THE MEMORIAL POOLS THERE,
00:07:02AND YOU SEE IN THE CENTRE OF ONE
00:07:04OF THEM A DEEPER HOLE. THIS IS BECAUSE THESE POOLS
00:07:08REPRESENT AN UNFILLABLE VOID.
00:07:12THAT WATER FLOWS ENDLESSLY, AND YET IT'S NEVER ENOUGH TO FILL IT.
00:07:16EVERY ELEMENT OF THIS MEMORIAL
00:07:20HAS BEEN THOUGHT OF SO GINGERLY. AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPENED TO,
00:07:23IS THE READING OF THE NAMES, OF
00:07:26ALL OF THE NAMES. IT TAKES HOURS.
00:07:29HOURS, WHICH IS JUST, AGAIN, ANOTHER WAY TO GIVE YOU A SENSE
00:07:32OF THE SCALE OF THE LOSS. AND 25 YEARS ON, UNDERSTANDING
00:07:36THAT SCALE IS CRITICAL. A THIRD OF AMERICANS AND
00:07:39CANADIANS HAVE NO MEMORIES OF WHAT HAPPENED THEN, SO HOW DO
00:07:42YOU BEGIN TO GET THEM TO FEEL
00:07:44WHAT SO MANY OTHERS WILL NEVER SHAKE?
00:07:47>> AROUND THE WORLD, PEOPLE WERE WATCHING, LIKE YOU ARE NOW, AT
00:07:51HOME, AT WORK, FROM THE STREETS.
00:07:53THEY WERE WATCHING IN HORROR AND
00:07:56DISBELIEF, AND THEN CAME A
00:07:58SHARED PROMISE, TO NEVER FORGET.
00:08:00BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO A
00:08:03GENERATION OF AMERICANS AND CANADIANS TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER
00:08:06WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY? >> THAT IS ONE OF THE THEMES OF
00:08:09THIS CEREMONY, A JOINT EFFORT TO
00:08:12MAKE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY LIVE ON.
00:08:16OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS, THERE
00:08:17WILL BE 6 MOMENTS WHEN CITIES GO
00:08:21SILENT. FOUR IN NEW YORK WHEN THE PLANES HIT AND THE TOWERS FELL.
00:08:24AT THE PENTAGON, WHEN IT WAS
00:08:26HIT, AND IN PENNSYLVANIA WHEN
00:08:29FLIGHT 93 WENT DOWN. AND THEN, FOR THE FIRST TIME,
00:08:32THERE WILL BE A 7th MOMENT OF
00:08:35SILENCE, TO HONOUR THE THOUSANDS OF FIRST RESPONDERS, RESCUE,
00:08:39RECOVERY AND RELIEF WORKERS, AND
00:08:41JUST AVERAGE NEW YORKERS WHO ALL
00:08:43RUSHED TO HELP AND GOT DANGEROUSLY FATALLY ILL BECAUSE
00:08:47OF THE TOXIC DUST IN THE AIR.
00:08:52>> AND WITH US THROUGHOUT THE MORNING, KATIE SIMPSON, BRINGING
00:08:54US THE SCENE AT THE PENTAGON, AND SO, KATIE, WE WILL COME TO
00:08:58YOU IN A MOMENT. BUT WE SHOULD REALLY BEGIN WITH
00:09:00KRIS REYES WHO IS RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:09:04SO, KRIS, YOU HAVE REPORTED ON THIS ANNIVERSARY FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
00:09:07>> CAN YOU TELL PEOPLE EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE, WHY YOU CHOSE
00:09:10THAT PLACE IN PARTICULAR? >> GOOD MORNING, ADRIENNE.
00:09:14SO WE'RE RIGHT ACROSS THE
00:09:16MEMORIAL PLAZA, AND AS YOU CAN
00:09:18EXPECT, WHERE WE STAND HAS THE
00:09:20MARKINGS OF A HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIAL EVENT.
00:09:23SO THERE ARE BARRICADES, HIGH
00:09:25SECURITY, BLACK CARS, SECRET SERVICE.
00:09:28BUT STRANGELY, IT'S ALSO VERY HOMEY HERE.
00:09:31THE HEARTBEAT OF THAT HOMEMINESS
00:09:34IS RIGHT THERE. O'HARA'S PUB.
00:09:36SO THIS WAS THE CLOSEST BAR, RIGHT ACROSS THE WORLD TRADE
00:09:40CENTRE, A LOT OF WALL STREET WORKERS WOULD GO THERE, AND IT
00:09:43WAS DAMAGED AND THEN REOPENED.
00:09:46AND PEOPLE HAVE COME BACK YEAR AFTER YEAR FROM THE FIRST YEAR
00:09:50ANNIVERSARY. AND YOU JUST HAVE TO GO IN TO
00:09:52KIND OF GET A SENSE OF THE STORIES.
00:09:55THERE ARE SOME 7,000 PATCHES
00:09:57FROM FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS, MILITARY -- NOT FROM
00:10:00JUST NEW YORK, BUT FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. AND THE ONE THING THAT WILL
00:10:04STRIKE YOU, BECAUSE IT'S EMPTY RIGHT NOW, BUT PEOPLE WILL START
00:10:08TO GATHER HERE AFTER THE CEREMONY, IS THAT IT HAS THAT
00:10:11FEELING OF A FAMILY REUNION.
00:10:14YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF SADNESS, THERE'S A LOT OF GRIEF,
00:10:18OBVIOUSLY, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF HUGGING, A LOT OF
00:10:20TENDERNESS, A LOT OF CHIT-CHAT, A LOT OF SMILES.
00:10:24FOR MANY OF THESE PEOPLE, THIS IS THE ONLY TIME OF THE YEAR
00:10:27THAT THEY GET TO SEE EACH OTHER. AND TO EACH OTHER, THEY ARE
00:10:30FAMILY, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT ONE MILITARY VET TOLD ME.
00:10:33HE WAS CARRYING A PHOTO OF HIS
00:10:36COUSIN, RUBEN COREA WHO DIED IN
00:10:39THE MARRIOTT IN-BETWEEN THOSE TOWERS. HE COMES HERE EVERY YEAR TO
00:10:43REMEMBER.
00:10:44HE CALLS THE 9/11 FAMILY HIS
00:10:48COMMUNITY. >> LOOK AT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HERE.
00:10:51IT'S -- ACTUALLY, IT -- IT -- THE 9/11 COMMUNITY, WE HAVE A
00:10:55COMMUNITY. IT'S CALLED THE 9/11 COMMUNITY.
00:10:58AND IT GETS LARGER EVERY YEAR.
00:11:01LIKE LOOK BEHIND YOU, YOU CAN
00:11:03SEE THESE ARE ALL MY 9/11 FANS,
00:11:06FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
00:11:07AND NOW YOU ARE MY FAMILY AND MY
00:11:11FRIEND. >> ADRIENNE, MR. MORALES MET ME
00:11:14TODAY AND HE CALLS ME FAMILY JUST SIMPLY BECAUSE I'M HERE.
00:11:17THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF THE BONDS THAT PEOPLE HAVE HERE.
00:11:21AND, YOU KNOW, THE WORD
00:11:23"PROMISE" WILL COME UP THROUGHOUT THIS CEREMONY.
00:11:26HE HAS MADE A PROMISE TO ALWAYS RETURN HERE, TO REMIND PEOPLE
00:11:30WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11.
00:11:31THE 9/11 MUSEUM, ADRIENNE,
00:11:34ESTIMATES SOME 100 MILLION AMERICANS ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER THAT DAY.
00:11:38AND ONE THING I WILL TELL YOU,
00:11:40IT SPEAKS TO HOW MUCH TIME HAS PASSED, THEY ARE RUNNING A
00:11:43SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TODAY. SO SMARTPHONES WEREN'T EVEN
00:11:47AVAILABLE 25 YEARS AGO. AND THEY ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE SKY.
00:11:50BECAUSE, REMEMBER, IT WAS A CLEAR BLUE SKY. AND THEY ARE ASKING PEOPLE FROM
00:11:54ALL OVER THE WORLD TO TAKE THAT
00:12:04SILENCE TODAY, A 7th MOMENT OF
00:12:06SILENCE, AND IT'S FOR THOSE WHO
00:12:08DIED BECAUSE OF THE TOXIC ASH AND THE RUBBLE THAT SPREAD
00:12:12ACROSS LOWER MANHATTAN WHEN THOSE TOWERS FELL. AND THERE IS SOME NEWS ON THAT
00:12:16STORY THAT EMERGED THIS WEEK. CAN YOU BRING US UP TO SPEED? >> THAT'S RIGHT.
00:12:20SO IT'S ESTIMATED SOME THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM
00:12:239/11-LINKED ILLNESSES AND
00:12:25INJURIES, INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF
00:12:27FIREFIGHTERS, MAYORS, OR AT
00:12:29LEAST SOME 170,000 DOCUMENTS
00:12:32JUST IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO THAT SHOWED THAT THE AIR WAS SO TOXIC
00:12:36ON THAT DAY, EVEN AS THEY TOLD PEOPLE THAT IT WAS SAFE TO RETURN.
00:12:39AND I TALKED TO ONE WOMAN WHO WORKED IN THE PIT.
00:12:42SO THAT WOULD BE THE EXCAVATED PART OF A THEY REMOVED THE
00:12:46PILES, SO THE RUBBLE.
00:12:48AND SHE SAID THE AIR -- WHILE
00:12:50SHE WAS WORKING THERE FOR MONTHS WAS HIDEOUS.
00:13:00>> WAS TO MONITOR THE MEN WHO
00:13:03WERE WORKING IN WORLD TRADE
00:13:06CENTRE 6 AND TO MONITOR THE AIR
00:13:0924 HOURS A DAY.
00:13:12AND I STILL HAVE A GROUND ZERO
00:13:17COUGH. >> THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL? >> MINE IS A GROUND ZERO COUGH,
00:13:20BECAUSE I'VE BEEN COUGHING FOR 20 YEARS.
00:13:23>> AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE SHE TOLD ME, ADRIENNE IS, THAT 25
00:13:26YEARS LATER, IT STILL FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY.
00:13:29AND I THINK SHE SPEAKS TO THE
00:13:31MEMORY, OBVIOUSLY, BUT ALSO TO SOME OF THOSE LINGERING EFFECTS
00:13:35OF THAT DAY AND THE MANY WEEKS AND MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED AFTER,
00:13:51ADJACENT TO THE MEMORIAL. AS YOU ARE LOOKING AT YOUR SCREEN ON THE RIGHT, YOU MAY
00:13:55HAVE JUST SEEN THE MAYOR OF NEW
00:13:57YORK CITY, ZOHRAN MAMDANI THERE. OF COURSE THIS YOU ARE LOOKING
00:14:01AT THE FLAG OF THE PENTAGON. SO THIS IS A GOOD MOMENT TO
00:14:04THINK ABOUT THE PENTAGON AND LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED THERE THIS
00:14:07MORNING.
00:14:12♪ THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH ♪
00:14:16♪ WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING ♪
00:14:21>> SO THAT LARGE AMERICAN FLAG BEING UNFURLED IN THE MORNING
00:14:25RAIN, DOWN THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING THAT HOUSES THE U.S.
00:14:29DEFENCE DEPARTMENT. THAT GESTURE DATES BACK TO THE
00:14:31DAY AFTER 9/11,
00:14:35SEPTEMBER 12th, 2001, WHEN A GROUP OF FIREFIGHTERS AND SOLDIERS DRAPED A LARGE AMERICAN
00:14:39FLAG IN EXACTLY THE SAME FASHION AS RESCUE CREWED SEARCHED FOR
00:14:43ANY SIGNS OF LIFE. 184 PEOPLE DIED IN THE TERRORIST
00:14:47ATTACK ON THE PENTAGON.
00:14:49THAT IS WHERE KATIE SIMPSON IS TODAY.
00:14:52JUST RIGHT OUTSIDE THE PENTAGON, IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.
00:14:55SO, KATIE, U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, HE'S GOING TO THE
00:14:59CEREMONY OF THE PENTAGON. HE WILL SPEAK THERE LATER THIS
00:15:03MORNING. WHAT IS THE FEELING THERE?
00:15:05WHAT IS THE SCENE? >> WELL, THE RAIN IS JUST
00:15:09STARTING TO EASE UP HERE, ADRIENNE, BUT THIS MORNING, IT
00:15:11WAS REALLY A DOWNPOUR,
00:15:13UNDERSCORING THE REAL SOMBER, SOLEMN NATURE OF WHAT IS ABOUT
00:15:18TO TAKE PLACE HERE IN JUST A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
00:15:20THIS IS A SMALLER INVITE ONLY
00:15:24PRIVATE CEREMONY, WHERE MILITARY
00:15:27OFFICIALS AND THIS YEAR U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE
00:15:30HONOURING THE VICTIMS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND PAYING TRIBUTE TO
00:15:34THEIR MEMORIES AND WHAT HAPPENED HERE 25 YEARS AGO.
00:15:38THERE WILL BE SPEECHES, U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS SET TO SPEAK.
00:15:41THE SECRETARY OF DEFENCE, OR THE SECRETARY OF WAR, PETE HEGSETH,
00:15:45HE WILL ALSO SPEAK. BOTH ATTENDED THIS EVENT LAST YEAR.
00:15:49NOW, ADRIENNE, THERE HAS BEEN SOME CONTROVERSY AROUND.
00:15:53THIS THE NEW YORK TIMES HAD REPORTED THAT DONALD TRUMP OPTED
00:15:56TO SPEND THE 25th ANNIVERSARY HERE AT THIS MEMORIAL SITE
00:16:00BECAUSE HE WANTED TO DELIVER REMARKS. AND AT THE EVENT IN NEW YORK
00:16:04CITY, THAT IS NOT -- IS NOT MEANT TO BE A POLITICAL EVENT,
00:16:08THAT'S NOT MEANT FOR POLITICIANS TO BE DELIVERING REMARKS.
00:16:11THE WHITE HOUSE AND PRESIDENT TRUMP PUSHED BACK AGGRESSIVELY
00:16:15AGAINST THAT, SAYING THAT --
00:16:18DENYING THE REPORTS. BUT IT REALLY SORT OF HAS BEEN
00:16:21SORT OF A FLASHPOINT FOR THE
00:16:23WHITE HOUSE, A FRUSTRATION FOR D
00:16:33HE LAST YEAR'S COMMENTS UNPROVOKED ON THE MEMORIES OF THE VICTIMS BUT IT WAS IN A
00:16:36HEIGHTENED MOMENT OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE IT WAS -- IT TOOK PLACE
00:16:39JUST THE DAY AFTER CHARLIE KIRKS
00:16:41THE RIGHT WING ACTIVIST HAD BEEN ASSASSINATED. THIS YEAR THERE IS OF COURSE
00:16:45HIGH SECURITY AS THERE ALWAYS IS. IT IS THE PENTAGON AND THE EVENT
00:16:56OUTSIDE THE PENTAGON. NOW, AMONG ALL OF THE NUMBERS
00:16:59YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR TODAY, YOU
00:17:01ARE GOING TO HEAR FLIGHT CORKS THE VAST NUMBERS OF THE DEAD AND
00:17:05THE INJURED, THE LIVES FOREVER CHANGED.
00:17:08PLEASE CONSIDER THIS FIGURE, 24.
00:17:10THAT IS HOW MANY CANADIANS DIED
00:17:13IN THE TERROR ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11th. THEY WERE IN THE TOWERS, THEY
00:17:16WERE ON THE PLANES, THEY WERE
00:17:19TOURISTS, TRADERS, EVEN RAN NHL
00:17:24SCOUT AND EACH STORY EXTINGUISHED. THE FAMILIES WERE LEFT TRYING TO
00:17:28MAKE SENSE OF THE INCREDIBLE VIOLENCE THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES FOREVER.
00:17:31AND SO ON THIS DAY, ABOUT THEM, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM SOME OF
00:17:35THOSE 24 FAMILIES AS WELL AS OTHER CANADIANS WHO WERE MARRIED
00:17:46SHARING THE STORY OF HER HUSBAND, FRANK. >> HE CALLED AND SAID, SWEETIE,
00:17:49YOU NEED TO LISTEN CAREFULLY. I'VE GONE UP TO THE ROOFTOP AND
00:17:53THE ROOFTOP DOORS ARE LOOKED. WE'RE TRAPPED ON THE 87th FLOOR.
00:17:57THERE'S A LOT OF US HERE. MY HUSBAND WAS FRANK JOSEPH TWO,
00:18:00HE WAS 39 YEARS OLD. HE WORKED IN TWO WORLD TRADE CENTRE.
00:18:04HE WAS AN AMAZING FATHER OF TWO
00:18:07LITTLE CHILDREN. ON SEPTEMBER 11th, I HEARD
00:18:10ON THE RADIO THAT A COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT HAD HIT THE WORLD TRADE
00:18:13CENTRE AND I IMMEDIATELY
00:18:15PANICKED, THAT 9:22 HE CALLED AND SAID IT'S GETTING DIFFICULT
00:18:19TO BREATHE, THERE'S SMOKE COMING IN.
00:18:21AND HE SAID, I NEED YOU TO KNOW
00:18:23HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU AND YOU NEED TO PROMISE ME EVERY DAY FOR THE
00:18:27REST OF THEIR LIVES, YOU HAVE TO
00:18:28TELL ZOE AND GARETH HOW MUCH THEIR PAPA LOVES THEM.
00:18:32AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME THAT
00:18:35WE SPOKE.
00:18:38ON THIS ANNIVERSARY, I PLAN ON
00:18:40SPENDING THE DAY IN NEW YORK CITY AND JUST HEARING HIS NAME
00:18:44BEING READ OUT TO THE WORLD AT
00:18:46GROUND ZERO IS PROBABLY THE MOST
00:18:48IMPORTANT THING FOR OUR FAMILY.
00:18:50AND TO MAKE SURE THAT NO UNEVER
00:18:53FORGETS THOSE WHO LOST THEIR
00:18:55LIVES THAT DAY.
00:18:57WHAT I AM MOST PROUD OF IS, IN
00:19:002017, WE CREATED A CHARITY IN
00:19:02CANADA, ALSO IN THE UNITED
00:19:04STATES, AND SINCE 2017, WE'VE
00:19:07BUILT 19 SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA IN FRANK'S HONOUR.
00:19:11SO WE'RE EDUCATING THE MOST
00:19:14VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND HELPING THEM HAVE A CHANCE IN LIFE.
00:19:17AND I THINK FRANK'S LEGACY IS, LIKE, STRONGER AND MORE
00:19:20BEAUTIFUL AND MORE POWERFUL THAN
00:19:23IT'S EVER BEEN.
00:19:28>> THAT IS HER TALKING ABOUT HER
00:19:31HUSBAND FRANK DOYLE, USING HIS NAME, SAYING HIS ANYWAY. YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR THIS A LOT.
00:19:35IN THE JEWISH FAITH, SOMETIMES PEOPLE TALK ABOUT YOU HAVE TWO DEATHS.
00:19:38THERE'S THE DEATH WHEN YOU ACTUALLY DIE AND THEN THE DEATH WHEN PEOPLE STOP SAYING YOUR
00:19:42NAME. AND THAT'S WHEN ONE CAN YOU DO
00:19:46SOMETHING ABOUT. SO THE EFFORTS TO SAY THE NAMES.
00:19:49YOU SPOKE WITH A WOMAN YESTERDAY
00:19:51EAGER TO TALK ABOUT THE NAMES AS WELL.
00:19:53>> IN FRONT OF HER NAME, JONATHAN, JULIE WHO WE BUMPED
00:19:57INTO. JONATHAN WAS 33 YEARS OLD 25 YEARS AGO ON THE 105th FLOOR
00:20:01OF TOWER -- OF THE NORTH TOWERING THE FIRST ONE TO BE HIT.
00:20:05HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE THAT DAY. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN
00:20:08MEXICO ON A BUSINESS TRIP, THINGS CHANGED THE NIGHT BEFORE,
00:20:11HE CAME IN EARLY, HE GOT TO HIS DESK, HE WAS DOING HIS JOB AND THE PLANE HI.
00:20:15I ASKED HER, DID YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH HIM?
00:20:18AND I'M GETTING SHIVERS AS I TELL YOU, THIS ADRIENNE, AND SHE
00:20:21SAID NO. BUT MAYBE THAT'S OKAY. SHE HEARD FROM SOMEBODY WHO DID,
00:20:25WHO GOT THROUGH TO HIM ON THE PHONE WHO JUST SAID I'M TRYING
00:20:28TO GET OUT OF HERE, AND THAT'S THE LAST.
00:20:31TODAY, THE TWO KIDS THAT THEY
00:20:33HAD, FULLY GROWN NOW, SHE HAS TAUGHT THEM, THESE PAST 25
00:20:37YEARS, TO APPROACH LIFE WITH POSITIVITY AND TO EFFECT
00:20:40POSITIVE CHANGE AND THAT IS THE
00:20:43LEGACY SHE SAYS OF JONATHAN. SO IT'S, LIKE I SAY, YOU DON'T
00:20:47HAVE TO GO FAR IN THIS CITY WITHOUT BUMPING INTO SOMEBODY
00:20:50WITH A DIRECT AND PAINFUL CONNECTION TO THAT DAY.
00:20:54>> YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE
00:20:58CONVERSATIONS ABOUT 9/11 END UP
00:21:00BEING ABOUT THE SPLIT-SECOND DECISION, RIGHT, LIKE, I NEED TO
00:21:04GET OUT NOW, SORT OF PEOPLE MAKING FAST ACTIONS, PEOPLE
00:21:07RESPONDING INSTINCTIVELY TO DO THE RIGHT THING, EMBRACING TO
00:21:11HELP EACH OTHER, A, YOU KNOW, AND IN SO MANY WAYS THAT'S ALSO
00:21:14WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN CANADA, PARTICULARLY WITH PRIME MINISTER JEAN CHRETIEN, BECAUSE JUST OVER
00:21:18AN HOUR AFTER THE FIRST TOWER
00:21:19WAS HIT, THE FAA ORDERED THE AIRSPACE CLOSED.
00:21:23AND THOSE PLANES HAD TO BE BROUGHT DOWN SAFELY.
00:21:26THIS IS WHERE GANDER AND SO MANY
00:21:35>> AND I DON'T KNOW WHEN I
00:21:37TALKED WITH PRESIDENT BUSH.
00:21:40I FELT THAT, YOU KNOW, HE HAD
00:21:42ENOUGH PROBLEM, I SHOULD NOT BOTHER HIM.
00:21:45BUT I HAD TOLD THEM THAT WE WERE
00:21:48THERE TO DO WHATEVER, AND WE HAD GIVEN THE PROOF, WE WERE THERE,
00:21:51BECAUSE ALREADY THE PAIN WE'RE LANDING IN GANDER AND SO ON.
00:21:55>> WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME
00:21:56FROM, TO LAND THE PLANES IN GO ANDNER.
00:21:59>> THE PILOT, YOU COULD NOT GO TO THE UNITED STATES.
00:22:02WHAT THE HELL YOU DO? THEY HAD TO TURN THE TABLE TO
00:22:05CANADA AND WE SAID YES.
00:22:07IF WE HAD SAID NO, IT WOULD HAVE
00:22:10BEEN A HELL OF A PROBLEM.
00:22:13I THINK BETWEEN YOU AND I IT WAS
00:22:16A NICE GESTURE FOR THE AMERICANS
00:22:18TO BLOCK ALL OF THE AIRPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:22:21BUT THEY DID IT.
00:22:26AND OUR CANADIANS, FRIENDS EVERY
00:22:28NEWFOUNDLAND, AND GANDER, DID A
00:22:32FANTASTIC JOB. I READ ONE AMERICAN TELLING A
00:22:36CANADIAN IN GANDER, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:22:39AND A CANADIAN REPLY, YOU WOULD
00:22:41HAVE DONE THE SAME THING FOR US,
00:22:44THE AMERICANS SAID, I'M NOT SURE.
00:22:48>> WHEN THE U.S. AIRSPACE CLOSED THE MORNING EVERY 9/11, 38
00:22:52PLANES CARRYING MORE THAN 6,000 PEOPLE WERE DIVERTED TO GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND.
00:22:56ITS POPULATION SUDDENLY NEARLY DOUBLED.
00:22:58BUT COMMUNITIES DID NOT HEIRS TRAIT TO OPEN THEIR DOORS, AND
00:23:01NOW THOUSANDS HAVE RETURNED TO GANDER TO REMEMBER WHAT ITS
00:23:04PEOPLE DID TO THANK THEM, TO RECONNECT.
00:23:07GOT THE HOST OF CBC MORNING LIVE, DAVID COMMON, IN GANDER
00:23:10THIS MORNING. GOOD MORNING, DAVID. I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN SPEAKING TO
00:23:14PEOPLE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THOSE LIFE-ALTERING MOMENTS.
00:23:17>> WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN HEARING?
00:23:20>> TOTALLY THE STORY IN GANDER, ADRIENNE, IS DIFFERENT FROM
00:23:24THERE WHERE YOU ARE IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:23:27IN MANY WAYS, IT IS, YES, A
00:23:30REFLECTION OF THE TRAGEDY, OF THE HORROR OF THAT DAY, OF THE
00:23:34LIVES LOST AND THE LIVES THAT WOULD BE LOST, FOR INSTANCE, IN
00:23:37AFGHANISTAN, BY CANADIAN, BY AMERICAN, BY OTHER SOLDIERS IN
00:23:40THE TIME TO COME, BUT IT IS ALSO
00:23:42NOT JUST TRAGEDY, IT IS A
00:23:45RECOGNITION OF THE KINDNESS THAT WAS SHOWN TO THOSE PASSENGERS.
00:23:48YOU KNOW, IN THIS GREAT HALL AT THE GANDER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
00:23:52JUST DOWN ON THE CORNER, THAT IS
00:23:54WHERE CLOSE TO 7,000 PEOPLE MOVED INTO THIS ROOM AFTER
00:23:58HAVING BEEN CALLED OUT OF THE
00:23:59SKY, NOT KNOWING WHAT HAD
00:24:02TRANSPIRED, NOT BEING TOLD, BEING STUCK ON THAT PLANE ON THE
00:24:06TARMAC UNTIL THEY COULD COME OUT. AND IN THIS ROOM, PEOPLE BROUGHT
00:24:10SANDWICHES, THEY BROUGHT COFFEE, THEY BROUGHT DRINKS, THEY
00:24:13BROUGHT EVERYTHING. THEY BROUGHT THINGS FOR KIDS,
00:24:17THEN THEY BROUGHT BEDDING, CLOTHES, THEY CONTINUED TO DO SO FOR THE DAYS TO COME.
00:24:21THEY OPENED THEIR DOORS, HAD PEOPLE SLEEPING, ABSOLUTE STRANGERS WHO COULDN'T --
00:24:24COULDN'T IMAGINE WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
00:24:27AND SO IN MANY WAYS, AS THOSE PEOPLE, THE PLANE PEOPLE, AS
00:24:31THEY CALL THEM HERE, RETURN, IT
00:24:33IS A RETURN OF FRIENDS, IT IS A
00:24:35RETURN EVERY FAMILY, IT IS AMERICANS COMING BACK TO
00:24:39CANADIAN HOMES AT A TIME, OF COURSE, THAT IS VERY, VERY TENSE.
00:24:42BUT LEADING UP TO ALL OF THIS,
00:24:45JUST UP THE STAIRS, IN FACT,
00:24:47OVER HERE, THERE IS A PIECE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE.
00:24:51SOME OF THE STEEL RIGHT UP THOSE STAIRS THAT PEOPLE EVERY DAY
00:24:55COME TO SEE, COME TO TOUCH, COME
00:25:00TO CONNECT, AND REMEMBER THE
00:25:01ROLE OF GANDER, ATLANTIC CANADA,
00:25:08CANADIANS, HELPING PASSENGERS, MOST OF WHOM WERE AMERICAN ON
00:25:12THAT DAY.
00:25:14>> DAVID, PAUL HUNTER HERE.
00:25:16YOU SPOKE TO U.S. AMBASSADOR PETE HOEKSTRA YESTERDAY.
00:25:19HIS PRESENCE OF COURSE IN GANDER, CONTROVERSIAL FOR SOME.
00:25:23TELL US ABOUT THAT, WHAT DID HE HAVE TO SAY? >> YEAH, PAUL.
00:25:25IT WAS -- IT WAS ACTUALLY JUST
00:25:27OUTSIDE OF THIS HALL. AS PETE HOOK START, THE U.S.
00:25:30AMBASSADOR LANDED, WE WERE THERE. I TALKED TO HIM AND SAID, LOOK,
00:25:34THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT YOU HEAR IN GANDER.
00:25:37SOME OF THEM ARE IN GANDER. COMING AT THIS TIME OF SUCH
00:25:41TENSION BETWEEN OUR COUNTRIES. HE'S TRUMP'S MAN IN OTTAWA.
00:25:44AND HE RECOGNIZED THAT TENSION.
00:25:48HE SAY, LOOK, THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THAT.
00:25:52TODAY IS TO THANK CANADIANS, TO
00:25:55THANK THE PEOPLE OF GANDER AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES WHO OPENED THEIR HOMES AND OPENED
00:25:59THEIR HEARTS AND, YOU KNOW, HE CAME.
00:26:01HE CAME KNOWING THAT THERE ARE
00:26:06PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT HIM HERE.
00:26:09HE'S AT A VAIRO CEREMONY IN APPLETON AS WE SPEAK, OR SET TO BE THERE ANYWAY.
00:26:13HE'S AT A CEREMONY A LITTLE LATER TODAY AT THE ARENA HERE IN
00:26:17GANDER. HE WILL BE SPEAKING AT THAT.
00:26:19AN ARENA THAT, ON 9/11, AND THE
00:26:21DAYS AFTER, PEOPLE BROUGHT FOOD
00:26:23FROM ALL OVER THIS ISLAND TO
00:26:26JUST TRY TO HELP AND FEED AND
00:26:30CLOTHE AND OFFER SOME COMFORT TO
00:26:32ALL THESE PASSENGERS WHO WERE
00:26:34SNUCK A HORROR FAR FROM THEIR FAMILIES, NOT KNOWING HOW LONG
00:26:37THEY HAD BEEN HERE.
00:26:41SO, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THAT IS INTERTWINED.
00:26:44AS I SEE, TONALLY, IT'S A BIG
00:26:47DAY HERE, IT'S A BIG DAY NOT JUST REMEMBERING WHAT HAPPENED,
00:26:50BUT ALSO REKINDLING ALL OF THESE FRIEND SHIPS.
00:26:53AT ONE PART, YOU HAVE TEARS, IN
00:26:55ANOTHER, YOU EVER SMILES.
00:27:02ALL AT WARNINGS ALL IN ONE PLACE, ALL BECAUSE OF ONE DAY.
00:27:12YOU. >> WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A BREAKO TAKE A SHORT BREAK BEFORE EVENTS
00:27:15GET UNDERWAY HERE BUT BEFORE I WEE DO, I JUST WANT YOU TO LOOK
00:27:19AT THE SCENE OF THE PEOPLE GATHERING AT THE MEMORIAL, WORLD
00:27:22TRADE CENTRE MEMORIAL. WE BOMBER 20 MINUTES AWAY FROM
00:27:25THAT FIRST MOMENT OF SILENCE.
00:27:27WE'VE SEEN CHUCK SCHUMER, RUDY GIULIANI WHO WAS THE MAYOR OF
00:27:31NEW YORK AT THAT TIME. SEEN HOWARD LUTNICK.
00:27:34MOST IMPORTANTLY YOU SEAT FAMILIES. AND WHEN WE RETURN, WE WILL SHOW
00:27:38YOU THE REMARKABLE EFFORTS STILL
00:27:40UNDERWAY TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE LOST
00:27:42THAT DAY HERE IN NEW YORK.
00:27:44WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
00:30:04[♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪]
00:30:07[♪♪]
00:30:11>> YOU WERE JUST LOOKING AT THE MISSING POSTERS THAT WERE ALL
00:30:14OVER NEW YORK CITY, IN THE HOURS AND DAYS AFTER THE 9/11 TERROR
00:30:18ATTACK. PEOPLE STARTED RUSHING TO HOSPITALS, SEARCHING FOR FAMILY,
00:30:22THEN POSTING IMAGES EVERYWHERE,
00:30:24MANY OF THE NAMES ON THOSE
00:30:26POSTERS ARE NOW ETCHED INTO THAT MEMORIAL.
00:30:29THERE WERE SURVIVORS, THOUGH. MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE,
00:30:33THANKFULLY, GOT OUT OF THOSE
00:30:38TOWERS. A CANADIAN WORKING ON THE
00:30:4284th FLOOR OF THE SOUTH TOWER HAS LONG BEEN DESCRIBED AS
00:30:44THE LAST PERSON TO GET OUT OF THE TOWERS ALIVE.
00:30:48I CAN'T IMAGINE THE WEIGHT OF
00:30:51THAT LABEL, OF THAT MEMORY, AND
00:30:54HOW -- HOW ARE YOU FARING TODAY?
00:30:59>> IT'S A TOUGH DAY.
00:31:01WE TRY TO COME BACK EVERY FIFTH
00:31:04ANNIVERSARY, AND THIS ONE IS A BIG ONE.
00:31:08I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS
00:31:10PROBABLY THE LAST BIG ANNIVERSARY IN 25 YEARS I
00:31:13PROBABLY WON'T BE HERE, LIKE
00:31:15MANY OF US, AND I THINK IT'S
00:31:19IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY.
00:31:22>> IN YOUR MIND, I DON'T KNOW
00:31:25WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GO THROUGH SOMETHING THAT TRAUMATIC, I
00:31:28DON'T KNOW HOW I WOULD DEAL WITH IT.
00:31:31DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OR MEMORY
00:31:34YOU HANG ON TO FROM THAT DAY,
00:31:36THAT YOU ARE OKAY TALKING ABOUT? >> YEAH, I JUST, YOU KNOW, IT
00:31:40WAS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY, AND
00:31:42THEN THE HORROR THAT ENSUED, I
00:31:47JUST -- I TRY TO REMEMBER MY
00:31:50COLLEAGUES AND MY FRIENDS, AND,
00:31:54YEAH, IT'S -- IT'S TOUGH STILL.
00:31:57I JUST -- GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF THAT WHOLE DAY AND
00:32:00TRYING TO GET OUT OF THAT
00:32:03BUILDING WERE PRETTY TOUGH.
00:32:05>> DID YOU END UP -- WHERE WERE
00:32:07YOU WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE TO GO DOWN?
00:32:10>> I WAS ON THE 84th FLOOR
00:32:13OF THE SOUTH TOWER.
00:32:15THE FIRST PLANE HIT AT 8:46, THE
00:32:18NORTH TOWER, AND WE SAW WHAT HAD
00:32:21GONE ON THERE. AND THEY -- THEY SAID THAT IT
00:32:25WAS, YOU KNOW, A LIGHT AIRCRAFT HAD GONE UP. OF COURSE.
00:32:28SO AS I WAS LEAVING MY TRADING
00:32:32ROOM, THE SECOND PLANE HIT.
00:32:34SO IT WENT FROM 78 TO 85, AND
00:32:39STARBOARD WING CUT RIGHT THROUGH OUR TRADING ROOM.
00:32:41AND I WAS STILL ON THE FLOOR.
00:32:43BUT I SCRAMBLED AND MADE MY WAY
00:32:45TO THE STAIRWELL.
00:32:47>> AND THEN EMERGED INTO HELL
00:32:50DOWN HERE. >> WELL, I DIDN'T INITIALLY GET OUT.
00:32:54IT WAS -- I WAS TRAPPED ABOVE THE IMPACT ZONE.
00:32:57AND WHEN I GOT DOWN, I JUST
00:33:00WANTED TO RUN AND GET AWAY, BUT
00:33:02THEY TOLD ME, FOR SECURITY
00:33:05REASONS, AND THERE WERE BODIES
00:33:09AND THERE WERE DEBRIS AND SO I
00:33:14HAD TO GO DOWN THROUGH THE COUNSEL COURSE.
00:33:16AND AS I WAS DOING THAT, I RAN
00:33:21INTO A COLLEAGUE OF MINE AND WE WERE WALKING OUT AND THAT'S WHEN
00:33:32NECESSARY. YOU HAVE MANY FRIENDS WHO ARE IN A MEMORIAL NOW.
00:33:36BUT AS A SURVIVOR, YOU ARE NOT
00:33:39IN THERE, RIGHT?
00:33:42>> THAT'S CORRECT.
00:33:43I, WELL, AND THANKFULLY, I ...
00:33:47YOU KNOW, I'M -- >> I'M SORRY, I DON'T MEAN -- I MEAN THAT YOU ARE NOT PART OF
00:33:51THE MEMORIAL TODAY. LIKE AS A SURVIVOR, CAN YOU NOT
00:33:55BE IN THAT AREA?
00:33:56>> YEAH, I THINK WHAT THEY DO IF
00:34:01SURVIVORS. YOU KNOW, I'M A BIT OF AN
00:34:05ANOMALOUS LIMIT MOST PEOPLE GOT OUT PHYSICALLY UNSCATHED BUT
00:34:08STILL HAVE TRAUMA FROM IT.
00:34:10FOR ME, I GOT BANGED UP QUITE BADLY.
00:34:13SO I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO ALLOW, SO THEY
00:34:16JUST BASICALLY ALLOW FAMILIES IN.
00:34:20>> WHAT DOES IT GIVE YOU TO BE BACK HERE NOW, OR DOES IT TAKE
00:34:24FROM YOU?
00:34:29>> IT'S, UMM, I -- I WANT TO COME BACK.
00:34:32MY WIFE AND I, WE ALWAYS COME BACK ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARIES,
00:34:35LIKE I SAID. AND THAT'S TO HONOUR MY COLLEAGUE THAT IS PERISHED AND
00:34:39TO REMEMBER THE DAY. AND IT IS, LIKE I SAID, A MOMENT
00:34:43IN HISTORY THAT WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET. THERE'S A WHOLE NEW GENERATION
00:34:47THAT DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
00:34:50AND SO IT'S TO TELL THE STORY
00:34:54AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT THE WORLD
00:34:56WAS LIKE ON THAT HORRIFIC DAY,
00:34:59BUT THE BEAUTY WE SAW AFTER THAT, SO.
00:35:02>> THE WORST OF PEOPLE AND THE BEST OF THEM, RIGHT?
00:35:06>> YEAH, AND MISGUIDED PEOPLE ON
00:35:10THAT HORRIFIC DAY. AND THEN YOU SAW THE GOOD IN
00:35:14HUMANITY AROUND THE WORLD ON SEPTEMBER THE 12th. I DIDN'T -- LIKE, I WAS OUT OF
00:35:32THANK YOU VERY MUCH, RON. >> APPRECIATE IT. >> WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK.
00:35:36I JUST -- I JUST WANT TO GO TALK
00:35:39TO KRIS REYES FOR A MOMENT, WHO IS HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, AS WE
00:35:43WATCH ALSO THE ARRIVALS OF SOME
00:35:46PEOPLE HERE AT THE CEREMONY.
00:35:51>> HI, ADRIENNE. SO, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN THE
00:35:54MEMORIAL PLAZA WHICH IS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHERE WE
00:35:57STAND, ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE THEY STREAMED INTO THAT SITE, THEY
00:36:00WERE ACTUALLY RIGHT HERE, RIGHT
00:36:02IN FRONT OF O'HARA'S PUB.
00:36:05AND THIS IS SORT OF THE HEARTBEAT, IF YOU CAN CALL IT,
00:36:08THAT OF THIS 9/11 COMMUNITY AND FAMILY.
00:36:11THEY'VE BEEN GATHERING HERE SINCE THE FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
00:36:15AND I'M GOING TO LET THE BAR DO THE TALKING, BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT
00:36:18A BANNER RIGHT AT THE FRONT THERE, THAT SAYS THAT THIS BAR
00:36:21IS ABOUT THE PERSONAL STORIES OF
00:36:249/11 TOLD BY THOSE WHO WERE THERE.
00:36:26AND THAT'S EXACTLY THE KIND OF ENVIRONMENT THAT YOU FEEL HERE.
00:36:29I WAS HERE FOR THE 20th ANNIVERSARY, AND AFTER THE
00:36:33CEREMONY, THEY JUST ALL SORT OF GATHER RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE PUB,
00:36:37INSIDE THE PUB. THERE'S A LOT OF HUGGING,
00:36:40THERE'S A LOT OF TENDERNESS.
00:36:41I MEAN, YOU SAID IT BEST, SOLEMN
00:36:44IS TOO SMALL A WORD AND EVERY TIME I COME UP WITH A WORD, IT
00:36:48DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT'S ENOUGH. IT FEELS LIKE A REUNION.
00:36:51IT FEELS HOMEY, KIND, TENDER, ALL OF THOSE THINGS, ALL AT
00:36:55ONCE. BECAUSE, FOR A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE, THEY SEE EACH OTHER ONCE
00:36:59A YEAR. AND THIS IS THEIR CHANCE TO
00:37:02CHIT-CHAT AND CATCH UP, AT THE
00:37:03SAME TIME AUSTIN TO GRIEVE AND TO HEAL.
00:37:07SO YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THIS PLACE GET PRETTY PACKED UP AFTER
00:37:10THAT CEREMONY HAPPENS. AND AS ONE MILITARY VET THIS
00:37:14MORNING TOLD ME, I MEAN, EVERYBODY HAS A STORY.
00:37:17THE OTHER THING THAT YOU SEE, AS
00:37:20YOU STAND HERE, IS THAT A LOT OF
00:37:23PEOPLE ARE HOLDING POSTERS AND
00:37:27PLAQUES AND TALKING ABOUT VERY SPECIFIC PERSONAL STORIES. SO THAT MILITARY VET, HE WAS
00:37:31CARRYING A PHOTO OF HIS COUSIN WHO DIED IN THE MARRIOTT, WHICH
00:37:35WAS SITUATED IN-BETWEEN THE 2001 HE SAID, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE FORGET
00:37:38THAT THAT HOTEL WAS IN-BETWEEN THOSE TOWERS. HE COMES HERE EVERY YEAR TO
00:37:42REMIND PEOPLE OF THAT STORY. AND I THINK THAT IS PROBABLY THE
00:37:45THING THAT YOU WILL HEAR THE MOST, FROM PEOPLE IN THE CROWD,
00:37:49IS THEY COME HERE SO THAT PEOPLE
00:37:59MORE ARRIVALS AT THE MEMORIAL.
00:38:01YOU ARE LOOKING AT JOE BIDEN THERE.
00:38:05HE WAS JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH FORMER FIRST
00:38:08LADY LAURA BUSH. THERE'S JILL BIDEN, THERE BARACK
00:38:12OBAMA. THIS DAY IS NOT ABOUT POLITICIANS.
00:38:15THEY WILL NOT BE MAKING SPEECHES HERE AT THIS MEMORIAL.
00:38:18THERE'S MAYOR BLOOMBERG.
00:38:20BUT YOU CAN'T HELP BUT SOMETIMES
00:38:23REMARK AT THIS -- AT A GATHERING OF -- OF THESE PRESIDENTS.
00:38:26>> IT IS REMARKABLE TO SEE THE
00:38:30FOUR EXPRESIDENTS TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE, REMARKABLE AS WELL
00:38:34THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT CHOSE NOT TO BE THERE.
00:38:38BUT IT UNDERLINES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS
00:38:40ANNIVERSARY, AID Y I MEAN, WE, AS I THINK WE NOTED EARLIER,
00:38:44THEY DO THIS EVERY YEAR.
00:38:46BUT THIS IS -- THIS IS A SPECIAL
00:38:50ONE. SOMEBODY I WAS SPEAKING WITH YESTERDAY WAS THINKING BACK TO
00:38:5325 YEARS AGO AND REMEMBERING THAT SHE THOUGHT WHERE WILL WE
00:38:57BE 25 YEARS FROM NOW? HERE WE ARE.
00:38:59>> WELL, I MEAN, IT'S EXCRUCIATING FRESH AND YET IT'S
00:39:03LONG ENOUGH TO ENTER FIRMLY INTO THE REALM OF HISTORY. >> AND NEW LIVES HAVE HAPPENED
00:39:07SINCE THEN. WE TALK ABOUT THE -- EVERYBODY
00:39:1030 AND UNDER EFFECTIVELY HAS NO
00:39:12DIRECT MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED.
00:39:15BUT FOR EVERYBODY ELSE WHO DID
00:39:17LIVE THROUGH THAT DAY, THEY HAVE
00:39:19LIVED 25 YEARS OF LIFE SINCE THEN. MUCH, MUCH HAS CHANGED.
00:39:23AND IT CHANGED ON THIS DAY 25 YEARS AGO.
00:39:26BUT ENTIRE LIVES HAVE BEEN LIVED SINCE THEM.
00:39:30AND ALL OF THAT COMES INTO FOCUS TODAY.
00:39:32>> WE ARE, JUST SO YOU KNOW,
00:39:35ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES AWAY FROM THE FIRST MOMENT OF SILENCE,
00:39:38WHICH WILL MARK THE MOMENT THAT
00:39:50COCHRANE, WHO IS THE HOST OF "POWER AND POLITICS".
00:39:54SO, DAVID, GOOD MORNING.
00:39:55WE KNOW NEWFOUNDLAND IS HOME FOR YOU.
00:39:58AND YOU HAPPEN TO BE THE EMCEE FOR THE OFFICIAL CEREMONY TODAY.
00:40:02BUT COULD WE GO BACK IN TIME A LITTLE BIT?
00:40:05WE ALL TALK ABOUT GANDER, BUT IT
00:40:07WASN'T JUST GANDER THAT HELPED OUT.
00:40:10>> YEAH, ADRIENNE, I WAS WORKING
00:40:12IN -- FOR CBC RADIO IN ST. JOHN'S AT THE TIME.
00:40:16AND 21 PLANES, 5,000 PEOPLE WERE DIVERTED TO THE CAPITAL CITY.
00:40:20AND THAT IS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING IN AND OF ITSELF.
00:40:23IT'S MUCH SMALLER THAN WHAT GANDER HAD TO DEAL WITH BUT IT
00:40:26WAS A CAPITAL CITY. SO A LOT OF HOTEL SPACE, LARGE
00:40:28HIGH SCHOOLS, LIKE HOLY HEART OF
00:40:31MARY WHICH COULD BE CONVERTED TO A HOSTEL FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE, IN
00:40:35AND THE ABILITY TO ABSORB THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY MUCH LARGER, JUST
00:40:39WITH WHAT EXISTED THERE IN THE BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE.
00:40:41BUT I REMEMBER THE DAY, WALKING BACK INTO THE RADIO NEWSROOM
00:40:45AFTER GOING TO GET MY MORNING CUP OF COFFEE AND EVERYONE
00:40:48HUDDLED AROUND THE ONE OR TWO TVS WE HAD IN THE NEWSROOM
00:40:52WATCHING IT AND WE ALL SAW THE
00:40:54SECOND PLANE HIT AND REALIZED
00:40:56THAT, OKAY, THIS WAS NOT AN
00:40:58ACCIDENT, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING MUCH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
00:41:01AND I'M SURE YOU AND PAUL BOTH REMEMBER THE ALERT GOING OUT THAT THE NETWORK WAS TAKING OVER.
00:41:05THERE WOULD BE NO LOCAL PROGRAMMING, RIGHT, IT WAS ALL GOING TO COME FROM TORONTO.
00:41:08AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT TIME, THINKING, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO WATCH THIS STORY WITH
00:41:12THE REST OF THE WORLD. AND THEN THE SKY GOT LOUD, YOU
00:41:16KNOW, THE PHONE STARTED RINGING, THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENING AT
00:41:18THE AIRPORT, TRAINS STARTED DIVERT THERE.
00:41:21WE LEARNED WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN GANDER, GOOSE BAY, STEPHENVILLE
00:41:24AND AT AIRPORTS RIGHT ACROSS CANADA.
00:41:26AND YOU STARTED TO REALIZE THAT
00:41:29THE STORY HAD -- WE HAD BECOME A
00:41:31BIG PART OF THE LOCAL CANADIAN
00:41:34STORY, AS THE PLANES WERE BEING
00:41:36DIVERTED TO THESE SMALLER, LESS
00:41:38POPULATED BUT ALSO CLOSEST AIRPORTS.
00:41:41AND THE MOMENT OF SORT OF
00:41:44UNCERTAINTY THAT EVERYBODY FELT, BECAUSE WHILE 25 YEARS LATER WE
00:41:47CAN LOOK AT THE GENEROSITY OF THE MOMENT AND THE COMFORT THAT
00:41:51WAS GIVEN TO THOSE PASSENGERS, YOU KNOW, IN THE EARLY HOURS,
00:41:54EVERY PLANE WAS A POTENTIAL WEAPON, EVERY PASSENGER WAS A
00:41:58POTENTIAL THREAT. NOBODY QUITE KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THIS FOG OF FEAR
00:42:01AND CHAOS, AS WE WATCHED TOWERS
00:42:06COLLAPSE. AND WHAT I REMEMBER IS THE NOISE, THE PHONE SUDDENLY GOING
00:42:10ABSOLUTELY CRAZY AND THEN FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS,
00:42:14REALIZING THAT THE WHOLE WORLD HAD COME TO, YOU KNOW I THINK
00:42:17THE -- ONE OF CANADA'S SMALLEST
00:42:19PROVINCES AT SCALE, AND JUST THE
00:42:22INDUSTRY AND THE INGENUITY AND THE EFFORT THAT THE PEOPLE
00:42:25RESPONDED WITH TO PROVIDE COMFORT TO COMPLETE AND UTTER
00:42:28STRANGERS IN A COMPLETE AND
00:42:32UTTER DARK TIME BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOU COULD DO, WHAT YOU WERE
00:42:35ABLE TO DO, AND WHAT YOU NEEDED TO DO.
00:42:39AND, YOU KNOW, IT IS -- IT IS --
00:42:42IT IS -- IT'S A STRANGE FEELING
00:42:44TO BE HERE 25 YEARS LATER, ASA
00:42:46THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES OF THIS EVENT, HAVING COVERED, YOU KNOW,
00:42:49ONE SMALL OF IT A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO.
00:42:52BUT IT IS JUST REMARKABLE HOUR, YOU KNOW, JUST THE SOUNDS EVEN
00:42:56OF THAT DAY STILL LINGER.
00:43:00>> DAVID, PAUL HERE, AND I WOULD JUST LET YOU KNOW WE ARE JUST A
00:43:03COUPLE OF MINUTES AWAY NOW FROM THE MOMENT 25 YEARS AGO WHEN THE
00:43:07FIRST PLANE STRUCK THE NORTH TOWERS.
00:43:15THEATRE -- I'M SORRY, THE FORD THEATRE IN WASHINGTON WHERE LINCOLN WAS SHOT.
00:43:18AND IT MOVED PEOPLE TO TEARS. IT MOVES PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY
00:43:21TO TEARS, THE WHOLE GANDER
00:43:24STORY, WHEN A DELEGATION FROM GANDER CAME TO WASHINGTON TO
00:43:27MEET WITH LAWMAKERS, THEY WERE MOVED TO TEARS, THE LAWMAKERS IN THE U.S.
00:43:31IT IS THAT CLOSE, BECAUSE OF THE
00:43:33KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY THAT
00:43:36AMERICANS KNOW WAS OFFERED THEM IN GANDER.
00:43:38IS THAT LOST ON PEOPLE IN GANDER? DO THEY KNOW THE DEGREE DO WHICH
00:43:42THEIR KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY
00:43:45MATTERS TO THIS DAY IN AMERICA?
00:43:48>> I -- I THINK THEY FEEL IT IN THE RELATIONSHIPS AND THE CONNECTIONS THAT THEY FORGED AND
00:43:52THAT PERSIST 25 YEARS LATER, THAT SO MANY PEOPLE CONTINUE TO
00:43:55COME BACK HERE, CONTINUE TO
00:43:58FUNDRAISE AND DALLASSCOPE, AND JUST SPEAK TO THE CONNECTION HERE.
00:44:02I THINK THEY ARE AWARE, I THINK THEY ARE VERY PROUD OF IT.
00:44:05AND HOW COULD YOU NOT BE, PAUL? I MEAN, THE STEEL COMMUNITY
00:44:09CENTRE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE
00:44:10HAVING THIS EVENT TODAY, THIS I,
00:44:14RIGHT, THIS IS WHERE THE ICE RINK IS. AND THAT WAS WHERE SO MUCH FOOD
00:44:18WAS DONATED AS PEOPLE ANSWERED THE CALL, THAT THEY HAD TO USE
00:44:21THAT AS THE REFRIGERATION SURFACE T BECAME THE WORLD'S
00:44:24LARGEST WALK-IN FREEZER TO DEAL WITH ALL OF THE FOOD BECAUSE
00:44:27THEY GAVE EVERYTHING THEY LAD
00:44:31AND FOUND WHAT THEY DIDN'T.
00:44:33AND JUST LOOK AT THE TOUR OF
00:44:36FORCE, COME FROM AWAY, AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A SPECIAL
00:44:39PERFORMANCE TONIGHT AT THE ARTS AND CULTURE CENTRE HERE IN GANDER.
00:44:42YOU FEEL THE RESPONSE, YOU FEEL THE ATTENTION, AND IF YOU LOOK
00:44:46AT WHAT'S HERE TODAY, THE BBC IS
00:44:48HERE, U.S. NETWORKS ARE HERE. OF COURSE, ALL OF THE CANADIAN
00:44:52NETWORKS ARE HERE. THIS IS THEIR MOMENT IN THE SUN.
00:44:55NOW, THEY ACKNOWLEDGE, TOO, LOTS
00:45:08CLOSE TO "POWER AND POLITICS" DAVID COCHRANE AGAIN IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
00:45:10I JUST WANT TO INTERRUPT BECAUSE LET'S LISTEN IN TO THE CEREMONY,
00:45:13THE CHILDREN'S CHOIR SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND WE ARE ABOUT
00:45:16A MINUTE AND A HALF AWAY FROM
00:45:18THE MOMENT OF SILENCE. [♪♪]
00:45:21[♪♪] [♪♪]
00:45:25♪ AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE ♪
00:45:32[♪♪]
00:45:32[♪♪]
00:45:37♪ OF THE BRAVE ♪ [♪♪]
00:45:40[♪♪]
00:45:43[Applause]
00:46:19[MOMENT OF SILENCE]
00:46:50[MOMENT OF SILENCE]
00:47:11[BAGPIPES]
00:47:41[♪♪]
00:47:41[♪♪]
00:47:56[♪♪] [♪♪]
00:47:59[BAGPIPES]
00:48:25[MOMENT OF SILENCE]
00:48:57[♪♪]
00:48:57[♪♪]
00:49:13[♪♪]
00:49:13[♪♪]
00:49:28[♪♪]
00:49:28[♪♪]
00:49:35>> GOOD MORNING.
00:49:38[READING EVERY NAMES]
00:49:45OF NAMES]
00:49:50[READING OF NAMES]
00:49:54[READING OF NAMES]
00:50:05[READING OF NAMES]
00:50:15[♪♪]
00:50:20[READING OF NAMES]
00:50:33[♪♪]
00:50:35[READING OF NAMES]
00:51:09>> ANALYSIS IT'S BEEN 125 YEARS.
00:51:11AND MY GRANDFATHER, HOWARD.
00:51:14EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T KNOW YOU OR GRAND MA RUTH, YOU STILL LIVE IN
00:51:18MY HEART AND I LOVE YOU.
00:51:28>> THAT IS THE FIRST LIST OF NAMES BEING READ BY FAMILY MEMBERS.
00:51:31THEY ARE BEING READ ALPHABET CAPITOL HILL.
00:51:34YOU ARE LISTENING TO YO-YO MAWHO WAS THERE. IT WAS THE BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S
00:51:38CHOIR BEFORE THAT. ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
00:51:41THE NAMES IS THAT AS YOU SEE ON
00:51:44THE LEFT OF YOUR SCREEN, YOUR SEEING THEM RIGHT THERE ON THE
00:51:48BOTTOM. THE NAMES ARE GROUPED IN WHAT'S
00:51:51KNOWN AS MEANINGFUL ADJACENCIES.
00:51:54SO IF YOU WORKED TOGETHER ON A FLOOR, YOUR NAMES ARE TOGETHER.
00:51:57IF YOU SAT NEAR EACH OTHER ON A PLANE, YOUR NAMES ARE TOGETHER.
00:52:01IF A FIREFIGHTER OR FIR RESPONDER TRIED TO RESCUE YOU
00:52:05AND YOUR COLLEAGUES, THAT FIRST RESPONDER'S NAME IS IN YOUR GROUPING.
00:52:09IT IS -- IT IS -- IT IS A
00:52:12RESTING TO LOOK AT THAT MEMORIAL, BUT WHEN YOU REALIZE
00:52:15HOW THEY PUT IT TOGETHER,
00:52:18IT'S -- IT STOPS YOU.
00:52:21>> THERE'S SUCH A THOUGHTFULNESS
00:52:23IN ALL THREE MEMORIALS.
00:52:25AT THE PENTAGON, FOR EXAMPLE, THE BENCHES OF EACH ONE WITH A
00:52:29NAME OF ONE OF THOSE KILLED,
00:52:31WHICH ARE PUT IN ORDER OF AGE,
00:52:34INCLUDING A THREE-YEAR-OLD.
00:52:37BUT THEY ALL FACE THE FLIGHT
00:52:39PATH OF THE JET THAT CRASHED INTO THE PENTAGON, AND SO YOU
00:52:43CAN STAND THERE AND YOU CAN IMAGINE IT COMING OVER THE HILL,
00:52:47YOU'VE BEEN THERE, INTO THE
00:52:50CLEARLY NEW FACADE OF THE PENTAGON.
00:52:53EVERYTHING ABOUT THESE MEMORIALS HAS MEANING.
00:52:56THE WHITE FLOWERS YOU MIGHT SEE
00:52:59REPRESENT -- THEY WERE LEFT THERE ON THE BIRTHDAY OF THE
00:53:02PERSON WHO WAS KILLED.
00:53:04THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO
00:53:08WANTED TO, TODAY, BE THE READER -- A READER OF THE NAMES.
00:53:11THEY HELD A LOTTERY. THERE'S ONLY SO MANY WHO CAN BE
00:53:14AT THAT PODIUM ON ANY GIVEN ANNIVERSARY.
00:53:18BUT WHEN YOU SEE, AS WE DO HERE,
00:53:22YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT HAVE
00:53:24EVER KNOWN THE RELATIVE THAT
00:53:29THEY WOULD HAVE, I DON'T THINK SO YOU GET SHIVERS, RIGHT?
00:53:31AND THESE ARE THE GRANDCHILDREN
00:53:34OF THE DEAD HERE TO HONOUR
00:53:38PEOPLE THEY NEVER KNEW BECAUSE
00:53:51>> YOU ALSO CURSED US WITH THE DEBT.
00:53:53WE ARE STILL AWAITING OUR MATT ALARM. WE NEVER GOT TO MEET YOU.
00:53:57WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU. WE LOVE YOU.
00:54:00GOD BLESS AMERICA.
00:54:06>> SO AS THEY READ THE NAMES OF
00:54:09THE CANADIANS OVER TIME, WE WILL, BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO
00:54:11TAKE MANY, MANY HOURS, WE WILL TRY TO CAPTURE THOSE AND PLAY
00:54:15THEM FOR YOU. BECAUSE WHEN YOU HEAR THE
00:54:18THOUSANDS OF NAMES READ OUT, IT
00:54:20CAN BE -- IT CAN BE DIZZYING
00:54:22SOMETIMES, IT'S OVERWHELMING BECAUSE, FRANKLY, THAT HELL WAS
00:54:26OVERWHELMING. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO STOP AND LISTEN TO SOMEONE'S STORY.
00:54:29HERE'S A BIT OF ONE FROM CANADIAN ABIGAIL CARTER WHO WAS
00:54:39WORLD TRADE CENTRE, I'M -- AND THERE'S BEEN A BOMBING.
00:54:42YOU NEED TO CALL 911.
00:54:46MY HUSBAND, AARON DACH, DIED.
00:54:52THE 106 THEIR FLOOR OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE ON 9/11.
00:54:55HE WAS IN THE BUILDING THAT DAY FOR A TRADE SHOW.
00:54:58THE PHONE RANGE AND IT WAS MY HUSBAND, AARON.
00:55:01AND I KIND OF THOUGHT HE WAS BEING OVERLY DRAMATIC SO I JUST
00:55:04THOUGHT, ALL RIGHT, I WILL CALL 911 AND APPEASE HIM.
00:55:08AND SO THAT'S WHAT I D THE NEW JERSEY DISPATCH CALLED AND SAID,
00:55:12OKAY, WE'VE CALLED NYPD AND IT
00:55:15APPEARS THAT A PLANE HAS HIT THE BUILDING AND WE SUGGEST THAT YOU
00:55:18GO AND TURN ON YOUR TV.
00:55:20SO I TURNED ON MY TV, JUST IN
00:55:23TIME TO SEE THE SECOND PLANE HIT THE SECOND BUILDING.
00:55:26AND THEN I KNEW THAT THIS WAS
00:55:29NOT GOOD. WHAT I WOULD LIKE CANADIANS TO
00:55:31KNOW ABOUT 9/11, 25 YEARS LATER,
00:55:36IS THAT THE SPIRIT OF NATIVE
00:55:38BROUGHT OUT IN THE U.S. A SPIRIT
00:55:42OF TOGETHERNESS, OF NEVER
00:55:45FORGETTING, OF COMMUNITY. AND UNFORTUNATELY, SINCE THEN,
00:55:48IT'S BEEN COMPLETELY ERODED.
00:55:51I FEEL LIKE BECAUSE OF WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE U.S., THAT
00:55:54CANADIANS ARE COMING TOGETHER IN A SIMILAR WAY.
00:55:57SO I -- I WOULD JUST IMPLORE
00:56:00CANADIANS TO TRY AND MAINTAIN
00:56:02THAT FOR -- FOR ANOTHER 25 YEARS, IF YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO
00:56:15THIS DAY, PAUL, IS VERY CALM DID, IS VERY MEASURED.
00:56:1925 YEARS AGO RIGHT NOW, THE
00:56:21SOUTH TOWER WAS BEING DECLARED
00:56:24SAFE, SECURE, STAY PUT.
00:56:28IT WOULD BE MAYBE THREE MINUTES
00:56:30LATER THAT BOTH TWIN TOWERS WERE
00:56:33BEING ORDERED EVACUATED.
00:56:36>> I'M THINKING TWO THINGS AT ONCE. I'M THINKING THE MADNESS THAT
00:56:39WAS ON THESE STREETS BEHIND THIS
00:56:41AT THIS POINT AND TO THE SECOND
00:56:44TOWER, YOUR REMARKABLE INTERVIEW WITH RON A FEW MINUTES AGO. THIS IS WHEN HE WAS HEARING
00:56:48THOSE WORDS, STAY WHERE YOU ARE, THINGS ARE COOL, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
00:56:51>> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND HE'S TALKING TO HIS WIFE AND STARTS TO -- MAYBE I SHOULD
00:56:55GET OUT OF HERE. >> GET OUT. AS WE SEE PEOPLE READ, WE WANT
00:56:59TO SWITCH THE TRAIN FOR A MOMENT.
00:57:00WE JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU AN
00:57:03IMAGE FROM WASHINGTON. THAT IS U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD
00:57:07TRUMP, A NEW YORKER MAKING HIS
00:57:09WAY NOT TO NEW YORK, BUT TO THE
00:57:13PENTAGON. THIS WAS JUST MOMENTS AGO,
00:57:15ALONGSIDE FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP. THEY ARE HEADING TO WHERE KATIE
00:57:19SIMPSON IS. SHE IS RIGHT OUTSIDE THE PENTAGON.
00:57:22AND, KATIE, AS I UNDERSTAND IT,
00:57:24THERE ARE MANY PENTAGON ATTACK
00:57:28SURVIVORS THERE. YOU'VE BEEN CONNECTING WITH WHO
00:57:30ARE REFLECTING ON WHAT HAPPENED 25 YEARS AGO.
00:57:33WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THEM?
00:57:36>> YEAH, THIS IS AN INVITE ONLY
00:57:39CEREMONY FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE
00:57:41VICTIMS, AS WELL AS SURVIVORS PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING INSIDE
00:57:44THE BUILDING BEHIND ME ON THAT
00:57:47VERY BEAUTIFUL CRISP SEPTEMBER
00:57:50MORNING HERE IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, JUST ACROSS THE RIVER
00:57:53FROM WASHINGTON, DC.
00:57:55TWO OF THOSE SURVIVORS, RETIRED
00:58:00LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROB GROOMWAL
00:58:02AND HIS COWORKER, THEY SHARED AN
00:58:05OFFICE TOGETHER, MARTA
00:58:08GILCHRIST, A CIVILIAN EMPLOYEE. THEY WERE IN THEIR OFFICE WHEN
00:58:11AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11 CRASHED INTO THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
00:58:15THE PENTAGON IS A STRUCTURE MADE UP OF 5 RINGS AND THE PLANE
00:58:19TRAVELLING AT SOME 500 MILES PER
00:58:22HOUR SHEARING INTO THE BUILDING, PENETRATING THREE LAYERS OF THAT RING.
00:58:25EVEN THOUGH IT IS SO DIFFICULT
00:58:26TO TALK ABOUT, BOTH OF THEM
00:58:29TODAY SHARED WHAT IT WAS LIKE, THEIR HARROWING EXPERIENCE
00:58:33TRYING TO ESCAPE THE CHAOS OF THAT DAY BECAUSE THEY REALLY
00:58:36WANT TO ENSURE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN BORN WHEN
00:58:40THIS HAPPENED, PEOPLE WHO MIGHT
00:58:42HAVE BEEN TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT DAY AND
00:58:46THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT DAY, THEY SEE IT AS THEIR DUTY TO
00:58:50TALK ABOUT THEIR HARROWING ESCAPE.
00:58:54>> WE WERE SIT TRYING CONFERENCE ROOM IN A BIG FIREBALL CAME
00:58:57RIGHT OVER MARTA'S HEAD.
00:58:59AND THE ROOM GOT INSTANTANEOUSLY
00:59:02BLACK AND STARTED FILLING WITH SMOKE.
00:59:04AND WE HAD TO ESCAPE TO WHERE WE
00:59:08WERE HOPING WAS SAFE. AND AT THAT POINT, WE DIDN'T
00:59:11KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WHERE WAS SAFE AT THE TIME.
00:59:15SO MARTA HELD ON TO MY BELT AND
00:59:18WE CONSIDERED TO CRAWL FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME THROUGH
00:59:22THE SMOKE AND THROUGH THE FIRE
00:59:23THAT WAS BURNING OVER OUR HEADS.
00:59:31>> UPTURNED FURNITURE. >> YEAH, YOU CAN IMAGINE IN AN EXPLOSION, COMPUTERS FELL OVER,
00:59:34CHAIRS, DESKS, COPIERS, FAXES,
00:59:39EVERYTHING WAS STREWN ON THE FLOOR.
00:59:41>> ROB WENT ON TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY
00:59:44THINGS YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IN THAT MOMENT, AS THEY WERE TRYING
00:59:48TO ESCAPE AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CROSSED HIS MIND WAS HOW
00:59:51LONG WOULD IT TAKE IF HE OR HIS COLLEAGUE, MARTA, WERE GOING TO
00:59:55BURN TO DEATH. THOSE ARE THE TERRIFYING, THE
00:59:59HORRIFYING EXPERIENCES OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO
01:00:01MAKE IT OUT ALIVE. THERE ARE SO MANY STORIES OF
01:00:05PEOPLE WHO WERE IN THE BUILDING AT THE TIME, WHEN THEY -- THEY
01:00:09FIRST HEARD THAT THERE WAS A
01:00:12PROBLEM, AN EXPLOSION, THE FIRE. PEOPLE RUNNING INTO DANGER TO
01:00:15TRY AND SEE WHAT THEY COULD DO TO TRY AND HELP ANYONE WHO IS
01:00:19STILL SURVIVING, ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE NEEDED HELP TO ESCAPE.
01:00:23A VERY SOMBER MOMENT HERE,
01:00:25ADRIENNE, AND YOU MENTIONED IT
01:00:27EARLIER TODAY, IS EARLY IN THE
01:00:30MORNING ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF
01:00:349/11, SOLDIERS AND DIGNITARIES
01:00:36HERE ALWAYS UNFURL A LARGE AMERICAN FLAG OVER THE SIDE OF
01:00:40THE BUILDING. AND IN THE AFTERMATH, IN THE
01:00:43CHAOS OF WHAT HAPPENED ON
01:00:46SEPTEMBER 11th, ON SEPTEMBER 12D
01:00:49THE SAME THING HERE IN -- AT THE
01:00:53PENTAGON, UNFURLING A LARGE FLAG DOWN THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING, A
01:00:56SYMBOL OF HOPE, A SYMBOL OF PERSEVERANCE, AND TODAY THAT
01:01:14EASTERN TIME, JUST TO SITUATE YOU WHAT WAS HAPPENING 25 YEARS
01:01:18AGO THERE. HAD JUST BEEN AN EVACUATION
01:01:21ORDER FOR THE TWIN TOWERS FOR BOTH OF THEM.
01:01:25THE NORTH TOWER HAD BEEN HIT AT 8:46.
01:01:28AT THIS POINT, THE SOUTH TOWER
01:01:31HAD NOT YET BEEN HIT. >> AND NO ONE KNEW.
01:01:35>> AND NO ONE KNEW KNEW.
01:01:36>> THAT IT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. FLIGHT 17 WAS A BEARING DOWN 25
01:01:40YEARS AGO AS WE SPEAK ON THE
01:01:42SOUTH TOWER WHEN THIS EVENT WENT
01:01:47FROM BEING PERHAPS AN ACCIDENT,
01:01:50IT BECAME AN ATTACK WHEN THAT
01:01:53SECOND PLANE HIT, IN THE MINDS
01:01:56OF THE WORLD. >> SO THAT MOMENT OF SILENCE
01:01:59WILL APPEAR AT 9:03 A.M. EASTERN.
01:02:03UNTIL THEN, LET'S LISTEN TO THESE YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEY WILL TAKE US RIGHT INTO THE MOMENT OF
01:02:06SILENCE.
01:02:25WILLIAM REED BETHKE N-10
01:02:26YENENEH BETRU S-69
01:02:30TIMOTHY D. BETTERLY N-41 CAROLYN MAYER BEUG N-1 EDWARD FRANK BEYEA N-65 PAUL MICHAEL BEYER S-14
01:02:33ANIL TAHILRAM BHARVANEY N-22 BELLA J. BHUKHAN N-49
01:02:36SHIMMY D. BIEGELEISEN S-42
01:02:39PETER ALEXANDER BIELFELD S-18
01:02:43WILLIAM G. BIGGART S-66
01:02:46BRIAN EUGENE BILCHER
01:02:49MARK BINGHAM
01:02:52CARL VINCENT BINI
01:02:55>> AND MY GRANDFATHER, EDWARD T KEEN.
01:02:59POP POP, WE ALL MISS YOU.
01:03:00AND WE WISH YOU WERE HERE.
01:03:03YOU HAVE FOUR BEAUTIFUL GREAT GRANDDAUGHTERS WHO WILL NEVER
01:03:07FORGET YOU. >> AND MY MOTHER, DEBBIE L WILLIAMS.
01:03:11YOU ARE ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS
01:03:12AND WE LOVE YOU FOREVER.
01:03:21[♪♪]
01:03:21[♪♪]
01:03:25GARY EUGENE BIRD
01:03:52[SILENCE]
01:04:07JOSHUA DAVID BIRNBAUM
01:04:11GEORGE JOHN BISHOP
01:04:14KRIS ROMEO BISHUNDAT
01:04:17JEFFREY DONALD BITTNER
01:04:20ALBERT BALEWA BLACKMAN, JR.
01:04:22CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH BLACKWELL
01:04:25CARRIE ROSETTA BLAGBURN
01:04:28SUSAN LEIGH BLAIR
01:04:31HARRY BLANDING, JR.
01:04:34JANICE LEE BLANEY
01:04:36CRAIG MICHAEL BLASS
01:04:39RITA BLAU
01:04:41RICHARD MIDDLETON BLOOD, JR.
01:04:46MICHAEL ANDREW BOCCARDI
01:04:48JOHN PAUL BOCCHI
01:04:51MICHAEL L. BOCCHINO
01:04:53SUSAN M. BOCHINO
01:04:56DEORA FRANCES BODLEY
01:04:58BRUCE DOUGLAS BOEHM
01:05:00MARY CATHERINE MURPHY BOFFA
01:05:04NICHOLAS ANDREW BOGDAN
01:05:07DARREN CHRISTOPHER BOHAN
01:05:10LAWRENCE FRANCIS BOISSEAU
01:05:13VINCENT M. BOLAND, JR.
01:05:15TOURI HAMZAVI BOLOURCHI
01:05:19ALAN BONDARENKO
01:05:21ANDRE BONHEUR, JR.
01:05:24COLIN ARTHUR BONNETT
01:05:26FRANK J. BONOMO
01:05:29YVONNE LUCIA BONOMO
01:05:32SEAN BOOKER, SR.
01:05:35KELLY ANN BOOMS
01:05:37CANFIELD D. BOONE
01:05:40MARY JANE BOOTH
01:05:42SHERRY ANN BORDEAUX
01:05:44KRYSTINE BORDENABE
01:05:47JERRY J. BORG
01:05:49MARTIN MICHAEL BORYCZEWSKI
01:05:52RICHARD EDWARD BOSCO
01:05:55>> AND MY GRANDFATHER.
01:05:58IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE YOUR LIFE WAS TAKEN FROM YOU, BUT
01:06:02YOUR PRESENCE IS WITH THE STORIES I AM TOLD. I WISH MY BROTHER AND I WERE
01:06:05ABLE TO MEET YOU. WE MISS YOU FOREVER, AND LOVE
01:06:09YOU ALWAYS. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING OVER US.
01:06:11AND THANK YOU FOR CONVINCING MY
01:06:13MOM TO GET INTO HUSKY.
01:06:16>> AND MY GRANDFATHER WILLIAM E FITZPATRICK.
01:06:19WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU.
01:06:26[♪♪] [♪♪] KLAUS BOTHE
01:06:28CAROL MARIE BOUCHARD
01:06:30J. HOWARD BOULTON
01:06:33FRANCISCO ELIGIO BOURDIER
01:06:37THOMAS HAROLD BOWDEN, JR.
01:06:39DONNA M. BOWEN
01:06:42>> SO AS THEY READ, AS YOU STAND HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, PAUL, YOU
01:06:46AND I BOTH JUST TURNED AROUND
01:06:48BECAUSE CHURCH BELLS ALL OVER
01:06:50THE CITY JUST -- JUST STARTED TO GO.
01:06:53>> AND I WILL SAY AS WELL, ADRIENNE, THAT IN THE MOMENTS OF
01:06:57SILENCE, I'VE BEEN TO NEW YORK MANY TIMES AND I'VE NEVER HEARD
01:06:59IT SILENT, I'VE NEVER SEEN IT MOTIONLESS.
01:07:02BUT NEW YORKERS EVERYWHERE STAND
01:07:07TO RECOGNIZE THIS MOMENT. I WOULD SAY ALSO AT THIS MOMENT
01:07:09TO GO BACK TO THE CHRONOLOGY OF
01:07:11THE DAY, THIS WAS AROUND THE
01:07:14TIME WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH'S CHIEF OF STAFF, ANDREW CARD, STEPPED
01:07:18INTO THAT CLASSROOM ANDN SARASOTA, FLORIDA, WHERE BUSH
01:07:22WAS GIVING A READER TO PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TO LET HIM KNOW
01:07:25THAT AMERICA WAS UNDER ATTACK.
01:07:28AS I WAS SAYING EARLIER, THE FIRST PLANE HIT, IT COULD BE AN ACCIDENT.
01:07:32BUT WHEN THE SECOND PLANE HIT, THEY KNEW THAT THIS COUNTRY HAD
01:07:35BEEN TARGETED INTENTIONALLY,
01:07:38THIS WAS CATASTROPHIC, AND THE PRESIDENT NEEDED TO KNOW.
01:07:40AND THE LOOK ON HIS FACE, EVERYBODY THAT CAN REMEMBER.
01:07:43>> WHEN HE BIT HIS LIP. >> BIT HIS LIP AND FINISHED --
01:07:47HE DID NOT WANT TO UPSET THE CHILDREN.
01:07:49HE TOOK A LOT OF CRITICISM FOR
01:07:51NOT LEAVING INSTANTLY TO GO AND CONFER WITH HIS TEAM, INSTEAD,
01:07:55HE FINISHED TO MAKE IT LOOK OKAY, SO THAT THE KIDS WOULDN'T BE UPSET.
01:07:58AND THEN HE WENT BACK AND THE REST OF THE DAY UNFOLDED.
01:08:02>> AND HE HAS SAID RECENTLY THAT, IN HIS MIND AT THE TIME
01:08:06WAS HE KNEW THAT THIS COUNTRY WAS AT WAR.
01:08:10AND HE KNEW THAT HIS JOB WAS TO PROTECT THOSE KIDS.
01:08:13AND THEY WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE HE WENT TO.
01:08:16IT REALLY WAS JUST A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS
01:08:20AT THE U.S. INVADED AFGHANISTAN
01:08:23N RETALIATION FOR THIS.
01:08:25CANADA WOULD SOON FOLLOW, JOINING THIS INTERNATIONAL
01:08:29COALITION TO DESTROY THE TERRORIST NETWORK AND THE
01:08:32TALIBAN REGIME THAT SHELTERED
01:08:34AL-QAEDA, AND OSAMA BIN LADEN IN AFGHANISTAN.
01:08:37SO THE CONFLICT BECAME THE
01:08:39LONGEST WAR IN OUR COUNTRY'S
01:08:42HISTORY. 158 CANADIAN SOLDIERS DIED.
01:08:45MORE THAN 1500 WERE WOUNDED.
01:08:48AND TODAY, WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO
01:08:51LOST THEIR LIVES IN 9/11. BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE
01:08:54ATTACKS BROUGHT WITH THEM A
01:08:56WHOLE NEW WORLD IN YEARS OF WAR,
01:08:59THE FIRST, OF COURSE, THAT WAR
01:09:01IN AFGHANISTAN, U.S. AND
01:09:04CANADIAN TROOPS INVADING BARELY A MONTH LATER.
01:09:06AND SO TO GET SOME INSIGHT INTO
01:09:08HOW TONNE FOLDED, THE IMPACT IT HAD, WE ARE SPEAKING WITH ANDREW
01:09:12BIRCH WHO IS A HISTORIAN WITH THE CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM AND HE'S
01:09:16PART OF THE MUSEUM'S NEW PODCAST, THE LONG WAR, CANADA AND AFGHANISTAN.
01:09:20ANDREW, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
01:09:23WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT WHEN
01:09:27THAT SECOND PLANE HIT.
01:09:29CERTAINLY, PRESIDENT BUSH AND MANY PEOPLE HERE UNDERSTOOD WHAT
01:09:32WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. WHEN DO YOU THINK -- WHEN DID IT
01:09:36CLICK IN FOR YOU? WHEN DO YOU THINK IT CLICKED IN
01:09:40FOR OTHER HISTORIANS AT THE TIME? >> WELL, IT WAS PRETTY MEDIATE
01:09:42FOR ME, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN
01:09:45THE PODCAST, I WAS UNDERTAKING
01:09:47SOME GRADUATE STUDIES AND OF COURSE NO CLASSES WERE REALLY
01:09:50HELD THAT DAY AND WE ENDED UP JUST TUNING INTO THE TELEVISION
01:09:54BECAUSE I GOT A CALL FROM HOME SAYING, OH, YOU SHOULD CHECK IN. WHAT CHANNEL?
01:09:57I TURNED IT ON, JUST AS THE SECOND PLANE HIT AND REALIZING,
01:10:01OH, THIS IS WAR, IMMEDIATELY.
01:10:04AND SO THAT CALCULUS THAT WAS GOING THROUGH MY HEAD OF COURSE
01:10:07WAS GOING THROUGH THE HEADS OF EVERYONE OBSERVING, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE HALLS OF POWER.
01:10:11AND PROPELLED CANADA AND THE
01:10:13WORLD INTO AN ENTIRELY NEW ERA.
01:10:20>> AND, ANDREW, FOR PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT REMEMBER, THE MECHANISM
01:10:23BY WHICH CANADA SAID YES VERY
01:10:26QUICKLY, JEAN CHRETIEN SAID YES VERY QUICKLY REMINDS CANADIANS
01:10:29OF THAT MECHANISM, IF YOU CAN.
01:10:31>> YES, EXACTLY.
01:10:33SO THERE'S A MEDIA EXPRESSION OF SOLIDARITY WITH -- WITH THE
01:10:37UNITED STATES, ANNOUNCEMENT BY
01:10:38JEAN CHRETIEN, THAT WAS AGAIN
01:10:44SOLIDIFIED THE FOLLOWING DAY WITH THE NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL
01:10:47INVOKING ARTICLE 5 OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY WHICH CONFIRMS
01:10:50THAT AN ATTACK ON ONE IS DEEMED AN ATTACK ON ALL, THE FIRST AND
01:10:54ONLY TIME IN THE -- IN THE
01:10:56ALLIANCE'S HISTORY THAT CANADA
01:10:58SPENT MANY DECADES HOLDING THAT LINE.
01:11:01AND THEN IT WAS CALLED INTO ACTION. AND THEN THAT UNFOLDED IN
01:11:04VARIOUS STAGES FOLLOWING LEADING
01:11:06TO THE FIRST DEPLOYMENTS IN
01:11:09OCTOBER OF 2001 AND INTO AFGHANISTAN, BEGINNING IN
01:11:12DECEMBER OF 2001, ONCE THAT
01:11:15DECISION WAS MADE TO -- TO GO
01:11:18AFTER THE TALIBAN, THAT HAD
01:11:21SHELTERED THE AL-QAEDA TERRORIST NETWORK THAT CARRIED OUT THE
01:11:24ATTACKS. >> ANDREW, PAUL HUNTER, I'M HERE
01:11:27WITH ADRIENNE IN NEW YORK.
01:11:29I WONDER YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHY YOU WOULD SAY OUR PARTICIPATION
01:11:32IN THAT WAR WAS SO SIGNIFICANT.
01:11:41>> SAW CANADIANS WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN DETERRENCE
01:11:45OPERATIONS IN THE COLD WAR, THAT
01:11:47LONG STANDOFF THAT HAD BEEN RESOLVED, THANKFULLY PEACEFULLY,
01:11:51AFTER A DECADE OF A VERY COMPLEX
01:11:53AND DANGEROUS PEACEKEEPING,
01:11:55PEACE SUPPORT MISSIONS.
01:11:58THIS WAS A DECADE THAT WOULD BE -- BEGAN WITH THE PERSIAN
01:12:02GULF WAR AND ENDED WITH THE 9/11 ATTACKS AND PROPELLED A DECADE
01:12:06OR MORE OF FIGHTING IN
01:12:08AFGHANISTAN, BEGINNING IN 2001,
01:12:10THE MAIN BATTLE GROUP ARRIVING
01:12:12IN FEBRUARY OF 2002, BUT AIR AND
01:12:15NATO ASSETS BEING DEPLOYED. A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT WHAT WOULD FOLLOW, BUT KNOWING THAT
01:12:19THEY WOULD BE GOING NOT IN A PEACEKEEPING ROLE BUT RATHER IN
01:12:22A COMBAT ROLE, AND THAT BECAME,
01:12:26YOU KNOW -- WHEN WE STARTED TO SEE THE FIRST CASUALTIES ROLL
01:12:30OUT IN APRIL OF 2002, AND THEN
01:12:33SUBSEQUENTLY AS YOU MENTIONED, 158 CANADIAN SOLDIERS OVER THE
01:12:35COURSE OF THE ENTIRETY OF THE
01:12:37WAR, WHICH SAW VERY INTENSE COMBAT, COUNTER INSURGENTS
01:12:41CIRCUMSTANCE THE CAT AND MOUSE GAME OF DEALING WITH THE TALIBAN
01:12:44WHILE TRYING TO SUPPORT AFGHAN AND COALITION ALLIES.
01:12:47THAT BECAME REALLY THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF THE CANADIAN ARMED
01:12:51FORCES, AND TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, CANADIAN SOCIETY IN SUPPORTING
01:12:55THAT WAR EFFORT, AND BUILDING TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING THAT
01:12:58CANADA WAS AT WAR, WAS A GRADUAL PROCESS, BUT THE COSTS AND
01:13:02IMPACTS OF THAT REALLY REVERBERATED AND CONTINUE TO
01:13:06THIS DAY. >> ABSOLUTELY CONTINUE TO.
01:13:09YOU KNOW, SEEING THE TALIBAN
01:13:10BACK IN POWER, NOT THAT LONG
01:13:13AGO, CERTAINLY DEVASTATING TO
01:13:25INNER TO SPEAK WITH YOU, THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT.
01:13:28>> THANK YOU. >> SO LET'S HEAD BACK TO DAVID
01:13:32COMMON WHO IS IN GANDER THIS MORNING.
01:13:36DAVID, YOU AND PAUL KNOW THAT
01:13:38TIME VERY WELL, NOT LONG AFTER
01:13:40YOU WENT INTO AFGHANISTAN TO
01:13:43REPORT, WHAT STANDS OUT FROM YOU
01:13:45FROM THOSE VERY, VERY EARLY
01:13:48DAYS? >> LOOK, ADRIAN, I WAS SENT INTO
01:13:50AFGHANISTAN IN EARLY 2002 AND
01:13:53THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE
01:13:56TARNACK FARMS INCIDENT WHEN FOUR CANADIAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED,
01:13:59EIGHT OTHERS INJURED BECAUSE AN AMERICAN FIGHTER JET BOMBED THEIR POSITION.
01:14:03THEY WERE JUST OUTSIDE OF THE KANDAHAR AIR BASE, THEY WERE
01:14:06SORT OF ON A NIGHTTIME PRACTICE.
01:14:09AND THAT WAS IN MANY WAYS WHEN -- WHEN THE COUNTRY WOKE
01:14:12UP, I THINK, AND REALIZED WE
01:14:15HAVE SOLDIERS, THIS IS A WAR,
01:14:17THEY ARE IN EXTREME DANGER, THEY
01:14:20ARE DYING, AND AN UNDERSTANDING
01:14:22OF HOW MUCH 9/11 HAD SHIFTED OUR WORLD.
01:14:26CERTAINLY, THE LIVES OF THOSE SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
01:14:30BUT EVEN, YOU KNOW, IN THE EARLY DAYS, YOU KNOW, THE CANADIANS --
01:14:34UNIFORMS THEY WORE WERE GREEN. THEY WERE DESIGNED FOR THE
01:14:38FOREST, ESSENTIALLY, IN CANADA, FIGHTING A BATTLE THERE.
01:14:41AND WE WERE IN THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN, THE HIGH
01:14:45MOUNTAINS, THE COLD NIGHTS, THE
01:14:47HOT DAYS IN THE HEARTLAND OF THE
01:14:51TALIBAN. I MEAN, THIS IS -- THIS IS WHERE
01:14:54OSAMA BIN LADEN HAD A HOME. I STILL DISTINCTLY REMEMBER
01:14:58WHERE IT HAD BEEN COMPLETELY FLATTENED BY AN AMERICAN AIR
01:15:02STRIKE. IT WAS HIS BASE OF POWER, AND
01:15:04THIS WAS WHERE CANADIANS WERE
01:15:06SENT INTO -- INTO THE HEART OF
01:15:09THE BEATING HEART OF THE TALIBAN
01:15:11TO TAKE ON THE FIGHT TO THEM,
01:15:14TAKE ON THAT SAFE HAVEN THAT HAD
01:15:17BEEN OFFERED TO AL-QAEDA, AND OF
01:15:19COURSE TO SUPPORT THE AMERICANS
01:15:21IN THEIR HOUR OF NEED TO BE PART
01:15:23OF A COALITION OF WILLING, AND
01:15:26TO CHOOSE, UNLIKE OTHER NATIONS,
01:15:28TO GO TO -- TO THE SOUTH, TO GO
01:15:31TO THE VERY DANGEROUS SPOT.
01:15:34I REFLECT ON THAT.
01:15:36I THINK ABOUT -- YOU KNOW, WE
01:15:38TALK, AS WE SHOULD, ABOUT THE
01:15:41158 CANADIAN SOLDIERS WHO DIED. WE THINK ABOUT THE MANY WHO WERE
01:15:44INJURED. I -- I THINK ABOUT FACES. I THINK ABOUT OVER THE DECADE
01:15:48THAT I WENT IN AND OUT, AND PAUL
01:15:50WILL HAVE THE SAME THING, I
01:15:53REMEMBER FACES OF PEOPLE WHO
01:15:55WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY BE KILLED.
01:15:58AND THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO I HAD
01:15:59BEEN TALKING TO ABOUT THEIR KIDS.
01:16:02AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT THE ENDURING COSTS ON A
01:16:06DAY LIKE TODAY. YOU THINK ABOUT THE ENDURING
01:16:08COSTS, NOT -- NOT SOLELY, AS WE SHOULD, FROM THE ATTACKS, THE
01:16:12TERRORIST ATTACKS IN NEW YORK AND THE PENTAGON AND
01:16:15PENNSYLVANIA, WE THINK ABOUT ALL
01:16:17THE LIVES THAT WERE TOUCHED AND
01:16:21THE AFTERMATH. >> YOU ARE RIGHT, DAVID, I WAS,
01:16:23THERE I GUESS, WELL AFTER YOU, I THINK I WAS THERE IN
01:16:2707:00 STEPHEN HARPER, 08, EMBEDDED WITH OUR TROOPS.
01:16:29I WAS THERE IN 2014 WHEN THE FLAG CAME DOWN IN KABUL.
01:16:33BUT MY MAIN MEMORIES ARE FROM THE KANDAHAR HAIR FIELD.
01:16:36AND YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE NAMES AND THERE WAS THE MEMORIAL
01:16:39THERE, FOR THOSE WHO HAD DIED.
01:16:41I WENT TO A FLAG CEREMONY WHERE
01:16:44A BODY WAS BEING TAKEN HOME.
01:16:46I THINK MY TAKE AWAY FROM
01:16:50OBSERVING THE TROOPS WAS THAT THEY DID THEIR JOB.
01:16:54THAT CANADIAN TROOPS WERE PLAYERS, THERE THEY DID WHAT
01:16:56THEY HAD TO DO, IN SOLIDARITY
01:17:00WITH MOSTLY AMERICAN FORCES, BUT
01:17:03OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL.
01:17:05THEY DID THEIR JOB.
01:17:08I WONDER WHAT YOUR OBSERVATIONS
01:17:09WERE ABOUT CANADA'S ROLE ON THE
01:17:12GROUND IN AFGHANISTAN, DAVID.
01:17:17>> LOOK, PAUL, THERE'S -- THERE'S NO QUESTION, AND AS YOU
01:17:20SAY, THEY DID THEIR JOB. THEY WERE SENT THERE TO DO A
01:17:24JOB. THE MISSION ITSELF KEPT SORT OF
01:17:26CHANGING, BUT THE ROLE FOR THE CANADIANS ON THE GROUND COMING
01:17:29OUT OF THOSE ARMOURED VEHICLES,
01:17:31COMING OUT OF THE RG-31'S,
01:17:35COMING OUT 7 LEOPARD TANKS WAS -- WAS VERY DANGEROUS.
01:17:39THE IED'S, THE ROADSIDE BOMBS,
01:17:41THE ATTACKS, THE GUN FIGHTS THAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTER SOMETHING HAD
01:17:45BLOWN UP.
01:17:46IT -- IT WAS EXTRAORDINARILY DANGEROUS.
01:17:49AND THEY WERE -- THEY WERE IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST.
01:17:52THERE WAS -- THERE WAS FIGHTING CONSTANTLY.
01:17:55I -- YOU KNOW WHAT, 5, ALMOST 5
01:17:58YEARS AGO TODAY, I WENT TO A
01:18:02REUNION OF THE PPCLI, PRINCESS
01:18:05PATRICIA CANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRY, THE THIRD BATTALION,
01:18:08THOSE WHO WERE FIRST DEPLOYED, THE FIRST REGULAR SOLDIERS FROM
01:18:11CANADA, DEPLOYED OUT OF EDMONTON INTO AFGHANISTAN.
01:18:13AND I GOT TO SEE PEOPLE WHO I
01:18:16HADN'T SEEN IN TWO DECADES, MANY
01:18:18OF THEM WERE OUT OF THE MILITARY. SOME OF THEM WERE MISSING LIMBS,
01:18:22SOME OF THEM ARE MISSING AN
01:18:29HUAWEI. THEY SHOW THE SCARS, CERTAINLY
01:18:31EMOTIONALLY OF THE IMPACT. I ALWAYS SAY TOO PEOPLE WHEN YOU SEND SOLDIERS TO WAR, YOU ARE
01:18:35MAKING A COMMITMENT FOR A
01:18:38GENERATION TO CARE FOR THE COST
01:18:42THAT WILL BE PAID BY THOSE
01:18:45SOLDIERS AND THIS IS VERY TRUE TODAY. PEOPLE NEED TO REMEMBER, WE HAVE
01:18:48VETERANS OF A WAR IN THEIR 40'S,
01:18:50IN THEIR 50'S.
01:18:53YOUNGER IN SOME CASES.
01:18:55BUT, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THE
01:18:57TALIBAN, ONCE AGAIN RULES AFGHANISTAN.
01:19:00AND WHEN I WAS WITH THOSE PPLC SOLDIERS, SOME OF THEM OUT OF
01:19:03THE MILITARY, THEY ARE REFLECTING. IT IS HARD T IT IS REALLY HARD TO LOOK.
01:19:07YES, THEY DID THEIR JOB. THEY TALK ABOUT -- THEY HAD A
01:19:10SPECIFIC ROLE AND THEY WENT IN THERE AND EXECUTED IT TO THE
01:19:13BEST OF THEIR ABILITIES. NOBODY QUESTIONS THAT.
01:19:17BUT THE AFTERMATH, LOOKING AT
01:19:19GIRLS WHO CAN'T GO TO SCHOOL ANYMORE IN THAT COUNTRY, LOOKING
01:19:22AT THE PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN EJECTED FROM POWER, THESE
01:19:26INCREDIBLY HARSH REGIME, THE TALIBAN.
01:19:29AND THEY ARE BACK. AND AFGHANISTAN HAS CHANGED BECAUSE OF THE EFFORTS OF
01:19:33CANADIANS. THERE IS A GENERATION OF YOUNG AFGHAN GIRLS WHO WERE EDUCATED.
01:19:37THERE IS A GENERATION OF PEOPLE WHO KNEW A VERY DIFFERENT LIFE.
01:19:40SO IT HAS CHANGED BECAUSE OF THEIR EFFORTS.
01:19:42BUT IT'S STILL, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD.
01:20:01TALKING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE ON THE GROUND IN AFGHANISTAN. WHEN WE -- WE WENT OUT WITH
01:20:04TROOPS ON ONE DAY, JUST MISSED
01:20:08AN EID, DAVID TALKED ABOUT THE DANGER.
01:20:11BUT I ENDED UP CHATTING WITH A SOLDIER, CANADIAN, ABOUT WHAT
01:20:14HAPPENS AFTER. AND HE SAID, I SAID, WHAT
01:20:17HAPPENS IF EVERYBODY LEAVES. HE SAID, DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW?
01:20:21AND THIS IS 2008.
01:20:25AND I SAID Y AND HE GOES, THE
01:20:27WHOLE PLACE WOULD GO, I WILL SAY RAT FOOD.
01:20:31BUT HE USED A DIFFERENT WORD IN 48 HOURS. AND IT WASN'T FAR OFF.
01:20:34AND IT MUST BE SO FRUSTRATING FOR ALL OF THE SOLDIERS AND THE
01:20:37FAMILIES OF THE 150 ODD CANADIANS TO KNOW WHAT HAS
01:20:40HAPPENED IN AFGHANISTAN SINCE
01:20:42FORCES PULLED OUT. >> LET'S JUST LISTEN IN TO SOME
01:20:46OF THESE NAMES AGAIN.
01:20:55FLORENCE G. COHEN
01:20:57KEVIN S. COHEN
01:21:00ANTHONY JOSEPH COLADONATO
01:21:02MARK JOSEPH COLAIO
01:21:06STEPHEN J. COLAIO
01:21:09CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL COLASANTI
01:21:13KEVIN NATHANIEL COLBERT
01:21:16MICHEL P. COLBERT
01:21:18KEITH E. COLEMAN
01:21:23LIAM JOSEPH COLHOUN
01:21:28TAREL COLEMAN
01:21:33ROBERT J. COLL
01:21:36ROBERT D. COLIN
01:21:40JOHN MICHAEL COLLINS
01:21:43JEAN MARIE COLLIN
01:21:47THOMAS JOSEPH COLLINS
01:21:50MICHAEL L. COLLINS
01:21:54JEFFREY DWAYNE COLLMAN
01:21:57JOSEPH KENT COLLISON
01:22:07PATRICIA MALIA COLODNER
01:22:08JEFFREY DWAYNE COLLMAN
01:22:14SOL E. COLON
01:22:17LINDA M. COLON
01:22:25AND MY TWIN BROTHER LIEUTENANT
01:22:27JEFFREY ERIC, FDNY, PART-TIME RN
01:22:30IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM, A SON, A
01:22:33BROTHER, A FATHER, AN UNCLE, A HUSBAND.
01:22:37A HOUSEHOLD CAPTAIN. HE WORKED HARD.
01:22:39HE PLAYED HARD. LOVED LIFE, FAMILY, FRIENDS AND
01:22:43A GOOD TIME. WE LOVE YOU.
01:22:46WE WILL FOREVER MISS YOU.
01:22:48WE'LL NEVER FORGET YOU. GOD BLESS.
01:22:51>> AND MY DAD, FRED T VERACKY,
01:22:5725 YEARS LATER AND A MEMBER RIFF YOU STILL LIVES ON IN OUR HEARTS.
01:23:01THROUGH CELEBRATIONS AND HARD TIMES, WE KNOW YOU ARE ALWAYS
01:23:04STANDING BY OUR SIDE. WE LOVE YOU, WE MISS YOU, AND WE
01:23:08WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.
01:23:12[Applause]
01:23:19RONALD EDWARD COMER
01:23:23JAIME CONCEPCION
01:23:25ALBERT CONDE
01:23:27DENEASE CONLEY
01:23:30SUSAN P. CONLON
01:23:32MARGARET MARY CONNER
01:23:34CYNTHIA MARIE LISE CONNOLLY
01:23:37JOHN E. CONNOLLY, JR.
01:23:40JAMES LEE CONNOR
01:23:44JONATHAN M. CONNORS
01:23:48KEVIN PATRICK CONNORS
01:23:51KEVIN F. CONROY
01:23:53BRENDA E. CONWAY
01:23:57DENNIS MICHAEL COOK
01:24:00HELEN D. COOK
01:24:03JEFFREY W. COOMBS
01:24:06JOHN A. COOPER
01:24:08JULIAN T. COOPER
01:24:11JOSEPH JOHN COPPO, JR.
01:24:16GERARD J. COPPOLA
01:24:19JOSEPH ALBERT CORBETT
01:24:24JOHN J. CORCORAN III
01:24:27ALEJANDRO CORDERO
01:24:30ROBERT JOSEPH CORDICE
01:24:33RUBEN D. CORREA
01:24:36DANNY A. CORREA-GUTIERREZ
01:24:39GEORGINE ROSE CORRIGAN
01:24:46JAMES J. CORRIGAN
01:24:48CARLOS CORTÉS-RODRIGUEZ
01:24:51KEVIN MICHAEL COSGROVE
01:24:54DOLORES MARIE COSTA
01:24:56DIGNA ALEXANDRA COSTANZA
01:25:01CHARLES GREGORY COSTELLO, JR.
01:25:06MICHAEL S. COSTELLO
01:25:08ASIA S. COTTOM
01:25:11CONROD KOFI COTTOY, SR.
01:25:16MARTIN JOHN COUGHLAN
01:25:19JOHN G. COUGHLIN
01:25:21TIMOTHY J. COUGHLIN
01:25:24JAMES E. COVE
01:25:27>> AND MY ANTI, LISA MARIE TERRY.
01:25:29FOR 25 YEARS, THE DEEP STATE HAS HIDDEN THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT
01:25:33HAPPENED THAT DAY, 25 YEARS AGO.
01:25:36PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE OUR
01:25:38LAST HOPE: RELEASE THE
01:25:42UNREDACTED FILES THAT IMPLICATE SAUDI ARABIA WHILE WITH WHAT'S
01:25:46LEFT OF THE VICTIMS' FAMILIES ARE STILL ALIVE TO SEE IT.
01:25:50[Applause] >> AND MY GRANDFATHER, ALEXIS LEDUC.
01:25:53EVEN THOUGH I NEVER GOT TO MEET
01:25:55YOU, I KNOW YOU MADE MY DAD A
01:26:00GREAT PERSONALITY I AM SO HAPPY TO BE CARRYING YOUR LAST NAME AND I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY
01:26:03HEART.
01:26:08>>> WELL, THAT WAS REMARKABLE. THAT IS THE SECOND PERSON TO
01:26:11REFERENCE RELEASING THOSE FILES. >> YOU SAID POLITICS WASN'T A PART OF THIS.
01:26:15>> MM-HMM. >> THAT STUFF MATTERS TO PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT, AND I KNOW THAT
01:26:19THEY'VE GOT AN AUDIENCE AND A PODIUM ON WHICH TO SAY IT.
01:26:22>> AND HEARD THE APPLAUSE. YOU ALSO HEARD TWO NAMES OF
01:26:25CANADIANS IN THOSE GROUPINGS, WE
01:26:27WANT TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT
01:26:29ABOUT THEM.
01:26:34>> JOSEPH COLE SUM, I WAS ON THE
01:26:3610 ONE FLOOR, REPEATING THAT
01:26:39NOBODY ABOVE THE IMPACT ZONE IN THE NORTH TOWER SURVIVED.
01:26:43JOSEPH WAS FROM FORT CREDIT, ONTARIO, HE WAS HOPING TO ADOPT
01:26:46A BOY THAT HE CARED FOR. >> AND WHILE WE DO THAT, WE JUST
01:26:49WANT TO THROW YOU BACK TO BANFF, THE PRIME MINISTER'S WALKING OUT.
01:26:53LET'S HAVE A LISTEN.
01:26:56>> SEPTEMBER MORNING, THOSE US OLD ENOUGH, I THINK ALL REMEMBER
01:26:59WHERE WE WERE.
01:27:02AND OTHERWISE ORDINARY DAY
01:27:03BECAME ONE OF HISTORY'S DARKEST.
01:27:08NEARLY 3,000 PEOPLE AMONGST THEM
01:27:1124 CANADIANS LOST THEIR LIVES, WERE KILLED, IN THE WORST
01:27:15TERRORIST ATTACK IN AMERICAN
01:27:18HISTORY. THOUSANDS MORE INJURED,
01:27:22COUNTLESS MORE FOREVER AFFECTED
01:27:26BY WHAT HAPPENED. [ Speaking French ]
01:27:29>> Voice of Interpreter: 25 YEARS LATER, THE PAIN IS STILL
01:27:32VERY MUCH ALIVE, AND WE PAY
01:27:35TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS
01:27:38WHO LOST THEIR LIVES.
01:27:48AND OTHERS WHOSE LIVES WERE
01:27:51FOREVER AFFECTED.
01:27:56[End of Interpretation] >> Rt. Hon. Mark Carney: THIS DARK MOMENT ALSO BROUGHT FORTH
01:27:59SOME OF OUR BEST NATURE.
01:28:01FIREFIGHTERS CLIMBING THE STAIRS
01:28:04TO RESCUE THOSE IN BURNING BUILDINGS, RESCUE WORKERS
01:28:07WORKING FOR WEEKS TO BRING
01:28:11CLOSURE, IN CANADA, OUR
01:28:15GOVERNMENT, WITHOUT HESITATION,
01:28:19WELCOMED 224 PLANES, 17 OF OUR
01:28:23AIRPORTS, IN GANDER, THE
01:28:25POPULATION ALMOST DOUBLED, WITH
01:28:27STRANGERS WHO WERE GIVEN A BED,
01:28:30A HOT MEAL, A PHONE CALL HOME,
01:28:33ASKED NOTHING IN RETURN.
01:28:37AND THAT'S HOW GENEROSITY
01:28:41SPREADS. I REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO, I
01:28:44VISITED GANDER, AND SPENT TIME
01:28:47WITH BUEHLER COOPER, ONE OF THE HEROS.
01:28:50SHE WOULDN'T DESCRIBE HERSELF OF
01:28:52A HERO, OF THAT -- OF THAT TIME.
01:28:54AND SHE HAD CARDS FROM A SCHOOL
01:29:00TRIP, KIDS WHO HAD VISITED, AND
01:29:02ONE THEM SAID, YOUR KINDNESS
01:29:05MAKES ME WANT TO USE MY KINDNESS.
01:29:08AND THAT'S -- THAT'S HOW GENEROSITY SPREADS.
01:29:12NOW, CANADA'S RESPONSE DID NOT END THERE.
01:29:16WHEN NATO INVOKED ARTICLE 5 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY,
01:29:19THE ONLY TIME IN ITS HISTORY, AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON
01:29:22ALL OF US, 40,000 CANADIANS
01:29:26SERVED IN AFGHANISTAN.
01:29:29158 MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES WERE
01:29:33KILLED. WE LOST A DIPLOMAT, WE LOST AID
01:29:36WORKERS, WE LOST 7 OTHERS.
01:29:39AND CANADIANS WELCOMED THEM
01:29:41HOME, OR HONOURED THEM, RATHER,
01:29:43ON THE HIGHWAYS OF HEROS.
01:29:49THE LESSEN, I THINK, OF THESE
01:29:54EVENTS, OR I WOULD SUGGEST OF
01:29:55THESE EVENTS IS THAT THE
01:29:59RESPONSE TO DARKNESS IS 20 REACH
01:30:03OUT, IS TO SUPPORT, TO STAND IN
01:30:09SOLIDARITY WITH -- AS CANADIANS DID, WITH OUR NEIGHBOURS, IN
01:30:12THIS CASE, OUR AMERICAN
01:30:15NEIGHBOURS, TO REACH OUT TO
01:30:17STRANGERS THAT YOU DON'T KN
01:30:25KNOW ... [ Speaking French ] >> Voice of Interpreter: IT IS
01:30:27THE FAIREST RESPONSE IN ANY
01:30:45>> WELL, THAT WAS PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY THERE. VERY EMOTIONAL, UNLESS I AM
01:30:49READING THAT WRONG, HE SEEMS VERY EMOTIONAL, TALKING ABOUT
01:30:52THIS, AND TALKING -- CHOOSING TO
01:30:55TALK ABOUT THE REACTIONS TO
01:30:58DARKNESS IS LIGHT, IS KINDNESS,
01:31:01IS REACHING OUT. THERE MUST BE A LOT SWIRLING IN THAT MIND TODAY.
01:31:05>> AND THE GENEROSITY OF
01:31:06CANADIANS IN COMING TO THE AID
01:31:10OF THEIR AMERICAN COUSINS AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
01:31:13CHRIS HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE
01:31:15PUB THAT'S NOT TOO FAR FROM US,
01:31:17WHERE MANY FIRST RESPONDERS GO
01:31:19AND I WAS THERE YESTERDAY AND I
01:31:23MET A VANCOUVER FIREFIGHTER WHO,
01:31:27ALONG WITH 100 OTHERS, CAME DOWN
01:31:30FROM VANCOUVER AFTER 9/11 TO DO
01:31:32WHAT THEY COULD TO HELP THEIR
01:31:35AMERICAN FIRST RESPONDERS HERE. AND ON THIS VISIT 25 YEARS
01:31:38LATER, HE BROUGHT HIS SON, DYLAN, WHO WAS ONE AND A HALF AT
01:31:41THE TIME, WHO IS NOW A
01:31:44FIREFIGHTER AND HIS DAD, A FIREFIGHTER WHO CAME TO NEW YORK
01:31:47TO DO WHAT HE COULD AS A
01:31:50CANADIAN WANTED HIS SON, NOW A FIREFIGHTER, TO COME DOWN
01:31:53EFFECTIVELY TO BE HERE ON THIS
01:31:54DAY AND TO BREATHE THE AIR OF
01:31:57THIS PLACE AND TO BE REMINDED OF
01:32:00THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES THAT WAS AND THE BOND
01:32:03BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO HELPED OUT AND THOSE WHO WERE IN CANADIAN.
01:32:07IT WAS QUITE A -- QUITE A CHAT.
01:32:09>> AND THAT THAT BOND IS JUST
01:32:11HUMAN, IT IS APOLITICAL, AND
01:32:14IT'S JUST HUMAN INSTINCT TO WANT TO BE CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE WHO
01:32:17MATTER TO YOU. >> 100%. >> AND THE AMERICANS CONTINUE TO
01:32:19MATTER TO EVERY -- EVERY CANADIAN.
01:32:22THIS PUB YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT,
01:32:24IT IS A PRETTY SPECIAL PLACE.
01:32:27MONICA MURPHY, WHO IS -- SHE
01:32:30CALLS HERSELF A 9/11 WIDOW
01:32:32BECAUSE HER BELOVED HUSBAND,
01:32:34MICHAEL, TELLS ME THAT SEPTEMBEA
01:32:37VERY SPECIAL DAY FOR THEM
01:32:39BECAUSE THEY MET AT THAT PUB IN
01:32:421999 ON SEPTEMBER 11th. AND SO SHE GOES BACK EVERY NOW
01:32:46AND THEN TO TALK TO THE BARTENDER THERE, WHO
01:32:50REMEMBERS -- WHO REMEMBERS SEEING THEIR LOVE STORY UNFOLD
01:32:53BEFORE HIM, AS HE'S SERVING THEM DRINKS. THERE'S A LOT -- THERE'S A LOT
01:32:56OF HISTORY, A LOT OF TEARS IN THAT PUB.
01:33:00KRIS REYES -- OH, WAIT, IF I MAY, IF I MAY.
01:33:03WHILE WE ARE SPEAKING ABOUT PEOPLE, LET'S TALK ABOUT ANOTHER CANADIAN.
01:33:06LET'S TALK ABOUT CYNTHIA CONLEY.
01:33:08IN THOSE NAME THAT IS WERE BEING READ, IT GOES BY SO QUICKLY
01:33:11BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE LOST.
01:33:14YOU HEARD THE NAME CYNTHIAIAN
01:33:19CONNOLLY. CYNTHIAIA 40 YEARS OLD. SHE WORKED IN THE SOUTH TOWER.
01:33:22SHE HAD JUST TRANSFERRED TO NEW
01:33:24YORK FROM MONTREAL AT THE TIME.
01:33:27THAT HAPPENED IN 1999.
01:33:29SHE HAD A SUPER SOFT SPOT FOR STRAY ANIMALS.
01:33:33AND SHE WAS NEWLY MARRIED. SHE HAD JUST MARRIED HER HUSBAND
01:33:37IN 1998. SO YOU ARE SEEING HER THERE.
01:33:40CYNTHIA CONNOLLY, ONE OF THE CANADIANS LOST. NOW, AS THEY READ MORE NAMES, WE
01:33:44DO WANT TO GO BACK TO KRIS REYES
01:33:47WHO IS AT THE PUB NEAR GROUND ZERO.
01:33:50AGAIN, PAUL, AS WE'VE BEEN SAYING, THIS IS -- THIS IS THE
01:33:53PLACE TO BE, SO MANY CONNECTION POINTS.
01:33:55WHAT ARE YOU HEARING THERE?
01:33:58>> GOOD MORNING, ADRIENNE AND PAUL. YOU KNOW, IN TALKING ABOUT THIS
01:34:01PUB, I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT
01:34:04JUST DOWN THE STREET IS THE FIRE
01:34:07HOUSE LOVINGLY CALLED TEN HOUSE,
01:34:10SO ENGINE TEN, LADDER TEN, THEY
01:34:13WERE THE FIRST FIREFIGHTERS TO RESPOND TO 9/11.
01:34:16SO THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF JUST HOW IMPORTANT THIS PUB IS,
01:34:19JUST BY THE PROXIMITY TO THAT FIRE HOUSE.
01:34:23AND I JUST WENT INSIDE.
01:34:25SO THIS PUB OPENED AT NINE IN THE MORNING ON THE DOT.
01:34:28PEOPLE WERE STREAMING IN JUST EVEN MINUTES BEFORE THAT.
01:34:31AND IT WAS OUR EVERY INTENTION TO TRY TO PULL SOMEBODY OUT, TO
01:34:35TALK TO US LIVE ON AIR. AND I WILL TELL YOU, I DON'T
01:34:38HAVE THE HEART TO DO THAT,
01:34:39BECAUSE YOU GO IN THERE, AND IT
01:34:42GIVES YOU CHILLS HOW SOMBER IT IS IN THERE.
01:34:45SO PEOPLE ARE HUDDLED TOGETHER,
01:34:48CHIT-CHATTING, CATCHING UP, EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE THEY HAVE
01:34:52TEARS IN THEIR EYES. AND IF THEY ARE NOT HUDDLED
01:34:55TOGETHER WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY, THEY ARE FIXED TO THE TV
01:34:59WATCHING AND LISTENING AS THOSE NAMES ARE BEING READ.
01:35:02AND SO THAT IS WHAT IT'S LIKE INSIDE THERE.
01:35:05AND I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU ABOUT THE 7,000 PATCHES ON THE WALL.
01:35:09THAT'S NOT ENOUGH OF A SCRIPTER.
01:35:14IT'S ALWAYS OVER EVERY SINGLE WALL. AND I TOOK A SECOND TO KIND OF LOOK AT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT
01:35:18PATCH THE, BECAUSE THEY ARE FROM FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS AND MILITARY VETS, NOT JUST FROM
01:35:21NEW YORK, BUT FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. SAW A COUPLE OF CANADIANS IN
01:35:25THERE AND THEN OF COURSE THERE'S A PROMINENT CANADIAN FLAG ON THE
01:35:29CEILING. SO THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF HOW
01:35:33MUCH THIS WAS AN ATTACK, NOT ON NEW YORK, BUT THE WORLD.
01:35:37AND PEOPLE FEEL THAT. AND YOU FEEL ALL OF THAT INSIDE
01:35:40THIS PUB. AND SO, REMEMBER, I TOLD YOU EARLIER THIS MORNING THAT THEY
01:35:44ARE GOING TO START TO FILL UP THIS KIND OF MAKESHIFT PATIO,
01:35:48STARTING TO HAPPEN NOW. IT WILL BE WALL-TO-WALL OUT HERE
01:35:52AS THE CEREMONY WRAPS UP. AND AS I SAID EARLIER, IT'S
01:35:54GOING TO FEEL A LITTLE BIT LIKE A REUNION.
01:35:57IT'S GOING TO FEEL LIKE A FUNERAL. THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF
01:36:01TENDERNESS AND HUGS NAMATH THAT
01:36:03THERE'S A LOT OF GRIEVING AND
01:36:05HEALING HERE. >> RIGHT.
01:36:08KRIS REYES, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH FOR BEING THERE.
01:36:10I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPULSE NOT TO GO IN THERE AND INTERRUPT. THANK YOU.
01:36:14THANK YOU FOR NOT DOING THAT. WE DO WANT TO TAKE YOU TO THE
01:36:17PENTAGON CEREMONY.
01:36:18LEAVE NEW YORK, BECAUSE IT WAS
01:36:21AT 9:37 A.M. ON
01:36:23SEPTEMBER 11th THAT FLIGHT
01:36:2777, WHICH LEFT DALLAS, NOT THAT FAR AWAY FROM THE PENTAGON, TOOK
01:36:31OFF AND THEN DROVE DIRECTLY INTO THAT BUILDING.
01:36:35SO THAT CEREMONY IS -- IS
01:36:38GETTING UNDERWAY AT THE PENTAGON
01:36:40IN ABOUT 35, 40 SECONDS, WILL BE
01:36:44A MINUTE OF SILENCE, A MOMENT OF
01:36:47SILENCE AT THE PENTAGON, SO WE JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU ARLINGTON,
01:36:50VIRGINIA, FOR A MOMENT OR TWO, AND STOP AND LISTEN TO WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE.
01:36:54YOU CAN SEE AT THAT PODIUM, YOU
01:36:57SEE PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE LEFT,
01:36:59YOU SEE THE SECRETARY OF
01:37:02DEFENCE, SECRETARY OF WAR.
01:37:03>> SECRETARY OF WAR AS HE CALLS HIMSELF.
01:37:06>> PETE HEGSETH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PODIUM. SO LET'S JUST -- LET'S JUST
01:37:10PAUSE AND LISTEN IN.
01:37:16>> LADIES AND GENTLE, PLEASE
01:37:17STAND FOR THE INVOCATION
01:37:20PROVIDED BY CHAPLIN, REAR ADMIRAL KERRY CASH, UNITED
01:37:24STATES NAVY, CHIEF OF CHAPLINS.
01:37:30>> PLEASE JOIN ME IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE AS WE HONOUR THE FALLEN
01:37:34WHO AT THIS HOUR, 25 YEARS AGO,
01:37:37LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING THEIR NATION.
01:37:40WE REMEMBER THE FALLEN AND PRAY
01:37:42FOR THE FAMILIES.
01:37:44[MOMENT OF SILENCE]
01:39:05[♪♪]
01:39:07[♪♪]
01:39:16>> LET US PRAY.
01:39:21>> ALMIGHTY GOD WHO IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH, A VERY
01:39:24PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, HELP US TO BE STILL AND KNOW THAT YOU
01:39:28ARE GOD. THOUGH THE EARTH SHOULD CHANGE
01:39:31AND THE MOUNTAINS SLIP INTO THE HEART OF THE SEA, THOUGH ALL
01:39:34SHOULD ROAR AND QUAKE AT THE SWELLING PRIDE OF MAN, THE LORD
01:39:38OF HOST IS WITH US.
01:39:46THERE, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS
01:39:49SECRETARY OF DEFENCE PETE HEGSETH WILL SPEAK.
01:39:51THE U.S. PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK. WE WILL DIP IN AND OUT,
01:39:55DEPENDING ON WHAT IS HAPPENING ELSEWHERE. WE'LL LET YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY
01:39:58WHAT THEY SAY THAT MATTERS AND BRING YOU SOME OF THAT. BUT WE WANTED TO HEAD BACK TO
01:40:02KATIE SIMPSON WHO IS JUST OUTSIDE THE PENTAGON IN
01:40:05ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, HAS BEEN SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE WHO
01:40:09REMEMBER THAT DAY, WHO SURVIVED,
01:40:11WHO GOT OUT OF THERE.
01:40:14WHAT HAS CHANGED IN THE MOOD
01:40:16THERE, KATIE?
01:40:19>> WELL, I THINK THE WAY THAT CHRIS JUST DESCRIBED WHAT IT'S
01:40:22LIKE WHERE SHE IS IN NEW YORK CITY IS, YOU KNOW, IT FEELS LIKE
01:40:27A REUNION BUT IT ALSO FEELS LIKE A FUNERAL.
01:40:30THAT'S THE SENSE THAT YOU GET WHEN YOU TALK TO SURVIVORS WHO
01:40:33ARE HERE FOR THIS CEREMONY. THIS IS A SMALLER CEREMONY FOR
01:40:37DIGNITARIES AND SURVIVORS AND THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS WHO
01:40:41WERE KILLED HERE AT THIS ATTACK
01:40:44SITE. 184 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN AN
01:40:48AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT STRUCK THE SIDE OF THE PENTAGON,
01:40:51SHEERING THREE LAYERS INTO THIS FIVE-LARRY BUILDING.
01:40:55AND SOME OF THE SURVIVORS SPOKE
01:40:57EARLIER TODAY, JUST ABOUT HOW
01:40:59IMPORTANT THIS DAY IS TO THEM,
01:41:02HOW THEY'VE BEEN BONDED BY THE
01:41:05TRAUMA OF WHAT THEY LIVED
01:41:06THROUGH AND WHAT THEY LOST, AND
01:41:10HOW THEY MAKE A POINT OF STAYING
01:41:12IN CONTACT AND ENSURING THEY
01:41:17PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS LIKE THIS AS A WAY TO GRIEVE TOGETHER, AS
01:41:20A WAY TO HEAL TOGETHER, AND REALLY TRYING TO BE A PART OF
01:41:24THAT 9/11 COMMUNITY THAT KRIS DESCRIBES IN NEW YORK.
01:41:27THAT IS THIS HERE AS WELL.
01:41:29THE CEREMONY IS WELL UNDERWAY HERE AT THE PENTAGON.
01:41:32THE NAMES OF ALL OF THE 184
01:41:36PEOPLE WHO WERE MURDERED ON THAT DAY, THEY HAVE BEEN READ, BELLS
01:41:40BEING TOLLED AFTER EVERY --
01:41:42BELLS RINGS AFTER EVERY NAME BEING READ ALLOWED.
01:41:46U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SITTING, WATCHING ALONG WITH
01:41:49SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET, INCLUDING THE SECRETARY OF
01:41:52DEFENCE OR THE SECRETARY OF WAR, PETE HEGSETH.
01:41:56PETE HEGSETH AND PRESIDENT TRUMP
01:41:59WILL BE GIVING REMARKS. BOTH ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THIS
01:42:02SAME EVENT LAST YEAR. BOTH PRESENTING REMARKS LAST
01:42:05YEAR, WHERE THEY DISCUSSED THE
01:42:07LEGACY OF THE LIVES LOST.
01:42:10THE RESILIENCE THAT WAS ON
01:42:12DISPLAY HERE AT THE PENTAGON, IN
01:42:15THE AFTERMATH OF THIS CRISIS OF THIS TERROR ATTACK.
01:42:18AND THE STORIES NOT JUST OF
01:42:20SURVIVAL, BUT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE
01:42:22HERE, REGULAR WORKDAY, WHEN
01:42:24SUDDENLY THEY WERE CALLED INTO ACTION, RUSHING TO -- WHILE SOME
01:42:27PEOPLE WERE FLEEING THE BUILDING, RUNNING FOR THEIR
01:42:30LIVES, OTHERS WERE RUSHING INTO
01:42:33FLAMES, CHAOS, THE SMELL OF JET FUEL, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SO
01:42:36MANY OF THE SURVIVORS TALK ABOUT
01:42:39SO FREQUENTLY OF WHAT BRINGS THEM BACK TO THAT MOMENT, IT'S
01:42:42THE SMELL OF JET FUEL, AS -- AS
01:42:45FLAMES WERE SHOOTING OUT OF THE BUILDING, IT WOULD TAKE HOURS
01:42:47FOR FIREFIGHTERS TO GET CONTROL
01:42:49OF THE FIRE, WITH EMERGENCY
01:42:52CREWS, SPECIAL FORCE -- SPECIAL EMERGENCY CREWS BEING TASKED
01:42:55WITH TRYING TO FIND SURVIVORS, ANYONE IN NEED OF HELP.
01:42:59AND EVENTUALLY, HAVING THE VERY
01:43:02AWFUL, BRUTAL, JUST GETTING TASK
01:43:03OF HAVING TO TRY AND LOOK FOR REMAINS.
01:43:06IT TOOK ABOUT A YEAR TO REBUILD
01:43:09THE PENTAGON HERE, AND THERE IS
01:43:11A MEMORIAL, A DEDICATED MEMORIAL SITE HERE AS WELL.
01:43:14THAT IS WHERE TODAY'S CEREMONY IS TAKING PLACE, WHERE EVERY
01:43:18YEAR THERE IS A CEREMONY TO HONOUR THOSE WHO WERE LOST IN
01:43:21THIS TERROR ATTACK. AND, AGAIN, WE ARE JUST WAITING ANY MOMENT NOW.
01:43:24WE ARE GOING TO BE HEARING FROM U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
01:43:26HE OPTED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT
01:43:28LIKE HE DID LAST YEAR.
01:43:31THERE HAD BEEN SOME CONTROVERSY AROUND WHETHER HE WOULD GO TO
01:43:34THE EVENT IN NEW YORK CITY WHERE
01:43:35ALL OF THE FORMER LIVING
01:43:39PRESIDENTS ARE ATTENDING TODAY. THE WHITE HOUSE GETTING VERY
01:43:43ANGRY WITH REPORTS THAT HAD SAID THAT HE WANTED TO DELIVER REMARKS TODAY, AND THAT BECAUSE
01:43:47IN NEW YORK, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS, HE OPTED TO GO HERE.
01:43:51THE WHITE HOUSE PUSHING BACK VERY STRONGLY AGAINST THAT, AS
01:43:55DID THE PRESIDENT ABOUT THAT REPORTING. BUT FOR NOW, WE ARE WAITING FOR
01:43:59PETE HEGSETH, WHO IS THE SECRETARY OF DEFENCE, TO OFFER
01:44:01HIS REMARKS, AND THEN FOLLOWED
01:44:04BY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> ALL RIGHT.
01:44:07KATIE SIMPSON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MY FRIEND. PAUL, I CAN SEE YOU THINKING
01:44:11ABOUT SOMETHING. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S -- IT'S A GOOD MOMENT TO
01:44:15BRING IN SOME CONTEXT FROM THIS
01:44:18POINT IN TIME 25 YEARS AGO. AT THIS POINT IN TIME, AFTER THE
01:44:21PENTAGON HAD BEEN STRUCK, LESS THAN AN HOUR. >> YES.
01:44:25>> NORTH TOWER. >> YEP. >> SOUTH TOWER.
01:44:29THE PENTAGON. MADNESS, REALLY.
01:44:32LIKE, OUT OF NOWHERE, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS IS WHAT THE UNITED
01:44:35STATES AND THE WORLD WAS
01:44:38CONFRONTED WITH AND THEY SURELY WERE SHAKING THEIR HEADS, LIKE,
01:44:42WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON AT THIS MOMENT 25 YEARS AGO.
01:44:45>> AND WHAT IS NEXT.
01:44:46AND SO THIS IS THE POINT, AROUND
01:44:509:42, IT'S 9:44 NOW.
01:44:52BUT AT AROUND 9:42, THE FAA
01:44:56GROUNDS ALL OF THE FLIGHTS, AFTER, YOU KNOW, THAT THIRD
01:44:59HIJACKED PLANE WENT IN TO THE PENTAGON.
01:45:03ALL THE FLIGHTS LOADED WITH PASSENGERS WERE TOLD TO TURN
01:45:06AROUND OR TO FIND SOMEWHERE TO LAND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
01:45:10>> IF YOU HAD ENOUGH FUEL, TURN BACK.
01:45:12IF YOU DON'T, GOT TO GO SOMEWHERE, BUT NOT THE UNITED
01:45:16STATES. >> IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME AS
01:45:18WELL, OF COURSE, THAT THERE WAS
01:45:20ANOTHER PLANE IN THE AIR THAT WE
01:45:25ALL PRESUMED AT THE TIME, AS A REPORTER THEN, WAS ALSO COMING
01:45:29TO WASHINGTON. WE THOUGHT MAYBE IT WAS GOING TO
01:45:32THE U.S. CAPITOL. I THINK EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON THOUGHT THAT'S WHERE IT WAS
01:45:36HEADED BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A PROMINENT BUILDING IN THE CAPITAL.
01:45:39SO AS OTHER PLANES WERE COMING
01:45:41DOWN, THERE WAS ONE MAKING ITS WAY.
01:45:45BUT THOSE 38 PLANES THAT WE TALK
01:45:47ABOUT THAT TOUCHED DOWN IN
01:45:50GANDER, WE KNOW, THIS IS A
01:45:53CANADIAN CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE NOW.
01:45:55DAVID COMMON SPOKE WITH A MAN
01:46:06>> WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE DAY AS A AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER.
01:46:09>> 9/11, NO DOUBT.
01:46:10>> TELL ME WHY.
01:46:15>> WELL, WORDS CAN'T DESCRIBE T
01:46:16IT WAS A DAY OF INFAMY, REALLY.
01:46:19THE ACTIVITY THAT WENT ON.
01:46:23IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED.
01:46:26AND HOPEFULLY WON'T SEE IT AGAIN. >> TAKE ME THROUGH THAT DAY.
01:46:29YOU COME HERE -- YOU COME TO WORK. >> I WENT TO WORK 8:00 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
01:46:33IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY, THANK GOD THERE WAS NO FOG, NO BAD
01:46:36WEATHER KIND OF THING. SO I WENT TO WORK, EIGHT
01:46:40O'CLOCK, AND EVERYTHING WAS ROUTINE.
01:46:43ABOUT 9ISH LOCAL TIME, THE WORD
01:46:47COME OUT, THE TRANS-ATLANTIC
01:46:49AIRPLANES HAD LANDED NEAREST THE CLOSEST AIRPORTS BECAUSE OF THE
01:46:53ACTIVITY IN NEW YORK JEW GET THE ORDERS OUT OF OTTAWA SAYING ALL
01:46:56THESE PLANES HAVE TO LAND, YOU HAVE TO TAKE THEM, YOU HAVE TO FIND PLACES FOR THEM TO GO, BUT
01:47:00THEY HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE SKATE. HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE THAT TO
01:47:03PILOTS IN FLIGHT?
01:47:07>> IT WAS QUITE A TASK, ACTUALLY. THE FREQUENCIES WERE SATURATED
01:47:11WITH COMMUNICATION. SO YOU HAD TO CONVINCE THEM. YOU ARE LANDING IN GANDER.
01:47:14NO, NO, WE'RE GOING TO MEXICO CITY, NORTHERN, YOU ARE NOT
01:47:17GOING TO MEXICO CITY, YOU ARE GOING TO GANDER.
01:47:20THERE WAS APPREHENSION IN THE VOTESES OF THE PILOTS, THEY
01:47:23WANTED TO GET OUT OF THE SKY BECAUSE NOBODY KNEW WHAT MORE
01:47:26ACTIVITY WAS GOING ON. TOURIST ACTIVITIES. >> HOW MANY PLANES DID YOU AND
01:47:29YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE TO BRING
01:47:32DOWN, HAVE TO LAND ON SEPTEMBER 11th?
01:47:35>> WE HAD 38 IN GANDER, 38 -- IT
01:47:41WAS 120. >> 120 PLANES. >> YEAH.
01:47:43>> EACH WITH 250, 300 PEOPLE ON BOARD.
01:47:46>> IT WAS GRIDLOCK ON THE GROUND HERE. THERE WAS NO PLACE TO PUT THEM.
01:47:50>> YOU TALKED ABOUT THE -- THE
01:47:54KINDNESS THAT PEOPLE FELT, PLANE
01:47:58PEOPLE, PASSENGERS WHOSE JOURNEY GOT INTERRUPTED ON THAT HORRIBLE
01:48:02DAY. AND THEY ENDED UP HERE.
01:48:03HUNDREDS OF THEM WERE AMERICANS.
01:48:07>> YES. >> 25 YEARS ON, HOW ARE YOU
01:48:10FEELING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP
01:48:22I DON'T WANT TO GET POLITICAL, BUT ...
01:48:25I DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE POLITICAL WORLD.
01:48:29AND THE RELATIONSHIP CANADA AND
01:48:31THE U.S. GOT RIGHT NOW.
01:48:34IT'S KIND OF TURBULENT.
01:48:38BUT HOPEFULLY IT WILL STRAIGHTEN
01:48:49MAINTAINED THE THEME OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING 25 YEARS AGO AT THIS
01:48:53POINT, THE WHITE HOUSE HAD BEEN EVACUATED.
01:48:56THE U.S. CAPITAL HAD BEEN EVACUATED. AS YOU HEARD DON DESCRIBING,
01:49:00THERE THE PLANES WERE BEING BROUGHT OUT OF THE SKY.
01:49:04THERE WAS ALREADY KNOWLEDGE OR AN INSTINCT THAT AT LEAST ONE
01:49:07OTHER PLANE WAS NOT COMING DOWN.
01:49:09THAT IT, TOO, HAD BEEN HIJACKED.
01:49:12THIS WAS FLIGHT 93. >> IT HAD MADE THE TURN.
01:49:16>> IT HAD -- >> AND WAS HEADED TOWARDS
01:49:20WASHINGTON. >> WHEN IT EVENTUALLY CRASHED AT
01:49:2410:03, IT WAS AT THAT POINT JUST
01:49:26A 20-MINUTE FLIGHT PATH TO THE U.S. CAPITAL.
01:49:30>> FIGHTER JETS HERE WERE
01:49:32PREPARING, IF NOT ALREADY, IN --
01:49:36SCRAMBLING, GETTING READY TO AT
01:49:38THIS POINT. >> YES. >> TO GO AND TRY AND DO SOMETHING.
01:49:42>> SO PAUL MAKES A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT.
01:49:44WE KNOW THAT FIGHTER JETS WERE SCRAMBLED, BUT I THINK IT'S
01:49:48TAKEN US A LONG TIME TO REALIZE THAT THOSE FIGHTER JETS WERE NOT
01:49:51ACTUALLY ARMED. THEY DIDN'T HAVE TIME. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE WEAPONS ON THEM.
01:49:54SO WHEN THOSE FIGHTER PILOTS WERE TOLD THERE'S ANOTHER PLANE,
01:49:57YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GO INTERCEPT IT AND BRING IT DOWN,
01:50:00THAT MEANT A SUICIDE MISSION. AND SO -- >> YOU HAVE NO WEAPONS WITH
01:50:04WHICH TO DO IT, ONLY THE PLANE. >> ONLY THE PLANE.
01:50:06SO THE AGREEMENT WAS MADE THAT ONE PILOT WOULD AIM FOR THE
01:50:09COCKPIT OF THE HIJACKED PLANE,
01:50:11THE OTHER WOULD GO FOR THE TAIL.
01:50:13TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT PLANE
01:50:15DIDN'T HIT A POPULATED AREA.
01:50:18AND THOSE PILOTS SAID YES, EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW IT WOULD HAVE
01:50:22BEEN A SUICIDE MISSION, HAD
01:50:28THOSE BRAVE UNFATHOMABLY BRAVE
01:50:31PASSENGERS TACKLED THE HIJACKERS. THAT HAPPENED AT 10:03.
01:50:35>> AND FOR THOSE WONDERING, DID THEY GET IN THE AIR, THE ANSWER IS NO.
01:50:38AND THAT, TO ME, UNDERLINES THE SPEED AT WHICH EVERYTHING WAS
01:50:42HAPPENING THAT MORNING. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> LIKE, AFTER THE NORTH TOWER,
01:50:45AFTER THE SOUTH TOWER, AFTER THE PENTAGON, MUST GET FIGHTER JETS
01:50:48ON THE SAULTS MISSION TO GO, BUT THAT TAKES TIME.
01:50:51YOU'VE GOT TO GET THE PERSON,
01:50:54PEOPLE, GOT TO GET THE -- THE JET -- THE FIGHTER JETS READY TO
01:50:58GO, SO THEY -- THEY DID NOT TAKE
01:51:00OFF BY THE TIME FLIGHT 93 HAD CRASHED. BUT YOU ARE RIGHT TO SAY THAT
01:51:04WAS THE INTENT AND THEY KNEW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO HAD THEY GOT GOING.
01:51:08>> A MALE AND FEMALE PILOT.
01:51:09THEY WERE READY TO GO FOR THEIR COUNTRY.
01:51:13YOU KNEE, THIS DAY, OBVIOUSLY,
01:51:15THERE'S A LOT ON THE MINDS OF
01:51:17MANY PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
01:51:20THAT'S CERTAINLY INCLUDES THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA-U.S. TRADE.
01:51:24HOW MANY TIMES TODAY ARE PEOPLE SPEAKING ABOUT THIS RELATIONSHIP?
01:51:28DOMINIC LeBLANC SPOKE JUST MOMENTS AGO, HE TOOK A MOMENT TO
01:51:31REFLECT ON 25 YEARS SINCE THE
01:51:339/11 TERRORIST ATTACK. AND A CONVERSATION HE HAD TODAY
01:51:37WITH THE U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY
01:51:40ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE ANNIVERSARY.
01:51:45>> LIKE, UMM, SO MANY CANADIANS
01:51:47AND SO MANY AMERICANS ON
01:51:50SEPTEMBER 11th, THIS IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY OF THAT --
01:51:54THOSE TRAGIC MOMENTS THAT MORNING WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE
01:51:57LOST THEIR LIVES, INCLUDING
01:51:59CANADIANS, WERE THINKING OF THE
01:52:02FAMILIES WHO WERE AFFECTED BY
01:52:04THIS TRAGEDY, EARLY THIS
01:52:06MORNING, I SENT A TEXT MESSAGE TO SECRETARY HOWARD LUTNICK,
01:52:10TELLING HIM I WAS THINKING OF HIM AND HIS FAMILY ON THIS
01:52:14ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11, AS YOU
01:52:17KNOW, HIS BROTHER DIED IN THE
01:52:18TERRORIST ATTACKS, AND OVER 600
01:52:22PEOPLE WHO WORKED IN HIS BUSINESS ALSO DIED THAT MORNING.
01:52:25HE HAS TALKED TO ME ABOUT --
01:52:27OFTEN ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANT FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY.
01:52:30SO I SENT HIM A MESSAGE TO SAY I
01:52:32WAS THINKING ABOUT HIM.
01:52:36>> PAUL, CAN WE -- CAN WE TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOWARD
01:52:40LUTNICK, HIS TIME AT CANTOR
01:52:43FITZGERALD AND WHAT HAPPENED? HE HAD A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY
01:52:46AFTER 9/11.
01:52:47>> HE HAD HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
01:52:50KILLED IN THE NORTH TOWER --
01:52:54EXCUSE ME. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, THERE AS I SAID EARLIER IN THE SHOW.
01:52:58HE DIDN'T BECAUSE HE WAS TAKING
01:52:59ONE OF HIS CHILDREN TO
01:53:03KINDERGARTEN. ON TOP OF THE MADNESS OF THE DAY
01:53:06AND THE MOMENT, HE HAD ALL OF THAT.
01:53:08YOU KNOW, I WAS SPEAKING WITH
01:53:11SOMEBODY WHOSE HUSBAND WAS AMONG
01:53:13THOSE KILLED AT CANTOR
01:53:16FITZGERALD, WHO RECOGNIZES THAT, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, HOWARD LUTNICK
01:53:20IS A COMPLICATED GUY AND HE WAS
01:53:21A COMPLICATED CEO IN THE EYES OF MANY.
01:53:24BUT THAT HE TOOK CARE OF THE
01:53:27FAMILIES OF HIS STAFF. THEY GOT HEALTH CARE COVERED FOR
01:53:30TEN YEARS AS AN EXAMPLE.
01:53:35PEOPLE WERE -- HE WAS TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT IN REALTIME,
01:53:38IT'S NOT EASY. IT IS A VERY COMPLICATED
01:53:42RELATIONSHIP NOW THAT CANADA AND CANADIANS HAVE WITH HOWARD LUTNICK.
01:53:45I SAW HIM YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS
01:53:47OUT AT THE SITE OF THE MEMORIAL. I COULDN'T GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO
01:53:51ASK A QUESTION BECAUSE SECURITY WAS -- HE WAS DOING A LIVE
01:53:54INTERVIEW ON FOX NEWS, I THINK, AT THE TIME.
01:53:57BUT HE -- I SAW HIM GO UP TO A
01:53:59COUPLE OF PEOPLE WHO WERE
01:54:02FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED AT CANTOR FITZGERALD AND HE CALLED
01:54:06THEM OUT BY FIRST NAME AND HUGGED THEM.
01:54:09AND, YOU KNOW, YOU LARRY FROM DOMINIC LeBLANC SENDING A TEXT MESSAGE.
01:54:13THEY ARE IN SOME PRETTY HEATED CONVERSATIONS, LUTNICK AND
01:54:16LEBLANC AND CANADIANS AND TRADE REPS GENERALLY.
01:54:20LUTNICK BEING THE COMMERCE
01:54:23SECRETARY HERE. IT SHOWS THE DIFFERENT SIDE TO IT ALL THERE.
01:54:27IS A HUMANNESS TO ALL OF IT, AND I THINK IT WAS -- I'M NOT
01:54:30SURPRISED TO HEAR DOMINIC LeBLANC SAY HE SENT A TEXT ON THIS DAY.
01:54:34>> THAT'S VERY LIKE HIM. >> BECAUSE AS LEBLANC HIMSELF
01:54:37POINTED OUT, LUTNICK'S BROTHER WAS KILLED THAT DAY. >> ABSOLUTELY.
01:54:40THAT'S THE ENDEARING SIDE, YOU HOPE, THE RELATIONSHIP, THE
01:54:44HUMAN SIDE.
01:54:47WE -- OF THE 24 CANADIANS KILLED
01:54:49ON THIS DAY, YOU KNOW, MANY
01:54:52WORKED IN THE TWIN TOWERS. WOMAN NAMED CHRISTINE EGAN WAS
01:54:56THERE TO VISIT HER BROTHER
01:55:04THOSE BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS. HER PARTNER, ELLEN JUD, HAS HER
01:55:07STORY.
01:55:08>> CHRISTINE WAS A WONDERFULLY
01:55:12VIVACIOUS CARING PERSON. I LOST CHRISTINE EGAN, MY
01:55:15PARTNERING AND HER BROTHER,
01:55:16MICHAEL EGAN IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE.
01:55:20SHE WAS A WONDERFULLY JOYFUL PERSON. SHE MADE LIFE BETTER FOR
01:55:24EVERYBODY AROUND HER.
01:55:26SHE BUILT A FULFILLING CAREER IN
01:55:29NURSING IN CANADA AND FOR THE MOST OF HER CAREER IN THE NORTH,
01:55:33IN NUNAVUT AND NORTHERN
01:55:37MANITOBA. CHRIS HAD GONE TO CARE FOR HER BROTHER'S YOUNGER SON WHILE HE
01:55:41AND HIS WIFE WENT AWAY FOR A FEW
01:55:43DAYS FOR THEIR 20th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
01:55:45ON THAT DAY, SHE WENT INTO --
01:55:49AND WENT TO HIS OFFICE WITH HIM, JUST ON HER WAY TO SEE A BIT OF NEW YORK.
01:55:53CHRIS WAS WITH MIKE IN HIS OFFICE WHEN THIS SOUTH TOWER WAS HIT.
01:55:57HE PHONED HIS WIFE AND SAID SHE
01:55:58HAD BEEN WITH HIM, THAT HE WAS
01:56:01SENDING HER OUT OF THE BUILDING AND HE WAS, AS THE FIRE
01:56:05MARSHALL, WAS STAYING TO
01:56:07EVACUATE THE FLOOR.
01:56:09AND I TRIED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH
01:56:12CHRIS, BUT I WASN'T ABLE TO DO SO. LATE -- MUCH LATER, WE
01:56:16DISCOVERED THAT SHE HAD REACHED THE LOBBY AND HADN'T LEFT.
01:56:19WE THINK SHE WAS WAITING FOR
01:56:22MIKE OR IDENTIFIED HERSELF AS A NURSE AND WAS HELPING AT THE
01:56:25FIRST AID STATION.
01:56:289/11 WAS A TERRIBLE THRESHOLD THAT TOOK US INTO A MUCH DARKER
01:56:32TIME. WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY WAS
01:56:35UNFORGIVABLE AND THE RESPONSE TO IT HASN'T SUCCEEDED IN TAKING US
01:56:39TO A BETTER PLACE.
01:56:41THIS IS A PERPETUAL TASK FOR ALL OF US.
01:56:44LET'S GO FORWARD AND BUILD A
01:56:47BETTER, MORE CARING WORLD. CHRIS WOULD HAVE WISHED US TO DO
01:56:51THAT IN HER NAME.
01:56:54>> THAT WAS ELLEN JUD, THE
01:56:56PARTNER OF CHRISTINE EGAN WHO WAS THERE.
01:57:00JUST -- JUST TO SEE HER BROTHER, YOU KNOW, THE HAPPEN STANDS SO
01:57:04MANY PEOPLE WHO, YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, A LOT OF THE
01:57:07CANADIANS WEREN'T ACTUALLY WORKING IN THE TWIN TOWERS.
01:57:10THEY WERE THERE FOR A TRADE
01:57:21>> IT'S -- IT'S -- IT'S -- IT'S TOUGH TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE
01:57:24TALKING ABOUT THOSE THINGS,
01:57:27DESPITE THAT -- THE CLEAR DETERMINATION TO BRING
01:57:30POSITIVITY OUT OF WHAT HAPPENED.
01:57:32I'M STRUCK BY THAT AS WELL AS
01:57:36THE -- THE POISE WITH WHICH
01:57:39PEOPLE REMEMBER THOSE KILLED, THE POISE WITH WHICH THE PEOPLE
01:57:42AT THE PODIUM READ OUT THE NAMES AND THEY ARE ALWAYS BUILDING TO
01:57:45A NAME THAT THEY PERSONALLY KNOW. IT IS IMPORTANT TO SAY THESE
01:57:48WORDS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO -- WHEN WE SEE THE PHOTOS THAT
01:57:51WE'VE BEEN SHOWING OF THE
01:57:53CANADIANS, IT -- THEY ARE NOW --
01:57:56THEY DIDN'T AGE.
01:57:59THEY ARE THAT AGE 25 YEARS AGO OR EARLIER.
01:58:02EVERYBODY ELSE, I WAS MAKING THIS POINT EARLIER, IS OLDER
01:58:06NOW, INCLUDING THE SISTER,
01:58:10INCLUDING ALL OF THEM. ALL OF THIS TIME HAS PASSED.
01:58:14LIVES HAVE LIVED, BUT FOREVER, THE PEOPLE IN THE TWO TOWERING
01:58:17THE PEOPLE IN THE PENTAGON, THE
01:58:18PEOPLE ON THE PLANES, ARE NOW
01:58:47ARLENE EVA FRIED ALAN W. FRIEDLANDER
01:58:51>> AND MY FATHER, ALTHOUGH I DON'T REMEMBER YOU I TRY TO LIVE
01:58:54MY LIFE IN THE WAY I WAS TOLD YOU D TO LIVE LIFE FULLY, TO
01:58:58TREAT EVERYBODY WITH KINDNESS AND RESPECT. WE ALL KNOW HERE THAT LIFE IS
01:59:01PAINFULLY TOO SHORT AND I BELIEVE YOU WOULD WANT US TO ALL
01:59:04VALUE EACH DAY. TO FEED DUTY IN THE ORDINARY, IN
01:59:07THE QUIET MOMENTS, TO GO GET THE
01:59:09ICE CREAM, DON'T WAIT IT WOULD TOMORROW.
01:59:12DON'T BE EMBARRASSED TO LOVE BOLDLY AND LOUDLY.
01:59:16DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING LEFT UNSAID. AND TRY TO MAKE THE ABSOLUTE
01:59:20MOST OF THE LIMITED TIME THAT WE ALL HAVE HERE.
01:59:22I LOVE YOU, I WISH I GOT TO KNOW YOU, PLEASE KEEP LOOKING OUT FOR
01:59:26ALL OF US AND KEEP US SAFE.
01:59:28WE MISS AND WE LOVE YOU, MUCHO.
01:59:33[Applause]
01:59:43[BELL TOLLING]
02:00:09>> AND MY COUSIN, CHRISTOPHER
02:00:14A.SANTORA, GOD BLESS ALL OUR FIREFIGHTERS, OUR FIRST
02:00:17RESPONDERS, ALL OF OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. [Applause]
02:00:40[♪♪] [♪♪]
02:01:14>> SO WE ARE APPROACHING THE
02:01:16MOMENT WHEN FLIGHT 93 WAS FORCED
02:01:20OUT OF THE SKY. IT HAD TAKEN OFF FROM NEWARK
02:01:23WITH 33 PASSENGERS AND 7 CREW.
02:01:26THE HIJACKERS' FINAL TARGET WAS
02:01:28SAVED, THANKS TO THE BRAVERY OF THE PASSENGERS AND CREW YOU WHO
02:01:32STORMED THE COCKPIT.
02:01:35MANY OF THEM BEFORE DOING THAT KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING, MANAGED
02:01:38TO MAKE PHONE CALLS TO THEIR
02:01:41FAMILIES TO TELL THEM THAT THEY
02:01:43WERE GONNA DO THE BEST THEY COULD.
02:01:46AND THAT PLANE CRASHED INTO A FIELD IN SHANKSVILLE,
02:01:49PENNSYLVANIA AT 10:03 A.M.
02:01:54LET'S LISTEN IN.
02:02:01[BELL TOLLING]
02:02:12>> JOSEPH DE-LUCA.
02:02:21[BELL TOLLING]
02:02:37>> PATRICK JOSEPH DRISCOLL.
02:02:41[BELL TOLLING]
02:03:09>> EDWARD PORTER FELT.
02:03:12[BELL TOLLING]
02:03:39>> JANE C.FOLGER.
02:03:45[BELL TOLLING]
02:04:02>> COLLEEN LAURA FRASER.
02:04:06[BELL TOLLING YIESHGS ]
02:04:10-- [BELL TOLLING]
02:04:29>> ANDREW SONNY GARCIA.
02:04:34[BELL TOLLING]
02:04:55>> JEREMY LOGAN LICK.
02:04:59[BELL TOLLING]
02:05:23>> BRISTON ASTERHOLM WHITE
02:05:31GOULD. [BELL TOLLING]
02:05:46>> LAUREN KATUZZI AND HER
02:05:51UNBORN CHILD. [BELL TOLLING]
02:06:22WANDA A. GREEN, A SISTER,
02:06:26MOTHER, FRIEND ET CETERA. [BELL TOLLING]
02:06:57>> DONALD FREEMAN GREEN. [BELL TOLLING]
02:07:24>> LINDA GRONLUND.
02:07:28[BELL TOLLING]
02:07:43>> RICHARD J.GUADAGNO.
02:07:46[BELL TOLLING JOOSHGS
02:08:08.
02:08:08>> MY BROTHER FIRST, OFFICER
02:08:21LEROY HOMER JR. [BELL TOLLING]
02:08:41>> MY SON, TOSHIYA KUGE.
02:08:50[BELL TOLLING]
02:09:12>> MY MOTHER, CEECEE ROSS
02:09:26LYLES.
02:09:26>> AND MY DAUGHTER CEECEE ROSS
02:09:31LYLES WHO'S DAUGHTER IS HERE.
02:09:34>> SO THAT IS THE MEMORIAL IN
02:09:40SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA. READING THE NAMES. PASSENGERS.
02:09:42HAD THOSE PASSENGERS AND CREW
02:09:52PLANE, THAT THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FLY IT, THAT
02:09:55CRASHING IT INTO A FIELD WAS
02:09:58POTENTIALLY SAVING THOUSANDS AND
02:10:01THOUSANDS OF LIVES. I THINK EVERY TIME YOU LOOK AT
02:10:04THE SMALL MEMORIAL, I THINK, YOU
02:10:08KNOW, HOW IT COULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.
02:10:11I JUST WANT TO REMINDS EVERYBODY
02:10:14TOO, THIS HORRIBLE DAY 25 YEARS AGO STARTED AT 8:46 A.M. WITH
02:10:18THE PLANE INTO THAT FIRST TOWER.
02:10:20IT IS ONLY 10:09 AND ALREADY
02:10:23FOUR PLANES HAVE CRASHED.
02:10:25TWO INTO THE TOWER, ONE INTO THE
02:10:27PENTAGON, ONE INTO PENNSYLVANIA. THE SOUTH TOWER HAD ALREADY
02:10:31COLLAPSED. THE NORTH TOWER WAS ON THE VERGE
02:10:33OF COLLAPSING.
02:10:36>> AND SHANKSVILLE. >> AND SHANKSVILLE.
02:10:39>> I DRIVE BY SHANKSVILLE WHENEVER I GO BACK AND FORTH TO
02:10:42TORONTO FROM WASHINGTON. IT'S JUST KIND OF SOUTHEAST OF
02:10:46PITTSBURGH, AND I'VE STOPPED BY THE SITE TWICE. ONCE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WHEN
02:10:49WHEN THERE WERE JUST A COUPLE OF TENTS, AND A FEW NOTATIONS OF
02:10:53WHAT HAD HAPPENED THERE.
02:10:55AND AGAIN JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, KNOWING THAT THIS
02:10:59ANNIVERSARY WAS COMING UP.
02:11:00AND IT'S NOW A FULLY COMPLETED
02:11:06MEMORIAL. IT'S A FIELD.
02:11:08WITH A BIG BOULDER MARKING THE POINT OF IMPACT.
02:11:12THE FIELD IS EFFECTIVELY A GRAVEYARD.
02:11:14THERE ARE HUMAN REMAINS
02:11:17THROUGHOUT THE FIELD.
02:11:18AND THERE'S A LEARNING CENTER.
02:11:22AND THAT'S IT. IT IS DIFFERENTLY BUT EQUALLY
02:11:26MOVING TO THE OTHER MEMORIALS
02:11:29BECAUSE OF ITS -- BECAUSE OF THE BLUNTNESS, IN A WAY. IT'S JUST YOU A FIELD.
02:11:32I WAS STRUCK BY A COUPLE OF THINGS IN THE LEARNING CENTER.
02:11:35ONE, THEY HAD A PASSENGER MAP OF
02:11:38THE PLANE, AND IT WAS MAYBE A THIRD FULL, MAYBE LESS.
02:11:41IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME THEN. YOU NEVER SEE THAT ANYMORE.
02:11:45>> ALL PLANES ARE PACKED NOW. >> THEY ALL ARE BECAUSE THE
02:11:49INDUSTRY HAD TO REORGANIZE ITSELF AFTER 9/11.
02:11:52NO SMALL PART OF WHY THAT ASPECT
02:11:54HAS CHANGED FOR AIR TRAVEL.
02:11:58IN THE PART OF THE CENTRE WHERE THEY WERE EXPLAINING HOW THINGS
02:12:00PLAYED OUT, A FELLOW STANDING NEXT TO ME, I DIDN'T KNOW HIM,
02:12:03JUST ABOUT AMERICAN. HE SAT AND HE LISTENED TO HOW IT
02:12:07PLAYED OUT, AND HE JUST SHOOK
02:12:09HIS HEAD, AND HE SAID, BASTARDS.
02:12:13AND HE WALKED AWAY. AND THAT REMINDED ME HOW CLOSE
02:12:17TO THE SURFACE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED ON THAT DAY IS TO SO
02:12:20MANY AMERICANS.
02:12:28ARE, BUT THEY PLAY AS THE ONE HERE DOES.
02:12:31THEY PLAY VOICEMAILS LEFT BY PEOPLE ON THE PLANE.
02:12:34AND THEY KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED
02:12:37IN NEW YORK, AND THEY HAVE AN
02:12:40EXPECTATION OF WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN TO THEM.
02:12:43AND THEY ARE LEAVING MESSAGES
02:12:45FOR LOVED ONES, AND THEY SAY, I LOVE YOU.
02:12:49I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.
02:12:53AND THE TEARS START ROLLING DOWN YOUR FACE.
02:13:00AND THAT'S SHAFRPGSVILLE.
02:13:02SO WE HEAR THE BELLS AND THE
02:13:04NAMES AND THE TODD BEAMER WHO FAMOUSLY SAID LET'S ROLL.
02:13:08THEY TALKED ABOUT CANADIAN FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN A LITTLE
02:13:11WHILE AGO, DAVID COMMON, WHO DID THEIR JOBS.
02:13:14THESE PASSENGERS FELT THIS WAS THEIR JOB, AND THEY DID WHAT
02:13:25AS WE STILL IN SHANKSVILLE, WE
02:13:31KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO THE PODIUM AT THE PENTAGON.
02:13:34IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN DO HERE AT THE 9/11 CEREMONY, SO
02:13:37HE'S DOING IT IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.
02:13:40SO LET'S HAVE A LISTEN TO THE
02:13:43U.S. PRESIDENT. >> President Trump: SECRETARY
02:13:47HEGSETH, SECRETARY RICE, FIRST
02:13:49LADY OF THE UNITED STATES,
02:13:53CHAIRMAN CANE, MEMBERS OF THE
02:13:56UNITED STATES MILITARY,
02:13:58DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, AND MY
02:14:02FELLOW AMERICANS, 25 TIMES WE
02:14:05HAVE GATHERED AT THIS HALLOWED
02:14:08PLACE AND AT GROUND ZERO IN NEW
02:14:13YORK, AND A LONELY FIELD NEAR
02:14:17SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.
02:14:19IN 25 YEARS A GENERATION HAS
02:14:21PASSED SINCE THE TERROR ATTACKS
02:14:26OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001.
02:14:30YET TIME HAS NOT DIMMED THE
02:14:32HONOUR OF THAT DAY WHEN OUR
02:14:35COUNTRY CAME FACE-TO-FACE WITH
02:14:38TRUE EVIL.
02:14:41AT 8:20 A.M. ON A CLOUDLESS
02:14:44TUESDAY MORNING, A BEAUTIFUL DAY
02:14:47IT WAS. MRP AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 --
02:14:51AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 TOOK
02:14:53OFF 25 MILES FROM HERE, BOUND
02:14:57FOR LOS ANGELES. ON BOARD WERE WITH THREE
02:15:0111-YEAR-OLD STUDENTS HEADING ON A CROSS COUNTRY FIELD TRIP.
02:15:05A FATHER AND A MOTHER WITH THEIR
02:15:08TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS BOUND FOR
02:15:12INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE, AND A
02:15:14FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHOSE MIND WAS ELSEWHERE.
02:15:16SHE HAD JUST LEARNED THAT SHE WAS EXPECTING HER FIRST CHILD
02:15:20AND WAS SO EXCITED TO TELL HER
02:15:25MOM AND DAD.
02:15:27HERE AT THE PENTAGON A NAVY AIRMAN HAD JUST GOTTEN OFF THE
02:15:31PHONE WITH HIS 10-YEAR-OLD SON.
02:15:34A SECRETARY WAS CELEBRATING HER
02:15:3746TH BIRTHDAY. SO HAPPY SHE WAS.
02:15:41A SERGEANT MAJOR WAS CHATTING WITH SOME COLLEAGUES HE HAD
02:15:45HOSTED FOR A DINNER PARTY OVER
02:15:48THE WEEKEND.
02:15:50AT 9:37 A.M. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF
02:15:53THOSE PEOPLE AND EVERY PERSON AT
02:15:56THAT SERGEANT MAJOR'S PARTY WAS
02:15:58MURDERED BY TERRORISTS WHO FLEW
02:16:02FLIGHT 77 STRAIGHT INTO THIS
02:16:05LEGENDARY BUILDING.
02:16:06IT IS INDEED A LEGENDARY
02:16:11BUILDING.
02:16:12SO MANY WARS HAVE BEEN WON FROM
02:16:16THIS BUILDING.
02:16:17WITH THE EVENTS OF THAT MORNING,
02:16:252,977 BEAUTIFUL SOULS WERE RIPPED FROM OUR WORLD, AND MANY
02:16:28MORE DIED IN THE WEEKS AND YEARS
02:16:33AFTER HORRIBLE, GROTESQUE
02:16:39INJURIES. SO MANY WERE SUSTAINED.
02:16:41TODAY WE RENEW THE SACRED OATH
02:16:46THAT WE FIRST SORE AND THEIR
02:16:49NAMES, A QUARTER OF A CENTURY
02:16:51AGO, WE WILL NEVER, EVER FORGET.
02:16:59THAT'S WHY WE FIGHT TODAY.
02:17:04WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. THERE CAN ONLY BE VICTORY. WE FIGHT HARD.
02:17:08WE FIGHT TO WIN. WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE
02:17:10VICTIMS AND THE FAMILIES OF
02:17:14SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001.
02:17:19VERY FAMOUS DATE UNFORTUNATELY.
02:17:25AND IT STARTED OUT AS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
02:17:27WE WILL HONOUR THEIR LIVES.
02:17:30WE WILL CHERISH THEIR BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES.
02:17:32AND WE WILL PROTECT THIS COUNTRY
02:17:35AND ITS FREEDOMS FOR EVERY
02:17:39FUTURE GENERATION.
02:17:40WE WILL PROTECT IT LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
02:17:44FOR ANYONE WHO LIVED IT, NO
02:17:47WORDS CAN DO JUSTICE TO THE ANGUISH OF THAT DAY.
02:17:51AFTER THE FIRST PLANE HIT THE
02:17:52NORTH TOWER OF THE WORLD TRADE
02:17:56CENTRE PATRICK DANAHE LEFT A
02:18:03MESSAGE TO COMFORT HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE MARY LETTING HER KNOW SHE
02:18:06WAS SAFE INSIDE HIS OFFICE ON
02:18:10THE SOUTH TOWER'S 90TH FLOOR. MARY WAS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT
02:18:14AND PLAYING WITH THEIR TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS WHEN SHE HEARD
02:18:18PATRICK'S VOICE.
02:18:20SHE LOVED HIM SO MUCH.
02:18:22SHE CALLED BACK, TURNED ON THE
02:18:26TV. THE LINE RANG AND THEN IT WENT
02:18:29COMPLETELY DEAD.
02:18:31VERY UNUSUAL, SHE FELT.
02:18:34MARY FELL TO HER KNEES AS SHE
02:18:37WATCHED UNITED FLIGHT 175
02:18:41EXPLODE BY HER HUSBAND'S OFFICE. SHE SAW IT RIGHT BY THE OFFICE.
02:18:45SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE THE
02:18:49OFFICE WAS.
02:18:51RIGHT BY THE OFFICE.
02:18:55SEVEN FLOORS UP SHIMI BEGELIZAND
02:19:02LAID DOWN IN HIS OFFICE TO ESCAPE THE SMOKE.
02:19:05IT WAS HORRIBLE. SURROUNDED BY PHOTOS OF HIS
02:19:09BEAUTIFUL FIVE CHILDREN. HE WAS ON THE PHONE WITH HIS
02:19:12WIFE MIRIAM, PRAYING TO GOD WHEN
02:19:15THE TELEVISION SHOWED HER THE
02:19:19DREADFUL IMAGE. THINGS WERE HAPPENING THAT SHE
02:19:23COULDN'T IMAGINE.
02:19:24THE SOUTH TOWER WAS COLLAPSING.
02:19:28WITH HER HUSBAND.
02:19:31AND SHE LOVED HIM SO MUCH. HE WAS INSIDE.
02:19:34FREE PEOPLE MUST NEVER AVERT
02:19:37THEIR EYES FROM SUCH HIDEOUS
02:19:41CRUELTY.
02:19:43WE CANNOT FORGET THAT MOMENT OF
02:19:50IMMENSE AND HORRIBLE EVIL.
02:19:53IT TOOK PLACE IN THIS WORLD.
02:19:55BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL
02:19:59THAT IS GOOD. BUT THIS MORNING WE ALSO
02:20:02REMEMBER HOW AMERICA RESPONDED
02:20:05TO THAT WICKEDNESS ON DAYS LIKE
02:20:089/11 WE LEARN WHAT A COUNTRY IS
02:20:12TRULY MADE OF.
02:20:13WE'RE LEARNING RIGHT NOW WHAT
02:20:16WE'RE MADE OF. WE HAVE TO BE STRONG AND WE HAVE TO BE SMART.
02:20:20AND AMERICANS ARE MADE OF A
02:20:23GOODNESS AND SPIRIT THAT CAN
02:20:27TRANSCEND ANY EARTHLY FORCE. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.
02:20:29BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE HAS EVER
02:20:33BEEN ABLE TO DO.
02:20:34BECAUSE WE ARE SUSTAINED BY A
02:20:37SUPREME STRENGTH FAR MORE
02:20:39POWERFUL THAN STEEL ALONE.
02:20:43ABOARD FLIGHT 93 IN THE SKIES
02:20:45OVER PENNSYLVANIA, A BRAVE
02:20:48FLIGHT ATTENDANT BOILED WATER TO FIGHT BACK.
02:20:52A LOVING FATHER FROM NEW JERSEY
02:20:56TODD BEAMER ASKED A TELEPHONE
02:21:00OPERATOR IN ILLINOIS TO JOIN HIM
02:21:01IN THE LORD'S PRAYER.
02:21:07THY KINGDOM DONE, THY WILL BE
02:21:10DONE ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN.
02:21:11AND THEN HE SAID HIS LAST WORDS. "LET'S ROLL".
02:21:15TODAY AS WE REMEMBER THE MANY
02:21:18LIVES LOSTEN 9/11, WE ALSO GIVE
02:21:21THANKS FOR THE COUNTLESS LIVES
02:21:23STAVED BY THE IMMORTAL -- SAVED
02:21:25BY THE IMMORTAL HEROS OF FLIGHT 93.
02:21:28IN THOSE HARROWING DAYS AFTER
02:21:32THE ATTACKS, WE SAW THE
02:21:36AUTHENTIC SPIRIT OF OUR NATION.
02:21:40WE WERE ALL NEW YORKERS THAT
02:21:42DAY, EVERY ONE OF US.
02:21:45WE WERE ALL NEW YORKERS.
02:21:46BUT WE WERE ALSO ALL AMERICANS.
02:21:50WE WERE ALL FAMILY. WE WERE ALL PATRIOTS.
02:21:53THE ENEMY MIGHT DESTROY WHAT
02:21:56AMERICAN HANDS HAD BUILT.
02:21:58BUT WE COULD NOT TOUCH THE FIGHT
02:22:01AND THE FIRE AND THE LOVE IN OUR
02:22:06GREAT AMERICAN HEARTS.
02:22:09AT THE PENTAGONEN SEPTEMBER 12TH
02:22:11GENERAL JAMES JACKSON ORDER ED
02:22:13UP THE LARGEST FLAG IN THE
02:22:17MILITARY'S COLLECTION.
02:22:17AND THEY THINK IN THE MILITARY'S
02:22:21HISTORY. FIRST RESPONDERS CLIMBED ATOP
02:22:24THE WALLS AND HUNG IT NEXT TO
02:22:27THE GAPING HOLES IN THIS
02:22:29BUILDING AS A SYMBOL OF AMERICAN DEFIANCE.
02:22:33THIS MORNING THAT SAME FLAG IS HERE.
02:22:36TO MY RIGHT.
02:22:39FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2001,
02:22:41ALONG WITH THREE FIREFIGHTERS WHO RAISED IT.
02:22:45JOSEPH MORIBIDO, SCOTT MORGAN,
02:22:51AND CARL SOLBERG. PLEASE STAND. [Applause]
02:23:07>> President Trump: 25 YEARS
02:23:08AFTER THE ATTACKS WE KNOW THE
02:23:11WORLD WILL NEVER TO THE WAY IT
02:23:14WAS AT THAT DAWN, THAT
02:23:16BEAUTIFUL, PEACEFUL TUESDAY MORNING.
02:23:19IN 2001. BEFORE THE TOWERS FELL, BEFORE
02:23:22THE PENTAGON WAS HIT, BEFORE THE
02:23:26SPECTER OF EGO AND THIS
02:23:28HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE EVIL CAME
02:23:31CRASHING INTO OUR LIVES.
02:23:36BEFORE WE SAW WHAT TOOK PLACE IN
02:23:39PENNSYLVANIA, INNOCENCE IS
02:23:41EXPECTING THE FUTURE TO BE GOOD
02:23:43BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT YET REALLY
02:23:47BEEN TESTED.
02:23:51WE'VE BEEN TESTED MANY TIMES.
02:23:53WE'RE BEING TESTED TODAY AND
02:23:56WE'RE HANDLING THAT FAITH. STILL BELIEVING IN THAT FUTURE,
02:23:58EVEN AFTER YOU'VE SEEN THE
02:24:02ABSOLUTE WORSE. THINGS YOU'VE NEVER THOUGHT
02:24:05POSSIBLE TO SEE. IN THE GENERATION SINCE 9/11
02:24:08AMERICAN SONS AND DAUGHTERS HAVE
02:24:10TRAVELED TO THE DARKEST CORNERS.
02:24:12EARTH AND DONE BATTLE WITH A
02:24:16SHADOWY ENEMY.
02:24:18SO THAT OUR MIGHT ONCE AGAIN
02:24:21KNOW CARE-FREE DAYS AND CLOUDLESS SKIES.
02:24:24FOR 25 YEARS OUR BEST AND
02:24:27BRAVEST HAVE LEFT AMERICA SAFE.
02:24:29AND TODAY WE SALUTE EVERY MEMBER
02:24:32OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY
02:24:33WHO SERVED IN THE WAR ON TERROR.
02:24:39IT'S A WARREN SICK, HORRIBLE
02:24:43TERROR. WE SALUTE OUR FIRST RESPONDERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
02:24:47AND WE LOVE THEM.
02:24:49AND WE SALUTE THE SERVICE
02:24:51MEMBERS WORKING RIGHT NOW TO
02:24:53ENSURE THE NUMBER ONE WITH YOU
02:24:56SPONSOR OF TERROR.
02:24:59THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
02:25:03WILL NEVER, EVER HAVE A NUCLEAR
02:25:09WEAPON.
02:25:10[Applause]
02:25:18A GENERATION AFTER 9/11 WE ALSO
02:25:20KNOW THE RESPONSE TO THOSE ATROCITIES AND THE ULTIMATE
02:25:24VICTORY OVER THE PERPETRATORS
02:25:28WILL NOT BE FOUND ON A FOREIGN BATTLEFIELD.
02:25:31IT'S RIGHT HERE IN THE HEARTS OF
02:25:35FAMILIES.
02:25:37LIKE TARA STACKPOLES.
02:25:40TARA'S HUSBAND TIMMY IS A GREAT FIREFIGHTER.
02:25:43>> SO WE'RE GOING TO INTERRUPT THE U.S. PRESIDENT NOW BECAUSE
02:25:47WHILE HE CONTINUES TO SPEAK THE
02:25:50CEREMONY CONTINUES HERE AT GROUND ZERO.
02:25:54WE'RE APPROACHING THE MOMENT AT
02:25:5710:28 WHEN THE NORTH TOWER COLLAPSED.
02:25:59THE SECOND OF THE TWIN TOWERS
02:26:03COLLAPSED. AND AS WE MENTION SOME OF THE NAMES, I WANT TO YOU THINK ABOUT
02:26:07SOMETHING WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE POOLS. THIS IS NOT JUST A MEMORIAL.
02:26:11THIS PLACE IS A REPOSITORY FOR THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF REMAINS.
02:26:14SOME IDENTIFIED. SOME NOT YET IDENTIFIED.
02:26:17SO WHEN FAMILIES COME TO THIS SPOT, THEY'RE NOT JUST COMING TO
02:26:21A MEMORIAL. THEY KNOW THEY'RE COMING TO A
02:26:23FINAL REST ARING PLACE FOR MANY PEOPLE.
02:26:25LET'S HAVE A LISTEN TO THEM.
02:26:29>> MY BROTHER, GEORGE ERIC SMITH.
02:26:32BROTHER, WE MISS YOU.
02:26:34WE LOVE YOU.
02:26:36THERE'S NOT A MOMENT THAT WE DO NOT THINK ABOUT YOU.
02:26:40WE THANK GOD FOR THE TIME THAT
02:26:42WE HAD TO SPEND WITH YOU,
02:26:45ALTHOUGH IT WAS CUT SHORT. YOU'RE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS AND
02:26:48WE NEVER FORGET.
02:26:50>> AND MY GRANDFATHER RICHARD J. O'CONNOR.
02:26:54MY FAMILY LOVES YOU AND WE MISS
02:26:57Y
02:27:07YOU. >> GARY HAROLD.
02:27:10>> JEFFERY HERCH.
02:27:12>> THOMAS J.HUTZLE.
02:27:17>> BRIAN CHRISTOPHER HICKEY.
02:27:20>> EMINCIO.
02:27:25>> TIMOTHY BRIAN HIGGINS.
02:27:28>> ROBERT D.W.HIGGLY II.
02:27:35>> TOM HILL. >> CLARA PINTS.
02:27:39>> NEIL O. HEINZ.
02:27:41>> MARK HINDY.
02:27:44>> KAZIUKI.
02:27:46>> HEATHER MALIA HALL.
02:27:50>> TARRA EVETTE HOBBS.
02:27:52>> THOMAS ANDERSON HOBBS.
02:27:56>> JAMES J.HOPEN.
02:28:00>> ROBERT III.
02:28:03>> DEVIN HODGES.
02:28:04>> RONALD G. HORNER.
02:28:07>> PATRICK A.POEY.
02:28:10>> JOHN A. HOPPER.
02:28:13>> MARSHA HOFFMAN.
02:28:16>> STEVEN GERARD HOFFMAN.
02:28:20>>
02:28:31[BELL TOLLING
02:28:31[ BELL TOLLING]
02:29:07P. >> FREDERICK JOSEPH HOFFMAN.
02:29:10>> MITCHELL L. HOFFMAN.
02:29:14>> JUDITH FLORENCE HAUFMILLER.
02:29:19>> THOMAS WARREN HOWLECK JR.
02:29:25>> JONATHAN R. HOFFMAN.
02:29:27>> CORA NADALGO HOLLANDS.
02:29:31>> JOHN HOLLAND.
02:29:33>> JOSEPH F. HOLLAND.
02:29:36>> JIMMY R. HOLLY.
02:29:38>> ELIZABETH HOLMES.
02:29:40>> THOMAS B.HOLLIGAN.
02:29:44>> HERBERT WILSON HOMER.
02:29:46>> LEROY W. HOMER JR.
02:29:50>> BRADLEY V. HORN.
02:29:54>> JAMES B. HOPPER.
02:29:57>> AND MY MOTHER THIPA.
02:30:02HI, MOM. I'VE ONLY SPOKEN TO YOU ALONE BEFORE.
02:30:05TODAY IS THE FIRST TIME I'M SPEAKING TO YOU YOU IN FRONT OF EVERYONE ELSE.
02:30:09I'VE BEEN TOLD SO MUCH ABOUT WHO YOU WERE, HOW YOU GAVE GREAT
02:30:12SKIN CARE ADVICE, YOUR STYLE,
02:30:14YOUR LOVE OF FRENCH BERETS AND
02:30:17YOUR TALENT FOR NOTICING SMALL
02:30:20THINGS IN PEOPLE.
02:30:22YOU MADE EVERYONE, NO MATTER WHO
02:30:26THEY WERE, FEEL SEEN, AND YOU
02:30:28SAW ME LONG BEFORE I WAS EVEN HERE.
02:30:31YOU DREAMED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR
02:30:35ME.
02:30:37AND YOU ONLY GOT EIGHT MONTHS OF IT.
02:30:40THE MOM WHO LOVED ME GOT THE REST, BUT SHE NEVER FELT LIKE
02:30:43LOVING YOU TOO WAS A BETRAYAL. I THINK YOU'D BE GLAD SHE WAS
02:30:46THE WELCOME WOULD WHO RAISED ME. I AM. PEOPLE SAY I HAVE YOUR FACE,
02:30:50YOUR SMILE, YOUR DIMPLE S DIMPL
02:30:55HOPE I CARE MINISTER THAN THAT, THE ENERGY, KINDNESS AND HUMOUR
02:30:59YOU CONTINUALLY POURED INTO OTHERS.
02:31:02IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE 9/11.
02:31:0625 YEARS OF HEARING YOU THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE.
02:31:08AND I HOPE ALL THESE YEARS LATER
02:31:11YOU SEE SOME OF YOURSELF IN ME
02:31:16AS WELL.
02:31:20>> AND MY BROTHER LOPEZ PASCAL.
02:31:22IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE OUR
02:31:24LIVES AND MANY OTHERS CHANGED FOREVER.
02:31:28THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD
02:31:29THAT CAN HEAL LOSING A FAMILY MEMBER.
02:31:33I WISH HE WAS HERE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS TO EXPERIENCE ALL THE
02:31:36MOMENTS HE MISSED.
02:31:40THE YEARS HAVE PASSED, BUT TIME
02:31:44WILL NEVER ERASE HIS MEMORIES.
02:31:47HOPES AND DREAMS HE MADE HIS
02:31:51FAMILY. HE MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES,
02:31:54BELIEVING IN THE PROMISE OF A BETTER LIFE, NEVER KNOWING IT
02:31:58WOULD BE TAKEN AWAY SEPTEMBER
02:32:0211, 2001.
02:32:09[Speaking Alternate Language]
02:32:11>> SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE NAMES JUST BEING HEARD.
02:32:15I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAUGHT IT
02:32:17BUT THERE WAS A NAME LEROY HOMER
02:32:20MENTIONED THERE. HE ONE WITH THE CANADIAN BUT HE
02:32:23HAD A CANADIAN WIFE AND HE WAS A
02:32:25FIRST OFFICER ON THAT UNITED FLIGHT 93 THAT CRASHED.
02:32:29THE ONE WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT NEAR SHANKSVILLE.
02:32:33AND HIS WIFE HELPDY CREATED A SCHOLARSHIP IN HIS NAME.
02:32:36BECAUSE HE PUT HIMSELF THROUGH TRAINING TO BECOME A PILOT.
02:32:40AND SO THE SCHOLARSHIP AIMS TO
02:32:42HELP OTHER KIDS WHO DON'T NECESSARILY COME FROM MEANS FIND
02:32:45A WAY TO DO THAT. SO THIS IS HOW YOU KEEP HEARING
02:32:49HOW PEOPLE, YOU KNOW -- >> A REMINDER TO BRING
02:32:51POSITIVITY OUT OF THE HORROR AND
02:32:53AS SO MANY PUT IT, THE EVIL OF THAT DAY. >> ABSOLUTELY.
02:32:56LET THEIR NAMES BE ASSOCIATED
02:33:05THERE'S A PICTURE OF LEROY. THERE HE IS.
02:33:19FALLS THERE, BUT AT THIS POINT, ALL THE PLANES HAVE HIT, ALL THE
02:33:23TOWERS ARE DOWN. >> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT. AND THIS PUB OPEN ED THIS
02:33:26MORNING 9 A.M. ON THE DOT. AND VERY QUICKLY PEOPLE STREAMED IN.
02:33:30AND WHAT YOU'RE WATCHING OVERNIGHT MY SHOULDER RIGHT NOW
02:33:34IS THE OVER FLOW ROOM OF
02:33:38O'HARA'S PUB, ALL OF THEM HANGING OUT ON THE SIDEWALK.
02:33:40I WENT INSIDE FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES JUST TO TAKE STOCK OF
02:33:44WHAT IT'S LIKE INSIDE, AND IT'S EVEN MORE PACKED IN THERE WITH
02:33:48PEOPLE SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. I'LL TELL YOU, I DID NOT CENTRE
02:33:51THE HEART TO PULL ANYBODY FOR ANY KIND OF INTERVIEW.
02:33:54PEOPLE WERE EITHER HUDDLED TOGETHER, SHARING STORIES,
02:33:56CATCHING UP, OR THEY WERE FIXED TO THE TV WATCHING THE CEREMONY
02:34:00UNFOLD. AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED TO
02:34:04KNOW ABOUT THIS PUB CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE SENTENCE THAT'S
02:34:07ON A BANNER, THAT'S ON A WALL
02:34:10RIGHT OUTSIDE HERE OF THE PUB.
02:34:12IT SAYS, THE PERSONAL STORIES OF
02:34:159/11 TOLD BY THOSE WHO WERE THERE.
02:34:18SO THIS PUB WAS STANDING EVEN BEFORE 9/11.
02:34:21IT WAS A GO TO FOR PEOPLE WHO
02:34:23WORKED AT THE WORLD TRADE
02:34:26CENTRE, WALL STREET. FOLKS CAME HERE TO HAVE A DRINK.
02:34:29ON 9/11 IT WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED. THE WINDOWS WERE BLOWN OUT.
02:34:33AND THEN IN THE URGENT SPIRIT OF REBUILDING, THAT WAS REALLY SORT
02:34:36OF THE DEFINING ENERGY OF MANY
02:34:39IN NEW YORK, THEY REOPEN ED
02:34:41SEVEN MONTHS LATER.
02:34:43AND EVERY YEAR PEOPLE HAVE COME
02:34:46BACK HERE TO GATHER. AGAIN TO SHARE STORIES.
02:34:48IT WAS A LITTLE EASIER TO TALK
02:34:51TO PEOPLE THIS MORNING BEFORE THE CEREMONY STARTED.
02:34:54I I TALKED TO ONE MILITARY VET
02:34:58WHO LOST HIS COUSIN IN THE MARRIOTT, WHICH IS A HOTEL IN BETWEEN THE TWO TOWERS.
02:35:02AND HE CALLS THE PEOPLE HERE HIS
02:35:06FAMILY. >> LOOK AT ALL THESE PEOPLE
02:35:09HERE. ACTUALLY, THE 9/11 COMMUNITY, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY.
02:35:13IT CALLED THE 9/11 COMMUNITY.
02:35:15AND IT GETS LARGER EVERY YEAR.
02:35:19LIKE, LOOKING BEHIND YOU, YOU
02:35:20CAN SEE THESE ARE ALL MY 9/11
02:35:23FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
02:35:24AND NOW YOU'RE MY FAMILY AND MY FRIEND.
02:35:28>> Reporter: ISN'T THAT LOVELY. SO EDWIN WE JUST MET TODAY.
02:35:31BUT BECAUSE I'M HERE HE CONSIDERS ME A FRIENDS OR A FAMILY.
02:35:34THAT'S HOW STRONG THE BONDS ARE
02:35:36FOR PEOPLE WHO MEET AND GATHER HERE EVER YEAR.
02:35:40ONE WITH OTHER THING IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCE MENTION, ADRIENNE AND PAUL, IS
02:35:43THERE IS A NEW MOMENT OF SILENCE THIS YEAR.
02:35:46SO A SEVENTH AMENDMENT SILENCE
02:35:50TO HONOUR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED FROM ILLNESS AND INJURY RELATED
02:35:53TO THE AFTERMATH OF 9/11, INCLUDING THE TOXIC AIR THAT WAS
02:35:56AT GROUND ZERO THAT SORT OF PERMEATED THIS ENTIRE AREA.
02:35:59SO THAT GIVES AWE SENSE OF THE
02:36:03LINGERING EFFECTS OF THIS
02:36:13MUCH. APPRECIATE THAT. WE DO WANT TO -- YOU JUST SAW A
02:36:16BRIEF FLASH OVER THERE. KATIE SIMPSON IS AT THE PENTAGON.
02:36:20IT'S A GOOD TIME TO GO BACK TO TALK TO KATIE.
02:36:22SHE'S JUST IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, JUST OVERLOOKING THE PENTAGON.
02:36:26WE WE HEARD, KATIE, FROM
02:36:28PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AT THE CEREMONY.
02:36:31WE DUCKED OUT OF IT JUST TOWARDS
02:36:34THE END TO LISTEN TO MORE OF THE VICTIMS.
02:36:38WHAT'S YOUR SENSE OF WHAT HE HAD
02:36:40TO SAY? >> Reporter: U.S. PRESIDENT
02:36:43DONALD TRUMP APPEARED TO
02:36:46ALARMINGLY STICK TO HIS PREPARED
02:36:49REMARKS HERE AT THE PENTAGON MEMORIAL SERVICE, WHERE HE SPOKE
02:36:53OF THE LIVES LOST AT THE PENTAGON, HIGHLIGHTING SOME
02:36:57INDIVIDUAL STORIES. YOU KNOW, INCLUDING A FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHO WAS ON THE PLANE
02:37:00THAT CRASHED INTO THE PENTAGON THAT JUST LEARNED SHE WAS
02:37:03PREGNANT AND WAS REALLY EXCITED TO TELL HER PARENTS. SOME OF THOSE INDIVIDUAL STORIES.
02:37:07BUT THEN HE TOOK A STEP BACK TO
02:37:10DRAW PARALLELS BETWEEN WHAT WAS
02:37:12HAPPENING IN 2001 WITH THE ON
02:37:14GOING SECURITY THREAT AND THE
02:37:17TERROR ATTACK TO THE MOMENT OF
02:37:20RIGHT NOW AND HIS WAR, THE U.S. AND ISRAEL'S WAR AND IRAN,
02:37:23DRAWING SOME PARALLELS THERE. SO DID HE PETE HEGSETH, THE
02:37:27SECRETARY OF DEFENCE OR THE
02:37:28SECRETARY OF WAR AS HE CALLS HIMSELF.
02:37:31BOTH DELIVERED VERY SIMILAR
02:37:33SPEECHES, WHERE THEY, AGAIN,
02:37:35DREW THOSE PAIR PARALLELS FROM THE THREATS OF 2001 TO THE
02:37:39MOMENT NOW. DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING ABOUT THE
02:37:43U.S. SOLDIERS WHO WERE INVOLVED
02:37:44IN THAT CONFLICT AT THE MOMENT, AFRAIDING HIS DECISION TO LAUNCH
02:37:48STRIKES AGAINST IRAN, SAYING
02:37:51IRAN MUST NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
02:37:53PETE HEGSETH TALKED ABOUT HOW IN
02:37:572001 PEOPLE WERE IGNORANT TO THE
02:38:00TERROR THREATS THAT WERE POSED
02:38:02TO AMERICA IN THAT MOMENT.
02:38:04AND THAT THE RESULT OF THAT IS A
02:38:07CHANGED WORLD, AN EXTREME AND CONSTANT VIGILANCE.
02:38:10AGAIN, HE USED THAT ARGUMENT TO
02:38:13DEFEND THE U.S. WAR IN IRAN.
02:38:15AGAIN, HE ALSO SAID THAT IRAN
02:38:17MUST HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
02:38:20DONALD TRUMP, AS I MENTIONED,
02:38:22LARGELY STUCKING TO HIS PREPARED REMARKS.
02:38:25THE CEREMONY LASTING JUST OVER ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF.
02:38:28THE NAMES OF EVERY SINGLE
02:38:30VICTIM, ALL 184 PEOPLE WHO DIED
02:38:34AT THIS SITE ALL NAMES WERE READ ALLOWED.
02:38:37A BELL RUNG EVERY TIME A NAME WAS READ ALOUD.
02:38:40AND THIS IS NOT JUST A MOMENT FOR DIGNITARIES AND POLITICIANS.
02:38:44THIS YEAR IS A MOMENT FOR SURVIVORS, AND THE VICTIMS' FAMILIES.
02:38:48THIS IS A SMALLER GATHERING. INVITE ONLY.
02:38:51WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GRIEVE TOGETHER.
02:38:54KRIS REYES I THINK SAID IT REALLY WELL EARLIER. THE FEELING IS THAT IT HAS THE
02:38:58FEELING OF A REUNION, BUT ALSO
02:39:00SORT OF THE UNDERTONE OF A
02:39:03FUNERAL AT THE SAME TIME.
02:39:05AND THAT REALLY IS WHAT HAS
02:39:07TAKEN PLACE HERE THIS MORNING. DONALD TRUMP WRAPPING UP AND
02:39:22PALM, I WAS LISTENING TO KATIE TALK ABOUT THE PENTAGON.
02:39:25AT THE TIME THE SITES THERE WERE ASTONISHING AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW
02:39:28WHAT TO LOOK AT BECAUSE IS HAPPENING. BUT YOU IF YOU SAW THE SCENE OF
02:39:32THE PENTAGONICS RIGHT IN THE
02:39:33MIDDLE WAS THE THEN SECRETARY OF
02:39:36DEFENCE, DONALD RUMSFELD, TENDING TO THE WOUNDED.
02:39:40>> REALLY? >> HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE OUT THERE, SOME OF HIS
02:39:43GENERALS BEHIND HIM. BUT HE ROLLED UP HIS SLEEVES AND HE WAS RIGHT THERE.
02:39:47YOU COULD SEE HIM GOING FROM STRETCHER TO STRETCHER AND, YOU
02:39:49KNOW, THE MILITARY IN HIM KICKED
02:39:53IN. AND IT WAS KIND OF -- I MEAN,
02:39:56THE WHOLE THING IS ASTONISHING. >> IT'S INTERESTING.
02:40:00I WOULD SAY TO ANYBODY WHO PLANS
02:40:03TO ATTEND ONE OF THE SITES, WHERE THERE ARE NOW MEMORIALS,
02:40:07TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE WALKING AROUND.
02:40:10OFTEN THEY'RE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE THAT DAY.
02:40:14AND WHO TRAINED TO BECOME
02:40:17DOCENTS IN PART TO DO THEIR BIT. AND THEY'RE KIND OF INSTRUCTED
02:40:20NOT TO ADVERTISE THAT THEY WERE
02:40:22THERE THAT DAY, BUT IF ASKED,
02:40:25THEY WILL TELL THEIR STORY.
02:40:27AND AT THE PENTAGON, THE LAST TIME I WAS AT THAT MEMORIAL, I ASKED.
02:40:31AND YEAH, HE WAS IN A CORNER OFFICE DOWN AT THE FAR END WHEN IT HIT.
02:40:35AND I SUSPECT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN
02:40:38OUTER THERE WITH DONALD RUMSFELD
02:40:40DOING WHAT HE COULD, AS EVERYBODY HAS DONE.
02:40:44YOU KNOW, TO THINK BACK TO THAT MOMENT NOW, EVERYTHING THAT WAS
02:40:48GONNA HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY HAS HAPPENED, RIGHT? THE PLANES HAVE BEEN HIJACKED.
02:40:51THEY CRASHED INTO THE NORTH TOWER, THE SOUTH TOWER, THE
02:40:55PENTAGON PENNSYLVANIA. SOUTH TOWER WENT DOWN. YOU KNOW, I WAS CHANNEL FLIPPING
02:40:57THAT DAY, AND I THINK I WAS ON ABC NEWS AND I GUESS IT WAS
02:41:01PETER JENNINGS, BECAUSE AS THE
02:41:03NORTH TOWER STOOD IN ITS FINAL
02:41:08MOMENTS, THERE WAS AN INEVITABILITY ABOUT IT.
02:41:10WE KNEW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
02:41:18FIRST TOWER, THE FIRST TOWER HIT, SECOND TO GO DOWN.
02:41:21WHEN IT COLLAPSED, PANCAKED, MY
02:41:24RECOLLECTION IS THAT PETER
02:41:27JENNINGS WHO WAS ANCHOR AT THE
02:41:29TIME SAID FLATLY, AND THERE GOES THE NORTH TOWER.
02:41:32LIKE, EVERYBODY SAW IT COMING,
02:41:34BUT IN THE PREVIOUS HOUR AND 45
02:41:37MINUTES, EVERYBODY ABOVE THE
02:41:39IMPACT ZONE TRIED TO GET OUT.
02:41:43SOME JUMPED, AS WE'VE HORRIFICALLY SEEN.
02:41:47SOME WENT UP THE STAIRS TO FINDS DOORS LOCKEDEN THE ROOF.
02:41:50THEY COULD NOT BE RESCUED. EVERYBODY DIED ABOVE THE IMPACT
02:41:54ZONE. AND EVERYBODY WHO WAS LEFT IN IT AS IT COLLAPSED.
02:41:58AND AT THIS MOMENT, 25 YEARS
02:42:01ACHE, THEN THE REST OF THE WORK
02:42:07BEGAN. >> A LONG TIME TO BE AFRAID. >> EXACTLY.
02:42:10AN HOUR AND 45 MINUTES OF PURE TERROR FOR ALL. >> SO WE THINK OF THEM.
02:42:14THIS DAY IS FOR THEM.
02:42:16AND WE'VE BEEN GATHERING
02:42:18VIGNETTES, HAVING CONVERSATIONS
02:42:21WITH THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THOSE WHO WERE LOST.
02:42:24FOCUSSING REALLY ON THE
02:42:29CANADIANS, TO REMIND PEOPLE OF THE CANADIANS WHO WERE LOST
02:42:32BECAUSE SOMETIMES THEY CAN BE
02:42:34FORGOTTEN OR BYPASSED IN ALL OF THIS.
02:42:36WE SPOKE WITH A CANADIAN, MAUREEN.
02:42:39SHE HAS TWO WORDS ON THIS DAY. ALWAYS REMEMBER.
02:42:42KEN BEZNECKI, HER BELOVED
02:42:45HUSBAND, FATHER OF HER TWO CHILDREN, WAS KILLED RIGHT HERE AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE.
02:42:49AND IN THE 25 YEARS SINCE, SHE'S
02:42:52BEEN AN ADVOCATE A WAY CANADIANS
02:42:56CAN PAY TRIBUTE ON 9/11. LET'S HAVE A LISTEN.
02:42:58>> KEN WAS THE BEST HUSBAND.
02:43:01HE WAS AN AMAZING FATHER TO OUR
02:43:05DAUGHTER AND SON.
02:43:09ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, MY
02:43:12BELOVED HUSBAND KEN WAS TAKEN IF
02:43:16ME.
02:43:18HE WAS A COMMUNITY GUY AND DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO SPEND
02:43:21TIME WITH HIS FAMILY THAT HE ADORED. HE WAS DOWN AT THE WORLD TRADE
02:43:25CENTRE TO NETWORK, TO ATTEND A
02:43:27CONFERENCE ON THE 106TH FLOOR.
02:43:31UNFORTUNATELY ON THE MORNING OF
02:43:35SEPTEMBER 11:WOKE UP IN GERMANY
02:43:37IN MY CAPACITY AS A FLIGHT ATTENDANT WITH AIR CANADA.
02:43:40AND LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE, I
02:43:45WATCHED IN HORROR THE SECOND
02:43:47PLANE GO INTO THE SECOND TOWER.
02:43:51KNOWING ALL ALONG THAT MY KEN
02:43:53WAS AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE.
02:43:57I NOW HAVE 25 YEARS WITHOUT KEN.
02:44:01LONGER THAN I HAD WITH HIM.
02:44:06BUT INSTEAD OF THAT SAYING,
02:44:10NEVER FORGET, REFERRING TO THE HATE AND HORROR AND THE
02:44:14DESTRUCTION THAT DAY, I PREFER
02:44:16TO DWELL ON ALWAYS REMEMBER.
02:44:19ALWAYS REMEMBER THE OUTPOURING OF HUMANITY.
02:44:22KEN WAS A PROUD CANADIAN.
02:44:25AND HE WOULD BE PROUD OF THE
02:44:28REACTION OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS.
02:44:31I'VE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO
02:44:34REFRAME THE DAY AND TO CANADA'S NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE.
02:44:37SO CHOOSE ON THIS DAY TO SHOW
02:44:39YOUR GRATITUDE TO OUR POLICE,
02:44:46FIREFIGHTERS, VETERANS, WHO SUPPORT THEIR COUNTRY. AND THIS IS THE BEST MESSAGE
02:44:50THAT WE CAN GIVE ANY WITH WOULD-BE TERRORIST.
02:44:53YOU'RE NOT GONNA WIN.
02:44:58>> THAT IS LOVELY. THAT REMEMBRANCE IS AN ACT.
02:45:02IT NOT JUST A WORD.
02:45:05IT'S SOMETHING YOU DO. WE'RE SEEING NOW AS YOU HAVE
02:45:08SEEN, SO MANY FAMILY MEMBERS HERE AT GROUNDS STEEROW READING
02:45:11OUT THE NAMES OF THOSE THEY LOVE. QUIETLY HONOURING THEM.
02:45:14SOME NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO HAVE A PROPER GOOD-BYE OR A BODY TO
02:45:17BURY BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE DISASTER UNFOLDED.
02:45:20IF YOU THINK OF THE EXTREME
02:45:22HEAT, THE SHEER FORCE OF THE
02:45:25COLLAPSE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF BODIES WERE NEVER IDENTIFIED.
02:45:28PEOPLE KNEW PEOPLE THAT DIED, BUT THEY DIDN'T IDENTIFY THE BODIES.
02:45:32SO MANY ARE HOPING THAT A
02:45:35BREAKTHROUGH FORENSIC TECHNIQUE MAY HELP SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY THE
02:45:39REMAINS THAT HAVE BEEN NEVER MATCHED TO VICTIMS. 40% OF THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN
02:45:439/11 THEIR REMAINS HAVE NEVER BEEN IDENTIFIED.
02:45:46HERE'S PART OF THAT STORY. >> I DIDN'T GET A RING ARE.
02:45:50I DIDN'T GET AN I.D. PEOPLE GOT CARDS.
02:45:53THEY FOUND PAPERS WITH THEIR
02:45:55NAMES ON IT.
02:45:58LIKE, I DIDN'T GET -- ZERO. IT'S, LIKE, HE WENT TO WORK AND THAT'S IT.
02:46:02LIKE, NOTHING. YEAH, SO THAT WAS HIS FAVORITE PICTURE.
02:46:05>> SEPTEMBER 11th USED TO BE A SPECIAL DAY FOR MONICA.
02:46:08IT'S THE DAY BACK IN 1999 WHEN
02:46:10SHE MET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, MICHAEL.
02:46:13AND YES, HIS NAME IS SADLY
02:46:16ETCHED INTO THAT MEMORIAL. BECAUSE TWO YEARS LATER, TO THE
02:46:19DAY, HE WAS WORKING ON THE 84th
02:46:24FL FLOOR.. SOUTH TOWER AND CALLED HIS WIFE TO TELL HER TO IMMEDIATELY TURN ON THE T
02:46:28CENTRE.. LAST THING HE SAID TO ME WAS PEOPLE ARE JUMPING OUT OF THE WINDOW.
02:46:32I'VE GOT TO GO. AND THAT WAS IT.
02:46:34I COULDN'T ACCEPT THE NIGHTMARE BECAUSE I WAS, LIKE, I'VE JUST
02:46:38BEEN WITH HIM 11 MONTHS, MARRIED, WE'RE LOOKING TO EXTRA FAMILY.
02:46:41AND I LITERALLY JUST WATCHED MY
02:46:44HUSBAND GET MURDERED ON TV.
02:46:49ED WAS HIS BOSS, KEVIN WAS HIS GOOD FRIEND.
02:46:52>> THERE'S NO SIGN OF HIS REMANGES YET, BUT HERE'S WHERE
02:46:56WHERE THAT RESEARCH ARE COMES IN. THEY'VE BEEN COMBINING DNA
02:46:59ADVANCES WITH SOPHISTICATED JENLOGICAL RESEARCH FROM THE NEW
02:47:03YORK POLICE. AND JUST LAST MONTH THEY WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE REMANGES OF
02:47:06A WOMAN MURDERED ON 9/11.
02:47:08THE FIRST I.D. MADE IN A YEAR.
02:47:12>> IT, I THINK, IS SORT OF A NEW FRONTIER.
02:47:16WE'VE REALLY FOUND A BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION THAT'S
02:47:18GOING TO OPEN THE DOOR. >> Reporter: NEW YORK'S CHIEF
02:47:21MEDICAL EXAMINER JASON GRAHAM, AIL SURED THIS IS THE START OF A
02:47:24SERIES OF NEW IDENTIFICATIONS. SO HE HAS A NEW APPEAL FOR
02:47:27FAMILIES. ESPECIALLY CHILDREN OF 9/11
02:47:31VICTIMS. >> IN THE UNITED STATES, ROUGHLY
02:47:33A THIRD OF OUR POPULATION REALLY
02:47:35WERE EITHER NOT BORN OR HAVE NO LIVING MEMORY OF THE EVENT OF
02:47:39SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.
02:47:40AND SO THERE ARE NO DOUBT FAMILY
02:47:44MEMBERS WHO COULD POTENTIALLY
02:47:46OFFER SAMPLES, THAT ARE REFERENCE SAMPLES, THAT WE COULD
02:47:50USE IN RENEWING OUR EFFORTS TO
02:47:51TRY TO IDENTIFY THE UNIDE IDENT
02:47:56IDENTIFIED REMAINS. >> Reporter: FOR MONICA HER
02:47:59MICHAEL WAS ADOPTED AND SHE
02:48:01DOESN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIS BIOLOGICAL FAMILY BUT HOPES
02:48:04SOMEONE SOMEWHERE WILL COME FORWARD.
02:48:05>> MAYBE MICHAEL HAS A HALF SIBLING.
02:48:08I WOULD BE HAPPY TO MEET SOMEONE THAT IS RELATED TO HIM.
02:48:11>> SO LET ME EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE.
02:48:15IS 40% OF THE REMAINS HAVE NOT
02:48:19BEEN MATCHED TO PEOPLE THEY KNOW DIED. WHEN PEOPLE DIED INITIALLY
02:48:22THEY'D GIVE HAIR FROM HAIR BRUSHES OR TOOTHBRUSHES TO TRY
02:48:24AND GET A DNA SAMPLE.
02:48:27NOW THEY'RE REALIZING THAT THOSE REFERENCE SAMPLES HAVEN'T WORKED
02:48:30FOR SOME OF THE REMAINS. SO NOW THEY'RE GOING INTO WHAT
02:48:34THIS A BROTHER, WHAT THIS A COUSIN, WHAT THIS A CHILD.
02:48:37WHAT THIS THE UNBORN CHILD WHO WAS LATER BORN.
02:48:40NOW OLD ENOUGH TO BE SWABBED.
02:48:41AND THAT IS THE KEY THAT MAY
02:48:44HELP GET SOME OF THOSE REMAINS
02:48:48FINALLY IDENTIFIED.
02:48:49>> YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT
02:48:53DOCENTS AT THE MEMORIAL AND THE
02:48:55MUSEUM, I WAS SPEAKING TO ONE YESTERDAY WHOSE YOU HUSBAND DIED
02:48:59THAT DAY. SHE TOLD ME, SHE GOT MOST OF HIM BACK.
02:49:03MOST OF HIM.
02:49:04A PROMISE WAS MADE 25 YEARS AGO
02:49:08BY PEOPLE WHO COULD PROMISE TO BRING EVERYONE HOME.
02:49:11AND HERE WE ARE 25 YEARS LATER.
02:49:16TO YOUR PIECE THERE, ADRIENNE, IT'S CLEAR THEY'RE STILL TRYING.
02:49:19>> THEY'RE STILL TRYING, INDEEDS.
02:49:22AT 10:48 I CAN TELL THAT YOU KATIE SIMPSON, AS THEY CONTINUE
02:49:25TO READ THE NAMES, AND WILL FOR
02:49:28SOME TIME. KATIE'S BEEN WITH US OUTSIDE THE
02:49:32PENTAGON IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.
02:49:34KATIE, AS YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING, WHAT ARE YOUR FINAL THOUGHT TODAY?
02:49:39>> WELL, IT RELATES TO WHAT, YOU
02:49:41KNOW, AMERICANS HERE IN D.C. --
02:49:43D.C. OFTENTIMES IS A BIG TOURIST
02:49:47HUB. WITH OUR JOB, GOING OUT AND
02:49:49DOING INTERVIEWS, WHETHER IT'S
02:49:52THIS OR OTHER THINGS RELATED,
02:49:55PEOPLE WE TALK TO TALK ABOUT A MOMENT LIKE THIS.
02:49:58A REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY LIKE THIS.
02:50:01SURVIVORS OF THE ATTACK AT THE
02:50:02PENTAGON HERE. STAYING THAT IT
02:50:05REMINDS THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, IN
02:50:07TIMES OF CHALLENGE, IN TIMES OF
02:50:10ADVERSITY, THAT AMERICANS HAVE
02:50:11MORE IN COMMON WITH ONE ANOTHER
02:50:14THAN PERHAPS -- THERE'S MORE IN
02:50:17COMMON THAN THEIR DIFFERENCES. AND HOW THERE'S THIS YEARNING IN
02:50:21AMERICA TO SORT OF COME TOGETHER AND DEVELOP A SENSE OF UNITY.
02:50:24NOT TALKING ABOUT THE CANADA-U.S. RELATIONSHIP OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
02:50:28BUT JUST CONTINUE GOING
02:50:31DIVISIONS IN AMERICA AT THIS MOMENT.
02:50:33AND HOW WHEN PEOPLE COME TOGETHER FOR SOLEMN EVENTS LIKE
02:50:37THIS, TO HONOUR THE VICTIMS OF
02:50:39SUCH A HORRIFIC TERROR ATTACK,
02:50:41THAT THEY ARE REMINDED OF WHAT
02:50:44THEY HAVE IN COMMON.
02:50:46AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE
02:50:49HEARD FROM PEOPLE WE'VE SPOKEN WITH, BUT GENERALLY WHAT WE HEAR
02:50:53OUT IN AMERICA CHATTING WITH FOLKS HERE.
02:50:56>> KAINDKATIE SIMPSON, THANK YO
02:51:02VERY, VERY MUCH AND FOR YOUR COVERAGE TODAY. WE CAN BRING IT BACK TO NEW YORK FOR A MOMENT.
02:51:05WE'D LIKE TO GET SOME FINAL
02:51:07THOUGHT FROM KRIS REYES HERE IN NEW YORK.
02:51:10I KNOW YOU'RE JUST A FEW FLOORS
02:51:12DOWN BELOW US HERE, CLOSE TO THE MEMORIAL. WHAT ARE THE IMPRESSIONS THAT
02:51:16YOU'RE GOING TO GO HOME WITH TODAY?
02:51:19>> WELL, EVERYTHING TO DO WITH O'HARA'S PUB. AND I'LL TELL YOU YOU WHAT I
02:51:23THINK MAKES THE GATHERING HERE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OF
02:51:26THE OTHER MEMORIAL EVENTS.
02:51:29IT HAS THIS SORT OF HOMIE FEELING OF A REUNION.
02:51:32YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF FORMAL EVENTS HAPPENING ALL
02:51:34AROUND THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD TODAY.
02:51:46EXPLANATION. THERE'S JUST IMMEDIATELY BONDING. IT'S A LOOK IN THE EYE AND THEY
02:51:49KNOW VERY DEEPLY WHAT THEY'RE
02:51:53GOING THROUGH ON THIS DAY. THAT'S GOING TO STAY WITH ME.
02:51:56THIS IS NOT ABOUT PLATFORMS AND PODIUMS AND SPEECHES.
02:51:59IT'S ABOUT HUGS AND HUDDLES AND KINDNESS AND EVEN A LITTLE BIT
02:52:02OF LAUGHTERER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS I'VE BEEN TOLD BY OTHERS IN
02:52:05THE PAST, WHO COME TO THIS PUB, THEY NEED THAT.
02:52:09AND I'LL TELL YOU THIS ONE THING. WE TALKED TO A GENTLEMAN HERE
02:52:12WHO DIDN'T WANT TO TALK TO US ON CAMERA. HE LOST HIS BROTHER.
02:52:15AND HE SAID SIMPLY, TOO SAD.
02:52:20>> ABSOLUTELY. KRIS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS ALWAYS.
02:52:23THAT'S KRIS REYES HERE IN NEW YORK.
02:52:25AND PAUL, MY FRIEND, YOU ALWAYS
02:52:29HAVE A LOT GOING ON.
02:52:31WHERE WHERE IS YOUR HEART AND
02:52:34HEAD RIGHT NOW?
02:52:42THIS MORNING AND THROUGHOUT THE PAST LITTLE WHILE IN NEW YORK OF
02:52:44PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BRING POSITIVITY OUT OF WHAT HAPPENED 25 YEARS AGO.
02:52:48AND THAT IS THE MESSAGE TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OFTEN CHILDREN OF
02:52:51THOSE KILLED THAT DAY WHO MAY OR
02:52:55MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN THEIR PARENT, BUT DO SOMETHING POSITIVE IN
02:52:58THIS WORLD AS A WAY TO PUSH BACK AGAINST WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT DAY.
02:53:02AND I GUESS THE OTHER THING I'LL
02:53:08BORROW FROM MAUREEN BASNICKI.
02:53:15ALWAYS REMEMBER. ANYBODY WHO WAS TOUCHED BY THAT
02:53:17DAY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER.
02:53:38THE MUSEUM HERE, WHERE THEY HAVE
02:53:40THE ARTIFACTS FROM THAT DAY.
02:53:43AND YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT THAT WHENEVER YOU GO TO A MEMORIAL
02:53:46LIKE THAT AND THERE'S A GUIDE, THERE IS A VERY STRONG CHANCE
02:53:49THAT IF YOU ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION, YOU WILL LEARN A LOT MORE.
02:53:53ASK THAT GUIDE, WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION TO THIS.
02:53:55AND YOU MAY GET A STORY THAT WILL SHAKE YOU YOU TO YOUR CORE.
02:53:59I CAN TELL YOU, 9/11 HAS FRAMED
02:54:02MUCH OF OUR REPORTING OVER THE
02:54:05LAST 25 YEARS. IT HASN'T LEFT ME. IT WILL NEVER LEAVE ME.
02:54:09THE AMOUNT OF RESPECT I HAVE FOR
02:54:11THE FIRST RESPONDERS, THE
02:54:13FAMILIES NEVER LEAVES ME.
02:54:15IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE
02:54:18WITH YOU TODAY TO TALK ABOUT REMEMBRANCE, TO SEE AND FEEL
02:54:21REMEMBRANCE, AND HONOUR ALL OF THEM. SO, PAUL, THANK YOU.
02:54:25THANK YOU TO OUR TEAM IN TORONTO. AND HERE IN THE UNITED STATES,
02:54:27AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING.
02:54:31WE'RE ALL REFLECTING.
02:54:32LOOK AFTER YOURSELVES, PLEASE.
02:54:46SO WHEN YOU ARE REFLECT REMEMBER THE CONFUSION AND THE HORROR OF
02:54:49THE ATTACKS UNFOLDIC, THE NEARLY
02:54:523,000 LIVES LOST, INCLUDING THOSE 24 CANADIANS.
02:54:55BUT ALSO LET'S HANG ON TO THE GALVANIZING OF CANADA'S
02:54:59FRIENDSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES.
02:55:01IT'S A RELATIONSHIP, WE KNOW
02:55:03THIS, THAT'S NOW BEING TESTED.
02:55:07BUT WE'LL GET THROUGH THIS EVENTUALLY.
02:55:08SO STAY WITH US HEEREN -- HERE
02:55:15ON CBC BECAUSE WE'RE WATCHING THE MOMENTS OF THOSE THAT HAVE
02:55:19DIED SINCE 9/11 FROM DISEASES LINKED TO EXPOSURE AT GROUND ZERO.
02:55:22WE'LL GO BACK AGAIN TO NEWFOUNDLAND AS THEY COMMEMORATE
02:55:25THE DAY THEY TOOK IN ALL THOSE STRANDED TRAVELERS. DAVID
02:55:29COMMON, CAROLYN STOKES HAVE SPECIAL COVERAGE STARTING AT NOON.
02:55:36[BELL TOLLING]
02:55:55[♪♪]
02:56:05>> GARNETT ACE BAILEY. >> TATIANA.
02:56:09>> WE NEVER GOT TO MEET YOU. WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU.
02:56:12WE LOVE YOU. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
02:56:15>> WE REMEMBER THE FALLEN AND
02:56:18PRAY FOR THE FAMILIES.
02:56:26>> SCOTT POWELL.
02:56:30>> GERALD KENDALL YORK BINGHAM.
02:56:37[BELL TOLLING]
02:56:48>> Does th