Dana Taylor
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4,419 appearances
115 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
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I'm Dana Taylor.
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Today is Wednesday, September 9th, 2026.
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Mike, it's so good to have you here.
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It's now been twenty-five years since the horrific events of nine eleven that resulted in the deaths of two thousand nine hundred seventy-seven people.
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What compelled you to write this book and why now?
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Your book follows the stories of a broad spectrum of Americans from that September day in New York, Pennsylvania, and DC to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
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How did you decide on whose stories to focus in on?
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You wrote about ordinary people, but there are many stories of everyday heroes detailed in your book.
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People understood in the moment that by acting they could save lives.
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Some of them survived, others didn't.
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Can you tell me about one of them?
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Mike, you wrote quite a bit about Tom Swift.
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What was it in particular about his story that drew you in?
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Many thousands of the firemen, police officers, construction workers, and others who felt a calling to go to ground zero and help dig out their friends and colleagues subsequently got sick from the toxic air that they breathed.
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In fact, you wrote that their numbers topped the victims of the nine eleven attacks.
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Did any of the people you spoke with regret spending so much time at Ground Zero without masks?
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Or other protective gear.
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Mike, you focused some of your later chapters on the sustained efforts of a group of nine eleven widows who lobbied for transparency and accountability for the nine eleven attacks.
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The widows were given the nickname the Jersey Girls.
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Tell me a little bit about their story.
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